The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-15 00:00:00

FINANCIAL REPORT ON THE EXPEDITION

TO ROME.

Pans, SATURDAY, lIALT•PAsT Flys, P.X.
The capital point o: the sitting in t• e chamber
to day mu the report, read by M. Thicre, in the name
of the committee appointed to discuis the demand ut
credits made by government, to pay the ixpense.
of the Roman expedition. This document is as
follows :

The Intervention o, Prawn in the affairs of Rome bus
been the subject of frequent discussion, both in the Cunt
taut sad in the Legislative Asianlies. New Meta haviag
Mrs produced, government wisely anticipated any demand
for expliastion, and hes brought forward sap nauseously cor-
olla votes for the sow r gean d to defray the expenses of
the Rows expeditias. The debate ma them will necessarily
*heft ample Sn'ormaiion. A commission selected from your
bode has examined the grave question and r a moral, rat.
glum, and political point of view. It has questioned mi-
nisters, consulted various documents, and now committal
cat.. to you the result of its Teti-coons.
Serious discussion could not ari.e on the subject of the
audit demeaned, but on the political act which twasioned
it, and ow its cooftquences. The commission consoler th.
expeaddure to have bees governed by a sage economy, and
olio think that the cr. dit annuities' will meet all expenses of
the espoditioa up to the end of the year.
Three yews sines, • 'table postal', so tinnily newaseed
for eel good tatentioas, gen from the summit. of the Vadat&
the signal of politic and social reform to Italian
princes. AU men then desired to see Italy enter
prudently on the path opened out by Pius the Nino.*
it was hoped that the duttniee of the cowry would not be
consprotnieed by precipitation, and that incertaio of [biota's*
the maple would be contented with administrative reforms
ass praise •to panics' on. s. It was hoped that the mat ad
vanes." would nut extend their dessauheyondrepresentativa
monarehy, of which dose of liberty they were as yet elcatest
inaspable. It was hoped, that it Italian unity was . iffereut,
there at least might b., concoct and union sefft,ent to
give the advantages of a canoed. ration. Above all it was
toped, that they would not b gin • war of indep. ndence,
whim mast be hopeless for Italians, unless Europe
was immersed in a general war. Aid lastly it was
loyal that if this war of independence did spring up,
all Italia= would rush to support it, and mares to toe
A .lee sad the Po. These are not views form datum the. ten t;
they were personally uttered, sod heard at their tribune.
Instead of this, • disorderly faction, bent ou satisfying its
ystsi tns rather than true interests of .he eons ry'.. cause,
reripitatod Italy into en abyss. Everywhere it excited
the people to demanl institutions dispn.poni nate to their
development sad habits. It pushed to the &soma of the
repabliceu torn populations coat were still unequal to sup
port municipal or provisional !Punks. To crown all, it
c waned the Brogan fault, that of pesr.kag unreasonably
a war of Ma penetenes, and th.a, instead of turning toe
united alms of Itel.ans again* the common enemy, it turns,:
them against their atm government.
Tea consequence of these tankn you know. Austria,
making an imentesisble use of its rghtt, has re-ro gated
Lembn .y, invaded Piedmont, Parma, Modena, Tat e'en',
and • portion of the R 'man Stmt. s. The independence of
Italy, Maud of advancing, has retrograded. Its liberty
has retrograded also. Its governments, ill recompensed for
their liberalism, have no intention of renewing their at-
tempts. Enemies of reform have gathered stn.' gth from
the swears of reformers. Enlightened men have been do.
cuursged, and the mares, let loon so dangerously, have been
brought bask by force to • due submission.
Ia the midst of such • wreck must we altogether despair?
Is there nothing that we can we or recover ? Are not sow
of those hopes to be revived which were a omitted at the
*cassia' of Pins IL ? Cannot the balenle of power I.
Italy be sustained, although its weight was flung into the
hands of Austria by the fatly of the faction which attacked
her ? France entertained this opiaion, and, in obedi• not is
it, sent the expe.utioo, of which we amnia welt judge witty..
nut reverting to Inc origin and suss of such a measure.
Austria, a ter the battle of Novara, was about to mum- the
couteqinuces of her victory against the Italian states, which
nad declared war spina her, and to march upon Pewee
Modena, Bologna, and Rune. Serious disturbantes is the
Roman stets gave unusual colour to her int dos. The
embolic powers had mumbled at Gaeta in order to emseart
the osestablishment of an authority which is necessary so
the Christian world. In fact, without the authority of
the sovereign pontiff. catholic unity would be disottred;
without that unity, catholic:km would perish in the midst a
its different sects, aid the moral world, already so strongly
shaken, would invetably be destroyed. But catholic malty.
which dewed' • attain religious submission on the part of
Christian nations, woad prove unacceptable it the pontiff
who is its depository, were perfectly independent ; if, in
the midst of the territory fatigued to Lim for ages, mot
which all nations have assisted him in maimaining,
soother sovereign, prince, or people, were to arise to
give him laws. There is oak* but sovereignty
itself which eaa make the Postilion independent. The is
an Otter's: of the first class, end one which most dingo the
subordinate interests of other nations, just as, in say one
state, the public weal must predominate over individual
interests; this important consideratioa was sonelent to
women the embolic power in reasatiog Pies IL on his
Pontifical throne.
An Austrian army being ready to repair to LIMN,
whether to sell itself of the rights of wan or to satisfy the
wishes of the catholic maks, the questio.n arises—whether
France ought to coon rat to Aestria's pushing its invasion into
Rome itself, sad thus hold doslaion both muesli! cad
materially over almost the whole of Italy. la order to
prevent this, there wen but two sherambres—war, or the
acupatioa of Ross by a Preach army. War was se shr
native, which our government in be vents% wow fur the
independents of Andy, and when there were sow chows of
Plleetel—since the Autrisus had been r. pulsed beyond the
Adige—had not thought fit to exercise. It would have been
lolly to think of such a thing, when the proper opportunity
bad boon lost, and when a more correct appreciattue
of
the interests of Prance had succeeded in the minds of no n
to most &aprons and enthusiastic notitns. The a tr.
eative of war ones set *aide, 'mother was left—snd one alone
—sad that was, that Prow should take upon h pelf the
task of satisfying the gnat interests of tho catboUo nations
by re sating the sovereign Pontiff upon his throne. Anxtna
had that no motive for repatiog to Roma, solves she wished
to eV, to her victory tow gessoes, which, however, she has
had the prudence not to give it.
It remained then either to present Austria, by tow of
some--a proceeding whisk was not approved of by any parry
in Frew when ia power—or to fulfil the task whisk the
whole Christi's world was desirous of seeing accomplished
by ow of the great catholic powers.
It was to the joint interest of Prows, of Christendom,
as/ of Italian treedons, that it should be so.
It was to the interest of Frame, brews the Wawa
user which had bees dist:ahem la Italy in famier ot
Lunn world hen bees partielly restored, if the Fre sob
h d boos al Rome, while the AsOnalt were at Walesa, at
P ems, at Pantie, sad at Altesouris.
I. was v. the Nowa o adorn, b.casso the trite
TOW@ of Ctte e q• r •he a • co gotpnat.ff

