The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-09 00:00:00

NICE.

A telegram from Turin, dated the 7th, says,
" General Garibaldi has asked permission of the
chamber to put a question to the ministry on the
subject of Nice. Count Cavour replied that, the
chamber not being constituted, the question could
not be discussed, and the chamber itself concurred
in this view."

THE UNITED STATES.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY, Aran. 8.
The Royal Mail atesmahip Asia, Captain Lott,
ham arrived here. She left New York on the 28th ult. The
Asia brings no specie. She primed the Arabia on the
Nth alt.

l'lteiollowiag steamers bad arrived out :—The John
Ball, on the 27th ult. ; City of Washington. 28th ult. The
New York and Bohemian arrived at Portland on the
27th ult.

The New York Herald rays :—" The offer of the British
government for an arrangement of the flan Juan difficulty
6a been respectfully declined. The peweeetlings in Con-
gress were unimportant."
Advice' from Vera Cruz are to the 15th ult. The en.
deavours to bring about an armistice had failed. The siege
bad been renewed with considerable effect. The reported
flight of Ifiramon and the dispersion of his forces is un•
founded.

Advicee from California are to the sth ult. Nearly
900,000 dole have been forwarded thence, and have reached
New York. Another destructive fire had broken out in San
Francisco.
Advice; from Havannah are to the 23rd ult. Considerable
excitement prevailed there on receipt of the news of the
capture of two Mexican steamers. Sugars brisk. Freights
improved. Exchange on London, 14 prem.
Niw YORK, MARCH 28.—Money market abundantly sup-
plied at easy rates. Loans on call, sto 6 per cent. Prime
hills, 60 days, 6 to 7 per cent. A fair business doing in
stocks, but prices are a shade easier. Exchange flat. Bills
on London, 1081 to 109 ;on France, 5.161 to 5.181. Flour
quiet, and sc. to 10c. lower. Wheat inactive, Sc. to 2c.
lower. Provisions dull. Lard has declined 6 per cent.
Cotton dull and heavy, prices tending downwards. Mid.
dling Uplands, He. Sales to-day, 1,500 helm Coffee
quiet. Spirits of turpentine slightly lower. Freights quiet
and easier : for cotton to Liverpool, Id. to 9-10 d.
ORLEANS, MARCH M.—Cotton irregular. Sales today,
17,000; in the last three days, 34,500. Increased receipts
at all ports, 736,000. Exchange Bto premium. Freight
for cotton to Liverpool, id.
Mosit.a, MARCH St —Cotton Irregular; lower qualities
unsaleable. Sales to-day 4,090 bales.
CH A RI.LSTOWN, MARCH 28.—Cotton drooping. Bales
1,000 bales.

QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY.
The Royal Mail ateam-ship America arrived here
at 7.30 p.m., embarked mails and passengers, sad sailed at
7,50 p.m. for New York and Boston. All well.

It is said that the Entpreas wll this summer
visit Cbamouuiz, which is situated ou the territory ceded
to France by Sardinia.

A telegraphic despatch from Bucharest of the
4th announces the arrival in that city of the Duke de Bra-
bant from Giurgevo. His royal highness was received in
the palace of the prince, though the latter was ►t Jassy ;
and all the honours due to his rank were paid him. In the
evening the town was illuminated, and a gaud representa-
tion was given at the theatre. The neat day, after a grand
review, the duke was to leave for Galata.

By command of the Emperor, the end of the war
in the Caucasus, which has lasted 60 years, will be cele-
brated throughout the whole of that country on the 6th of
Heptember. The governor, Prince Bariatinski, mitred at
Tiflis on the 6th of March, and immediately assented the
duties of his office.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom otra OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, SUNDAY Evenwa.

