The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-25 00:00:00

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We have received the Madrid mails, with our
despatches of:the 18th. Every indication of disor-
ganisation of the ministry was apparent. Immedi-
ately after M. Benavides had sent an official note to
the King-Consort, on Monday, requesting an
audience to communicate to his Majesty the
wishes of the Queen, and that the answer
was received that the minister cooed not be
received at the Pardo till Thursday, a courier
was despatched from the French embassy to
Bayonne with orders to reach that place
with all practicable expedition, to communicate
thence by telegraph with Paris, and then return
to Madrid with the telegraphic answer of the
French government. Now this courier would
have reached Bayonne on Wednesday, on which
day, or Thursday, the message would have been
received in Paris ; and General Navas, accom-
panied by one of his aides de-camp, left Paris on
Bandar morning, being summoned, as is said by the
Journal des Debate, to Madrid by the orders of the
Queen. P is not difficult to see the fate of the
Pacheco cabinet.

Advices from the frontiers of Catalonia state that
a serious attempt had been made by the inhabitants
of Hostolrich to gain possession of that very important
fortress. The conspirators in the town were to have
admitted a body of Carnets, put the governor and
garrison to death, spike the pus, and carry off a
large quantity of ammunition in store in the arsenal.
The conspiracy was, however, revealed by the
treachery of one of the inhabitants, and several were
consequently arrested, and sent off to be tried summa-
rily at Gerona. Notwithstanding the detection of
this plot, the attack took place on the night of the
13th inst., between twelve and one o'clock, but was
easily repulsed by the garrison, consisting of a detach-
ment of the regiment of Cordova and half a battery
of artillery.
MADRID. Aro I&—Three per Cent., 2611 : Fire per Cent.,l ;
p.dvel, 8 ; 13; sistaFe lm , linak of 81.
leeeu.l2o.—Xxchange on London, 4130.100.

The Swiss diet appears disposed to retaliate on
M. Guizot for the recent attack which he made on
the liberal party in the chamber. It will be recol-
lected that there is a boundary question of old stand-
ing unsettled between France and the confederacy. By
the treaty of Vienna, the Valley. of the Dappes, which
has been included by France in the department of
the Ain, was adjudged by right to the canton of
Vaud. The subject has, on former occasions, been
several times brought forward in the federal legisla-
ture, and successively postponed from various acci-
dental causes. M. Dancy, the deputy of Vaud, how-
ever, expressed his opinion that the present time was
very opportune for pressing the just demand of the
canton for the recovery of its territory, and
since the cabinet of the Tuileries hes shown
such anxiety to interfere in the affairs of
Switzerland, and to invoke the treaty of
Vienna, it ought to be glad to set an ex-
ample of the cheerful observance of that treaty, by
restoring to the canton of Vaud a country which
undoubtedly belongs to it. On the question being
put to the vote the decision was unanimously adopted
that the vorort should be empowered to make the
demand on France.

Although no advice, from the Italian states, more
recent in date than those which we have already
given, have been received, various letters have arrived,
which supply details omitted in the first accounts.
It appears that, previous to the decisive measure of
taking military possession of the city of Ferrara, an
Austrian officer of the rank of major, attended by two
adjutants, and escorted by a pioquet of cavalry, pre-
sented himself at the palace of the cardinal legate,
and, in the name of the general in command of the
Austrian forces in the citadel, intimated his intention
of occupying the town. This demand is represented
as having been made of the cardinal legate in terms
the most offensive towards the sovereign pontiff, the
cardinal legate, and the population of the city itself.
His eminence, in the face of an overwhelming military
force, and unprovided with any means of forcible
resistance, could only protest against the outrage.
The Corriere Lieornese gives another letter, in which
it is said that the Austrian officer who presented him-
self to the legate requested his eminence to issue
a proclamation to tranquillise the people, telling
them that the Austrian troops were merely, executing
a military manteurre ! On the cardinal declining
to do this, the officer quitted him with menaces.
Immediately afterwards two battalions, accompanied
by artillery with matches lighted, entered the
town, drove the pontifical soldiers from the guard-
houses, and left detachments in each of them. The
guns of the citadel were then levelled on the town,
and attended by the artillerymen with matches
lighted.
Another letter says that an application had been
made to the cardinal legate, expressed iu the most
insolent language, requiring him to order all
the military poets in the town to be surrendered,
and that the legate replied that he would never volun-
tarily' eurre±: o r;:r:igriers the tor-7
his charge by the sovereign pontiff. " You know,"
he continued, " that I have no force by which I can
resist the arbitrary act which you threaten. Do
therefore what you will, but ask not my consent.
I will protest in the face of the world against this new
outrage." The legate asked the officer to postpone
until the next da7 014 act of violence, in order that
the population might have notice of it, and disorder
might -be prevented. The Austrian replied that no
delay would be accorded.
On the movement of the Austrian troops being
made alma the town the utmost consternation pre-
vailed Among the population. The shops were all