The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-13 00:00:00

FRANCh.

rettili, MONDAY, 6 30 P.Y.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby enter-
tained at dinncr on Saturday, Gene-al Cavaignac, the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Apostolic Nuncio,
the Sardinian Ambassador and the Marquis Brignole,
General and Mtn.. Lamoricieee, the foreign ministers
who are already accredited to the republic, General
Changarnier, the Count and Countess de Hatzfeldt,
M. de Ramer, Genital Williesen, the Marquis Ri-
dold, Baron Rothschild, the Earl of Harrowby, Vint.
Bandon, the Hon. W. F. Campbell, M.P., and the
gentlemen attached to the embassy.
The Marquis of Nonnanby, the Brit& ambassador,
bed a long interview on Saturday with M. Betide,
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
On Saturday M. Proudhon explaiced to the Com-
mittee of Agriculture his project for a forced loan and
for a continuation for tour years of the additional im-
position of the 46 centimes. He observed that his-
tory had taught that states were reduced to bank-
ruptcy by the fatal ansequencee of the productive.
rases of the interest upon maw, and asked whether
it would not be better to prevent this bankruptcy by
a voluntary and periodical sacrifice to be made by
Prfireti. This, be said, was the object of his sys-
tem. The committee listened to him in silence; but
the president observed to him that be mast sot infer
from this that it concurred in the historical points he
had dwelt upon and the consequer webs &dated from
them, any more Wan in the efficacy of his proposed
remedy. The hearing of his replies to the objections
raised was postponed till to-morrow.
The oomnsittee, consisting of the delegates of the
five committees charged to examine the question of
the penitentiary siphons, has settled the bases of its
report. It his resolved that those condemned to more
than two yews' imprisonment shall be employed in
hard labi.ur out of the territory ; and it has designated
Algeria in pretense to all the colonies as the plea of
transportation. M. Leon Faucher has been nominated

repeater.
TVUDAT, 11'30 a M.
lb. decision of the Assembly yesterday, the practi-
cal effect of which will be to continue the suspension
vet the liberty of the press until the state of siege
ceases, has produced very little sensation.
The government wavered, as I told you, but
yesterday morning communications were made
pnvattly to the leading members of the moderate
party that traces of communist plots and proj eta of
the red republic had been detected, and the the go-
vernment considered the possession of the power of
instant coercion or r the press to be essential to the
politic safety. This, of course, determi ed the ques-
tion, and produced the large majorities I reported to
yen in my despatches of last night.
The debate on the drvit du travail promises
to be of unusual length. The President anneented
yesterday that the number of members inetelbsd to
speak upw it was 32, other names were added later,
and still more, no doubt, will be annexed.
It is announced that M. Pascal Ds rat is appointed
to leave immediately on an extraordinary mission to
Vienna.
On Friday, a deputation of the dietwis of June
embed on General Csvaignac, in the name of the
motional guard. Among them was M. Leclerc, who,
b a the hottest parts of the combat, having had
MS of his sons killed by his side, went tied sought
make son, and came back to the tight with him. A
jenteel says, that General Cavaignez addressed the
as follows :
I driltitilthat the tozesethe government hat been blamed
to beefs, sweelled sesseseemes In a civil war, and we have
hem sopessiol with babe forgotten oar past principles.

This is an error ; what we domed is edam time we think
dil. Bat it is not bj_s rod war that yes bate gained yew
erwore—bat in a solid mw. on tko Sabi of bastiebautaii die
amain otorelev, that was the veritabie hell of I Lope
welkin no mom ham iltwa is what. Ima .tea snammos
to yes thst we shall set lave to light at all ; the mediation of
Frame is seoeptsd by Arida. We rtiliPlal folgwa to
by &slily and isoday it ass vonobod es by our
ambassador at Vistas. 'fins =Minion that we bays ion
Poeml wee mrad, Wears we were modiseavy We ary,
dem, eseened mdmionanse pollee. I kaow not what
the Man may mine to us ;lie fee myself. I Will do ell that
lose dimmed es ms per sere pesos, ese it is by it that WI
saisstbes oar isserta• less, sad Nn
we shall develop
the massoisi owl Isodisetsel moms of Frosm. I repeat
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Mos dee moiled is is messed, sad that it is ins who
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ITALY.

