The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

[THREEPENCE.

chances of war. The From* expedition, monsieur, at the
very begieuting forced es to concentrate our troops, which left
our frontier open to the Austrian invasion, cud left Bologna
and the towns of the R magma unarmed. The Austrians pro-
fited by it. After eight days' ht roil struggle, re pperte d by
the pulation, Bologna was forced to succumb. We had
in France arms to defend ourselves : these arms,
amounting to ten thousand muskets at least, were
seised by you and are in your possession. With
a single move yeti have deprived us of ten
thousand soldiers, fcr each armed man is a soldier against
the Austrians. Your fames are under our walls, within
nauskehshot, disposed as if for a siege. They female there
without an object, without an avowed progratanie ; they
force us to keep the city in a state of deferce which eats up
our finances; they force us to kr ep there an amount of troops
which might awe our towns from Attetrian occupation sod
devutatica; they impede our circu'atlon, our *upplies of
provisiens, our couriers; they keep mea's minds in a state of
over-exeitemeht, which might, wen our pepulation less de-
voted cud well disposed, lead to meat Mesa. su, mem_
quinces ; they do not engender merrier or teaction, for
both are impossible at Rome, but they keap up irritation
i against France, and that is a grave evil for us who were
in the habit of loving her and placing confilecce in her.
We are besieged, monsieur, besieged by Franc, in the
name of a mission of t roterion,i whilst et sante leagues
from us the Kiag of Nsples carries away our hostages,
and the Auerians slauphtet our. brethren. You have,
moniker, presented prepoeitiona. Tits* propostatete
have been declared thadadesible by the Aseteblys
and we sumac now gainsay our resolution. Yon sow
add smother to those which have bawl riteettek nikt
jsepealtien deoleres that reattoe wiYV*et tripe lerelße*
*mem the parts of the RIM= terra ftry occupied ley bet
troop.. You ought to perceive yourself, 111.7nsirar.that there
is nothing in that which changes our position. The parts of
the territory occupied by your troops are In fact pre tasted,
but if it be for the present, to what are they seduced ? If for
the future, have we no other way open for t' c protection of
our territory hat in delivering it up to you ? 'Ch. tocsin: of
the queatit n is not there—it is in the occupation of Rome.
That demand ferns up to the presort tans the first condition
of all the propositions presented. But we have already heel the
honour of informiug you that it is impossible—fir over
will the people coweet to it. If the occupation of lime has
for its object oalv to protect it, the people will exp. -s to you
their gratitude (but they will also tell you that, being ca-
pable of protecting Rome by their own strength, the y would
think themselves dishonoured in your eyes were they to
exhibit such an act of weakne 4 as to declare that, in order to
defend themselves they have teed of acme r*Giments of
French soldiers. 'lf the occupation has for its deject a
political thought, which may God forbid! the reople "-hick
has freely given to itself institutions cannot mole* to submit
to it. Rowels their capital, their palladium, th,ir sacred city.
They know perfectly well, that, independeothe;of their
ciples and 'her honour, there is at the end 0 testy oceupa-
lion of their country civil war. They distrait all resistance ;
they foresee, once the troops are admitted, c`-ent,es in the
men and in the Mediations whichwault be font to their
liberty. They know that in presence of foreign bayonets the
independence of their assembly and 6f their trove tomcat
would be only a vain word ; they Lave Civits Vecchia un-
ceasingly before their eyes. On this point, inonsi•ur, be
certain that their will is i. them... Cole —they well allow them-
selves to b 3 maseamed from barricade to harricede rather
than submit. Will the eoloiets of France-o.n they mas-
sacre a nation of brethren when they came to protect, be-
cause they 6 ill not deliver up their caphal ? The-e aro for
France but three parts t' pl .y in the Reran state Freels
ought to declare fur us, 1411.:111IS us, or be neutral. To di el :re
for us is to formal:" et coentae our republic, and to bah.. side
by aide with us against the Austri int. To declare against
us is to crash without motives the liberty, the national lire,
of a friendly people, and fight on the aide of the Austriaas,
