The Express. — 1858-03-29 (London, England)

PARIS, SUNDAT EVININO.  Intelligence of importance has been received from Berne this afternoon. The government of Basle has refused to admit the new consulate which the French government desires to establish there. The federal government has transmitted this refusal to Paris, in a despatch which states in detail the reasons why the Swiss populations look with jealousy upon the appointment of new French consuls. The Nord of Brussels, whose Paris correspondents dabble a good deal in official waters, gives prominence to the news that military preparations are being urgently pressed on in all the great ports of France. Marseilles and Toulon are particularly active. This journal, while adopting the official version of the motives that led to the Duke of Malakoff s appointment, namely, that it was the Emperor's desire to send to London a man whose name was a symbol of the English alliance, adds that the high military rank of the new ambassador and the energy of his character also signify a determination to support the dignity of France, and that " if " for the misfortune of the world the flames of war should again burst forth, the French government will have nothing to reproach itself with— it " will have betrayed no anger, and urged no undue pretensions." This is precisely the style of an ultimatum. Who ever talked of war, or thought of war, before the French colonels signed the addresses threatening to invade England, which the Moniteur published and has never disavowed ? The Univers says it was only a matter of course that the Duke of Malakors nomination should have been courteously received in England, because he was a Crimean soldier, but it emphatically adds that the political question remains precisely as it was before, and that it remains to be seen whether England will "do something" about the reNgeas. Last week the Emperor had successive interviews with several eminent financiers, whom he desired to consult as to the best means to be taken to relieve I trade from the stagnation under which it has so long been suffering. Among the persons thus honoured were M. Rothschild, M. Pereire, M. de Germiny, M. Duman, one of Louis Philippe's finance ministers, and M. Bartholony, the Geneva banker. Of course there is no great reliance to be placed upon flying reports of what paned at these audiences. But the  rumours of certain suggested palliatives that have been talked of lately, such as the abolition of the restrictions (once thought so wise) on companies en commandite, and the throwing open the Bourse, are thought to be traceable to them. It is further whir pered that some of the above gentlemen gave his Majesty very frank advice, and expressed an opinion that it would tend considerably to the revival of trade if there were to be no more political arrests, and if the government would keep itself a little more out of sight than it does, and cease to publish in the Moniteur mysterious political paragraphs which in. variably argue a foregone conclusion, and generally produce an effect precisely contrary to what was intended.  M. Leon Roche, the French ChargE d'Affaires at Tunis, is expected daily at Munines, en congi, and it is said that he precedes an embassy which is coming to Paris to thank the Emperor for sending the Grand Cordon to the Bey. The Military Court of Revision sitting at Lyons yesterday quashed the sentence of death passed by court martial upon Lieutenant de Mercy, of the 18th regiment, for the alleged murder of a brother officer, on the ground that a special oath required by the military code was not administered to the medical men who deposed to the cause of death. The consequence is that the officer must be tried again. _ _ _  It is announced that Fernkh Khan will leave Marseilles on April 15, and that before returning to Persia he will stay three months at Constantinople, to settle all questions relating to the Turkish boon• daries on the Persian frontier.  A new violin player, only sixteen years old, IC Georges Jacobi, of Berlin, one of the King's pupils, made a successful appearance at ths Salle Hertz yesterday. _ .