The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WIDNISDAY Eviarnro.
The semi-official journals express great dis-
pleasure at the release of Garibaldi.

The Patrie thinks the event "not calculated to
facilitate the understanding between the two
governments which is most desirable under the
present difficult circumstances." The same organ
hears that "the revolutionary spirit in Italy cannot
be considered as disarmed," and that " groups of
Garibaldians, unarmed, but entertaining hostile
designs, are still hovering about the pontifical
frontiers."
The Pays sees in the removal of Garibaldi from
Varignano to Caprera a new Italian " trick," and li
expects that he will again be allowed to escape.
Some of the Italian papers say the Emperor told
General La Marmora that he would consider the
formation of a Rattazzi ministry as a came belli.
To-day the bureau of the Corps Legialatif by a
arge majority authorised the Marquis d'Ande-
larre's interpellation on the necessity of a law to
validate the Emperor's decree removing the extra
duties on imported grain and flour, and also later-
pellations presented by MM. des Rotours, Stieve-
nart, Bethune, and others, suggesting the de-
sirability, seeing the dearness of provisions, of im-
mediately taking off all duties whatever on corn,
flour, rice, potatoes, and other eatables transported
on canals belonging to the state. The govern-
ment had hoped to have prevented any debate
on the serious question of subsistence, but
the feeling in the Chamber was too strong
to be repressed. There is some expectation that the
discussion of one of these interpellations may be
taken on Friday. Just complaints are made of
the Chamber losing the whole week.
The Roman question comes on for debate in the
Senate on Friday. The senators who have already
put down their names to speak are Cardinal de
Bonnec.hoae, M Bonjean, M. Bonvilliers, Viscount
de la Gueronnibre, Cardinal Mathieu, and the
Archbishop of Paris.

The Bourne was again extremely firm. Rente
rose 25c.

ROME.

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ROME, Nov. 21

Within the wide circuit of the walls of Rome
there ans many spots as ruinous and desolate as
though they were in Persepolis or Palmyra.
There are crumbling masses of brickwork, piled up
in the time of the Camara, and score after score of
acres of garden where a whole army of revolu-
tionists might be hidden from sight. It is difficult
to believe that, if once the flame of insurrection
had burst forth in Rome, any effort of the Papal
troops would have sufficed to re-establish order. I
do not say that the flame was ready to burst forth—
late events have shaken my belief in the strength
of the national (Italian) party in Rome—but each
fresh visit to the outer defences shows me dearly
what a hopeless task it would have been to fight an
insursestion on one side, whilst resisting an in-
vader on the other. Rome has about 200,000
inhabitants on a apace which once hold
more than a million, and the walla are
merely high brick curtains without either moat or
bastions, counter-scarp or glade. It is true that
the approaches to the gates are between high
fences, along roads easily to be swept by cannon.
But who would take the road when he could ad-
vance under cover through the gardens to right or
left, until he was near enough to fling stones over
the city wall i I have seen in some Italian news-
papers an argument against French intervention,
based upon the theory that Rome was in no sort of
danger from Garibaldi's advance, and that Napo-
leon performed an act of supererogation in sending
his Chassepot rifles to the rescue. He certainly
took a very grave step, of which neither he nor
Europe has heard the last, but in so far as the
Emperor was determined to uphold Pius IX. at
any coat, he sent his Chassepot rifles not a day too
soon. You will have gathered from the various
accounts of what happened in the battle of Men-
ton& that the French by their presence de-
cided the result, and you will be inclined to think
that no march out would have taken place on
November 3, and no battle have been fought at all,
had not the French previously arrived in Rome.
Some staunch Romaniata will persist in asserting
that they alone could have dealt with Garibaldi.
This is a fond delusion I am persuaded. Napoleon
knew better, and acted with unhesitating vigour ;
the Papal authorities knew better, and trembled for
their safety until the expeditionary force appeared
at Civita Vecchia. There was no lack of courage
among the Papal Zouaves, many of whom are men
of good family and reactionist principles ; no back-
wardness among the police in making arrests, or
among the spies in obtaining information ; but the
men of every service were much fatigued, and they
had no advantage of breech-loading arms to
give them a decided superiority of fire over
the Garibaldians. In a few days more the
redshirts would have come close to Rome. Then, per-
haps, the people would have risen, but in any case
there would have been great danger to be feared
from a rising, for a band of insurgents posted in
the Coliseum, or in one of the villas with garden
walls twenty feet high, might have withstood a
regular siege if only they had secured some pro-
visions at the outset.

