The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-30 00:00:00

TRUSSIA.

A letter from Berlin of the 26th contains the
important announcement of the elevation of the
Prince of Prussia to the functions of Regent of the
kingdom :

The qaestiou relative to the goverment ii at length de-
cided. Two days ego there wu received sA Debelebers •
vesolation of the King on the subject, tat{ 'Ilk& sal not,
beleever, be pallehed before the ewpfraiton of the present
delegetion. The Prince of Prussia will on the 23rd of
October take in head the rei-is at govetazeist, with the
complete adobe of sovereignty, and is quality,' Sagest.
This attar is edited In .11 int ',elided benring : it only re.
mains to make the searmsszy fidocial streusel:mints. This
telorzaatice say be esesidered es surtwatki.

PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA.

A letter from Berlin, of the 24th, in the Augsburg
Gazette, says :

The Pronies eking has within the In kw days sent a
fresh &synch le the Austrian government to spin mpla'n
the silks& cd Prussia ha the questka of Iladate& In tkaa
domment the Pruden government persists ca maintaining
that it has, as well as Austen, a tight to place a garrison in
that Moral keinis.

I A letter fins Vistas of the 24th, in speaking of
the Prussian note, she :
Meek susation hes Dna and bore by a detain note
alels the Primulas pssmatat has Jest Maass& to Coast
Bast Meta is the maim of the Dist In the also& of
the prelmisus of Pads to keep a garnets et Radadt,
oeseicfaes alt Auer% mei the Grand Duchy of Baden. Al
it was Oa& Min thet this ask wee aka, at hest fees
ease Am, theadee snivel of this sate has prodund
iidenhis maim in the higher political realest of a
Waal.

fropexercisepfreliecin which the laws guarantee in
principle, is in practioe surrounded with many diffi-
culties. In all probability it will be found that the
Maubeuge proteetants had neglected some formalities
whisk although obsoleta, may be insisted upon
legally. Protestants in France must now expect to
Sul the lettbr of every restraining law preened

against them with the utmost rigour. Toleration is
oily tolerated, and not approved of. The Emperor
told the priests in Britanny that he openly " pro-
tected" the catholic religion, while he " accepted"
the principle of freedom of worship. The prefects
are already classing the Bible with dangerous books,
aad prohibit the sale of it by hawkers ; while M.
Louis Veuillet, in the Univers, vouches for con-
temporary miracles, and sings the song of intole-
ranoe in tones of confidence and triumph.

PARIS, SATURDAY STERN°.
The reason alleged today for the postponement of
the Imperial trip to Biarritz is not that there is
cholera at Bayonne, but that the small-pox has
broken out at Biarritz, and that it is not thought
right to expose the Imperial Prinoe to the risk of
catching it.
The Constitastionsel at length pabliahee Count de
Persigny's speech, but it does it with a bad grace
and without any comment. The Pays and Patrie
follow the example. The Univers and Union say
not a word about it, and the Moniker is ominously
silent.

The Petrie has received orders not to publish any
more articles asking for a relaxation of the severe
laws which govern the press. It appears, therefore,
that one, and that the worst, part of Count de Per-
ggny's speech is franklyadopted by the government,
whatever hesitation there may be before endorsing
his opinion about the English alliance and English
maritime and colonial supremacy.
The Bourse has more than recovered from the fall
of yesterday. The Rente rose 25c. for cash, and 40c.
for account, geeing at 70.25 and 70.40. Several
speculators for the fall were " executed." Mobilise
rose 18.75. Although railways were not, generally
speaking, quite so firm ea the Rents, some of the
lines improved oonaiderably. Eastern rose 16.26
Western, 7.50; Southern, and Lyons, and Orleans,
5 each; and Northern, 2.50.
A speculator at the Bourse having by a series of
lucky hits amassed several thousand pounds, was
lately seized with a longing to add to the advantages
of wealth that crowning joy of a Frenchman's ex-
istence—a decoration. By dint of inquiry he found
out that a M. G. de Chahaignes, a gentleman whose
claim to the nobiliary particle " de" would probably
not stand the test of an inquiry under the new
law against the assumption of false titles,
was reputed to have mysterious access to
fountains of honour. To him he applied,
and by him, after decent hesitation, was introduced
third party, who referred him io a fashionable-
looking man, occupying a handsome set of apart-
ments, and iling -himself Count Lde Bellefonds.
After much negotiation, the Count de Bellefonds
offered to procure for the applicant the order of the
Four Emperors of Germany for the moderate douoeur
of 2,000 f. The upirant, with the air of a keen and
careful man of business who was not to be hum-
bugged, said that he would readily pay that sum, but
that he must first be well assured that he was treating
with respectable potties, and that the validity of the
patent to be given him wu beyond question. Count
de Bellefonds highly commended his client's caution,
and at once referred him for information to Count
de Saint-Maurice-Cabanis, editor of the Ueivereal

Necrology, and " historiographer of the Order
st the Four Emperors of Germany, and
of the Lion of Holstein-Limbourg." The noble hie-
toriographer received his visitor with dignified
courtesy, and in answer to his questions moored him
that the gentlemen with whom he wev treating
were the very cream of honest people. Receiving
this assurance from a personage whose own breast
was a very parterrs of stars, crosses, and many-
soloured riaisAn, and who sat at a table covered
with parchments bearing heraldic seals, the man of
the Bourse felt ashamed of having for an instant
doubted the good faith of his friends. Without
mare ado, he went back to the Count de Bellefonds,
paid down the 2,000 f., and received in return a di-
ploma of imposing appearance, bearing many seals
and signatures, and a very chef d'aucre of
calligraphy. Armed with this document our
hero proceeded to the proper bureau, to lle•
mend the authorisation of the French goveri-,
meat to wear his foreign order in France. He
there learned the dreadful fact that the Order of
tot. the Four Emperors of Germany had long ceased to
mist. Disappointed and duped he betook him
raightwey to the Prefect of Police, and an inquiry
broon foot by that functionary, and still going on, has
ught to light seme very remarkable circum-
stances. It appears that speculators in the vanity
of these who covet honours, " without the stamp of l
merit," have long been carrying on a roaring trade
in Paris, Leaden, Brussels, Madrid, Rome, Florence,
Parma, 81e. These gentry deal in genealogies, titk3
of nobility, portraits of ancestors, decorations, hono-
rary office', diploma from learned societies—.every.
thing likely to dazzle& parvenu, and tempt him to
open his parse-strings. Very many establieh-
Meets of this kind exist in Paris. The
erectors call themselves judges of arms, 0.-
thalogists, chronologists, historiographers, and what
Family parchments which have been loot may
readily found in these offices. They undertake
tia........e0n-si-der-a-tion to write biographies, furnish
and polars titles and decorations. Boma
Rrhs..Z really have the distribution of certain con-
temptible German and Italian orders, the fces for
Which they share either with the small princes who
[pant them or the go-betweens who can get the
requisite signature. Conspicuous on the office table is
' always to be sees a richly bound volume called the
"Linn d'Or," in which the names of the happy
' *Wm who have come to their rights through the
ragasey of the establishment are triumphantly
1 out to now clients, and these books, in which
trtithsdand falsehood are artfully blended to-
4etlrir, daisies Many. Other offices resort
he pure and simple" swindling. To give •
,ieleur of authenticity to the patents of nobility
which they sell they are in the habit of getting
their signatures legalised by a Commissary of Polies,
whom sigiAture is attested by the Secretary-Genial
- • ' vouched r