The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6,184 g.

by the Duke 6:Aumale, that prince must necessarily
resign.
The Omstitutionnel gives the following letter rela-
' ting to the circumstances which preceded the surren-
der of Abdel-Kader.
OMAN, Dec. 26.—The Morocco troop', to the number of
3,000, closely surrounded the Deire, which effected the
passage of the Monlouia under a most murderous fire, and
protected by the wrecks of the regular troops of A.bdel-
Kader, cavalry and infantry. The old troops fought bravely
under the conduct of the Emir, who saw the greater part
of his officers fall at his side. The half of his cavalry and
one-third of his infantry perished in these different
engagements, or rather in this uninterrupted battle.
Uur troops were watching the defiles, and it was a detach-
ment of the Spahis, commanded by an officer, who met l
Abd-el-Kader, separated from from his deira, after having
conducted it to a place of safety. The Emir was among
the Beni-Snassen, a tribe which had always been devoted to
him, when, by the intervention of the Spahi officer, he en-
tered into a pourporler with Lieut.-Gen. De Lamericiere.
The reply of the general having appeared satisfactory to the
Emir, the latter repaired on the '23rd, in the morning, to the
Marabout of Sidi-Brehins, a place rendered remarkable by
the affeir which a feeble French colony there sustained in
1815. The aga of the regulars arrived at the head
of 160 horse, in very good order, before Nemours (Djermna-
Ohenout). This troop was at first disarmed, but, after a
short address of General De Lamoriciiire, ending by thine
words, " I have admired the bravery displayed by you in
defending the deira, and then muskets, which you have
made such good use of, shall be restored to you," they took
up their arms. The greater part of these soldiers, who have
thug been in the service of Abd-el Kader, had tears in their
eyes. The dein arrived on our territory collected, and
without having been broken into by the enemy, notwith-
standing the endeavours which must have been made to this
effect. It still comprises 6,000 souls. The Due d'Aumale,
who arrived on the spat time enough to receive Abel el-
Kader and hie suite, returned in the Solon with his new
guests, Ins here presided over their removal to the Aamerlie,
which has conveyed them to Toulon. From this time Alge-
ria enters into a new phase; we shall now see if govern-
ment really intends to make something of thin country.
The Conaerratear, a semi-official journal of the
government says :
We are ...sun d government intends immediately to make
known to Mehemet Ali the desire expensed by Abel-el-
Karl. r to be conveyed to Alexandria. Till it be ascertained
whether the vice roy will consent to receive the ea-Emir
into his territory, the fort Lamalgue, near l'oulon, is to be
assigned to the latter far his residence. Dispositions are
about to he taken for Abd-el-Kaler to he immediately coo-
vet ed thithe ron his leaving the lsnerettn, and for him to be
treated there in a manner cunfornaable to the sentiments of
generosity which France has always made it her
glory to show to those eaemies who have been
compelled to acknowledge her power.
M. Guizot being considerably embarrassed by the
questions put to him in the bureau, respecting the
occupation of the independent Italian states by the
Austrians, replied by di elating hie official ignorance
of the fact. It was admitted, however, on Tuesday,
by the friends of the minister, that the entry of the
Austrians into Modena and l'arma had been officially
announced. Ilereupon, says Mmtarchique,
the following details are stated :
At the commencement of the negotiations opened last
summer between M. de Metternich and the French cabi-
net, relativa to the attain of Itiey, Austria appears to have
expressed, from the first, the firm desire that France should
interfere iu n.,thiog which could concern in any way the
attain of the two states of Modena and farm', which are
more especially placed under the direct influence of the cabi-
net of Vienna. It appears that to this first overture a re-
ply was made, that the French cabinet was will-
ing to uceept those conditions, but solely for this I
double motive, that, on one hand, Modena had
not acknowledged the dynasty of Or:eans, and that,
on the other hand, the principality of Parma was to fall
by inherit,' Mee to a family willow inter. sts make it the natural
enemy to this same dynasty. The French government then
took the engagement not to interfere in the affairs of 310-
den& used of Farina, rvaerving to itself, however, every right
of meiliivion, and, if necessary, of intervention, in whatever
might concern the affairs of Tuscany and of the Roman

A letter from Marseilles states that an English squa-
dron, which was within the last few days in the Gulf
of Spizzia, has received orders to proceed to Malta,
without appearing on the coasts of Rumania or Na-
ples.
The Industrie, which left the Amazon river on the
18th Nov., bus just arrived at Ifavre with M.de Saint-
Cricq, who accompanied the expedition of Count de
Castelnau to make designs. A collection of plants,
maps, plans, and designs have been brought by M. de
Saint Cricq, who preserved it at the risk of his life.
It is the more precious from the fact, that the death
of the Viscount d'Orery, and the disappearance of M.
Wed.! in Bolivia have deprived the expedition, which
was sent by the French goverment into the interior
of America, of great part of the results which were
expected. M. de Saint Oleg is so seriously ill that
he will have to remain at I lavre sonic days, before
setting out for Paris.

