The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAILIB, TIII/11MY Evixixo.

I learn that • telegraphic despatch has been re-
ceived at Toulon, ordering the Napoleon man•of--war
to pat to sea immediately for a point designated on
the coast of Spain, them to open sealed orders.

I consider the above news to be authentic. I can-
not say so much of the following, which I give only
u report :—lt is said that orders have been sent to
Sathonay (Lyons) to march 5,000 troops to the
Spanish frontier, and that 15,000 men from Algeria
have been sent for to join them.
There is no positive news from Spain of a late date.
In official quarters here great confidence is expressed
that the insurrection will be completely put down. It''
appears from the Madrid letters of the 18th that
Espartero has in no way pronounced in favour of the
movement, and this being so it must be admitted
that the chances of a successful struggle against
O'Donnell are very much diminished.
A Madrid letter, of July 18, written with a strong
bias in favour of the coup cr slat, says:
It is the general cp nion that the conduct of the army
daring the recent events was admirable. The National
Guard at first rewired with firmness, and but for the abrupt
dispersion of the citizen km on the evening of the 16th.
there is no doubt that Madrid would have been by this time
sheep of ruin,. The army would have gained the victory,
but only at that prior,. The CUM of the dispersion
of the National Guard is sot yet exactly known.
The insurrectionary movement was commenced by
M. Mados's battalion, which occupied one of the
Yours near the Congress. M. Madoz bad mused
odmpenies in a cross street, where they were protected
from Ike, and as soon as the full strength of the fore* had
mumbled, be ordered every one of them to go home. This
order wu given after the fire opened by the troops spinet
the pawn and the hums adjacent, and sled after a curr
renee between K. M. Maeks, Rivera (•he democrat), and
others, with the Csptain•Gdoeril of Madrid, M. Serrano.
The order to disperse was naturally odnununicated

to all the other posts. Now, what occurred in the
isinfereace between Ma& s and Serrano t Why
that parley ? It it here that doubt begins. Some
sty that Mao: aid his friends were frightened et the
vivacity of the fire of the Qasen's troop, and felt that
01:toenail had made up his mind to put all opposition to fire
and sword. On the other hand, it is mid, that the National
Gaard had no ammunition. It is thought that Idadca's
resolution wee taken in covert with Repartee* and his most
intimate friends, who, seeing the republican tendency of
lb. democrat, in the Congrees, could not resign themselves
to secr.fire the throne and brays the chances of anarchy and
civil war.

It is curtain that Espartero showed himself for an Instant
at the eirogreas on the 15th, and that he Wired almost
alone, sad very mach disgusted. His conduct throughout
ham been mere weak than tto.tile.

2,000 muskets, beloogiog to the National Guard, have
already bon eollested. It is calcul►ted that about 4.000
still remain in the hands of members of the force. Domi-
ciliary ' ' are bolas made to search for them.
The strength of the army during these lamentable days
was—tbirteeu battalions of infantry, two thousand cavalry,
sad fifty pieces of artillery. The number of troops of all
arms /so►e de combat is estimated et 300. The losses of the
Notional Guard ars much more onaiderable, but the exact
numbers is cot known. General Sebago* arrived yesterday
at Tudela w,th 2,000 men, marching to Saragossa. Troops
have left Barcelona for toe lame deetisation, and some
troops have left the capital under the orders aid. Neuritis's
O'Desnell, the brother of Genital Lsopo:d, to co oprrete
with these detachmeots.

It 4 not tree that Espavero took refuge at the English
Embassy. He remained at a frit nd's house, and he leaTes
to-day for Alonso.

Galeria Intents has been removed from his vet of com-
mander of the eivis guard.
There have been ',heady many important promotions in
the army, end glair* will be many more. Great changes
will be made in the personnel of the governors of provinces.
Ircnadi. ry fires continuo in some parts of Caddy
Namerons executions hare taken plies et VsEadelid.
Sinless ladiv.dualt were .hot et Riosseo on tin 1810.
M. Peden Bayorri boo emoted epon bll Oath.' so Minister
Of Met ca.

All the j)ureala which were pabliabel at Madrid before
the 14W hews reappeared.

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Valencia is tranquil, alihnigh there Were some attempts
at disorder.

The tresquility of the eipitel is emoplete.

