The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-22 00:00:00

ITALY.

0110 X AN OCCAIIOIAI. CORlilerw.
NAPLES, Nov. 18.
The appointment of M. Brenier as French ambas-
sador to this court, just announced, is looked upon as
very significative. That gentleman has recently held
a high position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
but two years ago he made a tour in Italy, much
resembling that famous one of Lord Minter He was
commissioned by the Freoch Emperor to put himself
in communication chiefly with the revolutionary
party, in order to learn its strength and its desires.l
He even went so far as to receive fees
quarters plans of insurrection. Three elaboiste miss
were handed to him among others—one by a Fu-
sionist, another by a Federalist, and another by an
independent conspirator. As he came down the Cm.
tinent, via Turin, Florence, and Rome, great unessi-
nese was felt in courtly circles here. He war received
with great Eclat. It happened to be the fête of the
Emperor, if I remember right. He went to
die San Carlo with Signor Bombe. An enthu-
siastic reception had been prepared foe him.
The police had been most industrious. The
urine were most boisterous. " You see how my
people love me," quoth the Bourbon milor. Next
day, M. Bruise learned through the French
how much this reception had cost of ISO=
trouble. Before leaving Italy the noble diplomatist
—who, by the way, married the sister-in-law of the
celebrated liberal Cataneo—wrote a report, intended,
it appears,for general circulation. He distinctly recom-
mended the expulsion of Ferdinand and the substitu-
tion of Lucien Murat ; he even showed about letters
from that pretender. It is, therefore, strongly sus-
pected that the appointment bodes danger to the
system here; and Mazza (not yet gone into exile, nor
likely to) is in great trouble. He is to be appointed
Coauthor of State. What will English diplomacy
say to thisdouble-dealingP These doings should be
looked to.

'villages of the riff-raff that infest them; that rhe 4
greater part of the volunteers belonged to the vary
scum of moiety ; that they had no soldierly qualitisa.
and were attracted merely by the pay. Sornothingd
this I ascertained to be true ; but it is not quits ear.
thin that men whose superfluous energies and dial.
clination to regular work make them very diagrw
able citizens are incapable of being drilled into net.
cellent soldiers. Severe officers and a popular gaud
Can work wonders. In the Tut great war there ma
in Napoleon's army a regiment composed of thievery
class of men—Piedmontese volunteers, drawn taw
thee in a very indiscriminate manner—quite a road
for the very wont category of those I sur am
Chivasso; and yet they behaved on all maims
very gallantly. It is true that they were not attradag
by high pay, bat the worst expected booty, sba bid I
promotion ; and in those days the atmosphere of mg ..!
Europe was warlike. I-am far from believing ay._
the Anglo-Italian legion, when brought face b
face with the enemy, will refuse to do its day,
Most who come to that point Will follow their Am%
no doubt ; but it is much to be feared that a large
proportion of the men collected together have noted •
wish 0 be made heroes of ; and that as soon se as
order to march is given, desertion will thin am
ranks. I observe, however, that so far the idea d
discipline has been suggested to these men *Utica. .
effect. As soon as the 'venire sounded, they bassa
darting out of the drinking shops, and hustling Mae
steady pamengers in the streets on the way to tale
barracks. .
• A few old soldier, a few young men weary of their
monotonous existence in Piedmontese country ;mu%
have joined the new spirits of Chinn°. In dairbara
these—and a moat valuable addition they will is -
doubt prove—there are a small number of you% •
'Lombards, several of very good families, who hoe
preferred taking service under the English % .
submitting to the Austrian conscription, and .I
sent to garrison other subject provinces at the
extremity of the empire. I may mention, b,y the we ;--
,
that the garrison of Milan is said to have been latri
doubled; and, indeed, the streets do swarm • •
Croats and Hungarians. The Chiang are exordia(
from morning until evening round the citadel.
General Percy voluntarily gave up the format*
of the Legion, being disgusted and discouraged by
the numerous difficulties that presented themselva
and espmially by the quality of the men whom*
forward. Before he had been long in Piedmont be
lost all faith in the undertaking, and would meta*
have done no good had he remained. Colonel Itsal,
1 his successor, found many obstacles removed;
having more confidence in the regimental
thosup
takes all that offer. In this way hs hes s
live or six hundred, some my a
but I do not think the effective force of the leghg•
can be calculated at more than the first-mentimel
number. Before the departure of the King for pub
he will review the Legion; and a good effect is &add.
' pated from this ceremony.
A complaint is made against Colonel Read whia,
if well founded, proves him to be a most impralm
man. He carefully avoids coming into contact wits
any person who is stained by the slightest lamtal
tendency; and seems ambitious only of pains et
Turin as the model of the English aristocrat—vith
all the repulsive coldness attributed to that charlotte
, abroad. One motive *attributed to him is a desire II
express his displeasure with the conduct d air
liberal press and party, who have exerted all their -
influence to dissuade the Piedmontese who roped
themselves from enlisting in the Legion. It would
have been more advisable to endeavour to ameba
what are the grounds of objection, in order te hs
able to explain what is doubtful and refute what is
sophistical. But this would perhaps be snag:led
in a fresh importation from the Horse Garda
There are many general and many special roams
why the liberal press, which naturally exerts tos-fsli
more influence than the ministerial on the dams
from which good recruits might toms, oppose dais
most determined manner the formation of the liseita
It objects to the alliance with Franco ; it blames the
financial sacrifices rendered necessary by the war;
above all it demands that, if a war most be, fished(
be a war of principles. The feeling against ROAR h
strong and general, but not so strong sad seta
general as the feeling against Austria. If the Wet
power were to range itself on the other aide, not oily ,
would Piedmont set aside, conservatives sad film*, •
any feeling against France, but !Waling city melt
be alive in an instant, and Colonel Reed wooled
know what to do with the volutesn who mold
come forward.
As it is, however, the report is industriously stool
that the Legionaries are merely mammies—that •
they are compelled to abdicate their seised chum.
ter, and fight like Swiss for pay ; sad indeed the -
oath exacted from them is such that it tea this, is
moo by any accident England and Piedmost Awed
be at war, to fight against their own onstry. (boll
not all this have been avoided? Could not the m• ;
crafters have been empowered to insinuate at last•-•
what will probably prove to be the tact—that thole.
gion is to be the kernel of an Italian army? he
m
should have had all the liberal press ea ter ilk
and there would have been no need to do the week
of the Piedmonts.. police. As it la, a little 11.1
tact, a little more amenity, a little better qr.
elation of the state of feeling in the north of
Italy, would have weakened, if not di
in es:Flip
the opposition that stands our mg. in_ei
after all, is the object with which this NI
lien Legion is collected ? Do we merely weta
thousand emu? If so, lam persuaded that if fie
enormous sum of money already spent et Clime
had been spent in London—despite the esprell, It
willingness of the English to enlist—es esten
already have got what we want.
in TPhieedloratn;
would allow it, we might soon collect a little day ,
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friends
of Lombardo. It is impossible to exaggerate dot
content that exists in this unfortunate country
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surprised, however, to find that the feeling of Moo
for Piedmont—since the impression that
was betrayed in 1848—still remains.
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