The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

pax's, WIDNOIDAT
TM eonamturication through private oinks of a
telegraphic deepatoh annemeeleg the death of Sir
Robert Peel, ham cued *rot/hoot Paris • deep
Atoek of mournful surprise. 'The rumour of this great
loss being spread in the Assembly affected men of all
parties with the deepest concern. The nephew of the
deceased statesman passed through Paris this morning,
on his way to Geneva, to oonansusicate the melan-
choly intelligence to Sir Robert's son.
Great exertions have been made by M. Berryer and
his friends to convert the legitimists, who have ex-
eluded the law of mayors from the order of the day.
The government sticks to its resolution, and will
hazard • second motim on this subject at the end of
the week.
An animated debate has taken plus in the com-
mittee of the budget on the salt-tax, which one of the
members of the committee proposes to augment
' There wan a meeting of the majority last night, at
the Club of tho Conseil d'Etat, to oome to an egree-
meat on the sew bureau either Assembly which is to
be elected to-morrow.
The presidents of the bureaux chosen yesterday
were De Lespinaese, Jules de Lasteyrie, De Mornay,
General De Ba-, &avail, Barthelemy, General
Osdinot, de Montebello, General Arehard, General
Ralliere, Manuel, de Beaumont (S-mine), Bess,
General Changarnier, Ide Vatimesnil, and Admiral
C.cile.
111. re-election of Duple as president of the As-
sembly is a matter quite settled. It teems that Ge-
neral Mesa no scorer found that the idea of his
nomination was caught at by the Mountain, to pay
off Dupl.% for his bard hits at them during the past
three months, than he scorned to serve their resent-
ment, and backed oat of the competition by
saying, " Non drfeesoribus istis." The only
change in the vice-presidents will be the re-
moval of Jules de Lesteyrie, who is out of
favour with the majority for the harsh tone of his
opposition to the President of the Republic, against
whose dotation ho voted. There was also a meeting
of the club of the Rue de Rivoli upon the same sub-
ject. The legitim;sts wish to turn out M. Peru, it
appears,
.so that there exists some doubt whether this
vice-president or Jules de Lasteyrie will be sacrificed.
The new via-president is to be Benoit d'Azy, a
legitimist member of the Seventeen.
Toe papers are rife with reports about M. de Per-
sigoy being charged with • m.ssion to the Russian
court. I have grounds for believing that this rumour
rests upon no authentic foundation.
M. Lillie te presented in yes'erdey's sitting a bill
relative to a treaty fre the extradition of criminals
between France and Saxony.
The sitting of the Legislative Assembly was devoid
of interne. It decided upon holding a third delibera-
tion on the bill relative to the moral and religious
education of youthful prisoners of both serve, the arti-
cles of which were adopted on the second reading.
General Fabvier has presented a motion proposing
that Abd-el-Ksder, at present prisoner in the castle of
Amboise, shall be conveyed by the government to
Alexandria or Acre, according to the convention made
with him.
The committee of initiative has decided en the re-
jection of the motion of the legitimists for a com-
mittee on the Lyons and Avignon Railway.
The first article of Armand Marmot in the Crerbe
appeared to day. It touches upon the English de-
bate, and pays some high compliments to Lord Pal-
merston.
Tt-e French police, it is stated, have inst given up
to the police of Hansu, Grand D achy of Hesse Cassel,
a man named Nisper , who is accused of having been
one of the assassins of the l'rinee Lichnowek: and
General d'Auerswald, in Frankfort, in 1818. For two
years this man had been living in Paris, under nn as-
sumed name, and wcrking Lr • portfolio-maker. One
of hie accomplices, a man named fivekemburg, has
been arrested at Hull, and is also to be given up to
the Hessian police.
The levy of seamen bed been interrupted, by order
of the Minister of Marine. The minister has now
given orders to continue it in all the ports. The shin-
owners and fishermen whom the levy injures con.
siderablv, have sent delegates to Paris, to represent
to the minister how injurious the late order is to com-

