The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-05 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

PARIS, THURSOLT.

The Moniteur contains an article on the ques-
tion of the union of the Danubian Principalities.
The Plenipotentiary of France at the Conference
of Vienna had stated it as his opinion that it was
the combination best suited to assure to those pro-
vinces the strength necessary to become a bulwark
for the Ottoman Empire. The French government
has not ceased to profess the same opinion, and what
has recently taken place between it and the other
cabinets has only tended to confirm it in its convic-
tions. It does not despair of seeing them prevail
in the councils of the Powers, and that the one
most interested will admit that the union of the
Principalities has nothing which is not completely
in accordance with the rights of suzerainty of the
Sublime Porte with regard to the Danubian Princi-
palities.

Frn. 4.

The Gazelle of Teheran, in reference to the dif-
ferences with this country, publishes a new docu-
ment, which lays great stress on the injustice of
England in declaring war pending the negotiations
opened at Constantinople.
This manifesto concludes by announcing the des-
patch of an army to oppose the progress of the
English expedition.

THE CASPIAN SEA.

A letter addressed to the Moniteur de la Flat&
states that the Russian squadron in the Caspian
Sea has just been organised into two brigades.
Each will be commanded by a Rear-Admiral,
and will be composed of four vessels of war,
two corvettes, two steam adviec-boats, and twenty
other vessels. The two brigades will be placed
under the superior command of the Board of Admi-
ralty of Astracan. There are now on the stocks in
that port two frigates and fire steam corvettes.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WZONZSDAT EITSINCI.

I learn that official despatches received to-day
state that the mixed commission, composed of repre-
sentatives of the Powers interested, has commenced
its inquiry at Athens into the financial affairs of
Greece. It is thought that the French and English
forces will withdraw from Greece before the end of
the month.

With the above exception, there is a total ab-
sence of political news this evening. The journals
notice the meagre and reserved character of the
Queen's speech, but contain no remarkable observa-
tions upon it. The Prase notices that the speech,
while saying that the solution of the Neufchatel
question will be "satisfactory," does not say to
which of the two contending parties. It hopes that
it may be satisfactory to both of them.
At the Bourse the Bente opened rather firm at
yesterday's prices, but notwithstanding a rise of
in Consols, it soon became heavy, and closed with
very little business doing at 68fr. 15c. for account,
being a fall of k. For cash there was a rise of 15e.
Railways were depressed, in consequence of the
persistent rumours that a tax upon them is impend-
ing. Most of the lines fell from sfr. to lOfr. It
was positively stated that the Orleans company has
at length definitively accepted the propositions of
the Grand Central, tho government having con-
sented to repeal several onerous clauses in the Or-
leans collier des charger.
M. Mirtls' journals publish the following letter,
addressed to him by the Spanish Minister of
Finance:

Tho Qum (whom God preserve) hos, .ith the con-
currence of her Council of Ministers, appointed you ono of
the bankers of the Spanish government in Cam. By royal
order I inform of this for your goveLiment and satisfaction.
God prewswe you many years.
Madrid, Jan. 29. 1867. BASzANALLANA.

The Monitcur du Loiret says that everything that
Verger wrote during his imprisonment has been
burnt by the authorities.
The proposition which has emanated from Ham-
burg for sending ries Calais all the correspon-
dence of Germany with England, does not appear
to have any chance of success. The French govern-
ment, says a letter from Berlin, shows no disposition
to enter into an arrangement on the subject with the
directors of the German l'ost-office.
M. Fould, Minister of State, has left Paris for
Tarbes, in the Ilautes Pyrinees.
Ferukh-Khan, the Persian Ambassador, accom-
panied by two persons of his suite, yesterday visited
the Hotel-de-Ville, where they were received by the
Prefect of the Seine.

THE "FUSION."

A =respondent of the Independence Beige writes
the following curious letter on the everlasting subject of the
" radon :"

"There has been much talk lately of a letter, said to have
been sent to the Count de Chambord by the Orleans princes
in answer to the one which the count wrote to 11. Parrot, on
the carsdon of the death of M. do &thready. I ion assured,
hoverer, that the princes did not think it necessary to reply
to that letter, which was not addressed to them ; but that,
having eubespiently received a more direct communication
from the Count de Chambord, they have thought at to take
step to show what is the real taste of their relations with
their royal cousin. According to my information,
they have written • letter to Um count in terms
as dem ea respectful, reminding him Out neither at
the visit of the Duke de Nemours to Nervi in 1856, nor at
another visit alluded to in the letter, did anything take
place involving a political accord between him end the
prison—the conditions laid down by the princes fur an
understanding of this nature not having been accepted, nor
even diseased, ht consequence of the Count de Chambord
having refund to explain himself es to the moat important
*militia& of all. When, therefore, the Count de Chambord,
in Ids letter to M. Pageot, and in his more recent communi.
esti= to one of hie cousins, speaks of reconciliation,' he
is mistaken if he means to my that the two branches of
the hour at Bourbon are 'politically' agreed. Such
an agreement Is at this moment imposeible. But
the colacquences of this kapomibllity are not to be kid
to the account of the Orleans princes, who have done their
utmost to avert them, but to the fret that the refusal to con-
sider the oonditkea proposed prevented say determination
from being come to on the point. The places have written
a letter to the heed of their 61314 to the above effect. One
of their Maeda has been commissioned to take the letter to
Visas, sad no one doubts that this serious step will, to tho
peat repot of those who cherished the hops of a different
result, put an end for the present to the attempts at fusion
which have been going on for so many years between the
two betzsches of the house of Bourbon."

