The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-25 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Ilentnity, 5 r.n.
It appears, alter all, that the triumphal entry into
Rome of that heroic chieftain Oulinot, at the head
of Lie victorious hordes, is still delayed, and, for the
honour of human nature in general, and the French
republic in particoh,r, we confess that we entertain a
lingering hope that it may be postponed sine die. Al-
though some days since one of our influential con-
temporaries thunile•ed forth the announcement of Vie
entrance of the French troops into Rome as a fait
aerompli, it happily remains ansengst the things
which have yet to be accomplished, and General
Ondinot is still before the walls of Rome, exposed to
the ceaseless fire and frequent sorties of his- gallant
and oppressed opponents. and the f cornfol jeers of all
military men. In perusing the despatches which the
redoubtable hero has forwarded to his government,
and in which, despite his boisterous auto-laudations,
we find him still occupying the same humiliating
position, to cur contempt for this atrocious vinlecion of
the rights of nations have now succeeded feelings
of ineffable disgust at the manner in which General
Ouilinot has jumbled in attempting to carry out his
instruct ions. _ .

.....
It were useless to forward you the documents re-
lsting to this disgraceful busicess, or to suppose that
you would publish th, rn,er condemn yonrreaders to the
traraus forth of waling through them. From amidst
the mass of disjointed balderdash, and the heap of
Gaming falsehoods, one truth Inge be gleaned, which
is this—that the French republic still continues Ps
barbarous efforts to destroy the Roman republic,
which sprang from its loin, ; and that the heroic de-
fenders of the Rernal City still hold out, and are earn-
ing for themselves another chapter in that imperish-
able history with which the genius of Tach.us and
Livy, and oar own scarcely less celebrated Gibbon,
has rendered the world so familiar.
It would indeed be well fur France if she would
have Hate' ed to the voice of M. de G:rardin, not
always a safe counsellor, bat assuredly so when he
thus writes :

Alresin from all meddling in the affairs of whirr nations,
and the question of peace at nay price can never arise The

less you interfere in the affairs of year neighbours, the less
will it come into the mind. of rival governments I. interfere
with yours. The fear of any one of them coming to attack
your country while you shall be thus occupi‘d in rendering
L sufficiently productive to supply its thirty-six millions of
inhabitants with wholes:dip. sustenance in abundance, is •
fear as chimerical en that of seeing flames lighted without tire.
Why *hosed any one come to attack France while she J.
inoffensive and prosperous? Can it be because Ler prosperity
might excite a too great degree of envy in other nation.?
On ! tnoquiliio yourselves. Such a war would not be to
a;tpreliended oa the day when Prance should be the great
xperimental, the great model nation, setting an temple of
every pacific progress, ef all improvements, proposing to her-
self as her great object universal good. If any government.
wen mad enough to menace poetic sad civilising France, it
wiled not be against her but against themselves that the
populations would rise. Permit us to observe that yol do
not comprehend pence any more than you comprehend
liberty. All the policy of the future lin in there words—
Proell Sad Liberty. Peee, thrives on liberty, as war tt.rives
•aa glory. If w. struggle so boldly for liberty, it is because
we wish for datable and (initial peace.

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3600

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—Our Paris corresp andent,
writing yesterday, says:
The Fr.nch g .vernment has received ano' her
batch of General Oudinot's beggaring despatches; they
are prominently published in the papers this morn-
ing, but although the general still swag:era e n in his
o'd style, with which we are already so familiar, he
does not report progress, as th.y say in the
House of Commons. He and his artillery, and
his engineers, are still &fare the eternal
city, battering away at the old walla and their hero'.
defenders. The geceral gloats with revolting in-
decency over the damage and destruction which he
has dealt around him. and details at great length the
siege operatiot.s during the days of the 13th, 14th,
and 15th inst.
The papers front MareeiVes and Toulen have
'iced arrived, and by them we learn that the
Euphrates left Civita Vecohis oa the 17th, and
brings us lett rs from the general's head quarters up
to 8 a.m. of the 10th, being news of one day's later
date. The letters brought by this steamer state that
a breach had been effected in the walls, but the
general, with his charaettristic prudence, and that
better part of valour, se tr;ghly commended by
Falstaff, hadj determined to delay the assautt
until he had made " all gar; as they would say
at Newmarket The extent of this breach is not
stated; it is, however, pronounced practicable : so
we must soon expect further details of interest.
According to the Vienna Gazette of the 20th of
Jane, a telegraphic despatch had arrived that Anc ma,
after sustaining a heavy bombardment, surrendered on
the evening of the 18th, and that the Austrian troops
entered on the 19th.
BARDINIA.—From Turin we find the confir-
mation cf our correspondent's intelligence, commu-
nicated some days since. The Austrians have finally
mated Alessandria.

VENICE.—The report had arrived at Vienna that
Militia had laid down his diLtatorship, and was now
only at the head of a military cornmation, compost:l
of Genera's Pepe, Baa, and Alloa.