faults which bad lost Itsly—shoeld take piece magi the
arms of Franae rather than seder these of Austria.
It is perfestly true thee from this isteneetien might
ham rushed many aferaidas, geonielemble exposed,
sad week bloodshed sad it must be coefased that
thew were grave estaisiderstions. Bat if these be eon-
eiderations which may be alleged by thou wive aed
prudent spirits which do not wish at any pries to see
France onsbarramea is its minor ounce., they count be
Mumma by these who would wish to see ell the hood and
ail the treasure of Freon wasted upon the most foolish, the
most berths, the moat impotent mopegaudisea. It is, ie.
deed, strange that it "build be wished es eadeoger the very
eirktence re the country by a sepsis. Waggle to impose as
ell teatime a peculiar form of goverement, while a modems
slim is reflood to melanin the bah.* of European poser,
in order to p • complete mutter- revolu ion is
• meastry which interests us so nearly as does
Iftly. However, if the efforts which the Roman
expedition was to met be net an argument wept-
able to those who promo • general war under the
most trdling pretence, it deserves, nevertheless, to be
entertained by those who believe that Frazee must stid, for
a bug time to come,—while European eldancee shell b-
combined as they are at the present day—rather contract
thee extesd its sakes. But to those we will say, that ii
Francs, under the circumstances, bed remained neutral, shut
up within berself, and tacitly allowing Austria to settle
everything is haly aecordiag as she listed, whips they
thellallarall would have regretted, in the mama of actual
fun, a system et inertia, pushed to such as catnap degree
of absegetioe.
Between those who desire that on the With.. occasion
Frame should cut herself as • devastating torrent amidst
Europese Jetts, sad those who Peke that, shut ep within
...role she should no loupe mit basalt up in any affairs.
there were some who took a fair and practical medium,
which was that Fiance, sines the halt of a faction had
brought foreign armies from Italy, skouNl also appear there,
to exercise there her share of 11211411LCr, or her there of good,
do her part towards diminiabiag the inevi ab.ti evil, and to
save from the wreck of asthma li.rty mete of the hopes run-
seined co the seen.= of Pius IX.
Ted. has Fresco at ones wisely sad resolutely executed.
It Is true that en sending an army thither she acted
'salad &republic. Did this consideration render sacred to
bn the governor nt instituted at the capital ? We thiuk
sot. Our aciesfitudon, defective in more than one point (it
is persuasible to say that since it has foreseen and provided or
is pro revigion)—our constitution would have fit rverted eh
reason, it it had provided that such or such a form of go.
vernment should raider a neighbouring state odium.
or sacred to us. We are friends or enemies of a gonna.
suet not on account of its teem but of its **educe. In this
sense did the a nstitutioa declare that France should sot
take arms esaintt the liberty and nationality of any foreign
nation.
This left reserved for us the sonstithtional question—did
France, in ping to Rime, go thither to harm the lib*. ty
Italy, sad especially that of the Roman people? Flues
epesk sufficiently loud to render the reply easy. Now,
indeed, people cry out against the results obtain-A ;it wee
discovered that the evil desire of the party hosttle to liM ry
had sot been fully vanquisbed ; that there had not beer
obeeinsd from the postifini government sufficient clemently
or political liberty. It is agreed therefore that Frame is
placed maid.: inliesnees castrery to those she had struggled
to obtain. 800 did not, therefore, got, Bop in °peptise,
het in favour el Lateen liberty. It may be thought that she
has not dune *sough, bet it must also be granted that she
aid no• act against, but in the spirit of the eonatitution.
Thus all reasons, political, moral, or religions' would ,
lead France to intervention at Rome. See seat
thither as army; the [mike which for two years
directed the destinies et Italy, instead of tek nu
France as an arbitrator violently resisted her. Our
,oldiers, still worthy of themselves, have sat swede all ob.
Auk., as they lormerly did at Lodi and Arcola; but, wise
mei disciplined, they have more than ever merited the ad•
agitation of Europe by the regularity and humanity of their
conduct; sod if for the expedition we had obtained nothiuo
but this new menifestatioe of the warlike virtues of our
army, we should not have regretted it, since, notwithetar don
the griefs with which the spectacle of the times inspires us,
Ye conduct of our soldiers would have bean a true patriotic
ems elation.
France, owe present at Rome, through the medium
et the army, could not commit the inconsistency of doing
violent* to the holy father whom she was to deliver from.
the violence of a kerne. 8 s mast return him his tr roue