The Pays seis :

The inarirrettion in Arrsgon is exalted to the capital of
the province. It is positively stated that at a recent council
the government rewind to act immediately to crush this
last stronghold of rebellion. Orders base consequently
bun given to General Dula, who has been nominated
Captain-0 1 of Anagon, in the I lute of General Fal-
co., to march upon Saragossa with an army of 12,000 men
and two batteries of artillery. He is to take posiesilhn of
Moate-T o and Firt Aljuferia, positions which
' command the place, and ere defended but by
feeble garrisons. He will invest the town by the
Rbro and other toads, and will summon the hala-
-1 potato surrender. If they refuse, hell ti open a fire from
the forts. Nt doubt is entertained at Madrid of the carcass
of this plan. Falcon has nit more than 3,000 regular', and
some battalions of National Guard in S ingress. Ooe of the
generals under his command remained faithful to the
Queen, end Las withdrawn to the open country with 1,600
sass. Under these circumstances the inbabitants of Sara-
gossa, not being supported from without, e Mfg
but submit. In any ease Dolce has criers cot
to risk street Eighths., but to act with his
artillery. Aocordirg to the Epoes, Falcon had taken to
fight, and the troops, on hearing what bad payed at
Madrid, had left the city in a frame of mind favourable to
the government. It has bean pretended that troubles has
broken out in Gallia°. These reports are totally un-
founded. There have been no disorders in Ilia province.
When the news of the fighting in Madrid reached Valecc.a
there were some attempts at disorder, bat thanks to the
measures taken by the military authorities, Ilia groups were
dispersed without the security of firing upon them. General
Arsero, the Captain-General of Valladolid, has published
• new busdo couched in most severe terms. Every in-
dadiary, he says, will be slot, three hours only b.ing
showed for religions consolatnn.
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The Marquis de Tabuornige, the recreant liberal,
who formed the minority of 1 against the 90 mem-
bers of the Cortes who protested against the coup
data on the 14th, has already received the reward
of his spoetacy. He is appointed Under-Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Paye reports that Espartero Las applied for
his passport to go abroad, which has been granted
to him without any special designation of a locality.
The Elmo, the Nacion, and the Nocedodes re-
ceived to-day, affirm that Narver z hes been appointed
Ambassador in Paris, in the place of M. Olozar.
I find this news confirmed here, but some doubts arc
entertained whether Nerve, z will accept the post.
The Paerie says that a great many arrests have been
made in Madrid, and that the prisoners are to be sent
under a strong escort to fortresses out of the city. M.
Made z, the deputy, is said lobe one of those arrested.
M. Escosura, the lste Minister of the Interior,
lead not been found, although the most active
search was made for him. There was a
talk in Madrid on the 18:h of &par-
terre having issued a manifesto, entreating Ge-
neral Falcon and the inhabitants of Sarsgossa to
submit. It was even reported that the Duke of
Victory was going to Arragon, in the hope of ap •
pealing the troubles there by his presence. This
report was met by much incredulity, but those parti-
sans of government who assumed it to be true did
not augur any good from such a step. They feared
that once in the presence of the insurgents Esparta.°
might be led away by them.

General Prim is at this moment at Marseilles. It
is thought there that he intends to embark for Va.
lends, of which province hu was captain-general;
bat the Madrid Ga:ette of July 17 contains a decree
" relievirg" him of that office. So much for the as-
sertion of the Debate and the Patrie that he was
going to oiler his sword to Craninell.

The Bourse was almost deserted. The Bests.
after falling a few centimes, recovered to yesterday's
prime. The Mediterranean Railway rose 32fr. 50c.;
Southern, 22fr. 50c., and the other lines were about
2fr. 50c. higher. Credit Mobilicr rose sfr.

The return, of the custom' and indirect taxes for the
first six months of the present year, as compared with
those of the corresponding periods of 1855 and 1h54,
are published is the Moniteur. The whole amount
of the import duties received in 1856 wit,
84,031,894 fr. to 68,306,730 fr. in 1855, and
67,049,329 fr. in 1854, being 4,264,836'r. less than the
former year, and 16,982,565 fr. more than the latter.

ITALY.

LONIBARDY.

