The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-20 00:00:00

HOLSTEIN.

FRANKFORT, EIA7vADAT, Fin. 18.
In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet the united
committee for the affairs of Holstein proposed :
" That the Bing of Denmark be requested to ful-
fil the promises of 1851 and 1862, and to grant an
assembly of delegate'.
"That the royal rights in reference to general and
special affairs be maintained, but that no general
laws be promulgated without the coneeat of the
Diet of Holstein."

The vote of the Federal Diet on these proposals
will take place on the Bth of March.

THE STADE DUES.
HANOVER, BArtliunT, Pan. 18.

The King of Hanover has consented to submit the
question of the Stade dues to general conferesoes.
England and other government% interested in the
question have requested Hanover to state the amount
she claims for the redemption of the dues, in order
to serve as a basis for the conferences, as Denmark
did far the Bound dues.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Pas. 11 (rill MansSl*.

flistsem Bey, the favourite son of Fuad Pasha, is
dead. Fuad Pasha is ill. Monetary affairs are con-
tinually improving.

PIREUO, FIB. 9.
The French Captain of Marine, M. de Lannoier,
has arrived here.

BOMBAY MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have received the following telegram :

.
" The Panther, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 2 p.m. yesterday.
" Mails left for London at 6 p.m.
" Letters to-morrow morning."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PION OUR OWN 00111ITONDINT.)
PARTS, SUNDAY RYINING.

Yon will have remarked in the Mositeur the im-
portant report of M. }twitter, containing, with
mach detail, the government plans for carrying out
the commercial treaty; and also the handsome com-
pliment to Mr. Gladstone which is placed at the
head of a fall translation, in large type, of his great
speech on the budget. It appears, both from the
above report and from a recent letter of the Minister
of Commerce, addressed to the Chamber of Com-
merce at Nancy, that the protectionists who so
loudly clamoured for an inquiry at the beginning of
the year are to be partially gratified. There is to
be an inquiry, but it is only to bear upon the point
as to how much less than the maximum protective
'duty of 30 per cent. mentioned in the treaty it may
be expedient to fix for certain article*. This will
'no doubt be thought a solemn mockery by the
more bigoted prohibitionists, who see nothing but
visions of utter ruin even if the full amount of
30 per cent. protection were to be insisted upon in
every case. The Memorial of Lille, however, pro-
' fames to be much pleased with the minister's con-
cession, and says that all interests may now be re-
assured since the manufacturers will themselves
have an opportunity of discussing, in the coarse of a
"solemn inquiry," with what precautions and gra-
dations the new commercial system should be brought
into practice.

Vioe-Admiral Jacquinot, the maritime prefect of
Toulon, has been sent for by telegraph to confer
with the Emperor.
When the Emperor was at Brescia, in the course
' of the last campaign, he expressed great admiration
of an antique statue of Victory which he saw there.
The municipality lately sent him a model of it, and
the present wee acknowledged by the following
letter from M. Fould

Mace of the Louvre, Feb. 9, 1860.

Gentltmen,—The Emperor very deeply feels the kindness
of the municipality of Breeds in presenting him with
model of their et•toe of Victory, which i/ justly regarded as
a die drasiers of ancient sculpture. I have the honour to
inform you that, by his Majesty. orders, this model, which
hes retched Pais to the most perfect state of preservation,
will be pieced in the moan= of the Louvre, and I am further
desired to eey that his Majesty begs to present to the muni-
*silty of Brescia, ea a souvenir of his peerage through their
town, two vases of the imperial manatee me of Sense, orna-
mented with portraits of the Emperor and Emmet. I have
gives the neemeesry orders to ensure the receipt by you of
them presents • itbout loos of time.—iteoeive, 100.
The Minister of State sad of the Empentee heusehold,
A. FooLD.

The new Turkish Ambassador, Ahmet Effendi,
who has been long expected, and whose departure
from Constantinople was delayed in consequence of
the serious state of affairs there, has at length
arrived in Paris. He is accompanied by his son, his
brother, and a private secretary named Hassim
Murahim. H. de Levalette does not leave Paris till
the beginning of next month.
Last month M. Jules Viard, lately a redacteur of
the Opinion Nationale, presented to M. Mocqnsrd,
for the Emperor'e consideration, a scheme for facili-
tating communication in Paris by establishing
several arterial lines of mou,ster railway omnibuses
on the American principle. He proposes to call his
new carriage a Wagon de Paris. It will be
an elegant eight-wheeled vehicle, drawn by
four bores., and will carry 200 passenger., 100 inside
and 100 outside. The outside seats are to be pro-
tected from the weather by blinds in summer and
slotted essesnents in winter. Fares:—First class,
9 wasp second class, l am The Emperor was so
mach pleased with the project that he sent it for

examination to the Council of State, by whom it
has been referred to the Prefect of the Seine for a
final decision.

