The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1859.

has evidenced the contrast between her own
government and that of her Dukes. She has
shown that she has now infinitely more ground
te demand independence than when the Emperor at
tbentENCH, in the spring, suddenly assumed hereon&
Yet all that she gets in the 'Fruity of Zurich is a
frown—and a very dark frown too. Francs
seems growing more and more cold. And in pro-
portion to this, it is very certain that Austria, the
great bully, will assume more and more enrage.
Meanwhile, the Treaty of Zurich tries to draw
public attention away from the question of the
Duchies, although with an uneasy conscience, to the
question of the proposed Italian Confederation,
which can never be realised otherwise than by force.
It should be noted, too, that there is one hidden but
pre-eminent reason for the acquiescence of Austria
in this scheme of a Confederation. Its institution
would at once provide a recognised tribunal for
settling the question of the Duchies ; and with
Austria, the POPE, and the Xing of NAPLES on
one aide, and Sardinia singly on the other, it is
easy to trace how a Confederation would resolve the
fate of the Duchies. Against all this Free Italy
will make a resolute stand. She will have no Con-
federation tending only to bring back the bakes,
and fostered immediately 'perhaps with that motive.
She is conscious of daily increasing strength, both
mere and physical ; she will submit to no craft re
intimidation from without; and she will sea every
provision of the Peace of Zurich with the distrust
which it inspires.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE PIEDMONTESE LOAN.
TURIN, Ocr. 21.

The official Piedmontese Gazette publishes a de-
cree, authorising the Minister of Finances to con-
tract a loan of 100 millions of franca, by means of
alienation of Rents' on the public debt to that
amount.

Count Roger, Minister of Belgium, has arrived
at Turin.

THE GERMAN CONFEDERATION.

A telegram from Frankfort, dated the 20th of
October, evening, says :
" In to-day's sitting of the German Diet, the king-
doms of Saxony, Hanova., Bavaria, and Wurtem-
berg, and the Duchies of Hew, Mecklenburg, sad
Nassau proposed the revision of the military °anti-
tntion of the Confederation."

ILLNESS OF TEE AUSTRIAN
PLENIPOTENTIARY.
ZURICH, Ocr. 21.
Count Collared° has been attacked with apoplexy
this morning. Four physicians have been called to
his aid, but little hopes are entertained of his
reeerery.

INDIA.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
We hive received letters and journals from Bom-
bay, dated the 26th ult.

The Bombay Gazette says that her Majesty's 87th
Regiment is under orders for China, and will be
followed by the 99th, in which the vacancies caused
by the number of soldiers that have taken their dis-
charge are likely to be filled before it starts. About
300 men have volunteered from one militia corps for
this regiment.
The Ludwig Herald understands that Lord Clyde
on his arrival at Cawnpore will await the result of a
reference made to England in regard to the recent
diluters in China. "It is, we believe, Lord Can-
ning's intention to place the army intended for
operations in China, under the personal command of
his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. This force
hu already been detailed at head-quarters, and will
comprise about 10,000 troops of all arms. The reply
from England may be expected about the middle of
October." We ahoald add that the statement re-
lative to Lord Clyde is questioned by the Bombay
paper•

The chief topic throughout India (trays the
Bombay Standard) since the departure of our last
mail has been the new bill for licensing kedge and
professions:
o:kerwise there has bean no matter commanding general
interest for a longer term than the orthodox "nine dsys."
Upon the idols, our attitude here is that of expectation,
band upon the approaching arrival of Kr. Wilson, and the
possible departure of Lord Canning. Hie lordship's
movements see now tolerably settled. Hs has "obtained
leave" of the Legislative Coined, and is expected

to reach Caeinpore by the 12th groxisen. He will be joined
there by Lord Clyde, the two tosernstes then =deg
a right royal progress to Lucknow. Lord Clyde thee, it to
said, returns to England, Lord Canning spending the cold
Issas in a tour through the North-weet and the Puojeth,
retiring to Simla in April. It has long been decided that
Sir Hugh Rose to to be the new Commander-in-Chief.
Lords Coming sad Clyde will doubtless have much to
tattle as to the future of Or de, which it is now affirmed is to
be amalgamated with the other meth-wed coeditor. It is
odd, also, that there is to be • grand distribution of presents
to the loyal Ordeans. An expedition into Nepaul it la to be
hoped will be arranged during the conference of the two
chiefe. Thereto some talk about it.

