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

NEW PASSPORT REGULATIONS AT CALMS.

CALAIS, FILIDLY.
The following notice has been given by the autho-
rities at this port :
°His FaceUency the Minister of the Interior hu
just ordered the suppression of the visa of passports
for all travellers, without exception, coming from
England through tho port of Calais, having for their
destination either l'aris. , or Belgium and tiermany."

PIEDMONT.

'lliePiedinontese Gazette of the 27th ult. publishes
a report addressed by M. }lateral, Minister of the
Interior, to the King of Sardinia, stating that, con-
trary to the law of 1843, which fixed at 506,4721.
the aura which the city of Genoa is to pay to the
royal treasury out of its entrance duties, the Com-
munal Connell of that city, at the commencement of
this year, only voted tal,ooof., thus refusing payment
of nearly the whole of its share of the public burdens.
That, nevertheless, the minister, overlooking the
illegality of this vote, and interpreting it simply as
a desire expressed by the Communal Council, con-
tented himself with re-establishing the rum of
806,472 f. in the communal budget, instead of having
recourse to more rigorous measures; but that this
leniency, far from having the desired effett,
led to a stormy debate in the sitting of the
22d of the Communal Council, in which several mem-
ben made motions tending to nullify the ministerial
decision, whereupon the syndic and all the vice-
syndics resigned their offices. The report then re-
commends the dissolution of the Communal Council
of Genoa, and is followed by a royal decree dissol-
ving it accordingly, and appointing Advocate //WWI
to be delegate extraordinary for the provisional ad-
ministration of the commune until a new council
be elected.
A letter from Turin of the 22nd ult., in the
National Gazette of Berlin, says :—" For some time
past a movement has been observed on the Par-
mese frontier, and it is asserted at Genoa that arms
and munitions ate being secretly conveyed there
by the Maxxini party. Forged letters from Garibaldi,
declaring that the Sardinian government favours
the movement, are said to be in circulation. That
government, on the contrary, is using all its media-
eval., to put down any agitation."

HAMBURG, APRIL 29.
Repeated attempts hero been made to bring the
new Russian railway shares into this market, but
the speculators on our Stock Exchange are decidedly
opposed to them, and have no confidence in their
stability and yielding any return. Fictitious pur-
chases and sales have been made by the agents of the
Amsterdam and Berlin bankers, through different
brokers, for the purpose of obtaining a quotation,
and they have so far succeeded as to have them
quoted fora few days at from I to I per cent. pre-
mium, though they can now be had for 1 per cent.
below par.
Mr. Samuel Ricker, the new United States consul-
general to the Haase Towns, appointed by Mr. Pre-
sident Buchanan, after presenting his credentials in
the usual manner, has received his exequatur from
the Senate. Daring the Presidency of Mr. Pierce
we had here no less than three American consuls
appointed in succession, in the persons of Messrs.
Bromberg, Johnson, and Ames. Mr. J. H. Macdonald
is the new vice-consul for the United States in
this city.

COPENHAGEN, Aram 28.
Prince Christian of Denmark, the adopted heir
apparent of the King, is on the point of going to
Berlin on a mission of the greatest delicacy to the
King of Prussia. It is understood that in the same
way as the Emperor Ferdinand not only abdicated
the throne of Austria, but induced his next brother
to do so in order to make room for the present Em-
peror Francis Joseph, so the King of Denmark, dis-
gusted as be is with public affairs and the incessant
abatis and coaster-intrigues of the court and his
cabinet, and himself lacking the talent and capacity
for making himself master of the situation, has not
may neolved to become one of the "monarchs retired
from boeinses," hat bas persuaded his uncle and next
hair, the Primo Ferdinand, to relinquish his claim
to the mom—ion, so that Prince Christian may be
able to meant the Vanish throne at once.

But before such • step be publicly and of course
irretrievably taken, it is of the utmost consequence
to look well to the future, so as to secure the position
of the new sovereign. There is little doubt of the
policy Prince Christian would follow with regard to
the duchies when seated on the throne. As a scion
of the house of Schleswig-Holstein Gliicksburg, he
would, it is confidently assumed, throw overboard
the whole monarchy system, and restore to the
duchies their original rights and privileges; nor is I
it at all to be expected that his wife, who is a'
Prussian princess, would oppose such a course. At
the same time it is highly desirable that the rela-
tions between Denmark on the one hand, atal
Prussia and Austria on the other, should be placed
on a more stable and satisfactory footing than is at
present the case, and nothing would afford a better
rtee for this than an early understanding with
uirusisa, and perhaps the promise of a treaty of alli-
ance and amity.
From the above your readers will gather the
Ceimport of the negotiations that are now on
tra el
pis, and as soon as anything more on the sub-
ject transpires, I shall not fail to communicate it
to you.