The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-13 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Four o'Cloek.
Our foreign express arrived this morning.
The questions of electoral reform and subsistence
; continued to occupy the Paris press on Thursday,
. without, however, excluding rather extensive notices
of the distress in Ireland.
The representative Chamber in France is returned
• *A present by 240,000 electors taken from 35,000,000
of people, and determined by the test of paying 81. a
• year direct taxes. It is complained that this con-
Cy iepreposterously small ; that the test is
unsuitable, omitting large classes who are most
j eliglaile as electors, and including many who could
scarcely be embraced by any rational mode of sem-
- tion. The project now before the Chambers is to
reduce the qualification of the elector to half its
present amount, and to admit certain professional
classes to vote without any pecuniary qualification.
The enormous corruption produced by the ex-
tensive official patronage of government in a con-
stituency so limited forms another ground of com-
plaint. The reading of the project has been sanc-
tioned by the Bureaux, and the debate upon it is fixed
for the 22nd. This is a step similar to the first read-
ing of a bill in the House of Commons ; it gives the
sanction of the Chamber to the principle of the
project.
Besides providing means to facilitate the arrival of
grain, and encourage its importation, which was
mentioned in our former correspondence, most active
measures have been adopted by government to afford
the people employment on public, works. It happens
fortunately that many of these, such as railways and ,
ordinary leads, had been already decided upon and '
surveyed, and would sooner or later have had to be
constructed. Employment is thus provided to a great
extent without ultimate loss to the country.
The leading. organ of the government, the Journal
des DEbals, seizes the occasion offered by the present
emergencies to urge the necessity of a speedy relaxa-
tion of the prohibitive system, by showing how din-'
estrous its effi eta are in crises like the present. It is
possible that by such arguments some relaxation
may be made in the protective laws which
effect the importation of food generally, bat
until, by a large measure of parliamentary
reform the Chamber shall be purged of the swarm of
monopolists which at present fills it, no hopes of any
serious *advancement in commercial policy can be
entertained.
The railway from Amiens to Abbeville will be
opened on Monday.
Le Courrier Francais says that the Tunis question
is likely to become complicated. M. Ambrois an
attaché of the French Consulate at Tripoli is ex-
pected daily In Paris charged with despatches for the
government relative to the difference between the Bey
of Tunis and the Porte.
Letters from Ancona say that the autograph letter
of King Otho to the Sultan, and that of M. Coletti
were despatched to Constantinople the day be-
fore and not the day after the departure of the Turkish
ambassador as was formerly stated, from which it was
inferred that the Greek government desired to get
rid of M. Museums, butt() maintain terms of amity
with the Ottoman Porte. Public opinion in Athens
was much excited against M. Museums, and it re-
quired great firmness in the government to restrain
the populace. It was said that M. Museums shed
tears on quitting, perhaps for ever, the soil of Greece.
M. Piscatory. French ambassador, and M. Werther,
Prussian ambassador, give their countenance to the
Greek government in this affair.
A letter on the same subject, dated Constantinople
18th, says, that the letter of King Otho to the Sultan
is written in the most conciliatory terms, but com-
plains strongly of the conduct of M. Museums. His
Majesty adds that in what had occurred he had no
intention to offend the Sultan or the Divan. It was
uncertain what course the Divan would take, but the
corps diplomatique were using all their efforts to pro-.
duos a friendly solution of the affair, and the Greek
minister at Constantinople had received no instruc-
tions from his government to withdraw. A speedy
termination of the affair was, therefore, saafidentlY
looked for.

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The letters and journals of Madrid of the 6th were
remind in Paris on Thursday.
It was said that the Minister of Finance intended
to introduce the greatest publicity into all the opera-
tions of his department. A monthly report of receipts
and expenses of the treasury will be published in the
Gazette, and a project of law will be proposed to the
Cates determining the manner and form of reducing
the budget. M. Bravo Murillo, in the senate, on the
6th, declared that: the orts of the ("what move•
ments were exaggerate notwithstanding the ac-
cordance of the reports from the provinces.
The affair of the French ship on the Bidassoa had
been pacifically
arranged.
General Breton published a proclamation,
threatening with immediate execution all persons who
may be taken, whether with or without arms, accom-
l*nying the rebel bands, all spies, and all bearers of
correspondence.

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Nsw Born! WALES.--We have Sydney papers to
41h October. Of the movements of the governor sines the
sisolaa of the legislative council no notice Is taken. The
Swan was busy with business of detail. The estimates were
through committee not very inharmoniously: A bill
rearger attorneys to practise as banisters, and rice versa,
k tie mom of New South Wales, had been read
lAN IlMa. A bill to abolish imprisonment for debt had
hem mimed to be re-committed, previously to its third
!Nib.. The testimonial to Dr. Leichhardt amounted to
saw more than 1,600.; a chsque for 8501. (the amount
rid up) had been presented to him at a pulrVe meet-
at which Dr. Nicholson presided. Dr. L,iehhardt
via to start in a few weeks on a second expe li-
the, Nothing bad been beard of the party exploring
ra interior under Sir Thomu Mitchell. A party bad been
Amied a: Melbourne to go in much of a white woman, said

to bo held agave It! am Wes
gran of** esimakrisa es Mr
• body of siihni, oar n 11r.
The settlers em Darling Downs
menial to then police engaged
bush-rempor.
TM awe ism New Zealand
Wm aft timea we had previously t.
thalt 1. Pasha had been admitted
1s a ahSaed histwo companions ;
minmently mind his countrymen to - (TlBReatte•
=tut Rangihatatea,!or the sham.
wbieh h:.(Rae-
Er4enfiedif the =yeti made prisoner,
611:4ltaet ea Some
M =dm hal aims Witte °trot a war was about to be
'duel lop as An Wompris district, to which the late move-
ment wadi M "s the Iry spilt out of a panuikin."
Hewhen,timalmsthee snisneoessor to the late chief of Taupo,
bad been amorked r eisdoeting himself with great re-
reserve
y sod s
vsanperciliommees towards the English and the
friendl nori

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r a Meek tribe at Clip Otway, by
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Kr. Smythe, Val in eireulation. 1
L had sublimated 3W. u a mati-
ns' in the ceps of a notorious
land in these papers is not of
over received. It s mentioned
shunted to an interview with
anions in captivity. The old chief
rimen to take Me (venratioe—