The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

THE HEAVY PORTION OF THE OVERLA
MAIL

TVUDAT NIONT.

The Indus hu arrived with the heavy portion of
the East Indian mail'. She left Alexandria on the
24th alt., Malt* on the 28th, and Gibraltar on the
2nd inst. Amongst her cargo is specie to the value
of 7,0001. sterling. At Malta were her Msjesty's
ships Hibernia, Shearwater, Thais, Conqueror, Cen-
turion, Brunswick, Centaur, Despatch, Spiteful,
Media, Lynx, Arrow, Caradoc, Fancy, Supply,
Osprey, Wanderer, Awl, Kerteh, and five mortar
vessels. The Indu met the Cressy working towards
Gibraltar on the 2nd inst. ; at Gibraltar, the Ma-
jestic, on her way to England. The Curlew remains
in port.

We Yea in Galigaaai of yesterday :—" The
Mica of the wakes of oar flariser, pound at the
cathedral et Notre Dome—the nova et thorns, the aella,
a large piece at the true area, le.—ae at proant exposed
to the raseastloa at Miami, and arttl asthma to be is
this day, to-vaorrow, sad Friday oust."
A letter Not St. Petersburg says —" The per-
laden of /Wrath= wen thrown into great agitation co the
lith but, by the sopa/vacs, about a quarter of an hoer
Mlle omit, of a laminar sr steer between the ociastellatioaa
of the These Kings, Orion, sad the Yoko Na; it limo
with estneentinary beMicaey, amid was accompeisiol by •
eatelthe set bce Wheat. It le mooed to bar.beau •
careat."
A letter tresalinielt rays The Popes Nuncio
has add/awed a nets to the gemmed, allraiag that the
octant prohitakee ea Jesuits to two I. religiose Modem
ia the cavalry is la oeatraticdos with the Concordat; the
Archbishop of Nadcb sad ether pasta have met in •
gotta against the tarertlictko."
The anal pabliostioa was posted up at the mak
of the lilt scroadimmeat is Pads es Moodily, of the ear- ,
Tip fill. Suer Pain, del cogloper, eon of K. Liao
Padre, with KILL Jslielts Feld, daughter of M. E. Field,
eatery.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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(FROM OVR OWN CORI

PARIS, TraBDAT ETTNINO.

I have heard a rumour to-day that the coronation
is fixed for May 4. In that case it will take
place while the Grand Duke Constantine is here ; but
I think the news is very doubtful. At all events, it
may be safely predicted that if the ceremony should
come off so soon, the Emperor must have renounced
his long-cherished project of being crowned by the
Pope.
Letters from Toulon state that the 22nd of April
is officially announced for the arrival of the Grand
Duke Constantine.
A Russian squadron from Cronstadt is expected
at Cherbourg daring the Grand Duke Constan-
tine's visit. .

The Pays notices, as important news, a statement
in a Vienna letter of the sth, that the Ottoman
government has consented to withdraw its troops
from the Principalities, and that the Turkish troops
would commence their evacuation on April 10. The
news arrived at Bucharest on the 3rd.
The fall at the close of yesterday's Bonne has
assumed more formidable proportions to-day. The
Bente fell 50c. for cash, and 55c. for account, closing
at 68fr. 50e. and 60fr. 30e. Mobilier fell 35fr. The
railways, without a single exception, were very
much lower. Orleans fell 27fr. 50c.; Northern, 20fr. ;
Eastern, 131 r. 75c.; Lyons, 22fr. 60c.; Mediterranean,
15fr. ; Southern, 20fr. ; Western, 7fr. 50c. ; and Grand
Central, 2fr. 50c. The Austrian and Sardinian Rail-
ways sustained a further depreciation of from 12fr.
to 15fr. There is no confirmation of the rumour
that tho committee of the budget recommends an
augmentation (beyond the rate proposed by go-
vernment) of the tax on negotiable securities,
and the fall of to-day and yesterday is now attri-
buted to the financial news from London. It is a
very general opinion hero that the object of the
Bank of England in raising its rate of discount on
advances upon Consols is to check speculation in the
Russian railways.
The French government journals are at a loss for
words to express their delight at the unequivocal
success in the elections of what, by a singular abuse
of language, is called the " moderate " party in
Spain. Everybody familiar with the history of
parties in the peninsula knows that the
word " moderate " now designates the ex-
treme coup (Mat party, which awhile ago
rested upon the bayonets of O'Donnell, and is now
supported by the brute force principle embodied in
Narrate. The Patric talks exultingly of the im-
mense majority obtained by the:conservative party,
which " attest/ that Spain repudiates all the doc-
trines and all the political experiments which it has
tried for many years past." It adds, that " any
proitunciaswsto against this public opinion so un-
mistakably expressed would bo not only impotent,
but ridiculous. It is but natural that the pro-
fessional advocates of the government of De-
cember, 2, 1851, should dwell with complacency
upon the success of an imitation of the great prece-
dent of that date. But, in point of fact, the re-
sult of the Spanish elections only affords additional
evidence of what no intelligent observer of recent
events in France can have ever doubted—that uni-
versal suffrage, or popular suffrage of any kind,
must always be a mockery and a humbug when
directed by a triumphant military force. No instance
in history can be found of a people when voting
under the pressure of martial law, having shaken
off their oppressors by means of a ballot-box. When
the executive power of a state does not mean to be
governed by the freely expressed voice of the com-
munity, but seeks only a sanction for its arbitrary
acts from the masses deprived by terror of all intel-
ligent leaders, no problem in science is more certain
than that the powers that be will always obtain a
majority. For a country in such a case there is no
present hope for liberty but in insurrection.