The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-17 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THURSDAY EVINING.

Do not suppose that the ministerial crisis is
over because the only change gazetted in the Moni-
teur to-day is the substitution of M. Dronyn de
Lhuys for M. Thouvenel as Minister for Foreiga
Affairs. The telegraph, which necessarily repeats
the worthless assertions of a slavish and crippled
press, will mislead unwary readers on this subject.
The wretched Patrie and Pays, which both said
widely different things last night, both claim to be
right this evening, and both are equally and impu-
dently wrong. The Pays, which vowed that there
was no "serious foundation" for the rumours
of a ministerial modification, now musters
brass enough to say that its assertion is
completely borne out by the Moniteur's announce-

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meat of a mere " change of person" in the ministry
of foreign affairs, which does not imply any change
of policy. The Patrie, which, still more unfortu-
nate, was prompted to affirm that the only differ-
ence between the Emperor and his ministry related
to the question of internal policy—the elections, is
now reduced to feign a triumph, because the ru-
mours which it "denied yesterday" are put an end
to by the appointment of a new minister of foreign
affairs.

With M. Thonvenel is turned out of offioe K de
Lavalette, the ambassador to Rome. What a light
upon the moduli operandi of imperialism is
thrown by these two dismissals—or, if you like
the word better, resignations. On September 5
the Monikur published a despatch of M. Thou-
venel's, dated May 30, informing the court of
Rome that if it continued to "oppose the theory
of immobility as categorically as it had done
hitherto, the Emperor's government could not con-
form its conduct to such a course," and " would be
obliged to consider on its account how to retire
from a situation which, being prolonged beyond a
certain term, would falsify its policy." On the
same day the Moniteur published a despatch from
M. de Lavalette, dated June 24, informing M.
Thouvenel that he bad done his utmost to treat,
but that the Emperor's proposals to the Holy See
had met with the fate of all his former ones—in a
word, every proposal for a compromise was utterly
rejected, and the court of Rome entrenched itself
obstinately in its non possurnua The world at
large believed, as it was meant to do, that the pub-
lication of these diplomatic papers, then several
months old, could only mean logically that the
Emperor was about to take action in the sense of
M. Thouvenel's despatch. It now appears that
they were only disclosed to stop a gap for the
moment, and to prevent M. Thonvenel from re-
signing at an inconvenient time, while the Emperor
was at Biarritz. He who runs may now read that
the journal the France, though duly and emphati-
cally disavowed, was started by M. de la
Gueronnilwe to pave the way for the
reactionary and ultramontaue policy which the
Emperor had secretly resolved upon in opposition
to the views which his ostensible advisers were offi-
cially holding out to Italy and the world. Just as
before the coup d'dtat of 1851 K Thorigny, Minis-
ter of the Interior, knew nothing whatever of the
conspiracy brewing with his destined successor, the
Duke de Morny, so up to a few days ago M. de
Thouvenel was kept in ignoranoe of the things re-
solved upon with M. de la Gueronniere.
To return to the ministerial crisis. I repeat that
both K Fould and M. de Persigny have tendered
their resignations. As earnest personal friends of the
Emperor, you will readily understand the difficulty
they would feel in resisting his request
not to retire simultaneously. M. Fould knows
that his resignation would cause a fearful panic at
the Bourse, and he may think it patriotic to remain
in office for a little longer at some sacrifice of prin-

ciple. Re is going to Marseilles to attend the in-
auguration of a steam-packet company, and does
not certainly withdraw for the moment.
What he will ultimately do I cannot say, but I
have no doubt that if he oould hand over him
portfolio to a successor without causing a financial
crisis he would do so.

I believe myself able to state that the Emperor's
faithful and affectionate old eounsellor, the Count de
Persigny, will leave office very shortly on account of
the dire decision of his master with respect to Rome.
M. de la Gueronnibre is a candidate for the suc-
cession, but perhaps his name is mainly put forward
by himself. Another name spoken of is that of
M. Henri Chevreau, Prefect of the Loire, one of

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than that of Cas7Cspinaese, of terrible "Innory
It would, moreover, revive a story about a necklace
—rivalling the historical collier of the last century
—which on every account should be suffered to
sleep.
The France, which must now be considered as the
semi-official journal, coolly tells its readers that
M. Thoavenel and M. de Lavalette retire merely
on account of the false " interpretations " put upon
their despatches published by the Moniteur, and
that there is nothing in the real meaning of the
documents different from the Emperor's present
j intentions. Inasmuch as the partisans of Italian
unity have come, though quite wrongfully, to
consider those two statesmen as their devoted
partisans, it is necessary for the Emperor to dismiss
his faithful servants in order to put an end to a
"misunderstanding." Judge from this specimen
of the measure which the Prance applies to the
intelligence of its readers !
The France hears from Turin that M. Rattami
having been informed by despatches from Paris,
received on the 14th and 15th, of M. Thouvenel's
determination to resign, at once called a council of
ministers, and read to them despatches which left
no hope on the subject of Rome. In the evening of
the 15th the rumour of M. Entteszi's resignation was
prevalent, and "the public, beginning to under-
stand the situation, received the news without in-
credulity."