The absurd story set about in Paris by the
Patrie, that the English government got up the
Carlist insurrection in Spain, was simultaneously
promulgated in Brussels by the Nord. This journal
—being published out of France--can of course be
more easily repudiated by French diplomacy than
its own notorious organs in Paris. And accord-
ingly it has been selected as the instrument to make
the charge against England with a directness, an
insolence, and an iteration not yet seen here. It
[ states positively what the Patric only insinuated
with hypocritical reserve and precautions. The
Patrie would be "sorry indeed to think"—nay,
" could not for a moment believe "—that Lords
John Russell and Palmerston were personally re-
sponsible for the flagitious English manoeuvres to
which General Ortega's adventure was undoubtedly
traceable. But the Nord, lees scrupulous, ac-
cuses the "British Cabinet" three times over—
in its political summary, in a leading article, and in
a letter of one of its Paris correspondents—of being
a party to Ortega's abortive conspiracy. According
to the Paris letter, whose statements the editor
adopts, the money for the rising was remitted by
the English government from Paris in the hope of
disarming suspicion ! The argument of the leading
article founded on these beautiful facts is that Eng-
land must very shortly stiffer a revolution, and,
whether by the compressive agency of foreign
armies, or by wise resignation to inevitable fate,
must be brought to square her foreign policy by
Mr. Bright's standard.

One of the three articles of the Nord contains •
funny bit of pathos. After having roundly taxed
the English ministry with being the authors of the
pronunciamento, it says, "at any rate, the articles
of the Times and Morning Post show that England
is very sorry that it failed !"
The Opinion Nationale of last night published
a letter signed Charles de la Varenne, protesting
in the name of Sicily against the notable story of
the Patric that England was at the bottom of the
insurrection •t Palermo. This gentleman attests
that there are no English agents in Sicily, and that
no English intrigues are going on there. He points
out the absurdity of the Petrie's telegram from
Palermo, stating that • "great many insurgents"
I had been killed, and yet that the "population
had taken no part "in the attempt. Where, then,
he asks, did the "great number" who were
killed come from 1 Were they the English agents
of whom the Patrie speaks, or were they Gari-
baldi's men brought over in balloons ?
A letter from Messina, dated April 1, in the
same journal, mentions as a fact within his own
knowledge, that in order to mislead public opinion
in Europe, police agents had received orders to
spread • report that England meant to obtain
possession of Sicily, and confirms the statement
that there is not a single English agent in the
island.

I believe it has been quite decided not to prose-
cute M. Louis Venillot. At the same time various
accounts concur in stating that the papers seized
upon him or at his house were of a very compro-
mising nature. Among them, it is stated, was a
journal in his own handwriting, showing that he
had done his utmost at Rome to induce the Pope
to designate Napoleon 111. by name in the bull of
excommunication, and had otherwise intrigued in a
manner most hostile to the French government.
It appears that be nourishes the project of resus-
citating the Unseen at Genevira singularly appro-
priate locality for such an undertaking, for M. de
Montalembert once described M. Veuillot as " a
catholic Calvin." A Turin letter of April 3 says
that K Veuillot's papers had led to the discovery
of a plot and the arrest of a Carmelite monk who
had been working in Piedmont on a secret mission
from Rome.

