The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-20 00:00:00

TIIE ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION.

Private letters from Buenos Ayres state that both
contending parties have appealed to the Brazilian
minister at that capital, to assist in bringing about a
compromise of the :existing difficulties and mbar-
ransmeuts ; and very great expectations are enter-
tained that his medievion will be successful. The
Brazilian representative at Buenos Ayres is a diplo-
matist of great moderation and good sense; and
when acting in a similar capacity recently at Monte
Video, contributed largely to the settlement of dis-
putes in the Banda Oriental, which consequently
owes much of its present tranquillity and progress to
his good offices.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING,

The .Ifuniteur of to-day contains decrees authoris-
log the Bank of France to establish branches at
Nancy and Toulon.
A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated tho
18th inst., states that accounts had reached that city
from Constantinople to the Sth. They contained
nothing of interest. Affairs remained in the same
situation.

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A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated the
19th inst., states that the First Chamber has thrown
out the proposition adopted by the Second Chamber
fixing at six years the duration of parliament.
Everybody is talking to-day about an article in
the Presse of startling boldness. It is headed "1793
and 1853 ; the Empire," and is the most uncompro-
mising attack upon Bonapartism, and every article of
imaginary
einhearY
characters the Bonapartist creed, that has been seen in print for
many a long day. The spirit of the production may
be judged of from the following opening passage:
latratc°tewrei eit'!ajta4y of it were sinuglikmieenn, t
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00 create
to teienha
intended to be exalted gigantic proportions in order to
obtain dramatic effects, to cloak error and folly under vain
sonorous language, then have we plenty of hietorica of the
empire to which nothing can be added. Bat if
the rights and interests of a people be the only just mea-
sure by which th merits of a government can be appre-
ciated, if it be contrary to equity to conceal the deficiencies
of a sovereign by exaggerating his capacity, and to cover
Lis admitted faults by continual appeals to his
brilliant action., then there are but few histories of
the empire, and, above all, there are but few
g ;cid ones. Nevertheless, if we were to abridge the mono-
tenons descriptions of batiks, in which the mind loses itself
in the confueion, sod to condense the bulletins, proclama-
tions, and official reports, noshing would be more simple,
shorter, or more easy to reecunt than this history, and it is
much to be desired that some writer of talent and impar-
tiality would undertake it.
The article then describes the treachery, perjury,
dissimulation, and violence by which Napoleon, pro-
:easing always to net in the name of the peop:e, suc-
ceeded in raising himself to the empire. But in all
these details, although the Prose thinks the history
of Napoleon I. should be re-written there is nothing
not perfectly familiar to the ordinary reader. One
net as coming from a French pen is worth a passing
untie. lite rupture ut the peueetglernirts. earl-
buted entirely. to tho necessi 'of Icipolcon's
insatiable ambition, and itrr it.'..adirlitted that