The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-13 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(moo ova ows cosassrosozerr.)
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The Opinion Nationale publishes a correspond-
ence from Rome, which throws a curious light
upon the recent assertions that the Emperor has
undertaken to guarantee the Pope iu the enjoy-
ment of his present temporal possessions. The story
is as follows :—One of Cardinal Antonelli's
brothers, named Luigi, is married to a charming
woman, and there is a rumour that an attache
of the French Emba'msy is one of her admirers.
The existence of this rumour afforded the clerical
party an opportunity too precious to be let slip.
The attache was induced in some way
or another to communicate to Cardinal
Antonelli secret despatches, which arrived
at the embassy during K Lavalette's ab-
sence. The latter having got wind of something
wrong, wrote secretly to Paris to desire that a sen-
sation despatch might be sent to him, the coutents
of which should be false. It was in compliance
with this request that the despatch was sent which
the France made a great fuse about, assuriug the
Pope that the patrimouy of St. Peter would he
guaranteed to him. This despatch was at once
surreptitiously made known to Cardinal Antonelli,
and he in his joy hastened to communicate it to
La France. M. de Lavalette went to the Vatican
a few days afterwards, and was pressingly
asked by the cardinal whether he had any-
thing to communicate. " Nothing." " But,
surely— " Nothing, your eminence."
" But we are told that your government has sent
you a note promising to secure us our present ter-
ritory." "I know nothing of any such note."
" That is strange," insisted the cardinal, " for it
has been alluded to in La France." " Really ; but
where did the France get it from 1" "Doubtless
from the nuncio." "Oh ! very well," said M.
Lavalette ; " I will refer to the nuucio at Paris."
At length, when the cardinal saw that Mgr. Chigi
would be compromised, he preferred to sacrifice the
really guilty party.
Such is the story which the Opinion Nationale
says is "given as positive," but which, very wisely,
it does " not warrant."
There has been a serious fall at the Bourse, which
is attributed to a rumour, not confirmed as far as I
can learn by any authentic telegram, of an attempt
to assassinate M. Rattaazi. The really alarming
state of Garibaldi also ismitributed to the panic.
The great decline in the Bank of France's discount,
indicating a want of commercial confidence, can
hardly be a cause of the fall, because the Rente
opened with much buoyancy, at 10c. higher than
yesterday. The final quotations, 69fr. 40c. for
cash, and 69fr. 45c. for account, show a fall of
25c. and 20c. Mobilier fell 16fr. 25c., and the
Italian Loan 50c. The Lyons, Orleans, and
Southern railways fell 7fr. or Bfr.
The following note has been communicated to
the Paris journals from the Ministry of the
Interior : _ _

A despatch published yesterday evening and this morning
by cattalo joureals relate' and siegularly exaggerates two
amid:iota which occurred in the roaditead of Gibralter. The
real facts are these :—A fire broke out a few days back cm
board the Prince Vides., but was almost immediately ex-
tinguished. Nearly at the sews time a collision took plate
between the Plasm and the Charente, the two made re.
mishits some slight damage. No serious loss is mentioned
as having been mused by these two incidents.

It is curious that the Patric, which originally pro-
mulgated the news complained of, thinks itself safe
in abstaining from the publication of the above com-
municated note, and by way of confirming its
statement gives prominenoe to a telegram from
Madrid, stating that the crew of a French disabled
vessel had landed on neutral ground near Gibraltar,
and also to a paragraph from the Ocean of Brest,
reporting that the mixed vessel Wagram had re-
ceived orders to put to sea in all baste to take up
the passengers of a vessel which had been obliged
to put into Gibraltar, iu consequence of " serious
damage" occasioned by a collision. It is not too
I much, therefore, to infer that the communique' in
question is unreliable.

ITALY.

(viol OUR OWN CORRZSPONDENT.)
NAPLES, &FT. 6.