The litigation in the case of M. Emile 011ivier,
in which the legal profession, not only in Paris but
throughout France, has taken such a deep and ex-
traordinary interest, was brought to a conclusion
I yesterday, when the Court of Caseation rejected the
final appeal. This result was expected. There is
no instance since the came of the Orleans confis-
cation of the Court of Cessation having upheld
law against power. The government has obtained
a bare majority in the court, which must of
course go on increasing as death and forced retire-
mentsclear off the remaining independent members.
M. 011ivier, you will remember, was suspended for
three months, merely for saying, when defending
Professor Vacherot for a political libel, " The
public prosecutor has made an appeal to irritating
passions : that is a bad course ; I regret it, and
shall not follow his example." The Court of Cor-
rectional Appeals, in confirming the hasty judg-
ment of a police judge, laid it down that a pri-
soner's counsel has a right to " answer" the public
prosecutor, but not to "attack" him. Against this
distinction the whole bar of France has protested.
The mestoire, or " reasons " for the appeal to the
Court of Cessation, signed by M. Dufour, the pre-
sident of the Council of Advocates of the Court of
Cessation, have been adhered to by the leaders of
the bar of Paris, Montpellier, Bourgea, Rouen,
Douai, Ay!n, Nancy, Toulouse, Grenoble, Orleans,
Golmar, Pau, Lyons; Angers, and Aix. I subjoin,
as showing in a neat and condensed form the
opinions of them all, the following extract from
the reasons of the bAtonnier and Council of Advo-
cates of the bar of %urges : '
The undersigned are of opinion that the Court of Paris,
is restraining the right of an advocate to a simply defensive
attitude, and prohibiting him from " attacknig " the speech
of the public prosecutor with all the *nos of eloquence,
such as animated criticism and irony, deprives the pro-
fession of a pert of its rights; places him iu au inferior posi-
tion when pitted against a powerful adversary, and, in short,
tends to take away from him that independence of thought
and freedom of speech, without which no man can he either
an orator or an advocate in the true sense of the words. We
are therefore unanimously of opinion that the Court of
Paris in the case of M. Emile 011ivier has misunderstood
the true principles of the freedom of defence, and exceeded
its powers, and that its judgment ought to be quashed.
There is no doubt that M. 011ivier will be elected
to fit the seat in the Council of the Order of Paris,
which is now vacant by the death of M. Lionville,
which lamentable event happened yesterday.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVINTICO.

Pursuant to the mut d'ordre the Pays now fol-
lows the Pattie iu accusing England of a design to
revolutionise Sicily. The celebrated pamphlet
which foreshadowed the Italian war represented,
you will remember, that bad govermuunt, encou-
raged and protected by Austrian influence and ex-
ample, was a standing cause of legitimate discon-
tent in Italy and perpetual danger to the peace of
Europe. This bad government, thanks to the
energy and perseverance of the Italians themselves,
has been got rid of in Central Italy, but iu the do-
minions of the King of the Two Sicilies there has
not been the slightest amelioration, and the condi-
tion of the oppressed inhabitants of those countries
must necessarily be doubly embittered by the tan-
talising prospect of the liberty which they see bear-
ing rich fruit in the immediate vicinity of tbair
frontiers. And yet, instead of referring the recent
troubles in Palermo (and possibly—for the news
wants confirmation—in Messina) to these na-
tural and obvious causes, the French go-
vernment journals are ordered to impute
them to English intrigues. The article in

this evening's Pays, sigmxl bv H. Grant.
C , is headed " The Friends and the Eneiiin
of I y." By the friends of Italy he means France,
and he very clearly designates England a. h.,,
enemy. He preaches to Italy above all things
" pesos," by which plausible expression he means
the resignation of Venetia, the Roman States and
Naples to the infatuated tyranny of their pres•nt
rulers. The King of Sardinia is to be satisfied with
his wonderful luck—as if personal aggrandisement
were the main feature of the Italian question—and,
'oust on no account azoid under uo circumstance,
whatsoever listen to the cry fur emancipation
Venice and Southern Italy.
The Patric pretends to-night that England is re-
sponsible for the insurrection iu Spain as well as
for that in Palermo.

The Pays mentions a rumour that among the
" high personages" arrested with General Ortega
was Count de Montetuolin himself. It is quite cer-
tain, it says, that a credit for two millions of ham,
upon one of first banking houses in Naples mei
• banker in Frankfort, was found among the papers
seized upon the insurgents.
Both the Pays and the Pattie discredit the aea4
telegraphed from the Opiniotte of Turin, that there
had been an insurrection in Messina.

It is confirmed that an appeal to universal %uf.
frage will be very shortly made in Savoy and Ni c..

IL has been rumoured that Geueraide Lamm.
dere, being disgusted with the general insufficiency
of the officers of the Papal army, was coming back
to France, but the Patric and the religious join.
nala say that the general is actively inspecting
troops at Rome, and that the French government
is disposed to authorise him to assume the command
which he has accepted from the Pope.
. . . . .

