The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-16 00:00:00

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

Accousti from Bucharest of the 6th state that,
two days before, a deputation of landed proprietors,
advocates, and :several young boyar& of hiiiher sta-
tion, paid visits to the commuisioners of the European
Powers. On the occasion the following address was
presented to Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer :
Eseellency,—The Reumsins welcome with delight in you
the worthy representative of free England—the envoy of her
most gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain. They
indulge in the firm hope that your presence among them will
powerfully contribute to deliver them from all restraint, and
thereby secure to them an upahachied manifestation of the
wishes of the country, with entire independence in the dee-
Liam We have the greater right to aspect an attentive
surveillance on the part of the commissioners, in the
spplication of the electoral law, that we have not taken any
part in drawing it up. We have too long lived without
liberty for abuses not to be rife, particularly at a distance
from the capital. We solicit the attention of your Excel-
lency to %hie point. We take great pleasure in reminding
you that at the Congress of Peris the representative of her
Britannic Majesty was the first to strongly insist on the ne-
6:entity of taking into account the free wishes of the country ;
and from what Power can we expect this electoral inde-
pendence, which is so neameary for us, if not from one
which has had the happy privilege of enjoying for ages the
benefits of free institution Yore Excellency, who has
shown yourself everywhere sad at all times the warmest de-
fender of Idbeety of conecienee, as also one of the most con-
sftnt supporters of repeseentative government, cannot fell to
WWII that liberty in cur country. We pray you, therefore,
to accept the sentheents of hope and of gratitude which we
offer you la themes/ of our countrymen of ell classes.
The following reply was made by the English
-mmissioner :

Gentlemen,-1 have listened attentively to the words
which you have just addressed to me, end toy first duty is
to thank you for all the obliging sentiments you have ex-
premed towards my country, my government, and myself.
With regard to the question to which you particularly
call my attention, namely, the elections which are shortly
to take place, the Ottoman government has declared its in-
tentions in the most solemn and precise manner,
and, arriving direct from Constantinople, I ant
able to mum you that the Sublime Porte de-
sires with sincerity what it hes declared without
hesitation. I Mat also believe that the government of this
Principality, at the head of which is plseod • prince whose
family is one of the illustrations of your annals, and who,
from his reputation of frankness and straightforward con-
duct, was pointed out to the confidence of the Sultan, will,
in such a critical moment, execute the instructions it has
received with scrupulous fidelity. Such is certainly its duty.
On the other hind, it is for the Wallachian people, and espe-
cially for you, gentlemen, whom position in the centre
of society should maintain • proper equilibrium in
it, to render, by the prudent ability of your =-
duct, the task imposed on the authorities easier.
No one double your intelligence; that gift of heaven
is visible en all the faces which surround me; but experience
alone enables what is difilcult to be distinguished from what
Is impossible, theory from practice, and so it is permitted to
doubt if, in circumstances as novel as they are difficult, you
will have all the prudence, all the moderation, and all the
tact, which (believe on the point en Englishman. Frond of
the epithet which you have accorded to his country) every
nation which i/1 desirous of enjoying the advantages of a
Liberal government and • npreseatative system, should
poems. Employ, then, 1 beg of you, all your
tents to make yourselves remarkable by there virtues
and them civic talents, which perhaps are what is
the least expected from you, but which will conk: on you
the pietist amount of honour, and which will unite the
esteem sad confidence of Europe to the sympathy with
, ' which you have already known how to inspire her. All the
' members of the commission of which I form part will, lam
persuaded, regard with attentive impartiality all that may
pass either far from or war to the capital; and will act in
common sword, and In conformity with their instructions,
in all circumstances which may attract their attention, and
which may appear contrary to the spirit which her dictated
their mission. For my own put, gentlemen, you may be
' certain that I will always add good intentions to the sal
and enlightened experience of my colleagues.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNISDAY.
The Tagus, Captain Christian, belonging to the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany, arrived here to-day with the mails, in charge
of Lieutenant Cartwright, and with 62 'mileage's,
amongst whom are Lady Leith Buchanan and Major
Atrherlcy from Gibraltar, and Sir Morton Peto
from Lisbon. Her dates are—Gibraltar, April 6 ;

