The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-19 00:00:00

TURKEY.

PARIS. FamAT.

The Paris papers publish a telegram from Con-
stantinople, dated 18th inst., which asserts that
the Porte has sanctioned the union of the Danu-
bian Principalities under Prince Couza, and has
demanded that the conference at Paris should take
official notice of the fact.

It is stated that no diplomatic representative has
offered any opposition to this resolution of the
Porte, not even Baron Prokesch, the Austrian
interuuncio.

"The King of Prussia," says a Berlin letter, "is
isdisposed, but not many ill. The truth is his Majesty
does not take sufficient rest ; after having employed all the
day in giving audiences, attending deliberations, or passing
reviews, he works to a late hour in the night with his
ministers."

The night of the 12th was fixed upon by the
Amalie° party in Rome for a demonstration of loyalty and
affection to the Supreme Pontiff upon the occasion of its
bang the anniversary of his return from Gaeta. "It was
a great amusement.," writes the correspondent of the Pow,
for the ROMEO, in promenading the city, to observe
what palates and private residences were illuminated and
what others were left in darkness, and many were the com-
ments made in consequence. British lookers-on were edified
to see the British consular residence, at the Parisani Palace,
decorated with a row of twelve paper lanterns on the bal-
cony, with the lion and unicorn on one side and the Pope'■
arms on the other. This was rather en exception to the
diplomatic reserve which prevented most of the foreign
representatives from illuminatiog their houses."
A Madrid letter states that a ball recently given
by the Duchess of Medina-Cell is the great subject of con-
versation in th►t city. On the occasion alluded to there was
• special quadrille composed of all the characters in " Don
Quixote," in costumes copied from the engravings in the
grand edition of that work published by the Spanish
Academy. A Preach gentleman personated the knight of
La Mancha ; the duchess was represented by the Duchess
de Fernand Nunes, and of course Sancho was not forgotten.
Oa the following day the Duke de Medina-Cali bad photo.
graphs taken of his pasta, to the number of two hundred,
all coloured with the utmost care, to be formed into as
album. It is said that this caprice will cost the duke some
15,000 fr. _ . _

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Tem ITALIAN 8M:4E7.-84120r &Si&MA, Finance
Minister of Italy, has put forth a financial statement, in
which the expenses for the old Sardinian state, Lombardy,
the Minilia, and Tuscany are reckoned. Ordinary,
492,973,474 f. 138. ; extraordinary, 134,672,040 f. 27e.—totid,
627,643,514 f. 40e. The Revenue: Ordinary, 342,679,115 f.
76c. ; extraordinary, 17,581,16 W. 90e—total, 360,260,36. W.
CSc. ; leaving a deficit for ordinary expenses. 1561,294,356 f.
35e.; and for extisonlinary, 117,090,770 f. 37c.—total,
967,364,129 C 72c. The budget of the Southern Provisoes
of Naples and Sicily is as follows :—For Naples revenue.
109,429,06 M. 56e. ; ditto expense, 100,493,766 f. TAc. ; for
Sicily, revenue, 21,792,010 f. ; ditto expense, 24:01,210f. ;
in Naples, therefore, surplus, 8,935,299 f. 32c. ; in Sicily,
deOcit, 6:539,170f. ; leaving surplus of 2,396,t1N. 32c.
. .

Nos riy 100 American a vs are engaged in the
whale fishery in the Indies Oars, besides Dutch and
French ships. The aggregate towage of the American
whale fleet in that ocean is 36,000 tons. The whale fishery
extends from Java Head to Cape Lesuwie, a distance of
1,600 miles, and yields a minus of a quarter of a million
sterling annually. In 1838, Allllll4OllO and French whaler,.
made st one onslaught off Caps Leouwin, 10,000 barrels of
oil, worth 25,000 f. In 1845, some American vessels made
at one capture, in Champion Day, 6,000 barrels, and in
11157, Americas, Dutch, and Free& whalers made at one
onslaught, off King Georges Bcand, 12,000 Week The
Americas captains of whalers also do a large trade in the
Indies archipelago, by elchseging goods for sandal wood,
beeswax, tortoiseshell, rind other tropical and inter.tropiaal
productions. English whalers have completely abandoned
the Indian Ocean to the Americans, French. and Dutch,
Between January the 19th and March the 6th
upwards of 400 barrels of wild pigeons, containing about
180 000 birds, were shipped at the port of Columbus on the
Ohio.