The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

raintc but the sosso•ailW of the Queen of Tahiti remained
doubtful. This restrk tion applied more forcibly to a group
of four islands, situated 45 or 50 leagues from Tahiti—vu.,
Huahine, Borabora, RaiaSea, and 3faapiti. These islands,
which are under a minis:len:ly regular government, living
under the rule of chiefs, who sire said to acknowledge the
honorary supremacy of Queen PA: are, were to remain com-
pletely independent. This is the elm: result of a declaration
addressed to the English 'government by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs of France, who knew positively that it
was impossible to establish the supremacy, whether real or
merely honorary, of the Tahitian government over this
group of four islands. During these negotiations, which
terminated in a 'perfect concord between the French and
English cabinets, the governor of the French poftessions
in Oceania, resting upon the opinion general7F diffused
in the Archipelago that the islands of Huahine, Bora-
bora, Raiatea, and Maupiti were subjected to the Queen
of Tahiti, had sent an expedition to plant upon them
the flag of the protectorate. Our troops were re-
pulsed. Our government has already made Captain
Bruat acquainted with the arrangements made with
the English govcrnment. In this affair, therefore, there is
neither evacuation of territory nor concession of any kind
to any one, the ministry haeinp, from the sery first, enter-
tained openly the intention of limiting the protectorate of
France. It is decided wisely not to extend it to these islands,
and with the greater reason, as the said islands are not even
acknowledged to form part of the possessions of the Queen
of Tahiti. Moreover, in order to guarantee itself from all
dangerous neighbourhood in future, the French ministry
hrr declared that those islands, being acknonledged to be
free and indepeadent, could never be possessed nor pro-
tected by any European power. England has acceded to
this declaration. the justice of which it cook' not but admit.
To put an end to all reports, we will add that the govern-
ment has not received any official dispatches from Governor
Bruat since those of the 14th of April last, and that the lavt
private letters that have been received were dated April 15."

By our letters and correspondence of the 18th from
Madrid, we learn that Mr. Bulwer's conduct with
regard to the marriage of the Due de Montpensier
and the Infanta, had been approved by our Govern-
ment. At the opening of the sitting of the Chamber
on that day, M. Pacheco maintained that the mar-
riage of the Infanta with the French Prince would
have the effect of breaking the Anglo-French alliance,
and conseqw...ntly the alliaLce cf Europe. The Pre-
sident of the Council begged that such alarms might
be calmed. In a note from the Minister of her Bri-
tannic Majesty, assurance was given that the
marriage would in nowise affect the good rela-
tions now existing between the two cabinets.
Senor Mon added that all nations would approve of
the twofold alliance of the Queen and her sister.
The President of the Chamber then read a motion
of Senor Orense, to the effect that the debate should
not be closed so long as any member wished to
address the Chamber. At the departure of the
courier from Madrid, Orense was supporting his pro-
position. It was, however, believed that it would be
rejected, and the message voted by a large majority
the same evening.
The report that a band of Carlists had made its
appearance in the neighbourhood of Seu d'Urgell is
confirmed by the Fame to, of the 14th (a Barcelona
journal), but at the same time it states that the band
was routed and put to flight. The leaders and
a number of the men were made prisoners.
In Catalonia, up to the 17th, the attempts
of the Carlists on other points had also failed, and
the state of that province was satisfactory.
M. Bresson, the French ambassador, had received
despatches which informed him that the Due de
Montpensier would not accept the dowry which might
be assigned to the Infanta; and this generous resolve
was shortly to be made public, and would no doubt
render the duke additionally popular.
The Spanish frigate Paqueta Flora had left Cadiz
for Santiago de Cuba and the Havannah, having on
board Count di Casa Maroto and his family.
The Lisbon journals of the 12th inst. inform us that
tho Queen had left on the 10th for the royal residence
of Mafra, before going to the Palace of Cintra, and
returning to Lisbon on the 15th for the birth-day of
the Prince-Royal. The Cabralistes have constant re-
course to every means imaginable in order to recover
their power ; and for this end they spread abroad the
most absurd reports of pretended risings and modifi-
cations of the cabinet.

FRANCE.—FRENcir CRUISERS.—On the I ith a
new capture arrived at Brest—the Brazilian schooner the
Trovohada, under the charge of a Lieutenant. She was
captured on the 18th of June last, near the mouth of the
Congo, accused of piracy. The Courrier du Havre asserts
that the Brazilian Minister at Paris, in compliance with
orders from his Government, had sent in an energetic note to
the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and that a reply
was sent that as the Council of State was occupied with it
the Government could not interfere.

