The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-24 00:00:00

THE PERSIAN QUESTION.

The Pays says :—" Letters from Turkey of the llth
state that the negotiations between the English
Ambassador at Constantinople and the Extraordinary

Ambassador from the court of Teheran were dill
actively going on; that it wu impossible to foresee
the result of the enferenose, bat that all hope of an
arrangement was not lost."
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THE TOWN OF BOLORAD.

The Alosanoele of New Roses, for the year 1853,
Rives the following statistics respecting the town of
Bolgrad

B;lgrad is a small market towa, prettily built, attested in
the lower circle of the colonies of Budjek, is Bu•
suable, ea the ' Alper& ; the residing* of llte

administrative authorities of the ealmista of the
Trees Danube. It isontaias 8,306 inhsbitaats, and 1,037
houses, the greater part of which ere of stone. It posemess
a primary school for boys mad one for girb, with a fine
cathedral. General Jusow, the founder of this colony, is
interred M the church of the cemetery. There are
at Bolgrad, besides public granaries for wheat,
13 private outs, a public garde, 676 private gardens, 16
'ladle sad 2 amp factories, 6 brisk aside, 7 potteries,
8 dyehowses, 14 inns, 1 hotel, and 42 shops. The extent
of the examine is 23,765 dismiaittses. Oa the
road to Ismail the colonists hare erected a moos-
meat at the opt where the Berm Nicholas I
eetablithed his mop in 1328, on his lured towards the
Daubs.

The Journal de St. Peterabotny, after quoting the
above, adds the following remark : " The Almanach
contains no statement relative to another Bolgrad or
Tobac."

THE TWO BICILIES.

A Vienna letter of the 18th in the Bourse
Gantt* of Berlin, states from Naples that since the
insurrectionary movement in Sicily and the attempt
upon the King's life, the latter is more than ever de-
termined not to make any conoessione, and has re-
quested the cabinet of Vienna to inform the Western
Powers of this resolution of his.

The Ofrial Journal of the Tiro Sicilia publishes
a royal decree intrusting the religious and moral
direction of the prisons of Cosenza and Reggio
to the Jesuits, one of whom is to form part of the
committee regulating the internal affairs of each
of the prisons above mentioned. The Sisters of
Charity are intrusted with similar duties in the
prisons for women.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TIMIDLY Emilio.

The Moniteur announce*, in an indirect
that the Conferences will not take plus till after
New Yesr's•day. In its foreign news in the last
page it cites an article from the Austria* Gazette of
the 18th, which says that in order that the laboars
of the Confereness may not be interreptedby Christmas
and New Year's-day, it is desirable that they should
not take place till next month. It is to be inferred
from the French government now adopting this ver-
Oon that it did not thick about Christmas and New
Year's-day when it instructed the Monitur and the
('oa'titution•el to say that the Coeferemess would
certainly rust at the end of December.
The Psya in an article defending tie Mesitetir
against what it calls the "diatribes" of the English
press on the subject of Neufchatel, is pleased to sty
that the London journal., so far from representing
the English government, scarcely ever represent
even any political party. According to the Pays,
these papers are something totally apart from the
public opinion of the matey, and represent nothing
but the furious passions of individual writers, and the
necessities of the proprietors to provide scandal for
their readers. To bear out this somewhat extraor-
dinary view of the English prose, it vouches to war-
ranty Sir Frederick Thesiger, whose " eloquent,"
albeit unsucessefal, speech as an advocate against the
Daily News has more than once been referred to by
the French government press as a monument of
pigitioal wisdom.
The Press' has a very spirited article indeed
against the pretensions of the King of Prussia,
which have met with such extraordinary countenance
from the French government. It describes the gaie-
ties as one involving le substance the two great
questioes which agitate the world—" on the one side
tradition, the authority of treaties and the written
rights of Kings; on the other the present state, the
free act, the natural and primordial right at popish°
It thinks that the French government, having
"unfortunately" taken the view it did of the question,
was quite right in making its intentions public, since
" a certainty, in whatever sense, is always better than
fallacious promisee." After showing the weak-
ness of the Kiog of Prussia's written title,
, beard upon the treaties of 1818, which have
been so much broken in upon, especially
by France, and insisting upon his long acquiescence
in adverse possession as • bar to his right to tske
advantage of as " unenecessful royalist omegas" to
revive a question which was practically settled, the
Press* thus warmly recommends Switserland to take
every possible means to defend its rights:

NVs trot that should war really break oat, Snitseriaad
will take advantage of the °maim to noall those of bar
children who have taken settles in foroign omintriac A
free people should sot be the mercenaries of devotion.
Those Swiss who are serving abrrad under espitalatioae,
must necersarily retort to their country, since them capitu-
lations have stipala.ed for the:r return in ease of war. As
to the others they ought to Titan), under the penalty of