The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-20 00:00:00

THE GERMAN CONFEDERATION.

FRANprORTON-THE-NAINE, THUZSDAT.
In to-day's sittings of the Federal Diet, Electoral
Hesse declared his readiness to conform to the re-
solutions taken by the Federal Diet on the 24th
of March.

The protest of the Grand Duke of Tuscany
against the annexation of Tuscany to Piedmont
has been laid before the Federal Diet.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aram 11.
(Via Marseilles.)
The deputation from Servo has not been well
received. The Porte has resolved on resisting its
demands, and is about to concentrate 30,000 men
at Schumla. Baron Prokeach will shortly leave
for Vienna, to receive instructions upon this grave
affair.

The calling out of the Redifs is difficult ; the po-
pulations, excited by foreigners, reaisting their de-
parture. . _

Disturbances have taken place in the Greek and
catholic churches, caused by an invasion of gens-
d'armes. The Christians have protested against
this breach of their privileges. Austria has in-
tergas protectress of the church.
irdDuke of Brabant has been brilliantly fated.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
China, Captain Jay, hu arrived here.
The barque Chance, which left Cadiz on the 27th alt.,
with salt for Newfoundland, put back on the Bth inst., in
• leaky state.
Gibraltar exchange on London, ninety days, 50} ; Paris,
Mr. 35c. ; Marseilles, Mr. 31c. ; Madrid, eight days' sight,
to i discount.
Freights unaltered.

THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
LIVERPOOL, THCRADAT.
The Montreal Ocean Mail Steamship Company's
screw steamer Bohemian, Captain Grange, which left Port-
land (Maine) on the 7th instant, passed Holyhead this day
at neon, but will probably be detained by want of water
until 8 ...'clock this evening.
The Bohemian called at Queenstown last night, to land
mails and passengers, and a summary of her news was tele-
graphed from thence.

FRANCE.

(PION 001 OWN CORIESPONDIENT.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The wondrous fact that in the city of Nice,
which was notoriously hostile to the annexation to
France, and which but a few days ago returned
Garibaldi to parliament, only 11 votes were re-
corded against 7,000 enthusiastic adherents of Na-
poleon 111., remains as yet quite unexplained for
Parisian readers. The Pays of this evening merely
says that at the " moment of going to press " the
government had not received the definitive result
of the ballot for the " arrondissement" of Nice,
and that it would probably not be officially known
till late in the evening.
The Courrier de Marseille affirms that negotia-
tions for the cession of Monaco to France have led
to an arrangement to which the prince has con-
sented.

The Petrie continues to assert, notwithstanding
very positive statements to the contrary lately
made in a London journal, that the evacuation of
Lombardy by the French army is regularly going
on according to the p e ; it adds that by
the middle of neat month the movement will in all
probability be completed. Bellier's Corn/par
deice, however, says somewhat significantly that
the bulk of the army will certainly not leave Italy
until after the ratification by the Sardinian parlia-
ment of the cession of Savoy and Nice.
It is worth while to quote, as showing at least one
phase of the impressions prevalent on the conti-
nent, the following comment in the Independence
Beige (which journal was detained by the police till
a very late hour) upon M. Grandguillot's admission
in the Comstitutiound, after a current of assertions
to the contrary in the French government papers,
that Switzerland has not resigned herself to treat
directly with France—and without reference to the
powers parties to the treaties of 1815—of the ques-
tion of the neutralized provinces of Savoy :
Have we to note • sudden change in the state of the
negotiations relative to Chablaia and Faucigny ; and he we
to understand that the reiterated statements put forward
within the last few days with so much appearance of
authority are now altogether denied! It may semi diffi-
cult to say so, but the fact is undoubted, that *denials sock
in from all quarters, and are clothed with a sort of official
character, of the fact that there are any direct negotiations
between Switzerland and France. It follows that all that
Ins been recently said of an arrangement between the two
countries being imminent must go for nothing. The Con-
stetutionnet affirms that negotiations can only take place
between the powers who signed the treaty of Vienna.
This much is now certain, that if conversations—in default
of positive negotiations--have been going on between Paris
and Berne, they are, to say the very least, on the point of
being broken off ; and that the relations between the two
governments have aasumed • degree of tension which the
news of but • few days since were far from anticipating.
Notwithstanding the semi-official repudiation of
the pamphlet, " La Coalition," which caused the
fall yesterday, the Bourse has not recovered to-
day: The Bente opened heavily, and, after trivial
variations, closed at 69.90 and 69.95, with a further '
fall of 10 and 5. Mobilier fell 1.25. Railways
were, on the whole, somewhat lower, but the change
was very smalL
The Pays comes forward to back the assertion of
a ministerial journal of Madrid, that the Spanish
government hail not connived at the escape of the
Count de Montemolin and his brother, in order to
avoid the embarrassment of a prosecution. The
princess, it says, are pursued, and, whatever may
be the ideas of clemency entertained by the Queen,
they will, if taken, be brought to justice.
General Lamoriciere, true to the new colours
which, to the astonishment and grief of all his old
friends, he has adopted, chooses the head of his
staff from the ranks of the Austrian army. The
Marquis de Pimodan, a retired colonel, is the indi-
vidual selected.