France canuct do that, find will not risk a Bur poen wee to
defend us as an ally. Let her, there.ore, retrain quire nee-
Val in the contest which is now goicg on between us and oar
enemies. Tei/ is all we at present demand from her.
The occupation of Ci.ita Vecchia is ten fait cktompil. Be
it so. Franco believes that in the present state or th.
she cannot remain at a distanco from the fl 'd of hattle. She
thinks that, conquerors or conquered, we !Hoy shoed in need
of her mode rating chew, cr of her protection. We do not
agree with her ice that opinion, bat we do not oppose her in
it. Let her ret.in Cavite Vecchia; let her even tithed her
cantonments, if the number of her troops esquire It, to the
h. allay localiti S extending from Cif itt V. t-hut to Viterbo.
Lot her there wait the ague of the combats which are t-hout
:o take place. Every facility will be afforded her, every
testimony of frank and cordial sympathy will be shov n : her
officers may visit Rome, and her soldiers will have every pos-
sible ac.otomodation and aid. But let leer neuthelity be eine
etre and without any arrare peinie. Let her declare it in
explicit terms. Let her show n& to be free to throw all our
forces into the weird& Let our arms be restored to us. Let
her not with her cruises dose her ports to the men of other
par of Italy who wish to come to our assistance. Le. het,
above all, ttmovc from before our walls, aid let even the
appearance of hostility cease between two people who at it
tutors pe ried, we have no doubt, are destined to unite them-
selves in the same international creed, as they a*: row
the same f tem of Government. Accept, monsieur, the as-
surance of our distinguished consideration.
The Triumvirs—A. fiarre, G. Mazzler, Aostemasm.
To the Envoy Extraordinary of the French Republic at
Rome.
Such is the answer of the triumvirate to the pro.
posals of M. 'Attie; s—era answer which her been
followed by rumours in Paris that Rome hued been.
attacked by the French and occupied. Thin cannot,
however, but be premature.
By a decree of the 26th ult., the triumvirs of Rome
have confisoeted all the possessions of the King of
Naples lying within the Roman territory. Timy aro to
be sold, and the- produce applied to indemnify. the per-
eons who have suffered from the Neapolitan novae:on.
The division of Gen. Roselli, .5,000 strong, retuned
from Velletri on the 26th ; the rest of the troops ere
under (I ribaldi at the frontier. Many de'acbments of
Roman troops ere csneentrating at Aucor.a. The
Austrians were, aecortlir g to the last aecounte, march-
ing towards Jesi, and intended apparently to tako
Ancona by starvation rather than by force of arms.
Zombeeeen Lao leaned a notification. declaring tho '
city of Arlene is a state of siege. The pros ince of
Aseoli has been oleo declared in a dam of siege: by
the extraordinary commissioner of the republ'e,
Tree Coetemporenco of Rome, of tho 26th ult.,
publishes a letter from Father Venture, sla.ting that
the republic of Rome has never given him the
slightest reason b for for his person, bat that, on
tho contrary, it Las consta• tly upheld true religion.
and true liberty.
TUSCANY.—The Lucca Gazette, of the 28th ult.,
publishes a grand ducal decree, dated Naples, May
24, naming the following ministry : Senator %Ides-
euroni, president of the council, and minister of
finance, commerce, and public works, and provi-
sionally empowered to sign urgent acts during the
absence of the grand duke, such acts to Le counter-
signed by another minister; Senator Leonidi Lan-
demi, retnletar of the interior; Senator Capoquadri,
grace and justice ; Duke of Cassigliano, foreign affairs;
Jacopo Mazoti' worship; Marquis Boccella, public
instruction and charity ; Count de Lousier, war. This
the first decree, since his restoration, in which the
grand duke reassum,s all hie titles of Austrian origin,
which he had previously abandoned. The first act of
the new Tuscan ministry has been to repeal the
decrees of the 25th of March and 17th of April, 1848,
and the subsequent ordonnance of the 25th of October.
by which the Italian flag had been adopted instead of
the Tuscan one.
The Cbrriere Mercantile of the 30th states that
Guerrezzi has been removed Volterra.
SARDINIA.—The demands of Austria, mentioned
yesterday, have been refused by Piedmont, so says tho
Opinione, of Turin. An additional amnesty for the
political offenders of Genoa, Lerid, Rocco, and
-1 L'hiaveric, has been published.
WO I

