The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

of grain were stopped and pillaged, and the
military were called out for the protection of
the owners. At Antrames and Argentrez si-
milar proceedings took place. In many places
in the department of Ile-et-Vilaine, the trans-
, potation of grain has been violently stopped.
At Rennes, the riots have been, for the present, sup-
pressed by military force, but the prices, both there
and at Nantes, are rising at a formidable rate. At
the market of Lignieres on the 11th, a band of 100
persons, armed with bludgeons, presented themselves ,
with menaces. The authorities interfered, when a
collision took place. The civil force being unable to
resist, a detachment of dragoons was called out ;
when for the moment the disturbance was quelled. -,
At Chateauroux, the population compelled the owners
of grain to deliver it to them at a price fixed by
themselves. It is said that government is now
using energetic measures to quell these rives, having
destiatched military forces into the disturbed districts.
1 he committee of the Chamber of Deputies, charged
with the proposed law to allow the importation of
grain at a minimum duty, will probably bring the
project before the chamber to-day. But the pressure
is too urgent to allow the government to depend on
this, the effects of which would probably not be felt
before April or May. Immediate measures of relief
must be provided.
A cabinet council was held on Sunday, at which
the question of subsistence was discussed, and great
solicitude was felt. The funds at 'fortoni's underwent
a further decline ; Three per Cents., which ou Satur-
day closed at 78fr. 10c., fell to 77fr. 63c., and closed
at 77fr. 80e.
The Ornerier Francais says that an extraordinary
courier arrived in Paris on Friday night with des-
patches for Lord Normanby, among which was a
new note of Lord Palmerston's respecting the pub-
lication of the documents, and touching the manner
in which this publication has been accomplished.
This note was to be communicated immediately to
M. Guizot.
It was also said that a high personage, enjoying
the confidence of the Court and the Cabinet, was to
depart in a few days for London, to endeavour to re-
establish the entente cordink, and to propose to the
British government a new treaty of commerce.
The Duke of Monte-hello, ambassador of France at
the Court of Naples, has just arrived in Paris. This
diplomatist, it is said, will replace ('ount Bresson at
Madrid, the latter claiming advancement u a reward
for his success in the marriage affair.
The discussion on the address in the Chamber of
Peers was to commence yesterday, when the Duke
de Broglie would open the debate upon the question
of the Spanish marriages. It was not expected that
M. Guizot would speak until to-day.
The reply to the address in the Peers, declares it
does not think the Spanish marriages calculated to
disturb the alliance of two countries which hold in
their hand the peace of the world.
The committee of the Chamber of Deputies
charged with examining the project of law on the im-
portation of grain will, it is expected, express some
censure on the extreme imprudence of the Minister
of Agriculture in publishing lately a circular on the
means of subsistence of the country, the effect of
which has been to excite false hopes on the one hand,
and to discourage commercial speculations on the
other. It was said in the bureaux that this question
of subsistence would speedily become the great ques-
tion of the day, almost extinguishing every other.
We have calculated that bread in Paris would
attain the rate of 20. per lb. on the Ist of February.
The fears of many members of the chamber even
transcend our apprehensions, and' anticipate a rate
of 57 centimes per kilog., being at the rate of
2 B.lod. per lb.
The Spanish general, Don Juan de Paula, brother-
in-law of Cabrera, whom the French government
detained in the prison of Caycatias, has been danger-
ously ill, and has been transported to the hospital of
the city, where he is submitted to the same severe
treatment as is used towards a culprit under sentence
of death. A gendarme remains night and day at his
bedside, a second at the door of his apartment, and
two others in the adjacent corridor.