Our protracted detention begins to become un-
pleasant. The wing of the Qwestura in which we
are kept is filling too fast by the measures of La
Marmora. Meet of the prisoners are detained for
crimes and misdemeanours, but we have had lately
three new-comers who belong to our class of poli-
tical prisoners, detained upon suspicion. One of
them, the printer Feats, is suspected of having
printed some of the productions of the clandestine
press which troubles the sleep of our Proconsul;
the other, Signor Ricci, is a well-known character
in Italy, who began his political career as one of
Mazzini's friends, but after a lengthened stay at
Paris, and different phases of politics, has at last
subsided into Muratism. It is rather disagreeable
to be in inevitable contact with such a person,
but we are soon to be relieved of his presence. La
Marmora has the greatest regard for every Mnratist,
and sends him, to-day, back to Paris. Bianchi,
our Bourbonist fellow-prisoner, 18 likewise soon
to participate in La Marmora'a generosity ; his
liberation is announced as immineut; he might even
have been already in the enjoyment of his liberty,
had he accepted the first proposition of the Quiea-
tor—viz, to take a passport and leave Italy for a
while. All the rigour falls upon us Garibaldiaus,
who have never been hostile to Victor Emmanuel,
though we oppose Rattazzi and his tendency to
screw Italian liberty down to the level of French
liberty. I fear much that such an experiment will
have fatal results for the monarchical principle in
Italy. The street demonstrations and the public
meetings of the " Societe Euiancipatrice " have,
indeed, been suppressed, but the Italians, deprived
of the means to make their views publicly known,
will return to political conspiracies, and the musket
of the volunteer may soon be transformed into a
poniard. Garibaldi's name was, until now, Victor
Emmanuel's strongest support in the South ;
Rattazzi has knocked the hero down, and at Palermo
the Italian officers are already treated in the same
way as the Austrians in Venetia, they are excluded
from society. Let the ministry beware ; the south
of Italy can never be governed from Turin, or by
Piedinoutese ; if they do not get into Rome iu 1862,
they will lose Naples and Sicily in 1863, or retain
it only as conquerors by force of arms. The affec-
tion which bound the south to the new throne,
has been killed at Aspromonte.
I saw yesterday the clandestine revolutionary
paper, Roma o Mork, which, for all La Marmora's
state of siege, still continues to appear. Of course it
is highly coloured and exaggerated, but since the
papers under the control of the police are too tame,
the public does not refuse an incendiary publica-
tion, as it would have done under regular govern-
ment.

After the Venetian refugees had been expelled
from Naples by La Marmora's order the Hunga-
rians, too, were transported to Upper Italy. 1 can
assure you by personal experience that the Vene-
tians are rather troublesome : we had but five of
them among us, and those only for one night, but
they made such a noise that, with all my sympa-
thies and good wishes in their behalf, I was very
glad to get rid of them. They were all furious at
the unconstitutional mode of their expulsion,
and quarrelled with the poor policemen on
guard, who only obey the orders of their superiors.
Of remarkable police cases we have had but one,
The assassin of that poor woman who died the other
day before our window on the stone pavement of
the-courtyard was brought to the police delegate
for examination. It was her husband, an ugly
short fellow with a sallow face, evidently half mad.
She had been jealous of him, and in order to win
once more his affections she had cut a handful of
hair off his head for magical purposes, according to
the instructions got from a reputed sorceress As
soon as the prisoner became aware of the fact his
superstitious fears drove him mad, and he threw
himself into the sea, but was rescued ; but on the
following day he sharpened a knife and stabbed his
wife. The case was very piteous, as an evidence of
the want of education and of moral training among
the people.

An agreeable visit surprised us at dinner. Two
old nuns from a convent in the Abruzzi, having
heard that some friends of General Garibaldi were
detained at the Quamtura, called on us, with
sweetmeats, cakes, and wino, anxious to get some in-
formation about the General's wounds, and to know
whether Rome is soon to become the capital of
Italy. I was deeply touched by their unalloyed
enthusiasm for Garibaldi and Marzini—the "father
of Italian unity," as they called him—and by their
desire to see Rome restored to Italy. When I
told them that Garibaldi's blood is certain to open
the gates of Rome they were much pleased, and
promised to call on me again at Rome, to be intro-
duced to him. Taking leave, I told them that I
was a protestant ; they had never seen as yet a man
of such religious opinions, but they shook hands
with me most heartily, with the words, "It does
not matter, we are still your sisters."
In the evening, the mother of M. Farina, Liber-
tines :.ecrctary, who is imprisoned with us for
having assisted his master in his flight, called on
me to thank me for some trifling services which I
was able to render to her son. She told me that her
brother had been confined in this very same
Quieetura under the Bourbons, and that though the
arrests are now still as arbitrary as at that
time, the treatment of the detained persons was
considerably changed. Now she is allowed to see
her son at any hour from morning till midnight,
whilst at that time she had to pay six ducats to a
policeman for smuggling a loaf of bread, which con-
tained a letter from a friend, into the prisoner's
celL

It is the tenth day of my detention, and I do not
know as yet what is to became of me. La Marmara
told one of my friends that there is no positive
charge against me ; but having asked for instruc-
tions about the three members of parliament, about
me, and about Colonel Carbonelli, from the ministry
at Turin, he mast wait for the reply. Hear he is
playing fast and loose with me, for I have some in-
dications that the ministers at Turin tell my friends
there that, being arrested by order of La Marmon,
my liberation depends upon him. Mark well, that
it did not occur either to the cabinet or to their pro-
consul that the detention or liberation of a prisoner
depends in free countries upon the judges and the
law, not upon the good pleasure of the men in
power.