The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-29 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

CTILOM OCR Ow"( 001

PARIS, SUNDAY BUNNING.

Although we are without news as to the doings
of Italy and the sayings of Z urich,the opinion appears
to be gaining ground that, come what may, no
armed interference in the affairs of the Italians will
be tolerated. We shall at least be spared that hide-
ous blot on the civilisation of oar age. The ques-
tion seems to have been entirely set at rest by the
declaration of Napoleon 111. to the Count Linati,
the mayor of Parma. Your readers have heard it,
but it cannot be too often repeated Say to the
people who sent you to me, that my arms shall
never do violence to their will, nor will I allow any
other foreign power to do you violence." Seekers
after weak points dwell upon the ure of the words,
" foreign power." Why not have said " power "
simply, they ask ? We should then have the com-
fort of knowing that Napoleon will not allow the
mysterious expedition said to be in preparation by
the allied forces of the Duke of Modena and his
Holiness of Rome, to carry fire and sword into the
duchies and the legations. Not that it is for a mo-
ment imagined that these potentates can bring into
the field any force able to hold its ground for a single
week against the troops of Faoti and Garibaldi ; bat
surely a heavy responsibility will rest on the French
Emperor, if he allows, when he may prevent, a col-
lision between Italian citizens and foreign mercena-
ries, upon however limited a scale. In short, no-
body believes he will allow it. There remains then
the question of the moral pressure which may, and
probably will, be employed for sinister objects, and
objects incompatible with the welfare of Italy, as
any must be whittle do not meet with the cordial end
unbiassed anent of the people of Tuscany,
Modena, and Parma.

The following mild language no doubt (rovers 'great
deal which prudence prevents the writer (a corres-
pondent of the Nord) from expressing. After say-
ing that the two Emperors have formally engaged
not only in writing, but in the treaty, not to emp:oy
force in reinstating the ducal dynasties of the house
of Hspsburgh in their possessions, he add', " the
cabinet of the Tuileries nevertheless desires with
great sincerity th►t this article (of the restoration)
should h►ve its full and entire effect, and neglects
none of the means of persuasion which are in its
power in order to act in this direction upon the mind
of the Italian people. Prince Ponistowski IS still at
I Florence. Count Mist has not yet quitted Bologna.

He is apparently awaiting there his last instructions.
The Duke de Gramme arrived on the 24th at
Rome, furnished with the instructions which have
been gives him. In a word, all diplomacy is frankly
endeavouring to maintain or to restore the ancient
order of things, as far as concerns not institutions but
persons. Will it succeed ? That is more than doubtful."
Heaven grant this correspondent may be right in his
previsions as to the defeat of diplomacy! Such
must be the prayer of all friends of Italy; I would
almost add, all honest men. Rightly or wrongly,
the Italians themselves (on judge from private let-
ters) believe the English government is more then
well disposed to them in the matter of the Pied-
montsee annexation; and in that belief they are
anxiously hoping far the assembly of a congress.
They well know that if England consents to enter a
congress it will be with the certainty that her voice
will be heard with effect.

The Invalid. Busse continues to insist upon the
necessity of a congress, as the only possible way of
getting all parties out of the dead-look in which
they are placed. It says :

It will be interesting to see- how ell this will Web. The
powers whir& signed the pesos of Ville:ranee have pieced
themeless In a mit:nation from which there is so issue, by
I stipulating for the reetorstko of the old dyneitiss without
Ding recourse to armed interferer:toe. In the fare of the
elan and treinovable resolution of the Italians not to receive
them, we see no other mods of reconciling all parties.

The legitimists are beginning is reconcile them-
selves to the exclusion of their pet candidate, the
Rake Robert of Parma, upon the ground that there
may yet be something better in store for the yonnker.
What other interpretation can we put upon the
following remarkable passage in one of their organs,
the Gaulle de France, than that they mean to enter
him hereafter for the grand handicap of the crown
of France?