Cadiz, April 7 ; Lisbon, April 9; and Vigo, April
11. She has specie to the value of 4,1321., and •
general cargo.
Her Majesty's ships Curlew, Cressy, and Sphinx
were at Gibraltar. At Lisbon were the Princess
Royal, Exmouth, and Colossus.
Yesterday, when about seventeen miles off Ushant,
the Tagus fell in with the Martin Luther, Captain
Gordon, of Liverpool, bound with 498 passengers to
Quebec, in a helpless condition, having lost all her
spars but the foremast. The Martin Luther left
Liverpool on ThursdaT, and proceeded to about
lon. 8 NV., let. 60 N., where she became disabled.
On Monday morning, while attempting to secure the
foresail, seven men fell with the mast; and the
boatswain, John Westwood, of Dunfermline, and
four other men, were drowned. After losing her
masts she drifted to the leeward, and, had she not
been picked up by the Tagus, would in all proba-
bility have gone on shore on the French coast. It
is stated that the loss of her spars is due in some
measure to the slackness of her rigging.

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r, THURSDAY.

The Tagus has arrived from the Peninsula. She
landed her mails at Plymouth. She left Lisbon on the 9th.
Sir Morton Peto's proposals to construct railways from
lAsissa to Oporto and the Spanish frontier have been ac-
cepted by the Partagnses governmmt. It is believed that
the toms of the railway contract are, that the Portuguese
government pays for the line in stock at fired price.
The crops is Portugal are looking well, and promise •
boontihl ►arvest.

lbw lbjegre steam corvette Plumper entered Lisbon in
• leaky Rate, owing to the valve of the feed-pipe being da-
mage& _ .

bongo on London, thirty days, 63; ninety dam 63k.
The railirsy contract has dithmed joy throughout Por-
tugal. Sir Morton Path has been honoured in the most dis-
tinguidhed manner.

THE WESTWARD EXODUS:A Cleveland (Ohio),
paper, hasty folkowing .—" The man who at hem
this man will be the m the osplia, for am leen-
emotively mad. Westward I is the ay, soak Ms
alreedy esammod ; not from this eider Mae; whoa the
morphs population sae treading apes ea& ether's bee* but
fan the "aim border of the met whin MEd acres
as at Moab* imd whin sewed ttirtbeaa as half-a-
LZlie mile et the mend ef yesprellas la bard, and
sein el* laveall that beset almaid with, are
'raft ' te weetward. Sam will balm timir
cosallha may us eawlip seed witiela soca
will sprigepin the Maps alma masa thstasydid not 'let
wellessialtahne.'
naThe St. Lath le* state that *very
boat, althie:Mes Uor Lower fa ciartkd a
admit* hs rthi- of wham ore be fir Lassa. Ail
Mr days dress • boat strived at St. Leas from above, loaded
to bar stile caparia with migrents teat Kinacate, lowa,
and Wiecasin MOO( Lananeward."
A NEW Srmantr-On Monday there arrived at
oar quay a ahead new senor oloamor aimed Omit& She
is the repay a the IMAM and Imadingeery Kam Kip
C e -tind Maki to Mae Mama Kis pert sad
Leadoa Her istial• Math le 220 Mt ; breadth et bum,
17 Mt; KS tea = KO tem bertha. Her
ranter le landed for twadrtwo
amens rlre Praha sad thkty in the Waage. bet she is
campileat, with extra atrammosaM to carry, In be& dr
rz-* is much larger number. She is bark by Misers.
0. Thompson, Clyde, and is really a ahead ecat.
men of naval architecture. Her mechanical apparatus for
loathe( and discharging is well calculated to scaliest' her
Imams in port.—limitter of Ulster.
Ma CLYDE SUNDAY STEAMER—The Sunday
draw Ammar muds her lint trip for the man down
the rime on Sunday a far se Duncan and Kamen. The
day was chilly
-ad unfavourable, and the pereagers, who
were respectable, yip limited in number. A number leaded,
and about Meaty aed he, at Oreenock.—Sotintsme.

