The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-16 00:00:00

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would be likely to adopt. It dwells much, in an Eikon
Basilike accent, upon the privations and persecutions which
he has endured since his exclusion from the palace and upon
the patience with which he has intimated to Id fate ; but
declares that there is a limit to human endurance, &c. It
piss alludes to his having forgone the privilege of his royal
sudsy whisk antitiss him to the reek of captain-general in
the army urithent going through the inferior grades, and
that he kas beela ouseeed is serve as a simple officer.
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ting-efficee el the different papers to examine their
and prevent des republication of the document in any
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The expected interview between the King and the Minis-
ter of the Interior took place yesterday. Senor Benavides
set out foe theParde at tens, and returned at six. The re-
sult of the visit has not transpired; but I bear from a good
authority that the King had previously intimated his wil-
lingness to return to the palace, and reside there with the
Queen, and to make his appearance in public with her upon
all occasions of ceremony. It is probably on this account
that Pacheco has exhibited, during his last visit to La
Greek., such a firm deteratisation te induce the Queen to
return to Madrid, without lam of time, or, in Me of her
refusal, to resign. The latest news from court seems to
indicate that be has carried his poise; for the ministerial
crisis is said to have blown over. Much influence is attri-
buted to the mother of Serrano ; and it is chiefly ascribed to
her exertions that the Queen has been prevailed upon to
return so soon to Madrid, anti that there is a neer prospect
of solution to the perms question.
The hunt at lii Psalm produced no very famous re-
sults. Two wild boars were seen at* distance, and a stag
was killed. The convent court was MI of the country peo-
ple of the neighbourhood, who, accustomed to the pompous
royal visits of Ferdinand, and brought up with traditional
notions of the splendour displayed on them occasions, were
greatly disappointed at the plain appearance of the Queen's
party; but her familiar good nature soon made amends.
The night upon which the Queen returned was the one fixed
for the progrcsista serenade. As the did not come back
till half-past 11, General Yriarte and his friends, conceiving
that her Majesty world be too fatigued to enjoy such a com
pliment, sent a message to propose its postponement, through
the medium of Roe de Olano ; but the Queen insisted upon
hearing the music, which accordingly came and played in
the gardens from 12 till 2, her majesty showing herself fre-
quently upon the balcony till it was over.
Concha arrived at Zamora on the 4th, and is expected to
arrive in Madrid to-day.
Mr. Samson, one of the directors of the Union Bank, left
Madrid on Thursday tor Paris. It is thought that his jour-
ney had a similar :object with that of Senor Buschenttud,
namely, tot' orage for the finance department. It Deems
that therein no foundation for the Fare's assertion that the
Union Bank have presented an address to Salamanca, de-
siring to be let off their Exchequer-bill bargain. The Bank
of San Fernando continues to cash its presented notes as
slowly as possibly, notwithstanding its immense supplies of
specie recently arrived. On Saturday two diligenme arrived
at the bank laden with silver and gold from France. It is
supposed to bo hoarding its coin with a view to monetary
speculation, so consequence of the determination of Senor
Salamanca to carry out kis new coinage.

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CONSTANTINOPLE, JOLT 27.
An extraordinary courier has arrived at the Porte
from the head.quarters of the army in Kurdistan,
with the important intelligence that Bederhan Bey
had surrendered to the Seraakier Osman Pacha, and
that he is uow on his way, a prisoner, to the capital.
In a former letter I gave the details of a severe defeat
which the Kurds had received from the Imperial
troops between Zeitonn and Derguella, and of the
capture of the latter place by the forces of the Sultan.
Bederhan Bey fled from the scene of these disasters,
followed by about 500 horsemen, and took refuge in the
fortified castle of Orak. The Seraskier and his
lieutenant, Omar Pacha, pressed closely on the
track of the fugitives, and laid siege to the
castle an hour or two after it had been entered by the
Kurdish chief and his followers. Only two snots were
tired from the artillery of the assailants, when Be-
derhan Bey, seeing the hopelessness of his position,
offered to surrender on condition that his own life
should be spared, as well as that of his wives, and
personal followers. It is possible that the fatal effects
of the two shots fired by the besiegers hurried
Bederhan to a capitulation • for the first killed a
dervish, whom he was accustomed to regard with
peculiar veneration, and the other knocked to pieces
the place in which the provisions for the garrison
had been stored. It must have been this double
disaster to both soul and body that induced him to
submit so promptly.
Mahmoud Khan, of Van, an 4 hie brother, Abdallah
Bey, who took such an active part in the insurrection,
have also surrendered to Osman Pasha.

