The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-13 00:00:00

FRENCH DEMANDS UPON PIEDMONT.

According to the Armorial of Turin, the following
are the demands preferred by France to Piedmont
immediately after Jan. 14 :-1. The suspension of
the Balsa del Popolo of Genoa; 2. The expulsion
from Piedmont of M. Bianchi Giovini, the director
the Uniom; 3. Ez officio prosecutions of the journals
which had published apologies for regicide or poli-
tical assassinations; 4. The abolition of trial by jury
for all such cases.

A subscription has been set on foot at Turin to
present M. Jules Fevre with a testimonial of grati-
tude and admiration for the eloquent and courageous
plea for the independence of Italy which he intro-
duced into his defence of Orsini. The Unions says
that the subscription is in no respect intended to
justify a crime which the eminent advocate himself
condemned, but is meant to do homage to the orator
who, in 1849, being the reporter of a committee of
the National Assembly, protested against the expe-
dition to Rome, and foresaw the fatal results of it.
The Sentinelle des dlpes says that Count Cavour
is about to give up the Portfolio of the Interior
(which he holds ad interim) to Signor Dominico
Ruffa—a statesman who approved the Sicardi law,
and pronounced in favour of the separation of the
church from the state.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(Molt OVA •wx

PARIS, FRIDAY Evawneo.
M. Henri Ferrier, a writer in the Correspondence
Buttier, says, speaking of the pamphlet, that great
allowance must be made for the difference between
French and English habits. Public meetings and
public speeches, which, in France, would be put'
down by force, may be safely tolerated in England,
because English effervescence is like "the froth of
good beer—it shows above the glass, but does not
ran over." The comparison is happy ; French beer
always runs over, makes a mem on the table, and
leaves very little in the glass.
A considerable crowd pasted the night in the
neighbourhood of the Roquette prison, expecting
that the execution of Orsini and his accomplices
would have taken place this morning. Police officers
in uniform emphatically assured all visitors as they
arrived that there would be no execution to-day, but
the public would not believe them, and waited
for hours walking about, many in thin shoes and
evening dress (for great numbers came from Mi-
Caroms balls), notwithstanding a bitter tempera-
ture. It was amusing to hear the reasonings of
groups of people as to the probabilities of the exe-
cution being fixed for this morning or not. To the
objection that it was usual to begin to erect the
scaffold u early as one o'clock in the morning, and
that no preparations were visible at four or five
o'clock, many street orators responded that a new
system had been invented, and the scaffold might be
put up in ten minutes. Why, also, it was asked, if
there is to be nothing to see, do the policemen ap-
pear so anxious to make us go away, and why are
we not allowed to walk by the front of the prison?
This argument convinced many, and induced them
to linger about the spot till long after dawn, not-
withstanding the reply that as no troops were on
the ground, which there would be for the
execution, the authorities had taken extra precau-
tions to prevent the possibility of any wild attempt
to break into the gaoL By six o'clock the Rue de
la Roquette was crowded in its entire length, from
the Bastille to the Barrier. I have heard the num-
bers who were doomed to disappointment estimated
at 30,000.

The Moniteur says :—" The indirect revenues of
the month of February exceed those of the corre-
sponding month of 1857 by 2,251,000 fr., and if it
be taken into account that the second denims on
registration does has ceased to exist ainee the begin-
ning of the present year, the improvement is in
reality 4,289,000 fr. The month of January had
shown an amelioration of 2,100,000 fr., so that the
increase for the two months amounts to 8,389,000 fr."
A person named Guillaume Bastin, who has
absconded, was sentenced by the Court of Lille, on
Wednesday (in default of appearance) to five years'
imprisonment, and a flue of 5,000 fr, for swindling.
The ease is a curious one. Bastin got up an in-
genious story of a will, in virtue of which a NMI of
money advanced by • Count Logrono, to Charles
the Bold, for his ransom, was to be returned to the
Count's right heir after a lapse of four hundred
years. He convened public meetings at Lille and
Wasemmes, in which he made statements concern-
ing his claims, which he asserted amounted to forty
millions of francs, and on one occasion he had the
audacity to say that a well-known person in the
department had offered him twenty millions to com-
promise. He made many dupes—no less than one
hundred and fifty persons having, it is said, ad-
vanced him money upon the strength of his
" claims."

Colonel Valabergue, of the Lancets (a brother of
the Colonel of the Guides of that names, who is ose
of the Emperor's Mayers), has been killed in a
duel with a colonel of Infantry.

As Count de Nieuwerkerke,director of the Imperial
Museum, was yesterday afternoon going acrom the
Pont Royal on horseback, his horse suddenly took
fright and fell, and the count's head struck against
the edge of the pavement, and was seriously cut.
He was conveyed into the Palace of the Tuileries,
and the physician on duty dressed the cut, after
which the count was removed to his apartments in
the Louvre. The count is considered to be one of
the handsomest men in Paris.

Apartments are being prepared in the Pavil-
lon Marten, at the Tuileries, for Prince George
of Saxony, whose arrival is now expected in •
few days.
The Bourse has been good to-day. The Rents
rase 23e. for cash and 30e. for ao3ount, closing at
69fr. 25c. and 69fr. 40e. Mobilier rose 2fr. 60a.
The railways ►bout recovered from the fall of yes-
terday.

The Piing* of Onde arrived at Dover yesterday
moraine from Cal* par Royal Mad Pads* Oodles. The
rime mad falai left kr Lewin by the 12 dole* *sta.