In regard to public opinion and to all which bears
upon public life, as we know it, the city is under
a military nightmare. At this present time Rome
is morally engulphed and swallowed up by French
protection. There are foreign soldiers to guard
every important point, and the underneath Italian
Rome is so deeply buried, that it matters very little
whether it be contented or discontented, pleased or
sorrowful. Last of all plaoes in the world is the
" Roman question " to be settled in Rome—now
that the golden opportunity has been missed—and
I can but tell you of outward appearances showing
how firmly the captive is held by the giant who
has him in his grip. Every day sees some addition
to the effective strength of the French garrison.
Now it is a detachment of soldiers joining their
headquarters, or horses or stores received by the
imperial troops. Now it is Papal recruits arriving
to swell the number of the grey.trousered Zousves.
Many young Belgians have lately come, and though
they are short of stature, they have a strong sturdy
look. Taking them altogether, Pius IX. may be
proud of his Zouaves, for the loose grey uniform
has made a good struggle against Garibaldi's
famous red-shirts, and if the improved breech-
loading rifle (twenty-eight shots a minute), for

which I hear that the Pope is in treaty, should be
served out to them before their next campaign, the
Zouaves may be able to win some future Montana
without French assistance. lam supposing that
the expeditionary corps will some day ,retire to
Civita Vecchia, or even as far as Toulon, and give
Pius IX. a chance of fighting his own battles.
But the expeditionary corps shows every sign of
staying here for the winter, and there is
nothing to indicate that it will presently move
coastward save a vague belief among the soldiers
themselves that they are not to stay long in
Rome.

Penguin has been busy with his quips at the
expense of our gallant neighbours. He tells them
of their bad exchange in losing Mexico and gaining
Monte Rotondo, which they must feel to be a pain-
ful truism, but he tells it so neatly that I will give
the original lines at the risk of your having already
heard them :
I Pranced son' brae' eoldati,
I piil braid del mondo.
Benno perduto Meade°,
Per acquistare Monte Rotondo.
Pasquin cannot laugh them out of their strong
position, though they may have made a bad ex-
change. " Small loss and less gain," many French-
men would be inclined to say. However, if they
are to keep foreign governments standing with the
help of their bayonets, the men have the advantage
of being near home on this expedition, and the
officers seem to have many civilian friends who
have made a trip to Rome to witness the saving of
the Pope from his enemies. I speak of French
officers strictly so called, but among the Franco-
Papal troops, especially the Zouaves, there are
still more of such cases. Even the rank and file of
the Papal volunteers have friends visiting them, or
rather being lionized about the city by them.
More than once it has happened to me to sit near a
family group wherein the Zouave son was describing
the war to father over a snug little dinner, with
strong indications that the old gentleman was
standing treat. Allowing for every exaggeration,
and for all the nonsense of the Roman press, there
ham been beyond doubt a strong thrill of catholicism
in answer to the efforts of the Garibaldians. The
one side has recruited under great advantages, and
been backed up by France at the moment of pro-
bable defeat, but still it did recruit, and its
soldiers did fight, which was more than some had
thought possible. The mere carrying on of
war has a rousing effect on the partisans
of a cause, no matter what it may be,
and in the struggle for Rome there was much to
excite enthusiasm among those to whom the Pope
is the head of their religion. This same enthu-
gleam was sometimes caught up by neutral lookers-
on, as in a curious instance a few weeks ago, when
the consul of a protestant country, going to see the
Papal army, found himself in one of the skirmishes
with Garibaldians which were then daily occurring.
From quiet observation the consul slid by degrees
into active hostilities, and if report be true, he
showed no little skill and courage in defence of the
" temporal power." It was not his intention
beforehand to fight, but circumstances were too

strong for him. At any rate, the belligerent consul
got off better than a luckless Englishman, who,
approaching hap-hazard the scene of action from
the other side, was struck by a French bullet
among the retreating Garibalclians, and is now a
wounded prisoner in Rome.

