The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS,
_..BATVRpAI(.. EVE**, 'AVGITST 17, 1850.

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!LEIS, ffitneraliveadte.
TM Plaids's!. laving emitted Dim ea tie madV
lag of the 14'h by the railway, traversedyfftthe spell
of fifteen leagues an hour, the famous viaeyards of
Burgundy. The names of stations _are enough to
make an epicure's mouth water. Naito, Veers,
Beaune,: Meursadlt, presented It tarn their peered.
out populations along the viny slopes, the happy mu-
nicipalities which quaff the generate leper, and the
bloused dreamed of the }limbic plant. Tee national
swede, by the way, of this region were all rig/erase,
blouses. At Chagny, on the verge of the depart-
ment, the civil pretest of the Cate-d'Or, M.l3:ldese,
whose lady did die honours at Ode°, was su6.
by M. Pierre Leroy, the prefect of the fialos-et-
Loire, a red hot Basapartist, es it should seem by his
proclamations and toasts, and whose wife, by the way,
was still more greaten§ than Madame Pees, having
got together 110 of the handsomest young ladies
of the department, each armed with a bouquet, to
greet the President,olll his arrive], with a Dopy of yam a.
At Chsgny the mayor presented a petition from the
municipal oonnein ter the immediate revision of the
constitution. At Chalon, the emend section of the
Lyons Railway terminates. The President here
mounted on horseback, and, accompanied by Gen. de
Castellano and the rest, repaired, amid the accustomed
conflicting trice of " Vive la Itepublique !" "Vive Na-
poleon !" alto., to the lintel de Ville, where he re-
viewed the 14th Leger. and the 2nd Lancers. Having
bestowed numerous decorations, he turned towards the
quay. to embark, but was waylaid by a group of
weeping females, who implored mercy for their eons
and brothers imprisoned for political motives. These
Louis Napoleon treated more graciously than he did
M. Noisot, and promised he would propose the mat-
ter to the Conseil d'Etat. At eleven, off be
went in the flag-dremed steamer, bowing to
the acclaiming quays. Oa drove the boat between
the bank. which bear the vine, and fields that promise
cora and whs..
The Mortifeer counties the following telegraphic
despatches:
Moon, Asgast 14, Night.
The Profilist of the Republic let oat from Chalons-fur.
Same, at eleven. Ile stewed at Tolima, ad strived at
Nicola at half-past ulna - The inhabitants assembled every
where spontaneously en his wage, with the municiPsiilitts
ad itaml guards at their head. The shipping dressed
with flags, the discharges of nerketry and artillery, the
sesimassises of the population, all contributed
"late grt"iheve to voyage of the President the awareness of a
semisacias fete. The port of Maim presented an laments
~ours, of population. From the bank of the Saone to the
kensetops, the whole line el the quays was crowded with
spawn. The review war maguilleent; the receptions
widdi ediswed were very numerals. The municipalities
erns me muse tem U. most distant points, some from 20
begun off, and in full complement.
Lyons, Aug, 15, 41 p.m.
The eeseptioe given at Lyons to the President of the Be.
surpasses all the hopes of the
pot* Mean off.)
By far the meet striking incident, of which
we have any semunt, in the journey of the Pre-
sident, occurred on the occasion of his visit to
Fixin, whither he went to visit a bronze statue of the
Emperor's apotheosis, executediby Redde, and erected
upon the estate of M. Noisot, a grenadier of the im-
penal guard, who accompanied Napoleon to the Isle
of Elba. It appears that one of M. Noisot's dearest
friends is Colonel Guinard, now languishing in the
prison of Donilens, in consequence of a sentence
of the High Court of Versailles. Testimony
was borne to the hotoarable character and services
of Guioard by several moderate members of the
Assembly, who took part in the debate on the trans-
