The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WIDNISDAT, 6 P.N.
Acother cabinet conneil has been held tnis after-
noon ; the molt has sot transpired. This afternoon,
is the Legislative Monthly, M. Achille Fould, the
sew finance minister, has announced that he will
shortly communicate to the Assembly the opinion of
the government on the tax on drinks. Ile also stated
privately that it is the intention of the government
to make a proposal on the credit finance. Beyond
this them was nothing of importance in the transac-
tioes el the Legislative Assembly during the
afternoon.
Some of the legitimist journals are up is arms to-
day with the Elyske, because some of the red jour-
have counselled the president to make advances
to the extreme left tarty. But still the legitimist
party continue to make expressions of friendship and
oases of support. Let residnt re,:sl to his
memory that the Oreeka wthe ere not toe be found when
dunis Jennies.
It .6 stated that the bill on public instruction, pre-
pared with so much care by. M. de Fallon previous
to his retirement from the ministry, has been finally
withdrawn by the present cabinet.
The thud committee of parliamentary initiative met
yesterday, and heard reports from M. Casablanca on
the proposition relative to the creation of a superior
council dery ; from M. de Cteptray, on a proposition
to simplify the division of communal lands in the de-
partments of Brittany ; and from M. de Leroy, to
migrant the penalties against usury. The committee
was of opinion that the first ought to be set aside, but
the two last taken into consideration. It afterwards
heard the minaret's of commerce and finance relative
to the propoposition of M. Lopes-Dube demanding
exemption of custom duties on articles used for the
cot struction of merchant-vessels. The ministe
declared that the proposition appeared to them dan-
gerous at present, particularly as it would alarm the
body of forge-masters, whose position continued to
be more unfavourable than all other manufacturers.
The committee adjourned to deliberate on the
proposition.

13011 UL.

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Ileum and Ilan% 234; Avignon and Illassaiks. 116 —; Strageorg
and Ds* 101 S 0; Ontra Orterace), 297 SO ; end Manna,
—lioadsenz, 383 ; North, 427 30; Me ant Stmennas, 863 •
loansand Plantaa. 281 23; Dieppe and Peamp, 1994 Derdanas and
Tole, —; s,O
168 101102;14168 rs; Vanallles, right bask. 21125;
Monsaress and Vella, 105 Th.

GERMANY.

BERLIN, Nov. 4.

Government has been authorised to. cronstroot
the Eastern Railway, the Weetphaliar -Thurin-
gen Railway, and the Sambrook Railway, et
the expense of the state; it is empowered to expend
33,000,000 for this purpose, to be drawn in the first
instance from the railway fund ; if that prove insuffi-
cient, from the surplus of the general revenue ; and,
if that do not reach out, by contracting a loan of
21,000,000. •
The Eastern Railway, from Berlin to Konigsberg,
was justly designated • " conquest" by one of the
speakers in the Second Chamber. It not only makes
a great and important province of Prussia for the
first time a living member of the whole kingdom, com-
mercially and politically ; it not only makes this remote
province for the first time accessible from other
parts of the kingdom and Europe and the world at
al qe to its inhabitants; but it is, in point of
feet, the first knock at the locked and bolted
door of tie Russian eznp're, the first step towards
a real discovery of that European China. The
strategetical importance of this line is equally obvious.
Hitherto, troops which could reach Erfurt from
Wallenberg in 24 hours (by the Stettin Poem line)
have taken a month to reach Konigsberg from Walden-
rg, though, in point of fait, the road is shorter.
Ia future the regiments of eastern and western
Prussia will be able to reach Berlin, or may. be sent
hem Berlin to the eastern frontier f Prussia in 48
boars.

The second line—that from Westphalia to Thiiria- I
gen, a searcely less important. It will for the first '
time open a continuous line of communication by
steam locomotives between South and North Ger
many on the west, and in this respect is equal in ins-
pmtance to the line on the out, which connects Bet- 1
lin, through Deaden, with Vienna. It renders it
possible by exteasime from Hamm and Munster to
the north to connect the ports of Erodes sad Bremen
directly with middle and Smtla Germany. Finally,
it has the great advantage of connecting the eastern
and western petvinces ot Prussia by a lute which m-
ar* avoids the Hanoverian territory, and only
Teat/ through states forming part of the Zollverein.
Dab 'he government and the Second Chamber have
publicly expressed their expectation that its construc-
tion will compel_lisnever to join the Zollverein.
Even the of them lines—that of Umbria—
is of sufficient communal to deserve a brief natio,.
In the vicinity of Elearbrfick it will form la junction
with the French Meta Railway, and through it with
the Paris end Strasburg Railway. At It. opposite
terminus i s will be connected through the Bavarian
Berbach-Lndwi;hafet line with the railways of Baden
and Hum. It will be a part of the meet direct line

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