The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-29 00:00:00

PERSIAN PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dzo. 18.
Despatches, dated the 17th November, have been
received from Teheran.

A decree by the Shah of Persia invests the Greed
Vizier with unlimited powers for life.

The same decree adds that serious events us im•
eminent, acd calls upon the people to show themselves
energetic, and to defied their honour to the lut.
All the chiefs of tribes, by Wilollll the environs of
Iterat are occupied, hays made their submission.
The Parente columns, despatched is punmit of
Deist Mohammed, were advanciog oa Candahar.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MU OVI

PARIS, 131711 DAT EVINIXII.

It is now beyond all doubt that the Conferences
will not meet to-morrow, t►e 29th. I understand
that Russia is the power to which the Pays referred
yesterday as having yet to send an answer on a
matter of " detail" before the plenipotentiaries could
proceed to work. I am told to-day that the thing
alluded to is the formal consent of Russia
to • compromise which it is alleged has
been entered into about Bolgrad. A statement
made by a Belgian journal obtains credence, although
I will not credit it till the fact shall leave no room for
scepticism. What is said is that the English cabi-
net, while sticking to their text that they will not
allow Russia any compensation for giving up Bolgrad,
will nevertheless consent to her having 100 square
miles of territory which she was never intended to
have, upon the condition that it shall not be said to
be a compensation for Bolgrad. This is what Is
meant by the compromise. Russia's final answer,
which it is not doubted will be favourable, is ex-
peeted to-morrow, and in that cue the Conferences
may very possibly meet on Tuesday the 30th. It
they do, the protocol recording the opening will be
signed on the 31st, and then the meeting will be
adjourned over New Year's•day. The Nord of
Brussels, however, being very probably not in
possession of the latest news, only predicates that
the meeting will take place in the first fortnight of
January. At all events not a shadow of doubt is
expressed is official circles that the Conferences
will really take place almost directly, and that all
parties Cr. agreed se to the issue.
The Nord of Brussels affirms that within the last
few days a remarkable change has taken place in the
attitude of Lord Palmerston's government. It is
"less irritable about the Conference, and has given
wise counsels to Switzerland." This change is at-
tributed by the Russian agent to the fact that no
alliance with Austria can be formed upon a sufficiently
firm bulls to stand against the alliance of France
and Russia, and also to the necessity of having some
tangible result of the negotiations to show to parlia-
ment when it meets. The Nord says it is,' certain"
that" immediately after the Conferences the English
fleet will evacuate the Black Sea and the Austrian
troops the Principalities."
The Nourshists de Route says:—" Within the
last few days three Prussian officers in uniform have
been going about in the arrondissement of Yvetot,
to buy horses. On Wednesday they were at the
Fauville market, where several dealers came to see
them by appointment. These officers are accom-
panied by three interpreters. They select horses fit
both for draught and saddle, and are to forward their
purchase' to Prussia before the end of the month."

SPAIN.

MADRID, Deo 24.
The Marquis de Constantin is charged with the
Ministry at War.

The Jesuits who were at Majorca are removing to
Loyola.
Eeveral sacred orders have been conferred upon
bishop in the provinces.

Dic. 25.

The prams compromised in the affair of the re-
publican dub which was lately discovered, have been
sent to different parts of the kingdom under the
surveillance of the authorities.

Letters from Rome state that the Pope has ex-
pressed his satisfaction at the nomination of M. Mon
as Spanish representative at the court of Rome.
The news of a Mexican general having arrived at
Madrid to ask for assistance for Santa Anna is Was.

PRUSSIA AND SWITZERLAND.

The Prankfori Journal of Saturday last gives the
followiog news from Berne, dated on the previous
day (Friday):
"The Federal Council has received a proposition
of arrangement from the Emperor Napoleon.
" The popular enthusiasm is continually increasing.
"The Swiss Confederation is organising for the
defence of the national soil.

" Military preparations are actively going on. A.
appeal has been made to Swiss women to provide for
the service of the ambulances."

A private latter from Berne of the 24th states that
on that day 15,000 troops were placed en oche/se
from Beale to Rh/Ant/Men Liana!, and ea many
from Rhein&!den to Schaff haws°.