It is very currently reported that the King of
Portugal and his bride will pay a visit to the
Emperor and Empress at Compiegne next month ;
at all events, the Prince Napoleon and the Princess
Clothilde (now in Lisbon) Lave a commission to give
them a pressing invitation.
An aide-de-camp of Marshal Canrobert has just
arrived at Lyons, and the inference is drawn that
not Count Palikao but the marshal will be ap-
pointed to the important command left vacant by
the death of Marshal Castellane.
The Bourse has somewhat recovered, the minis-
terial crisis being considered in the money market
as relatively unimportant, provided that Fould
does not go out. Rents rose 25c. for cash and 35c.
for account, closing at 71fr. 25c. and 71fr. 30c.
Mobilier rose 18fr. 25c. Railways were rather
higher.
The Daily News is seized.

ITALY.

GARIBALDI.

VISOR OUR SPACIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
SPEZZIA, Ocr. 13.

A certain irritation is manifesting itself amongst
the writers in the government interest on the per-
tinacity with which the surgeons in attendance on
Garibaldi continue to publish their bulletins. In
the notoriety given to Garibaldi, some of the
generals—and in particular La Marmora—have
found grave cause of offence ; and the Governor
of Naples declared that if the publication of the
amnesty were to be made by a special gazette, he
I and several others of his own rank in the service
would retire.

Without having lived in Italy, and mixed there
with some of its military society, it is not easy to
understand or to measure this feeling ; one must
have observed the intense jealousy of the regular
soldier towards the volunteer, the contempt of
the royalist for the red-shirted republican, to believe
how painfully this rivalry has entered into the
heart of the army. .

Your papers, say the Italians, are treating Gari-
baldi as if he were a prince of the blood. For some
objects of your own—for you are a very practical
people and waste nothing, not even sympathy—you
affect to feel for Garibaldi in " delitto " a degree of
affection and devotion you never vouchsafed to him
in his days of triumph. How is this ? What
do you mean by it 1 Why do you coquet with
Joseph Blaulni ? Why do you seek to estrange
France ? If it is needless to say that we are
doing neither one nor the other, it would be
equally hopeless to explain to any untravelled
Italian what is now taking place in England
regarding Garibaldi. Of how much honest kindli-
ness for suffering, compassion, genuine admiration
for a noble nature, and downright humbug of a
certain set of people seeking notoriety for them-
selves under the cover of a great name, all this
Garibaldine sentiment is made up, I would neither
attempt nor wish to make known to the people of
Italy.
These momentary bursts of national enthusiasm
are like alteratives to the phlegmatic temperaments
of our people ; and we always are, or we fancy our-
selves to be, the better for them.
Whether it was that the friends of Garibaldi
thought they saw a decline in the national anxiety
about him, or that it was necessary to make some
protest against the more than insinuations of the
ministerial press that the wound was less serious
than the doctors declared it, a consultation has
just been held at Varignano, and Zanetti was sum-
moned specially from Florence to attend it. The
result has been the publication of a rather
lengthened statement of the present state of the
injured limb, with a more serious anticipation of the
time that may be required for its cure, and graver
appreciation of the dangers to be apprehended,
than we have lately seen ; all winding up with the
remark that " no positive evidence yet exists that
the ball is not in the wound."
There is certainly enough in Garibaldi's state to
occasion anxiety to his friends. The very length of
time he must of necessity be confined to bed will
make a sad inroad into a constitution that its owner
never spared, not to speak of the far more serious
wear and tear that will come of moral suffering.
It would be to put Garibaldi above all
human sentiment and emotion to suppose that he
must not regard as ingratitude the treatment he
has lately received. Believing—as he does believe
—that his last expedition was fully as justifiable as
his first, and convinced that if Rattazzi had been a
minister of his King instead of a creature of the
Emperor he must have succeeded, it would
be very bard to reconcile him to his present lot ; and
it may be feared that in those long weary hours of
the night, of which he already speaks as the
weariest be ever passed, these dreary thoughts
will eat deeper and deeper into him, and sadden, if
they do not sour, one of the finest natures that
ever a man was blessed with.
Of the American war he speaks no more. It is
not improbable that he has learned that the
Yankee oonsul acted entirely on his own re-
sponsibility, and without any concert with or per-
mission of his superiors. Indeed, it could not in
any way have entered into the consular's functions
to make this offer to Garibaldi. The consul aocre-

ditedtoVieuna had certainly no competency to treat
with any one residing in Italy, and it is oertain that
the American minister at Turin has strongly re-
presented the matter to his government, and de-
manded as a right that the obtrusive official be re-
primanded. Whether Garibaldi has wen that he
was tricked by an incompetent and unauthorised

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pima into a correspondenoe, and resents the im-
pertissoos, or that wiser and better thoughts on the
wholequestion have supervened, he has assuredly
eoolerl on the project,
,end his companions have
'newer heard him allude to it.
Tie talks with pleasure of going to England ;
nia heart is, however, not set on demonstrations or
public testimonials, it is easy to see that he longs
to meet certain dear personal friends, and to speak
to them of all.he feels for the nation, " Questa
grandissima nazione," as he loves to call it.
The telegraph has brought tidings of two Con-
federate privateers having entered the Mediterra-
nean, the notorious Captain Semmes being in
command of one of them. It is rumoured that
they have already sunk or burned twelve Federal
craft, and the consuls at all the ports are on the
alert to spread the tidings, and provide measures
for future safety.