TM Baird army is dully disposed of—disbeadsd ar n•
erased. There is to be no soots Native !utilise,.

The Commercial Gaulle says that the authorities
have at length fully resolved upon hunting down
the Nana and rebels in Nepaul, and that dying
columns will enter the Terai early this cold season.
A similar course will be adopted with regard to the
marauding bands now infesting the Bundelcund
country.

In addition to the naval force (gun-boats Clyde
and Constance) which was dispatched just as the
last mail was leaving, a land force was under pre-
paration for the expulsion of the refractory Waghers
from Bati island. The foroe is to consist of three
companies of infantry (Europeans) and the 6th
N. 1., a troop of artillery, with battering guns and
mortars, and • company of sappers. Colonel
Donovan, Her Majesty's 33rd, has the command.
This force will operate with • field force consisting
of 400 of the 17th N. 1., 200 of the anjerat Ins-
tals, Horse, under Captain Pym, 900 of the 14th
N. 1., 300 of Her Majesty's 33rd, and two guns.
After bombarding Dwarka, the place will be taken
by assault.
The leaders of the late rebellion are being trapped
in detail :

Last mall (soya the Bombay &.ndard), it was Hems
Sing, this time it is Rao Ram Suksh, talookdor of Decade&
Khan, the capture of whom Ranee we reported in oar lest.
A boy who had been in the service of one of the Ram'. wives,
end was discharged picelme, gave the information, which
was acted upon by Captain Orr, deputy cominieeloner. The
actual captors were two &uprose's., who them made a lucky
haul, as 10,000 rupees have been offered for the rebel.
He was residing in a village ca the oateldrts of
Bonita, the hones being surrounded by a high
wall, but open to the Ganges. He kept two men constantly
on the watch, but the place was surrounded at night, and
when he came forth in the morning to bathe he was pounced
upon. His home was tied to hia charpoy (bedstead), to be
reedy at a moment's notice. He will be tried for the warder
of the few survivors of the Cawnpore massacre who took
refuge in the temple, of whom only Captain Thomson and
Lieut. Dekker.' are alive to tell the tale—and for being a
leader of rebillion. Rajah lyelell will also be tried sa a Moder.
and a siding and abetting in the murder of Hiss Jackson,
Mrs. Green, and others. Chutter Sal has " come in."
Captain Richards' field force has been mooring the &rind
jungles for the last fortnight in pursuit of Adil Mohamed
and this man. The former gavotte the slip, as we reported
last mail, but on the 31st ult. Captain Richards and Oarand,
of the 10th N. 1., had an interview with Chutter Sal, which
ended in his surrender next day. Hews Lal ldisser, who
encountered Havelock on hie march from Oormon to the
Ganges, and again vainly attacked that general on his way
to the relief of Lucknow, is now in that city, having availed
hinmelf of the amneety.

The commercial intelligence isu follows:

GOVIANIMIT Secuattles.—The fluctuations have bean
but slight, with an upward tendency. Fours are 741, Fives
87, and Fiveundo-lialfe, 941 per cent.
Excel...num.—After the lest mall left a alight advance
occurred, bus roost of the buainces for this mail has been
done at 2.. lad. for first class, and 2e. lid. for document
paper. To-day an advance of lid. in the rupee be. been
established.

Filllol476.—Little variation, the business befog very
limited. The number of mods in harbour, however, le
diudoishlng, and some little improvement may be hoped for.
We quota 12e. to 17s. 61. for London. and 15s. to 20.. for
Liverpool. At tha latter rate a woad has taken up for Hull.
There has been much flurtnation In China freights. ♦ short
time .g i they were Its. 2i to 3, but on the arrival of the
Isms China mail vessels were taken up at Its. 6to 7 per
toady.

Another large Russian failure has been announced,
the house being that of M. Gutachkuff, an extensive mama-
fecturee at Moscow, and formerly mayor of that oily. Hie
liabilities amount to about 240,0001., and he is said to have
committed suicide.

