The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-08 00:00:00

THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER IN ASIA.

The Paris Moniteur of this day announces that
the Commission of the Four Powers signed, on the
sth inst., at Constantinople, the final act of the
rectification of the Russian frontier in Asia.

PRUSSIA.

A letter from Berlin, of the sth, says:
"During the last three days the Berlin Boone
has been in an unparalleled state of agitation, and
nothing but failures are heard of on all sides. The
commercial diameters at Hamburg, among the old-
est and best houses in that city, have a du' es-
trous reaction in Prusia. It must be, however,
observed that the commercial community of Ber-
lin are themselves mainly to blame for the crisis
which has now fallen on them. Accommodation

paper, which for many years bee given a facti-
tious existence to many of the houses in this ca-
pital, is the great canoe of the evil. In no other
city in the world has this system been carried to
such en exaggerated extent as here ; and, as might
have been expected, the filet storm has blown it all
to the ground. The law against usury has been
suspended for three months, but this measure of the
government will not be sufficient to check the pro-
greet of the crisis, which affects not only the com-
merce
of Berlin, but also the large manufacturing
establishments at Gorlitz, Groben, Dentxic, &c. An
attempt was made the day before yesterday to
found a discount company, for which purpose the
principal commercial men of the capital assem-
bled. The meeting was attended by MM. Magnus,
Keichenheim, and other bankers, but it broke up
without doing anything in face of the difficulties
which presented themselves."

BELGIUM.

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BRIT./3/74L8, Dac. 6.

Only four days now intervene before the great
electoral contest, the preparations for which have
been sufficiently described in my former letters. It
is therefore enough now to say that the excitement
of this struggle has attained its utmost pitch. The
journals are engaged in discussing the claims and
qualifications of the respective candidates, and
neither ono aide nor the other is sparing of personal
attack ; but you would scarcely believe what insult'
I are daily cast, by the organs of the clerical party,
upon the liberals and the ministry. This has been
carried so far that M. Hagler has thought himself
called upon once more to reply to them through the
Moniteur. The following appeared this morning in
the government joarnsl;
The policy Gillis ablest his been anealla with extreme
violence, and a the at Weir accusations, by so-
'oral oppomitisals and eisteersi addressee, the authors
of whiff mane to be the teareendatime of the party of
mike end mothrodea The added thinks It fit, so long as
these attacks and asseeelkes melee thornless to (masti-
tis', to let the ad rtY seemed tomoliced. Bat armed
pare over in Mass as aulesie which see &hely ascribed
to it. We tartars id MEM to declare that lils ',Shay
untrue that the Oaks of sogromang the taw
tion. It I. mildews to arts to alarm the inemdio-
Wig b aappeine h to be the Maass cd ao-
, ammeset lo dlimb Me anode wean elate cawatry.
The bade seasweeellelbeled Y he ablest eldt reprd
I to alike Mg W shills en elm MIS odious, end the
°Mast sopa eat lesialial aid lalpiamically. La
ardor to egitassed Ythe sleeked body ear arena
psoheas le Ng swirl= ea the Indus Maser al the
casep. delis Yan ran white rayberee pity would
edema hue atleplete. The Irak Is ea the goanuesat
resolves * el brew pewees the meet complete was
ewes at ha seeldres ad geed all. Calassalelog even
the pralines led pile Wag or die country, party =SHOO
kr eedetweeed ease a beef the aloe end order will
net be reserved &Wog He shams. We have no beta
ha la eitreng the ewes prediodoes all be entirely felei-
lied by the amt. In spas ce all the acilimente and odious
its adversaries, the government
Crllirs
Ira that thet the electoral will
everywhere be andmad with order and ity, end that
t moells, be they what they may, will be nicaved with
lemma end t.
The statementrespec in this official article, with respect
to the friendly relations between the new cabinet
and foreign governments, is strictly correct. Since
the earliest days which followed the installation of
the new ministry, M. le Baron de Ware, Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, has received the corps
dipionsagiqus in hie Worn, and ham given those gen-
t/ism/a such explanations of the plans and intentions
of the cabinet se have been found to give general
satisfaction. The there entative of Austria is the
only one who, up to the present time, has not had an
interview with M. de Vridre. It is presumed, how-
ever, that the absence of M. Vrints de Vreuenfeld
will not be prolonged after the elections.
The elections, which are to take place next
Thursday, promise a certain triumph of Liberal
opinion. At Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Arlon,
Brunelle, Lite, and Mons, the clerical party brings
no candidates who have a chance of muses against
the Liberal list. At Huselt the clerical list will
carry the day; at Namur there will be a struggle,
and the victory will, no doubt, be partly claimed by
either side. At Ypres there ham been a curious
compromise ; the two parties have come to an under-
standing to ns-eleot /dews. Malou and Vanden-
peereboom ; one, the author of the report upon the
toevent Bill; and the other, the future Minister of
Public Works. Their elections will not be con-
tested.

DEVOTEDNESS OP THE KING OF PORTUGAL.—
A Lisboa letter relates the following enscdote annopliOcative
of the derotabseas of the young King of Portugal to one of
his 'kite M the military hospital .—" Approaching a bed
on which wee lying the trumpeter of • revelry regiment, he
stooped down, and throwing Ida arma round the almost in-
animate body of the patient. cried out with a firm but
kindly voice,: ' Chow up, friend, chef up I You are not
going to die yet. Tales mange I I em sun I
shell one of these dm hear the sound of your'
trumpet ender the windows of my palace I' The
etch men seemed to rouse up at the mod of the
young lifag's vales, his eyes opened, end a fatal
colour TON 10 hie cheek. He premed his sovnidge's hand
In token of graft de, and from that messed revived to en-
butane*, and be le now not only out of danger, but recovering
rapidly." Galigesetti in repeating this enecdote, rye:—
" We tellers we can state that the Emperor of the Frisch
bee been so struck by the courage end devotedness displayed
by the King of Portugal dining •he whole of the rid:take
of the yellow fever that his Idejerty has cheered Count Ws-
Weld, Kistlater of Foreign Affairs, to transmit to the Wag,
through Baron de Para, Portuguese Wainer, the eve r.
donee hie ✓name edroiration."

The Espana of Madrid states that the following
wws nearly the terms of the telegraphic despatch by shish
the Qeeen Chris.lns replied from Paris to the Qessa's es-
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nouncement of the birth of a sort •—" My &snot daughter,
—Blessed be God, end nay He long pmeerm the grandchild
whom He has given me fce.yom Welty and for that of Spain.
I will strew to obtain dbect news of your health. I hope
they will be good, end I pray God for your well being, end
for that of your eon end of his deter. Salutation to your
husband. and receive the blaming of your mother."

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The Court of Sardinia has gone into mourning
for a fortnight on &coolant of the death of Princess Marla
Asyut. Frederik., daughter of the Bing of Saxony.

Sir Oupard I e biarchut, at present Governor of 1
Non Buda, will auseed Bit W. R. Reid as Governor of
Naha. Bir Gaspard will be replaced at Bantu by Lord
Malgrare, who by thla appointment vacates Isla lest for
Boarbannits. Lord !deigns'd will be succeeded es Ter
serer at the lionaehold by Mr. Spbacer Barceby, who hae
law filled the dike of Private ascretery to Lord Clareadom
It le a little remarkabb that both the Iseoadas sad entrain
Gamma of Naha marred ta the British Auxilisry Leeks
odor BA De Lay Beans.—Thers.