(eaoa OUR ITALIAN commisstoNza.)
MILAN, JILT 13.
The state of popular political feeling in Milan at this
moment, so far as I have been able to make myself in
any way acquainted with it, may be described as
being one of complete despondency—l had almost
said disgust—consequent on the disappointment at
the general hope that something would have been
done for Italy in the Congress of Paris. That the -'
grand opportunity then afforded to our own and the
French governments of compelling reforms, both in
these provinces and in the south, was allowed to peas
away with no more substantial result than the ex.
pression of some wordy sympathy—and not much
even of that from the representative of France—with
the appeal of Count Clxvour, has discouraged all sec-
tions of the patriotic party, and given rise to
great distrust in the sincerity as well of our own
ministers as of the Emperor of the French. Milan,
perhaps, more than any other district of Lombardy
or the peninsula, cherishes a grateful recollection of
its Napoleonic government, and till three months
ago bad strong tsith—l cannot pretend to say why—
in the disposition of Louis Napoleon to support the
cause of conetitutional liberty in Lilly. The "peace;
however, and its subsequent., have done much to
shake this; and both moderates and democrats seem
now more than half convinced that neither from him
nor our own Premier is there much to be hoped. The
treaty of the 13th of April, and all the after
ooquetry that has taken place between the three
governments—in which the French Emperor has
shown himself, if anything, in advance of our own
ministry—are accepted by Milanese politicians of all
classes as melancholy proof that no screw is to be
applied to Aueria and consequent on this general
belief is the despondency in public feeling to which I
refer.

One exceptional ground of hope, however, is still
held to by many; for more than Neapolitan in its
severity though the preset-censorship be, much is still
known of the present tone of the English newspapers
on the Italian question ; and, aware as every promi-
nent member of the popular party is, of the extent
to which British journalism influences the British
people—on whose favour whig and tory ministers
are alike dependent for their lease of power—and the
general public opinion of Europe, much more, lam
assured by those who should know well, is hoped for
from this advocacy by yourself and your liberal con.
temporaries than from any accident of Louis Napo.
leon's political convenience, or from all our present
Premier's resultless declamation inside or oat of the
House of Commons—thatjeu ds politique porlianien.
faire which his lordship plays so well. Too often,
however, has it proved an apple of Sodom in the
experience of oppressed nationalities for the leaders
of any section of ',alien patriots to trust to it now;
and, so long as tke English governmental helm
remains in present hands House of Commons speeches
in general will be taken at nothing more than their
actual value—what that not seldom is has been too
often shown. Then, besides what is thus expected
by many from the present pro Italian energy of the
English press, there is the additional consolation
—doubtfully sustaining as it may be— that a change
must come, be the agents of it what or who they may.
It may be more or less distant ; but if there be any
truth in the lessons of history, the despotism that
now crushes every nerve and sinew of the country
must have an end, and in this conviction at least, it
in en other, do tho oppressed .ud discouraged Mi.
lanese take comfort, and endure on. Since reaching
this I have had opportunities of conversing with re-
presentatives of nearly every chair of local society
and of political opinion—with proprietors and men
of trade, moderate constitutionalists and democratic
republicans—and the resultant impression from all
I have heard and observed is—first, that there is
little or nothing of an extreme party in the place;
and, secondly, that of the moderates very few
would be disposed to try force to better
their condition. Were a revolutionary movement,
indeed, to make headway in Venice or the south, I do
not any that Milan would remain quiet; but, as to
its inhabitants being in the front rank of the lime..
gents, their present apathy gives small reason to be-
lieve so. They cherish, it is true, with more or less
unanimity, the unlearnt national aspiration, and as
cordially bate everything Austrian as do the Italians
of Venice, Tuscany, Rome, and Naples; but they feel
too s. naibly the strength of the power that !midi
them in its grasp—as tightly as ever serpent
wreathed cruethiog folds round its prey—to rashly
court a stoner thraldom still by striking any but
a sure bloc for freedom. At present this is the more
the case from the tact that the never numerous Mae-
zioi party has long ago dwindled into complete non-
entity; and ot the few republicans who remain, there
is no one men of sufficient iuflurnee, either from
character or position, to iuduoe the remotest ap-
proach to insurrectionary movement.
Whilst such is the state of parties and of public
feeling, the government, blind—as all despotisms are
—to its own interest, rules with a rod of steel; no
effort, however small, is made to conciliate the favour
of any one class, but stern, enmity-courting tyranny
is dealt out to all. Nominally, indeed, there is civil
rule and a cede of munieipal laws, but in reality the
admiuistration both of the city and the whole pro-
vince is as mili,ary in its arbitrary severity es if both
were in declared state of siege. I need not say that
the place swarms with soldiers, and that every, even
the most trilirg, police duty is done by them. Day
and night armed parties patrol all quarters of the
city with nearly as much jealous watchfulness as
if an outhreek were expected in every street;
whilst, as in Venice and Naples, cannon
frown through the railings of every guard-house Olt
(very spot that cou;d give standing room to fifty
men—a speaking commentary on the government
that needs such props. Spies throng every rap', sit
next to you at evtty totr'e irk:ie, elbow you in the
street, and follow you into the vt ivaey of home. A
free-speaking New Englander—as I heard yesterday
from a fellow-countryman who met him at Genoa—
was stepped up to by an agent of the police, as he was
shout to tale. his place in the diligence for Novara,
one evening last week, stud in sotto rove was recant-
merded to say lees about politics the next time he
visited Milan, the cantioner remioding him at the
same time, rerlia-nri et lihratios, of certain sentiments
be had expressed to a frank and liberty-loving
" Frenchman," in reference to the recent dispute in
Parana, at a specified colt', a few afternoons betore. I
have myself experienced the difficulty of drawing
forth the expression ut a political opinion in company
into which ordinary obeern•ion would lead
one to suppose espionage could not penetrate, and
have been afterwards more than a little surrieed to
hear that the most ingenuous looking individual of the
party was auspect.d to be a wolf in sheep's c!otbing.
As yen may. therefore, itrogine, politi.ts are I
nnivereally shunned topic in all but alto moot mutually
ca'e fident eiro.es. Heresy is bed; hut an uttered
aspiration after liberty is known to be a thaasand
times more totally nulorgireable.

