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

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1857.

by the Bank weld simply be withdrawn from ordinary cir-
ealetketh the shape of bank-notes, so the ita operations
waif be baited to ISClllsialag 100 lailliuna of its mess in
ceder to enjoy the faculty of rwiasulag them. Dot the mo-
mentary etrealatios, or the di9omble capital of tha country,
will not be enriched by • single centime.

The Imperial Court of Grenoble is at this moment
occupied with an appeal case of libel, in which a
lady named Madlle. de la Merliere complains of two
priests having defamed her character by represent-
ing that she personified the Virgin Mary on the
Salette mountain, and induced two shepherds to
give the testimony upon which a miracle now fully
accepted by the Roman Catholic church is believed.
The Court of the First Instance diamissed the com-
plaint. Some of the most eminent counsel of the
Paris bar have gone down specially to argue the
appeal, bat, on the awe being called on, the court,
on the requisition of the Avocat-Gencral, made an
order prohibiting any report of the proceedings, on
the ground that " publicity would be likely to lead
to a breach of the peace."

AUSTRIA.

A Vienna letter of the 28th ult. says : " A depu•
tation of the Protestants of Hungary has been
received by the Emperor, to make known the
wishes of the reformed church in Hungary.
The Privy Councillor de Lonyai addressed the
Emperor in the Magyar language, in the
name of his co-religionists, and besought him
to grant to the church of Hungary the right of
convoking a general synod, to deliberate on an
organic statute for the church and schools of that
Greed. The Emperor replied in the same language
with his usual affability, and promised the deputa-
tion that their request should be taken into consi-
deration and acceded to as much as possible. lie
assured them of his constant solicitude for the wel-
fare of his protestant subjects, and recommended
them to have confidence iu him."

RUSSIA.

A telegraphic despatch has been received (rein SL
Petersburg, announcing that the prohibition against
the export of gold has been removed. The Itussian
government has just published the treaty of com-
merce and navigation with Japan, consisting of nine
articles. The porte of Simoda, Ilakodada, and
Nanganki are open to Russian commerce.

SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM, APRIL 23.
All the four estates of the Storthing have now
unanimously voted the sum demanded by govern-
ment for the construction of the railroads this year
(3,870,000 rigsdalers). On the other hand the dis-
cussions have been concluded in the standing com-
mittee for railway affairs relative to the gufflatiu
rerata of the Great Western Trunk Railway being
made on the northern or southern shores of the lake
Maclar, it being decided by 22 votes against 13 to
adopt the plan proposed by government of letting
the railway pass through Hallsberg and Iljuki to
the south of the lake. Col. Ericson, who was pre-
vented by illness from attending the debates, had
sent in his declaration in writing to vote fur the go-
vernment plan.
The Board of Health has published a royal decree
prohibiting the importation of cattle, hunts, hides,
and skins from the ports of Finland and the Baltic,
from llango-head to Lubeck, both included.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

(Imola ou u

BUCHAREST, Mum 21.
Public men must expect to have their conduct
discussed, and often attacked. Our consular and
diplomatic agent here has at least as many enemies
or injudicious friends as any other similarly situated
hnetionary. Some who really mean well towards
and whose good opinion I am sure he valets',
smolder that he is to blame for not communicat-
ing to our worthy Commissioner the character of cer-
tain parties, and the estimation in which they are
held, who form the entwirame of Sir Henry I:ulwer,
and who are delighted to appear on terms of appa-
rent intimacy with him. Of course, Sir Henry con-
not be expected to be aware of this, and may pond-
bly be lost in conjectures as to why many of the
best of the Wallachians do not more frequently ap-
pear at his mansion. Others make moat sweeping
assertions, and advance the most startling charm
against our consular agent. I cannot believe them ;
but think that he may, to a certain extent, have
coquetted with his reputation by not having
always taken summary means of disposing of those
who deserved to be kicked out of his presence.
The fact is, I presume, that the consul is not
so young as he was some twenty odd years ego,
at which time be would probably have allowed
just indignation to take the precedence of diplo-
matic reticence or official scruples. 1)i lunacy
is a hard thing for a simple-minded individual like
your correspondent to understand; possibly you
can give me the key to the following diplomatic
tona. AU the world knows that British influence
the present Caimacan upon the throne of
Our consularand diplomatic agent here
took unto himself the credit of the mole, thereby
lasing the shoulders of our representative at Con-
stantinople of no small responsibility. For some
time no one was louder in his eulogies of the Prince
than the gentleman to whom he owed his position.
Suddenly, however, it MIS discovered that there was
something amiss with the governmental crew.
The Prince is declared to be eo obstinate that he is
kitting the country go to ruin because he will not
change his ministry. On the other hand, the
British Commissioner comes boldly and informs
the Wallachians of what I believe them to
have been profoundly ignorant, viz.: that the
Sultan had given them a proof of exceeding
affection in bestowing a Prince upon them who was
"an honour to their annals, and whose family—'
but, by the by, as he did not think it necessary to
print what he said about the family, I don't consider
myself entitled to do so either. Hid the British Com-
musioner acquire his knowledge of the super-emi-
nent qualities and qualifications of the illustrious
ruler of Wallachia from the British Consul and
diplomatic agent here ? or from one of the diplo-
matic agent's friends, Charles Ohika, nephew of
the Caimacan, who went or was sent to meet his
Excellency the Commissioner at Oiurgevo on his
arrival ? It almost looks aa if Sir Henry had been
kept in the dark as well regarding the political
character of the Caimacan as regarding the private
character of some of the Wallachians who frequent
his society. The resignation of Mr. Charles
Crezzalesco, the minister of public worship end
instruction, and the motives of that resignation,
as made known to the various commissioners,
ought ere now to have enlightened Sir Henry
en many points, and the Wallacbians are still
hopeful (now that they have a little recovered
from the effects of the small lecture which he gave
to their deputation) that our Commissioner will stand
by them and see fair play, as far us his instructions sad
power go. The only thing that I fear is, that he may
be prevented, by intrigues, from obtaining the in-
formation which ho requires, and be by the lease
means furnished with all that is most opposed to the
truth. The Wallachians, and more especially
theyounger portion of them, are rather afraid of the
seriousness of the English character, and will often,
me I have found, construe it either into hauteur, re-
feree, or an unwillingness to communicate with
them ; but, once convinced of their error, they
will be found too happy to give the information
they possess. The note addressed by Mr. C. Cres •
Wawa to the Commissioners lays bare a state of
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things hardly credible—spoliation and misappro-
pnation in every direction, which be opposed single.
handed, until the bead of the government actually
took out of his hands the executive portion of
his daty, and conducted it himself because
his minister would not betray his trust. Too
great praise cannot be bestowed on Mr. Crezzulesco
fin having sacrificed his health and feelings by con-
tinuing to form part of a government where, as he
says, he had been so grossly deceived, until lie could
resign with the hope that the European powers who
had resolved to re-organise the Principalities would
take up the matter. '1 he three brothers Crezrulesen--
Charles, Constantine, and Nicolas—are indeed en
honour toWallachia, or any country. They. are distin-
guished by the simplicity and unostentation of their
living, the superionty of their intellect and educa-
tion, their unbending honesty and undeviating in-
tegrity. A sad pity that they should have so few
peers, and thus be forced to stand out in such strong
contrast to their fellow-countrymen.
The Russian Commissioner is the only one of the
seven actually in Bucharest at present. The others
have gone to Jassy, for a week or ten days, with the
exception of our British Commissioner, who has taken
the opportunity of a holiday to look at the Carpa-
thians near Tergovist.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
THIS DAY.