ITALY. 11°31E.— It is reported that Count
Luteow, the Austrian Ambassador to the Court of Rome,
has been recalled, because be did not show energy enough in
making Austrian influence preponderate at Rome. Count
Rossi, the French Ambassador, was to leave for Paris, and to
return to Rome in November, in which month the Pope
takes possession of St. John-de-Lateran.
We find the following in a letter from Rome, 12th
Instant : " It may without fear of exaggeration be said, that
the government of the new Pope has improved the morals of
the people of our capital. Since the publication of the
amnesty not a single crime against the person has been com-
mitted in Rome, and yesterday, during the Ike of the
Nativity, although the Corso was filled with an im-
mense crowd, during the whole day not the least dis-
turbance took place. It has been noticed on more,
than one occasion that on quarrels arising in
wine-shops, it has been only necessary to remind the
parties that they were now living under the reign of
Pius IX., to immediately put an end to them. In the
provinces, on the contrary, deplorable excesses have been
committed. a few days since, at Jasi (in the legation of
Bologna), a band of workmen threw stones at the windows of
a house in which the late Pope Gregory XVI had stopped
one night whilst visiting that place, and dragged a bust of
that prelate through the streets with a cord round its neck.
The Austrian consul at Jasi immediately sent a report of this
outrage to his ambassador here, who in his turn sent off •
courier to Vienna, addressing at the same time a note to the
Cardinal Minister of Foreign Affairs, pointing out the
necessity of immediately putting an end to such revolting
acts." _ _

HOLLAND.—TILE HAGUE, SEPT. 22. The
Supreme Council, by a decision of this day, has rejected the
appeal of K. Klert, who was condemned by the tribunal of
North Holland to the penalty of death, for having malici-
ously set fire to his own house.
GERMANY.—VIENNA.—The state of exchange at
Vienna continues to be deplorable. The whole commercial
world complains bitterly. It is well known the Bank has a
disposable capital of 90,000,000 florins, and that its portfolio
contains only 37,000,000 of effects taken to discount. Never-
theless, it has so restricted a credit, even to the most solid
houses, that for some, days put there has been a scarcity of
money, which acts unfavourably on all business. The price
of the public funds has fallen in consequence of the report
of a bad loan. According to the Rhenish Observer, this loan
is to be for 40,000,000 florins, at 4 per cent., and issued at
the rate of 96. This journal mentions that from 1830 to
1841, Austria has contracted eight loans, amounting together
to 288,105,000 florins, and that in 1842 it issued 5,000,000
paper currency, making a total of 293,105,000 florins, for
which it received in cash only 262,000,000 florins. Deduct-
ing the 79,000,000 borrowed in 1830, which were applied to
the service of the army, and the loan of 1840, for the services
of the railways, there remains a sum of 144,000,000 florins,
absorbed from 1830 to 184 G, which is equivalent to an annual
deficit of 9,000,000 florins. We learn, however, that the go-
vernment proposes to remedy this state of things.
PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, bELPT. 18.—The question of
the differential duties is to be examined at the beginning of
next year, as then the time will have arrived for continuing
or renouncing the treaty with England. If no agreement
can be come to, the differential duties will be set aside, and
the treaty renewed for six years more. The trial of the
Poles detained at Sonneburg, Posen, Grauderg, and other
places in Prussia, will, in all probability, not come on eo soon
as was e
GRETCVL-There are Greek papers to the 10th
Sept. inclusive. Acarnania still continues the theatre of
frightful crimes. M. S. Valtino, brother-in-law of Zotos,
deputy for Eurilania, has been recently assassinated, and
at a few leagues from Vrachori, a band of ten brigands,
having waylaid and robbed an old man and his son, retabsed
them for a ransom of 2,000 dollars. The unfortunate pair
being unable to procure this sum, the brigands cut a the
father's ears, handing them to the son, whom they vet at
liberty, charging him to return with the ransom by a certain
day, on which it was their intention to assassinate the father
if it were not paid. On the 31st August an unfirtunate
workman was murdered just outside Vrachori by a person
to whom he had shown, in a coffee-house, a single dollar, his
whole worldly wealth. These are but a few of me outrages
which we select from the spieilegium, which the Greek Mo-
nitor and Athens Courier always affords.
DEMMARK.—llotsxmx.—The public meeting
which was to have taken place on the 14th inst. at Nortorf,
was put down by the civil authorities, &misted by a mili-
tary force, large enough to intimidate the most resolute.
Six hundred infantry and a hundred ana fifty cavalry occu-
pied the principal street of the town, sod at once dispersed
the crowd, which was beginning to assemble. A number of
persons who had gone to Nortorf on purpose to take part is I
the meeting betook themselves to Neumunster, but they re-1
ceived there the same treatment as the hands of the autho-
rities.—Journal de la Have, 22nd inst.
KIEL, SEPT. 12.—The commission appointed to
examine into the cause of the late meetings at Kiel, and of
the speeches that were made, is still occupied. A number of
persons have been interrogated. The commission will then
proceed to Rendsburg, to examine H. Olsbausen.
M. Pechlin, the Danish Ambassador, made the fol-
lowing remarks on the resolution of the Diet, which we pub-
lished yesterday : " In referring to the declaration of his court,
and without voting on the question of the constitution, he (M.
Pechlin) did not think that be had any exceptions to make,
unless the passage where the Diet says that it is