The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-22 00:00:00

absorbed 139 of our ships in commission, and 22,000
of our seamen and marines. To provide for thee*
distant squadrons we have stripped our own coasts,
and but for the greatly increased armaments of
France we might have continued to do so. At the
outbreak of the Italian War our Channel Fleet con-
sisted of only eight line-of-battle ships and two fri-
gates, and of the former, four were in the Mediter-
ranean. The country has resolved that this defence-
less condition of its shores shall last no longer. But
in augmenting its navy it hu no grand and far-
reaching designs ; we are not systematically building
up an armada for which, when finished, we shall
have to invent employment. Oar preparations are
and must be essentially defensive.
Neither the acts of the English Government nor
the disposition of the English people can justify the
apprehensions to which the Debate has given expres_
sloe. Let not our friends acre.. the Channel confound
things that differ. If it is expected that we shall
surrender our liberty of forming and expressing,
whether by speaking or printing, opinions on the
public acts of Emperors. Kings, and Ministers—if we
are required unconditionally to approve whenever
they make war and applaud whenever they make
peace, then such expectations must be disappointed,
foe we are free. Bat the honest and frank friend-
ship of England is as much at the command of France
as it was when the battalions of the two countries
fought side by side at Inkermann. No
doubt both countries contain fanatical men, living
on the recollections of the past, and ready to infuse
new bitterness into old rancour,. They fill the scene
with their figure and the air with their cries ; bat they
are not the nation, and we are sure that next to the
resolve—the calm, fixed resolve of Englishmen—to be
masters of their own honour and liberties, there is
no stronger desire than to live in pesos, friendship,
and beneficent intercourse with France.

THE DUCHIES OF CENTRAL ITALY AND
THE SARDINIAN GOVERNMENT.

The !snowing correspondence has been issued
with the parliamentary papers this morning. It is
entitled "Correspondence respecting the alleged
Annexation of the Duchies of Central Italy by the
Sardinian Government :"

Ltrd J. Ropell to Sir J. littdooo.
(Eztrac9

Foreign-office, June 22, 1869.
The Marquis d'Axeglio bee read to me two despatches,
signed llingeotti. The limt relates to the affairs art Lom-
bardy, the second to those of Parma and Modena. Both are
intended to justify the King of Sardinia in all that he has
done in reletion to those states. I @eked the Marquis
d'Azeglio whe'her he bad any question to ask me in rela-
tion to these despatches. Ile Nail he was not Instmcted to
do so. It is, therefore, sufficient to rent ark that everything
done at present must be considered as provisioaal. A battle
on the Hindu might enable the allies to advenos to toe Tag-
' Pimiento, or might drive them back to the Ticino. As her
Majesty ha. not taken any part in the present war, it would
be premature to decide grave qneation. of public law
cm the present state of poseession. The same ob-
mation applies to Toczny and the Lactation..
All that I. to be desired for the present I. that where the
previous government has been withdrawn, or has been over-
thrown, an authority capable of meintaning order, and of
making itself respected, easy be immediately oonstitutect. It
would oe lamentable to see the disorders of 1848-9 repeated
in 1859. The will of the Italian people, the fortune of war,
and finally an European treaty, must, in the lag resort,
mettle the territorial arrangements and rights of sovereignty
in Northers and Centel Italy.
Ste J. Hudson to Lord J. Remeell.—(Rezeived June 28.)
Twin, June 26, 1859.
My Lard,—l have the henater to report to your lordehip
that the Sardinian government have addmsel a circular
letter to the minirtere, governies, and extrwirdieery cam-
mi reit nets of the king, to the tollowin; effect ..--The king's
government have ere dad, a • the deorrimeat for foreign
affairs, a temporary office f the tranaritium of bat-ices
talking out of the relations which hew apenng up from the
annexsUon to, or protection by, Sardinia of bet= provinces
during the present war. The government bad to deal with
'tweed Italy which heretotirebed law. sad en administration
of their oen • of there states Berne ere simply protected
by Serdinie, Others *rem:mew dto her. With regard to the •
latter, this new office will prepare the wsy for the reinter
admiiiletration of their affairs, and will expedite their bali-
te. ei by transacting it with penman conversant with their kin
and owtome, imamate( confiding them to the Sardinian minis-
tate, where different mks and regulations obtain, The Sar-
dinian government. therefore, have determined to Newt their
local governors with exceptional powers, in order that the
current blueness of each province may be carried on without
thirty on the spot; end with regard ti those points upon which
the respective governors may deem it advised. to consult
the home government, their correspondence la to be addrus eel
to the office now established ; end as, by degrees, uniformity
is the conduct of affairs PhAli be wt.:Wished berwein the pa-
rent state end the province annexed, the conduct of those
affairs will gradually be tmnaterrel to the central depart-
ments of the general government.— I have, &c,
(Signed) J. Iletmort.
Lied I Roams!! to Sir 3. Hudson.

