The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(ROY °I:MOWN

PARIS, THOR/DAY ETINIIIO.

This morning Cardinal Parrizi, accompanied by
his suite and M. Feui'let de Coaches, the master of
the ceremonies, left the Tuileries in two court car-
riages for St. Cloud, to present the Empress with the
golden rose bleeped by the Pope, about which so
much has bees already said. The rose, enclosed in
a large ebony box, travelled in • separate carriage,
and was guarded by offiaers of hie Eminence's
household. It is • costly production, the stalk,
the leaves, the buds, and the flowers being
all covered with precious stones. Oa arriving
in the Empress's presence, the cardinal legate
spoke the speech, beginning " Accipe rosam de
manibus nostris," which has already appeared in the
Express. This speech the cardinal intended to
have made in Notre Dame, but it was not in the pro-
gramme, and his voice was drowned by the music, to
his great displeasure es the story goes.
The Baum, which for several days has been in a
drooping state, was worse than ever to-day. The
thoroughly unsound state of the market is clueing
alarm even among the optimists. The government jour-
nals generally contrive to give some plausible reason
why a fall should be attributed to some accidental
and temporary cause. Bat this evening's r aerie
says in its financial article:—"The money market
does not recover from its prostration. Profound dis-
eoursgemeot prevails among speculators, and many
have altogether ceased to operate for the moment,
fearing a fresh rise in tte rate of reports. The spec-
tacle which the Baum now presents is in no degree
justified by actual circamatances. If the mass of
capital would only turn away from its exclusive de-
votion to speculation and employ itself in legi-
timate business, it would speedily give a healthy
tone to the market, and a salutary impetus
to public credit." There is much virtue in
this "if." Meanwhile, differences are heavy, and
there is in many instances much difficulty in meet
iog them. Several executions have again taken
place to-day. The news of the reduction of 95,000
men had no effect upon the market. The Rents
closed very heavily indeed at 701 r. 500. for cash, and
701 r. 75c. for account, the fall being 60c. and 40e.
Credit Mobilier fell 45fr. The railway market wen
exceedingly weak. Orleans fell 25fr., and Mediter-
ranean 16k., and most of the other lines dfr. Bt.
'Lambert, the only line that improved, rose 25fr. I
lam from a good source that the attempt to este-
blish a Credit Mobilier society in St. Petersburg hes
defini•ively failed.
The latest news from Bordeaux confirms the fact ofl
the Garonne having overflowed in several pls.**.
The official despatches express considerable appre-
hension. There was a rumour this afternoon that the
Emperor had left Paris for the batiks of the Garonne,
but I hsve no reliable information on the subject.
The weather here Is threatt sing, and although not
much rain has fallen in Paris, the cold temperature
and the accumulation of black clouds in the sky are
but too probable signs of a prevalence of wet weather
in the country.
A letter from Foe, dated June 16, in the Journal
de Toulouse, says it had rained for the last forty
hours, and that the hill. were covered with snow.
The snow was so deep that many villages were half
buried in it. The weather was exceedingly cold.
The thermometer (Reaumnr) had gone down to
tour degrees below zero. The moment the tempera-
ture aesumed a more natural state the snow would
melt all at once, and a fresh inundation was consi-
dered certain. _

Toe lkiessager de Bayonne of Jane 17 says:—
" For the last thirty hours a terrible rain, heavier
even than that which ceased the late inundations, has
fallen without ceasing. The Gave and the Nies ha,.
OVPrfiJWO ; the Adoar is enormously swollen."
The Prefect of the Seine has received from the
Lord Mayor of London another letter, which ou-
tman. :a that the subscriptions opened in the Briti►h
capital in &vont of the inundated in France had
amounted to not laaa than 300,000 fr.
_ .

The =yoga of the dvpartments, who came to Paris
for the baptism, give a dinner to-marrow at the
Trois Freres, to the Minister of the Interior, and the
Prefect of the Seine.

The Cardinal Legate has consented to prebido at
evening wan at the church of Notre Dame des
Victoiree, on Sunday next. Several bishops will be
Present A sermon will be preached by the Abbe
Lavigne.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.
(1101( ♦x ITALIAN MALL

TURIN, Joss 15.

