The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-08 00:00:00

SICRVIA.

THE NEXT MAPLE /ROM AIIRRICA.—The news
brought by the Scotia from the United States is up to the
27th ult. The Glasgow, Anglo Saxon, and 1611S1 were to
leave America on the 30th ult., and will be due to-morrow.
The Europa was to leave on the 3rd inn., and will be doe
next Saturday. The Hammonia and City of New York
were to leave on the 6th, and will be due respectively oa
the 16th and 10th inst. The Great Eastern is to leave to-
morrow, and will be due on the 17th. The Persia is to
THE FORTHOOMING ELECTION 07 LORD MAYOR.— leave on the 10th, and will be due on the ldtb. Some of
It is understood (gays the Observer) that there will be no these ships will bring from Cape Race news later by_ three
opposition to the election of Alderman Rose, the next in days than the respective dates of their departure. Wee
rotation for the office of chief magistrate. Some time since the next ten days we shall have 14 or 17 days later news
it was suggested that probably the present Lord Mayor than. that which we have had up to the present time.
would be elected a third tune to 611 the office, but this idea During that period important events will probably have
is now abandoned, as his lordship is indisposed to undertake taken place.
again the arduous duties which the position involves. Al- DESPATCH OF AMERICAN MATHL —The Cunard
dery an Mutgeridge, who was the unsuccessful opponent of Royal Mail steamer Arabia was an Saturday despatched
Alderman Cubitt on the last OCCSSiOD, has retired from civic from Liverpool to Boston, with mails for the UMW Staten
duties, and there is now no one between the present Lord and North America, together with about 150
Mayor and Alderman Rose, who is popular, not only in his cargo, ho. On Wednesday the Inman steamer Ems ° will M
own ward, but throughout the City, amass other einem for deepatched from the kidney for New York with malls for
the great exertions which he bas nude to promote the ell- the United SWIM The box at the Liverpool poet-olles
cwecy. of the London Rifle Brigade, in which be holds • will be sa for the remptioe of letters. he., ietended fee
ocenmarson as mayor. this mail until 11 a.m., send AA Cork until 8.30 p.m.

PARIS, Barr. 7.
The Paris papers of this evening publish the
following telegram :
" BELGRADE, Barr. 7.

" The conferences M Constantinople on Servian
affairs have terminated. The decision arrived at,
however, does not fulfil the expectations of Servia,
and the Prince has resolved not to accept it.
"At Orijitsa (1), the day before yesterday, the
Turks attacked the Servian authorities, who with
difficulty avoided a conflict.
" This evening the Servian quarter was entirely
set in flames by the Turks. The fire still continues.
The Prefect's palace is also burning."

_
PARIS, Sir. 7, EvcraNG.
The following telegram has also been received
here :

" BELGRADE, Barr. 7, EVIENING.

"At Ongitzs (1) the Turks have commenced to
fire upon the Berrien inhabitants. The latter have
not yet replied, but are ready to engage in combat.
Tha conflagration still continues."

ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE OF WALES
AND PRINCE ALFRED AT BRUSSELS.
BRUSSELS, Sin. 7.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
Prince Alfred arrived here at 3 p.m. to-day, and
were met by the Duke of Brabant, the Count of
Flanders, and the British Minister. Milit►ry
honours were paid to their Royal Highnesses, whose
reception was a brilliant affair. A large number of
persons were present. The Princes were conveyed
to the Palace at Bruxelles in state carriages. The
Prince of Wales will be received by the King of
Belgium at Lacken.

CHINA AND AUSTRALIA.
(By Telegrim from Sues.•)
BHANGHAB, JOLT 18.
The city is quiet. News has been received here
from Jeddo of another attempt having been made
to assassinate the British minister at that place.
Two marines were killed. The assassin had com-
mitted suicide.
The attempt is supposed to have been instigated
by the leading Damios.
Japan was unsettled, and little business doing.
CANTON, JOLT 26.
The American ship Phantom has been lost, with
treasure on board, on the Prates shoals. The
captain was drowned.

MELBOURNE, JOLT 25.

3,0001. (1 30,0001.), the proceeds of a subscrip-
tion in behalf of the Lancashire operatives, have
been remitted to England by this mail.

New Zealand is still unsettled. The Maoris will
not accept terms of peace.

• Them manages left Sum at 7.25 porn. au the 4th
Mat., and arrived m Loudon at 9.45 p.m. oa the 6th Met.

Total 4,i11,910

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BOUM tickets (pertly admitted)
Payment 3.736,751

?Ad II,X/0,1111

FRANCE.

