The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-18 00:00:00

FRANCE AND PRUSSIA.

The bulletin of yesterday's Moniteur has the fol-
lowing remarks on the speech of the King of
Prussia on the opening of the Chambers :
Except the paragraph relating to the conflict which exists
between the Germanic Confederation and Denmark, every-
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thing in this very lengthy document testifies a desire and •
hope of seeing peace mai•teited in Europe, and it will be
remarked that among the reasons on which the King founds
his confidence he recalls his personal interviews with the
sovereigns of the great states, which have made the rele•
tions of Prussia with the principal European governments
incresaingly satisfactory. Another feature of the speech
from the throne is likewise a serious guarantee of peace.
It announces that the Prussian government is on the point
of entering into negoti►tions with the French government
on the subject of the treaties designed to regulate the
commercial relations between the Zollverein and France.
The more commercial relations are multiplied between peo
plea, the more prejudices are dissipated, interests identified,
and the more profitable and necessary does peace become
to all.

The Count and Couutesx de Chambord have
arrived at Venire, soil are shortly to be joined there by the
Duchess of Parma.

A letter from Naples in the Debuts nays :
" Garibaldi has written to some of his friends here to may
that he shall probably go to Constantinople before long."

DEATH or DR. F. C. BAGS. —A letter from
Tubingen announce. the death of this eminent person,
whose name occurs so frequently in the prevailing eon-
troversim respecting the historical validity of the sacred
writing.. For many years past Dr. Bear was the head of
the modem school of destructive criticism, and has had the
honour of being refuted by the most eminent scholars
and theologians of Germany, like Neander, Langre, and
Oblusuaeo. He was born in 1791, and became Professor of
Divinity at Tubingen in Mai. A writer on the spot nays :
" No one in Tubingen ever exercised such a strong personal
influence over the student., nor took away from so many
the &west treasures of their heart, the faith of their child-
hood, the fruit, of the prayers and tears of their
and the tranquillity of their whole future life. %rat
attacked with apoplexy on the 15th of July, and although
he recovered very soon from the lint attack, he WAS very
weak from that time, and was obliged to give aphis lectures.
However, it was most astonishing how little inclined be
was to admit that be was ill: bow he strunled against
every thought of his apprceching death. He had a second
attack on the 29th of November and although he still
hoped to recover, and to returu to his former activita:o2lre,
prayed oc,c —' Herr gewahre mir sin =antler Enda.'
grant me a peaceful end.")

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

twos on on

PARIS, ThuaaDAT Evistnie.

Now that the Monitenr (happily) puts an end to
all doubt as to the departure from Gaeta of Ad-
miral de Tinan on the day after to-morrow, Jan.l9,
it for the first time tells the public why the fleet
has been there all this time. "The object in view
wan to prevent King Francis H. from finding him-
self suddenly invested both by land and sea, and
to give a proof of the Emperor's sympathy to a
prince cruelly treated by fortune." That these
were the only reasons, Francis IL, we are told, was
distinctly informed so long ago as October last,
although (but this the Moniteter does not mention)
he only lately boasted of the very practical and
efficient support given to his cause by the
French Emperor. According to the Moniteur,
we are to believe that the French government is
only just now alive to the fact with which all Europe
has been ringing for the last three months, that the
" presence of the French flag at Gaeta passed for
an encouragement to resistance and became a
material support," and was contrary to the
" declared principle of non-intervention." The
Presae thinks it very important to observe that
the article does not contain a single word insinuat-
ing that the taking possession of Gaeta by
Piedmont is to be contested, or for a single moment
delayed by France. Al to the Russian interven-
tion spoken of a little while ago, and which, by
the way, the French semi-official journals urged as
an excuse for the position taken up by the French,
there was never any foundation for it. The
authorised journals of St. Petersburg repudiate
the idea, and moreover it would be hard to
say where a Russian ship for the purpose
was to come from. There is no longer any
Russian fleet in the Black Sea, and that of the
Baltic is icebound at Cronstadt. A curious fact,
showing the hesitation of the French government
on the affair of Gaeta up to the last day or two,
is that the much-talked-of Ariege, which was to
carry out a month's provisions to Admiral de
Tinan, and whose sailing from Toulon was several
times stopped, at last actually got away just before
the arrival of a telegram which countermanded its
mission altogether. It will now probably return
to Toulon with the admiral, after giving its eatable
and drinkable cargo the benefit of a shaking in the
Mediterranean.

A lithographed correspondence claims great cre-
dit for the Emperor because he allows the Pater-
son v. Bonaparte case to come on for trial without
interfering, as he might have done, with the course
of justice. This flattery is very insulting ; no
doubt, in the present state of the French courts,
tho Emperor, had he so willed, " might " have in-
terfered, but he could not have done so by virtue of
. any avowable right or prerogative.
The Bourse has been dull and depressed. The
story of a congress, which served a turn yesterday,
is now at a discount. The Rente fell 20c. for cash
and 10c. for account, closing at 67fr. 25c. Mobi-
Her fell 61r. 25c. The railways were generally from
lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. lower.

The papers are instructed to contradict the
rumour of a difference between the Papal govern-
ment and General de Goyon.