The Cowrie? de Donneeke gives an analysis ..1 4
confidential circular lately addressed by Count
Cavour to the diplomatic agents of Piedmont at
foreign courts. Although the King made no allu.
sion to foreign politics in his speech, the count
desires it not to be understood that Sardinia
wishes to stand aloof, or to remain au in.
different spectator of complications in Europe.
Still, its first and principal anxiety is to
settle the internal aftairs of the new kingdom.
M. de Cavour speaks also of the " recent acts " of
the Holy See, for the purpose of stating that the
apprehensions they had occasioned are dissipated,
and he repeats the expressions of filial respect for
the church and the Pope lately used by the King.
The circular says that the "administrative auto-
nomy" of Tuscany will be only temporary, and
that the government hopes to extend to the entire
monarchy those special laws which " have hitherto
advantageously distinguished Tuscany from neigh-
bouring states."
The Bourse opened with some animation, but
afterwards became heavy in consequence of the con-
aiderable fall in Consols. The Rente fell 20 for
cash, and 30 for account, closing at 69.80 and
69.66. Mobilier fell 6.25. The Orleans Railway
fell 10f., and Southern 6.25. There was very little
change in the other lines.

SARDINIA.

(nom ova anew. onmseroxocirr.)

TURIN, APIIIL 4.
News has reached us from Florence which leads
us to hope that the opposition of the Roman ca-
tholic clergy may altogether cease in Tuscany. The
Archbishop of Florence did not refuse the invite.
tion of Prince Eugene of Savoy, and actually dined
with his excommunicated highness at Palazzo Pitti.
I hear that the complaisance of his reverence did
not stop there, and that he has written to his end.
nent colleague of Pisa, advising him to accept the
accomplished fact of the annexation as he himself had
done. All theexcommunications inthe world, allthe
protests of dethroned princes, will not change the poli-
tical situation of Italian affairs, for the only effect
they produce is that of making everybody laugh.
The most amusing document of this kind perhaps
is that of the ex-Duke of Modena. I never read
in my life • more absurd and impudent fabrication.
To say that the rrspolimint of the universal suf-
frage is the result of the pressure exercised by the
government of Parini is a barefaced falsehood.
When a prince has governed his state as the Duke
of Modena did, the vote of the population will
always be against him, if freely consulted.
To-day the Chamber of Deputies was the theatre
of a sad occurrence. General Quaglia, who had
been elected its temporary president, was suddenly
struck by an apoplectic fit whilst he was discharging
his duties. The poor man was removed from the
chair and taken home in • • after he had
been bled in the house. I hear tIA there is but
little hope of saving him, for he is very old and
weak. Garibaldi was present at to.day's meeting,
and took his seat on the fourth tier, at the left of
the presidential chair. This place, which in other
times would have meant that the gallant general
intended to sit on the opposition benches, has,
under present circumstances, no meaning whatever.
Everybody in the Chamber is persuaded that to
oppose the policy of Cotuit Cavour's administration
would be to damage the cause of Italy. The cession
of Nice will perhaps rouse sonic opposition in the
house, but there is no doubt that the ministers
will at last have tho best of it. Garibaldi, who has
been appointed member for that city, will in all
probability protest against the treaty, but his op-
position will not avail to avert what him become a
matter of absolute necessity.
Although the deputies are divided upon the elec-
tion of their president, it is probable that Cowmen-
&store Buoncompagni will be chosen for this offiee.
The members of the /Emilia will in all probability
support the candidature of Commensiatore Min-
ghetti, one of the ablest %%takeout% of those pro.
vines. The names of Signori Lamina and Ratted
were also spoken of in the lobby to-day, but foss
what I hear they have little chance of success. As
the deputies were leaving the house a rumour ass
suddenly spread that the French troops were on the
eve of leaving Rome, which would be occupied by
a Neapolitan army. I mini not, however, iu a posi-
tion to test the truth of this rumour.