The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-31 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS. TRIMIDAY. 6.30 r.m.
The commits gateman, that were to make such
alarming demonstrations against the present cabinet
by appealiog to it for an immediate revision of the
soastitution, have met all over France, and' no symp-
toms exist, or are likely to show themselves, of a de-
sire to express Use wish so violently advocated by the
reactionary press. In the Lisne, when M. 0. Barrot
preside', that gentleman opened the sitting by ad-
vising his colleague to study seriously the project for
organising the departmental and communal adminis-
tration. A special committee was chosen to study the
subject In the Calvados the president went so far as
to characterise the law abolishing the excise on drinks
ea mue loi coupable. In the Somme thecouncil has as
yet confined itself to expressing a wish that by a
special legislation the conceits genera= may be
authorised to assemble spontaneously, in case of a vio-
lation of the Legislative Assembly.
The question of decentralisation is the great one at
rant. It is little understood even by its advocates,
and may lead them further than they expect. The
Ammon share also in the attention of the public. It is
still thought that unless M. limey changes his pro-
ject of a budget he cannot remain in office, but it is
more and more evident that for some time yet M.
Defame will keep power.
The Muniteur contains the following decree of the
president of the republic, founded on a report of the
minister of commerce, making sundry changes in the
laws now in force :

Art. 1. Sailing vessels coming with clean bills of health
from Turkey in Europe, Turkey in Asia, Egypt, and from the
regency of Tripoli, shall be admitted to free p►atique in all
the ports of the republic immediately after the verification
of their pipers, provided the health of the crew and pas-
sengers is such as to give rise to no suspicion. Steamers wAI
be admitted on the seine conditions in all t►e French ports of
the Ocean.—Art. 2. When a period of tight full days shall
have 'spired from the date of their departure, steant-v ssels,
whether of the navy, rickets, or merchant service coming
from the same places with clean bills of health shall be imme-
diately admitted to free prate gue in the ports of the liediter-
renew, provided they shall have a surgeon on board. Art.
3. Steamers with clean bills of health who shall not have a
surgeon on board, shall be subjected in the ports of the Me-
diterranean to a quarantine of observation of three days,
whether they come from Egypt or from Syria, from Turkey
or from Tripoli.
The funeral obsequies of M. Victor Brandin took I
place on Tuesday morning at Elbeuf, in preened) of
an immense concourse of persens. Ile was buried,
near his mother, in the cemetery ciao to his factory.
The President of the Republic returned to Pans
yesterday from St. Cloud to receive the Marchioness
ef boogies, his cousin, daughter of the Grand Da- I
chess of Baden, who, with her husband, is come to
pass a few days in Paris.
A courier left Paris on Tuesday evening for War-
saw with despatches from the minister of foreign
affairs foe General de Lamoricidre, the French aim
hammier.
To prevent the breaking up of the valuable horde
of Versailles, St. Cloud, and Meriden, established by
King Louis Philippe, for the breeding of thorough-
bred Arabian and English horses, the president of
the repablic took on himself the expense of main-
taining them, until it should be decided whether or
not they should be purchased by the country. The
government having resolved, on account of the finan-
cial difficulties of the nation, not to present a bill
to the Assembly authorising the purchase by the
state, M. Vavin, liquidatesr of the civil list, has ad-
dressed a letter to the journals, suggesting that, from
the vast importance of the haras, a number of
amateurs should subscribe to purchase them. In so
doing, he says, they would render a national service,
without imposing on themselves the necessity of ad-
vancing a large sum, whilst the profits of the hams
would cover the expense. If no body of gentlemen
should do this, the harm will be advertised fee We.
by auction in the beginning of October.
M. Pinner, the catholic Bishop of Mobile, in the
United States of America, has just arrived at Paris
from Gaeta, where he bad been to submit for the sanc-
tion of the Pope the acts of the last catholic council of
Baltimore.
Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer passed through Paris
yesterday en route for London.
From a return, published by the Moniteur Beige,
it appears thst the number of letters sent in the
month of May last, under the old postage system, was
560,899, and in July, under the uniform system,
631,063. The amount of money received by the post-
office in July, 1848, was 263,073 fr. 29c.; and in July,
1849. 355,1441 r. 94c., being an increase of
82,072 fr. 65c.