We have the correspendence and journals of Turin ,
the 'lib, and letters from Milan of the sth.
'the discordance which prevailed in Piedmont
respecting the govenim tit and the army has began
to subeite, and confidence in the good intentions of
the King revives. Tree reorganisation of the army is
continued with the greatest activity, and before the
red of the man h it is confidently este cted that a
body of 80.000 troops well equipped, provided
and disciplined, will be ready to take the field.
'f he only difficulty which appears still to be
surmounted is the absence of discipline among
the Lombards whb followed the army in its reueat.
Ac 'ceding to the letters received from Milan, that'
I capital present. a poet e of terrible desolaion, not
only the theatres and public promenades and streets,
but even the churches are deserted. The palaces of
the noblesse are filled with soldiers, several of them
are converted into hospitals for the sick and wounded.
Letters from Florenic of the 4th bring further de-
' tads of the insurrection at Leghorn. On that morn-
ing 600 wen of the civic guard of Florence had left
for that place. The natio al guard of Pisa and the
surroutiding country was also on the march. After,
the defeat, however, of the regular troops, nothing
was expected from thews, and it was announced that ,
government had resolved to demand foreign aid.
If was proposed to ask 6,000 men of the King of
Sat dieia. and that an application should be made to
the French goverment to allow the foreign legion of
Algeria to serve under the Tuscan government for a
ear, while a regular army might be organised.
An aeplication was made to the consuls of
Fancy, England, and the United States, to allow the
crews of the vessels of their nations which were in
the harbour of Leghorn to land, for the purpose of
protecting the town from pillage. This application
bring refused the Tuscan government declared that
it sas unable to prate. t the properties of foreigners.
The Chambers at Florence held a discussion with
closed doors on the 3rd, when M. Guarani pro.
Need to send cotemimaries of the chamber to
Li ghorn to treat with the insurgents. While this
was wider discussion a despatch arrived by the
elects ic telegraph from Leghorn announcing that the
iusur,irats demanded that M. Guarazzi should be sent
to treat with them, with full powers from the Grand
Duke and the chat:liters. T-e proposition was nnitni-
mosey rejected, it being agreed that the government
calla nut treat with the insurgents without abdi
eating its powers. It was subsequently decided that
the Grand Duke should quit Florence to put
himself in person at the bead of the troops assem-
bled at Piss, and to march on Leghorn, sending
Ware hiss the proclamation already published.
Bien the above was written we have received the
mersopeedsmos and journals of Leghorn to the sth.
Thgrataia but little that is important.
details of a convention made on the 4th
with Costa Reghini, Commander of the Tuscan
troops, is given in full. Guarani had arrived from
Florence in hie private capacity, and was received
with enthusiasm. He addressed the people from the
balcony of the town-hall, and afterwards held a eon-
ferenoe with the Chamber of Commerce. the *wrests,
the Etat-major of the line and of the civic guard, and
a body of delegates from the inhabitants.
L-tters from Venice of the Ist say that an order
had arrived from Rome to read the pontifical troops
from the Venetian territory. Hoch a measure would
necessarily deprive the Venetian provinces of all
means of defence. For some days previously the
Austrians had been passive,
let and even diminished the
number of troops blockading city. The Sardi-
nian fleet was still in the harbour, and provisions and
supplies were received by sea.
SICILY.—We have farther and more detailed
advice. from lumina on to the morning of the 3rd
The changed ministry at Palermo, already announced,
is now represented as having been followed by a am-
, pieta dissolution of the previsional government pre-
sided over by Ruggiero Settimo, in p ace of which a
republican government is reported to have been con-
stituted This, of eourse, produeed a schism among
smug the population of the Wand, and it is said that
thews who me bestils to • republic intimated to the
ildespaiitas government that it troops were landed
they would join them. The expedition, the
departure of which from Napl. a we announced
as having taken place on the evening of
the 30th arrived off Reggio on the 31st, where they
feud further preparations made for an embarkation.
Two steam-boats were actively employed the ughout
the day in towing vessels with troops to reinforce the
garrison of the citadel of Messina. Two divisions
were also landed, the one at some distance south-west
of Mewing and the other to the east of it. At cue
o'cloekin the morning of the 3rd the bombardment of
the city commenced.
Females and children, foreigners and the aged, had'
taken refuge on board the French and Britsh ship;
in the roads. All the property and valuable furniture
of the houses and plaits had been previously removed
to the interior, and literally nothing was left in the
houses but mattresses to place against the windows se
se to make loop-holes. Barricades and entreuchmente
were formed in all the principal thoroughfares. Pea
sons of all classes and conditions, ncluding eves
priests, monks, and children, had laboured incessantly
night and day in nopaving the streets sad
forming barricades. The defenders of the town
had received reinforcements from Palermo, but it
was feared that they bad neither the skill nor the
arms necessary to resist meth an attack. Daring the
night between the 2nd and 3rd a constant shower of
shells was interchanged between the citadel and the
town; those thrown from the citadel were fatally
destructive, those thrown from the town are reported
to have been ill aimed, and to have mostly exploded
in the air. It is said that towaris morning the fire
from the town was gradually slackened, while, on
the other band, that of the citadel was sustained.
At the date of the lost letters,whieh was eight in the
morning, the troops landed east and west of the city
had not yet attacked it, nor did it appear that those
who occupied and defend d the town were aware of
their approach. On their arrival the town would be
placed between three fires, sod the struggle must soon
terminate.
The followinu proclamation wan issued by Ruggiero
Settimo, dated Palermo 31st ult. If, therefore;lleare
be any truth in the reported overthrow of the proro
visional government, it mast have taken place saber
quently to that data :
Sicilians!—We must announce to you some good sewn
He who was your leant, no longer retaining any haps of
Italics; oar liberty by his diplomatic intrisues, io shoat to
make sleet drat ; he is preparing • new ezpeditioa *pima
this lend, whir& is yet stained with the blood of Ids well-
Ikea, and echoes with the stout of our triumphs. TIM
government is determined to snow itmlf, by its enemy and
prudent*, worthy the people over whom .t It OW
rely on the support of the Chambers, of the National Guard,
the arms, sad As people for that people .who bail the ea-
nuneistion of now danger, eines it off ..de new opportunities
of victory and of glory. Sicilians! Our cry of insurrection
bas found tut ecru in all Europe; 1t hes Mood from their
slumbers those who suffered; it has ale•med the guilty, end
caused tyrants to tremble. Sicilians! Ma of the of Sep-
tember, of the 12th of 'smeary, of the 22nd of February,
—men for whom there is no fight without victory—to arm-!
to arms! Coward, Ti *motion, and every **orifice! Let
every house be a forms., every man a w.l tier, every piers of
iron an aria I lot them come, the cowards, lot Won coins,
and our far, shall crash them in an instant