The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-16 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

MUNICH, VDIDAT.
It is stated, on reliable information, that Russia
has demanded & conference of the Great Powers to
investigate the question whether Turkey has ful-
filled the obligations undertaken by the treaty of
1856 in regard to the Christians in the Ottoman
Empire.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom OUR owli consepoxpm.)

PARIS, Tuastur EVP2fING.

General de Goyon, commanding the army of
occupation in Rome, has received the Grand Cross
of the Legion of Honour. This fact is, perhaps,
the strongest evidence which we have yet seen that
the evacuation of Rome by the French army will
really take place ; for these first-class rewards,
unless in the case of a great battle, are commonly
given at the end of an important undertaking.
The Patric says :

A journal announces that the departure of the French
army from Lombardy is temporarily suspended. This news
is altogether inaccurate. All the disposable transport, are
ordered to Genoa to hasten the evacuation. We also lean
that the division of Rome will return to France speedily, in
consequence of arrangements made between the govern.
meats interested.

The long disputed contest for the sewno vacant

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seat in the Council of the Order of Advocates termi-
nated this morning by the election of M. Rivihre.
M. Emile 011ivier's friends, when they found it
impossible, owing to lamentable faintheartedness
on the part of some of the leaden to bring in their
own candidate, made every effort to throw out M.
Mathieu, who was M. Delangle's nominee, and
in this secondary object they succeeded.
The P ream, now almost the only independent
journal left in France, has received a warning (the
second) for an article by its proprietor, M. Solar,
in which he made the very trite observation that
the first empire was overthrown not merely by
a European coalition but by the disgust of the
French people with despotic government.
M. Billault, in his warning, says that
the article, "in representing France as an
accomplice of the foreign coalition which

overturned the first empire, has, from a mo-
tive easy to be understood, calumniated the country
and wounded the national sentiment." During
the ten years that I have written political letters
from Paris, it has never been my lot to record a
more flagrant instance of unreasoning tyranny than
this warning. The fact is notorious, and I have
heard it asserted by hundreds of living witnesses,
that before his fall Napoleon was thoroughly un-
popular in Franoe, because he had exhausted the
resources of the country in men and money, and
people saw no hope of quiet or stability, as long as
he was at the Tuileries. That was the opinion—
and he bitterly resented their ingratitude—of his
own liveried senators. At all events, the matter is
a fair subject for historical controversy.

At the Bourse the Route has suffered a further
decline. The news, which appears to be positive,
that Russia has taken the initiative in reviving the
Eastern question, coupled with a suspicion that she
is acting in concert with France, occasioned even
more anxiety than the affair of Garibaldi. The
Threes fell 20c. for cash and 15c. for account, clos-
ing at 69fr. flOc. in each case. Mobilier fell 2fr.soc.
Railways did not follow the downward course of
the Rente : Orleans and Eastern rose Mr. 75e. each;
Southern, lfr. 25c. ; and Western, 21r. 50c.; but
Northern fell Mr. 75c., and Lyons, lfr. 250.
The weekly commercial review of the Prose says
that business has undergone but a very trifling
change since the last report.

The Count de Montemolin and his brother have
arrived in Perin .

The Grand Duke Nicholas, brother of the Em-
peror of Rem* arrived at Paris at 6 o'clock am Monday
evening, by the Lyons railway, and was received! at the
station by several great dignitaries. His imperial high-
ness war conveyed to the Tuileries in an imperial carriage,
to pay his respects to their Majesties, and afterwards pro-
ceeded to the Hotel du Louvre, where he will reside during
his stay in Paris.

A St. Petersburg letter, of May 6, mentions a
ramble sentence for fighting a duel lately pronounced by
a court martial against two noblemen aced officers; Baron
Nicolai de Meyeodorff and M. Paul Dernidoff. They were
sentenced to be cashiered, to be struck off the roll of
nobility, and to serve in the army as private soldiers.
Their friends will, however, be pleased to learn that the
whole proceeding was a sham, and that their punishment
has been commuted to two months simple impriaonttoent.
The Paris Mint is now actively engaged in coin-
ing silver to supply the deficiency of small change, which
MUMS great inconvenience to retail trade.
The property at M4nilmontant, which had be-
come celebrated by the occupation of the St. Smoak= at
the commencement of Louis Philippe's reign, has just been
divided into thirty or forty lots, to be sold in detail.
The Irish provincial papers continue to report the
emigration of large masses of the peasantry. A Roscom-
mon journal, for example, says :—" The numbers at present
emigrating from our county exceed soy that has taken place
for years. Nearly everyday groups of comfortable; well.
dressed people of the small-farming class, with their large
red boxes, may be seen at our railwaystatiotui, ex route for
America rid Galway and Cork."
A lulndsome monument, prepared at the expense
of the members of the Waterford Hunt Club, boa been
erected to the memory of the late Marquis of Waterford.
The monument consists of a plain massive ancient Irish
cross and pedestal, of Wicklow granite, phiced upon a solid
cubic base, constructed of stone, and seven feet in dimen-
sions. The cross, which is the largest at present known to
exist in any part of Ireland, is raised upon the fatal spot
where the noble marquis was killed. The pedestal bears
the following inscription :
" Henry, Third Marquis of Waterford,
Killed by a fall from his horse while hunting,
29th March, 1859."

The monument, including cross, pedestal, and base, pre-
sents an elevation of more than 20 feet, and unquestienably
will constitute an interesting monument in the history of
the locality in which it is erected.
WEST RIDING ASSIZE.— Yesterday'R Leeds Mer-
rier? mays :—" According to information which mashed us
from Wakefield, the government have at length determined
to concede to the inhabitants of the West Hiding their just
and reasonable demand to have their large assure btbibiesn
transacted within their own limits, instead of requiring
these connected with it to go to • great and inconvenient
distance. The next point is the choice of the plain ; and
on this the opinions of the magistrates are about -to be
taken. As, however, these gentlemen form but a mall
fraction of the persona even immediately interested in the
decision, it is desirable'that all others who are interested in
it should express their opinions without delay."
THE ()BRAT BILL ROBBERY IN LIVLBPooi-r-The
thieves who were concerned in the robbery of 11,0001. worth
of bills and bank drafts from Mr. Haigh. a Liverpool cot-
ton broker, are to be brought before the Liverpool magis-
trates to-day. Yesterday the wife of one of the prisoners,
and the person who received the registered letter containing
the stolen bills, MA% brought up, and the officets having
identified her, she was remanded until to-day.