sod fis line re, —his tell and complete liberty —tor such was
her minim. Bat from cinemas .cos she had a right whic-.
Is very rarely poressesed—that of °outwit. If in ordinary
dreunietat as o e sovereign says to another, " You do al—
ert in this or in that ,' he would a meta a: oar* an
impoliey and a usurpation. But a sovereign who has come
to re-establish another, in the common interest rat order
humanity, re'ipioo, and religious equilibrium, finds in the
gravity of the Cifellellarsllollo, and is the swine rendered
the right of giving advice. Freese is nuking an effort—ea
effort which must be measured sot by the ditffeulty. carry.
beg a kw bastions a d Meshy which happily is so that to
beer mew, but involving politkel difficulties which suck se
meergelles lath bring about—France, we say, in palm
seek tea effort, had the right to supplicate, and the holy
Esther to take measures calculated to satisfy his people and
appease their legitimate disconteet. the bad the right to
advise him to make re'orms which in reconciling the is.
habitants of the Rumen Sates with the pontifical govern.
men', should obviate the necomity of Frames herself retina.
I is', or leaving Austria to go to alternatives equally to be re.
' petted by all the world.
France has felted the holy father neither lees peeress
sot leas liberal than be wee in 1847. But circuit's au.es were
unhappily obeneed. Teem who had had his henefacti.ths,
in ord. r to overthrew Italy, to drive the mast lib -tat prince-
from their capitals, hod reethettled the prejudices of all the
enemies of Italian liberty, the repegeshes to which Pa. IX
had so eteerageoway sentreated st the sesemeuesment of his
reign. Not ter reopen the worm whence had rises so many
evils, had become the elallifir• aim of almost all the Bee
who assisted in the Boman gewernmeat. The difficulties,
great at the swish of Boman liberty, were thus is, rawly
increased by the neap et that Went, daring the two 1 ears
of its existence.
France has been obliged to acknowledge, that if there wee
danger of overthrow in unstopping the memo of liberty
suited to a people, there was also drew of stepping Mort
of that mum.; that there was the pall of pealing tee
huts as well as that of granting acs mesh. She coos
obliged to say Yet the Booms Sarramillisido, op es the
time of the ineessimkof Piss IX., amid well be mimes Ma
in the mates of she Bey 80. In a word, we mould Mopes
the right of the imam to overthrow, in the IMO st the
sovereignty, the tempera mithetity SI the Pope, seeneary
to Christian Bump; we emit See dispute the tight of hat.
ing an equitable, eslightimed govemment, metastable to
the spirit of oar times.
Pius IX. etwisestends them beetles perfeetly ; and the fled
est whisk message from his deliberwicies is the moth pre-
pie. whisk he beam the eubject of melt 'Panted disconion.
You emmebefee ins amenity *seminal this act—nun upon
the preed that Frame has a tight to decide es the merit, of
the Instilled= of a /amigo nuke, bet with the view of dia-
-1 *peeving whether the ems& which she deeded es giving
have borne such fruits as would Whet hes sot to regret her
Intervention in the stein of Rome By a gross nujorke
your commissios declare* that she perceives in tie uses
proprie a primary and real good, of with* sonthee but an
unjust mejedies ft• iitheesetree the value. This au we
shall menthe in detail when the subject is brought before
you to discuss. Bat at present, I. prononeeting is the breed
principles of the act, us rem sane that it gives a Ppee
of municipal arid movlasial liberty with* is desirable ; tint that
so 'sr as regards pained liberty—it den set asped with
that whim entire is decides" as the sake of a country is
one or two assemblies in anent with the ezesedee power,
as to England, tor instants—or at beet it &es se more than
the first redliness of seek inetitations lade the form of a
deliberative privy einiseth The peekse to be args.d in
Are the Roman 8 atm actually capable of whey.. such •
political system as ellen in Bashed after centuries of expo
"knee end eff rt ? Ts this upset the question ateuwies so
grays an Importunes that it Pimp to the Pope himself
alone to mare it, and to hie owe subjects and to the Chris-
tian world to band PA.". That his Holiness 'rmed
have been blamed bemuse be hes performed • rudest
course, and, after peat cap ries., houses he hes 1. emed
best not to re epee • Men of raided seethe mem •
people whisk boohoos Welt s° isexprissonl, wean neither
the right ser the rm..
Keeleigel end pep-teak] lthertise are • first oduesien
whisk Is is PAL tau a people shield pm termek. Weis
they me preenterely sad violently thrown into the Mem
career of political liberty.
Now, the imports.% act, which is ogled the mons proerik
sup; own ats Ilestbe M laws whisk shell reform tee cavil
legi•letion, ease. jollies hum **legal Phenols, pr whir
equitable eistriheilea of phi. ogees swing the var.,.
0. 6'4'. • ; +* a won% gueran'ee to the a the

