The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-07 00:00:00

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• be" a handsome uteri corvette, called the
VIM deposption. During his reoent sojourn at Porto
d'Ansio he made an excursion in the Mediterranean on
board this ship, and he told the officers and crew that, if
ever he should leave his states, he would embark on the
Immaculate Conception, and under the shelter of the
pontifical flag. We believe we can warrant the truth of
the above statement. We are armed, moreover, that the
Immaculate Conception is in readier.; to sail at a moment's

ITALY.

notice.
This looks very like an announcement that the
Pope is seriously thinking of relieving Rome of his
presence. Neither the King nor the people of
Italy would wish him away if he would be content
to remain, in his spiritual capacity, as the successor
of St. Peter, as the acknowledged head of the
catholic church. But it would be a mistake to
make any large sacrifices of Italian interests to
prevent him from taking to flight. In all proba-
bility his successor will be glad to come back to
Rome on the very liberal terms which Italy will
be always ready to propose to him. In any case, it
will soon be manifest to the universal world that
the freedom of Italy throws no impediment what-
ever in the way of the Pope's issuing orders to
those who delight to obey him. If even the
spiritual power be destined to decay, which I am
in no way concerned to deny, the decadence will be
attributable to other causes than the emancipation
of the nobly-descended citizens Lof Rome from an
odious slavery.

General de Goyon is expected in Paris to-mor-
row.
A communication from Marseilles announces the
departure of the Duke de San Comic) from that
city for Pans, with despatches from the Papal
government. The duke is, it is said, charged with
an autograph letter to the Emperor from his
Holiness.

A curious "new phase" of the Mexican question
is that the liberal journals, which were from the
first opposed to the expedition, and that on very
rational grounds, now assume, on the strength of
last Saturday's articles in the Times and Morning
Post, that England is egging on France to perse-
vere, in the diabolical hope that she may come to
grist The Charioori, echoing the sentiments of
more serious prints, says :
The rises 11 ins great hurry to see France committed
irrevocably to an adventure which will finish nobody knows
when or how, and which may lead us on a great deal
further than we imagine. Such, at least, is the
opinion not only of Frenchmen in Paris,but of a great many
Frenchmen living in Mexico. They represent the state of
things in a vary different light from that of the corres-
pondents of the Constitutionael and Petrie; they foresee
grave complications, great expense, an endless war, and
serious damage to our commercial relations with South
America; they are ate loss to know what Is the object in
view, sad think the French government must be the dupe
of a clerical intrigue. Many letters to the above effect,
written by French merchants and manufacturers in
Mexico, have been circulating in Paris within the last
few dare. The English journals, which know the reel
state of things much better probably than we do, would
Dot be so anxious to send us to the fore if they thought
we were likely to get any good from the business. This
consideration alone would suffice to make us pause.
There are people whose advice and whose gifts are
equally suspicious. Tinseo Datum'.
I learn from a good source that the budget com-
mittee not being able to agree with M. Fould, the
Emperor has resolved upon a further reduction of
the army, to the extent of 10,000 men, making,
with the 30,000 already announced, a reduction of
40,000. The only effect of the measure is to save
the pay of these men for the moment. They re-
main on the reserved list, and may be at any time
called to arms in a fortnight. Still, the step is in
the right direction, and a great evidence of the in-
cremaing power of the representative element in the
government.
The committee on the budget has presented the
following amendment on the subject of the pro-
posed tax 'pn sugar :—Art. 2. of the extraordinary
budget of receipts, which established a supplemen-
tary duty of 10 francs per 100 kilogrammes on
sugar of all growths, is suppressed. The clauses of
the same article relative to refined sugar and mo-
lasses from the colonies is also suppressed. This
amendment is signed by 22 deputies.
The Bourse has but slightly recovered from the
fall yesterday, produced by the false news of an
attempt to assassinate the King of Italy. The
Rent. closed at 70fr. 85c. for cash, with a rise of
10c., and at 71fr. (without change) for account.
Mobilier rose sfr., and the Italian Loan 45c. The
Lyons Railway rose 6fr. 25c., and the other lines
were about 2fr. 50c. higher. QUINN Mires remain
unaltered.

M. Edmond Abont's play of Gaetana does not
appear to be more raceredal abroad than is France, it bay-
ing just bees himed at Turin.
General Garibaldi is at present at the waters of
Trescorra, where he will remain eight or ten days to re-
cover from the weakness occasioned by his late Muesli.
Incendiary fires are still frequent in France, not-
withstanding the efforts of the authorities to discover the
authors. The Besancon papers are filled with the details of
the disaster which has befallen the rich commune of
Orchampa Venom. A fire was observed on the evening of
the 26th of April in a house situated in the lower part of
the village. The greater part of the population were at
that moment employed in the fields, and the progress of
the fire was so rapid that 15 houses were in flames before
any assistance could be procured. It was near midnight be-
fore the fire was extinguished, and at that time 27 houses
were destroyed, leaving 200 persons without shelter. The
fire is said to have been caused by smugglers, who were
smoking in a barn, and let fell some hot ashes into a trues
of hay, and thus caused the terrible calamity. It was re-
marked by the authorities that the houses destroyed were
covered with thatch, notwithstanding a decree published
by the prefect, which forbids such roofing.
When General Prim, Count de Rens and Mar-
quis de Csatillago went over to Mexico, the printing press,
with all its accessories, formed an important portion of his
baggage, not merely with • view to publish his general
order; to the army, but • newspaper under the titlo of
Zoo de Europa. The first number appeared at Vera Cruz
on the 4th of February. According as General Prim moves
into the country, the ff,co de Europa shifts its quatiers,
end the last number is dated " Orizaba, March 19."
The conference of the Polytechnic Association
far the Benefit of the Working Classes was inaugurated at
Paris on Monday, in the great amphitheatre of the School
of Medicine, by • lecture on 'astronomy, delivered by M.
Babinet. The learned and witty astronomer spoke of the
plurality of worlds. The audience, which was mostly <im-
posed of students, workmen, and scholars of the Polytechnic
School, was so numerous, that not only was the amphi-
theatre itself crowded, but the court-yard and corridors
were full of persons eager to take the place of the more
fortunate listeners who might be obliged to quit their