Kurdistan, which has always enjoyed a kind of
independeice, and whose hereditary chiefs scarcely
acknowledged the sovereignty of the Sultan, is now
completely brought under subjection to the Porte.
This has been effected in an incredibly short space of
time, and in the face of difficulties unknown in
European warfare. Bederhan Bey had an army of at
least 15,000 men, principally cavalry, expert in the use
of their arms, with wonderful powers of endurance, and
blindly devoted to their chief. They had the advantages
of fighting on their own ground, with all its resources
at their command, and yet an army of equal numbers
defeated them in a pitched battle on the left bank of
the Tigris, drove them from all their mountain holds, '
and made captive their chief. In less than a month,
the Turkish troops, with all their artillery and bag-
gage, have traversed an immense extent of wild
mountainous country cut to pieces, in a pitched
battle, an army of 15,000 men ; taken three fortresses,
and secured to the Porte an extensive territory which
hitherto had never entirely acknowledged its autho-
rity.. It is evident that their victories are entirely
owing to the superior discipline of the Turkish troops,
and I believe it is now admitted on all hands, by those
who have seen them in the field and on parade, that
there are not better disciplined or better conditioned
soldiers in Europe.
News has arrived here of a fresh insurrection

which has broken out in Albania. An attempt to en-
force the conscription by the Turkish authorities in
the province is tke principal cause of the revolt, but
Russian and Greek emissaries have also been active
in urging the inhabitants to rebellion. Numbers of
the Albanians belong to the Greek church, and many
of those who are Mahommedans are married to Greek
women. It is this which gives Russian and Greek
emissaries a certain influence in that part of the em-
pire, not, of coarse, so deep-rooted or extensive as in
the principalities, but quite as dangerous whea em-
ployed with a people so turbulent and ready to re-
volt as are' the Albanians. The Porte has already
taken measures to suppress the insurrection. Emir
Pasha, an active and intelligent general, has already
set out from Constantinople to take the command of
an army which is to act against the rebels.
A young man, the son of a wealthy Armenian, re-
siding in one of the villages of the Bosphorus, secretly
wooed and won the daughter of a Turkish bey, whose
pally or summer residence is in the neightionrhosd.
The young people met often in places where they
were safe from the eyes of the old bey. The young
girl was at length so imprudent as to receive her
[over in the harem. Here he was doubtless seen by
the father, or seine of his people, for the young Ar-
menian went there as usual on last Friday night, and
never returned. The friends of the young man, no-
ticing his long absence from home, grew uneasy.-
They soon learned that he had been seen going into
the house of their Turkish neighbour, but when they
inquired there for him the old Bey said it was true
he was under hie roof, but that he was too unwell to
be removed. They called the next day, and the old
Bey told them that his daughter's lover was dead. The
father of the youth asked to have his son's body, but the
Bey refused, for he said his son had become a muasul-
man before his death, and therefore his friends being
Gisours, had no right to the corpse. The young man,
however, had been to Odessa at one time, and there
taken Russian protection. Application was, there-
fore, made to M. d'Ouatinoff, the Russian minister,
to employ his influence to have the body given up.
M. d'Oustineff sent a very strong note to the Porte,
and the body in consequence has been disinterred,
and has undergone a post mortem examination, the
result of which proves that the poor youth was
poisoned.
Mehemet Ali, the late Capudan Pacha, has been
appointed member of the council of ministers.

