The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-28 00:00:00

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hit PI M& • We lett Melts Week*
there should he an in Brims f Ia that ace,
it says, Amnia, mew* the lett beak ef the Po,
sad aloe to the masefies, would be II a position
very nearly as ialbeatial in the Roma States as
if she had net evacuated Bologna and Ferrara. She
wooed mei= her position In the legation before
the news of She eking would have reached Prance.
The Pays is therefore persesded that "diplomacy
before taking any definitive :repletion will very
carefully examine the eventualities alluded to in
order to animates the permenini tranquility of
Central Italy." IWO then a very pretty question
I. opened ea to the waning of the expression
"evacuation of the Rona* States." Bemuse
Austria, when retitadititide her own frontier, will
not be so far off from Hoses as France, it is likely to
be contended that "eveonstion" in her one means
a great deal more than the mere obvious ineaging ef
the word imports. This of estige is, I take it,* mere
trivial instalment elf them which will cense out in
the Gems eta few dos, as obstacles in the way ef
the oeseemmatiou which ministers were no dosbt
justified, diplomatically speaking, In announcing
to the British parliament es probable. In
the Pram, id. deeroult (who, it is re-
ported, is appointed private secretary to Prince
Nepalese) affects to rejoice at the prospect
of the Preach army being relieved from the Ingrate-
tal teak of protecting the Pope ; but he betrays that
ill humour which I believe prevails in high quarters
at the sort of &Wel dodge which the Pope and the
Austrian Breperar have concerted between them in
ardor to make France draw in her horns, or reveal
her reel intention. He insists strongly upon the
meenciation by Nutria of all her private treatise
with the Italian States, and then expresses a belief
that she will not be " able to live" in Lombardy
when there Is good government in her neighbour-
hood. A het and manifestly insieeer• haps is
expressed that the emancipation of Lombardy may
thus be brought about by peaceable means. F. the
moment, however, I infer, from the tote of this
article and other symptoms, that the French govern-
meet wishes to hold itself out a. tractable.

All the French newspapers state that the Princess
Mattilde, " asevaspaaied by several members of her
household," paid a visit to the Prefect of Police a
day or two sine', to leaped some old records which
are kept at the poefeetura. I have reason to think
Nat the object of her visit was very different from
tke one alleged. About ten days ago, as I am
inliermed ea good authority, a person who appeared
to be a domestic servant, and was clad is the-
imperial hum presented himself at one—l do net
know wkieh—ef the railway Manus and asked for
three beam which the princess expected by train
that !adjust ems in, and which would be directed
"To be left till palled for." He wan told that two
boxes only had arrived, and, after repeating that he
bad expected three, be took the two away.
The next day the missing box, bearing the
same directiou, arrived. The railway dirk.
at once sent it off to the Princess Ma-
thilde's residence in the Rue de Coureelles. The
hall porter, on being told the story of the
other two boxes, said he knew nothing
about them. The princess being informed of
the message from the railway same down
herself into the hall; the box was opened in her
pesos.., and was found to ceetain a quantity of
bombs, rather smaller than those used by Orsini,
bat et preoisely the same character. The utmost
alarm was naturally felt at the reflection that the
other two boxes omitaining similar murderous ma-
terials must he unsealed be Paris, and in the bands
of daring conspired's. I am not stare whether
it wee on that evade' or the next that the Emperor
went to the Opera Comique. It was observed by a
correspondent of one of your contemporaries that
mast extmordinery pearautions were taken on this
ormolu. I now hear that two squadrons of
cavalry, a form claim enpreeedented as a gaud of
honour for an ordinary visit to a theatre, were eta-

tioned on the Boulevards, and that all the approaches
to the theatre were kept clear to an extent alto-
gether untsfeL The reason for these precautions is
now evident. There can scarcely be a doubt that
the Princess Mathilde went to the polico.ollice for
re sons connected with the alarming discovery above
alluded to. It is to be hoped, though I have no in-
formation as to this, that she and "her household"
may have been called upon to identify the two mis-
sing boxes, which it is possible may have been
seised. An imperfect version of the above narrative
cited by some English journals from the Opinions
of Turin, speaks of a box of explosive shells having
been sent to the Princess Clotkilde. I have scarcely
any doubt that the correct story is the one which I
have just told.