This has been • great holiday for Turin. There
has been, on the Piazza d'Armi, a solemn distribu-
tion of the medals and other marks of distinction
awsrcici by the Allied Gavernments-to the P.edinon-
tee* soldiers of the Crimean expedition. You will
not expect from me a very lengthy description of the
show, for I am not over-partial to displays of any
kind; and I think even free Piedmont has too much of
the old Italian hankering after such thins,. You know
that as early as 1848 the constitutional government
here abolished all church festivals, excepting, be.
sides Sundays, only four grand days. But you can-
not
expect that the people can at once be weaned I
from their spectacle', and the priests have tried all
in their power to entice boobies to their eoclesiasticsl,
entertainments by an extra display of tinsel and
frippery. At Genoa, for instance, where I was at
Easter, the whole week nearly was spent in merry-
making at the chnrchet. If we add now poli-
tical solemnities in too great a number, I feer
we shall have no work done. What with the Cor-
pus Domini, the Santo Sudario (holy winding-sheet),
Constitution-day (which lasted three days), and now
Medal-day, we have been amusing ourselves day and
night, till our legs ache from long rambling about.
To satisfy the Romans, the Emperors supplied them
with ponetn et eircentee, but modern Italians will go
without bread if they only get the games.
It takes, however, a more sour-minded man than I
am to grumble at to-day's festivities. The Pied-
mottles* troops are a sight to do good to any man
who wishes to keep ap a good heart for Italy. They
marched in silence to the Place d'Armee in several
corps from 4 o'clock in the morning till 8. Silently
sod solemnly they marched, like the mast reeforres
of Homer. They have the knack of hold-
ing their tongues, and looking manfully grave, so as
no
other nation looks on the continent. At 8 o'clock
the whole little army, 16,000 to 18,000 strong, were
assembled. The Place d'Armes, as well as all the
to it, were gay with tri.colors, with flags of
all friendly teatime, and with trophies and devices of
a warlike character—gay and not gaudy—for the
Italians have yet an ounce or so of good taste, and
each matters are very cleverly and speedily managed
In Turin. There were beautiful stands for state dig-
nitaries and for their ladies. It is important to
observe that since 1848, whether you will believe it
or not, the fair sex, which was proverbially plain in
Turin, has very materially improved. The whole
generation' male and female, looks infinitely better
than it did, owing to better Ideas of physical no less
than moral education. At 9 o'clock the Kiog came
mounted on a splendid white charger, and followed by
a numerous staff. Sir James Hudson, the Duke
de °niche, and Maseru", the English, French, and
Turkish Ministers, rode with him. By the King's
side was the Prince of Carignano, and La Harcourt,
with other Crimean generals in attendance. A little
tri-colour chapel had been got up, and a bishop,
attended by two others, said mass—it was low Mager
soon over. At the elevation of the Haat the King and
all hie " men" lifted up their hands to their temples,
oat gave the sacrament a military salute. After the
mass a Ti Deems was snug, with ea accompaniment
of trumpet and cannon t it had • glorious effect.
The naiional air, or Fanfare de Savoie, is • very
isspiriting tuna, and far older than "God Some the
Queen." I have seen old officers near me crying at
the soak as heartily as the most loyal real old Eng.
Ilishman ander similar circumstances could do.
The religious ceremony being over, the King re-
paired to the centre of the Place, when the &tribe-

Lion of medals end crosses took place. There was
then a defile along the main streets of the town and
at the Piazza Castello, the main square before the
King's palace. The troops returned to the Place
d'Arates to breakfast. The cheering was as loud as
heart can desire, and all the soldiers had on their way
back bouquets of flowers thrown to them with very
liberal hands by fair ones from the windows. This
evening we shall have night turned into day by gas-
light and transparencies. The weather was most
propitious. It had rained in the night, so we had no
dust. It was cloudy, so we were not killed by the
noontide glare. We had occasional showers, but nc-
thing to harm any man. The cheerful, good-
humoured, orderly, and sober behaviour of the
Piedmontese on gala days is quite unrivalled.
I have already seen many too many holi-
days in this town, but never saw a man drunk or
disorderly, or any way uffeneive For temper I
think them a model people. The King said a few
words to 'he troop., which had a thrilling effect. I
would gladly translate them for you here, but that I
believe they will reach you this very evening by
telegraph.
Most assuredly nothing could have happened
more fortunate for the present or future of Piedmont
or of Italy than the share the Sardinians have taken
in the Eastern war. Piedmont has now an army
with a new spirit in it. La Marmora did not take
whole regiments or squadrons with him, but only
battalions or companies out of every carp. Each of
these detachments will now go back to its own corps,
and the spirit they bring back with them will have
an electric effect on the whole Mlle/. As far as 50,000
or 60,000 men can do they may be relied upon for
any desperate undertaking. They have great confi-
dence in each other, and in their chit ts. Cialdiai,
Cacchieri, Fanti, &c., are all young generals, sad
La Mermora and Giovanni Durando are hardly
middle-axed. They all stand very high in the
esteem and ,ove of their soldiers, and could lead them
anywhere. What a contrast with the men amid
officers of 1648!
Aproplat to these—one of them. General Broglie, is
off to St. Petersburg as an envoy extraordinary,
acoompanied by Count Petitti, a very distinguished
officer, known to many of your Crimean heroes, and
other young gentlemen, all trona the army. It is sup-
posed Broglie will remain as resident minister in the
north. Cavour, who has now the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, will send a minister plenipotentiary to
Madrid—a useless expense, in my opinion—one to
Frankfort, &e. They talk here of a ministerial crisis.
Cavour, who is Me minister, is supposed to be
inclined to tura about their business Messrs. Rattazzi
and Diner. No reason is given for the change, so I
believe the report is unfounded. Rattszzi, the home
minister, is one of the democratic ministers of 1849
—an arocat, a keen debater iu the chambers, but
very indolent and impassible in the cabinet—a
faineant minister. Leon, the minister of public in-
struction, is, on the contrary, a man of great energy
and strength of micd, bordering almost on teatineds.
He is a well-meaning man, not wanting in intelli-
gence, but not fit perhaps for the place they /lave
given him. He was a physician, and is a good finan-
cier, but he will have great trouble to s and the at-
tacks of two or three professors, members of the
Chamber of Deputies—Berti, hlelegar, &c.—who are
bent on thwarting him whatever he may do. They
have already swamped two of his laws—quashed, I be-
lieve, is the word—one on the general administration
of public instruction, the other on primary instruction.
The whole matter at issue is that these gentlemen
are for complete freedom of instruction, and the
ministers wish for • thorough control b uh over public
and over private education. Many of the liberal and
even ultra-liberal party are strongly hostile to fret
dom of instruction, b.-canes they dread the priests
and Jesuits, who would be sure to have all the youth
of the country in their hands, end shape them accord-
ing to their own views. I give you the facts, and do
not comment upon them—it is the old story of the
French UniversitCl and of the Swiss An•i.Sonderbund
lesgate. In my own opinion it is not just to deprive
by law even priests and Jesuits of the right of free
comptition in the education of youth, and what is
more, it will never be practiceble. For the present
we are here in a etato of complete anarchy as to in.
etroction, which, you will grant, comes near enough
to freedom.