The Bordeaux mill brought no Span7sh mans to
Paris yesterday.

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MANAION-HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor and the Lady
Mayoress have is'ued cards for a vend banquet in the
Egyptian-hall. on Wednesday, the 27th inst., to Bir Robert
and Lady Peel aid a distinguished circle of the nobility.
FOX-11eNTING.—The late f )z-hunting WIMP, from
the very open state of the weather, was one of the most
soccessful experienced for several years past, and the mas-
ters of honed' throu;hout the country can show annnuntal
number of " brushes, pads, and heads," and other trophies
of that m'u' exciting sylvan !port. In Illoncestryshiro,
Earl Pi•zharlirge reckons above 100 kills; Mr. Farquhar-
son, in the south-west, nearly half as many more; and oat
well-known thoroughbred sportsman, Mr. Aaht.n Smith.
has a long aecount. attended in moat instanees with good
runt, upwards of 40 foxes being either killed or ran to
ground before hell-past ore o'clock, and no second fox re-
quired. There have likewiee been fewer changes than usual
sairzsist the masters, and gentlemen in general have pre-
their own country. That fuses rarely escape now,
when fairly forced from covert, may in a gn-at measure be
attributed to a more extended knowledge of the science at
busting, and to the prevalence of, in ease of &cheek, that
Bee manceuvre commonly celled " the all-round-my-hat
east." It is a suhieet of regret that a well-known peek in
Wales has been affected by what is called dumb madam,
and that several of the best honed, are destroyeL It is
ascertained that upwards of 10,0001. per annum are paidas
Mies by masters of hounds alone, there be:ae above 100
pickier' lex-hounds kept, and as malty racks of harriersin
this country, independent of Ireland.—Nollingham Journal.

AMERICA.

IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY
AT NEW ORLEANS AND ST. LOUIS.

The British and North American Royal Mail
steam- ship, Hibernia, Captain Lang, Itnived at Liver-
- rill last eight with one week's lame Bows from the
United Starer, British North America, and Mexico.
Sbe lit Boaton on the 23rd, and after putting in for
the mail and passengers into Halifax, left that port
ea the 2dtb.
We learn that the Canada steam-ship, which had
bees pored by the America within a
yewf hours sail
of New York, reached that port on t 7, after a
ravage of 11) days.
The Hiteraia's news are of more than usual interest,
so fart they relate to the United States.
The adrices from New Orleans state that that city
was threatened with almost entire destruction by the
overflowing of the river. By the last account, the
water had bust the level! alarge portion of the city
was submerged, and the inhabitants were cm mass*
quitting the neighbourhood.
The fine steamer Empire had met with a serious
accident on the Hama ricer, some 80 miles abm
the city of New York. In a collision o ult.
she west down. Twenty lives wereunfortunately