The medical men of Paris proposed to give a
grand banquet in the Hotel des Louvre to Dr, Lee-
embank, the obscure country Esoulapius,who become
famous the other day by his discovery of a large
planet near the sun. Two bandied and twenty
subscriptions were collected, the day was fixed, and
the whole profession of Paris was in a state of ex •
traordinery excitement about the demonstration,
when, to the consternation of the dinner committee,
a letter was received from the modest astronomer of
Orgeres declining in the most positive terms to sc-
ulpt the profferred honour. A project is now on
foot for presenting him with a magnificent tele-
scope, but care will be taken to ascertain beforehand
that the gift, if offered, will not be refused.

PARIS, SATVIDAY EVINDIre.
M. About, in the first feuilleton, which he has
written since his duels, discusses the question of the
annexation of Savoy after the following fashion:
Certain journalists tell us every morning that they see
black clouds in the horizon, bat I suspect that these writes
have not wiped their speotarlss. . . . Is it trite that
Ring Victor Enimantui cannot *give us a poor and very
barns department without Europe taking umbrage? Every-
body lowers that Savoy will add much to our expenditure
and very little to our revenue. Her honest but poor inhabi-
tants require roads, railways, and a thousand other costly
things, which Piedmont cannot give her without anew*/
emberressment, and which Frallee offers almost gratis. What
do we gain ha exchange for our liberality? The satisfaction
of recovering our physical frontier, end that of shutting
a door white has hitherto never been either shut or
open. The smallest proprietor has a right to a fence round
his estate, end is the right of the French people to have a
lot* sad key on their own house to be contested? I admit
that the snnexatioa of Sevoy does odd somewhat to our Im-
ports», (mous erresetit as pew), but what neighbouring
Wake has a right to complain al It? If Piedmont bad re-
mained within her old boundaries, we should no more have
thought of asking for Savoy than she would have thought of
offering it to us. Bat now, thanks to us, she has acquired
all Conical hely ; the beoefite we have conferred upon her
cell for some gratitude—her aggrandivment meltes it a duty
for us to take some precautions against her. We shut our
door.

M. About, who, it must be remembered, wu a
Keret agent of the French Emperor in Rome before
anyone dreamt that the doctrines of that famous
pamphlet stigmatised by the Pope as impudentissum
would become official, afterhavingiu thisoffhand way
established the incontestable right of Priam to ab-
sorb Savoy, proceeds as follows to indicate that the
turn of the Rhine will soon ootue :

An analogous change world occur if some yeses banes
Prussia should eggraodiee her empire by the incorporation of
the petty protestant states in her neighbourhood. We should
moat sincerely hail awl a greet and salutary revolution, but
we should not therefore be prevented from looking to oar own
Mims's, and we should understand that Pruaeis, being ag-
grandised, had become a dangerous neighbour for us. We
should shut our door, and we should:remind Surope that the
Rhine was made to flow between us end Germany. This Is
a geoerephiosi truth which we have not the right to forgot,
but which we shall be discreet (sough to keep in the beck
ground so long as Germany remains precisely in her present
state.

Notwithstanding the hypothetical form of the
above passage, I dare say there are members of the
English parliament who will be rash enough to
think this doctrine of "physical frontiers' and
"geographical truths" rather alarming. I should
not be even surprised if in the face of many recorded
professions of peaceable intentions there were people
who might go so far as to call it impudentiasum.
The Bourse was better than it has been for some
time. Great confidence was felt that a good under-
standing between the French and English govern-
ments would smooth eh European difficulties. Thin
confidence was supported by a telegraphic analysis
of an article in the Morning Post, which, however,
as you will see by what I have previously written,
is not construed so favourably by the evening papers.
The Rsnte rose 10c. for cash, and 15c. for account,
closing at 67.85 and 67.90. Mobilier rose 6f. The
Orleans Railway roes 2.60; Northern, 3.76; and
Western, Sf. The other lines were without any
sensible change.
M. Engine Venillot writes to the Opinion
Rationale to contradict a report circulated by that
journal that his brother Louis had received a ron-
leau of 1,000 Napoleons from the King of Naples.'
The discomfited rank and file of the suppressed
Univers have been permitted to found a new re-
ligions journal, which they have christened the
Monde ; and the first number appears this morning.
The Univers without the brothers Veuillot is like
Hamlet with the part not only of Hamlet but of
Horatio omitted; and notwithstanding the modesty
of the title chosen, I doubt whether it sufficiently
indicates the vast difference between the new organ
of nitramontanisin and its predecessor ; the dispro-
portion, I am inclined to think, will be even greater
than that between the World and the Universe.

