The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-02 00:00:00

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the estate. The land was in good order, having been
extremely well managed for many years previously
by the outgoing tenant ; and after various attempts
to re-let the farm by means of advertisements tad
otherwise, a person was accepted as tenant who bad
but little command of capital, and was not remark-
able either for skill or character. But then he was
willing to submit to the reservation of game and rab-
bits, and to take a lease which might be determined by
the landlord at the end of every fear years. That tenant
is now about to quit at Michaelmas, and such a pic-
ture of agricultural desolation as the farm presents is
not often seen. This is just what was predicted by the
good tenant who left four years ago. But now comes
the most extraordinary part of the tale. The lesson
this landlord has received does not seem to have been
sufficient ; for a good farmer, one entirely acceptable
to the landlord, offered to take the farm at the rent
asked, provided the rune was not reserved, and an
absolute term of sixteen years granted. The offer was
declined, the landlord Wresting on the reservation of
game and refusing to grant a longer term than four
years. The farmer then offered an additional
rent equivalent to an increase of about 101. per cent.
on the rent asked, bat that also was declined, unless
the farmer would submit to the reservation of game,
and take a four years' lease only. This he was, of
course, too wise to do, and the landlord will have
on his hands a farm utterly valuelesss in its pre-
sent state, and requiring a large preliminary outlay
to bring it back into a state fit for cultivation. Ytt
this proprietor is by no means rich, but, on the con-
trary, is reputed to be somewhat needy and incum-
bered.

non was ratified by the King on the 23rd of May, and by the
Grand Duke on the Ist ofJune; the acts of ratification were
exchanged at Carbruhe. His Majesty arrived en Tuesday,
about midnight, at Dusseldorf, and continued his journey by
land to Weimar.
Tits Mimi, Ana. 22.—1 t is stated that the Ne-
therland, government has caused fresh propontious to be
made to the central committee for the suppression
of duties on the Rhine. The instructions given to the
plenipotentiaries of the states bordering on the river, lead us
to hops for a reduction of the duties, but it cannot be hoped
that they will be entirely suppressed. Some of the states
are formally opposed to their suppression, because they
cannot do without the receipts proceeding from these due&
GERMANY.—AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, AUG. 25.
The Prince Chancellor is still here : it is believed he contem-
plates an excursion to Venice. On the 23rd a courier was
despatched to Paris; another set off for Rome • few days
before. On the night, 23rd to 24th Aug., the Count Von
Fiquelaiont, minister of state, took his departure for Venice
and Milan : his stay in Italy is likely to be of some length,
for the Viceroy is anxious to have his assistance in govern-
ing the Lombardo-Venetian provinces, during the arduous
time that seems to be approaching. The Archduke Louis is
gone to Ischl to receive the King of Prussia. New regula-
tions for the Vienna Exchange have been prepared by the
president of the Chamber of Finance, and approved by the
emperor : they will be enforced from the beginning of next
year. Their object is to check rash speculnuou and subject
sales and purchases of stook to certain legal forms.
CRACOW, AUG. 26.—The Emperor intimated on the
13th inst. his determination not to suppress the university of
this city. The faculty of law is to be reorganised on the
model of that in the university at Lemberg. This new ar-
rangement is to come into active operation in the beginning
of the educational year 1847-48.
PRUSSIA, AUG. 27.—The cue of Szoldreki came
on to-day. The accused admitted his accession to the asso-
ciation, but refused to criminate otherl. Wladimir Her-
tholomaeus von Wilczynski was next placed at the bar. It
is reported that M. von Thile, cabinet minister, intends to
retire on amount of his advanced years. All impression
prevails that M. von Bodelschwingh will resign the portfolio
of the interior, and, retaining simply the character of cabinet
minister, exercise a general supervision of all administrative
departments. The Breslau journals intimate that the cir-
culation of radical pamphlets from Switzerland by some un-
known agency, which has been carried on to a great extent
in Konigsburg, had begun there also. It is remarked that
the parties engaged in it appear to power an intimate know-
ledge of persons and localities. Many of the pamphlets have
been sent under cover to parties in the country, as well as to
townsmen. _ _ _

Now that the Journal des Debate has spoken, and
afforded a text for comment, the Austrian-Papal ques-
tion promises to be a fruitful source of discussion in
the French journals. The Conetilutionnel of Tuesday
embraces with ardour the cause of the Pupe, in a long
reply to the remarks of the Dataa of the previous
day. The onslaught upon England for the favour,
with which it regards Rome is thus dealt with by
the Cmatiluliannel:

As to the English, they are now, in the columns of the
Journal den Wats itself. the enemies of our government ;
and the amenities with which it notices the marks of adhe.
sion which the Pope and the Italians find in Great
Britain may be Judged from its sarcastic observe.
lions. The steps which we have made since the rup-
ture of the English alliance have borne in Spain
glorious fruit. On one hand, planed at the tail of Austria,
we have already abandoned the independence of Poland,
taken at the tribune the defence of the cutthroats of Gilli-
an, encouraged at once jesuitism, anarchy, and revolt in
Switzerland, and excited the just distrust of Italian patrio•
Sam and of the Pope himself. On the other hand, instead
of protecting liberty in the world in concert with England,
and of hastening by this alliance, rightly understood, the
development of civilisation, our ministenal journal directs
bitter sarcasms against the English nation, even on the octa-
gon of the honourable manifestations of the Protestant press

of England in favour of the venerated chief of the enthOlka,
who has become for hie 'tete+ the apostle of liberty !
A new step in the Praslin affair has given fresh
secasion for those secondary symptoms of excitement
which occasionally arise in a topic of public discus-
sion the novelty of which is wearing off. On Mon-
day the chancellor delivered his report to the court of
peers, together with the results of different depo-
shims and post mortem examinations ; the first ver-
bally, and the second in a printed form. The phy-
dims Orfila and Tardieu pronounce, in reference to
the dake's suicide, that "it is by no means necessary,
in explanation of his tardy death, to suppose the
swallowing of a second does of poison a long time
after the first. Were it essential, we could, they
add, "cite a great number of instances in which
persons poisoned by arsenic acid have perished
some days after sickness has ceased, although
they have not taken a fresh dose? This is calculated
to counteract the censure visited on the authorities
when it was supposed that access to poison had been
afforded the wretched culprit while in the Luxem-
bourg prison.
We read in the Debate:

Marshal Sebastiazu determined to return to Paris in spite
of the efforts of his Franddaughter, who tried to dismade
him from it. He wished, he said, to see what remained of
his only child. He canoed the apartment of the unfortunate
duchess to be opened, and he examined the scene of the
crime which tore from him his well-beloved daughter. On
the inspection being terminated, the marshal exclaimed
" There is one still more to be pitied than I em—the mether
of the assassin!" He immediately visited the Dowager
Duchess de Choisenl-Praslin, and that was the only time that
he has quitted his hotel since his arrival.

Preparations for war form the chief item of news
from Rome. An artillery captain, named Lopez, has
been sent to France to purchase ten thousand muskets :
and ten thousand hands are already held oat to re-
ceive them, that number of young volunteers having
offered themselves to resist an invasion. Meanwhile,
the Roman government steadily continues to arm the
civic guard, for which purpose citizens from all parts
of the states offer it arms. Signor Azeglio is on the
point of starting for L Romagna, charged with full
powers on the part of the Pope to organise resistance
in case of necessity.
According to a letter in the Semaphore de Mar-
milks : . . _

The enthusiasm is at a great height in Rome, and
within the last few days Cardinal Ferretti, on seeing
the national guard manmurre near the country
house of the Prince de Piombino, cried that "he
would willingly march at the head of the brave young
men, and that he would not hesitate to command them on
the field of battle." The spirit of pattiotism and of energy
which animates the holy father and his principal councillors
has extended itself not only among the people, but even to
the hearts of the ecchteiasties. The early organiwition of a
battalion of prices and monks is spoken of, and it is certain
I that a great number of member* of the religious orders exer-
cise themselves in the practice of arms. The Pope rides
about the city on a white mule, which he bought at Florence,
and shows to ►is loyal and faithful subjects a (Ace beaming
with the claim of a good conscience, and the profound senti-
ment of his rights and his strength. We are assured that
?d. Reed, having offered him his mediation on the subject
of the affair of Ferrara, he replied that, considering himself
seriously offended, he would not be contented with an ordi.
eery arrangement, and that he intended to exact complete
matisfeetioa.
The Semaphore gives no date to the above, but the
Sod quotes a letter from Rome of the 23rd, which
states that the Austrian. were still at Ferrara.

The Swiss Diet came on the 27th to a decision
with respect to the federal officers who are connected
by service with the Sonderband. Twelve states and
two half states voted for the proposition of the Dino-
tory for striking ont of the lists of the federal staff
all the officers of whatever rank who may hold ser-
vice ander the Sonderbund ; and eight states and two
half states voted against it. The debate which pre-
ceded the vote wee very animated.