EQUITY COURT.
(Before the Lords Justices of Apra)
LOKI, CUWO O. ODLIOTOX.

Their lordship delivered their judgment epee this ease,
which was an appeal from an order of Vice-Chancellor &uart,
awarding an inmate/ me seine the trustees of a turnpike.
rood leveling from ffeateich to Wheelock Wharf, Chalks,
called the "Old Rued,' and of another road, celled the
"New Road," loading free Wastes Mall, in Cheshire, by
Stuwferd, to the railway 'Mom at Crewe, whereby they were
restrained from reducing segof the tolls upon the old end new
roads, or either of them, anel boas removing any ef the gates
or bars upon or at the' aide of such old or now roads, or
ether of them, till further uglier.
It appeared that the trustees, acting ender the powers
given to them by the General Teueplke Act, and the private
set under Webb the old road had been made, bur-
rowed, in 1849, 2,000/. from Lord Crowe, for
the purpeao of constructing the new road, giving Lim •
security upon the folk of their road. The new road was
made, and the receipts from the tolls thereof proved insuf-
. ti, lent to pay the interest upon the 2,18,01. The
trustees, nevertheless, regularly paid the interest
till August 1813. In February 1881, they re-
, salved for the first time to keep • peewee
•ceetust of the tolls of tho two roads, and then teased to pay
interest to the plaintiff, alleging that the 2,0001. was secured
on the tolls of the New-road only. They also, without the
consent of the plaintiff, began reducing the tolls
on both rends, and removing toll-houses end
gutea, whereby the temerity for the 2,0001. was
still further diminished. The plaintiff thereupon obecined
the order appealed from.
Mr. Q.C., and Mr. Roweliffe, appeared on the
argument in support of the appal; Mr. Craig, Q.C., and
Mr. Lambert, foie the plaintiff; and Mr. Melina, Q.C., Mr.
Bacon, Q.C., Mr. Welker, Q.C., and Mr. Ampliktt, Mr.
dune, and Mr. Wiglesworth, for certain pnor umuni-
hemmers.

Their lordships varied the ink—ldiot by confining it to
the restriction of thy ndurtion of the tolls, Lord Justito
Knight Bruce observing that the trustees, by the
course they bad Liken in opposition to the claim
of Lord Crow% • had laid telves open to the
tenure tdllte mut ; and that, if attempts were made by
them, indithetly, to do that which they had failed to ammo-
plish by &lint mean., be hoped and believed the power of
the court ceuld be made effectual to defeat them.

my peoposition is, that after the jurymen who were
available the first time the panel waa gone through, were
called over and disposed of and it full jury was not obtained,
the right of the crown to challenge peremptorily ceased and
that afterward, the crown must show cause when it chal-
lenges.
At the conclusion of the learned counsel's arguments, at
two o'clock, the court adjourned for ten niinutes.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commirsionez Goulburn.)

THZ ROYAL HBITIAII LANK.- THA CALI. OF THE OFFICIAL