The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-19 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY. Four o'Clock.
Very alarming reports have been in circulation to-
ay respecting the state of Mr. O'Connell's health.
From inquutes, we are enabled to state that the
learned gentleman is convalescent.

Accounts ere said to have reached town from Dub-
lin, bringing the result of the Galway election up to
the close of the poll on Tuesday. evening, at which
tuns the numbers stood thus, via.: Monahan, 508 ;
071sherty, 501; being a majority of 7 in favour of
the Solicitor-General. The official declaration would
fie he made till the hileirieg gay, se take high sheriff's
atieesor had still to determine eleven disputed votes,
tendered for Mr. O'llaherty, and two for Mr. Mona-
han. The return of the Solicitor-General was con-
sidered safe.

Our foreign express arrived this morning.
The Paris journals of Wednesday continue to be
cecupied with polemics of the Guizot-Normanby
affair ; and same of them, La Presse for example,
must be allowed the credit of some ability in en-
venoming the quarrel. The latter journal directly
charges the British ambassador with communicating
to Le Cbastitutionnel, the organ of M. Thiers, his de-
spatch to Lord Palmerston of the 23,h of September,
three months before the Secretary for Foreign
Affairs laid that despatch before the British
parliament; in other words, with such a flagrant
violation of duty as would expose the ambassador to
an ignominons dismissal from office, and a future ex-
elusion from all public employment. Yet this charge
is recklessly made by a journal which is well known
to be in the confidence of M. Guizot and the court.
The reception of Count St. Aulaire and M. Jarnac
at the levee, and the royal invitation to dinner
ftt the palace on Sunday, with their sub-e-
-spent visit to the soiree at Lord and Lady
Palmerston's, is afehe in a conspicuous manner, with
large leader type and leads by the Journal des Debate,
which adopts the pacific tone. Nothing can be more
convenient than the relations which are established in
Paris between the government and the press. The
court and cabinet have different organs which are
used to work out the name or different purposes at the
same time by different means. Thus the Davits is
coaxing and conciliatory towards England, while La
Presse is minatory and scurrilous. 'The one recom- '
mends by all means the re-establishment of the
English alliance, while the other denounces it and
counsels northern friendships or isolated independ-
mice ; yet both these organs are cherished in the
Hotel des Capucines and share the smiles of the
Tuileries.
PARIS BOURSE, FEB. 17.—The news that Count
St. Aulaire was present at a dinner at the Palace, in
London, and at Lord Palmerston's soirh, caused a
favourable movement on the Paris Bourse, the funds,
public securities, and railway shares, all having risen.
The Threes rose 40c. The Fives rose 23c., closing
at 118.80.

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We have received the Madrid mail of the 11th
instant.
The Gazette contains a royal decree, combining the
ministry of the Colonies with that of the Interior,
which is in future to be called Ministry of the King-
dom. Another decree organises the ministries of
Commerce, of Instruction, and of Public Works. This
decree divides the ministry into four sections, namely,
that of Commerce, of Public Instruction, of Public
Works, and of Agriculture. All the administrative
authorities which, up to the prevent, were subordinate
to the ministry of the Interior, are, in future, to be
dependent on the new ministries of Commerce, of In-
struction, and of Public Works.
A letter from Madrid announces that "At twelve
o'clock this day the marriage of H.R.H. the Infants,
daughter of the Infante Don Francisco de Paula, with
the eldest won of the Count d'Altamira, was celebrated
in the palace. The Chamber of Deputies assembled
on the 10th, and heard read the report of the com-
mittee on the address. This report is in accordance
with ministerial views, and is based on the principles
of the Moderado party. It contains some praises on
the order introduced in the administration of the
Finances. M. Roe de Olano and M. Benavides
a paragraph relative to the expedition
O'fmreneeral Flores. The paragraph relative to the
royal marriages contains the expression of a formal
and unreserved approbation. The debates will be
commenced immediately. After the reading of the
draft of the address, M. Mendizabal made some
observations in support of a demand for the production
of financial documents. The Ministers of Justice,
Finance, the Interior, and Public Instruction, were
present at the sitting."
On the 10th the project of address in reply to the
royal speech was read. One of the features of this
document is an extreme reserve. Some persons ex-
pressed a regret that an amnesty on a large scale was
not announced, and the re-establishment of trial by
jury in affairs of the press.
The discussion was not to take place till the Thurs-
day : it was expected to be animated.
There was a report that General de la Concha was
to be appointed general-in-chief of the army of obser-
vation on the frontier of Portugal.
Gen. Saldanha had established hie head-quarters
at Agneda.
Colonel Sole was in pursuit of the Miguelite Gene-
ral Povoas, who was accompanied by the famous
Juan Maria d'Abren. The Viscounts of Setutal and
latremoz kept their position in the province of the
Alentejo.
The Duke of Terceira was still a prisoner at Foz.
The Marquis of Loull. proposed to the duke to demand
to be exchanged against General Bomfin. The
Duke de Terceira replied with dignity that a faithful
and devoted soldier of the Queen could not be ex-
thanged against a man who had repaid with ingrati-
tude the favours of his sovereign.
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By the Levant mail we ,have letters from Mosul
to the Bth, and accounts from Constantinople to the
28th ult. It was understood that the Porte had re-
ceived inportant dispatches from Persia, announcing
the success of British intervention, Colonel Shed
having at length succeeded in inducing the Shah to
forego his projected expedition against the Turkish
provinces. The Divan was continuing to advance
!measures of civilisation and internal reform, having
immediate reference to a more equitable system el
bastion, the extended education of the people, Led
the better security of life and property by the rigo-
rous punishment of all criminals. In furtherance of
this latter project the foreign ambassadors had bola
induced, at the suggestion of the English minister,
to abandon the privilege they heretofore claimed, of

protecting offenders who may happen to be the sub-
ject of the countries they represent. These parties
are henceforth to be subject to the same laws as affect
native subjects of the Porte, except only where the
offences charged happen to be of a political character.
In consequence of abundance having again manifested
itself in the Sandjak, the order prohibiting the ex-
portation of corn from Bigha had been recalled.—An
alarming fire occurred at Constantinople, on the even-
ing of the 26th. It commenced at Pera, close by the
Italian Opera House, and, having spread both to the
right and left, about eighty houses were consumed
before it was extinguished. The English embassy
was at one time in very great danger, all the houses,
for a large space in front of it, having become a prey
to the flames. The Opera House, and the line of
building connected with it towards the palace, were
also quickly burnt down, but an Armenian church of
stone stopped the tire from proceeding further in that
direction, and saved the embassy on that side.
Letters from Mosul state that cholera had ra-
vaged the city and neighbourhood for twenty days,
carrying off no fewer than 3,000 persons.

OcEstcts.—"The Minister of Marine," says the
Paris lionitestr," has received from the Governor of the