The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-08 00:00:00

The Journal du Loiret of this day (Jan. 7) say.

This menibig four individuals, in the custody of eight
Rimes, passed the Orleans station, on their way from
Paris to Clernnat. They are supposed to be implicated is
a mysterious murder, committed nine years ago.

On Tuesday M. Gnizot sent to his publisher the
last sheets of the second volume of his memoirs, which will
*ppm before the end of the month.

The arrangements for the business to be brought
befit. the Priories Chambers st their epproecbiog meeting
me still receiving the ceestent attention of the Prince Re-
gent sod his ministers. The session wants opened by his
Toys] highness in mete.
_ _

On the occasion of the new year, the Prince Re-
gent of Prussia, after the reception of those who enjoyed the
privilege of ?eying their respects at court bad been eon-
eluded, proceeded to offer his personal congratulations to the
venerable Humboldt. The King and Queen had then also
mot precious tokens of their remembrance to one who is held
in such universal esteem.

The French government iv about to send presents
to the Eroporor of Joplin ; pert of them will consist of 100
wisoksta of a beautiful model for hie hilojesty's body guard,
two plows of cannon, sad some (lobelias tapestry.

iNOTUER MORTARA CASE.—On Wednesday, Dec.
29t bike tLe provincial Mislaid of Genoa, prodded over
by the Chevalier Malespina, a girt twenty years of sr,
meined Catherine Lavezzaro, was assumed of hewing clandes-
tinely baptised • Jew child owned Lien Levi. She woe Mud
galley sad sestenced to pay • flee of SRy crowns, with el:
menthe' leepideemeat in delimit of payment.

TURKEY.

(POOP 001 OWN colinticerizirr.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, Die. 29.

Though the week has been leas barren than' usual of
domestic news, the intelligence from Belgrade, which
reached the Porte by telegraph on Saturday, throws
all minor incidents into the shade, and both with
the public and the government is, for the time, the
one subject of remark and consideration. Three

councils have already been held on it at the Porte,
and all the great embassies have been in like
bustling, but more mischievous, activity during the
whole of the four days which have intervened.
Since Saturday the telegraph has brought various
versions of what has occurred up till the present,
and as it is probable that your Austrian news of the
affair may be equally conflicting, I shall send you
what appears to be the truest account yet received of
the actual course of events.

On the 23rd the Skuptchina,which had assembled
a few days before, decreed, almost unanimously, the
deposition of Prince Alexander, and the nomination
of old Miksch, the former governor, in his stead ;
delegating, at the same time, the executive authority
to its own vice-president. Kara Georgevitscb, how-
ever, was tot to be so easily evicted, and accordingly
appealed on the following day to the Senate, which
declared the decree of the National Assembly to be
illegal and void, bet, at the same time, " advised "
Alexander to put an end to the troubles by a volun-
tary abdication. This counsel was not more palat-
able to his Highness than had been the summary
edict of the Skuptehina ; and he therefore took
refuge in the fortress, and thence, under the protec-
tion of Cabouli Effendi and the Turkish garrison, an-
nounced his resolution to dispute the decrees of both
Assemblies to the last.

Such, briefly told, had been the sum of events
up till Monday morning, the date of the last
published telegram. According to strict consti-
tutional right the Skaptchina does not possess the
power of deposing the governor, unless its decree
to that effect be approved and confirmed by the
Senate and the Porte ; but in the
.present instance
there is hardly a doubt that the voice of the people
so declared will be ratified by both. A courier was
despatched yesterday to Catcall Effendi with in-
structions for his guidance under the cireamstsneee ;
and if any weight is to be attached to a remark
of to-day's Journal, which is evidently of official
inspiration, the imperial commissioner will side with
the strongest party. "The government of his
Majesty the Sultan," says the semi-official print,
" desires nothing more than to see order, tranquil-
lity, and prosperity reigning in Servia ; and if Prince
Alexander has not known how to win for himself
the sympathies of the country which a popular
election had called him to govern; if he be to-day
cut aide by the Berrien., we do not think that the
Suzerain Court will interfere otherwise than to re-
store by the wisdom of its counsels and by the re-
establishment of law, those benefits of which the
government of his Majesty was the first to extend
the enjoyment to all parts of this vast empire."
Expediency pretty visibly underlies the surface of
this plausible observation.
The Prince whose official fate may thus be con-
sidered sealed. is the son of the celebrated Kara
George, the so-called "father of Serviau .freedom,"
and has held the reins of government since 1843,
when Michael Obrenevitch was deposed. Miloscn,
who succeeds him, is in his 79th year, and his
already been several'
times at the head of the Princi-
pality, his first election being in 1817, after the
murder of Kara George, and his last in 1830, when
a hatti-sheriff of the Sultan declared the vice-sove-
reignty to be hereditary in his family. In 1839 he
abdicated in favour of his eldest son Milan, and
retired to Wallachia, where he has since lived, an
active agent and partisan of the Russian govern-
ment. A telegram received here yesterday announces
that on Sunday last he was still in Bucharest.

In the Principalities matters remain in much the
same state as when I last wrote. The discordant

Moldavian Caimacamie is still at loggerheads.
Storirdza and Pano against Cattardji, and the
whole of them against the Porte. In Wallachia, on
the other hand, the government works harmoniously,

and the completion of the electoral lists progresses'.
favourably. The two Stourdzas, father and eon, con-
tinue to be the only candidates in the field for the
former principality, but the chances of Gregory, the
son's, success are reported to be infinitesimal, in the
face of the partisanship of two of the three Caima-
cans for his father, whose immense wealth would in
all probability have been sufficient of itself to secure
his election. The entry of Prince Michel into Jassy
is described as a veritable triumphal march all the
way from the frontier. His election indeed may be
considered as a fait accompli.
Arif Effendi, the Sheik-ul-Islam, died on Sunday
evening, after an illness of some months, and was
buried on the following morning. He was an " old-
school" Turk, bigotted and anti-Frankish as the
most orthodox Mussulman could desire. Seid-Eddin
Effendi, his fortunate successor, was one of the cazi-
eskers, or chief judges, and is a man of altogether
the same conservative stamp.
The Elba arrived here yesterday, with Mr. Lid-
dell on board, after successfully laying the cable
between the Pineal and Byrn. I believe it is not
at present intended torepeat immediately the attempt
to connect the latter island and Alexandria, before
the first months of spring, at all events.
The Russian line-of-battle ship Twelve Apostles
has arrived in the Boephorns from Nicolaieff, on her
way to Villafranca and the Baltic ; and two other
vessels, also first rates, are daily expected down for
the same destination. Of course the whole of them
are unarmed.

The exchange continues to fall slowly, to-day's
quotation being 137 p.