ATHENS, JrLY 30.
The 22nd was a day looked for with great anxiety
by many. It was everywhere averted that Coletti was de-
termined to open the chambers without reference to the
number of deputies mumbled. At noon it wu bruited
about that for certain reasons he had changed his
mind. The people then baked anxiously for a royal
ordinance fixing the day for the opening. The day
passed, and, up to the present moment, the King has been
silent. It is ascertained that the opening speech is already
written, but its contents are not known, for Coletti is getting
very cautious. The elections are not yet finished; some have
not even begun. The Minister of Marine started a few days
ego in the government steamer for Hydra, to-superintend
the election there, as there was an appxrance of its going
in favour of the opposition candidate. The government an,

however, well east ft lose on. vete, fur namely a single I
opposition member ell be returned. These elections would I
have raised Gessee had the payment of the expenses fallen
epos recommend.
Mumma and Etolia are swarming with brigands. Mis-
solorghi is actually besieged by a bead maw the centetad of
• noted robber Viaatsanos. Oa the ftllt itotaat IN Nat a
letter to the inhabitants of the &NON poottioon of vine-
”ras and gardens, calling noon them to forward imme-
diately the sum of 60 drachmas each, atherwiae he would de-
'troy their vines, and cntdown theirtrees. He also sent 'moth er
letter to the proprietors of cattle, threatening to kill all their
beasts if they !dished to pay him a certain sum. These poor
people, not having the money, or not wishing to part with it,
have entered into Miseolosighi, with all their flocks and
herds. They threaten to fly into Turkey upon the first op-
portunity; there their lives and property are safe. Main-
while this band continues in the vicinity of Miseolonghi,
and no one can go the least distance from the city without
being plundered. Another band, or a part of this one, ar-
rested two persons on the 18th, going to Kalfeniki, and kept
them prisoners until • ransom was sent for them.
Three other persons were seized upon near Coly-
via ; two were ransomed, but the third, having
no money, and no one who could or would send
him any was murdered. Three men, going to
Miesolorighi, were seized on the 19th. sad kept
until a good round sum was paid for their liberation. On
the 22nd twelve persons, with a guard of gendarme., were
plundered on the road betweed Galata and Kavrolimni, by
an armed hand. One of the gendarmes having fired and
wounded one of the robbers, the others fi It upon Lim and
murdered him with the most brutal ferocity.
This is only a partial and favourable detail of the state of
the country. Arrests, and for what no one knows, take
place daily, in all parts of the kingdom; the parties indi-
cated either retreat into the mountains or take refuge in
Turkey. The Greeks are beginning to discover and acknow-
ledge that the Turkish government is preferable to their own.
The government has handed, or is about to heed, to Sir Ed-
mund Lyons, the English airbasaador at Athens, a draft upon
Mr. Eynard for 500,000 f., in payment of the last month's
inter, at of the debt. This payment will place Greece farther
t in debt to Mr. Eynard, or to those who supply him with the
money in Paris. Coletti has got it all in hie own hands. He
knows that as the chambers will be modelled he will have
no further trouble about budgets, or any, other demands ne-
cessary
for the exigences of the state. The National Bank
of °mete has declared • dividend of 5 per cent. The resi-
dence of General Grivas and 150 of his followers on the island
i of Santa Maura has given uneasiness to the Lord High Com-
missioner, Lord Seaton. It is asserted here that his lordship
went to Santa Maura in a steamer, and advised him to depart
as soon as pomible. There is nothing new to communicate
respecting the dispute with Turkey.

MONTREAL, Jrvr.29.