seats.
DEA:PATCH or MAILS. —The Inman steamer City
of Baltimore will be despatched from Liverpool for New
York to-day, with mails for the United States, &c. On
Saturday the Cunard steamer Scotia will be deepatebed
from Liverpool for New York, with mails for the United
States and North America. As the Great Eastern will be
crossing the Atlantic at the same time as these steamers
inn& interest is attached to their purges, and beta on the
be have been extessivitly offered sad taken.
"GALWAY POrTAL CONTRACT. The town
council of this city yesterday reaolval unanimously to pre-
sent • memorial to the guemment praying her Majesty's
ministers "to renew the postal subsidy of the Galway
Transatlantic Steam Navigation Company, as promised at
the close of last session, as condition of the company being
in a position to carry out the contract." It was further
resolved to send a deputation to London to wait on Lord
Palmerston for the garpou of prusing the matter upon his
attention.—Dublin Evening mail.
A Pnounc Ews.—Mr. T. Varty, of Laugrigg,
has a ewe of the half breed, which dropped a lamb on the
14th r 4 October last; and on Sunday, the 27th ult., she
dropped soother, thus having two lambs in six months and
a few daya—Ctonbrriand Paoqlset.

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WEirctlY .. EV a; MAY 7, 1862.
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THE' INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
114 attendance at the Exhibition yesterday was
perceptibly influenced by the races at Newmarket,
which no doubt had drawn away a large portion of
the fashionable world. There were still, however,
vast numbers of persons present, who seemed prin-
cipally to patronise the picture galleries and the
raised platforms at the east and west ends of the
building. Both these latter have great capabilities,
and a very little expense would make them favourite
resorts of the company. On the centre platform
the debris of the great orchestra is being rapidly
cleared away, and the Majolica fountain is slowly
riming into shape amid the ruins. Unmindful of
the duet, the company gather round it, and watch
its progress with considerable curioeity. With
,respect to the actual number of visitors attending
since the opening, it does not appear that as yet any
daily total is published, but, on inquiry yesterday
at the proper office, we were informed that the com-
parative numbers which have been published as
between 1851 and 862 are erroneous, and that the
success of this Exhibition surpasses the last in every
Licalar. The total number of visitors on Mon-
day was 15,568, but at 6 o'clock we could not
obtain yesterday's numbers. Judging from appear-
ances they would be considerably less. It is hoped
that the numbers will be officially published daily,
as was the case in 1851. The galleries appear to
be making very slow progress, and very few visitors
venture near them, the majority=
to be deterred by the desolate and
aspect which they present whenlookedatfrombelow.l
The slight brush which had taken place between
M. Leplay and the commissioners on the night
previous to the opening, wm, as might have been
expected, the subject of animated discussion in the
French court, but the explanations we have heard,
mitigate a good deal the serious aspect which it at
first assumed. It appears that the French com-
missioner and his friends had snugly ensconced
themselves in ,his bureau, intending to spend a
pleasant evening, but after every one had been
cleared out, and the police had been set for the
night, the hilarity of the party at once surprised
and alarmed the constable on duty, one of the
new X's, who immediately stormed the happy
garrison, and summarily cleared them out of the
building. At that hour there was no official to
appeal to, and the policeman would listen to
nothing but his positive instructions. In the
morning, of course, the commissioners had no
difficulty in setting the matter right. There is in
the French court a confident expectation that the
Empress will be an early visitor, and possibly the
Emperor, but the general belief is that the Empress
will come first.
Borne interest, awt from its artistic or industrial
merits, is attached to the department which the
energetic Americana improvised literally in the
eleventh hour, close to the sonth-esat tower. Under
the enterprising direction of Mr. J. E. Holmes as
commissioner and Mr. Beavy as secretary, they
have got together a very respectable collection in-
cluding a fine painting by Kellog, several New York
pianofortes, numerous specimens of that new and
important article of commerce, petroleum, and a
whole regiment of sewing machines, warranted to
overcome all the difficulties of the needle. As a
pendant to this may be mentioned the American
bar, where sherry cobblers, mint juleps, and the
whole long catalogue of American "drinks" ears be
had prepared according to the latest New York
method. Here also the Catawba wine may be
tasted, but as it is uncommonly like Hock, and
mama be sold under ea. a bottle, it is not likely in
the face of the new tariff to get into very general
consumption. The bar is very extensively pa-
tronised, and as it looks into the Horticultund
Gardens, is an exceedingly pleasant place for rest
and refreshment.
A good deal of company is beginning to be'
i attracted nto the Zollverein, principally to listen to
the music of the orchestrion, a gigantic musical
box, which playa the most aborate overtures with
very brilliant effect. We noticed also here a taste-
fully arranged case of penknives, but as they re-
sembled very closely in pattern two which we
bought not long since on the Luther Plat; in ,
Konigsberg, we trust that the jurors will sub-
ject them to • very strict examination before they
award them a medal. The refreshment depart-
ments, both French and English, are at present
working very well, but it is the opinion of persons
experienced in such matters that neither in spam
nor attendance will they be equal to the rush of
the shilling days.