The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1860.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

NAPLES.
TURIN, Ann. 23.
Letters from Naples confirm the reported assas-
sination of General Vigils.

THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY.
(not on owir ocausromerr.)

NAPLES, Aram 17.

The Etna left last night at 8 o'clock with cavalry
for Messina. At present 18,000 soldiers are con-
centrated in Palermo. General Cataldi left the
city with 8,000 men on Saturday, but the insur-
gents, of course, retired. It is not their plan to
risk any general engagement. Cataldi returned
without results. The artillery have destroyed the
villas under Monte Pellegino, especially near the
barracks Borgognone. Near this spot the cavalry
were much cut up by the insurgents.
We have no steamer in from Palermo to-day,
but one from Messina gives the following intel-
ligence :—The troops seem to have acted with the
greatest caprice, and to have themselves done
everything to promote a revolution. On the,
night of the 10th and morning of the 12th
they began firing without any apparent necessity
with both musketry and cannon. Many people
were killed in their houses. The soldiers fired
right and left as if for amusement, or as if under a
panic. The British and French Consuls in the
first place remonstrated against a bombardment of
the town, but were reassured. However, as a
cannonade took place they went to the com-
mandant with a strong protest, couched in very
severe terms. They were informed that if they
chose they might enter the arsenal, but that the
commandant had no alternative than to fire if the
necessity occurred. A Swiss gentleman
had been arrested as he was leaving a
monastery, where he had been visiting one
of the fathers, and had been imprisoned
three days without any cause. An officer had been
shot by one of his own soldiers, and another soldier
had shot himself in his sleep whilst acting as
sentinel. Such was the disorder which existed.
With all this the town seemed to be somewhat re-
assured, and people were returning.
General Viglia, it was said in the morning, had
been shot by a ramrod, and now again I hear that
it was a shot fired accidentally ; but it is observed
that several rounds had been already fired. The
ball entered the right shoulder. He suffers much,
but I am not aware that the wound is dangerous.
General Viglia served as major in the 10th, in
Lombardy, in 1848, was decorated by Victor
Emmanuel, and is much esteemed.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, TV DST.

The Wiener Zeilung contains a decree provisionally
appointing the Councillor of State Ignss von
Pleuer to the charge of the Ministry of Finance.
The decree also confers upon him the title of Privy
Councillor.

Prince Crartoryski died yesterday morning.
VIENNA, MONDAY APTKRNOON.
His Excellency the Minister of Finance, Baron
con Bruck, expired at 5.10p.m.

ITALY.

FLORENCE., MONDAT.

The King will be at Leghorn to-day, at Pistoja
and Luoca to-morrow ; on Wednesday at Sienna,
and on Thursday at Arezzo.

THE VOTING IN SAVOY.

PAWS, Ann 24.

The Paris papers publish the following results
of the voting upon the question of the annexation
of Savoy to France:

Chambery, April 23, 8 pm.
The result of the voting in the district of Cham-
bery is known, and is as follows :—About 30,000
ayes, and 60 noes. The following are the details :
In Annecy, 1,127 ayes and 21 noes ; in Aix, 987 ayes
and 13 noes-192 abstained from voting or were
absent ; in Chambery, 3,688 ayes and 22 noes-200
were absent or abstained from voting.
A fate took place at the governor's house, which
was ornamented with flags. Crowds were present
and musical entertainments were given.

Turin, April 23.
The Savoyards of the Sardinian army present at
Turin have voted as follows :
For annexation to France
Against
Out of 186 natives of Nice, 157 have voted for
annexation.

Geneva, April 23.

The result of the voting in several towns of the
proviuoes of Chablais and Faucigny is generally
unanimous for annexation to France.

SPAIN.
MADRID, Aran 22.
The Moorish Plenipotentiaries arrived at Tetuan
yesterday. The nogotiations have commenced.
The following are additional particulars coaoern-
ing the arrest of Count Montemolin.
During the night of the 20th instant the gen-
darmerie surrounded a house where Count Monte-
molin and his brother were supposed to be con-
cealed. After having vainlydemanded admittance,
one of the gendarmes entered the house through
the window. Tho Princes were dressed, and declared
themselves at the disposal of the gendarmes.
The majority of the press is in favour of a trial
by ordinary court-martial.
The Correspondeweia Autograja considers that
nothing will be resolved upon until the return of
Marshal O'Donnell from Africa, but believes that
the conspiracy will be tried by the Senate.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aran. 23.