The Press' publishes the following letter from
Bennett the 24th :

The military preparations of Switzeriaed 11/61111110 an
helmets"' far exceeding all that was sea to 1838 and
1847. The popular demonstratious are such es do not allow
the slightest doubt to be entertained of the unanimity of the
amiss' sada ent. The teetotal governments end print.
iadividasis vie with each other in enthoeiesin and sumacs;
sad the Federal Council receive' every day the east astir-
feetory aseareacee of devotedness, accompanied by offers
of service and of money. There are at the preset time
already 16,000 out edielosed on the lie* of Beale-1
Bbein fold's-Usual, sad as stay frees Rhein('idea to
sch.fbauaa The caries gyseastie socisties of Switzer-
land hays all offered their services, aid there is
setae 'steatite of forming all the members into
a special eorpe. It is calculated that there would thus
be ready • body of 2,000 young men, accastomed to
every hied of bodily exercise, sad eapable of rendering the
greatest anise to their country. In ell the cantons, al-
ters of every risk, Mod frost milituy envies, offer thus.
Mrs for any duty that may be squired, sad is all seas
their offers see at ince accepted. According to the Federal
esititntiee, the nomination of the general-tmthief end of
the heed of the staff belongs to the Federal Amiably. It
is, however, universally believed that ()'sail Defoe, will
b. appointed, tad he has arrived here to auperiataad tad
direct the military preparetleas. The following as
some of the superior dears of the Federal staff:—Cos-
mender-in-chief of the engineer', Colonel Suckwalder ;
oesantander.ta-shief of the artillery, Coloael Feather ;
commander•iachief of the Sold trots, Llestesaat-Colonel

Wuritenabarg; eon.
M.jor Forman); Sid

tie( of the waive tteia,
Goesenbaalt; eamotisetu7-

la-ebiet Abys ;.

Dr. Flogel ; Totetimary-
...— .

sargeon-irrchief, Nett About 1,000 alum, sob-oaken,
and soldiers of the Nestehalal mountains have uat am
address to the Federal Government, is which they clamor
a favour, to be pissed is the advaased guard, if an gaggle-
meat should tithe place with the Prussians. The Federal
Council hu referred this spplicatinn to the military depart-
ment. ♦ report is g lip current here that the Federal
Government has costumed a very onsiderable loos, the
automat being stated as high as 60 millions of trance, mad It
is siiid that two Leaden beside, hours ham engaged to
plate t►e peetest pert of it.
A letter from Betas, of the 22nd, in the Animator
Frankfort, says:
To-day, the arse troops mimed through this plush with
drum beating ad saloon hying, on their way to Beide.
The lababitaam of the rural districts ars asking in hum
old and yeang, to pt thenuelms Inscribed at the enlistment
°Sess. It would be diflisalt to describe the plural oaths-
Mum which prevails.

A letter from Hem, in tho Pose Ampt Gazette of
Franktort, tap:

It it curtails that the unanimous vote of ae Grind Council
of Berne in foveae of the unlimited military credit demanded
by the Federal Coupon has produced a great impression oa
the diplomatic body. Seri rim has been particularly excited
by the fast of Director Fetter, so well knows for hie on.
urvative sentiments, sad the mitocratic M. de Gossubreb,
the intimate friend of Costa Peonage, having both defended
with warmth the canes of Switurlead.
_ _

The Swiss papers pub:ish the report of the Council
of State of Neufchatel to the Grand Council of the
canton on " the royalat insurrection of the 3rd Sep-
tember, the repression of it, and its consequences up

to the month of October;" but though it runs to great
length, it adds nothing to the facts already known.
0a the other side, a letter from Berlin states that,
when the news became known that the order for
mobilisation had been decided on, the money market
in that city fell considerably, every one offering to
sell.

The Bourse Gazette of Berlin and the New Pew.
elan Gazette announce that as they consider it a
patriotic duty, in the present critical state of affeirs
in Prussia, to give as little information as possible
concerning the military movements of the Prussian
forces, they shall abstain from touching on such ques•
Lions for the present.
It is mentioned i■ a letter from Stuttgard, of the
23rd, that several Prussian engineer officers had
passed through that place on their way to make mili-
tary surveys of the country through which the Pros-
Sian troops would pass in South Germany and on the
Swiss frontier.

It wu rumoured at Berne on the 23rd that the
Baden government has given permission for the
passage of the Prussian army through its territory.

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

The British and North American Royal Nisi 1
steam ship Arabia, James S,one, Commander,
arrived in the Mersey this forenoon, from Boston
and Halifax, with the usual weekly mails from the
United States and British possessions in North
America, 74 passengers, and 263,939 dollars in specie.
The Arabia left Boston at noon oa the 17th init.,
and Halifax on the afternoon of the 19th, having
been detained off Halifax twelve hours by fog. Her
news, therefore, is three days from New York (and
via Helifsx five days), four days from Boston, and Rix
days from Halifax later than that brought by the
United States mail steam ship Arago, from New
York to Southampton.
The Arabia passed the Royal Mail steam ship
Niagara, from hence, on the 26th, and the Royal
Mail steam ship Asia, between Tinkle and Holy-
head, on the 27th inst. The Arabia was detained
five hours at the bar, waiting for water.
The City of Baltimore arrived at Philadelphia on
the 16th inst.

