The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-15 00:00:00

MADRID, Barr. 11.
Doss any impartial man need more proofs of the
selfish, ungenerous, jealous character of the foreign
policy of France? if so, let him ponder the follow-
ing fed, which has been confirmed to me by an
authority which places its truth beyond all question :
The BrosseA ambassador, the D*llll of Glueksbery, has
preames4 so the Same of Pram*, Remind die amnesty
ig the decree of the 2al q 1 Ihrinsaber. He
iss joissftd in the name of lid Was of Meat-
pene_ rig id's, against that geandas mai asmabie
The
idiot. WM* proposed to amen as people d Itst
which gaol lii boos sr bit orantry to the
of a end orbited, proseeiptiesi i which spread
gladness among flakes, and restored hope and
chearbehasse to thodiands of desolated bereaved 1
hearths ' • which was the great authentic sign
he ell Spaniards to leave their miserable wrang-
ling* and set to heartily at some work far the
imam good ; which was received with a about
ofjahllse which yet echoes through the whole panin-
Ea; which turned groans into blessings, and e- I
add dismayed the satellites of old Oppression—the
Ye of France has dared to protest against 1
Z=li immense national benefit ; and that in the name
efts illegitimate and bastard pretensions of an led',
eidnaL It is a great political crime of the French
government, which, coming on the top of other social
Mines, perpetrated by men who stood in the imme-
diate neighbourhood of the throne, ought to indicate
to the eyes of all Frenchmen how unworthily they are
represented by the friends, the ministers, and the sys-
tem of Louis Philippe.
The Duke of Glucksberg having thus formally pro-
tested, in the name of his government, against the
great amnesty of Sept. 2, the ministers requested him
to present the same protest in the form of an official
note. The duke has not hitherto acceded to this
request.
The Gazette of yesterday contains a decree of some
importance, making law (that is, subject to the future
approval of the legislative body) the bill, presented
on March 17, for regulating the taxation of the in-
dustrial and commercial classes. It seems in entire
conformity with the system practised in Turkey, by
which the different sorts of tradespeople form them-
selves into guilds, which have to furnish a certain ap-
pointed sum to the government, each community set-
tling in its own body the quota assigned to each
individual, with due regard to a maximum and mini-
mum
fixed by the government. The decree is',
generally well received. But the constitution-
alist progresistas protest against the system of
governing by
.decree-law, which, however beneficial
the provision, is a bad precedent, and another step in
the fatal path of illegality. If I remember rightly,
Mr. Drinkwater, in his excellent life of Kepler, has •
page in the true spirit of philosophy, which regrets
that that great discoverer's mischievous system of
guesswork, which made him for the rest lose so much
time in testing imaginary harmonical principles,
should have been rewarded by splendid result., which
only tended to confirm his fond bias, to mislead his
pupils, and to overrun the newly conquered world
of science with a race of geometrical gamblers and
alehymists. In the same way it may be regretted
that Senor Salamanca's decrees embody such
desirable laws: their very excellence tending to
foster a dangerous arbitrary system. For the
rest, there seems to exist a wish upon the part of
the ministry to put off the Cortes as long as possible.
Meantime the moderados go the length of even chal-
lenging. dissolution, knowing, perhaps, that the cabi-
net desires neither the assembly nor dissolution of the
presepresent Cortes, but the continuance of the gala peal
nt Cortes, but the continuance of the statu go..
l'he Faro is more than usually violent, and threatens
once more, if they are ..enied a legal and constits-
tional arena, an appeal to arms. So that it seems I
highly probable that the present ministry will soon
be assailed by an opposition little short of that
which upset the Pacheco set. If the liberal
press, and, I may add, the English press,
support them, they will go on, and un9aestionably
develop measures of vast utility to Spain. if they
are discouraged on all sides, they will grow demo-
ralised, and unfit for further useful service, will
begin to squabble among themselves, and finally the
more decided moderados among them will cell in
Narvsez again. The struggle once established,
buckler to buckler between the progresistas and Nat,
vaez, there appears every chance of the latter coming
off victorious; for, from what I hear, he is likely in
that case to be supported by Serrano, who seems,
from some cause, to apprehend unpleasant results
from an ayacucho ministry.
Some appointments of importance appear in the
Gazette. General Dominguez, Count San Antonio
(uncle of Serrano), is appointed commander of the
Halberdiers, in the place of Ron de Olano. Lieut.-
General D. Jacopo de Espinosa is dismissed from the
captaincy-general of Grenada, and D. Jose Monso
late captain-general of Valencia, is appointed in his
place. The military governor of Cadiz, 1). Lucian
Campzano, is appointed captain-general of Valencia ;
and General 1). Mariano Belesta military governor of
Cadiz.
The principal Carlist news is the death of the
famous cabecilla Don Fernando Gomez, called the
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Ebanista, and the destruction of his small band near
Lugo, by Captain Mendoza. The rebel chief was
discovered in the loft of a house near Opeeio. The
range was surrounded by the soldiery, and he was
incited to give himself up, hie life having been
guaranteed. He scorned the proposal, which his ex-
perience had taught him would not be observed,
issued oat of his hiding place, discharged his blunder-
buss, and was killed by the soldiers.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aro. 31.