The Reo del Comerein a,uuuucew that 200 rebels
had made their appearance mar Lerida, and levied
contributions on several tillages. The Herald, states
from Teruel that General Mayalde had put to the rout
a bind of rebels in Lower Arragon, after killing six
men and making seven prisoners. The En o inlorms
us that M. laturita, the Spanish Andasaldor to Lon-
don,
who has arrived at Madrid, and had an audience
of the Queen, has tendered his resignation, but that it I
has not been accepted. A letter from Palencia, in the
Ern del Oonereio, gives an account of a serious dis-
turbance, on the occasion or the election for that
place. It states that the partisans of the government
candidates, armed with poniards, endeavoured to
prevent the liberals from voting, and inflicted serious
wounds on several. At the hour of the departure of
the post from Madrid, M. Orense was putting some
questions to the ministry in the Chamber of Deputies
on this subject

The King of Sardinia, if he stared on the way of
reform after Pius IX., must be admitted to have pro-
eteded on his course with even greater celerity, and
to have already, in a great degree, thrown into the
shade the reforming pontiff. It is now evident that
Cnarb•s Albert intends to become, that which be is
said to have often lamented not to have been—a con-
stitutional king. Not a post arrives that does not
bring tidings, not of individual rc forms effected by
that sovereign, but of entire classes of reforms. 'rhe
Gatette of Florence, of the 2sth, just received, an-
nounces the following group of reforms as immediately
to he realised :

Advices from Turin, says the Gaceele, in which we place
confidence, announce the following reforms: Diminution in
the price of salt; amnesty general; deliberative voice
granted the council of mate in certain matters, and the intro-
doction of some of the municipalities among its mcm-
ben; a voluntary civic guard, armed by government,
and charged to provide itself (or the expenses of the uniform;
ministers to the number of seven in place of live; sup-
pression of the ministry of the island of Sardinia, and iden-
tification of the government of Stitt island with that of the
terra firma; great reform in the municipalities, in a tense
nearly demoeratical ; finally, a,olition of the body of the
deettrions, over which no one had ventured till now to at-
tempt the snialleAmoditication,

The Roman journals of the 24th give in detail the
addressed delivered by the Pope to the consistory
on the 17th. In this document his Holiness, after
referring briefly to the affairs of Spain, mentions
the negotiations which were commenced with
Russia, which he declares have hitherto been
attend. d with no result.. The contrary has
been pretended, he says ; but, as to him, all that he
can announce is, that he trusts in the mercy of God
towards the children of the church. His Holiness
then disavows the charge made against him of a
false and indiscriminate tolerance. Such he declares
is not the motive which prompted the late amnesty.
With respect to the affairs of Switzerland, his Holi-
ness bitterly deplores the demonstrations made upon
the taking of Lucerne; civil war is a lamentable
event; he deplores it with an affliction so
much the more lively as it proved of im-
mense injury to catholicism, which it menaces
with still greater evil, and that it leads to sacrileges,
which must be regarded with horror. The address
terminates with exhortations to all the patriarchs,
archbishops, and bishops, to disseminate the seeds of
union, peace, and concord.

OPORTO, Dec. 25.

The elections for deputies took place, as I antici-
pated. Whilst the electors were assembled in the
municipal council, a mob of caceteiros (fellows armed
with bludgeons) had gathered in the Prove Nuova (new
&rare), and severely maltreated Geronimo de Moraes
nicknamed " the dry rat," captain of the third sec-
tion, and one of the returned exiles from Angola, in
the presence of many soldiers and officers, who, so
far from interfering, only laughed and rather joined
in the affair. This was at tour o'clock in the after-
noon, and not one of the perpetrators of the cruelties
practised on this unfortunate man was apprehended,
nor even rebuked ; neither did the authorities seem to
possess the least power to punish them. In the even-
ing a still greater outrage occurred in the theatre,
where a band of these same cacctciros had assembled,
and vociferously called for the national hymn, accom-
panying their demand with vivas and indecent lan-
guage, such as to frighten away most of the ladies
present, who retired for fear of being violently de-
prived of the ear-rings and other gold ornaments