The Wuhington correspondent of the New York
Herald up that the Secretary of the Treasury is
opposed to putting sugar on the free list until some
arrangement can be made with the Spanish govern-
ment, owing to export duty being charged by Cube,
from whence the United States supply is chiefly
derived.

Nothing of importance had taken place in the
Senate.

Nine more French refugees from Cayenne had
arrived at New York from Demerara.

It appears that the boat of the Lyonnais, contain-
ing a chronometer, provisions, liquors, &c., which
was picked up by the Neptune on her voyage to
Liverpool, was the one which broke loose from the
steamer, and drifted away before the passengers could
get into it.
It was inspected that an expedition to Venezuela,
ander the command of General Patz, was Suing out
at New York, and the authorities were keeping
watch to prevent it.
The New York Journal of Commerce states that
in Maine the shipbuilders have wholly discontinued
the construction of clippers, and now go to the oppo.
sits extreme of making their etdps full and of lug.
capacity.
In the Supreme Court, New Tole, two of the
parties, Felicite Debud and Eugene Gctlet, who
were supposed to have been concerned in the late
frauds upon the Northern Railway of France, were
discharged by Judge Davies, upon their stipulating
not to commence any action for unlawful imprison.
ment. The other prisoners, Charpentier and Euro!,
were detained for further pr. ceediegs in the caw.
The excitement in Tennessee and Kentucky aria.
iog out of the negro insurrection, is said to have
neatly died out, but in the other part■ of the south
it was as lively as ever. It appears to have origin-
ated in Texas, near the Rio Grande, three months
since, and to have extended to nearly all the
Southern States, advantage having been taken
of the public's ailatmorbing attention to the elect
tion for president. It is stated that in the whole
region from Memphis, through Ciatkesville, to
Daver, on the Cumberland river, the greatest alarm
existed in regard to the movements of the negroee.
The gaols in all the counties were crowded with the
arrested blacks. The county courts bad assembled
in each county, and vigilance committees and patrols
had been appointed in each neighbourhood and
township. Eight more negrres had been hung at
Dover, making nineteen in all. No overt act had
been committed, but the proof against them of in-
surrectionary designs was, it is said, conclusive.
In the House of Representatives a resolution had
been declared that any suggestions to reopen the
African slave trade would subject the United States
to the execration of all civilised and Christian people,
and that it is inexpedient, unwise, and contrary
to the settled policy of the United States to repeal
the laws protecting the African.
A letter was read from Governor Geary announcing
the restoration of peace in Kansas.
Telegraphic advice. front Kansas state that sixteen
of the Free-State prisoners, on trial for murder in
the first degree, had been acquitted, and that nine
were still on trial.

The Free Stwe Militia had bep.n disbanded.

The steam ship George Laws had arrived in Aspin-
wall with Cilifornian advice. to the 20th November,
and with one million and a half of dollars. The
intelligenee is unimportant, and the markets un-
changed. She brings Valparaiso dates to the 31st
October,and from Callao to the 11th November. The
mining and commercial prospects at Chili were flat-
tering. Peru bad suffered a revolution.
H advice. to 10th December report the sugar
crops to be very large; priees had advanced j cent
per lb.
Mexico advicee state that Puebla is in a state of
siege, but news of its reduction is daily expected in
the capital. Santa Anna bad published a paper
protesting against the act of Comonfort and hie
government in despoiling him of his proprrty.
The hicaragua advises confirm the burning of the
town of Grenada by Walker, but state that he is in a
critical position; unless reinforced by men and sup-
plied with provisions he cannot maintain his ground.
Honduras advices report the country as tranquil.
COMMERCIAL. _ _ _

Money at New York is in very active demand, at 7 per
cast. for all loang. Paper without oboe,* at from Bto 10
par cent., aotiordieg to lined' and class. Stocks of all de-
scriptions beavy eta decline. Exchange on London hurl,
backers draggle( it 1081.
Cotton in fair demand for hose consumption. /diddling
Uplands, 121 casts.
Flour la good demand, f.:r borne trade sod for export, at
fall priers. Tbers was a traitor demand for wheat at
slight savant*. Didion corn ateady, and fair traumatic's,
Old nen pork was lass firm, bat the now mess commandsi
former prima.
Freights to Liverpool heavy, mpreially k r grain. IVbrai
61d. to id.; cotton, Bc. per lb.