The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-28 00:00:00

SERVIA.

• BELGRADE, JAW. 27.
The laws which the Bkoptschina has passed for
the regulation of its own constitutional power, con-
tain enactments of such a nature that the name
liberty of the press is guaranteed by them.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

CORFU, JAx. 26.
Sir John Young has left.
The lonian parliament has been opened to-day.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(runt ova OWN CORSZSPONDINT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY' EVRNI7IO.

Its decided that Prince Napoleon and his bride
will make a public entry into Paris. The day now
spoken of is Friday, Feb. 4. The city of Paris is
making preparations for a brilliant reception.
Prince Jerome, the Princess Mathilde, and the high
dignitaries of the court will go to the Lyons railway-
station (which will be splendidly decorated) to meet
the newly-married couple. Triumphal arches will
be erected on the Boulevards, along which the bridal
procession will pus to the Tuileries. Immediately
after their arrival • series of fates will be given at
court. Gaiety will, therefore, be the order of the
day in Paris at the end of next week ; and then on
Monday, Feb. 7, comes the Emperor's speech—will
it speak peaoe or war ?
The announcement that the Princess Matilda wu
to go to Marseilles to meet the prince and princess
on their landing is contradicted. General Fleury
will receive them there in the Emperor's name.
Admiral Jurien de Lagraviere, with his broad
pennant, on board the Algesirea, will escort them
from Genoa with a squadron of honour. Two
steam frigates of the Sardinian navy, the Goveroolo
ilund the Sardinia, will accompany the French
squadron to Marseilles. The Prince Napoleon and
the princess will come in the Heine Hortense.
The idea of a congress, which was yesterday pre-
dominant at the Bourse, is to-day "nowhere." The
I Prune treats the statement of the lalpendanee
Belge on the subject as an invention. " This *elu-
tion," it nye, alluding to the offer made to Lord
Palmerston's government in 1848, " would doubtless
be a very desirable settlement of the Italian gees-
tee. It would assure to the Lombardians and Ve-
netians a sort of independence which would be •
step towards a still more desirable result; but Aus-
tria, in accepting such a proposition, would mani.
festly sign an act of abdication. Now, u a Vienna
paper declared the other day, Austria does not yet
feel her position so desperate as to come into any
seeh arrangement.*

In another article the Press* thus continues to
sound the war trumpet :

We satertain a great regard for peen, but there is some-
thing la this world superior to peace—it is joalioe. Let UP,
therefore, seek what is just and practical, what is ream-
eneadad both by the greatness of France and by the Interests
of European pesos—a lasting result, not of itiolanoe and op-
pression, but an equitable satisfaction given to invincible
aspiration. And should the Bourse reply by a fall to this
policy, we sight say that the Bourn has nothing to do with
questions of national dignity. that it always exaggerates
evils is .ruler to make them profitable, and that when It dio-
cesan It is on the wrong scant it retraces Its Mops with con-
siderable Jill

The Bourse was very weak. As the settlement
approaches, speculators become more and more un-
easy and undecided. The Rente fell 16c. for cork
and 26c. for account, closing at 68fr. 85e. and
68fr. 800. Mobilise fell 12fr. 60c. The Orleans
railway, which for several days has fluctuated more
violently than any other, fell 12fr. 50c. The remain-
ing lines were about 2fr. 60c. lower.
It appears that the Diritto of Turin was in error
in announcing the death of the Marquise de Pepoli,
ode Princess Murat. Telegraphic despatches from
that city of the 25th state that although the health
of the princess causes some uneasiness there is
nothing to lead to the idea of her approaching death.
The pretty summer theatre in the Freest,len was
entirely destroyed last night by a fire which raged
for four hoots.

PERSIA.

TREBIZONDE, JAx. 12.

Letters from Persia received here state that the
Frani& military mission continues to be favourably
looked upon at Teheran. After a review on Dec.
19, the Shah sent for all the French officers, and,
paying them a handsome compliment, said he
should always be happy to receive from any one
of them full suggestions in writing for any reforms
in the service which might occur to them to be de-
sirable.

Fernkh Khan is still a great favourite at court.
The Shah has just made him a present of a splendid
horse from the royal stables. This is considered in
Persia as one of the greatest favours that can be
conferred upon a subject. There is no doubt that
Ferukh Khan will soon be made a minister, but it
would be an infraction of usage if the appoint.
meat were to take place before the Persian
new year's day (16 Chaban). Djedeffer Konli
Khan el K hani, the governor of Astrabad, the capital
of the province of Mazinderin on the Caspian sea,
has just gained a decisive victory over the Turcoman
hordes who have devastated that country for many
years. He took possession of their camps and made
many prisoners, after which the chiefs tendered
their submission.

An article of the treaty of Erzeroum, concluded
ten years ago between Persia and Turkey, stipulated
that all merchandise imported from either country
iota the other should pay a uniform ad valorem
duty of 6 per cent. The Ottoman government
has, however, long been in the habit of exacting
11 per cent., and, notwithstanding the remonstrances

made by Fernkb Khan when he was at Constan-
tinople, the Sublime Porte has not yet taken any
steps to put a stop to this abuse. It is much to be
wished that the Sultan's ministers would pay imme-
diate attention to this subject, for I hear that, un-
less a change be made, the Persian government is re-
solved to retaliate, and to take 11 per cent. on their
frontier. The question is one which affects not only
the trade of Turkey but that of Europe.

Mims Melkonn Khan hie received the decoration
(first clams) of the order of the Lion and Sun, as a
reward for the servioes he rendered during Fernkh
Khan's mission extraordinary to Europe.