The Society of Bankers for maintaining the course
of exchange on London at 110, and of Medjidiee at
100, commences operations from the Lt of May
next. The redemption of the Caimis continues,
and is to be completed by the end of May.

During the night of the 18th, Mr. G. P. R.
James, the well-known novelist, had an attack of paralysis
at Venice, where he is Consul-Genera.

Preparations are being made to open to the public
the new zoological garden in the Bois de Boulogne early
next month. Henceforth Paris will enjoy the advantage of
two scientific palaces, one at the Jardin dee Plantes and the
other in the Bois de Boulogne.

Cardinal Szitowaki, the Prince Primate of Hun-
gary, intends to do bonnur to the memory of Count Ste-
phen Saecbenyi by means of a Tranerirer (mourning cere-
mony) on the BArch plain, on which bas been shed the
blood of many of the most worthy descendants of Afield.
A few days ago the Croatian peasants around
Agrem presented a magnificent "bouquet" to the Counter
Antonia Barhysay, the widow of the nobleman who was
Hungarian Minister-President in 1848.

The Illinois arrived at Southampton yesterday
with the United States mail. She Mt bew York on the
7th inst. She brought fifty passengers. Amoriegilder
°Argo was specie to the value of 100.000 dollars for
and 200,380 dollars for France. She is to proceed from
Southampton to Havre. It is not expected that she will
leave for America again until the 28th inst. Her news has
been anticipated.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nor on OWN

mgr.)

PAHL% MONDAY EVIXI/10.

The leading news of the day is the following
despatch, forwarded from London by M. Reuter,
and reproduced by, tho evening papers, "with all
reserve "

London, April 22.

The majority of the powers who signed the final act of
the Congress of Vienna have agreed to the following com-
bination :—An understanding will be come to by ordin' ary
diplomatic means for the drawing up of a protocol reserving
guarantees in favour of Switzerland. The representatives
in Paris of those powers will receive instructions to sign
this protocol, after which France will enter into arrange-
ments direct with Switzerland. The conference will hold
only one sitting, confining itself to sanctioning the bases of
the direct arrangement between France and Switzerland.

The Pays and Patric know not how far this news
may be correct, but, considering the "invariably
conciliatory spirit" of the French government, they
see in it nothing improbable.
I send, without comment. the following extract
from Bullies's Correspondence, which will be in the
hands of every provincial journalist in France by
to-morrow :

When and where will the conference meet? In what
manner will it be convoked? and what powers will be called
upon to join it? Now, if lam to speak my whole mind, I
think that this conference which is to conciliate the fresh
neutralisation of Switzerland with the superannuated
treaties of 1815 will no more meet than did the congress
which was to have settled the Italian question. Of course
the opposition will not come from the cabinet of the Tuile-
ries ; but the minister [meaning Lord John Russell] who
lately said that the conference will "very probably" meet,
will perhaps be the first to put a etumbling•block in the
way, just as be did with the congress. To come to this
conference would be to consent diplomatically to the abro-
ption of the treaties of 1815. Now, you may be very sure
that the powers will never come with really friendly inten-
tions to make this species of amende honorable to the exile
of St. Helena in the person of his nephew. And yet they
made a first step towards this consummation when in the
Congress of Paris they consented solemnly to treat with
the heir of Napoleon I. They must resign themselves
directly or indirectly to take a second step in the same
' direction; for when the powers will not come to him
Napoleon 111. is in the habit of going to them. In the
Congress of Paris our plenipotentiaries and M. Cavour
raised the Italian question. M. de Buol would not haute(
it. What did Napoleon 111. do? Why he put himself at
the head of 300,000 men, and went to the banks of the
Mincio to propose an alliance to the Emperor of Austria.
A friend of mine, who is addicted to prophetic pleasantries,
said to me the other day :—" You'll see the Emperor; go
to the Rhine to offer his alliance to the King of Prussia,
coupled with a slight rectification of frontiers." I replied
by • quotation from the pamphlet, " Napoleon UL et
l'ltalie," " It is better to settle a territorial modification
in a friendly way than to have to do it the day after a
victory."

