The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-20 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Count Pout*lse, Minister of Prussia at Perim, has
left for Berlin, but the Nord says that the journey
relates exclusively to private affairs.
Prince Napoleon has estab.ished the bead. quarters
of the 6th corps d'armee at St. Marna, near
depot.

A Vienna letter declares that the subscriptions to
the Austrian patriotic fund amount to 108,409
florins.

A Milan letter of the 10th says :—" The military I
commandant of this city has polished a proclama-
tion which raises the indignation of the :Milanese to
the highest pitch, and shows that the government
has some fears of an insurrection, which might be
successful. In the proclamation it is declared that the
soldiers of the garrison have received orders to kill
any Milanese on the spot who shall be guilty of any
offence towards them."

A Vienna letter states that the retirement of
Count de Buol is likely to be followed by that of
two others of his colleague,, Baron de Bach, Minister
of the Interior, and Count de Than, Minister of
Public Instruction, being, it state,, on the eve of
either resigning or receiving their dismissal. As to
M. de Bruck, the Minister of Finance, his services
cannot be dispensed with under present circum-
stances.

A Paris letter in the lndependemee of Brunels
says:—" The Italian committee have up to the pre-
sent time Bent off 250 volunteers to the Piedmontese
army, at the total cost of 18,000 fr., including
travelling expenses and 40fr. to each man, half paid
on Inning Paris, and the remainder to be received
on reaching Turin. The subscriptions amount to
28,000 fr. The committee have received flattering
letters from M. Conoestt, en the put of the Emperor,
from the Marquis da Villamarins, the Sardinian
AmbasaadOr, and Count de Carour."
The correspondent of the Times at Rome writes:

Voluottere go off daily from here in ouuilare, 1100301/1111PS
kg% s =mimeo more, thaw 100, mid a Fero= stationing him-
self ou the Pout* Slab would be struck with the sommaly

quiet and sober demeanour of thaw leaving. Many of them
are only working men, many have not told their families,
and their appearance indicatea poverty or eserecy. Bitch
man has got a small parcel under his arm, and very probably
nothing in hie pocket. There are none of those
frantic demonstrations which have hitherto marked

Italian uprisings, but there is something better
—there is a quiet, modest demeanour, indicating
a flied and deep resolatics. As they march along
they tank at the door, perhaps, of some companion who
has agreed to join them. On 'Mein; at the s'ation a man
awaits them, and presents each with a gum varying from 20
to 30 pauls, and on arriving at Clefts Vecchia I hear that a
similar sum is promoted to them. AU this Is done openly—
it is useless to oppose It; to do so would be to create a
revolution, and the Papal authorities of necessity submit.
On Thursday 130 volunteers 101 l with Bags, and shouting
" and yesterday morning 30 men of the middle
chests, besides others, left. A thousand men have already
left Perugia. A cation contribution to the army arrived In
Rome this week, in the form of 200 donkey drivers. In
18481 understand that the suns clams of men displayed a
very warlike spirit.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

CllOll 001 OWI4

PARIS, THURSDAY EvININO.
During the Emperor's absence an auditor of the
Council of State will leave Paris every week for the
seat of war with a portfolio of papers. M. Vieyra
Molina left this morning for head-quarters.
People have bat little idea (says the Pays) of
the cost of transporting the materiel of the army
from one place to another. To give one instance
among a thousand, it require. 300 horses to remove
a million of cartridges. We have already sent ten
millions to Italy. Three thousand horses, therefore,
have been put into requisition for this simple ser-
vice alone. Such an enormous mass of cartridges in
these

days of arms of precision, give. a terrible ides
of the destructive power of our arms. It oan no

