The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVEENIt4G, DECEMBER

formation of a Ministry which might own • hint
for its chief. The ablest of b orilleagnas ase
in power. The guiding spirit cube PARINI Cabinet,
the most eager politician, meat vigorous satin*
trator, is nearly allied to 'rum by blooa, STOACAIIIof that
ancient house of the PERUZZI who lent to EDWARD
111. of England In his need a sum of money
which to this day has not been repaid. General
MIEYABREA, the new Minister of Public Works,
and General nrax.s HOVERE, were conspicuous
members of the Cabinet which Rarrexis sup-
planted, and their names are a tower of strength
to any Government. Count Pasourres assump-
tion of the portfolio of Foreign Affairs not ()Ply
gives weight and dignity to that important depart-
ment, but derives peculiar importance from the
tact that like his colleagues, FARIS' and MINORTITI,
he was once a subject of the Port, and, what is
more remarkable, an intimate personal friend of
the M ASTAI family. Were it possible to imagine
Pius I.C. yearning in heart to his old and early
blend, there might even now be some better hope
of the only possible reconciliation of the HOLY
FATHER with Italy than we can find in the re-
ported conferences of four old frightened yet
obstinate Cardinals, whose project of reform is to
consist of a Consultative Finance Commission,
and quasi-elective municipalities. All such hopes
are idle. Count PARDUE; we may be sure,
neither asks nor expects any conciliatory message
from Rome, while a PASSAOLIA, a pillar of eccle-
siastical learning, a model !of religious purity and
fervour, a priest to whom the POPE confessed, the
founder and finisher of a dogma which for centuries
held the (Church in doubt, continues excommu-
nicate. Still the presence of three sometime
subjects of the Temporal Power in the Cabinet of
Tulin is not without its significance. It is a gus
rantee to Italy and to liberal Europe that the
Court of Rome will have to deal with men whose
character is unassailable by calumny, and who will
listen to no fancy compromises and marketable
iegotiations.

The quality of the new Minister of the
Interior will probably be tested by the pacifica-
tion of the disturbed Southern provinces. F
the brigandage which the POPE blesses, and the
BOURBONS pay, and the Emperor of the
FRENCH countenances and sustains, can be
destroyed by any Minister at Turin, as-
suredly Signor PICRUZZI is the man to
destroy it. In this Herculean labour he will be
powerfully aided by SILVIO SPAVENTA., that martyr
of Bourbon misrule, whose services as Prefect of
Police at Naples after the annexation were
of the highest order. Even the statesmanlike
tact and temper of FARINI failed, it is true,
to pacify those distracted provinces ; but
he failed where none have yet succeeded.
And as President of the Council his experiense
acquired at Naples will not be lost, if his sadly-
wasted health will permit him to take an active
part in the deliberations of the Cabinet. In its
relations with foreign Powers the Italian Govern-
ment will be faithful to the policy of independence
and discreet reserve which it has announced in
unexceptionable terms to the Parliament. Neither
subservient in its friendships nor exclusive in
its alliances, it will rally to the cause of Italy,
united in heart and purpose, the irresistible sym-
pathies of liberal Europe.

LLT:

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FRANCS *ND swriskuaND.,
The following, being the full fitt of the treaty
concluded between France and Switzerland, in set-
tlement of the Dapper Valley question, has boon
received at Mr. Renter's office :
Art. L Switzerland makes over to France that portion of
the Depose Valley, comprising the Mont des Ts sad ita
declivities, as far as and together with the road from Les
Rename to fauvillet sod to the eastward of this rued sod
along the same a strip of land 150 metres in
breadth, or 500 Swiss feet (the entire cession
consisting of 704 hectares). In exchange for this, France
makes over to Switzerland, that is to say, to the Canton
Vend, a pieoe of landof equal alas, extending from the junc-
tion of the St. Carries and Fiorillo) reads, along the decli-
vity of Nomnoot to the boundary of the Valley of Joax.
The St. Cergues-road (from Ls Cure) is included in this
cession.

Art. 2. Neither of the contracting parties may erect
military works upon the ceded portions.
Art. 3. The inhabitants of the ceded, portions will be-
Dome citizens of the country to which they are allotted, but
will be entitled, within the space of a year, to declare
whether they will retain the nationality to which they be-
longed hitherto. If they prefer the latter course, they
have the right of retaining for the future their domicile
all heretofore.

Art. 4. The existing roads called Los Landes shill be
made passable for vehicles, and be led into the St. Catguts
sad Familia roads at the above mentioned point of junction.
This road shall be completed within two years, and sable'
quently kept in remir by the two contracting partite upon
their respective portions.
Art. 5. The road connecting that portion of the Canton
of Vaud situated in the Valley of Joax with St. Cergues
upon the Bois d'Amont road, shall be free from all transit
taxes and custom' dues. The Federal post shall also pass
unhindered upon this road over French territory, and be
liable to no taxation.