The chief topic to-day hes been the flight of all the
moderate liberals and constitutions:Ma from Naples,
where they were niece ed with prison ; thus. whorl('
not escape have been arrested. It NM% no clouts , to
be in accordance with the Pope, wheals amnesty F air
expelled from Rome every m.mber of the representa-
tive assemblies, that his Neap 'titan Majesty has
expelled or impiimmed every eminent or liberal man.
This is the mon trch who wire reprmeirtr d ac about t
rule Sisily so mildly, so moderately, and constitution
ally. Tile fate of Sicily and it, chances of freedom
may now be judged from those of Maoism Inderd,
the same system of terror is praciised at Palermo.
In Piedmont alone hegira the shad,w of c
tional liberty, but wit't the Fr rich so reactlmary and
lukewarm, Turin will no doubt soon he in the same
livery as the other Rabin crpitals. The men who
most rejoice at this are the thorough demo, ats.

The Special Committee on Fu ance ham sire id;
examined the bud4ets of all the mit isterial par-
ments, except finance, which it is now (c upied w,th.
It has adjourned its definitive res ,lu,ion on the Avg-
non Railway until ater the tx..lanntions of the
ministers, who are to be heard to-day. In one of it•
preceding sittings the co:umitt. e, in cam en wi h that
on suppitmentary ciedits, d. cued that it would pro-
p sae to the assemble a parliamentary inquiry on the
state of the flee., arsenal., and maritime storehouses
M. &twit d'Azy was chosen to be is or./an on the
occecioe. He is to bring the mater before the us-
sembly at an early sitting.

