The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-12 00:00:00

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SARDINIA.
(nos oua incur. coaassrosmarr.)
TURIN, Ann. 8.
The scene got up in the Chamber of Deputies by
Garibaldi, the day before yesterday, has been
already forgotten. Although everybody here ap-
preciates the noble sentiments which induced the
conqueror of Como and Varese to ask leave to put
the question as to this sad business of Nice, the
great majority of the liberals are agreed that the
general had no right to put it, and that Count
Cavour acted as a wise minister ought in
refusing all explanations till parliament is legally
constituted. In spite of this opinion which now
generally prevails in Turin, the Thrift:), an oppo-
sition paper of this city, passes to-day a severe
judgment upon the conduct of the Sardinian
Premier. This paper, which, rightly or wrongly, is
supposed to reflect the opinions of Commendatore
Rattazzi, initiate that by a firmer and more dignified
policy Nice might have been saved. I am sorry I
cannot agree in this opinion, for it appears to me
that Louis Napoleon could only be induced to give
way on the question of the annexation of Tuscany
upon that condition. The question at issue, there-
fore, is, whether it was better to make the sacrifice
of a small principality or to give up one of the
finest states of the Italian peninsula. I think
nobody can blame Count Cavour for having ac-
oepted a bargain which on the one hand settled the
important question of the annexation of Central
' Italy, and secured the continuance of the French
alliance on the other.

The news from Sicily, brought to Genoa by
the last steamboat from Naples, has produced
a great sensation in this country. It is
generally expected that the south of Italy will be
in a blaze before the month is over. The arrival
at Ancona of General Lamoricibre, who has con-
sented to become the Don Quixote of the papal
cause shows that the reactionary party has not
dismissed the idea of engaging in some foolish
attempt. The Orleanist general, however, may
depend upon it that the Italian army:will prove a
match for his mercenary legions, and he will find
Italy a harder bone for his teeth than Africa was.
The Italians are convinced that their future happi-
ness is at stake, and they will rise as one man in
defence of their liberty and independent*. Victor
Emmanuel will not draw back in the day of danger,
nor will he shrink from his duty, for he knows
that the nation will follow him.

This morning the Turin Gazette publishes in full
the bull of excommunication, which is likely to
reach you before my letter, having been published
two days ago by the Venice Gazette. You see that
our government is at once bolder and more logical
than the French government, which goes so far as
to rummage K Veuillot's trunks lest by chance
there should lurk copies of the excommunication in
them. It is, in fact, a document more calculated
to do harm to those from whom it emanates than
those against whom it is intended. The Italians
feel strong in their consciousness of having exer-
cised a right as well as fulfilled a duty, and can
therefore afford to laugh at a rusty old
weapon which might possibly have been sharp
seven hundred years ago. Such is the impression
caused here by this new attempt of the Vatican,
not only among laymen but also among a consi-
derable portion of the clergy, is shown by several
dresses as

The effect has been much the same even in the
Eternal City, for letters from Rome of 4th of April
say that the excommunication posted up at Campo
di Fiori, at the Cancelleria, and at Monte Citorio, is
continually watched in each of the aforesaid
places, by day and night, by six gendarmes.
In the meantime the Holy Father, to quicken the
flagging piety of the faithful, has ordered public
prayers and processions to the principal churches,
giving secret instructions to the churchwardens to
make the gift of a taper, worth two francs, to each
member of the con/rater/We which assists at the
procession, in order to make it more numerous.
Cardinal Antonelli cannot dissemble for all that
his distress at the hoped for assistance of the
Neapolitan arms having failed him, and at the cer-
tainty that he will soon be abandoned by the
French troops.