The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-04 00:00:00

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FRANCE AND ROME
PARIS. Tuattur.

The Moniisar of this morning says :
"A foreign journal asserts that in the fifth com-
mittee-room of the Senate the Minister of State,
in the name of the Emperor, made certain
declarations in referenoe to the Roman ques-
tion. This assertion is doubly false. In
the first place, the ministers with portfolios only
speak in their quality of senators. The mission of
speaking in the name of the Emperor's government
appertains only to the ministers without portfolio..
In the second place, it is completely incorrect that
M. Walewski spoke in the terms reported by the
foreign journals."

(The " foreign journal" is the Brawls heft-
pariance. We subjoin the statement to which the
important note in the Moniteur refers : •
Count Walewski declared in then m
name, in
the fifth bureau of the Berm* when it met to egos two
members to form part of she committee charged with draw-
ing up the address :- -lA. That the Let despatch addressed
to the Marquis de Levalette had no other object than
to give the cabinet of Twin a further proof of the friendly
feeling which animals the Emperor's government; 2.
That at the moment when the Nuncio, Mgr. Chigi, let
Rom for Paris,a tonsil and written empgement had been ,
given by the Emperor's goverment sot to withdraw the
Preach troops from Rome. Count Walewski added that,
in the Emperor's opinion, the definite solution of the
Italian question was only to be gamed from the action
of time, and must be sought elsewhere than in the Roman
question.]

The Debats of to-day contains a letter frond
Turin, in which we read :—" According to ac-
counts which I have reason to believe are
entitled to confidence, France is disposed to enter
upon negotiations with the kingdom of Italy with
the object of guaranteeing the security of the
Pope, in such a manner that the French garrison
at Rome may be withdrawn. The Holy See still
shutting itself up in its now posnorms, these nego-
tiations will take place without its participation,
so that its conscientious scruples may be respected.
However, I do not think the affair will take place
quite so quickly as is believed here."

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND THE
NEW KING OF MEXICO.
The Morning Post understands that it has now
been determined (with the assent of Great Britain)
by the courts at Paris and Madrid that their
Wades shall march direct from Vera Cruz to the
capital of Mexico, and there suppress the Essen-
' live. It is believed that the forces already
seat out by France and Spain, independently
of the extensive resources of the latter
Power in the neighbouring dependency of Cuba
—in which she has thirty-five thousand troops
—will be sufficient at once to disarm the opposition
of Generals Juarez and Uraga, and to leave the
allies masters at once of the field and of the civil
government. " While all this is going on in the
interior with our concurrence, we believe," says
the Poet, " that we shall limit our active military
co-operation to the presence of a powerful squadron
in the Gulf of Mexico, and to garrisoning the port
of St. John d'l3 lloa with a force of seven hundred
marines during the continuance of the healthy sea-
son on that coast. This force, when the season grows
unhealthy, is to be replaced by acclimatised Cuban
troops. We believe that it is a probable result of this
march of the allies on Mexico that that unhappy
and distracted republic will reappear to the world
as a constitutional monarchy, and that the Arch-
duke Maximilian, brother of Francis Joseph, Em-
peror of Austria, will assume the title of King of
Mexico. It will not impossibly be found necessary
to maintain an army of occupation in support of
the new government until it shall have derived
sufficient stability to stand alone. Meanwhile, we
shall of course pursue our original scheme of indem-
nification at the ports on the Gulf."
According to the Ost Deutsche Post Councillor von
Scherzenlechner, who is habitually employed by
the Archduke Maximilian in confidential missions,
has left Vienna for Mexico. The same paper
says :—" A Vienna library has received orders
from Trieste to send thither all scientific works
ting of Mexico."

POLAND.
The Siede has the following :

The Russian government, in the midst of the difficult..
by which it is surrounded, persists h. employing a part of
its forces in the impossible struggle it has undertaken
with Poland. Heartrending details are published on the
eabjeet. Eight priests, a Cupnchin monk, and two boys,
14 yams of age, figure on the list of persons sent into
Siberia. The two laat•o►med were attached to a
chain of notorious thieves. The families of the
victims were not informed of their condemnation
and of their departure, and chance alone re-
vealed the feet to their parents. Along the long road which
takes them into exile, the unfortunate Poles have at least
the consolation of receiving marks of sympathy even from
the Rassinns themselves. At Kern. in the very cradle of
the empire, the people testified by their demeanour, when
the string of convicts posed, the feeling of deep horror
inspired by the cruelty of the government, and pity was
stronger than national hatred, perhaps the most implacable
of all hatreda• The Emperor Alexander 11. will do well
to redact on those sew feelings of the Russian people.

The Boulogne Messenger mys :—" Mr. Commis-
sioner Slidell—that very expensive gentleman for England
--arrived here by the Princeas Mande as Thursday last.
The stretched weather prevented many of the habitual
attendants being on the quay when the boat arrived, and
those few who were there did not know that at least
1,000,0001. worth wee passing them in wet deems and cold
aspect. Mr. Slidell went direct to the statics, and pro-
ceeded by the first train to Paris." Mr. end Mrs. Slidell
ere now in Paris.
Prince Napoleon has just sent I,ooofr. to the
subscription opened in the offices of the Sack for the benefit
et the distressed weavers at Lyons, accompanying the dona-
tion by • letter expressive of his sympathy in their suf-
ferings, and also of his admiration of the Riede in taking
the initiative in alleviating them. The Princess actinide
also sent 500er., with • note stating that she participated
in the feelings of the Prince.
A Turin letter of the 31st ult. says :—" The
weather in Piedmont is like perfect spring. We bad only a
sprinkling of snow twice or thrice, slight fop in the morning
and dampness in the evening ; but the days are wares, bright,
sod genial, the sky excesffiney pure, and the mountains
free from snow up to the west summit."
The Italie of Turin states that M. Alexandre
Dumas has arrived at Ti for • few days. His ordinary
residence is still the Pahee Obiatsmore at Naples, where
be is engaged in writing • Wary of the Bourbons, com-
piled from the Neapolitan archives.
A letter from Bedded says :—" The discontenb
produced in the public ail by the mild malt of the nisi
of Lientenantlfshlse, who Ms been condemned to only five
years• iagetewdesed Ise !wig killed the wailer of we id
et Yegiebterg, bee ahem MR as lodes sitaissa. ad
lately II the thesis. ♦Opal* pine WIWI lbs./W*B4
Sarah^ eeraeged for the Stembedegeo le MI 01 leak
dads to which civil Ammo sawed phut velillerg as-►
pace. All these pampa were received by Mennileass
with friable aggiese."
Marshal the Duke de Malakoff has left Paris
to resume hi pod et Goversee-Getteral of Algeri► He
will stop for some days it Towles, and be joined there by
Y. Hanes Vernet, from his Mien of Hormel* seer
Ilyhea, with H. Alfred Couverthel, his pupil, both
whom are going to Laghouat to reproduce the episodes at
the expedition made two peace ago against the Touarep.