portation law, and in particular by General Fabvier,
to whose warm sixech the rejection of the retroactive
clause on the third reading was generally attributed,
M. Noisot, influenced doubtless by a generous feeling,
as well as by the reflection that to omit so favourable
an occasion for soliciting his friend's pardon would tie
hereafter a source of remorse, did not fail, after the
ceremonious compliments of reception, to allude to
the painful position of his old comrade, and to solicit
the exertions of the President in his behalf. You may
easily fancy that neither Louis Napoleon nor his suite
were prepared for such a serious doer to the common-
places of a formal reception. The President made
answer with the c tfended air of one who finds himself
trapped into an affront. It is sufficiently well known that
the:constitution does not allow the President the prero-
gative of pardon ; nor was M. Nomot probably igno-
rant of what all France knows, but merely solicited
the exertion of the President's good offices. The
answer of Louis Napo:000 is thus given by the cor-
respondent of the Pays: " I have come spontaneously
to thank you fur the pious homage which you have
rendered to the Emperor in erecting this statue to his
memory. You address a reproach to me which I was
far from expecting. The men of whom you speak
were condemned by the High Court of Justice; it is
the law which has attacked them, and we must all
respect it. When the period for amnesty shall have
arrived it will ha for the National Assembly to de-
cide on their fate, and nut for ate:" and the Prince
turned on his heel. Whatever be the merit of the
reply, it is not to be forgotten that the government of
Louis Napoleon had exerted itself to the utmost at
the woad and third reading of the Tmnspor-
"diem Bill to insert a clan e for the purpose of
shipping off Colonel Guioard and his compa-
nions in captivity to Nouka-hiva. The law
is that, in order to grant a pardon, the executive
must obtain the concurrence of the Conseil d'Etat; but
for an amnesty the consent of the Assembly is requi-
site. As Guinard is admitted on all bands to have
exerted himself to the utmost to prevent the foolish
outbreak of the 13th of Jane, and only to have joiard
in it from a false feeling of honour, one could hardly
have singled out a safer instance for pardon, or one
which would be more popular ; and to promise that
the matter should be referred .to the Conseil d'Etat,
would have been a course at once prudent, op.mrtune,
popular, and humane. But the occasion was lost ;
the expressive reproach of the faithful companion of
his uncle's exile at Elba, that Louis Napoleon had
proposed a measure for transporting I,ke a felon a
gallant and distinguished officer of the empire, must
have gone home with singular force to the mark in
the presence of that bronze iestue; and the ungracious
umbrage with which so natural a request was re-
ceived, will be longer remembered than the bite of
ribbon which ere hung upon frost-bitten remnants of
the grande armtle.
The People publishes a circular of the Minister of
the Interior to the prefect., which it finds in the
Courrier Republicain of the CZte d'Or, instructing
those functionaries to oppose, in the most decided
manner, any demand on the part of the Councils-
General for a revision of the constitution, before the
legally appointed time.
Monsignor Fornari, apostolic nuncio at Paris, has
had a long conference with the Minister of Foreign
Affairs on the subject of the dispute between Rome
and Piedmont. The council of ministers held a sittiog
to deliberate on this affair. It is reported that
Ferdinand Barret will be recalled.
In consequence of the fete yesterday no papers
have appeared this morning but the Pays, the Petsple,
the National, and the;Moniteur. Probably, for the
same reason, the Moniteur don not contain the usual
weekly statement of the Bank.

