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

THE EXPRESS,

any close relation who had accused sad oilier of
cowardice and falsehood. Nor is there any
reason to suppose that such an attempt
will succeed even amongst " the officers and
"gentlemen " of the 4th Dragoon Guards.
Colonel DIMINO:E. must go, and the Duke of
Corsamoz must " select " some other officer to
fill his place. If the Duke succeeds in this
selection in this particular case, there is no reason
why he should not succeed in any other case• If
he does not succeed, it will beoome more than ever
a question whether he is capable of performing
the essential duties of his high position.
There is of course no manner of doubt that
under existing circumstances the Duke of Cam-
BRIDGE will be anxious to provide an efficient
Colonel. The grievance is that the Army must
suffer from the presence of such incompetent
men as Colonel Bzirrnrcz until their want
of judgment has raised a serious scandal.
The influential officers of the Army, with the Duke
of CAMBRIDGE at their head, are determined to
taintain the purchase system at all hazards.
is idle to 'appose that the Cone lANDER-IN-CHisi
was not thoroughly aware of Colonel BRTITINCI'B
character before he assumed the command of the
4th Dragoon Guards, or that the condition of the
regiment and its officers was not thoroughly known
long before the Court-martial assembled. The
only regret amongst military men seems to be that
the whole affair was not hushed up. Captain
Rosmrsow ought to have been quietly pushed out
of the way, and probably if Colonel BrwruwK and
Colonel BROWNRIOO had managed matters better
this result would have been accomplished.

LATJ

A Paris letter, in the Journal de Rouen, gives
the following as what is likely to take place on the
occasion of Prince Napoleon's visit to Italy. The
writer declares that the account which be sends was
current in generally well-informed circles in Paris :
According to certain reports, the miedoe of the Prince
will not be limited to a simple visit to King Victor Emma-
nuel, and to the delivery of a letter from the Emperor ;
be will, it is said, perform the first act of the policy
adopted towards Rome. The letter of the Emperor, it
is affirmed, will first of all contain an invitation to
the King to visit Paris, and the prince is to verbally add the
proposal to proceed with him to Rome under the protection
of the French flag, and, with the character of the greatest
neutrality, to present to the Pope the propositions of the
French government. An audience would be solicited of the
Pope, and the Holy Father would learn at it the prince was
the bearer of an order for the commander of the French
army of occupation to cause a division to fall back uponCivita
Vecchia. King Victor Emmanuel would then ism an order
to replace that division by an Italian one. According to
the reply of the Pope, Prince Napoleon and King Victor
Emmanuel would act in the sense of the first instrec-
lions given to the Pope, and the Emperor would be ad-
vised of the determination of the pontifical government.
Bing Victor Emmanuel would then repair immediately to
Paris, and in the interview between the two sovereigns the
final resolutions would be adopted. According to that plan,
the Pope can but be touched by the personal visit of King
Victor Emmanuel and Prince Napoleon, and would recap
Dime in this visit a proof of the deference of the govern-
meats of France and Italy. If a refusal be opposed by the
LHoly Father to the propositions made to him, and if a de-
. picture from Rome of the Chief of Christianity appeared
Imminent, the resolutions to be taken would be both con-
certed at Paris, after a sort of manifedetion addressed to
the French church.
The Prase of Naples announces the arrest of the
Bourboniat committee of Naples. The first step
_ _

to this result was the arrest, already stated, of

Major Achilles Cosenza, who was found cooped up
in a hen-house. It soon appeared that he was the
president of the committee in question, which, how-
-1 ever, continued to hold meetings, notwithstanding
his arrest, until the police succeeded in arresting all
the members at one swoop as they were descending
the stairs of the house where they had held their
sitting. Their names are—M. Gallo, brother of
the prelate of that name ; Toronteros, a relation of
the major of that name now at Rome ; Commander
Ambrosio, and his son Vincent ; Marquis Lancel-
lotti ; and M. Tommaasini, ez-inspector of the
police in Sicily.

(num% vsixossas.)
BELGIUM.
THE HEALTH OF THE KING.
BRUMELS, MAT 7.
The Moniteur Beige, of this morning, says
"The condition of the King remained the same
throughout yesterday. At night, however, more
favourable symptoms supervened."