The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, IWIDNIIIDAY EVINTNO.

A despatch from Berne of this day's date states
that the French and Austrian plenipotentiaries have
" regulated the affair of Lombardy with the con-
sent of the Sardinian plenipotentiaries." This is a
considerable step, although the least difficult one.
If the telegram may be relied upon as literally and
entirely true, it follows that the important question
of the proportion of the debt of the Austrian empire
which Lombardy is to bear, has been settled as well
es the boundary line between Lombardy and
Venal& The concluding part of the telegram states
that the affairs of the Duchies will probably be
treated of directly between Paris and Vienna. The
inference is that the Zurich Conferences are substan-
tially over.
The Petrie, notwithstanding the disavowal which
it has been obliged to chronicle, from authority, con-
tinues to advocate its own opinions with much man-
liness. The fact that the legitimist and jesuitical
organs (the Univers, Union, and Gazette de 11,anee)
now use the same arguments as the Pays, enables
the Patrie to speak with considerable freedom with-
out appearing to go directly in the teeth of the go-
vernment. The Gazette proposes in so many words
that the recent elections in Central Italy shall be act
aside and new ones had under the " protection " (!)
of 80,000 French bayonets, " which will very
readily neutralise the image of Garibaldi
and his fanatical soldiers." " 80,000 troops,"
exclaims the Paris, " almost as many bayonets as
voters. It is well that the confession is made that
the 1) cannot be restored except by force. If
this is what is meant, there is an end to discussion.
How much misunderstanding might be avoided by

speaking out plainly r
The Pays, in an article somewhat more moderate
than those which it has lately publiahed, argues that
if, which it takes toe granted will be the case, the
King of Sardinia refuses to aeoept the annexation of
Central Italy, there will be a dead lock which must
nsessearily lead to the restoration of the Dukes
without any recourse to at The Tuscan army,
it mays, ►lthough it may raise impediments to a par-
ticular solution of the difficulty, is powerless to
enforce any. It cannot make war upon the King
of Sardinia to force him to accept the sovereignty
of the country, nor can it compel any other prince
who may be elected to accept the vacant inheri-
tance of the house of Lorraine.

The deliberations of the Tuscan Assembly, there-
fore, only raise difficulties, and the Pays holds that
these difficulties are increased by opposition to the
return of the princes. This article, in all proba-
bility, furnish,' a key to the tactics of the French
government, which are by extreme pressure upon the
King of Sardinia to bring about a state of things
in Central Italy which may afford a pretext for its
premeditated intervention.

The Patriot has an article on " The amnesty sad
law of public safety," in which it expresses the
opinion which I have already stated to be the pre-
valent one, that an amnesty, importing (according
to the Greek derivation of the word) entire oblivion
or the offences covered by it, all the individuals to
whom the amnesty of August 16 applies must in
point of law be deemed and taken never to have
been "condemned," intermit," expelled," nor " trans-
ported,"end that consequently the law of public safety
cannot touch them. The Patrie however admits, and
indeed puts forward, as the reason for its present
article that " doubts have arisen in certain minds'.
about the matter. This is just what I insisted upon
two days ago. These doubts cannot be solved by
the Patrie, which but yesterday was compelled to
say that the liottitenr is the only organ of the
government. The Memiteur must speak before this
question can be considered as cleared up.
Yesterday, at the Tribunal of Correctional Police,
the public prosecutor announced that he had re-
ceived instructions to discontinue all political pro-
secutions commenced prior to the amnesty. The
Preste cites this incident as an " indirect con-
firmation" of its arguments touching the law
of public safety. I cannot follow this rea-
soning. If the ease were in point at all—
which I think it is not—it cats rather the
other way. The Advocate• General stated to the
court that it would have been his duty to have gone
on with the promotion, but that he had aeoextained