lost.
The city of Saint Louis Unmet with almost as dis-
astrous a calamity as that of New Orleans, though
from aa apposite element. On the 18th ult. a conNe-
;ration broke eat which raged so intensely that, in a
short time, 418 houses and 23 ateam-bosta were con-
sumed, and property to the amount of six million of
dollars destroyed.
The city lies below the hish-wa'er level of this
great river, and is guarded, as Holland is, from the '
inroad of the see, by dykes, or levees as they ars
called, along the Mississippi.. A portion of one of
then levees above the city haviog been carried away,
cis waters were passing rapidly through the opening,
overeoseiog fforts to stop the breach, inundating
the plantations below, and actually pouring through
some of the streets of city. The latest dates are
the 13th alt , when in assay quarters the inhabitants
yen *heady driven by. the invading waters to take'
icing* in the *peer storm of their houses.
From California the accounts see twenty-two days
later. The advice, are important According to one
account the Californians refused to recognize General
Smin, who was sent out as military governor of the
territory, and had taken steps to ordains, a govern-
ment for themselves.
Aesording to another, he had virtually taken back
the erobilition which he hid issued at Panama for-
biddine foreigners to dig for gold at the " placers,"
and had organised a good police at San Francisco, and
executed his authority without hindrance; but what
is certain is, that the people had resolved to summon
an assembly to sit at San Francisco sad frame such
laws as may be necessary for the preservation of
order and the regulation or trade.
This body is to coosiet of 15 members. Three
judges are also to be chosen—all by universal suffrage,
of coarse.
This organisation, it is understood, was to go into
effect immsdistely.
Several meetings had been held at San Francisco,
to propose the introduction of the slave trade.
The report of the discovery of gold in Oregon is
contradicted.
The mail steamer California still lay motionless at
San Frniciicr.. There had been a mutiny on board
the limited States ship-of-war Ohio, owing to the
device of the men to get off to the gold region.
Sarre thirty men have been put in irons by the com-
modore, sod many would be hung.
Mexican accounts state that the duty which had
hitherto been levied on gold imported from Upper
California into Mexico had been removed.
The robbers on the rood from Vera Cruz to the
city of Mexico were more bold and active than ever.
From the r.:volted districts there is nothing new.
From New Vole itself there is nothing further
worthy of being telegraphed respecting the Opera-
house tragedy.
Canada is quiet. The crgsns of both sections of
pnlit;ciars 111• I still occupied discussing the merits or
demerits ef the Governer-General and the Assembly.
It was more than probable that matters would re-
main in a quiescent state nutil intelligence would
reach from the mother country regarding the memo-
rial of the minority of the colonists.

COM 61 BBC lAL INTELLIGENCE.
MONIT money market at New York
since the departure of the previous steamer had been very
*sr". Specie in eossiderable quantities had continued to ar-
rive. Money we. very plentoful, and could be obtained at
very moderate rates. The general trade of the country is
rep irtrd to be in a most sates'setory condition ; business
gradually improving. Pennsylvania Fives were quoted at
83. busily Notes at M.
COTTOL—!be cotton market. c-peelslly at New York, is
reported brisk, with a good averase amount of business
skim. Prices have, on the whole, slightly advanced, as
will be seen by the following quotations: Upland and
Florida middling fair to fair, 71 to 71 c.; Mobile, New
Orleans, and Tram, middling fair to fair, BtoBl a.
Basso Brous.—This market, since former advices left,
hes been rather quiet. Not many transactions are reported,
hstdms eouthsteina to welt farther advicee from this country.
Western Canal flour, per barrel, 4 dol. 60 e. to 4 dol. 621 e. ;
°ermine, prime whew, per 6011 e., 1 de1.22 e. to I dol. 24 e.;
Southern whet, per 60 lbe., 1 dol. 2 e. to I dol. 4 c. ; Indian
corn, rouni yellow, per bush.l, 60 e. to 62 c. ; Southern
white. sir lm,ehal. 63 G. to 68 a ; Indian meal, per barrel,
2dol. 871 e. to 3 doL
PILOVISIONS —ln this market the chief articles of interest
to merchants in this country are without change either in
intent of business done or in poises.
Buonantot on London was quoted at 1081 to 1081, very
firm. A fair demand existed on Paris at 6.25. On Ham-
burg, 351 to 351. On Bremen, 781 to 79.
PRBIOHTS remain unchanged st the time of steamer's de-
parture, the current
square bales, per lb., 1 to 346 ; ROUT sad meal, lr. 93. to 2s.
per brl. To Barre: cotton, squats bales, per lb., Ito 10.