The long talked of fancy ball at the Hotel d'Albe
is positively to oome off to-morrow. The Empress,
it is said, will appear as Diana in a hunting cos-
tume, made after the pattern of one worn by
Madlle. de la Valliere at a celebrated fete given by
Louis XIV. Among the character quadrilles there
is to be one in which air, water, fire, and earth
will be represented by the Countess do Morny,
Madlle. de Gray, Princess Czartoryska, the daugh-
ter of Queen Christina, and the Countess Walewslut.
The Count de Persigny, as I suspected, when the
Pays prematurely announced his departure, re-
mains here for the ball, and will leave for London
the day after.

The Grand Duke Nicholas of Rusda is expected
in Paris before the end of the month from Nice.
The government papers of last evening made an
extraordinary exhibition of indiscriminate zeal,
apropos of M. Thouvenel's despatch of March 13,
the text of which they found in the amt.& de Lau-
sanne. Fastening upon a paasage in which M.
Thouvenel hesitatingly said that the Swiss govern-
ment Lad "in some sort " proposed to him a secret
treaty for the partition of Savoy, they accused
Switzerland of having been the first to suggest the
despoiling of the King of Sardinia, and had asked
for the aid of France to assist in making over Cha-
blais and Faucigny to Switzerland " long before
(see Pays) France had ever thought of such a thing
as the treaty of March 24." Unfortunately for theee
journals there existed in print at the time they
were writing, despatches, kept back from France in
order that M. Thouvenel's letter might create a
prejudice, in which that minister admitted that Dr.
Kern, so far from having taken any initiative, had
merely begged to have in writing a promise verbally
made to him by M. Thouvenel as far back as
February 6, and then merely as an alternative in
cue France should be thoroughly decided not to
allow the statu quo to be maintained.
At the Bourse the London despatch about the
Swiss conference made a favourable impression.
The Rente rose 10c. for cash and sc. for account,
closing very firm at 70fr. 35c. and 70fr. 30c. Mo-
bilier rose lir. 25c. There is still great uncer-
tainty and anxiety about the dividend. There was
no change worth noting in railways.
The government has decided that at the next
agricultural show, horses, asses, and mules shall be
exhibited, as well as cows, sheep, and hogs.

SPAIN.

We read in a letter dated Valencia, April 13 :

Colonel Epifanio Carrion, who was mixed up in the recent
event., was brought here under escort on the lOth. Re
wore a uniform and the cross of St. Ferdinand, but no
epaulettes. As soon as he was lodged in prison an official
personage corns to interrogate him. " Mr. Official," said he
rather sharply, "your opinions matter very little to me,end
lam much attached to my own—it is useless to pursue this
conversation." The next day Carrion was brought before •
courtmartial. The charge upon which he was arraigned
was very short, but left no doubt of his guilt. When it
was read be said at first that he was too much troubled in
his mind to follow it ; but immediately afterwards he de-
dared that he would not seek to deny or to palliate the facts
imputed to him, but would ask for mercy. "My crime is
great," he said, "but no also is the expiation. I have :oat
my eldest sou, a poor innocent boy, whose only crime
was that ho loved his father, and would stay by his side to
defend him. Will not that innocent blood soften the
rigours of justice! Remember that lam the head of a
numerous family entirely dependent on me. Send me to
the Phillippine Islands,to the remotest possessions of Spain,
but in pity for my wife and children let no more blood be
shed." This speech made a great impression on the public,
and the sympathy for the prisoner increased when on the
president asking him to name the person in pursuance of
I whose orders he had rebelled against his sovereign, he an-
swered, "I will never name him ; I have never been an
informer, and never will be. It is painful to me to find my
word doubted, but I persist in maintaining silence on this
subject." The court condemned him to be shot, and the
sentence was carried into execution this morning in the pre-
sence of a great crowd of spectators, whom he asked to pray
for him. Re knelt down on one knee, a tremendous die.
charge was heard, and he fell dead, his breast bone literally
driven in by converging bullets.

LAUNCH or THE CAPE MAIL STEAMER CAM-
BRIA/Z.—Yesterday afternoon the launch of the *crew
steamer Cambripn, belonging to the Union Steam Naviga-
tion Company, of Southampton, and intended as a mail
ship between that port and the Cape of Good Hope, took
place from the ship.trailding yard of Mr. C. Lungley, of
Deptford, in the preseoco of a large contour's of persons,
including the directors of the company and Sir J. Rennie,
Captain Scott, Captain Durham, &c. The Cambrian is a
remarkably fine vessel of her class, and has been built from
the lines designed by her builder, Mr. C. Lungley, and
will afford excellent aceouunodation for paaseogen..