Tai PRICE 01 BUTCHERS' MEAT. —The extra-
' ordinarily high prior of butchers' meat induced some Hull
butchers to erect a stall in Barton market the other
Saturday, where they sold meat at greatly reduced price.•
good wether mutton, legs, at 7d., and other part;
at 6d. per lb. Beef was 6d. and 60. per lb.
The Barton Co-operative Trading Company, at a
=Mid meeting on Saturday, resolved to commence
butchery business immediately, and to sell the meat
at the lowest remunerative profit. A farmer, who woe
formerly one of the moat extensive fish merchants in Hull,
who has also a brother • butcher in this town, was
hawking lamb from door to door at 61b. per lb. An exten-
sive and highly-respectable manufacturer has also taken to
slaughtering his own pigs and sheep, selling to his workmen
and poorer neighbours at merely nominal prices, so that
the town has in a few days broken up the butcher's mono-
poly which at one time bid fair to create • riot in the
place, all press were inch that the labouring classes were
prevented from purchasing butcher's meat; and combined
with the high price of sour and bread it was impossible for
working men to live and pay their way. Several of the
farmers have raised the wigs, of their labourers without
being asked to do so.—Eastern Counties Herold.
LIFE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.—BALTIMORE,
Nov. 14.—About i 2 o'clock to-day, as R. A. Pollard, the
historian," of " Lee and His Lieutenants." was gassing
in front of the Maltby House, he was approached by a eon
and nephew of Henry A. Wise, named John and Douglas
Wise, each of whom fired a shot at Pollard, one of the
shots passing through his right arm, he having his wife on
his left arm at the time. Pollard at once drew his pistol,
but was unable to raise it to give a return • fire, on
account of the wound he had received, and the
ball from the weapon struck the pavement. The
Wiese came up from Richmond thui morning to
obtain satisfaction from Pollard for a letter recently
published by the latter in reply to a letter of Henry A.
Wise on his (Pollard's) " History of the War," and had
previously declared their intention to shoot him at sight.
This afternoon John and Joe Douglas Wise were
arraigned before the magistrate, and waiving an eISIIIiIIS.
tion, they were bailed in 3,000 dole. each to appear before
the grand jury on Saturday next. Mr. Pollard's wound
is severe, the bone being shattered, but is not necessarily
dangerous. He is now doing well.—New Turk Tribune,
November lb. _ _

THZ ERUPTION or MOUNT Vl.Bl/VloB.—The
Naples correspondent of the Tines, writing on the 21st,
gives an account of the scene of the eruption as witnessed
on the previous night. "To the crater itself," the visitors
say, " we could not reach, but as near to it se was safe we
sat down on a normhtello of cinders and watched the scene.
Vesuvius shook and trembled with the efforts it was
making ; it panted and roared like some gigantic formica ;
there was a sound rapid and repeated as of the discharge
of a volley of musketry, and there rose to the heavens
full 1,000 feet a gorgeous mass of lava, stones both great
and small, and fine ashes. We calculated the interval
which elapsed before it fell at from five to ten seconds,
varying in duration according to the violence of the erup-
tions, which took place almost every second. The larger
atom—rocks they may he almost called—rolled at times
down to the spot where we were seated, while
the smaller ones were carried by the caries of
the wind in various directions. Not far fromus, in the direc-
tion of Ottajano, rolled down • stream of liquid lava
from 40 to 50 feet in width, and 10 or 12 feet in height.
Like pebbles on a shingly beach agitated by a storm was
the noise it made in its progress ; the scorer on the surface
fell continually over, and thus ever diminishing, yet
ever increasing in proportions, the stream rolled on
and reached the bottom of the mountain. There were,
however, last night many streams, presenting the appear-
ance of an inverted hand, so that the mountain on this side
seemed all ablaze. As I predicted, too, at the beginning of
the week, the lavais nowcoui ins down towards the Hermitage.
We can mark its red and sinuous course even from Naples ;
and there is a promise of greater splendour than any we
have yet witnessed. We can hear, too, the thunders of
nature's artillery, while each discharge is followed by a
display which it is useless to attempt to describe. Dif-
ferent, yet scarcely less grand, are the day effects. Volumes
and volumes of dark smoke are shot up perpendicularly
into the air and then, falling and circling and rolling one
over the other, file off like heavy battalions towards
Capri. The column of smoks is perceptible to the eye all
across the bay lingering horizontally until it derives a
fresh impulse from each suocessive eruption. For eight
days this brilliant spectacle has been exhibited with ever
increasing grandeur, and the probabilities ars that it will
continue some time longer. Within twenty-four hours the
temperature has changed from a degree of heat inducing
lassitude to a piercing cold. Every une is muffled closely
up, but the bright sac above us will soon warm up the
atmosphere."
HOSPITAL(FOR DIRIASIS or THE THROAT, 32,
GOLDLII•eQUARZ, W.—During the week ending 25ed
November 346 patients were under treatment, of whom 32
were new cases,