The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-23 00:00:00

TUE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1853.

The Duke of Padua, Governor of the Invalides,
died this morning.
The following are the latest quotations received i
to-day from other continental bourses by telegraph :1
Frankfort : Austrian Metallique Five per Cei:ts.,
97; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 78 ; Four per Cents.,
691; Three per Cents., 321; Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 43 ; One per Cents., 1 7-16ths. Spanish
Three per Cents. 431; Deerred One per Cents.,
21 9-16ths. Sardinian Five per Cents. (Rothschild),
991 ; Ilumbro', 96. Vienna: Metallique Four-and-a
Half per Cents., FSI ; Novel Emp., 941; Emp.,
1831, 1071; Lombardo Venetian, 100; Bank, 1,423.
Berlin : Emp. Five per Cents., 1011; Obl. Three-
and-a-Half per Cents., 931 ; Society Maritime,
1481. Bank, 110!. Russian Four-and-a-Half per
_
Cents., 103.

PARIS, 1102CDAT EVINING.
A private letter from Marseilles of the 17th says
that the correspondents of the Greek merchants of
the Levant were greatly alarmed and had suspended
the execution of all orders. This letter states posi-
tively that the Sultan had applied for assistance from
France and England. On the other hand, the
Assembli,e Nationale affirms expressly that Colonel
Rose had received no application either "directly or
indirectly" from the Sultan, and that he had sent
for Admiral Build°, spontaneously.
Among the various rumours which agitated the
Bourse was a report that an English fleet had been
ordered to the

I am told that an eminent minister under Lonis
Philippe said this morning that to his certain know-
ledge Prince Nlentschikoff, Colonel Rose, and Admiral
Dundee were the three most violent men in Europe,
and that it would be extraordinary indeed if they
could come into contact without an explosion.
The treaty of Adrianople assigned the left bank
of the Delta of the Danube to the Russians, and the
right bank to the Turks; and by a special article it
was stipulated that neither power should establish
any military post within the distance of a league
from the water side. Russia has not ostensibly
established any military post within the prohibited
limits; but some time since she built a lighthouse
close to the river, and under pretence of keeping up
the lighthouse, and making police regulations, she
has gradually formed around it a complete colony of
civil and military functionaries. According to some
reports, one of Prince Mentschikoff's demand was,
that the Porte should sanction this station, and allow
several others of the like kind to be established near
the mouth of the Danube.

The Moniteur publishes the returns of the receipts
of the customs and indirect taxes for the last month.
They amounted to 9,638,173 fr., being a decrease on
the corresponding month of 1832 of 617,544 fr., and
an increase on that of 1831 of 801,152 fr. Tho re-
ceipts of the first two months of the year amounted
to 18,583,722 fr., being 1,939,344 fr. less than in the
corresponding periol of 1832, and 1,533,334 fr. more
than in 1851.

In addition to renewing the prizes given last year
by the Emperor to the different horse races in
France, his Majesty has decided that for this and
following years, 10,000 fr. shall be given from the
civil list for the autumn meeting at Chantilly, and
that there shall be founded for 1835 and following
years, a prize of 10,000 fr. in Paris, one of 6,000 fr. at
Bordeaux, and one of 6,000 fr. at Angers, for three-
year-old colts and fillies.

created considerable sensation in Nuremberg, and the
more as the brothers are notoriously of conservative
politics.
Haynan's funeral procession moved through the
streets of Vienna on the 17th towards Gritz, where
the hero is to be buried. Three archdukes, Prince
Windischgmtz, and other Austrian notabilities, fol-
lowed the body.