Accounts from Hayti to the 24th ult. have arrived
by the last West India mail. The murderer of the daughter
of President Geffnud dad been arrested. This man, whose '
same is Same, has confessed that the crime was the result
of a conspiracy to overthrow the government, the plan of the
conspirators being to kill the President's daughter in order to
attract the President himself to the theatre of the otiose,
and then to kill him. &non states that it was two men,
named Cochotte and 7..imor, who instigated him to commit
the alum, and that whilst the latter provided him with a
gun, the former took hint to the vicinity of the general's
boas% sad showed him the window through which he was
to, Ire at Mme. Blanfort (the daughter). "You," said
Cochotte, "shall do the little execution, and I will do the
great eas." Ile (Samoa), however, hesitated to commit the
seisms but Coohotto threatened hint with a dagger, and he
dreg; after which, in great terror, be took to flight in the
wadi', and rambled about usitil he was arrested. In addle
dos to Banon, several other conspirators have been taloa
into custody.

ASSAIIbINATION AT VELLZTEL—A letter from
Rot]a of me liSth, in the Courtier do Marmitk, amp:—
Tbe torn of Vahan has bees throw. tato cannot:Mb
by the billowing horrible anat.—M. Bpostool, belonging to
one of the Bret families in the place, waa meassinated so the
moment when he wee leaving the Piltppi Palate. Ile wee
about to be united in marriage to Mdlle. de Fitippi,
daughter of the Count de Filippl, r-equerry to
the Sovereign Pontiff. Ile hod on the very even-
ing gone through the ceremony of betrothal, and
wee returning home, when he wee suddenly ea-
sailed by two persons wearing meets, one at whom pinioned
hie area, while the other stabbed him take with a dagger.
He wea not killed on the spot, but after having been con-
veyed to ha home lived lag enough to make his will, leaving
port of his property to Lis intended bride. In 1&53, M.
Bpontoni had been imprieoned for some politkel aisle, and
he to thought q be the victim of the Italian societies, who
madmen to &WA ell who ebandon them. If credit may
be attached to an avowal roads by M. Spostoni benne ha
death, his murderers do not belong to Valletri, but he would
net aeon thou."

GERMANY.

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BERLIN, OCT. 17.
On several occasions before it hoe been stated in
the Express that the policy of vacillation and
weakly conservatism, pursued by the Prussian
cabinet, must necessarily tend to have a very fatal
influence on the maintenance of a strong constitu-
tionalist party in the smaller and even the larger
states, and will, in the end, drive even moderate men
into the camp of advanced radicalism or democracy.
It is all very well to say that such ought not to be
the case; but the feet is the feeling of national
unity and freedom has taken such deep root in the
public mind that its cravings must be satisfied, and
that party which offers the best satisfaction to this
legitimate feeling is cure of collecting round its
banner the greatest number of adherents. At present,
with the proofs of the half-hearted, undecided de-
teeter of the Prussian government before their eyes,
the people in general become daily more averse to
the so-called " hegemony " schemes, and once more
begin to revert to the ideas prevailing before and in
1848. Whether this may be approved of or not, the
fact is there. Already on former occasions it has been
observed that the democratic party, properly speak-
ing, is not so utterly disorganised by far as some may
think, though of course the defeat sustained in 1849
has given it a severe blow. I myself have sometime@
called your attention to the fact of democratic prints
being here and there profusely distributed by un-
known hands; and this, I learn, is now again the
case. "An Open Letter to the Committee of the
National Party," lately assembled at Frankfort, is
said to have been distributed in many copies. I my-
self have not yet been able to obtain a copy ; bat, as
far as I see from extracts in the letters of friends,
the pamphlet takes a very decided part against the
Gotha party and the " hegemonic" scheme, and seeks
to instil the republican doctrines in language which,
I am assured, is difficult to refute, owing to the
hopelessness of German official politics and the
intricate nature of German affairs in general. The
"Open Letter (Offen Brief)" is, in fact, one of those
prints that insinuate republicanism in a very dan-
gerous manner.
The visit of the Prince Regent to Breslau is looked
at by many German patriots as foreshadowing a turn
of policy not much in favour with liberals in general.
Whatever may be thought of Austria—and her
system of government is abhorred throughout the
confederation—the Russian alliance would be dis-
tasteful to all Germans; the principle on which it
rests only agrees with the Junker party at Berlin.