The head of Verger bee been taken to the Amphi-
theatre et the !role de Midieine, Park, to be subjected to
plesnelogicel onstoination, sod to snow coats to be taken
tress it.

Th• Nos Prussian Omits of Berlin has opened
• olimiseicei far " the faithful subjects in litufthstel who
areoppered by the Republica:to, or wbo bare taken refuge
ia ke•lepi coedriss, In coder net to serve masa their
Tier*'

TEE TREATY OF PARIS.

THE PROTOCOL.

This morning was issued, in the form of a par-
liamentary paper, the protocol signed at Paris on the 6th of
last month, for carrying out the provisions of the treaty of
March 30, 18X. This document is accompanied by a fac-
simile of the two annexes to the protocol, showing the future
boundary of Russia, the Principalities, and Turkey. We
subjoin the English version of the protocol :
[Translation.]
"PROTOCOL ATONED AT PARIs, JANCART 6, 1857.
" Present *The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Great

Britain, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, Turkey.
"The Plenipoteuttirien of the Courts of Austria, Franca,
Great Britain, Proasia, Runde, Sardinia, and Turkey, duly
authorised, having assembled in Conference in order to do.
vise the means of terminating the difficulties which the
Boundary Commission, charged with the execution of Article
XX. of the Treaty of Paris, has encountered in consequence
of the position of places, have decided, after an examination
of the Reporta of the Boundary Coeunissioners, that the said
frontier shall be definitively traced according to the Plan No.
1, initialled by the undersigned, and annexed to the present
Protocol; that it shell, couequently, commence from the
Black Ben, et a point 2,938 metres to the cut of Lake
BoursueSole, marked on the said plan by the letter I, and
following a broken line shown by the letter e, d, e, 1 k,,f,
i, A, sit, a, e, where it joina the Akenium reed, which it

as far ss the letter p proceeding from thence to the Val do
Trojan by the letters q, r, a, t, r, r, r, y, d 1, e 1, I 1, g 1,
i 1; following the Val de Trojan as far as the letter p 1;
again taking the Alterman road as far as the ravine of Ali•
Aga, which it ascends as far as the letter 1; parsing thence by
the totters a 1, 01, xl, y 1; reaching from thence in 'straight
line, the Val de Trojan at the point where it is intersected
by the Rill"? Karskourt coining from IC °obey, and following
it se far as the River Yalpouk, the mid channel of which it
ascends to the month of the Killeen, to the north of Kongu,
and at the letter A ; as this stream till the lino meets
the road from Komrat to Borogani, at the letter A I, which
road it follows as far as the letter B, and thence secants the
Lower Yalpougel as far as the letter C, and proceeds as far
as the letter D, where it meets the Sambas, which it
ascends as far as the letter E ; pro ceding from thence to-
wards the Froth, by the line indicated by the letters
e2,x2,y2,:2,r2,43,63,c3,d3, c 3, j 3,93,
j 3, and 4:3.

"The Plerdpoteatiaries having agreed that the marking
out of the boundary, and the delivery of the territory to
Moldavia, shall be completed by the 30th of March next, at
the latest, it le rnderstood that the Austrian troop. shall
have evacuated the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia,
end that the British squadron shall have quitted the Black
Sea and the Bosphorus, at latest, at the same date.
" The Convention of the Straits will, from that time, coma
into force.

" The Plenipotentiaries agree that the 'elands included
between the different branches of the Danube at its mouths
and forming the Delta of that river as ',hewn by the Plan
No. 2 hereunto annexed, and initialled, shall, instead of being
annexed to the Principality of Moldavia, as stipulated by
Article XXI. of the Treaty of Pans, be replaced under the
immediate sovereignty of the Sublime Porte, of which they
formerly held.
. _ .

" The Plenipotentiaries agree, moreover, that tho Treat,
of Buie having, Like the Treaties previously concluded be.
twecn Russia and Turkey, been silent with regard to the
Islo of Serpents, that island is to be considered as an appal.
doge to the Delta of tho Danube, and must, in consequence.
follow its destination.

In the general interest of maritime commerce, the Otto•

In= Government engages to maintain on that [shun! a Fght.
home destined to render secure the navigation of vessels
prooeeding to the Danube and to the port of Odessa ; the
River Commission, established by Article XVII. of the
Treaty of Paris for the purpose of maintaining the mouths
of that river, and the neighbouring parts of the sea, in
navigable state, will see to the regular performance of the
service of such lighthouse.

"The present Protocol shall have the enmo force sad
validity so if it had aesunisd the form of a Convention ; bat
it is understood that, when the Boundary Commission shall
have concluded its labours, a Convention shall be signed by
the High Contracting Parties, wording the frontier such an
it shall base been established by the Commissioners, and the

resolutions taken on the subjeCt of the Isle of Serpents sad
the Delta of the Danube.

" SigJed—HUDNEII, WALEWSKT, COWLEY, linrsman
B&VIINOW, VILLAMARINA, MEIIMMIRD MEXIL."