The first session of parliament since Lord Elgin's
advent to the country was brought to a successful
termination yesterday, his lordship giving the royal
assent to ninety-six acts, and reserving for the signi-
fication of her Majesty's pleasure thirteen acts, which
number, added to thirteen to which the royal assent
was given on the 9th instant, presents a total of one
hundred and twenty-two acts passed in less than two
months since the meeting of the legislature. So close
an attention to business, when the sharp rivalry of
party politics might have furnished an excuse for
obstructing the course of legislation, and in a season
unparalleled for its enervaing heat and sickness, is
creditable to both sides of the house. Among the
acts passed, seventy-nine: are of a private and
local nature, for the incorporation of railway,
mining, and other companies, and for objects
of local interest or individual speculation.
I need scarcely remark that the activity of the enter-
prising spirit of the community, of which this mass of
private legislation is the evidence, is a sure token of
the prosperity of the country. There can be no
doubt, 1 think, that the country is growing, and will
henceforth exhibit a surprisingly rapid growth, in
population and wealth.
Owing to the numerical force of the opposition, the
ministry did not think it advisable to risk sending the
University Bill to a division. It was therefore with-
drawn. Next session will probably bring about a
settlement of this long-pending and vexatious ques-
tion. The opponents of the government measure
desire to see the funds of the university applied to
the maintenance of a collegiate institution that
will sustain the highest order of learning for
the benefit of the youth of the country.
Clerical bodies of different denominations on the other
hand seek to divide the funds, and distribute them
for the support of factional institutions. Between
these contending claimants the task of steering the
vessel is somewhat difficult.

The emigrant fever keeps up its pace of mortality
—thirty deaths in a day. The disease has not spread
through the ranks of society so much as was antici-
pated,although in all parts of the country some of the
leading medical attendants and the clergy have fallen
victims to their humanity.
I subjoin the governor-general's speech in closing
the session :
Honourable Gentlemen of the Leyislatire Coun:il, and
Gentlemen of the Legalalire Assembly,
In relieving you for the present from attendance in this
place, I have to thank you for the zeal and assiduity in the
discharge of your important duties, which have enabled
you during the course of a session of comparatively short
duration to consider and perfect many measures which pro-
mise to be of great advantage to the community. I sincerely
trust that the alterations which you have made in the pro-
vincial tariff, and the additional facilities afforded to trade by
akte extension of bonding and warehousing privileges, will be of
benefit to the colony, and tend to the promotion of its commer-
dial and agricultural interests. I have observed with satisfaction
use attention which you have bestowed on the several pro-
*fa which have been brought before you for developing the
mineral resources of the province, and improving its means
of internal communication. I trust that the measures which
you have passed for the amendment of certain provisions of
the criminal code, for the protection of mercantile interests,
for rendering the common school act of Upper Canada more
effective, and for placing the municipal institutions of Lower
Canada on au improved footing, will be attended
with beneficial results. The prevalence of disease
among the immigrants who have arrived from Europe
this season has occasioned me much concern.—
I have not failed to bring this subject under the considera-
tion of her Majesty's secretary of state, and to represent the
necessity of adopting measures to place emigration to this
colony under more efficient regulations. Meanwhile my
warmest acknowledgments are due to you for the liberal pro-

vision which yen hive made for relieOing the indigent sod
preventing disease from spreading in the province. The
charitable exertions of the clergy, of the ladies attached to
the religious communities, and of benevolent individuals
among the laity, who have, at the hazard of their lives,
ministered to the necessities of the sick, are beyond any I
praise which it is in my power to offer ; but I cannot refrain
on this occasion from paying a tribute to their devotedness
and chri,tian seal.
Gentkmen of Me Legislative Assembly,
I thank you in the name of her Majesty for the readiness
with which you have voted the supplies necessary for the
public service and for maintaining the credit of the province.
Honourable Gentlemen and Gentlemen,
The several addresses to the Queen which you have trans- I
mined through me have been duly. forwarded to be laid at
the foot of the throne. By clamm; the influence which
you possess in your respective districts to carry out local
improvemente and give full effect to the wise and salutary
enactments of the legislature, you may render services to the
community hardly less important than those which you dis-
charge while you aro assembled here. lam confident that
these duties will engage your attention on your return to
your homes, and I earnestly pray that our exertions for the
advancement of the various interests of this noble province,
and for the benefit of all classes of the inhabitants, may be
attended with the divine blasting.
The Hon. the Speaker of tke Legislative Council then
declared that it was the pleasure of his Excellency the
Governor-General that the parliament should stand pro-
rogued to Monday, the 6th September next.

