The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PAWS. FILMY 6 p.n.
The journal La Prase has for Hulot time bitch beak
in the habit of receiving communisations of a semi-
official character from the Austrian and Sardinian
legations.
One of these, proceeding evidently from the latter,
appears in that Journal this morning, and is to the
following effect :
No one has aver disputed the right of every state to take
measures for its own preservation, and which implies, as a
Corollary, a right of intervention, soh n a revelation in a
neighburing scenery may threaten to overthrow its own go-
vernment. The attitude assumed by the Roman and Tuscan
revolutionary party leaves no daunt as to the intentions of
the radicals with regard to King Charles Albert, if he will
not yield to the demos& of the demagogues of the Raman
Constituent Assembly. With the two-fold object of presercing
his present throne, and the eventual right of nemeses,
mentioned in article 99 of the final set of the treaty of
Vienne, the court of Sardinia appears determined to inter.
hire in order to bring to reason those factious men who, by
audacity and intimidation, would impose on tho majority of
the Tuscan and Roman people a government which they
reject. If we are well informed, the Sardinian govern:eat
is at this moment concentrating at Sarcoma, on the Tuscan
frostier, an army of 12,000 men, ready to take the field, the
command of which will he confided to General Marmon,
who is well known for his firmness of character and the con-
fidence with which he inspires all loven of order. A strong
frees of artillery will be atta' fed to this expedition, which
will eimmenoe operations as seen as the Sardinian and Nea-
politan governments shall have combined their swoon
action, for, whilst the Piedmont'', army will enter Tuscany
by Sareant, the Neapolitan troops will march on Rome
from the side of Terraana. This expedition will not look so
much le an armed intervention, properly so called, an to the
military occupation of Central Italy, an order to afford a
firm and powerful rallying point to the moderate piny,
which, although forming the great majority of the people,
remains disorganised, and are in need of a mum centre
on which to rally their forces. The moderate party in
Tuscany and in the States of the Church, is far from being
subdued, u the radical journals imagine. Dishearteeed by
the suddenses of events, it has lost the COTOCIOUIRCOS of its
own strength, as was the case in France for the first few
months after February. Let an able and powerful hand re-
unite them, and we shall son see the apps :ranee of affairs
in Italy change. For some days put, reports have been
prevalent that the congress at Brussels might be considered
as dissolved, in consequence of the bases of the negotiations,
as laid down by Count Colloredo, the Austrian plenipoton•
tiary, net having been accepted by the remesentatives of
Piedmont and Tuscany. The facts of the ease we believe to
be as follows:—In all diplomatic negotiations of importance,
the verification of the powers of the negetiaters is always the
first proceeding, and these formalities have not yet been
completed. Commander Martini, at the moment when he
was setting out :or Brussels, having heard the sews et the
dethronement of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, immediately
seat his resignation to the provisional government of Tus-
any. The Austrian plenipotentiary, being also accredited
as envoy extraordinary to the Court of St. James's, has left
for England, in order to present his credentials to Queen
Victoria, and will not return to Brussel, until a duly
authorised plenipotentiary from Tuscany shall have been
appointed. The Tuscan Monsieur announets, it is true,
that the provisional government has just replaced Comman-
der Martini by Colonel Frapoili, in quality of plenipoten-
tiary to the said congress. But France end England having
agreed not be recognise the revolutionary Tuscan govern-
ment, and not to keep up any official relations with it, Col.
Frapolli cannot, as representative of that government, be
officially recognised either at Paris or at London, and still
lee so at Brussels, where the Sardinian and Austrian pleni-
potentiaries will equally dispute the legality of the mission
confided to Col. Frapolli ; neither King Charles Albert, nor
the cabinet of Vienna, recognise the late Tuscan revolution.
Under these circumstances, the opening of the congress of
Brussels, must be indefinitely postponed, and we in fact
learn that M. Lsgrenee, the French plenipotmatiartere:doe-
turned to Perim. It appears certain that Cosset
has officially informed the other plenipotentiaries, that his
instructions for the definitive opening of the official as
tetanus prescribed to him not to secept any other bode of
negotiation than the treaties of 1816. This is what we had
foreseen and announced some time since.

It is announced, on the contrary, that the King of
Sardinia is immediately about to march an army on
the Roman states.

In the National Assembly to-day the debate on the
electoral law wu continued. An article, declaring,
" that every salaried functionary who shall be elected
a representative shall, before the verification of his
Powers (equivalent to " taking bis seat ") make an
option between his salaried pla"e and his seat in the
Assembly, and in default of having made such option,
his admission as a member of the Legislative Amena-
bly shall, ipso facto, be a forfeiture of his place," was
adopted.
M. Duo= attempted to got a clause introduced to
prevent the ministers for the time being from voting
in the Assembly, but was met with exclamations of
the previous question from all sides of the house, and
accordingly the previous question was pronounced for.
At the Baum today a considerable rise has taken
place ; the Threes, which closed at 60.70 yesterday,
rose to 51.50, sod okra' at 51.23 ; and the Fives,
which closed yesterday at 82.25, rose today to 83.40,
and closed at 83.10.

Bank shares Won, risen in a still greater ratio.
They closed yesterday at 2125, and after rising to-day
to 2500, dared at 2395.
Eventing 11020MOCII the probability of a ecelition
between the Bonapartist' and the party of the Roe
de Poitises. Conferences have been held for the LA
few days between N. Napoleon Bonaparte, the pre-
sident of the Bonapartiat Electoral Committee, and