THE TWO SICILIES.

(PION Oct OWN CORIZIYONDINT.)

NAPLES, Arun 9,

I alluded in a recent letter to the condition of the
army, and stated that there was a considerable de-
gree of discontent in its ranks. There was, I be.
here, no exaggeration in the statement, and that
mysterious abstraction, the government, may thank
itself for the fact. A variety of causes have led to
this result : first and foremost, there is the pro-
sence of the Swiss, who have been entrusted with
all offices and posts of any importance, and who are
better paid and fed than any of the Nes-
politan troops ; then there is the slight which
has been imposed upon it by putting it
under the inspection of the police ; tad
lastly there ie that miserable system of espionage
which has been introduced into the army, and which
has pitted officers and men the one against the
other. The military commission appointed soon
after the attempt on the King's life, and the occleei.
astical examination which has taken place during
Lent, are parts of the same system, founded in sus-
picion andgiving. grounds for it—breaking down all
discipline, and inspiring a disgust and diseenteet
which are but too marked. It 121 thus that a general
°dicer is related to have said that an officer scarcely
dared to correct his soldiers, not knowing bat that he
might be denounced by them. By the soldiers' similar
signs of apptehension of their officers might be narrated,
bat too well grounded, when, as it is asserted, the
names of suspected men were given recently to the
regimental confessors, and an attempt made to give
their confessions a political bias. I have been in.
formed that a circular has been sent, at the suggee.
don of the military commission, to the Intendenti of
provinces, instituting an inquiry into the antecedents
of the soldiers, as also into those of their families.
Be that, for some time past, many have been driven
heat each corps, consigned to the power of the po-
lice, sad by them sent off to the islands. A case of this
kind I have heard cited is that of a man named Hat,
gusi, who, on being called before his colonel of the
grenadiers of the -Royal Guard, was informed that
he was dismissed the service. The conduct of the
man whilst in the army had been unexceptionable,
and he remonstrated. Still he was informed such
was the decision. Margusi was accordingly stripped
of his uniform, and consigned to the police, by whoa
he was sent to Pons& in exile. His family, not
hearing anything of him, came up to Naples and
inquired of his colonel about hint. By hem they
were informed that he knew nothing of him, as he
was now in the hands of the police. In short, it bad
been discovered that he was the son of a liberal,
and therefore the sins of the father were visited

upon the son. Similar facts might be recorded of a
man called Seponaro—but why dwell on two, when
there are so many incidents of the kind? Vajoe
Grenet, of the 3rd Battalion of Rifles, I told you in
a former letter, had been put under arrest for tea
days. At the time I did not know the reason. I believe
it to have been the following:—An order of the day
had been issued that all the officers should confess
once in ten days ; the major added to this order, "to
the chaplain of the regiment." The officers appealed
against this order, viewing the chaplain as the spy
of the major, and saying that they would not have
their consciences forced in the choice of their con.
fessor ; the major was accordingly pat under
arrest for ten days. It is by such a
wretched system as this that the discipline of the
Neapolitan army has been broken down ; that, in.
stead of being what it ought to be—a school of
soldiers, it resembles rather a school of little boys,
" telling tales" of one another to the master, who
confesses them, whips, imprisons, or exiles them, as
the " young gentlemen" seem to require. The
Neapolitan army has, however, shown itself
of better things, and feels its degradation I
at
and it is therefore my opinion that it is not at
improbable but that it may originate some groat
movement. At all events there are in it all the
elements of such a movement. Four of the cow
miasioners appointed to examine into the state of the
provinces have left us, I have already informed yes,
They are Piscicelli, Afan di Rivera, Turino,
Yocca. Two still remain in Naples, Rocco and GB.
lotti. The whole affair is, however, regarded by the
commissioners themselves as a blind—a great dealt
which can produce no possible good. "We go to
report," said one of them, " what is already known!
and the report will remain inactive, as many others
have.