ST. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK, JcLT 31.
During the present sumo, the weather in New
Brunswick has been unusually propitious, and the crops, in
consequence, have the mast promising appearance. The
hay-crop is • very large one, and there is not, up to this
date, any appearance of the potato disease. The new po-
tatoes already in market are dry, and of good quality, with
the true flavour, which has in general been wanting during
the lest three years.
There is a very large supply of the staple exports of the
country, timber and deals, incite market, and price. are low,
owing to the sluggish state of the timber market in England,
and the difficulty in procuring ships hitherto. This latter
deficiency is being remedied daily ; freights are falling, and
our ports will soon assume a more lively and bustling
appearance.
The emigration to New Brunswick has not been nearly so
large as that of last year ; the amount of sickness and the
number of deaths are quite fearful. The emigration of this
season is confined almost exclusively to the humblest class
of Irish peasant, who, long wasted by privation, with dis-
ease firmly implanted in his system, is altogether unable to
bear the sea voyage. The typhus, by which the emigrants
Principally suffer, has not made such frightful havoc here as
in Canada, where the deaths are counted by thousands.
The voyage to the colony is much shorter than to Canada,
and the numbers being smaller, they have been better cared
for on landing, and had greater hospital accommodation.

FRANCE.—TiTE Caors.—A correspondent of the
Gardener's cArcoicte gives a comprehensive view of the
prospects of the harvest in the following terms ..—PARTe,
Aro. 4.—The appearance of the potato crops in this neigh-
bourhood is everything that could be wished, the egetation
is everywhere luxuriant, and promise; an abundant
scarcely any signs of disease have appeared, and even where
semi, so modified as to cause little or no alarm ; at say other
time it would have paned altogether unooticed ; in feet,
there was but very little last season, compared with 1846, and
now it is almost unknown,-1 speak of the present moment,
and the cultivation round Paris. My own observation leads
me to believe that there has been a very considerable increase
of ground planted this year: this was to he expected from
the high prioe they fetched in the autumn and winter,

