The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-17 00:00:00

UNITED STATES AND CANADA.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

The Montreal Ocean Mail Steamship Company*
screw steamer Nova Sootian, Captain Widest/a,
which left Portland, Maine, on the 4th instant,
passed Holyhead this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and
will probably reach the Mersey between 9 and 10
o'clock this evening. Her news has already been
received by telegraph from Queenstown.

ITALY.

BAB.DINIA.

(MON OVA OWX COXIMPOWDINS.)

TURIN, Paz. 13.
As I was taking a walk yesterday in front of the
university, I met Massimo d'Azeglio, who was to
have gone several days ago to Milan u the governor
of that city. He was walking with his head bent,
and lost in thought; he had on a thick comforter to
protect his throat from the bleak air, having had an
attack of gainsay or sore throat same time back, from
which he is just recovering. He told me he felt also
in his leg the old wound he received in 1848 at
Vicenza, where he fought against the Austrians.
He has just finished a picture, which he had
previously put aside in order to write the book, which
was published at Paris, and which you are acquainted
with. " To-morrow," he said to me, " I leave for
Milan, where I shall do my best; if I do not succeed
I shall return to Turin, to my easel and palette,
cheerfully leaving to the Milanese the task of finding
a man better suited to their taste." Massimo
d'Azeglio is one of the most complete men of our
day ; is of the Leonardo da Vinci stamp, and he
is modest withal, being ready to meet inferior men
on their own level.
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The Savoy and Nice question is being still agi-
tated. The whole diplomatic circle here, except the
French part of it, abstain from giving the least
encouragement to the cessionist party, but that is all,
it makes ao opposition to it. Not so the cessionista or
separatist►, most of whom are at Nice, and who are
afraid they shall only gain their ends by force. Our
government, which had resolved to permit the
tree manifestation of public opinion, has been
obliged, in so far as Nice is concerned, to depart from
its neutr►lity in defence of order and its own dig-
nity. On Friday last, the separatist journal, called
L'Aeseir de Nice, was sequestrated. In order to
deceive readers at a distance respecting the anti-
annexionist manifestations in the streets and the
theatre of that town, the journal in question resorted
to every couceivablecalumny and invention. Amongst
other wilful falsehoods, it stated that all the students
of the National College had been taken to the
theatre. Bet the rector of the college has compelled
the donsir, by common process of law, to publish a
deals:ail= that not even one single student was
present in the theatre on the occasion alluded to.
Your fellow-countrymen and the Russians, who are
now staying at Nice, see with great satisfaction the
expression of Italian sentiments there. They would
be very sorry to see Nice teasing to be a neutral
city. Belonging to Piedmont, and lying as it does
in a remote corner of the most bustling portion—the
focus as it were, of Italian life—it ought to be as free
from political as from atmospherical tempests, even
should Piedmont be at war with Austria or have any
disturbance with Central Italy.
With regard to the latter, the new voting de-
manded by diplomacy 111 the Amilia and Tuscany is
not to take place before Austria's reply to M. Thouve-
nee note ; • reply that is very long in coming.
Whenever the voting takes place, Farini, the governor
of the Emilia, and General Buoncompagni (who by
the by has just lett this place for Bologna), together
with all the Piedmontese that happen to be in those
provinces at the time, will quit them instantly, that
there may not be a semblance or suspicion of moral
pressure. Now, Parini is a native of Ansel, a dis-
trict in the Romagna; and surely he at least would
have a right to remain and give his vote like the
rest, bat etiquette and his high sense of propriety
will cause him to abstain, so that he will allow
the diplomatists of France, England, and more-
over Austria, to ascertain the unbiassed will of the
Romagnols. The same conduct will be observed in
Tuscany, where they do not fear the intrigues of the
grand-ducal partisans, who, abandoned by publics
opinion, are being bolstered up at this crisis by per-
sons affecting to be Nspalsoniste or republicans. The
advocate Gnerraixi, who was found wanting in 1848,
has lately been actuated by dislike of Baron Rios-
' soli, and yesterday, to prevent his name from being
forgotten, he thought St to publish in a newspaper
of this city a rabid article against the present go-
vernment of Tuscany. This effusion of the Leghorn
lawyer will be balm of Gilead for the adherents of the
Grand Duke and Anstria,especially as it has a radical
flavour about it. But Ido not think it will change
public opinion. Guerrazzi, though quite unequal to
great emergencies, has much perverse talent in law,
literature, and politics, and a rare spirit of obstisacy.
Bat while resurgent Italy bolds in high veneration
such men as Gioberti and Balbo, forgetful of their
errors and mindful oely of their virtues, she strives
to forget the recalcitrant Guerraszis, men who think
more of themselves than of their native land.

THE Mama ParAcznto MOYINENT.—OOI.
chewer Theatre has been far some time pest dosed fir dm-
tattle representatioes. Arrampantints ars now in
for bolding special religious wiretap" in the building,lrt:
various Christian denominations of the town will join in the
movement.