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ITALY.

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TUILLN, Bier. 3.

We are beginning to receive more precise news of
General Garibaldi from Spezzia. His wounds are
much less dangerous than they were said to be.
Their mire may be speedy, if it be not retarded by
one of those attacks of gout to which he has been
subject of late. Professor Denegri, the beet sur-
geon in Genoa, is gone to Spezzia, with Gari-
baldi's von-in-law, young Canzio. The govern-
ment has also sent thither those eminent
professors, Porta, of Pavia, and Bazzoli,
of Bologna, to attend the general. The latter has
now been removed to a convenient lodging in the
fort of Santa Maria, or Varignano. Basile, Corte,
Basso, Nußo, Albanesi, Guicciardi, Cattabene,
Guestslla, Bruzzesi, Liusiada, Cairoli, and Burstini
are with him. Nothing is yet known of Missori,
Padre, Panteleo, and some others of the general's
companions, but it is said they are lying wounded
at Messina.

PAM, Ithrtramtr.
I certainly do not find in Paris any echo of
the hopes which, upon the strength of a commu-
nication by the usually well-informed correspondent
of a contemporary, appear to have suddenly sprung
up in London. The friends of Italy here cannot
believe that any favourable decision whatever on
the subject of the Roman occupation has been
arrived at. The importance of arriving at some
such decision may, they think, have presented
itself with more fort* than heretofore to
the Emperor's mind ; but from that to
the fixing a positive term of the occu-
pation is very far. We had yesterday in La
France the first part of M. de La Gueronnihre's
threatened letter on the abandonment of Rome. I
must here repeat, in respect to this affair of La
France, about which so much fume has been made,
that the whole thing, from beginning to end, is a
mere piece of barefaced puffery. M. de La Gueron-
nibre is at once an old hand at journalism, versed
in all the tricks of the trade, and an ex-official
cognizant of all the secrete of the ministerial back-
stairs. These qualifications he very prudently de-
termines to exploiter (we ought to Anglicise this
word, we have not its counterpart), and no
doubt he will make a very good thing of La France,
whatever may be the fate reserved for its share-
holders. Mais semen" a nos moutons. M. de la
Gueronnibre start& by candidly admitting that the
termination of the occupation of Rome is "sup-
ported by the majority of the French press, and
what is still more grave, is energetically proof/of
by high and serious influences." He is manifestly
not guilty of the crime of undervaluing the enemies
he ham to encounter. He at once proceeds to es-
tablish the proposition that " it is impossible to
continue to maintain any longer our diplomatic
situation at once at Rome and at Turin. At Rome
M. de Lavalette has failed to obtain any conces-
sion. At Turin, M. Benedetti has been obliged to
resign himself to moderating no single pretension."
This state of things cannot continue. France must
choose frankly between two lines of policy. Either
to abandon Rome, and consequently bring about
the fall of the Pope and the unity of
Italy, or, in his own somewhat obscure words, "to
continue the limited occupation of Rome with a
determined object, and under such formal reserves
as shall conciliate the independence of the Holy
Father and the legitimate aspirations of the Roman
people towards the development of their political
existence." He then proceeds to give his reasons in
favour of the second, which, it will be seen, is
virtually indefinite occupation a little sugared over
with fine words. Briefly, he argues, "in the inte-
rest of Italy herself" that Rome would be but the
road to Venice, and through Venice to the Tyrol
and Trieste ; these last in their turn being but ad-
vanced posts to Hungary, Greece, and Poland. Not
Clot Italy is to swallow all these large pills, but
that Italian unity is merely another name for that
bugbear, the Revolution. The departure of the
Pope, which would be inevitable, he considers a mis-
fortune for Italy, inasmuch as " the peculiar character
stamped by the Papacy upon Italy ever appears as
a reflection of her historical glory, and a hope of her
future destinies." He continues to frighten his
readers with the "revolution." Mazzini will be
"one of the ancestors" of the monarchy of Victor
Emmanuel, and " who will say that he will not also
be its heir r He also menaces Italy with the
"cry of her conscience" at Rome, and "the re-
morse of apostacy." So much for Italian interests in
the conservation of the temporal power ; French in-
terests are to be treated of in a subsequent letter.
Some people think the increasing virulence of the
clerical journals is a wholesome sign. They say
abuse is resorted to when reason and argument fail.
Certainly these journals are almost rabid in their
tone, and perhaps it may be because they are arriv-
ing at a conviction that they will not be called
upon to blaze away at the Roman question
much longer that they are thus throwing away so
much choice ammunition. They appear, indeed,to
be absolutely firing off their reserves of foul lan-
guage and miserable dirty spite. Pro instance only
one, the Gazette de France, in addition to its famous
" Monsieur Garibaldi," pelts that fallen but pure-
waled man with the terms Red-beard of the
Rocks," "Dwarf Titan," and lastly strings toge-
ther the following curious epithets. His attempt
has been "a pretentious, sulky, bloody, and absurd
farce, unworthy even of Signor Pulcinello's show-
box." One cannot laugh at this trash ; one's
gorge rises to see the little dirty dog thus lift
its leg against the prostrate hon. The
Turin correspondent of the Day% takes a view
slightly analogous to that of the Paris corre-
spondent above mentioned, of the present situation.
He says :—" The ministry appears most desirable
to solve the Roman question. The tone of the
ministerial journals in this sense is very strong.
We are evidently approaching some event which
will not be without importance."
The Pres+, says, "The decree which invests the
Count Treilhard with the direction of the press,
does not also give him that of printing books,
which was attributed to the function of his prede-
cessor. This last is henceforth to be united with
the Direction General of Public Safety."
The Patric shares my incredulity on the subject
of the bill drawn at twelve months by your con-
temporary. It says :—"A London ministerial
paper informs us that the French government, &c.
We no more rely upon the political information of
the English journal than we accept its moral. The
latter peeps out plainly in the former. The Morn-
ing Post affirms rather what it wishes than what
it knows." La France denies the authenticity of
the intelligence in question, but in far less mode-
rate language. It says :—" The Morning Post
arrogates to itself the situation which it
so properly denies to La France, and gives itself
the air of a semi-official journal on French policy.
Only the resolutions it announces are absolutely
tposed to all that is known of the views and inten-
ions of the government of the Emperor." Then
again, with regard to the statements of the Esprit
Public as to what passed at Cie council on Wednes-
day. They are to-day utterly denied by the Cour-
rier du Dimanche, which adds that it has received
information from an excellent source on the sub-