Nothing could be snore opposed to the private political
views which we should incline to cherish than the restora-
tion of the Duke Robert to the state of Parma. We should
certainly prefer for this prince to the mediocre rank of titulary
of a thecae of the fifth order, that of a sovereign ru dieponi-
bail( ; no great is the future we believe in store for this young
and august head.

With these prophets the Belie law goes for
nothing, and Robert 11. is to walk over the heads
of Napoleon IV., the house of Orleans, and the
Spanish branch of the Bourbons. This is going in
for legitimacy with a vengeance !

PARIS, HATtIDAY EVENING.

M. de Morny's remarks upon the condition of the
French press nave elicited some comments upon that
delicate subject from the Presse. According to the
President of the Council.Oeneral of the Puy-de-
Dame, as you remember, the government possesses
"no weapon against the press but that of warnings
with alleged reasons, and suspension, which are re-
pressive measures."
This is rather too much for M. Nefftzer, who is
moved thus to express himself in the Prease :
The distinction between preventive and repressive mos-
wee is not so absolute as one ie at first disposed Miamian
All npee 'on has and will have at the same nine a peens-
ties character. The legislator does not institute penalties
the the pleasure of seeing them applied, but chiefly Mader
that the fear of Incurring them may prevent the commission
of calms and offences. Now, when the warning has already
bees given, how is It plasihn to avoid incurring it P Of-
fences are definite, grounds of warning are not. The insti-
tution of warnings, then, has the effect of keeping news-
papers in a state of vague and permanent apprehension, and
may we be permitted to add, that we do not think this in-
, atitution is better for the government, which becomes
'gully responsible whether it uses the right of warning
or not.

M. Hamer has in theme observations gone to the
very extreme length of his tether. Had he dared to
speak out he would probably have said a good
deal more on the subject. The truth is, no English-
man can realise the condition of the French press
under this government. I should give but a feeble
notion of it were I to suppose a state of things in
England under which all newspapers were forced to
undergo a preliminary supervision at the hands of a
set of censors appointed by the Home Secretary and
the Chief Commissioner of Police. Such a system
would be grossly and intolerably oppressive, but it
would have the merit of being simple and intel-
ligible.
. . . .

'Hero the rystem is—at least it bee hitherto been
—that of a highly organised, and at the same time
artistically disguised, terrorism, worked by the most
intricate machinery. It is a perpetual crows-fire of
negative and positive governmental action ; a ramifi-
cation of the fibres of journalism—and, let me add,

pamphletism—through every department of the
state, every branch of the administration, recognised
or unrecognised, from the private cabinet of the
Emperor down to the steward's room of a minister.
The consequence of this notorious state of things
is that, as far as Paris is concerned, the readers of
newspapers may be divided into two categories; one
disbelieves upon principle everything that is stated;
the other holds the government responsible for every
opinion put forth.
A letter in the Constitaiionnel gives a deplorable
woount of the condition of Venice. The indignation
expressed at the unlooked-for conclusion of the
peace is now said to be succeeded by a profound
sorrow. The City of the Doges is as a City of the
Dead. Travellers find some difficulty in entering it.
New defensive works are in course of erection on the
Lido. It is added that at Verona and Mantua, espe-
cially the latter, the system of repression is less
severe.

1--11;ive seen a private letter from Toulon, in which
it is stated that great activity is the order of the day
in that war port. The writer, a well-informed
person, observes that there is a general conviction
among the surrounding population on the subject of
a gigantic maritime war at no distant period. I
mention this as a fact coming under my own per-
sonal notice; but am disposed to attribute little
weight to the opinion expressed. All the best in-
formed persons incline to the belief that for the pre-
sent, at least, f Empire c'est la pair.
There is scarcely anything to record in the way of
Boone transactions. Prices are nearly the same as
yesterday, the Rente having left off at 89.03 cash
and 69.10 for account, being a rise of 10 and 5 cen-
times respectively ; Credit Mohilier, 825 to 828.75.
Money is plentiful, but the chief investments ere in
railway obligations. The Bank of France has issued
above 140 millions worth of them since the let July,
These emissions mast be exhausted before long,which
will occasion a rise in the value of these securities ;
the consequence will be a return to Rent. invest-
ments.