The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-28 00:00:00

THE PAP.AL STATES.

BONA MAace 24 (via Ilareeillee).
A ooneistory was held yesterday. The allocution
which was delivered by the Pope on the occasion
remains an absolute secret. It is only known that
the excommunication has not yet been pronounced.
Yesterday the suspected chiefs of the manifesta-
tion embarked at Civita Vecchia. Twenty persons
have been arrested.

On the occasion of the last demonstration at
Rome, which was suppressed by the police a minis-
ter of the Anglican Church was among those who
were wounded. The two French officers who were
I also accidentally, but slightly, wounded on that Ni-
-1 anion, have exchanged visits with the staff-major
of the gendarmerie.
General Goyon has published an energetic order
of the day censuring the hissers and others who
provoked the public force by their intolerable
insults, and commending the French officer who
gave the order to disperse the populace. He
laments, however, the want of judgment shown by
the Roman gendarmes, as well an their blind im-
petuosity. General Goyon says, in conclusion, "I
rely upon the noble character of our officers, and
invite all to moderation and tranquillity."
Yesterday another pacific manifestation took
place while the Pope was proceeding to Bt. Peter's
Cathedral. The number of carriages was immense.
A public functionary, guilty of embezzlement,
has been sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment.

THE TWO SICILIES.
NAPLZII (vl iLszseilles), 14.
The King remained three days at Gaeta,inspect-
ing the newly-enlisted troops. His Majesty has
given all the necessary orders for their organisation,
but no movement of troops towards the frontier
ham been ordered. The King returned here on
Thursday, and has recalled his plenipotentiary
from Rome, who arrived here yesterday.
The rumour of an approaching occupation of
Rome by Neapolitan troops is no longer credited.
Several other assassinations of agents of the
public administration have taken place iu Sicily.
Great agitation prevails there, but no demonstrs-
tions of any decided character have taken place.
General Viglia ham been sent into Calabria, in
order to pursue certain bands of agitators.

Goligiserti says :—" The deputation from Savoy,
on dining at the Tuileries on Saturday, were the
objects of most gracious attention on the part of the Em-
peror and Empress. After the dinner, which was ant over
till aloe o'clock, the Empemr entered into conversation with
them, and asked many questions concerning the intones
of Savoy. His Majesty afterwards gave each of them a
photographed portrait of himself, and the Empress pre-
sented them with an engraving representing the Prime
penal, with the words Souvenir of the 24th Man* 1800.—
Evatont in her own do/Ids-riling."

