The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-09 00:00:00

THE► AFFAIR OF THE CAGLIARI.

The indipeouleste of Turin, of June 6, affirms that
the latest English notes on the Cagliari affair are
entirely in conformity with Count Cavour's views,
and render the question " common and identical " for
both courts. It further states that, according to all
likelihood, Russia will be chosen arbitrator, and
that the affair will soon be pacifically mottled. On
the other hand, there is a rumour here that Naples
having positively refused any indemnity to the
English engineers, Lord Malmeabury has sent an
ultimatum.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TIMIDLY Evamrso.

The Paris papers, of all shades of
scarcely keep within decent bounds the indigna-
tion which they feel at the dragooning circular of
the Prefect of the &One and Loire touching the
hospital lands, which I sent you yesterday. The
republican Slide, which has shown itself favour-
able to the sale of the lands in principle, says :
We said from the first that our hopes of good from the
°reversion were founded on the power of persuasice and the
good MIS of the administrators. The period Azad by the
Prefect of the Woe and Loire is too short for the requisite
deliberation.

The ultrumontane Univers thus expresses itself :

The exhortations of the limiest of the Sabi. et Loire see
more than pressing, and they offer a signilloant denial to
those journals which had asserted that the proposed oonß-
d
offered no ground for anxiety mime no precipitate step
would be taken. The prelim* greats a delay of a few weeks
to the administrative commissions la order that they may
acquaint him with their opinions, or nether that they may
give him pooh of their obedience. Apex' from the ques-
tion at issue, we believe that such language is to be
regretted.
The legitimist Union nye :
_ _

May not the government reeoltaton mentioned by the pre-
fect be °tendered is a painful ultimatum liaised to the

administrative commiaelons ? How are we to connect the
short delay granted by the prefect, and these pressing in-
structions, with the promises of precautions and marred
given daily by the portion of the prate which is supposed to
be authoritative P There elle.' an immense space between
the Ist of August next and the half a century mentioned by
the Oomtitutionnel and the Rim Contemporaese.

The Pairie, a journal generally devoted to the
government, thinks it will be a matter of deep regret
if the ministerial circular shall receive the interpre- -
tation in all the departments which the Prefect of
the Saone and Loire has put upon it. Such rapidity
of execution does not seem to it compatible with the
great interests which the government must of nem-
sity be assumed to be desirous of protecting.
Last night a new drama, in five acts, called the
Polar Seas, was produced at the Cirque Olympique,
with the thermometer at • tropical heat. The au-
thor is M. Charles Edmond, of the Prom, who as.
companied Prince Napoleon on his northern voyage.
The prince, attended by his military household, was
present at the performance. In the first act the
sister of Lady Franklin comes on the stage, and in
the course of a dialogue informs the audience that
the English government has sent a ship to search
for Sir John Franklin. The second officer of this
ship is the celebrated French lieutenant, Bellot, who
is represented as in love with a relative of Lady
Franklin, Mias Eva Norton. In the second act we
are introduced to Sir John Franklin himself and all
his crew, who have been waiting foe seven years in
a frozen ocean, expecting deliverance from England.
As the plot proceeds, we find Miss Eva slyly em-
barking on board the vessel to share the dangers of
her loved lieutenant. They touch at Greenland,
and there a protestant clergyman proposes to
take care of Mies Eva, to spare her
the further perils of the voyage, bat she
resolutely refuses, and makes it known that she has
become Mrs. Bellot on board ship. The narrative
of the voyage is resumed, no vestige is found of Sir
John Franklin or his companions, Lieutenant Ballot
is made to die by the hand of a rival in the affections
of Eva, and she remains an unconsolable widow.
The piece was not very succeethd.
The Marquis de Turgot, who arrived in Paris
from Madrid yesterday, was sent for immediately to

The Figaro has been sold, not, as was reported,
to M. Jules Leconte, but to M. Auguste Villemot,
who leaves the feuilleton of the Iradepaidance Belga
to devote himself entirely to his new task. I be-
lieve a paragraph will appear to-morrow stating
that the Mgaro intends to abstain for the future
from irritating personality.
The Bourse, after opening heavily, became firmer
at the close, upon the strength of a rumour that
negotiations between the government and the rail-
way companies had at length terminated in con-
*salons in favour of the latter, According to this
report, the refusal to grant further time for the
execution of new works will be persisted in, but two
distinct accounts will be kept of the working of the
present and the new lines, and until the time comes
when the two accounts will be blended, a minimum
interest of 4fr. 65c. per cent, will be guaranteed for
the new sections. The Rente rose 20c. for cash, and
Isc. for account, closing at 69f. 70cr. and 69fr. 75c.
Mobilier rose 25fr. The Northern Railway rose 10fr.,
Lyons, Bfr. 75c., and the other lines from 2fr. 50c.
to Mr.