The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-24 00:00:00

PRUSSIA AND NEUFCHATEL.

The Dalai' of this day states that during the peat
month, the question of Neufchatel hoe led to the
exchange of diplomatic notes between the
great Powers of Europe and between those
Powers and the Federal Government of Switzerland.
Our cotemporary gives the following se a Heusi of a
communication on the subject, sent to the erbinets
of Paris, Vienna, London, and Bt. Petersburg by
the King of Penni& :
'I The King claims the benefit of the treatise of
1816, and of the lut proteeol of London. He declares
his desire to refrain from disturbing the peace of
Europe. He knows that his allies sympathise with
him in this feeling, and It was in deference to them
that he introduced the matter in 1862 for their
friendly intervention. The King's allies promised to
open a negotiation with the win government, and the
King undertook to abstain from all direct action
during the prog.us of the negotiation. It was
agreed that this step was the best fitted to conciliate
all interests, while waiting a more opportune occa-
sion for the King to do himself justice, should
negotiation fail. This ourion presents itself at the
present moment; the late events at Neufohatel have
given it birth. Two polite remain to be examined;
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;le of thew must be resolved without delay, for it
has a grave and most argon interest; the other de•
serves all the attention of the allies of the %fug.

" Some of the Bing's subjeste have been arrested
and imprisoned foe having failed In an attempt to re- I
establish the royal.authority, disowned for eight
years tluough the disastrous inaction, of foreign re- ,
volutionaries, who have imposed their will upon the
great majority of the inhabitants of NeashateL
It is proposed to try and sonde= the authors of the
attempt. This the King will not suffer, for it would
be at once a blow to his authority, a denial of his
rights, and an blur, to his g =nal feelings. The
very arrest and imprisonment of the King's subjects
is an insult to his authority—an insult which every
day of its continuance aggravates. This state of
things must cease at once. The King cannot disF3nes
with the obligation of seeing that it does cease if
the Federal government continues to be obstinate.
"Then remiss the acknowledgment of the right
of sovereignty claimed by the King. This right is
disputed by no one. The King's alike having hitherto
failed in their negotiation' with the federal govern-
ment of Switzerland, the King wishes toknow what
they prom" to do—taking it for granted that they
will allow that something is to be done. The King
is of opinion that they should again insist upon the
execution of their wishes, and peremptorily demand
of Switzerland a definite reply. The late events
at Neufchatel throw a responsibility upon
the European powers, which does not permit them to
wait; the King prays his allies to inlet= him of the
measures to which they propose to have recourse in
order to relieve themselves of this responsibility.•
The Debate adds that the Proud= cabinet has also
addressed the governments of Bavaria, Wartetsterg,
and the Grand Duchy of Baden, for the purpose of
making sure that they will lend no assietance to
Switzerland, and will assent to the pe-sage of a
Prussian corps srennie,it it &weld be found necessary
to effect a military occupations of the canton of Neuf-
: chats!. Preemies also informs the same governments
that the question wiU shortly be. submitted to the
r Germanic Diet. Faveerebli replies have been re-
' oeived from the three German Powers just named,
' but the cabinet of Berlin awaits the result of
the steps which are E3ing take* at Buns in
the name of the fear Powers, the signers of the
' London protc33l.
From information it has reosived, the Mbar is led

to fear that Switzerland will refine compliance with
the demands which are likely to be made upon her.
Amelia espouses the muse! Pius* and the aspret
Oft whole question is each as to lead oar Paris
estemparety to entertain serious apprehensions of a
rave conflict between Prussia and Nenfehabil, if
the rest of Europe fail to ant simultenemsly and
with unanimity.
A letter trots Neufchatel of the 18th, in the Now
oeitiste Voodoi, says :-0 On Saturday the Fleohe
@Num brought to this place the deputations charged
So deliver to the Rapubliesne of Neufchatel the Sags
and cup offered them by their en-federates of the
intone of Geneva and Fribourg. On peening before
the tows, the steamer. which was dressed sat with
Sags, wee saluted with twenty-two guns frets the
terrace of the male, which WI retuned by a
similar number from the steamer. Oa her arrival
alongside the quay, the deputation§ were received by
the liseifehatel trommitteemider a triumphal arch, the
feat of whisk ben the lasseiption, ' Friends and
Ombierstai—wekosis: Aesetdge was then formed,
and advanced to the Hotel de Ville, preceded by a
military band. The depatatioes were afterwards
estertaieed at a grand dinner."
The Nonsiosi Pod gives the following despatch :
BERNE, Oor. 22.
" As the result of diplomatic effects, the prisoners
have been set at liberty.
"The Federal Cassell declares itself reedy to pre
pose to the Federal Assembly a toll amnesty, on eon-
dition that Prussia shall recognise the independence
of the Canton.
The Federal Cassell is using its exertions to is
represented at the Conferences of Paris.
" Warlike preparations are being made."

THE RUSSIAN OOVERNSINT AND THB
TREATY OF P

The Mowiteser do la molts contradicts the statement
circulated by several journals that Russia lobelias(
a new Black Bea fleet at Ntsoleieff. sod that she le
reconntracting the dell athe woks of Sebastopol.
A resent letter, it Arms, sheers that the Russians
/ ego scrupulously execating the treaty of Paris,
that they are not restoring any of the old land or sea
defaces, and that at Nicolaieff and Khans they are
cull betiding the amber of light heats whisk they
are emitted to have suncediag to the term of the
treaty of peso&

SPAIN.

A letter front Madrid et the 17th, in the Siecie,

nys :
Ulnae Mum is at lie height ben; every one feels eon-
viscid that the erletenee of the Nunes cabinet will be
even more ephemeral than that of O'Donnell, and bets are
laid that the Marquis de Vilma will be president of the
mud before Cluisuau. The fact is, that the president-
ship of a new cabinet war really offered to him on Tuesday
last, and If the predent marquis has not thought proper to
swept It, it is only, al he says, because the proper time has
not yet arrived. At the ram, however, at which things are
pushed oa, the time will soon arrive. The retrograde
Ranh of the government displays itself with mathematical
precision. In the same way as the amoeasions of O'Donnell
serried in their bosom the cabinet of the Duke of Valencia,
so ere the Nunes concessions pregnant with the approach-
ing advent of the Marquis de Ilthuna. Emehedpated from
the odious tutelage of elective assemblies, Isabella 11. very
soon wears out her minhtere.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition) gives a remarkable account of the progress
of the reaction. He status that, on the 18tb, the
Queen, in an interview with Harms, required him
to prepare for her signature a project of law for the
restitution to the clergy of the national property
—not, however, the property which still re.
mains unappropriated, but the whole of the
church property that has been sold duos her
accession to the throne I Nereus " literally
stood aghast r bat the King, who was called in, said
he perfectly agreed with her Majesty. The Queen
was by no means fright3ned by a threat of resigna-
tion on the part of the general, and the Marquis of
Viluma was sent for. On hearing her propasition,
however, this nobleman, "all royalist as he is, started
back in affright, es if some horrible vision were b -
fore him." The Queen was at last induced to post-
pone the measure, and "Nereus still remains with
' the sword of Damocles hanging over his head."
It was expiated that the Queen had some idea of
' sending for the Archbishop of Toledo to form a
ministry. From these and other circumstances it Is
much to be feared that still more serious events that
the last are likely to occur in Spain.