the probable increased cassumption in consequence of the
high price of provision., and the many purposes to
which they are applied in France; the enormous rise
in the price of bread since the autumn WU another induce-
ascot to plant as largely as possible; the result has iustified
the experiment, the yield of the early sorts is fully equal fait
not more than, an average; at the present time the very best
new potatoes are selling at about Is. 6d. the English bushel,
while bread is 10d. the four pound loaf; whereas in the
early part of the winter they were selling at 3s. and 4a, and
breed was then 94., a difference so considerable as cannot
fail to have effect in still further reducing the price of the
main staff of life. The markets are abundantly supplied
with both round and kidneys of good quality; it is
doubtful it they were ever finer. I have not seen a single
• diseased potato in the markets, although I have been en
the constant look out; in most of the country markets they
are equally good. As to the late kinds, I have, from
time to tame, carefully examined the growing crops,
and assert, without fear of contradiction, that they are
as tine as it is possible to desire, and that at the time I write
there is no appearance of disease,or scarcely none; the foliage
is everywhere green and luxuriant, a tainted leaf is rarely
found, certainly not more than are usually seen from the
effects of thrips and other invisible insects, lam in almost
daily intercourse with persona from different parts of France,
who, from their position, are well acquainted with the sub-
ject, and the general belief is, that there has been, and
is, bat very little disease this year, that it is not upon
the increase, and almost entisely confined to damp and cold
soils, and entailed by planting diseased tubers. I
think it is the universal opinion here that the crops
of potatoes throughout France are-1. But very little
affected by disease ; 2. That there will be more than
an average yield; 3. That there has been a far greater
quantity planted than usual. So far the prospects are
cheering; and should it please Providence to continue the
fine weather for another air weeks, all hearts will have cause
of thankfulnees, for almost every species of vegetable pro-
duction is equally abundant. The wheat harvest is over in
the south and commenced in the north, and was never known
finer. The Minister of Commerce has just made publicly
known, by official returns, that there is more than an
average, and the prevent splendid weather will permit
it to be housed in good condition. As to the fruit
crops, they are absolutely superabundant ; the quantities
of apples, pears, grapes, apricots, and plums, are in-
credible ; the trees are falling under them. The vice
tage will be abundant and of firstrate quality; the
early black grapes are now changing colour in Pule,
and will, no doubt, be in the markets by the middle of the
month. Good apricots have been selling at 3 and 4 francs
(2s. 6d. and 35.) per 100 ; fine green figs are now sold in the
streets at leas than Id. each ; it was the same with the earlier
fruits, such as strawberries, cherries, raspberries, gooseber-
ries, and currants. During last month fine May duke cher-
ries were often sold at id. and Id. per lb. ; and currants at
Id. and I id. per pint. And in a country like France, where
more than one-half of the poorer classes entirely exist upon
bread and fruit or bread and vegetables, these things are of
the utmost consequence, and in a great measure counteract
the eistress which would otherwise follow from the exorbi-
tant price of bread.
BELGIUM.—BRUS,IELS, AUG. 13.—NlvasrEfttit
CRI(4IB.—AII the arrangements for the formation of the new
cabinet ere completed. The Mottitcur will publish tos
morrow the decrees which accept the resignations tendered
on the 12th of June by the ministers of the 31st of March,
and which nominate M. Rosier, Minister of the Interior;
M. de Hanley, Minister of Justice; M. dllcffachnsidt, Mi-
nister of Foreign Affairs ; M. F. Orber, Minister of Public
Works; M. Veydt, Minister of Finance; and Baron Choral,
Minister of War. The Muniteur will publish at the same
time an exposition—a programme of the policy of the new
cabinet. The new members will take the oaths to-morrow.
Before nominating Major-Genersl Baron Choral Minister of
War, his Majesty will confer on him the rank of Lieut.-
General. M. Leclerq, Procurator-General of the Court of
Caseation, is said to have accepted the mission of plenipo-
tentiary to the Holy See.
HOLLAND.—The HAGUE, Arc. 12.—Close or
THE LIGIV,LATIVI Session.—This day the minister of the
interior, in the name of the King, closed the legislative ses-
sion of 1846-7. In the cluing speech of Count de Rand-
wyk, he spoke in defence of the bill intended to give effect
to the 6th article of the fundamental law en the right of
Toting at elections, The minister attributed the unconsti-
tutional motives to more than one negative vote, and enlarged
upon the pernicious influence, which (according to him) the
rejection of government propositions necessarily exercised
on the development of the political institutions of Holland.
The minister concluded by saying, "And you, gentlemen,
who have refused your aid to the government, in rejecting
this law, let me beg of you to reflect, once more, whether,
when you return to your own homes, and recall your acts of
the session, you will be able to give yourselves this testimony:
I have observed and maintained the fundamental law, and
have not deviated from it in any manner whatever?'
RUSSIA.—DESTRCCTIVE FIRE IN ARCHANGEL—
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The Nieuace Courant of Rotterdam states, upon the
authority of private letters and of the Hamburg paper',
that 400 houses were destroyed by fire in Archangel
on the 28th ult. and the following day. The houses were
chiefly built of wood and tenanted by the poorer clams. No
important commercial establishments were situated in the
quarter which was burned, except the Royal Commercial
Sank, all the valuable property in which was saved.