longer be calculated, u it wu fifty years ago, that

every enemy killed east hie weight in bullets. The

means of destruction are now too formidable for war
to last long.
The bill for approving certain conventions made
by the minister of public works in the part of the
state with the Orleans, Northern, Lyons, Dauphiny,
Western, Eastern, Ardennes, and Southern railway
companies was voted by the Corps Legislatif lest
evening, after a three days' debate. The numbers
on the division were—ayes, 232; noes, 11. This
minority was less considerable than was expected,
for the bill provoked a great amount of opposition.
Messrs. I)arimoo, Picard, and Emile 011ivier ob-
jected that the government, in order to save the
railway companies from the ruinous condition into
which they had brought themselves by their own
bad management and want of foresight, proposed to
saddle the state with an amount of liability which
it was perfectly frightful to contemplate. By sae-
CelifiTO fusions the whole railway net-work of
France had been divided into six great commas&
Every fusion was hailed with exultation, because at
the Bourse fusion wu synonymous with premium ;
railway shares had at one time been selling for fin
times their original value, immense sums of money
had been recklessly raised by issues of obligation',
and now the companies in defiance of their con-
tracts, said they were unable to complete the railways
which they bad promised to make, and the govern-
ment at once made new and more favourable bar-
gains with them, and undertook to guarantee a
minimum interest upon their obligations, in order
that they might be able to pay something to their
shareholders, who otherwise would be likely to go
without dividends. They also complained that the
companies, strong in their monopoly, had put down
goods traffic on canals and ordinary roads all over
the country, and that now both agriculture and
commerce suffered greatly from the exorbitant
charges and hopeless delays of the goods trains.
They contended that according to all sound policy,
great companies, as wel l as private individual', should
be left to abide by the consequences of a sontract.

To all this M. Baroche replied, on the part of the
government, that the crisis of 1838, in creating a
state of things which it was impossible fur any
human prudence to foresee, had made it impossible
fee the companies to fulfil their engagements; that
the railways promised must be finished, because the
Inhabitants of the districta through which they were
to pass had built hopes upon them which it would
be unjust and impolitic to disappoint; that there
was, to a certain extent, a solidarity between the
credit of the companies and the credit of the state,
and it was therefore wise, in order to prevent the
latter from being depreciated, to hold out to the
companies a helping hand. He admitted that the
companies would have to realise successive loans,
amounting in the aggregate to two milliards
and a halter franc's, for the payment of the interest
of which the state would be responsible as a surety, but
he contended that this was a less evil than the bor-
rowing of the money directly by the state. The
latter plan had been proposed in committee, but was
rejected from the consideration that the prospect of
a series of loans, occasioning the creation of new
stock to such an enormous amount, would have
seriously injured the creditor the state. M. Plichon,
the reporter of the commission, while approving of
the bill, admitted that the guarantee of the state
wee by no means likely to be merely nominal ; that
it would be • serious burden to the treasury, par-
ticularly daring the next few years, and that it
would have the inconvenience of bearing most
heavily upon the state in moments of financial diffi-
culty. He was not, however, alarmed at this pros-
pect, because he was convinced that the new railway
branches would give an impetus to agriculture, trade,
and manufactures, which would largely augment
the public resources. lie could not deny that many
of the complaints preferred against the companies
were but too well founded, and unless they amended
their system of administration he feared that
government would one day be forced by public
opinion to take the railways into its own hands.
It was because he was convinced that government
could not accept such an inheritance without serious
inconvenience that he urgently demanded that the
companies should be constrained to do their work
better.

The Bourse opened with some tlrmneu under the
itAlaence of another large " discount," but there was
little animation. The Rents, at one moment wu
marked 6lfr. 23c., but it was all the morning 10e.
lower than the official price in the coulisse.
The mooed quotation of Consols coming from
London with I per cert. fall produced a decided
downward movement, which sou accelerated by
some talk about possible resolutions of the Frank-
fort Diet. The closing prices were 61fr. for cash
and 601 r. 96c. for account, being a fell of 15c. and be.
Mobilier roes 12fr. 60c. Two or three of the rail-
ways were from 21. r. SO:. to 6fr. higher, and the
other lines closed without change. The vats of the
new bill by the Corps Legislatif produced no eensible
effect on pricer.

The Paris Moniteur of this morning snootiness
that the mutt hie instituted the Counsellor of State, M.
de N Gurronalitv, t the poet of &meter pre Enwpors of
printing, of the library, of the prate, and of the etrent
of publicsti:nr.

A letter from Turin mentions the arrival in that
city of Barra Park, and several of his compsnioas.

A PIEDMONTS 11 PEASANT FLOGGED TO
DEATH BY THE AUSTRIANS.

A Turin letter of May 16, in the Sick, asserts
that about a week previoaa two waggoner' from Novara had
received ordera to take charge of some waggons laden with
plunder. On the rood one of them took to Bight, and the
other Came to bead-quarters alone. He was held rerpmaible
for hie companion, and was sent. noel to receive forty blows
on his naked body. At the twill-aft blow he died. The
poor man, whoee name was Bianchi, was the father of a