Mt 6. Wood, hay, and other produce of the soil, obtained I
from the ceded portions, shall be permitted to be conveyed
free to the domicile of the proprietor.
Art. 7. Private rights acquired previously to this treaty
are not affected by its stipulations. Judicial sentences of
prior date also retain their validity.
Art. 8. After ratification of this treaty, staff officers of
both countries will be appointed to determine the precise
position of the frontier, and to lay it down upon maps and
in protocols.
Art. 9.—This treaty shall be ratified, and copies thereof
exchanged, by the contracting parties u soon as possible.
In a separate protocol Switzerland reserves her
right to lay the treaty before the powers present
at the Congress of Vienna. She will request
those powers to recognise this modification of
Art. 75 of the Vienna Congress treaty as an inte-
gral part of the international right of Switzer-
land.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Dec. 13.

The Parliamentary Committee, consisting of
members of both houses, has come to a decision
upon the propositions made by the National Bank.
The committee has determined to vote the payment
of a million florins interest on the proposed loan,
such payment to continue only until the dividend
paid to the shareholders of the bank shall reach 7
per cent.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG. Dac. 13.

The announcement that Russia has consented to
the candidature of King Ferdinand of Portugal for
the throne of Greece is without foundation.

The Imperial Bank of Russia has reduced its rate
of discount from 4 to 5 per cent.

ITALY.

(non on OWN

TURIN, DIM a.
Hawses Pontificern—the ministry is formed, and
although not yet officially announced, ie already
known and accepted as an important improvement.
Count Pasolini, the centre around which the new
cabinet was formed, has never held office before,
but he has filled important posts at Rome, is
Central Italy, and at Milan, has gained in those
posts general respect, and is now Prefect of Turin.
Yesterday evening the leading men of the city were
at his house. He hesitated a long time before accept-
ing the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, impelled by a
delicacy of sentiment which does: him infinite
honour, and which took its rise in the intimacy he
formerly maintained with the Maatai family, and
especially with Pius IX. It is reported that the
Bing said to him, in connection with this subject,
" It is not your fault Count, if the Pope has changed
his opinion& I want you to be my Foreign Minister,
because the Pope will know then that he has to do
with an honest man, and will be unable to plead
ignorance of you, or to say that he believes you to
be a demagogue."
Count Visconti Venosta, who was formerly secre-
tary to Signor Farini in the Emilia, is to be Secre-
tary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He
is a young Lombard, exceedingly well informed
and of good address. Two months ago he wtote an
article in the Perseveranza, which terribly annoyed
Signor Quadrio, a writer in the Unita Italians, who
replied in terms not remarkable for politeness, and
a duel with pistols was the result, in which fortu-
nately neither of the combatants was hurt.
Of Signor Übaklino Peruzzi, who has the port-
folio of the Interior, I need not say much ; you
I already know that he is a Florentine, and a descen-
dant of those celebrated bankers of Florence who
possessed enormous wealth in the thirteenth cen-
tury and who lent money to England. In the
Rattazzi cabinet he held, with much honour to
himself, the portfolio of Public Works. He has been
violently opposed by the Rattazzi party, every effort
being made at court to keep him out of the ministry.
His secretary-general is Silvio Spaventa, one of the
most serviceable men to the government the Nea-
politan revolution has produced. Even against
this latter the recently vanquished party has
uttered its slanders, with the view of un-
dermining him in the favour of the King.
But Victor Emmanuel, after some hesitation, per-
ceived that if be listened to these calumnies, he
should be supporting a selfish and dishonest party ;
he therefore consulted with some of the most expe-
rienced, faithful, and intelligent men, declared
that there should be not the slightest deviation
from constitutional usages, and welcomed accord-
ingly with much cordiality one of the chiefs of
a parliamentary majority, which bad overthrown,
in the full exercise of its rights, and for the best
possible MUMS the Rattazzi ministry.
I need scarcely speak to you of Generals Mena-
bre& and Della Rovere, who belonged to the Rica-
soli cabinet. The former was formerly Minister of
Marine, and now will be Minister of Public Works,
Tor which poet his technical knowledge and his busi-
ness habits admirably fit him. With the exception
of the Finance department, General Menabrea
would efficiently fill any office in the ministry.
General Della Rovers returns to the War-office,
to the great satisfaction of the army, who look
upon him as one of their most distinguished and
most efficient generals, and the public is not less
pleased to see men of his stamp return to power.
As for the President of the Council, the minister
without portfolio, Signor Farini, I will merely say
that, despite the slanders of Lord Normanby, be is
universally respected. Unfortunately his health is
so bad just now that he strengthens the cabinet
with his mere name rather than with his abilities.

