The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-07 00:00:00

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PRUSSIA

The Journal des Debate of this day has another
article upon Prussian affairs, oommunicating infor-
mation received from oorresponden ts at Berlin, who
date their letters from the 3rd. According to these
authorities, the King, within the last few days, has
been persuaded by persons around him to withhold
his assent to the system of • regency. Always
irresolute, he has bean induced to believe he is improv-
ing in health, that a longer term of repose is all thatis
required, and that if the Prince of Prussia refuses to
accept the system ofa delegation of the royal authority
fora flied term, his Majesty can confer the same upon
one more submissive and devoted. The Ministry, it
is stated, are unanimously in favour of a regency.
and should the King continue to withhotd his
awn; the dignity will, in all probability, be con-
ferred upon his brother, by, as the constitution
provides, the Legislative Chambers.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WIDNISDAT EMITIIII.

The people of Paris, who, doubtless, for wise pur-
poses, are seldom permitted to know what most
concerns them until long after it has become noto-
rious in every other capital in Europe, are only to-
day alive to the fact that two French men-of-war
have been sent from Toulon to make a hostile de-
monstration in the Tagus. To-day, for the first
time, the event has been talked of at the Bourse,
where it naturally occasioned some uneasiness. The
general opinion, however, is that the demonstration
is merely a tribute to national vanity, and means
nothing. The public mind is so utterly averse to
war that people refuse to believe that the vessels
would have been despatched if it had not been
well ascertained beforehand that their guns would
not in any contingency be called into requisition,
Sane say the terms upon which the question will be
settled must be already known ; others, that Por-
tugal must, of necessity, yield when the French
flag appears before Lisbon, and there are optimists
who feel certain that the English government
must have privately given its sweat to
the step taken by France. I cannot for
• moment believe in the latter assertion.
On the contrary I have every reason to think that
Portugal is countenanced by the English govern- I
went, and if so the ill-advised demonstration must
add greatly to the difficulty of coming to a satisfac-
tory settlement. It is now said that the ground
upon which the Portuguese government seized the
Charles Georges is not that she was engaged in
the slave trade, as has been commonly sup-
posed, but that the negroes found on board of
her, and with whom the French government had
entered into what it is pleased to term • free con-
contract, had been unlawfully taken from the terri-
tory of Mozambique. The Pays is very indignant
at the obstinacy of the English press in calumniously
characterising " free immigration as the slave trade,
and declares that the Emperor is firmly resolved to
proceed with the project "in spite of everybody."
The Bourse, owing, as it is supposed, to the Por-
tuguese affair, was decidedly heavy all day., The
Rents fell 30c. for cash and 25c. for account,
closing at 73fr. 70c. and 73fr. &So. Mobilier fell
27fr. 60e. In railways bat little business was done ;
Orleans fell 10fr.; Northern, sfr.; Western and
Southern, 3fr. 75c. each, and Lyons, 2fr. 60c.
Eastern remained without change.
The St. Germain railway trial has resulted in
the condemnation of four out of the five accused

parties for culpable negligence of the rules. Ron-
' Jean, the station-master of Vesinet, is sentenced to
six months' impronment, and 300 fr. fine; Duhan-
toles, the telegraph clerk, to five months
sad 300 fr. fine ; Quenelle, the breaksman,
to three months; and Berger, the other
breaksman, to two. Arnault, the pointsman,
was acquitted. The company, which did not seek
to avoid the obligation, was declared civilly re-
sponsible for the accident.
' A state railway carriage, made for the Pope, is
now on view at Messrs. Christofle's, in the Rue de
Bondy. It is to be sent to Civita Vesohia, at the
end of the month, and will be sled by his Mantas
on the occasion of the inauguration of the line
from Civita Vecchia to Rome, which will take place,
it is said, on December 10, the anniversary of the
proclamation of the Immaculate Conception.
The comet had a very remarkable appearance last
night. Arcturus, the most brilliant star in the con-
stellation of Capricorn, was distinctly visible through
the centre of the thickest part of the tail, at the dis-
tance, to the naked eye, of about three inches
sfrom
the nucleus. The effect wu magnificent. Arcturus
shone so brightly through the " airy nothing " of
which the tail would seem to be composed, that the
glowing, gee-looking light of the nucleus seemed
dim by comparison. The two together showed like
diamonds of nominal brightness on • lady's wrist,
while the nebulous matter of the train might be sup-
posed to be an expansive gauze sleeve. Handreds
of people flocked to the Place de la Concorde to see
the beautiful phenomenon through the large te-
lescope which is to be found there nightly. Half a
franc was charged for a peep, and so great was the
pressure to see, that less than half a tr;nute was
allowed to each person for the money. Nothing
could be more disappointing than the view from this
telescope, the star, looking as all fixed stars do
through a magnifying lens, nothing but a pale yellow
spot; the nucleus duller than it does to the naked
eye; sad the small section of the tail which the
the telescope embraced being so shadowy as scarcely
is he lietiesnisbed from the surrounding atmosphere.

TURKEY.

Letters from Constantinople, of the 29th nlt.,

mmasse that the Sultan received Lord Stratford
de Betleliffe, in a solemn audience, on Saturday, the
25th, and accorded the most gracious reception to
the former Ambassador. On the same day the
Persian Minister, Fernkh Khan, and his suite,
had an audience of the Sultan. to take leave, his
Excellency embarking on the 29th.

