The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY MOZNINO.
The great news of the entry of the fleets into the
Dardanelles; was not publicly known in Paris till
the arrival of the London evening papers yesterday.
Of course the government must have been well aware
of the fact on Saturday, but the secret was so welt
kept that not so much ae a whisper about It was
current at the Bourse. The financial bulletins
of most of the morning papers confirm what I stated
to you yesterday, that the telegraphic accounts of
the heavy fall in Consols were not generally believed
to be true. Such of the ministers as speculate in the
fends, and their immediate friends, had, therefore, a
splendid opportunity of making a good book. on
will probably be astonished to learn that news of
such importance could appear in print in London
at an early hour in the afternoon without some of
the Paris journals receiving it in time for the next
morning's impression by the submarine telegraph.
Certain it is that none of them publish a word on the
subject. It does not, however, follow that no intel-
ligence was sent to them. You possibly may not
know that every private telegraphic despatch con-
taining political news that arrives in Parts is sent
to the minister before being delivered, and if it con-
tain news which he does not wish to be circulated,

the consignee may never know that any such mes:
sage has been addressed to him. At the little
Bourse yesterday the Threes were dose at 75.25,
being a fall of only about j per cent. from the lowest
point of Saturday ; but so few people are able to read
the English journals in the original, that the
news was by no means generally known. The
Constitution:set has an article written in