TURIN, Ateousit
The miaitess aro all bore, sad the bog ki daily
expected. The rumour of a proximate convocation
of the Chambers is probably unfounded. In cense-
queue of an approbansiou of an outbreak of popular
violas* against the religious oommunity of the Con-
gests, the ostlend guard have been osUed out, but
fortunately the pews has not been broke.. There Is
some talk of Santa Rom being soaceeded by Count
Cavoxi in the ministry of agriculture and commerce.
But as the organs espies log this wish are probably
interested in the question of the railway from Veroeti
to Coed, this report must be taken eon grotto. A letter
has been received by the cabinet from the king.
expressing the fullest confidence in his ministers, and
the most unqualified approbation of their course in
in the affair of the bervites and Freneoni. The queen-
mother has offered the most feeling expressions of
condolence to the widow of the deceased minister.

TUSCANY.
FLORENCE, Allover S.
One of the most important questions that have
lately occupied the attention of the government here, I '
and one which is fraught with the greatest interest to ,
Europe, and especially to Great BntAlill, is that of a
commercial league between Austria and Tuscany, and
the removal of all custom-bones barriers between '
Vienna and Leghorn. This proposition, which it is
needless to observe originated with the Austrian
government, has hitherto met with no encou-
ragement from that of Tuscany, where, ever
sines the time of the Grand Doke Leopold 1.,
free trade has been as mental maxim of
the country, and where the most determined oppo-
sition has been manifested by all classes to a change
which could only result in tlin destruction of their
present commercial prosperity. Indeed, it is not to
be supposed that the exclusive sad protectionist sys-
tem of Austria could be ever willingly adopted by a
country where protection is so objected to that not
even a patent law exists to secure the right of inven-
tion, and where raw products are imported free or at
• merely nominal duty. The injury that would bt,
inflicted upon the commerce of Great Britain by the
realisation of Austrian custom leagues in their fan
extension, may almost be considered equal to what
Napoleon wished to effect by his continental blockade.
As an example of the result of such a change as the
one proposed here it will suffice to mention one
single article—that British cotton twist, which is
now imported almost free of duty into Tuscany, and
largely consumed by the weavers of the Grand
Duchy—once admit the Austrian system, and this
article becomes subject toe high and, probably, pro-
hibitive duty, in order to protect Austrian cotton
spinners and manufacturers from foreign competition.
According to the recent and positive assurtects of
Baldaseeroni' who is an honourable minister, and
would retire from rifle* if the commercial league with
Austria were insisted on, there is at present no pro-
bability of its being carried into effect, and amongst
other arguments which he brought forward to combat
it, was that of the existing commercial treaty with
Piedmont. During that minister's stay at Vienna,
he was applied to by the shareholders of the Pistoja
and Luca Railway, who are chiefly Austriane, and
who are extremely anxious to effect a junction of their
line with those of the Lombardo-Venetian provinces,
by carrying it acmes the Apennines at the pass of
l'orretta, in the Papal dominions, a plan to which the
, Austrian government would most readily adhere,
since it would constitute a grand military road com-
pletely across the Italian peninsula, and enable the
imperial forces to dash from the shores of the Adria-
, tic to those of the Tuscan sea in the brief space of a
few hours. The Austrian minister, Bruck, to whom
Baldest( roni referred the shareholders, admitted the
interest which the government took in the project,
but regretted that such opposition had been encoun-
tered, on the part of his Holiness, ai to render its
, immediate execution impossible. Wiyhout some such
exit the line from Lucca to Florence, iii Pistoja,
must certainly prove a very bad speculation.

ACOUST 9.

A semi-official paper haring announced that the
military instruction of 1,400 recruits was &brut to be
confided to foreign officera and sub-officers, the Tus-
can non-commissioned officers of the first r.giment of
the line, quartered at Pisa, have addressed to the
Willem. of War a protest against a measure which
they conceive to be injurious to their honour.

MALTA, Auovet 11.

Tne Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Indus came in this morning, at 7 a.m., from Alexan-
dria. She was not expected until the lath. H.M.
steamer Merlin will carry on the mail to Marseilles,
at 1 p.m. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Rusin', which lett here on the 27th ult. for
Constantinople, said to relieve the Erin, running be-
tween that port and Constantinople, is hourly ex-
pected here on her return to England.
The fleet still continues cruising off the port ; all
the ships have been in and completed water, &c., for
three months, except the Queen, expected to come in
to-morrow. It is still rumoured that the admiral will
go out in the Queen after the arrival of the overland
mail on the 13th, and proceed to the westward, but
the fact is no one knows anything about his future
movements: I do not believe that he knows himself.
The fleet is perfectly healthy.
The French steamer Eclaricas came in yesterday,
from Tunis and Tripoli. She brings UP accounts from
the latter place of the cholera having appeared and
carried off some thirty persons in a few days. There
is only one doctor in all Tripoli. The French liners
Jupiter and Volney, with the Cacique steam-frigate,
have left Mail for Lisbon. The Psyche and Sane
only remain there. It is said that the screw steam-
trigate Pandora, now at the Firefly, is ordered
to Tunis. The French ships will remain until
the return of the Turkish squadron to Constantinople,
as there is a report that it is intended to act against
Tunis, the Bey of which is greatly in arrears of tri-
bute-money.
The cholera attacks amount to about sixty per
diem, and the deaths to forty : so says the official ac-
count. It has ceased entirely among the troop*. The
fact is, that all who are really attacked with cholera
die, if left to the tender mercies of the Maltese doc-
tors. They will not go near a patient, and deter
others from doing so by telling them that the disease
is contagious.
The priests, too, refuse to administer the extreme
unction. This conduct of the priests so disgusted the
bishop that he ar.d hie chaplain went to Caspieus on
the Bth, and administered the sacrament with his
own hands to all the sick in Caspicua. One would
have thought that this act of the bishop would have
induced his clergy to follow his example ; but it has
had no effect upon them.