Everything conspires to awaken apprehensions that
Switzerland is about to become the theatre of politi-
cal disturbances • and, if so, of all the evils of foreign
intervention. The triumphjust attained by the Jesui-
tical party in Friburg has stimulated the animosity
of all the ultra-catholic cantons, and given strength
to the ultramontane league. The liberal cantons,
meanwhile, and especially those of Geneva and Berne,
are observing the utmost caution, and notwithstanding
the natural sympathies which they entertain in favour of
the insurgents of Friburg, they have observed strictly
the principle of non-intervention in their cantonal re-
lations. They are sensitively alive to the dangers of
foreign intervention which menace them on every
side: they are persuaded that tho present cabinet of
the Tuileries would rejoice at an opportunity of gain-
ing the favour of Austria, by abetting the policy of
that power in regard to the Swiss federation, and a
demonstration of this predisposition is already an-
nounced in one of the provincial journals, which says
that a camp is about to be established near Nantua,
on the very frontier of Switzerland. The federal
directory, now established at Berne, on entering on
its functions, has addressed the following circular to
the confederate cantons.
Rears, Jam. 6.—Confomubble to the dispositions of the
existing federal pact, the canton of Berne has entered the
functions of federal directory for the years 1847 and 1848.
We are fully aware of the importance of our task, and espe-
cielly of the serious cireamstances under which the duties of
the federal 'nunnery have been entrusted to us. It shall be
our serious duty to maintain the legal state demanded by
the pact, the peace of the country, and public order in the
confederation ; at the same time that we shall neglect no-
thing which may contribute to the welfare of the common
country in every respect. We shall also pay special atten-
tion to the consolidation of the independence of the confe-
deration, to the preservation of its neutrality, as also to the
maintenance of the relations of international right which
Switzerland entertains with friendly states on a footing of
equal reciprocity. We shall not neglect either to accord
special attention to the constitutional development of the
federal institutions, at the same time that we shall neglect
nothing to further every species of legal progress conform,
able to the pact. That our efforts may be crowned with the
desired result, we need the energetic support of the states of
the einfederation. In calling upon you to lend your loyal
and strenuous co-operation, we are, &e., The President and
Executive Council. (Follow the signatures.)
The ambassadors of the northern powers have ad-
dressed three notes to the new Vorort, expressed in
precisely the same terms, showing how completely
they act in concert. Those of Austria and
are in German, that of Russia in French, to the fig-

lowing effect : • •
To his Ernßory the President, and to the memben of the
executive council of the canton of Berne. federal diner
tory :
The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister *M.
pntentiary of hi. Majesty the Romero( of all the Rename to
the Swims atiah has assured from the governalint
Mee Sesielsj tison hand giressoey, the moat
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that, lkint tM is Jemmy of the preen*
71111 r with which it had bum ine
valid wen te be inv=aithe canton of B e. Amerd-
llag lib anion reseteed, the :deevisised 11s the bones/ of la-
the sew &sm.ey of the Swiss owakeleratioa, that,
'sinks Esthete!, width ha virtue of an. 10 of the
pact
MOW the Tth Anima, 11111, is killed wean direct
the AIWA
_of Or samilmiesstirear aria wil enter-
tain-its ionsMaNd Mead[? 'whitlow with it througl h the
organ of the present direetert, is Mgr the bode ea which
its power rests has not best baWM in Ib edillseel al
vitiated in its spirit. That bask is the hienl poet of 1114,
and the spirit of that act is only maintained in Its integrity
as long as the cantonal sovereignties, guaranteed by the
pact, and limited for special ends Indicated by the federal
constitution, are 'crapulously respected. The more the cir-
cumstances snider which the canton of Berne takes charge
of the high flu:diens with which it has been invested, the
more reason has the imperial court for oot leaving it in the
den on its sentiments, and on the consequences naturally
attending thereon. In thus fulfilling the orders of his go-
vernment, the undersigned profits of the occasion to offer
H.E. the President and the members of the execntivo ems-
MI of the Canton of Berne, federal directory, the swats
of his most high consideration.—(Signed) Hauturrna.
Zurich, 29th Dec., 1846, and 10th Jan., 1847.

According to the last advice* from Madrid, the
Cortes had suspended for several days its semen.
This intermission was ascribed to a desire to await the
solution of the ministerial crisis, which appeared to be
imminent. A great number of members of the
Moderado party openly demanded a modification of
the cabinet ; and a preparatory meeting, at which it
had been intended to select a candidate of that party
fbr the presidency of the representative chamber, had
been adjourned, M. Castro y Orosco having refused to
be proposed as the ministerial candidate. The mi-
nisterial modification likely to ensue was doubtful at
the departure of the last advisee. M. Mon and M.
Isturitz were eagerly contending, each aspiring to
the direction of *♦Taira.
It was said on the 11th that M. Mon would retire
from the ministry in consequence of desiring to retain