The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-01 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

Feldratigmeister von Benedek, the Commanding.
General in Hungary, has issued a proclamation,
which in substance is as follows :—" As a faithful
veteran, and as a native of Hungary, I will con-
scientiotudy carry out the benevolent intentions a
the Emperor. Confidence is necessary to the sue.
cessful development of the organisation of Hungary,
and I will therefore, iu the interest of the country,
oppose with firmness and decision any attempt to
disturb the minds of the people by means of demon.
strations. I count on the co-operation of every man
of honour in my efforts to serve and benefit my dear
native country and the empire at large." The ap-
pointment of a military man—Lient. -General Count
Louis Crenneville—to be Adlatus to General von
Benedek and the somewhat menacing proclama-
tion of the latter have given rise to a report that
Hungary will be placed under martial law should
the resistance of its inhabitants to the will of the
imperial government be continued.

PEBTH, ATIUL 30, Noox.

The requiem of the late Count Stephen
Szedenyi has been concluded without any dis-
turbances having taken place. Great numbers of
the inhabitants were present at the ceremony. The
vault has been closed. Mourning flags have been
exhibited in the Waiznogre&u. 10,000 persons were
assembled on the occasion in the principal square
of the town.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, MONDAY.
Count Apponyi and Messieurs Murniann,
&bodies, and Vay will, it is said, be appointed
Councillors of State.

SPAIN.
MADRID, Ann 30.
Manbal O'Donnell luta arrived at Aranjuet.

SWITZERLAND.
GENEVA, Aran, :O.
2,000 men of the Fo.leml troops occupying
Geneva will be disbanded on the 10th May next,
but will be replaced iinniediately.
The Federal Council has resolved on the Mistime.
tiona referring to the conference to be sent to M.
Kern.

THE BRAZILS.
LISBON, Amin. 30.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Magdalena has arrived, with date,. from Rio Janeiro to the
7th April.
No political news of importance.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Exchange on London firm at 2:4; on Paris, 362 to 384; on
Hamburg, 730 to 735, on which places the Magdalena brings
drafts amounting respectively to 490,0001., 3,200,000 frames.
and 230,000 mar. Coffee, good first, 6,450 to 6,600 rein.
Stock, 100,000 bags. The export of coffee since the depar-
ture of the last mail amount. to 104,274 begs, which is
made up as follows :—The United States, 54,215 lags;
Channel, 9,008 bap ; Harm, 114,750 bags ; Marseilles,
16,014 ; Mediterranean, 6,237. Freight was quoted at 30.

Thu Official °awl* of the kingdom of Poland
publishes a ukase of the Emperor Alexander, which extends
to the inhabitants of that cuntry, on the °erasion of the
majority of the heir apparent, the pardon* IM regards con-
fiscation of property indicted on those who took part in the
insurrection of 1831. Thin act of clemency in highly ap.
proved of in Poland.

In the Chamber of Depntie.s at Nassau three
days ago the report of the committee on petitions for and
against the Conconlat was presented, and gave rise
to • very animated die-minion. The Chamber even-
tually adopted unanimously, with the exception of
five votes, • resolution pnqsviod by the committee,
requesting the government- I, to abstain from concluding
a concordat or any convention of the kind with the Holy
See ; 2, to regulate the relations between the Roman
catholic church and the state by 111M1116 of a bill acconling
the widest liberty of conscience ; and 3, to examine the
question whether it 'mold not he desirable to come to •
provisional arrangement with Rome reapecting the nomiaa•
tioo to vacant catholic parishes.

General de Failly l,tv anivial in Paris. He is
the first of the generals of tlu• enoy of Italy who has re.
turned to Fiance ; the others ore expected shortly to follow.

It is said that thu Dowager-Empress of Russia
is to come to Paris with the Emperor and Empress of the
French on their return from Nice, and that else ts to psis
the summer at Fontainebleau, where the palace is being
prepared for her reception.

A letter received by a high functionary in Paris
cootaina (says the rat* 'rime curious revelations with
respect to the participation of the monks of La Grancia in
the late insurrection stPalermo. This letter states positively
that the Sicilian authorities have ascertained that these
warlike monks were false brothers--revolutionary agent,
in het recruited by Ifazzini, end with the external
appearance of being completely detached from the affairs
of this world, assumed the 41nws a year since with a
view to excite an insurrection. They had completely suc-
ceeded in deceiving the venerable prior of the convent and
the other monks who were not their accomplioes. The day
of the insurrection they seized the prior, and then gave the
signal of the revolt by ringing the convent bell. The plot
was well got up, although it did Out succeed.