The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

We collect from the various accounts received from
Madrid, that despite the very bast exertions of the
government, the reception of the French Princes was
disheartening and far from enthusiastic. They entered
by the Bilboa-gate on the afternoon of the 6th, and
passed through lines of troops to the palace, accom-
panied by a crowd of generals, officers, and other
officials, and escorted by the Maria Christina Hussars.
The military diQplay was imposing, but the pagent
was heartless. The whole affair would have passed
away in silence but for the salvos of artil-
lery, for there was not the slightest demon-
stration of general applause. The populace was
reserved, and the little feeling manifested was
not of a description to re-asiure the government.
Military precautions were considered necessary to
maintain tranquillity, and arrests were frequent.
The Ero del Commereio, the Espertador, and the
Clamor PriWko had been again seized. Mr. Ilulwer
received dispatches from England on the sth, and left
Madrid early on the following day for Aranjuez.

The Kational of Paris gives the contents of a letter
from London, in which it is statcd that the Count de
Montemolin, about whose movements so much has
been said, is not and has not been in London at all,
but that the public have been deceived by a young
man bearing some resemblance to him, and employed
for the purpose of misleading the French police.
It is sufficient, in answer, to say, that the Count de
Montemolin, well and personally known to several
per,ons in London, has been seen, and may probably
be still seen, on Sundays, at the Warwick-street
Roman Catholic chapel, where, with the Marchioness
of Monte Negro, ho has been a constant attendant

The Government of Wirtemburg has dispatched
agents into Hungary and America to make purchases
of grain to the extent of two millions of florins. The
corn is to be soldat a low price to the poor and labour-
ing classes. It has been decided to sacrifice five
thousand florins in this undertaking fur the public
good.
As a sign of the times, which shows that the acces-
sion of a new Pope and a reformed papal policy, have
their influences beyond the walls of the eternal city,
it may be mentioned that M. Arnoldi, the Archbishop
of Treves, so famous for his part in the " holy
coat " affair, has addressed a circular to all the
ecclesiastics of his diocese, recommending them,
in the most pressing ternr. to employ all their
influence to discourage the faithful from • making
further pilgrimages to Troves, and stating that such
demonstrations, far from being acts of piety, were
rather prompted by vanity, savouring of superstition.

The Belgian papers contain some severe, and appa-
rently well-mented, strictures on the conduct of the
clergy. At a moment when the horrors of famine are
threatening the country, it seems the clergy are
preaching sermons in their churches fur the col-
lection of subscriptions ; charity sermons, in fact, to
swell the funds of the University of Louvain, and the
seminary of La Bonne E,perancc, both of them noto-
riously richly endowed institutions for the propaga-
tion of doctrine, as understood in the dark ages,
though no longer countenanced at Rome. Bigotry,
in fact, was robbing the poor of bread.

The accounts from Geneva confirm previous intelli-
gence of the success of the revolution and the over-
throw of the government. The following particulars
of the conflict of the 7th are taken from the Ikhats :
"On the evening of the Gth, e inhabitants of the
faubourg St. Gervais assembled and raised barricades at
the bridges. In the morning the militia, with the determi-
nation of destroying them, fired about 200 cantem shot,
which accomplished the desired object After this the sol-
diery made attempts at two different points to entar and oc-
cupy the faubourer, but wore received with a galling fire from
almost every window. Each of the commandants marched
at the head of his regiment, and as marly all of them were
wounded, the retreat was beat. and the troops re-crossed the
bridges. Still they remained in possession of the lower
town and the course of the Rhone. and the insurrection was
confined to the faubourg. In the night, however, the in-
surgents set fire to the bridges, and the inhabitants of the
lower town, finding that their safety was compmmiscd,
rose in their turn. At the same time the radical ausilliaries
of the canton of Vaud came in great force to the aid of the
insurgents. The militia, thus threatened on all sides, began
to waver, and at length yielded, and the Council of State
gave in its resignation. By the evening the arsenal and the
principal public establishments were is the hands of the
insurgents, who formed a provisional eov-rnment. The
courage with which the colonels of the militia were the first
to meet danger wall fatal to them. The ftmilies of the
highest considevation of Genera have to deplore looses ;
among these are Colonel Chateanvieux, nn old officer of the
Royal Guard, and M. Perle. The militia has lost several
men killed, and many wounded. The loss of their oppo-
nents is not yet known, but it is believed that it carnet be
very grist, us they were well protected by their barricades.
Whilst the battle was going on between the government
troops an i the insurgents, 2,030 man were marching from
the canton of Vaud to the assistance of the latter ; but the
affair having ended in the triumph of the insurgents, a
messenger was despatched to stop their advance."

The intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope,
which we yesterday published, principally referred to
the light division under Colonel Somerset and to the
operations in which it was engaged to the cast of the
Kye River. The promptness with which this expe-
dition was carried out seems to have taken the Kaffirs
by surprise. Thr gallantry with which the service
was vorfot:med must have completely overawed them,
as otherwise the Krcli tribes, which were in consider-
able force, would have offered a somewhat bolder
front to the jaded troops under Col. Somerset's com-
mand, instead of allowing themselves to be deprived
of 5,000 head of cattle after a weak and ineffectual
resistance, and suffering them to be driven 100 miles
through Kaffirland, without making any attempt for
their recovery. Colonel Somerset had received the
thanks of Sir Peregrine Maitland, and the colonists
were quite elated with his success. Another decisive
movement and the war was ; to close when the "great
Kaffir question" was to be finally settled, but in what
way was matter for debate. We find three plans pro-
posed, to which a brief reference may be permitted :
First, that a better boundary than the Fish river should
be chosen, beyond which the Kaffirs are to be driven,
leaving the intermediate space to be occupied by
friendly native tribes. Secondly, that the interveifng
space between the colony and Kaffirland shall be
neutral, and guarded against all intruders, whether
black or white. Thirdly, that Kaffirland shall be
attached to the British territory. This last plan
seems to have been popular in the colony, but the
question is, whether the acquisition would be worth
the expense of maintaining it? To the first plan it has
very properly been objected, that it would leave bands:of
independent savages on the very threshold of our ter-
ritory, who, as they increased in numbers, and be-
came familiar with the use of fire-arms, it would be
impossible to control ; and we would at length find
we had raised a formidable enemy on our very border.
This plan is, accordingly, most objectionable, and we
therefore prefer the second proposed to any that has
hitherto been propounded in the colony. An effec-
tual settlement of the boundary question must be of
the last importance to the colonists, who are naturally
impatient at everything like delay, feeling that deci-
sive measures of redress are most likely to provide
against a recurrence of hostility. The colony has
suffered severely. It will take years to restore the