In my enumeration of the new ministry I have
forgotten Signor Minghetti, who will have the
finances under his charge. Though not perhaps a
great statesman, he is at least superior to Signor
Sella, who, though a very estimable, scientific man,
was without financial experience.
You will see from the above that the crisis,
which the enemies of Italian unity considered in-
surmountable, has been successfully overcome. M.
Drouyn de Lhuya, instead of humiliating Italy, has
rendered her a service. Ho has, without intending
it, emancipated her from an unpopular ministry,
and cleared the way for more acceptable and more
efficient men. The loss of Count Pettiti, the late
Minister of War, has alone been looked upon with
regret ; not because his successor is a whit inferior
to him, for he is perhaps superior, but because
it was known that Della Rovere assisted him as a
friend ; so that without any change the same ad-
vantages might have been obtained. For full two
I years the Ministry of War has been singularly for-
tunate in its ministers, and the army accordingly
has gone on improving.
The Monde and the France have already begun

to think the victory their own ; and I know that
one of the writers in the latter journal offered to

lay a wager that by January 1863, the Southern
provinces would be separated from the kingdom of
Italy. Perhaps he built upon the new proclama-
tion of the silly pretender Murat, the unpopu-
larity of Signor Rattazzi, an unpopularity which
was increased by the malicious eulogies of La
France, and upon the appearance of a new separa-
ties journal in Naples named after that city. To
support this journal for a year 50,000 francs have
been sent from France, 80,000 francs from
Rome, and 50,000 francs have been col-
lected in Naples itself. This sum of
180,000 f., you may be quite certain will be so much
money thrown into the sea. The present change of
ministry destroys at a blow the very basis upon
which the new journal was, established. A
friend of mine, a man of considerable influence in
Naples, has received from that city a despatch thus
worded :—" Reactionaries, separatists, and Mu-
ratista are in despair at the new ministry. The
people are pleased."
A letter in which Garibaldi states that he did
not shake hands with Cavour on a certain occasion
has produced an unpleasant effect. Garibaldi was
ill-advised when he wrote it, and his statement will
injure his reputation as a man of noble and generous
character. The Gazzetta del Popolo expresses the
universal feeling when it says, after publishing the
announcement, " Shaking Cavour's hand would
have been better than writing this letter."

"A magnificent white Carrara marble staircase,"
rya the Paris rht " which is to cost not less than
150,000 fr., is at this moment being prepared at Vangirard.
It is to be seat in piens to Baron de Rothschild, of Lon-
don, in whose residence it is to be placed."
The late M. Verhaegen, of Brussels, bag be-
queathed 100,000fe. to the University of Brussels. Other
clausal of his will give 50,000 fr. to the charitable institu-
tions of that capital, and 50,000 fr. to the Masonic Lodge
des Amis Philantropse, of which be was the venerable.
The authorities at Naples have determined to
put an end to the impositions to which foreigners who wish
to see the curiosities of that city aad neigbboutimod, par-
ticularly the ruins of Pompeii and of Herculaneum, hare
beep long subjected. An order has been issued shat for the
tutors the guides shall may dame 9fr. foe each perms, and
lfr. for rook child, and aay iithaetka of this ceder will be
se►erely punished

ItI7BBLL

At a recent reception given by the Emperor of
Russia to the nobles at Moscow, his Majesty ad-
dressed them as follows :

It is particularly agreeable to me, gentlemen, to see you
assembled in our ancient capital, which is doubly dirr to me,
as it was my cradle. I am satisfied to be able to repeat to
you what I said to the nobles of Novogorod on the day of
the celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the Russian
empire. lam accustomed to place my ooefidenoe in the
sentiments of devotion of our nobility—an unshaken devo-
tion to the throne and to the country, of which it has so
often given proof by its acts, especially at periods of sad
trials for our country, as was only recently the case.
I am sure, gentlemen, that our nobility will continue
to be the most firm support of the throne, as it always
has been and ought to be. This is why I pat my trust in
you, gentlemen, in your unanimity in aiding me in every-
thing which tends to the welfare and power of our country.
May God aid us in this task, and may His blessing be with
us . And you, gentlemen. members of the nobility of Mos-
cow, know that I hold it a special honour to be one of you
as proprietor of this province. I thank you for your cordial
welcome, which I know how to appreciate.
This appeal of the Emperor to the nobles pro-
duced a great effect upon the assembly. The
Grand Duke Michel, the Emperor's brother, has
joined the Emperor at Moscow. Prince Albert of
Prussia, who is on his return from a tour in the
Caucasus, also proceeds to Moscow.

,-(THIS DAY.)

IS, I A.I.