The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-22 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OF THE FRENCH TROOPS

FROM ITALY.

The Constitutionnel publishes an article signed by
M. Grandguillot, of which the following is a sum-
mary: _ _ _

The withdrawal of the French troops from Italy
must not be considered a sign of 000lnas be- ,
tween Frame., and Sardinia. Franoe leaved Lam-
beady became the independence of Italy is irrevoca-
bly wand. Austria only intends to act in defence
el the frontiers of Venetia. The loyalty of the
Preach policy could not occasion her any embar-
rassment on this subject. The withdrawal of our
army from Italy is therefore a sign of an approach-
ing solution of the question of Italy, and not •
signal of complications, which the wisdom as well
es well as the interest of Piedmont will know how
to prevent.

MILAN, WIDTItaDAY.

The French army has to-day commenced its re-
turn movement to France. The 80th Regiment of
tie line by way of Suaa, one company per day.
The 2nd Regiment of the line by way of Nice, one
battalion departing daily.

THE ROMAGNA.

The prise de possession by Sardinia of the annexed
provinces, so far as the Papal Legations, and the
two minor duchies are concerned, has taken place,
for on the morning of the 17th an express train
tarried to Bologna the 9th Regiment of the 13ardinian
line. The troops were immensely cheered on their
way from the station to the barracks.

k Safil and Father Gavarsi have published
declarations, giving in their entire adhesion to the

ip eja=o Piedmont. The former, it is
Inn %SKIM, is One of the most intimate friends and
a clam political adimeent at K Martini.
TURIN, Yams 21.
•it is asserted that Count Cavour will take the
portfolio of the Marine.
The Opinions states that Prince Carignan will
leave for Florence on the 26th inst.

THE PENINSULAR. lIAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON. Tetrassay.

The Peninanlaz and Oriental Company's steamer
Ewcine, Captain Babot, with the shove walk, have arrived.
Her dates are—Lisbon, 17 ; Vigo, 18 ; and Oporto, 18.
She bring!' 16 passengers, 34 packages of specie, also 687
half-chesta of oranges, 532 packages of sundries, and 558
boxes of eggs,

At Lbiceu, her Majesty's ships Royal Albert, Edgar,
Aboukir, Queen, Donegal, Mars, Algiers, her Majesty's
frigate Melpcaiene, and two Dutch frigates.
The Ministsr of Marine, Manricio Ferreri, when speaking

on the loos of the brig-of-war Mondego, in the Chamber,
war attached with a paralytic stroke, and died on the 14th
in He we. buried with all honours attending a minister
of the crown at sunset on the 115th inst.

The Mondego was lost in the Indian Conn. She sailed
from Singapore = Dec. 20, and foundered Jan. 22, with
forty-four heads on board. Sixty-six were saved on board
the American ship Uriel,which took them to the Manrithut
The Milford Haven steamer Brasil, from Rio, when fifty
miles N. of Cape St. Vincent, was obliged to make for lowa
Bay on the 14th, having sustained damage to her machinery
and want of fueL She has eighty passengers, and left Rio
on the sth of February. The steamer Athognia wu sent
on the 15th to render assistance.

limb= Exchange, quoted thirty days, 53k; sixty days,
534 ; ninety days, 533 ; Three per Cent. Rental, 47 to
474; Coupons, 46 to 46i.

CANADA.

LIVERPOOL, THMtBDAY.
The screw steamer Edinburgh, which touched at
Queenstown yesterday, hu arrived here.
The Canadian parliament has voted 8,000 dollars per
voyage to Canadian mail steamers, and 10,000 dollars a year
for a telegraph to Belleisle.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom mai owe

PARIS, WiDNEIDAY Ewaxa.

The Savoy deputation was received by the Em-
peror to-day. His Majesty made a speech, which
you will receive by telegraph, and invited the mem-
bers to dine with him at the Tuileries on Saturday.

It is very positively asserted that the French
army has eommenced the evacuation of Lombardy,
and that it will return to France by Mont Cenia
and the Corniche, establishing garrisons at Cham-
bery and Nice.