There is no government whose servants are more
zealous than those of the cabinet of Vienna; and yet there
is no government more strict in exacting sewer service to
its orders, or less generous ,n the distribution of its favours.
The devotion of the different employi4 to their sovereign is
unexampled. No act, however questionable as to its re-
spectability, but becomes at once honourable when per-
formed for the service of the Emperor. A few dais since a
solemn Te Delon was performed in one of tke churches of
Pers in thanksgiving for the failure of the late conspiracy
at Rome. There is a very large number of Italians resident
in this capital, principally political refugees, all of whom
were present on the occasion. lAfter the To Desna there was
a banquet, at which healths were proposed and speeches
made—all, of course, in praise of liberty. and the Pope.
Count Stunner, the Austrian intermit:ars, saw in these
proceedings a political demonstration, which he knew
would give great displeasure to his government. As
the readiest way of calming the irritation which the
news of the Te Deism must produce on the cabinet of
Vienna the internuncio determined to denounce the ring-
leaders of these pious tumults, and at the same time to give
a proof of his own zeal and watchfulness in the cause of the
Emperor. Accordingly, on the day following the ceremony
above-mentioned, Count Sturmer arrived at an early hour
from Buynkdera at the hotel at Pera, where the banquet
had taken place. Ile entered alone and unaccompanied,
with the most perfect indifference to the pomp and cere-
mony which in Turkey surround an ambassador. Re com-
plained of weariness and hunger after his ride of twelve
miles, and with a naive urbanity appealed to the hoepitality
amine host. Count Stunner, always courteous, was that
mein more so than his wont ; he blandly returned the
waiters and invited the master of the hotel
to bear him company at breakfast. Mine host was
overwhelmed by the honour. The count had a thousand
little questions to ask about the ceremony of the
preceding day, which mine host, in the fulness of his heart,
was only too happy to answer. The internsuido regretted
emeedinfly that he bad not been present it meet have
boo so interesting a sight. Of course the mold
tel who were the excellent men that seemed aim Wien '
la the ceremony; who made the meet idetent et
the laaquet; and who proll the mot lesels.
The IlWe iseeraturie to awe thee seer
Men be lei berg el i hs leek a very friendly leave d
Wee bed. Memel meet aseupaleeely the bows of the
wahine, mi. wwwwelegbleasself in his carriage drove back
to bis rim et neyeklires. It would be difficult to de-
scribe Vie entilamsant 'Ake prevailed amongst the unhappy
Italian YINIROB at Pere who took part in the Te Deum and
subsequent temegsetprhen they heard of the interest whit
t
he ntermingle took in the proceedings. The power d
the Austrian government over their subjects is as greet
in Turkey as in their own states; and the punish.
meat of an offender is as prompt and sure at Con-
stantinople as at Vienna. At a simple order from
the inteniuncio, an obnoxious person is seized, placed on
board an Austrian government steamer, and conveyed on
the spot to the dungeons of Trieste or Venice. There have
been, of late, several instances of the kind, but there is one
which took place last year—the kidnapping of the Armenian
priest—which your readers cannot fail to remember.
It is rumoured here that the Turkish troops have expe-
rienced some severe cheeks in Albania, and that Darbhour
Perla, the seraskier, has been forced to retreat. The sol-
dier' landed from the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer, some time since, at Arlen's, are said to be usable to
move trim that place without a reinforcement, the insurgents
muster so strong is the neighbourhood. The Turkish fleet
have left the Dardanelles, and are at present cruising in the
Archipelago.

FRANCE.—Nsw FRENCH BANK NOTES.—The
Bank of France, it is said, will commence issuing its 200 f.
notes about the end of the present month.
ITALY.—A correspondent writes from Rom*, on
the Stht—Cardiaal Lambrnschini has arrived here, and in
a suffering state. The Cardinal Secretar yof State rode be-