.---.—.
Emelt:l,elfice, Aare 22, 1869.
Biro I have received and laid before the (4.1..11 your
deepatchas to that of the 2.5+h instent incluaive. With re-
format to the I tat number of them despatches, oaring a
summary of • circular Welled by the Sardinian goverauseath
announcing to their authorities that they "have cresttd,
at the Department for Foreign Affair*, a temporary
office for the transaction of Duelists rising out
of the relations which have sprung np from
' the annexation to, or protection by, Sardinia of Italian
ravine** during the present war," I hove to stare to you
that her Majesty's government n adlly admit the expediency
of utoting the eff sts of those engaged In war with Aurora,
either by the rigular action of the respective moorages or
the epontaneotri movement of the inhabitant', ander one
common direction. Bat with regard to the prrmceest sue
otsetion to Serdiala of states hitherto obeying their separate
saveraluns, her Mejeety's government have thopted a line
of conduct which they believe to be in conformity with
the law of nat OM Her 1/1,40•1)'• governmeat, ea
I elated to you in toy despatch of the 22nd
instant, consider that everything done et present must be
considered so provisionel ; and that elrbonals a may be none.-
elty to mike •rrangerneute for the temp wary tneintrnance of
ooter in countries where the peat me government hit been
withdrawn, or bay been overthrown, yet the will of the
poi*, the fortune of war, and finally a European treaty,
must, to the It.; resort settle the territorial arrengementa
and richt* of sovereignty in Neirthern and Ceotral Italy.
Flier limerity's government are happy to find that the mew
they here taken of this mat•er i. chewed by the government
of the Emperor of the French, and confirmed by the declara-
tion in the Alosaitswr of the 24. h inst., sonounciog that Rhea
been ernthe rusty inferred, from the feet of the dictatorship
having been offered Loth* Log of Sardinia from ell quieten
of Italy, that Sardinia, without cionstilting either the wishes
of the 'ample rw the great *ware, reckons, by the sappers of
the arms of France, on uniting the whole of Italy in • s ogle
state; but that such chatatonthip is a purely tem;,orery
power, which, while uniting under a single anthi rity the
reunion 10re,,, has the advantage of in no wise prejudging
future combination. From thelengnage of Baron Brannon,
I inter that such is likewise the view taken of the matter by
the RUPS.IIII government. You will read this despeteh te
Coast Cavour, bur will not furnish his excellency nab a
copy of it. I em, Ace. (Sliced) J. Rusattt.

Toe following is a traoslytino of the despatch from
Count Carour relative to the neutrality of Prima, in
reply to the Karl of Malmesbarv's despatch to nit
J. Hudson, dated June 7,1859. This was alto issued
this morning:

Twist, Jots 22, 1859.
M. h hforrinie,—Sir James Hudson, by durecuon of the
Earl of Mulmetour), hue read to me and given lee s copy of
the annexed de.pttat, haviog reference to the akin of
Parma.

In this onntretuVettinew her Britansic 111..jery's Principal
Secretary of SW. for Foreign Affairs applies himself to
ertabliah the., by the protvedies of &admix, the govern-
ment of Patina would bee.. Puled it impoesible to protest
Itrainit the eotrance of Austrian troop. Mt.) the duchy, If
oh.y b. attempted to do so, befog no longer able
to tot. be proteat on the v.- I jot ehardeter of
tos Booby. Ihe Earl of Mahneebury adds, that the encore-
west of P.rtna boa Dever departed from the line of the Forte--
rat neutralay, and thee Auatois haa not pet the exstople of
ticorettarrheg that y ; whew* be t oleluties tha• the
intetventiou of Setdiafa .anot be looked open othereise
than . a cruel and unPuttolable exert'.s of f axe against a
weak and emelt state, _ . .

I will alptain from noticing the unfriendly tore of thin
nommunieniien, and will inaatinn ousel( to rectifying the
/nets which ate set firth In it. Then* very foot* ere so
nototioun tent, atter rending tLe Arno-itch in quention, it
would not be unrearumble w suit whether the minaret. who
bring* the charge .pined an baa cant a glance over the asap
of the tonatre W thew... No one, In fact, in ignorant .hat
it ww• spat the territory of Perm* 'hot the muck
again" Piedmont was prepored ; ft le Thera Oast
the Aaetrian tronpa clllecied in faros alio the*
meenrail our frontier; It in by mail:iglu. of tbe IPTA',47 of
tb. Duchy a bit they heye 113Valitld Phirwatin
hod beanwe the prinelpnl Law of the ufleurive •Terstions of
Count Galley : Vintner., Tor one. were orcuoitnl by • amps
d'arruen debouchiog Irnni tie frontier of Pint:antis : the
attack upon Bobbto plocesiad hem Mance; if Ale ssadri•