mem.
The Monilemr of Tuesday gives the official returns
of the price of wheat throughout France. The
avenge, taken over the four election into which the
country is divided for the purpose of striking the rate
of import and export duties, has been as follows :
For beat, 15f. 14c. per hectolitre ; for seemd quality,
14f. 36c.; third, 14t. 14c. ; and for the fourth quality,
131. 30e. The average price of wheat throughout
France is thus 14f. 21c. per hectolitre. The-e quota-
tions show a decline which the promising appearance
of the crops may well promote in a still further degree.
In 1819 the general average of the year was 1 Ir. 63e.,
and we are now considerably below that price. Wheat
has rarely fallen so low in France. In the view of
providence, this is certainly a blessing, but it is
nevertheless true that if the body of cansumers find
its profit in this abundance, the deoadation of prices
is the ruin of the agriculturist. His expenses and
outlay were necessarily the same, while the rewards
of his toil, always moderate, are almost completely
annihilated by this excessive cheapness. Such is
always the result of great variations in the yield
of the harvest ; on scarcity, one, two, or
three years of abundance almost invariably
supervene. But it must be admitted that
this is generally the result of senseless specula-
tion and want of foresight. Thus after the scarcity of
1846-47 numbers of cultivators, attracted by the high
prices of those years, sowed the greatest possible
breadth of land with wheat : thus at the harvest cf
1848 the wheats of that year, already very abundant
and rendered still more so by privations imposed by
the general distress, encountered additional competition
in the arrivals of tte remaining stock of the year pre-
ceding. A new and considerable market was opened
to our agriculture by the free admission of foreign
grain into the English ports, but the increase of our
exportation anticipated has not been sustained. Add
to this that the credit which suffers moat in times of
revolution is that of agriculture, whence it results that
the cultivator pressed to make money is compelled to
dispose of his produce at any price. We have now to
apprehend a re-action; the price of grain will, it is to
be feared, discouraging the cultivator, not fail to exert
an influence on the extent of wheat sown, and a
new scarcity of cereals will thus b- the result of present
abundance. Let us hope that the result may be
otherwise ; but all these facts demonstrate how ire.
portant it is that the laws of production be better
known, and that agricultural credit be established on
a firm basis.
The Bourse to-day has experienced an important
fluctuation. Business commenced with a decided
tendency to rise. The Fives rose to 95.20, but to-
wards the close of the Bourse some disquieting re-
ports were spread with regard to the re-election of
the president of the Assembly. It was feared that
a majority would be formed by coalition, in order
to prevent his nomination. This alone was sufficient
to bring the Fives down to 91.73. The Threes closed
at 66.83, being a fall of 16 centimes. The death of
Sir Robert Peel created much excitement.
BOUM.

____IPAWS, Anar S.

Ise Amount.
V.
limy. Opandne 111611 et. Lomat. Closing.
. - --
Bpm Omits. 5O 70 67 23 '37 25 30 83 56 85
6 per Cats. ft 60 93 23 93 40 91 75 94 75
I de. Now Loan.. ~ If n 10 If
45 pw Oasts. e m .. ..
4 par Conti. 74" 0I , t. ~
lizabaime on LOlRriall at algitt, 23 45; 90 daya,l3 325.
Data.s, 1450
6, 11142
Do. 45
Do. 15
Piedmont 5 per Cents 88— .. Hank Shares
Batman —Vereellles (right bank). 157 50; ditto (len bank). 140;
Pula and Orkin., 755; Patio and Hones, 3;0; Rouen and flame,
212 SO ; 51ararilk s and Mignon, 171 25; Stra•bourg and Rule, 108 73
Orleans and Viers" 330. Weans and Bordeaux, 390; North,
418 75; Pada and atrasboarg, 328 75; /buts and Nantes. 127 50.

ITALY.

TUSCANY.

Th. liffurtna of Lucca of the 27th ult. elates that
the maintenance of the Austrian garrison at I oghorn
would cease to be at the charge of that city rom Ist
July.
LOMI3ARDY.

The Official Milan Gazelle mentions the arrest and
execution by the Austrian troops in the Modenese of
a band of 43 robSeis, who all conLesed their crimes.

NAPLES.
The Tempo of Naples of the 22iid nit. announces
that the public debates ca the case o' the polities'
sect of the Unita Latium: had been suspended in