GENOA, Jt tr.l9.

The Duke de Grammont, Freuch ambassador at
the court of Turin, was at Savone, where he has a
villa, when he suddenly went on board his yacht and
sailed for Leghorn, in expectation of the buchayla,
which was bringing back the Legate Patrizi. This
move has much purzled the diplomatists. The affair
wan after all a very simple one, bat Austria seen
terrific phantoms in eceryt bieg.
N. Delay's, a great admit( r of the first Napoleon,
turned his villa at Marengo into • museum, bat it
seems he is now heartily tired of it and whikes to
rill it. The sale by auction was fixed for the 15th

the month. Naturally enough, the present E.
Form Napoleon was invited to become the purchaser,
and his 'cower wee that he would seed some one.
The auction is now postponed to the sth of August.
AsCount Bacc,ochi was coming to Florence about some
papers contacted with the Patterson law suit, this
affair was also entrusted to him, and the Duke of
Grammont received orders to go to Leghorn and have
en interview with the Count respecting this Marengo
villa. If it is to be purchased, the Count will come
•o Piedmont before the sth; but if not, M. Deism'
wail op that day put it up for public Lompetition.
The Roman coast, that of Modena, of Tuscany, and
mars especially of Calabria, nut omitting Sicily, are
closely guarded by their respective governments.
Nlimerous arrests are being made. The Anglo-Italian
bg.on, from Malta, gives these potentates much
soutety.
The (Sty of London arrived on the 17th, two days
ago, at the Lazsretto della Foos with the first de-
tachment of the Anglo-Italian Legion, we. found to
have a clean bill of health, and the men have been
..it by rail to Turin.

(riow ova owx

ROME Jar.t 17.

It is reported here that the French ambamiador's
leave of absence will be prolonged into a total retell.
Ina that diplomatic negotiations between France and
the Holy See will be henceforth undertaken by M.
de Persigoy. It will be a matter of great regret to
the Papal government if M. de Reyneval does not
return to Rome, as no future ambusador can ever be
so devoted to the catholic cause, oron such intimately
frierdly terms with the Pops and Cardinal Auto-
nelli ; but amongst those who expect some practical
result from the joint determinations of France and
England, respecting the Italian question, it certainly
awakens hopes tome France likely to be represented
at the court of Rome by a minister less religiously
attached to the existing ecclesiastical regime.
The Austrian cabinet courier, Muller, arrived here
from Florence last night, at 10 o'clock, and, after
communicating with Count Colloredo, set off again
for Hiplee at midnight.
Mr. York's magnificent ;reprisal for a grand new
street from the Piazza di Volleys to the Bathe of
Titus, and the erection of a spacious openahouse, is
now under consideration by the government, and
likely to meet with a favourable reception.