A Paris letter in the Independence of Brum*
In quaking of the late Imperial deals relative to the impor-
latim Moony says:—': A rather singular incident armed.
TM Cs etas. authoritica, having received no more notice
then the pablie of the decree relative to the corn law.,
charged daring the whole of the lot inst. the import dada;
ocoordiag to the provisions of the eliding seals. This old
tariff was revived for joss 24 pours. The trod. however,
claim ths return of the duties received during that
day and it apposes certain that they will obtain It. On the
other Mad, MOM merehasta having delivered their cora for
ocasinoption stir the inflames of this momentary change
of the tatff, also claim the power of getting it took, and sr
exporting it. All these *mentalities of int/watts produce
etc general wish—that • died and regular duty shall put
an owl to the eliding inlet, of which all persona la th• own
me& are Marta, tired."
The Russian Government has jest decreed that
lateaty military schools shall be established for teeohing
earmyhtg, topographic eagrsviag, gymnastics, du ; Mos,
that the lons of poor nobles and tunotiosariee shall be edu-
cated In them gratuitously, subject to the condition of their
anderetking to serve the state grattaltoualy for a certain
number of yam. The number of pupils in each of the
mix& Is to ha Moat 1100.

.G, OCTOBER 7, 1858.

SPAIN.
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. The Progremista aimimittee has issued its address
to the 000stituesciia, in prospect of the elections.
In this paper, from the pen of M. Salastiano
Olozaga, it is declared :
The principles of our party, which have neither verki,
nor oan vary, are those which were proclaimed at Cadiz by
the Legislators of 1812, which were inscribed In the Consti-
tutioe of 1837, and which prevailed in the Constituent Codes
of 1864. The differences in those conalltations are exclu-
sively owing to the difinence of time and to the necensitiee
of the moment; but they all are of the same origin, that o:
nations' sovtreignty, and have the seine object, giving to the
Spanish people all possible liberty with the °orientational
Mzeterehy. As the Constitution of 1846 dues not recognise
that origin, is neither fulfils this object, and it hen not
been end It can never be the standard of our party-
Om deputies have sworn to it in the Corn" end
they will swear to it u long as political oaths are in ono
though condemned for its iturtlity by all parties. We will
reapers It es long as it is in vigour, but the Pragmatists
party nee never renounced Its intention to enforce by ell legal
means the principles of its political dogma. This Is a right
of which it cannot be deprived, because it is a constitutional
party, end it is a duty which it will know how to fulfil when-
ever circumstances permit it, and the good of the state re-
quires it.

Bat sack is the force of character of our party, such the
madames in the excellence of its principles, such the love
for the exercise of its political rights, that however,
restricted these may be, it yet tries to carry them
oat within the limits permitted to it. It is that that
we have seen it, In ail the provhmes, making the
electoral lists tree and real in spite of the distrust cc-

motioned by the presence of public functionaries who
bad &delimited them; sad though the result of the pea-
coats could not, for that roman, be snob as is indispeneable
he a true representative system, yet even such is they are
we are prepared for the approaching electoral contest. The
intelligent and popular classes, In whom we Ind our prin-
cipal support, are greatly deprived of electoral righte, and
the number of electors Is reduced by the imptelleetion of the
alaxtoral lists, the Progreedasa will therefor* have to contend
at great disadvantage in them diatticts in which their
triumph would be sure under better conditions, and where
now their defeat may be probable. But devotedness Is
indispensable, and none can be a good liberal who Is not
resolved to make all not Mess which the good of the country
and the discipline of the Prigniosista perry requires
For them memos the commitme implores you to
vote is comae for the candidates w►o are most worthy
of your confidence, to take care that the proceedinp be legal,
to denounce every &bum which you may observe, and to
make the necessity appeal to the pvernment and the tribu-
nate—such is the duty of the committee, cad we are deter_
m'ned to execute it. It is in this sense it understands its
mission, end it does not interfere in the designation of condi_
dates. who ought to be left, in accordance with our principles,
to the spontaneous choice of the electors. The only thing the
committee think it right to specify is, that yen ought not to
vote for any candidate who will not accept our principles,
and who is not disposed to support them in the new Cortes,
Ton ought to elect thorn only who are inspired by the purest
patriotism—those only who will judge the minister by his
acts, and support him in all he may do in &ocar-
inas with our museums. Should the government
propose laws which approach our principles the duty
of the Progressista Deputies will be to defend
their own pi inelples in all their polity, and if success cennot
be obtained they must leave for better days the complete
triumph of their wishes, and emit those at first to what is
possible. What is now done in England—Bogland, the

cleuic land of liberty and the model for all free gore...notate
—by members of parliament of the most radical opinions,
although our condition is vety different, should clearly be
imitated by no. Yes, we should lay to imitate that great
people in the prudence with which it seta about the reform
of its political and model organleation, in the perseverance
with which it acts until it succeeds, and, more than ell, in the
tenacity with which it helda to its reforms. It is ties that
in that country no one th'nka of retrograding. It is true
that there no one is ao devoid of good mesas as to attempt to
destroy the boaquests made by liberty. Among al every-
thing is ipossible, end we should be prepared far all. Where-
fore to it that we must pteesrvs the integrity of our party,
ever disposed to tusks all the sacrifices which liberty, the
well-being, and the progress of our country may require.

The Peninsular oorresposslenes contain the fol-
lowing:
The Supreme Court of Justice is much °coupled just now
with appeal caste concerning the rectification of the election
lista, which cams are not fewer than 17,000 in number, and
though a great many of them are to exactly alike that they
may beacon despatched after a Snit judgment an gene at a
precedent, yet it would have been impossible to get through
them ell by the 10th of this month, the day dud for the
eternal, bad not the Supreme Court appointed a madam
camber of supplementary taibuniJe, sad wiled on the deputy
Bemis sad crown barristers to help to forward the business.
Many of the objections to votes are founded on legal =bus-
tles, and itt them came the ageister's orders will be carried
out—that is to say, the spirit of the law will be attended to
rather than lie letter.