A letter from Florence states that in conse9uence
of a concentration of several Pontifical regiments
between Perugia and Ancona the Sardinian govern-
ment has sent a military force to the extreme fron-
tiers of Tuscany.
The eminent advocates, lately deceased, MK
Bethmont and Lionville, following the example of
the lamented M. Paillet, have each left a legacy of
10,000 francs to the Council of Order, to be
employed in premiums for the encouragement of
young barristers.

ITALY.

SARDINIA.

(FRON OOR OWN CORRNAPONDENT.)
TURIN, Ann.l6.
At half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon
one hundred deputies and ten senators left here for
Genoa, where they embarked for Leghorn, and this
morning they have doubtless accompanied the
king (who left here two hours later) during his
solenmentmuce into Florence. When the king came
out of the royal palace to proceed to the railway-
station the people crowded the square and along
the whole way vociferously cheered him. The inha-
bitants of Turin are delighted thatTuscanyand the
Emilia are preparing for their chivalrous king an
enthusiastic reception. You are aware that the
diplomatic corps does not accompany hies. It was
intended at first that the ministers of France and
England should go, but as the Count of Stackel-
berg explained that it would be equally painful for
him to accept and to refuse, and as it was known

that the other ministers would have declined the
invitation if proffered, the idea wee given up, and
disagreeable remarks were thus avoided. Several
members of our nobility have also gone toFlorence,
and will join the cortege, but of course you will
learn all the details from your special correspon-
dent, who will be an eye-witness of the scene.
General Fanti, the Minister of War, has issued
an order to all the chiefs of corps, directing tls.e,
to cause the men and officers belonging to Savoy
and Nioe to vote yes or no respecting the annexa-
tion of those provinces to France. On this occa-
sion the voting will be really free. I wish it were
equally so in Savoy and Nioe. General Garibaldi
was persuaded at Genoa by his friends not to go to
Nice ; so he has contented himself with declaring
through the press :—" I protest against the violence
offered to Nice by means of corruption and brute
force. I reserve for myself and my fellow-citizens
the right of claiming back my native laud at a time
when the rights of nations shall not he a vain word..'
The rumour now current here is that Garibaldi
' has either left, or is on the point of leaving, for
Sicily, where he wishes to take part in the liberation.
Had such a step been really contemplated by biro,
I think it would have been secret, for of course the
Neapolitan consul at Genoa and Baron Canofari,
who represents here the Bourbon monarch, would
soon ascertain such a fact, if true, and telegraph
forthwith to the authorities at Naples, who would
promptly take preventive tummies. I should be
sorry to see Garibaldi treated as Pisacane, or a
repetition of any such affair as that of the Cagliari.

OTANI ANOTILEI COBILESPONDF.NT.)
TrittN, Aram le.
General Garibaldi, seeing that the Italians of
' Nice have resolved to adopt the policy of absten-
tion, has given up his design of revisiting his
native town, and gone to Genoa, where he yester-
day took part in the meeting of the political society
La Nations, and accepted the chairmanship of the
committee for giving assistance to the insurgents of
Sicily. This Sicilian movement excites here the
most intense interest, and it in believed that though
the great towns on the northern coast are undoubt-
edly in the hands of the Neapolitan government,
the interior of the island and southern maritime
towns havebeenoccupiedby the insurgents, whohave
established a government at Corte mu. At Palermo
I the number of arrests is incredible ; even the Prince
of Nismuni could not escape prison, though his
political opinions were not suspected, for having
spoken some bold words against the indiscriminate
persecutions of Signor Maniacalchi, the director of
police. The fight of the 4th instant wax begun by
the soldiery, who surprised the oniapirators when
they had assembled in the monastery della Galicia—
a friend, Fra Michele di Sant Antonio, having
betrayed their meeting. Whilst the struggle con-
tinued round the monastery, the Neapolitan frigates
and steamers bombarded and destroyed the village
of Ficarim*, in the neighbourhood of the capital, to
keep the inhabitants known for their revolutionary
tendency, off from Palermo. After the defeat of
the insurgents, the venerable Oases of the nunnery
della Sante Croci was arrested for having granted
au asylum to two flying insurgents in the cloisters
of the building.
It seems now to be certain that that illustrious
condottiere, General de Lamoricire, in turn legiti-
mist, Orleanist, republican, and pontifical, has
received permission from the imperial government
to serve a foreign prince and to anumand the papal
bands of Croats, Austrians, Bavarians, Swig,
and Irish, a motley crowd of hirelings such as has
not been seen in Europe for the lust three hundred
years. Napoleon sees that a revolution is nearly
inevitable in the Neapolitan states, and wishe• to
prevent the annexation of Southern Italy to the
northern kingdom, and lamoricirre has to keep
separate the two movements which agitate the
peninsula. The inheritance of the Bourbons is
not to devolve upon Victor Emmanuel, but upon
Murat. Still if such is the wish of the Tuileries,
Poerio, Scialoja, and all the other Neapolitan re-
fugees at Turin, take a different view, and agitate
in favour of Italian unity under Victor Emmanuel,
in the hope that " the logic of events" will, as in
Central Italy, prove stronger than the wishes of the
Tuileries.