The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-31 00:00:00

PORTUGAL

ABOLITION OFTBS TOBACCO MONOPOLY.
. , =BON. Mum, stt.
aPhe infnittertalmtaanre for the abolition of the
tobacco monopoly has passed in the Cortee by a
majority of 24 votes.
The American corvette Saint Louis has arrived
here.

• THE PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, lisaca 30, 3.30 P.N.
The Bourse opened heavy, but subsequently be-
came firmer.
Reutes closed at 65.8,3, or 15c. higher than
yesterday.

GARIBALDI AND THE ITALIAN GOVERN-
MENT.

vo Tat worms or vat waxes.
Sia,—Whilst England is preparing to give Gene.
ral Garibaldi the hearty welcome of a free nation
to a great patriot, the government in Turin vent
their spite spinet him by petty persecutions. The
following is a letter addressed to the Turin paper
11 Diritto of the 27th instant, by Signor Adrian
Logan* the treasurer of the "Garibaldi Committee
for the unity of Italy " in that town, and agent for
the general in his private affairs.
"Turin, March 26, 1864.
" Dear Sir, —Allow me to publish in your
columns that this morning, at 12 o'clock, the Pub-
lic Prosecutor (Procuratore del Re), the examining
judge (Giudice d' Istruzione), and many officials of
the government entered my house, and sequestrated
the sum of 2,625 franca, consisting of a cheque of
100 francs from Victor Hugo to General Garibaldi,
and of 2,525 francs belonging to my current account
with the general. They also sequestrated my cash
book (allowing use to take out of it all the pages
which bad no reference to the accounts of General
Garibaldi), five copies of a circular of January 14,
1864, and a letter from the Honourable Cadolini (a
member of parliament), expressing regret at not
having seen the name of the printer attached to
those circulars. I must add that the sequestration
was conducted with much courtesy.—Yours, &c.,

" ADiIANO LE.16121

This document shows bow, in a country where it
is the duty of all to join hands against their foreign
foes, the narrow-minded policy of the rulers does
not shrink from offending the dearest aspirations of
the people in their most gallant representative.
From the circumstances narrated in the above
note, and from the smallness of the sum, it appears
that the Italian ministry, while intent upon mei:-
ing the fonds of the committee, have simply laid
hands on the private property of General Garibaldi
himself ; in which case they will be judicially
obliged to give back the money.

Such proceedings are a giiod specimen, among
pany others of a similar character, of constitutional
'freedom in the continent. They are, besides, an
outrage to the general national feeling of Italy.
As if to render this decided antagonism to every
patriotic movement more obvious, domiciliary
searches have been practised at the same time,
often without the observance of any legal formality,
in the houses of several friends of Garibaldi
suspected of uniting with him—cautiously, however,
and without iu the least compromising the govern-
ment—in the duty of aiding and encouralng the
efforts of the Venetians towards self-emancipation.
These facts would lead one to despair of a country
seeking for life under such auspices, were it not that
the destinies of a nation are not dependent on the
stupidity of the ruling few, but on the great heart
of the people.
No wonder, in the presence of such acts, that the
love of the multitude be with their popular leaders,
and not with those who attempt to vituperate and
to crush them.

By inserting this letter in your valuable journal
you will oblige—Yours, ittc.,

. . _
AURELIO BAFFI.
12, Grafton-street, Bond-street, W., March 30.

A landslip took place a few days sine near
Woymousk, by which about swan sass of laid fall isto
was.