Yesterday evening I was riding in an omnibus
when two soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of the Line
jumped in, and asked to be taken to the Lyons
Railway. They were in a state of great excitement,
and from their conversation I collected that they
had received sudden orders to join their regiment,
and expected to be in Nice in two days' time. To-
day I find, by a Turin telegram, that their regi-
ment, now in Italy, is on the march for Nice.
These soldiers, whose barrack gossip must not of
course be taken as authentic, were impressed with
the idea that great events were before them. One
of them, • corporal, said to his comrade, " What
wonderful things are railways I Here to-day we
are in Paris, to-morrow morning we shall be in
Lyons, the next day we shall be in Nice, and
perhaps this day fortnight on the battle-field. I
am very sorry, however, that we got the route so
suddenly, for my uncle would certainly have given
me twenty francs next week"
The Preset, which yesterday threw doubts upon
the statement of its correspondent, that a Pope's
bull excommunicating the King of Sardinia had

been received at Turin, gives tie news as positive
to-day in its leading column. The Pays, however,
says there is no truth in it, and I am inclined to
think that the Prase mistakes the second " warning"
that has been spoken of for excommunication.
K Thouvenel, the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
was elected on Sunday last a member of the Coun-
cil-General of the Meuse by a majority approach-
ing to an amount which, if any further evidenee
' were necessary, would be remarkable, as showing
the perfect and perpetual harmony between univer-
sal suffrage and the present constitution of France.
The Bourse, after opening with considerable
firmness, became depressed at the close, upon the
rumour of a Russian loan and other reports of a
disquieting character. The Rente, after having
been quoted at 68fr. and 68fr. bc., dropped to
67fr. 85c. and 67fr. 80c., with a fall from yesterday
of 10c. Mobilier fell XL 50c. Railways are with-
out any material variation.
Marshal Prince Jerome, whose strength of con-
stitution at his age, and after repeated attacks of
acute illness, is extraordinary, took advantage of
the first breath of spring, with which we were fa-
voured yesterday, to go out in his carriage.
An unusual number of heti have been made this
Oar about the famous cheenut-tree in the Tuileries,
whish is said never to have failed; since 1815, to
show' a leaf on March 20. I cannot say posi-
tively whether the wagers were lost or won, but I
can attest that the issue between the backJ
wardness of the season and the traditional
precocity of this tree was most closely con-
tested. I examined the tree carefully on the
12th, and then there were on it only round
buds—nothing like a leaf. On the 20th I was not
able to renew my visit ; but to-day, the 21st, many
of the buds have burst, and there are unmistakeable
leaves to be seen. The general impression, how-
ever, is that the tree has lost caste, that there
was no leaf sufficiently developed to swear by on
the 20th, and that the miscarriage is to be attri-
buted to the troubled state of the world, and per-
haps to the wrath of the Pope.

211INISTEILIAL CHANGER tx Ronan..—The appoint-
ment of Count Famine, Minister of Justice, to the Presi-
dency of the Commission for the Emancipation of the
Peasantry is regarded by the liberal party as an omen of a
serious change of policy on the part of the Emperor. Coast
Amine represent" the absolutist and oligarchical party, and
his melodious is considered to forebode a return to the syskat
of the Emperor Nicholas. The sudden "indisliosition" of
Prince Gortechakoff, rendering probable his retirement trees
the iiiisistry at Foreign Affairs, would appear to herald a
recasaclliatioa with Austria. On the other hand, it is con-
jectured that the Rawl= government is not disinclined to
take advantage of the French polity annexation, and
even to better the instruction by panning, at a convenient
opportunity and with new accomplices, its own ulterior ob-
jects in the East of Europe.
" The musical soirks at the Tuileries," says the
Sport, " have great success. The Empress, who is very
food of music, hes organised private parties, in which the
guests are snowed to sing—some in chorus, under the direc-
tion of M. Jenard, others in solos. The Princess Chkreinska
has obtained brilliant success in one of these assemblies,
and Count de Prado, Mdme. Oonneau, M. 0. Amide, and N.
de Micard, the latter a tenor, have also been much ap-
' pleaded. A duo between Count de Redo and Mdme. Caw
emu, at a meant seirie, drew forth marks of the most flat-
tering approbatine, In the last concert the honours were
carried off by the Countew de Graodval, Mdme. Comeau,
cad M. de Kinard, and a chorus from the Madre was admi-
rably exemetial by all the dilemma/0

ITALY.

CENTRAL ITALY. ITALY.

(noM OUR SPECIAL CORRIESPONDIRIT.)

BOLOGNA, Mesa] 16.

