The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-19 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. PIIDAT BYII4IIIO.
for some six weeks after New

Year's-day, took the lend as a war journal—now,
under the new administration, comes out strong as
an advocate of pesos. I call particular attention to
an article signed by the new proprietor, M. Felix
Solar, which will, I suspect, provoke a general out-
cry in Turin—more especially if there be any truth
in a report which is beginning to excite attention,
that the Prase, which but yesterday was the organ
of the Falais Royal, is now at the service of the
Tuileries. M. Solar begins by saying, for form's
sake, that France is neither afraid of war nor in-
different to Italy, in which, on the con-
trary, it takes a lively and sincere interest;
but that, after considering the question in a common
sense point of view, and weighing the difficulties
to be encountered in proportion to the end to be
attained, the country has with marvellous unanimity
pronounced in favour of peace. As to patronising
Italy, and employing all possible political influence
in her favour, that France is ready to do as a mat-
ter of course; but if France is to be asked to
assume towards the other powers of Europe the
attitude in which she stood in 1813,1814, and 1815,
we say that this is asking more than we clan or
ought to comply with." A nation cannot be "
bly,reasonably, humanly" asked to plunge into a gene-
ral war,unleas her own interest is involved tea degree
commensurate to the risk to be run. If (the Prase
continues) we put out of the question the moral in-
terest which France most sincerely takes in Italy,
there are only two grounds upon which we could
we to interfere—either to turn out the Austrians, or

to makes useful alliance with Italy. Let us con-
sider the first ground. The Austrians are at Milan.
We should no doubt be better pleased if they were
at Trieste; but, after all, between Milan and
Grenoble there is the Ticino. the Po, and the Alps.
These are defences not to be despised. Now the
Prussians are only • few yards from Metz,
sad they, it cannot be denied, are formidable neigh-
bours. Nevertheless, we hams never dreanatof waging
a European war to drive the Prussians out of the
way, and yet who will venture to say that it would
not be a hundredfold more advantageous to its to
repel the Pruseians from Metz than the Austrians
from Milan ? Passing to the mood question, the
, &Manes of Italy, we fully appreciate the intellectual

excellence of the Italians, and we do not despise the
military importance which they " may" acquire by
time and good institutions. They are, " they
say," twenty-four millions of men. Bet what
does their military force come to ? The
Neapolitans detest the Piedmontese, and even if the
two kings could be reconciled the two peoples would
remain as much estranged as ever. France may
possibly enjoy the sympathy of some few enlight-
ened men at Naples, but the nation at large will
never be with her. Neither Rome, Tuscany, nor
Modena have any army, and nothing but changes
beyond the ken of human foresight can ever give
them any. There remains Piedmont. We know
the worth of Piedmontese soldiers. But Piedmont
can at the utmost, and that at a ruinous expense to
herself, bring into the field an army of 60,000
men, which once under fire would soon be reduced to
26,000, and all this while the fortress of Alexandria
L not finished. Under these circumstances the
Presse mks whether France, who, even to please a
great power like England or Runde, would think
an alliance too dearly bought if it necessitated a
war with all Europe, will certainly not fight in
order to pat Piedmont in possession of Lombardy?
It concludes that there is " too slight a chance of
bettering the state of Italy by fighting to make it
worth while to risk a general war, which might be
fatal to liberty both in France and Italy. The
stakes are not worth the game. We shall prove in
another article that nothing less than a general war
would be the consequence of the ambition of M.
Cavour."

This language is quite new in a French journal,
and is, to say the least of it, extremely curious.
The Bourse has again improved, though the
highest prices of the day were not sustained. The
Rents for account, after rising to Mfr. 100., closed at
67fr. 90c., with a rise of Sc. For rash ;there was a
rise of 30c., the lest price being Mfr. Sc. Mobilier
rose 2fr. 50c. All the railways were from 2fr. 50c.
to Mr. higher.

ITALY.

LOMBARDY.
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KHAN, Munn 14.
It is not often that you bear much of Lombardy in
England, though separated from it by distance of
a few hundred miles. The fact is, there are obsta-
cles opposed to frequent and easy communications.
The new Director of Police, who is under the con-
trol of the military authorities, and of whom all
speak in the most contemptuous terms, has given
strict orders to stop and open all letters directed to
suspected persons abroad.
Things here go from worse to worse. The hopes of
Italians have been raised too high, and there are no
concessions from the government which would
satiety them. What they want is to get rid of
10 'teenier°, and be left to themselves. Here in
Piedmont, in the Duchies, and throughout the
whole of Italy, the idea that war or revo-
lution most do the work has gathered
strength, and grown into conviction. That
Austria will be driven out of her Italian provinces
by some means or other is a sort of confession of
faith for Italian patriots. Depend upon it they will
be satisfied with nothisg less than the whole, and
diplomacy, therefore, will waste it. time. The
arrivals of troops of the Austrian army continues.
Prince Edward Schwarzenberg, commanding the
3rd corps d'arm6e, is just arrived from Vienna.
Yesterday morning two regiments of Croats
left this town for San Colombsno. The vil-
lages of Cualquesterlengo, B. Angelo, and Codagno,
are full of troops. One hundred heavy gone
have been brought from Mantua to Piacenza and
Belgioioso. Private arrangements have been made
by the families of superior officers in Lombardy
which confirm me in the belief that war is oust-
dered inevitable. The fortress of Mantas will be
declared io a stile of siege in a few days. The
first step taken by the new military commander has
been the banishment of the family of Count Arrivs-
bone from the town. The Austrian general
had no regard either to the high rank
or to the venerable age of Countess Arrivabene
Valenti °enrage. All the Arrivabene family are
expelled, simply because they are known to be
patriots. Since 1848 this family has had, I think,
seven members sent to prison or into exile. These
are facts—painful facts, not exaggerations ; and, sal
have promised you, I shall always speak the truth,
without regard to party or any other consideration.
P. 8.—1 have received hoax Turin the proof sheet
of an interesting pamphlet published by Count
Oddone Cutelvetro. " L'ltalie, rAutriche, et les
Trait& du 1816 " is the title of this remarkable
article, which will shortly appear in the .Rivista
andepaporanea.