PARA Aoo. 30. For
Money. 'Opening 1161 bent. Lowe*
- -
per OM& 33 176 55 15 33 30 33 10
per Costs.
do. New Lose. . 99 9/ 99
per Oasts. .. 9P 99
Per COM. it . ,r re

Lowest. Cloong.
-
3 per Oasts. 33 176 55 15 53 30 53 10 33 15
5 pee Cents.
I do. New Lana.
peer Onto. n n 99 99 90
4 per Cerra . 99 9. 99
Elliange Onlaindalk : 30 days, 23 40; 90 days, 23 30.
Belidoo. 3, 1810
..1_ lloory. I Naptes Rental B3 50 Mosey.
Do. 3, 1133
Do. 4i
Do. 3
BOMPL—Ranee and Havre, 25 S; Mieron and Marsellka, 223;
Struobourg sod Bale, 101 25; Centre Vierxon, 302 30; Bourdcaux
400; 210403, 423 78; Parts and Struabourg, 330 75; Tours 001
Nantes, 303 73.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—Our correspondent writes:
011 E, Ave. 21.
The long expected edict relative to the army has
finally made its appearance, and the utmost confusion
in all the branches of the service has been produced
by it, u all offioers created or promoted shun the 16th
November last, are dismissed or degraded, all Italians
not belonging to the Roman States, and all other
foreigners, are sent away with a month's pay to
enable them to get to their own homes ; and a
council of discipline is to examine strictly into the
conduct of the remaining officers and soldiers, who
do not come under the preceding category, with the
power of cashiering, disbanding, or otherwise pen'sh-
ing those whose conduct may be found to have been
obnoxious to ecclesiastical dominion ; whilst those
warm partisans of papal temporality, who either re-
signed or were dismissed by the republican authorities,
will now resume their ranks with great honour.
Nothing can more strongly remind us of the whole-
sale banishments and persecutions which invariably
followed the triumph of either of the rival parties of
Guelphs and Ghibellines, or Bianchi and Neri, in
the populous and flourishing Italian cities of the
middle ages, than the despotic and vindictive mea-
sures now adopted by thepriests,and enforced by their
despicable and forsworn instruments, the French.
The Austrians have only excepted about seventy in-
dividuals from the general amnesty in Lombardy,
and in Tuscany a second and ample amnesty has
just been granted, and exiles have been fur-
nished with pecuniary aid, but here no mercy
of any kind is shown; the list of proscribed
persons (concerning whom another edict is shortly
expected to make its appearance) is said to amount
to some thousands. The press, comparatively un-
shackled under Austrian rule in Florence, is here
allowed only to serve the ends of the party actually
in power, and jesuitical pamphlets inundate the city,
showing forth, with true clerical unction, the divine
right of the Pope to temporal power. The priestly
censor takes good care that no rejoinder from the
liberals shall receive his approving imprimatur.
Oudinot is to leave Rome to-morrow, transmitting
the chief command to Rostolan, who, although
equally fond of despotism, is perhaps less priest-
ridden than the magnanimous conqueror of the
Eternal City. It is reported here that the veteran
Radete,ky is to pass through shortly on hie way to
Gaeta. The garrison will be notably diminished, but
whether from political or sanitary motives remains a
mystery. The fears perniciosa, which is the most
aggravated form of malaria fever, has certainly made
great havoc amongst the French troops. This disease,
which usually carries off the patient on the third day,
has been combatted by the French doctors after the
Sangrado system, bleeding and tisane : whereas the
Romans generally succeed, when present at the com-
mencementin cutting it short by administering strong
do es of quinine, in the interval between the first and
recond access of fever, the third being either fatal or
final. The French aro now convinced that they must
call in the aid of those conversant with the diseases
of the country.
The Emperor of Russia has succeeded in removing
the Russian artists from the contaminating atmo-
sphere of Rome, after having caused all their debts to
be paid; but it is curious enough that they should
have been left here during the whole of the republi
can domination, and sent off immediately on the re-
turn of the priests.

GERMAN Y.