I should wish yon to observe another thing. Latzt
and Rattazzi are both of the middle classes of the
people. Strange to say, no ministers ever had •
shorter run of popularity than they; and I have re-
marked it here, and in other countries, that those who
cry Ion& st against the mishit:racy are generally the
most hostile to any upstart statesman who rises from
their own ranks. The aristocracy, in a military
country, are generally sound at the c re; and after
the example of D'Az,glio, Civour, Lt Marrnora,
Siccardi, &c., it iv very clear that it is to the titled
men that we are to lock yet for a long while for our
rulers.

The only chance in the ministry that hen really
taken place already is that of Ls Marmon, gone back
to his old place. A new minister of the marine
has been appointed.
We have gloomy reports here from Parma, which
I hope are the offsprin4 of 'termite exaggeration. It
is hinted that five or six of the Parmesan prisoners,
who have been hurried away to Mentos without
trial or even identification, have been secretly
despatched by the Austrians, after the moat flimsy
show of a trial before a German court-martial.
From the other parrs of Italy we have the same
melancholy news. Brigands and bandits, in the Ho.
man Legations, are carrying on their depredations
under the very nose of the Austrians. A sentence, pro-
flounced in 1831 against Nerdoni, the Pope's minis-
ter of the police, condemning him to be branded sod
pilloried, and to serve in the galleys for four y etre,
for theft, has gone the round of all the
Piedasontese papers, and bears all the marks
of being genuine. The 'fuse in government is as
incorrigible as ever. •The Tuscans, and espsc:ally
the Florentines, are a thoughtless, frivolous, ener-
vated race, only to be roused to exertion by fits and
starts. It is the only government in Itsly, Pi, dmont
excepted, which can stand without the he'p of
foreign troops, and nothing could be more wanton
and inhuman than the c3nduct of the present Grand
Duke, who had way made for his return by the
moderate piety—the !,a'ant'unmirii. as the people
called them—and who chess to come back at the tail
of Austrian battalions, and to treat with the same
harshness the repub'icene of Goerrazzi, and the
liberals of the 'theme of Cepponi. Ridotti, et.c. He
has not a man in his cabinet who enjoys the least
credit with the people, not one who can give him any
better advice than to keep friends with Austria and
Rome and eschew all contact with Piedmont. A 0 n-
omelet with Rome on the model of the late Austrian
'agreement is looked forward to with curiosity. With
all this, if there is a country that never will cause
any uneasiness to her neiglihoure, it is certainly Tus-
cany. The people of the towns are idle, prodigal,
and listless: in the country they are hard-
working, frugal, and thrifty. The former hare
their pleasures to enjoy, the latter their labours to
mind. They may fellow any movement from France'
or other parts of Italy, but from their own impulse
the Tuscans give no sign of life. There is a certain
amount of musty literature, amateur science, parasitic
art, going on in Florence; two or three oddities take
up the Bible now and then, to get martyrised or
turned ontof the country; butthereis very little think-
talking, or writing—very little swrious meaning
in aught that is done in Florence. We pee many of
their noblest-hearted men, who come to Piedmont to
breathe a little free air. All they ever say about
their country is quite disheartening. We have their
j 1. too—the Spettalore and others. To look at
the table of contents, to read the subjects they deal
with, you would say they belong to this cen-
tury. There is, in Tuscany, all that material pros-
perity that long ;Tice never fails to create in an
Italian land ; but for mental or moral progress, you
may, I believe, set down polished and gifted Florence
as the last country in Italy—after R me and Naples.

SWITZERLAND.

The Colapse Cia:etie says under date of Berne,
Jane lb:-0 The soldiers of the English foreiga
legion, whose return through Switzerland has been
permitted under certain conditions by the Federal
Council, are beginning to make their appearance.
Some of the others were men yesterday in the streets,
and others are shortly expected. The men appear
upon the whole to be in good oondition. and Sr. far
more contented with them lot than the disbanded
troops of the French legion"