I, MO.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

In repeating lately from the French papers a
contradiction of • statement that General Lamo-
riciere had accepted the command-in-chief of the
Pope's troops, I added that the news seemed to me
moat improbable. lam sorry to say that I have
now strong grounds for believing it to be true. If
I may depend upon the accuracy of a gentleman,
who states what be beard yesterday in a house
where Generals Lamoricibre and Changarnier were
both present, the former general, after having over-
come some difficulties about his passport, bad defi-
nitively accepted his appointment, and left Paris
for Rome last night.
Since writing the above I have received this even-
ing's Pays, which contains the following paragraph :
We expensed doubts as to the authenticity of the news
relative to the offer of a command in the pontifical army made
by the Pope to General Lamoriciere. We now learn that
the genteel has left for ,Rome, passing by Brussels. There
is raison to think that Mgr. de Merode's journey to Belgium
was connected with this negotiation. The character of
General Inmoricidre makes it impossible to suppose that he
can have put his sword at the service of a foreign power
without having previously obtained the permission required
by French lagislatioo It suffices to cite Art. 21 of the
Code Napoleon:—" Any Frenchman who, without permis-
sion from the government, shall take military service
abroad, or shall become affiliated to any foreign military
corporation, loess his quality of a Frenchman."
This note suggests several remarks. In the first
place it is not unimportant to remember that the
Pays, which also calls itself "Journal de l'Em-
pire," did not, as it now finds it convenient to say,
merely express doubts about the news in question,
but gave it a positive contradiction. Secondly,
why does not the " Journal of the Empire " now
tell its readers in honest language whether
the news which it was instructed to discredit
is at this moment true or not. Instead of this, it
says evasively that General.Lamoriciere, as it now
learns, has gone to Rome by Brussels. Well, he
might have gone to Rome without therefore being
Commander-in-Chief of the Pontifical army. But
it ►eems from the context that the Pays knows he
has gone thither in that character. The " nego-
tiation," it says, is connected with Mgr. de Merode'a
journey to Belgium. Now, M. de Merode is an
ultramontanist, a member of the party of bigots in
Belgium, • brother-in-law of M. de Montalembert,
and a servant of the Pope's household. It is but
too plain that if General Lamoricibre, the repub-
lican, and the exile, has accepted the Pope's com-
mission at the instance of such a negotiator, he is
expected to lend the aid of his popularity, renown,
and military capacity to the maintenance by
brute force of the temporal power, and that
incurably bad government so strenuously
condemned by the Emperor's pamphlet. But is
the Emperor any party to this arrangement I
That question is left in the dark by the "Journal of
the Empire." I remember that Mgr. de Merode
came to Paris before he went to Brussels. Did be
see the Emperor ? I will venture to say he did.
What indeed can be the meaning of the word
" negotiation " used by the Pays I It would
hardly apply to • mere application to General
Lamoricibre himself, which might have been made
by a less distinguished messenger, and if the result
of the "negotiation," in the sense which I think
it bears, was the appointment of General Lamori-
cibre to be the Pope's generalissimo it would
follow that he accepts the office with the Empe-
ror's privity and consent. Nevertheless the
Pays, vague and ambiguous to the last, quotes an
article in the Code in such a way as to serve,
as may be found moat convenient hereafter, either
as • reproach to the general for serving the Pope
without the Emperor's permission, or as an affirma-
tion that the permission has been obtained. If, as
seems almost certain, General Lamoricibre goes to
Rome as a catholic commander, with the Emperor's
sanction or connivance, I consider the event as one
of capital importance.
The statement lately made by the Petrie, that
Northern Italy would be completely evacuated by
April 18, is contradicted by another semi-official
assertion, according to which, supposing the orders
already given to be strictly acted upon, it will take
at least two months before the whole army will
have left the country.

The Bourse exhibited extraordinary firmness,
notwithstanding the considerable fall of in Con-
sols. A long telegram with an analysis of last
I night's debate was not made public till after Bourse
hours. It is very much doubted whether the rise of
to-day, which is suspected tube highly artificial, will
be maintained to-morrow. The Reute, after being
shaken momentarily by the telegram from the Lon-
don Stock Exchange, and receding to 68fr. 45c.,
closed at 68fr. 85c. for cash, and 68fr. 80a for ac-
want, with a rise of 30e. in each case. Mobilier
roes 7fr. 50c. Railways were fully bfr. higher.
The Prase says, in its weekly commercial re-
view :

Advice, from all the principal manufacturing districts
concur in stating that production was never so slack as at
this moment. The consequence is that the few buyers in
the market either do not And the particular description of
goo& they want, or, when they cannot wait for the exam-
lion of olden, are compelled to pay comparatively high
prices. Tissues have fallen considerably at Mulhouse, but
at Rouen prices are better sustained. The season has been
unfavourable for the solo of stuffs. It is now more than a
month since the demand for winter dreams has ceased, and
yet, owing to the cold wet weather, the shop have not
begun to sell any spring novelties. The impending reduc-
tion of the duties on sugar, coffee, and cocoa, has not pre-
vented a brisk demand for those articles. Coffee has sud-
denly gone up 6fr. or 7fr. at Havre. Sugars also are higher
both at Havre and Paris, and other markets are beginning
to feel the effects of this rise. There has been much talk
within the lest few days of a treaty of eommeres with
Prussia and the German Zollverein. The news I probably
premature, but such a measure is, sooner or later, inevit-
able, as a consequence of the commercial treaty with Eng-
land. Moreover, all foreign nations, whether with or with-
out any special treaty, will naturally be admitted to profit
by the abolition of prohibitions. Scarcely anything is doing
in cereals. The price of wines and spittle rules high, with
every prospect of a further advance. Exports from Bon
dean: are going on with much activity.