I was not mistaken when, in my yesterday's
letter, I anticipated that the result of the voting in
Tuscany would prove as satisfactory as that of the
"Emilian provinoes. As I have already informed
you by telegraph, the population of the former
duchy amounts to 1,806,940 souls. The number of
voters having been 386,446, it follows that more
than a fifth of the Timms exercised their political
rights. Out of this number only 14,925 voted for
a separate state.
Amongst the supporters of the principle of
separation are the adherents of the Lorraine
dynasty, a part of the clergy, and some of those
poverty-stricken peasants who are under their.
hence of the priesthood. The bulk of the educated
and well-to-do classes has, however, declared itself
for the former alternative by an overwhelm-
ing majority. Now, when we consider that
out of a population of 3,934,045, 813,967 citi-
zens of Central Italy have voted, and that 792,377
of them have voted for the annexation, leaving
a minority of 16,681, we may safely infer that
such is the real wish of the population. !Diplomacy
may deplore this result, for it interferes with its
projects, but it must yield to it notwithstanding.
The significance of the Central Italian vote is en-
hanced by the fact that it has been given in spite
of all the intrigues of priests and codini. In the
Romagna the ruactionists not only urged upon the
country people to abstain from voting, but they
told them that the decree of excommunication
against Victor Emmanuel was ready at the Quirinal
Palace. It seems that this was not a mere threat,
because from what I have heard this morning in
well-informed quarters the bull of excommunica-
tion will really be published either at the end of
next week or at the beginning of the week after.
On the authority of a letter written to a nobleman
of this city by a Roman Mousignore I have been told
that the excommunication which Pius LX. will issue
on this occasion will be of the first degree—that is
to say, that it will not be a regular interdetto, like
that which the Court of Rome thundered against
Venice in the times of the Monk Sarpi, when
churches were ordered to be shut up and sacra-
ments to be denied to the subjects of the most
serene republic. Whatever may be the effect, how-
ever, of the threatened excommunication in Italy—
and I fancy spiritual weapons have lost something of
their sharpness—it is certain that the priests have
brought to bear the whole of their influence in
order to secure, if not the triumph of their cause, at
last the relative discomfiture of the national one.
I could quote numerous instances of the factious
spirit of the Roman catholic clergy an this
occasion. At Omens., not one priest could be found
who would Ray a mass on the birthday of Victor
Emmanuel last Wednesday. It was necessary to
have recourse to a lisranciscan friar, who, as a punish-
ment, was afterwards rusticated from his convent.
In this city, as well as in those of Forli and Cessna,
some of the noblest and wealthiest families, large
landed proprietors, who own from 20,000 to 40,000
acres or more, threatened their peasants with evic-
tion, unless they abstained from voting. In spite
of these intrigues, the great battle has been won,
and the annexation of Central Italy to Sardinia
proclaimed by the free wishes of an intelligent,
orderly people, left at liberty to vote for either
alternative. The result arrived at by the universal
vote is thus the beet answer M. de Thouvenel can
give to the ridiculous, mendacious, and impudent
despatch addressed by Cardinal Antonelli to the Papal
Nuncio at Paris. I really think that such an amount of
false statement has been seldom recorded even in
the annals of papal diplomacy. To say that the
political movement which overthrew the govern-
ment of Pius IX. in these provinces was but the
doing of a small party, and that the revolution was
only brought about by Marquis Pepoli and a few
of his Piniontese friends, is such a shameless un-
truth that it beats all former exploits of the worthy
cardinal in this line.

The day before yesterday we had a grand review
of the garrison and of the national guard, which by.
the-bye is one of the finest I have seen in Central
Italy. The Tuscan division, which, according to a
Vienna telegram, had called on General Stefianelli
to take it back to Florence, defiled before that
general, shouting out, "Long live Victor Emmanuel
our King!" "Lung live the annexation!" Yon see
that all political demonstrations converge to the
same result, for citizens, national guard, and troops
are all united in the same bond of devotion and
loyalty to the Sardinian monarch and their country.
Lord Normanby may, therefore, give himself the
pleasure of talking of Tuscan errorisin as much
as he likes, but nobody will believe him. The
arrest of Count Tassinari, of which his lordship
spoke in one of his last speeches, was ordered by
Baron Ricasoli because the count was one of the
meet imprudent conspirators, the ring-leader of all
anti-national demonstrations intended to disturb
the peace of the country. The baron may have
been wrong in not having the former commander
of the Grand Duke's noble guard brought before
his natural judges, but something must be allowed
to the government of a country in such an excep-
tional and unsettled political condition.