FRANCE.—THE IiWICIDE IN PARIS.—The Droil
says that M. Alfred Montairiniou, who has committed suicide,
was married to the daughter of General Peyron, was father
of eight children, and in the enjoyment of all the advantages
or rank and fortune ; therefore no conjecture can be formed
of the muse of the fatal act he has committed. Various
statements upon this subject have been in circulation, but
they are so contradictory, that they nullify each other. Ac-
cording tosome of them M. de Montesquiou made the attempt
under the influence of violent chagrin, occasioned by the rail-
conduct of one of his nearest relations ; according to others,
he had involved himself by enormous speculations in corn, and
was driven to despair by seeing his fortune endangered by
inevitable losses. At the same time, an incident which oc-
curred 20 years ago has been revived. It was much talked
of at the time. M. de Monteaquiou, at a party at Prince
Pomo di Borgo's, lost at !mit 1,800,0001. But this sum
was paid the next day by General Peron, who had held a
military command in India, in which he distinguished him-
self by his courage and ability.
RIGHT OF SEARCH.—The Mondeur nays " In
the month of Marshiest the French brig the Deo x Sour/ being
off the western coast of Africa, was, on the part of the
English brig-of war the Wanderer, the object of a chase,
and subsequently of a search, the object of which was not
only to verify its nationality by the examination of the
ship's papers, but to ascertain the state of the vessel and
the circumstances which might have caused its navigation
to be suspected. On the reports transmitted to the British
Admiralty on the subject of this search, against which the
captain of the Deux &ears protested, the English govern •
meat has recognised that the conduct of the officers of the
Wanderer was illegal, and contrary to treaties. Instruc-
tion., dated Jane last, were issued by the Lords of the Ad-
miralty on this occasion, repeating that when the right of a
vessel to carry the French flag is proved by the exhibition of
Its papers, the English cruisers have not the right to inquire
into what passes on board, nor to seek what might cause an
illicit destination to be suspected. The blame expressed on
this occasion by the English government shows that it has
seized with alacrity the first opportunity of causing the in-
structions annexed to the convention of 29th May, 1846, to
be scrupulously observed."
BELGIUM.—BausseLs, Avo. 31.—The Duchess
of Kent is expected to arrive in this city this afternoon from
Cologne. To-morrow H.R.H. will proceed to Chtend, where
their Belgian majesties and the royal family arrived yester-
day. It is expected that they will stop there for a fortnight,
If the weather be favourable.
HOLLAND.—THE HAGUE, Atm. 31.—The King
of the Netherlands and the Good Duke of Baden have just
concluded a convention for OF reciprocal transportation or
giving up to the competent authorities all persons accused,
and malefactor', who shall take relbge in Holland or in
Baden, being the subjects of the other mato. This omen-

Farm THE BALTIC.—In the coarse of this year, a
steam-boat communication will be opened between Ham-

burg and Kiinigsburg, the heirs of Herr Poleck, of the
latter place, having purchased two steamers for that pur-
pose. It is resolved also to run steamers between Kimigsburg
and Stettin, and between the former and Memel ; so that,
in a short time, the entire coast of the Baltic, from its ex-
treme eastern point, St. Petersburg, to its extreme western
one, Kiel, will be provided with steam-boats. The insurance
premium for vessels in the Baltic has already been lowered.
On account of the dangerous navigation of that sea, the
rates were four or five times higher than on vessels bound te
America.—Cologne Gazette, Aug. 31.
BAVARIA.—Musicn, AVG. 27.—1 t appears, by
the royal ordonnance, convoking an extraordinary diet for
the 20th September, that the object of that step is to raise
supplies for continuing the works on the Lewis South-North
line, and to construct a line from I;chtenfels to the fron-
tiers, in the direction of Coburg, and another from Bamberg
to Wurzburg, Ascheffenberg, and the frontiers in that direc-
tion.—On the 26th Lola Montes gave a brilliant soli Ee on
the occasion of her being created Countess of Landsfeld, an
extinct title formerly belonging to a noble family in the
palatinate.
DENMARK.—SLESWICK-HOLSTEIN, Am 27.
The high court of Holstein has delivered judgment on Bese-
ler and Lorenzen, who took so active a part in the popular
meeting in Neumunater, and in drawing up the remarkable
!We're.' against the incorporation of the Danish duchies.
The former has been acquitted, but the latter sentenced to
one year's imprisonment in • fortress. He has appealed
against the sentence, and it is said that the crown prosecutor
will do the same with regard to Beseler.—Tbe Hamburg
papers state that their hotels are overflowing with strangers
from all quarters, on their way to the great agricultural
meeting at Kiel.

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1847.