quite a different spirit from that et the
Pays of Saturday. The latter journal was absurd
enough to say that a war between Russia and Turkey
would be of no consequence, for the only result would
be, that when Russia had " chastised " Turkey set-
fisiently, she would yield. Now, however, M.
Assedee de Cana, writing in the Constautionnel,
appears to have received instructions more in accord- _........_
sum with the true complexion of the situation. He, ROME, Sarr. 20.
`Lvery neatly, shows how the state of the case is sub- The official paper of the 15th lest. took the trouble
stantially altered by the last Russian manifesto, to contradict a paragraph in my letter of the 31st
Which has, he says, " brought to light the real views August, mentioning disturbances in Viterbo, which
mad intentions of Russia; and while, to the surprise city the Roman Journal affirms to have been on the
e[ everybody, it has placed in a new point of view contrary peculiarly pacific. Without staying to ex-
'Me discussion relative to the wording of the Vienna amine whether this statement is literally correct,
' sate, has at the same time created an entirely new since the scarcity of corn and the tax on industry
situation, which, in its turn, may impose new duties have produced partial ebullitions of discontent
upon the Western Powers." throughout the whole country, I hasten to acquiesce
The Courrier de Marseille announces, that on ac- in the official correction of the Roman Journal, by
count of the new complications of the eastern qua- begging you to read, instead of Viterbo, Terni, a town
tion, the Montebello is to be sent to rejoin the Dar- not many miles off.
danelles squadron. The principal event of last week :in Rome was the
The ocean squadron, summoned in consequence of carrousel mailaire, executed in the noble arena of the
the Emperor's visit to the north, has anchored at Villa Borghese by two squadrons of the 11th
Deus, about twelve leagues from Dunkirk. This Dragoons, in honour of the Inspector-General Andre.
spline, commanded by Rear-Admiral Darner, The evolutions which were executed with consum-
esesists of six shif the Duguesclin, Jean Bart, mate spirit and precision, were of the kind occa-
lbecule, the steam agates Pomona and Caffarelli, sionally exhibited at Saumur, and elicited great tip-
wed the steam corvette llttooland. plause from twelve or fifteen thousand spectators,
The bouquet
_preempted to the Empress by the who attended with the order and decency peculiar to
young ladies at Lille, contained the following double a Roman crowd.
emetic : In the provinces, arrests continue, as the gra-
A L'Empsrsar Napoleon 111. AL' Imaratries Eugfnie. dual unfolding of evidence includes victims, deservedly
liable Empereur, Ira vous,augustalmperamics, or undeservedly, in the net of the authorities. Lat-
ent fond de ((curs noir, GMis au nom des Cum:, ten from Ferrara complain of the cruel treatment of
.mire des warners, Orem console
ulee' the political prisoners bent from that town to the pri-
ergueil du people, Mk sous, tinge si gracieux ;
)'anion de Toe nom, %muvellement beam, sons of Ancona, among the galley slaves. The
Net Is signs Meat* ...wire= note amour, secrecy which prevails with regard to the contents of
Qs 1208 Marl Brent kW, sea tetant et beau jour ; these dungeon. prevents the exact number of pri-
NAPOLEON, Travail; Bienfaisance, EUGENIE! sonars being known, but it has been ascertained that
1 clandestine manufacture of gunpowder is said seven gentlemen are kept in solitary confinement in
le be going on to a very serious extent in the east- narrow cells opening. into a small yard. They have
ara frontiers of France. The police are very vigilant a variety of newly invented chains on their leger
and have lately made several seizures. One around one ankle, one fixed in a peculiarities-
The Moniker du Luiret has received a second nee around the knee cap, and very heavy, and
learning for having published "false news" stating a third fastened to the other two, and
Mat statues of the Emperor and Empress in Pans, running up the leg as far as the thigh.
and in the Camp of Satory, had been defaced. This At night a fourth chain attaches the
journal says that it took the news from the Echo de manacled wretches to the wall of their cell. The
Brimelke, and published it in good faith. little air and light which might penetrate through
A commission was appointed some time since by the limited space called a window is nearly excluded
the Minister of Marine to inquire into the merits of by thick iron barns within and without, and by
• new anchor, called the " Safety Anchor," invented wooden shades preventing a view of the yard or its
by M. Ferdinand Martin, a native of Marseilles. walls. Four of these prisoners are Signors Cenni,
Vice-XI-mini Nadia is he president of the com- Cecchini, Capanna, and Antonini. Of the remaining
mission, and several captains in the navy and M. three, one is a Neapolitan. They are mostly con-
Oaonier, director of works at the Ministry of Marine, demned for life, or even more. For instance, the
are members. No official report has yet been made, first one, Cenni, who is an advocate, is sentenced on
but it is understocd to be the opinion of the commis- three political counts, for two of which the condom-
sion that the new anchor "combines many advan- nation is imprisonment for life, and for the third for
tags. and remedies several inconveniences." The 26 years. If he works even the latter out he may
main principal of the invention is that the grappling deem himself fortunate (or unfortunate, rather), as
points of the anchor are moveable and so contrived he is already 65 years of age. The other day
that when one catches the ground the other will he begged u a favour to be allowed to let his
necessarily do so too. beard grow, as he suffers from • cutaneous dis-
PARIS, MONDAY Eysxnro. ease, but his request was refused by the
lam enabled to assure you that on Friday last a director of the prisons, Mancini, who bears the unen-
circular despatch relative to the Eastern question viable reputation of being the most severe functionary
was sent by. M. Drouyn de Lhu7s to all the French of that description in the Papal States. Almost the
foreign ministers and diplomatic agents in Europe. only person of humanity connected with this lege-
This despatch says plainly. that France and England brines establishment belongs to the medical depart-
cannot accept the pretensions of Russia, or the in- meat, and his exertions have at last succeeded in ob-
teraetation placed ity her on the Vienna note. taming the removal of chains from the bodies of the
At the Turkish embany_the tone of conversation is sick and dying, two prisoners having previously ac-
exceedingly warlike. The idea that the fleets tually expired in their fetters ! One of these is said
have entered the Dardanelles to support the Sultan to have been a man named Bizarri, upwards of 60
against his own subjects is scouted there, and the veers old, and the other, Scheda of Forli, a youth of
assertions of the Debate and Assembles u to the h.
pressure exercised upon the Sultan by the old Should you not have heard the particulars of the
Turkish party, are affirmed to be entirely erroneous. recent renewal of religious rage in Tuscany, and
The opinion at the embassy is that the fleets have the imprisonment of Miss Cunninghame upon a
been ordered to proceed to Constantinople for the charge of protestant propagandism, the fol-
straightforward purpose of making a decisive demon- lowing details may prove interesting. Mrs.
'Amnon against Russian aggression. Cunninghame, who was in Rome last winter,
A considerable fall at the Bourse was expected with her two daughters, passed this sum-
to-day, but two leading articles, one in the Journal mer at the Baths of Lucca, and when on
des Debate, the other in the Assemblie Nationale, the point of leaving for England, applied as usual to
contained suggestions tending to diminish the ha- the police authorities for her passport. The police
portance of the entry of the fleets, which were officer, after having made some demur, requested to
greedily accepted by. the public. The Threes, for see Miss Cunninghame, without giving any, hint of
account, opened at 45fr. 15c., rose to 79fr. 90c., and his intentions in so doing; but when the young
closed at ,91r. 75c., with the inconsiderable fall of lady made her appearance, he at once took her in
3c. from Saturday's prices. For cash tho fall was charge, and sent her to Lucca, where she was interro-
20c. This difference confirms the observation of the gated by the Minister of Justice, accused of distri-
/tabitul•s of the Bourse, that there is a large outstand- outing two or three religious tracts, and then sent to
ing " bear" account, and that the market is likely prison, where she still remains. Sir William Miller
to be kept up in the face of everything but very bad immediately repaired to Florence and stated the case
news, by purchases to close accounts. Another to Mr. Scarlett, who is now occupied in endeavouring
circumstance contributed to prevent a panic. It to obtain the young_lady's liberty. The Jesuit party
became known that very large purchases had been now dominant in Tuscany excuse their own intole-
made on Saturday evening. One of the leading ranee, add the enormity of such conduct towards a
ages. de change bought 80,000 fr. of the rente, and it highly respectable young lady, by the exi-tence of a
was affirmed that several large capitalists were law, punishing those who commit the heinous crime
making immense efforts to sustain the market, of proselytism (now attributed to her) with imprison-
Several railway lines rose, especially Orleans and ment to the extent of five yearn, according to the cir-
Strasbourg. The latter company has concluded an cumstances of the case.
important treaty with the credit mobilier for facili- That it may have been an act of imprudence on
biting the payment of calls in respect of the new the part of the young lady will be admitted b
Mulhouse shares. those who arc acquainted with the principles which
M. Soule, the American minister to the court of actuate the governments of central and southern
Madrid, is still at Paris, and a very extraordinary Italy, but %hat will be the feeling produced by such
reason is assigned for his prolonged stay. I am narrow-minded policy and persecution in the minds
assured on credible authority that he is negotiating, of the British public, already irritated by similar
or at least attempting to negotiate, with Queen attacks, and just now especially by the illiberal con-
Christina for the purchase of Cuba by the American duct of the Spanish government in the protestant
government. He has had several interviews with burial question? The most insufferable part of such
111. Drouyn de Lhuys, and is endeavouring to obtain conduct is the pomp with which these Roman
his support to tho project. My informant does not catholic persecutors put forth in their publications
think X Souk has any chance of success. Queen every acquisition to their creed amongst the inhabi-

ITALY.