The great question of the day is, will there be a
trial, politiesl or military, or is an amnesty
promply to put an end to this painful episode of
the great Italian resurrection ? Among ministers
Celia and Conforti are for the latter alternative ;
Pettiti and Persaud aree for a military trial ;
and the rest are for convoking the Senate and con-
stituting it a high court of justice. Yesterday the
following persons were consulted on this question :
—The Presidents of the two Chambers, the Senator
Palaocapa, who was for many years Minister of
Public Works under Count Cavour, Massimo
d'Azeglio, Farini, Casein* and Desambrois, the
vice-president of the Council of State, the same
who was at Zurich after Villafranca. Whilst I
write ministers are again assembled in council, but
their decision can hardly be known before to-
morrow, because they will of course submit it to the
K.

ject, that the Roman question was not even
"agitated" on that occasion, and that "no
minister either introduced the question or proposed
to treat it ex projesso."
Not much doing at the Bourse, the fine weather
tending to empty Paris. Rente was almost with-
out any fluctuation, maintaining its cash price of
yesterday, viz., 69.35, and rising bc. for account,
which left off at 69.45. Italian fiat, leaving off at
71.20 cash and 71.15 account, which was a fall of
10c. and 35c. respectively.

THE GRIAT EASTERN REPORT= ON FIRE.-
The following, which appeared in late editions of the Liver-
pool papers of Saturday, excited considerable alarm in that
tows:—" By the arrival of the steamship Scotia, a rumour
has reached this country of the burning of a large sailing ves-
sel, or steamer, near Montauk Point. The rumour has caused
considerable anxiety to be manifested, as nothing had been
seen of the steamship Great Eastern, though the Persia,
which left this port the same day (Saturday, August 16)
arrived at New York on the day of she Scotia's sailing. This
fact, however, only proves that the Persia made • good pee-
:op oat, and beat the big ship. The report that has come to
hand is too vague to phos much reliance on. A pessenger
by the Scotia reporia that just as be was leaving New York
• rumour was there current that • large steamer sur-
rounded by schooners was on fire off Mootauk. Captain
Zudkins states that the rumour was current at New York
the day before be left. The mail:master of the Scotia re-
ports the versa se be a large ship."—The Liverpool Mercury
ot.to-day says :—" We are moored by the Liverpool agent
for the Great Eastern that the report could have no feuds-
tins in fad, and by the next steamer we may eared to
Memel the arrival of the big ship at her destination."