THE ~ MONITEUR" AND PAR. GLADSTONE.

The Paris Moeiteur of yesterday publishes an
extra sheet. M. }goober's report to the Emperor on the
reforms in the tariff occupies four adenine, but the addi-
tional space is required tor an unabridged report of Mr. Glad.
stases spit etch explanatory of the budget. This report, which
is divided under appropriate headings, °maple, newly
tensity column,. The speech is prefaced by the following
observations .

"At the moment in which the parliament is about to
enter upon a discussion of the propositions of Mr. Gladstone.
the Chancellor of the Ex:l/sutler, for the budget of the
United Kingdom, propositions inclasivo of the treaty of
commerce between France and England, It is not • super•
001111 task t, put before the public the speech delivered
by )(r. Gladstone, some few days ago, in support
of these propositions and of the treaty. This speech
at present to only known in France by a condensed summary
gmen by the joarnals. It deserves, however, to be read and
pondered over satire. Throughout his brilliant oratorical
career, Mr. Gladet3ne has never been better inspired.
Everyone will be struck by the broadness of view in
which he naderatands, and wishes to put into pow-
' rice, the principle of free trade which Zeeland had
adopted se one of the foundations of her inter-
nal and external policy. In the presence of a considerable
&dolt, Mr. Gladstone has not hesitated to propose new re.
duodena of duties so as to facilitate and excite the national
Industry, although this course necessitates the imposition of
other taxes, especially the tax apex income. The bolding@
of the financier Is n it leas remarable than the el guanes of
the parliamentary orator." Then follows the rep Jrt of the
speech.

A few days ego ?desert.. Master° and Peuso, who
are money-chaogera at Venice, were taking a strong bog
containing about 10,0031. in hard cash, government stock,
&a, from their hottest of business near the Polite de Brawled
to the island Qiedecca. When in the middle of the anal
Della Oiudecoa a long and very narrow boat rowed by six
men ran against the gutdols, and with such violence that the
gondoliers win thrown Into the water. In lb* twinkling of
an eye four ma jumped from the long-boat, which 21
Venice i. called vipers, into the gondola ; end, laying
violent hands on the strong-box, carried it oti. As goon
as the booty had been deposited in the vipers, she shot
wrens the canal, and pawing under the bridge dells Fees
was soon lost to sight, although the sun had not set. On
the 9th init., the groog-box, with the whole of its valuable
contents, except B,oooe. Austrian currency, was found an
the beach of the Nand BUT4IIO. The police at Venice is so
exclusively occupied with political matters that the daring
robbers Sr. by no means likely to be disolvered.
M. Alexander Dumas has returned to Paris frees
Italy, bringing with him copious autographical memoirs Cd
Garibaldi, which it la his Into noon to work up Into a history
of the general, in three volumes. The work will probs.
bly &near in the form of a serial In the jeuilktos of tha
&irk. _ _

M. Adolphe Gamier hoe been elected a member of
the Iteectctoy of Morel end Political fhiencee, in Fame., ha
place of the late Mere de Toquovilie. Count Preppie= Dal
Wm at the same lime *Meted a free member.

A very shocking and extraordinary accident hap.
petted the other evening at the opening of the Oa Alcazar,
Perla. The directors had o'rteined the marshes of a corporal
and soldier of the fire brigsde, and there being a private fet.
after the inauguration, the men prepared to pass the night Is
a small room heated by a stove with a coke fire. It was •
very cold night, and the supdy of ti eke being short, ohe
soldiers kept up their firs with some charcoal which tied beat
left by some zinc workers employed on the premises. The
chimney of the stove being out of order, the lumee of the
chareoel escaped into the mom, and Ia the writing the eon.
poral was found reed, and hie emurade, still breathing, wee
carried uff to en hospital in a desperate stets.