The same journal pabliehes the following :
" Caut^n of Vaud, 9th Oct.
" Cit'sen Editnr,—We were of a different opinion to that
of our friends at L and Paris on th► cr. vino as to
whether we shoulti be pees eat at the Wel t.f 10th °colter.
We t►ousht it was important to the re public-to cause that all
those whe participated in the ioniscriminated tlt monstration
s►ould go and say atnin themeelv.s, an 10th October, in the
face of the outstay, what th► said on the 15th June—that
the government has violated the consti•ution But as party
Bee, and by a spirit of discipline, we must, as the minority,
*ohmic ourselves to the opinion of the majority; we Oral.
not therefore appear at the trial. thlutati m and fraternity !
" Pith= PUT. BOICXOT, L. ATEIL, JABNOT, ROLLA/4D
(Or Ba6.e-st-L.ire), BUNTS? CiAtItDEROT."

The Petrie of yests-rdsy evening eats:—" Lord
Normeoby and Lord Broughsm wait this morning
t . the Elyne' and had a coif-rence wits the Prrai-
dent of tie R public. We hare rett•on to believe
that the RUISiSII cud Austrian quesion ear the sut,
ject of the conference." Nothing is more protable
than that his Excellency and L91(1 Br ughtim paid a
visit to Me President of the Republic together, but
the subject of the " conference" supposed by our con-
temporary must b-, of course, merely imaginary.
The following circular has been addrened by the
Prefect of Police to the different commis•aries of po-
lice, illative to the removal of the emblems of some
association of workmen :
Str,—Tht mop rity of the estab'iliments opened by the
sastmiations of w..remen have ostensibly placed on their
signs triangular levels. This embh m, adep ed by the les-
eialat par 7, in ath!ition to awakening cad r.eniniscenors and
inspiring ane..ein. es iu the minds of the peaceful part of the
people, i. not recuguis,l by the gevernment of the republic,
and cousequevirly eas a seditious character. 1, therefore, to
guest you ti ronf ons yourself to my circular of 10th Feb.
last, as d to adopt every necessary measure to estate the pro
ptiwers or matiag rs of those establishments to immediately
remove td e.. emblems from every signboard or front of the
bosses which come within your district. If your .-rders are
not attended to, you will state the etntravea.ion in a prates
eerdal, addressed to me without delay, i•I order that 1 spry
adopt the aretesery means to enforce them. You will do
wall la all taus to reader me an account iu a general report
of the result of your minion, and of its eJnsmusoccs with
regard to gablio (suing.
BOVRIL

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