The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

The Lloyd of Vienna has the following :

The question may be asked ea to whether the recognition I
of Italy by Austria belongs to the domain of impossibilities.
People seem to think so, as they imagine that the kingdom
of Italy, bating been bore of the revolution, is enchained to
a revolutioaary policy. That view is no longer true since the
death of Count Cavour, as the kingdom of Italy has for some ,
time renounced its compact with the revolution, and dealt
it a mortal blow at Aspromonte. The Italian government
may have committed an act of ingratitude in so deciding,
but we state the fact without comment on it. Since then
Italy has fallen more and more into a passive attitude, end
to discover any revolutionary tendency in the present eye.
tem of the Italian government would be difficult. Count
de Rechberg has declared in the Reicherath that Austria
renounced all idea of an aggressive war on Italy. The only
hindrance to the recognition consists in the desires of the
Italians with regard to Venetia, which really exist, although
the Italian government is not in a position to satisfy them.
The present relations between Austria and Italy are equally
wetly to both states, which would each find an advantage in
a definitive state of peace. Unfortunately we are persuaded
that, in spite of the motives which pleal for the recognition
of the kingdom of Italy, it will not take place until after
the solution of the Roman question.

THE EDUCATIONAL CONFLICT IN BADEN.

The Augsburg Gazette contains the following
from Bade; on the conflict which has arisen
between the government and the clergy :

A stranger would give a very mistaken interpretation of I
the conflict which has arisen between the government and
the Archbishop of Friburg, if he attributed it entirely to
the recent law on popular education and the provisions of
that law as to the euperintendence of schools. The priests
are in fact the principal members of the local school
council; and whenever they with it they preside over
these schools. The law, therefore, does not in the
slightest degree prohibit the clergy from exercising all the
influence they possess for the benefit of the schools of the
commune, as long as that influence does not overstep the
limits of the law, and as long as the clergy do not consider
the schools as their exclusive concern, making use of them
for purposed alien to the object for which they were est►b-
lished. Herein lies the real source of the conflict. The
clerical faction and its leaders expected by aid of
this educational reform, which has conceded to the
church much more than was allowed it under the
preceding law, to 00 able to role the schools. Hence
the motive of their opposition to the r cent law. Thus a
catholic chapter decided some days ego that its members
would form no part of the school councils, if the clergy
were not allowed to be permanently represented in the higher
sphere of the department. It would be more conformable
to Christian and truly catholic principles that the clergy,
as professors of the Christian spirit, should seize every
occasion of developing to the utmost extent whatever is
good, instead of endeavouring to extend, as their chief aim,
their own power. The great majority of the people of
Baden are, on this question, on the side of the chambers,
and again at the clergy. The recalcitrant party of the
clergy are isolated, and their efforts will be without result-

MEXICO.

A letter from Mexico, 10th August, says

The Emperor left this morning to commence a tour
through his empire. The first journey, however, will not
be a long one, and the expectation is that his Majesty will
return to the capital in about a month, after having visited
Queretaro, Leon, and Guansjnato. He will oome back to
be present at the Kt. of Mexican Independence, which is to
be celebrated on the 16th September, when he will lay the
first stone of a monument which he his ordered to be
erected in the centre of the open space before the palace,
in commemoration of that event. His Majesty will,
however, soon after undertake fresh excursions, par-
ticularly to Vera Crux at the commencement of the
winter. The Emperor thinks that his presence in the pro-
vinces may materially contribute to pacify them ; in the
first place, because the measures adopted to give security to
his journey leaves no point unexplored, and next, because
the visit of a sovereign always induces a certain number of
malcontents to oome over to him. Moreover, while the
military and finance commissions are at work, the presence
of the Emperor in the capital is less necessary. During him
Majesty's absence the Empress, being named regent, will
hold the reins of government. Her Majesty, as is well
known, is possessed of great intelligence, maturity of judg-
ment, and much tact and finances.

The following is the text of a letter addressed by
the Emperor Maximilian to the Minister of State
on the subject of the press in his empi'e :

Maxioo, Angast 7.

My dear Minister Velazquez de Leon,—M;bile waiting
for the commission, charged to organise the administration
of justice, to submit its labours to me, I have thought it
opportune to extend the action of the prem. Consequently
from the Pth inst.. and until a fresh order, the prolimioary
censorship is suppressed. Each journal may freely income
its opinions on official acts, and point out the iooonvenienoe
of them, but without exciting to disobedience and in ob-
serCog the respect due to authority. Offensive allusions,
recriminations tending to keep up discord, and to irritate
party spirit, as well as attacks on private life, will be re-
pressed conformably to the legislative enactments in force
on such clatters, without prejudice to any prosecutions and
punishments enacted against the abuses which the tribunals
are called on to try. In that respect justice will follow its
ordinary course. I strictly recommend the judges to fully
respect the law in such matters. as well as in the other
affairs submitted to them, reminding those functionaries
that justice is the fundamental basis of order, peace, and
prosper:ty ; and, in • word, the essential element of all
civilised acciety. The editors of the journals are relieved
from the warnings they have up to this time received.

MAXIMILT 4N.

(awstra's TILTVI6II6.)
THE ARMISTICE.
VIENNA, Sari. 14.
The prolongation of the armistice may be con-
sidered as tacitly accepted by both belligerents.

THE BANK OF PORTUGAL.
LISBON, Sim'. 13.

The Bank of Portugal, authorised by the govern-
ment, has raised its rate of discount to 7 per
cent —an utprecedented measure. The other banks
will follow.

THE BOMBAY MAILS.
MALTA, Strr. 13.

The Delhi, with the above mails, will leave
Malta at 9 p.m. to-day for Marseilles, where she
may be expected on the 16th instant.

The Malta brought the wails to Suez, arriving
there on the 9th instant.

OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
The Massilia, from Southampton on the 4th
inst., reached Malta today at 11 a.m., and will
leave at 6 p.m. for Alexandria.

The French Imperial acrew yacht Prince Jerome,
with Prince Napoleon and the Prineeas Clothilde and suite on
board, sailed from Sprtbead on Monday evening, and at.ived
at Havre yesterday morning. At the conclusion of the visit
of the Prince and Prince"' to Portsmouth dockyard on Mon-
day they honoured the French vionconeul. the Chevalier
Van den Bergh, with their presence at luncheon at his re-
sidence, Holland House, Southsee. After luncheon the
Prince and Princess embarked in the Imperial twin screw
barge La Monche, paid a short visit to the Ezoellent gun-
nel y ship, and witnessed some blank practice from her 12-
ton guns, and afterwards returned to the Prince Jerome in
tdonche.

At the Grand-Thiatre of Marseilles, on Saturday
evening. during the ballet in the second act of Prou cr Are,
Mdlle. Pancaldi, one of the principal dancers, made a Mee,
step and fell into the prompter's box. She was not much
hurt by the fall, but her drew came in contact with the
gas, and was instantly in a blase. She, however, promptly
extricated herself, and was running across the stage, when
the manager, M. Defaces. caught her in his alms, and
succeeded in extinguishing the flames before any fatal injury
was done. His own hands were severely burnt.

INTOLERANCE CH ECKED. —A few days back A
baptised Jew was brought before one of the tribunals of
Vienna for judgment for having relapsed and returned to
the creed of his forefathers. The tribunal decided that a
conversion from one creed to another was not, u spostaey
merely, punishable by law.