PRUSSIA.—Our correspondent writes as follows
BERLIN, atousr 28.
To-day is a great festival throughout Germany.
Just 100 years ago on this day, the 28th of August,
Goethe was blro. In France they made a rule, when
they turned the sanctuary of St. Genievieve into a
French Walhalla, there to depose no French bones,
there to erect no Frenchman's marble effigy, until hie
fame had stood the test of twenty years at least.
Then first did they inure in the Pantheon the ashes
of their great man—their Voltaire. This the French
did wisely, conscious of the weakness of mankind,
and not least of French mankind, to push up to the
stars stheir idol of the hour, and acknowledging that
the passport to fame needs the visa of time. But
there are certain men whose own living fame em-
braces such scores of years of ordeal, and who gather
during their own lives, as the lands of favoured climes
a plurality of harvests within the twelvemonth, the
praises of fresh generations, and fresh generations of
praises. Such men need not pan into duet to become
famous. There circles in their frames a life-rental of
immortality ; already, living, they see their baste
placed in the niches of fame ; they not only survey, as
i from a Mount Tabor, but they move into and encamp
in the land of promise. Such a man was Goethe. A
rich foretaste of glory was held by the world, like a
crowned goblet to his living lips. Weimar, already,
before the poet's head was grey, became the goal of
as European Hadji.
AUSTRIA.—Latest intelligence from Vienna to
11 August 26.
This day at nom a courier arrived here from the
bead-qaarters of General Czorich. Shortly after hie
arrival the report got abroad that Comoro had capi-
tulated ; in the afternoon, this intelligence was said
to be confirmed ; but it cannot be regarded as positive
until officially anncuteed, and this would surely have
been done in an evening edition or supplement of the
Wiener Zeitung on Sunday. The news therefore
wants official corroboration, and is most likely
premature.
Yesterday there arrived two coaches and four laden
with specie, accompanied by a strong escort of horse
and foot. Report said that it was the half million
found in Arad as part of the spoil.
The Emperor has conferred on the Russian Here-
ditary Grand Duke the rank of an Austrian field•
morshal, and the proprietorship of the Kress Light
Horse.
To General Paskiewitch he has given the order of
Maria Theresa, and to Baron Haynan that of St.
Stephen.
The minister of war, Count Oyulay, was admitted
on the afternoon of the 21st into Comoro.
Baron Haynau, in his last bulletin, reports "that at
the present moment all the Banat and all Transyl-
vania are cleared of the insurgents. On the 19th the
corps of Vecsary surrendered to the Russian army.
These troops, consisting of 7,000 foot, 1,000 horse,
with 4,000 muskets and two cannons, laid down their
arms at Bores Jeno. Bern and Guyon, surrounded
by General Luders, left their troops and contrived to
escape (see under Turkey). The insurgents, left with-
out leaders, laid down their arms to the number of
8,000 men with fifty cannon.
D. sewffy gave himself up prisoner to General
Wallmoden. Since the capitulation of Arad, 25,000
men had been taken prisoners, and 176 canton cap-
tured. General Paskiewitch has delivered over the
chiefs of the rebellion, the former deputies of the
Diet, all prisoners, and materials of war, to the Aus-
trian commander.
According to the Pesth papers, the roads swarm
with disbanded Honvede.

BADEN.—Latest intelligence to August 27.
RASTADT, AUGUST 26.—Mniewski was shot on the
previous evening after seven o'clock.
lIIIDFLBERG, AUGUST 26.—The turn has now
come to the professors and teachers, after falling with
such dire severity on the heads of the officers. The
political opinions of prefeasors, it seems, are in future
to be ebited with condign punishment, as if
the sternest measures of the most despotic
government in the world could controul the
treedom of thought, as if any government had
the right or power to make literary and scien-
tle men hypocrite., as if this ill-judged unwise
system of proscription ever did any good since the
history of men commenced. Professors Morstadt and
Hagen, as likewise the private teachers, Doctors
Levits, Friedlander, Brach, and Knapp, have received
orders to give no more lectures or lessons in future.
Morstadt derived a very handsome income for Ger-
many from his lectures, that is, more than 6,000
florins a year ; as for the others, their disciples were
very limited indeed.