The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

VENICE.

(zsurea's TUMMIES.) (roe min resew. ooaasareirosior.)
ATTEMPT UPON THE LIFE OF THE VENICE, OCT. 24.
EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. With joy and triumph the numbers were an-
vuorrin, ocr. 29. 1 nounoed. It was such a plibiecite as had been er-
n pected ; such a pUbiscite as justified the previous
On the evening of the day before yesterday
man, since discovered to be a journeyman tailor, demonstrations—the display of tricolor flags at
was arrested in Prague upon strong suspicion every window, and the pasting up of Victor
oEmmanuers name on every door-post. Nemec gave
Ifoalliphntant to assassinate the Emperor Francis thirty-four thousand votes in favour of union with
At the moment when the Emperor, who had, Italy, whilst only seven ea-engrained persons said
into: " no" to the proposal. Padua gave ten thousand
just left the Bohemian Theatre, was stepping
votes for the union without one dissentient voice ;
his carriage on the evening in question, this man
was seen to point a pistol at his Majesty. sad
_,_ other cities of the province were equally
The act was observed by Captain Palmer, an 'us to ratify their freedom from foreign mu-
troL It was observable that very few indeed of
English gentleman, who instantly seised the man's
those who were entitled to a vote neglected to ezer-
uplifted hand, and prevented the accomplishment
afterwards
police. rwarda
as else their power. There was no reward of any sort
of his probable design.
Immediately
m:llindis over to tei Y
for voting, and it w well understood that Verse
Captain Palmer handed the -
tin would become part of the kingdom of Italy
The pistol was found to be loaded with ball
I whether or no five hundred or five thousand men
of a particular district dropped their tickets into the
electoral urn. But the people were proud of their
new privilege. They resolved that the legal
mstiorAy should l everxbAriLing, and they did
their best to make it so. Even in the last moment°
of the pleibiscite, when the ceremony wax all but
over, and the doors of the district offices were
about to be closed, stray voters ran hurriedly to
these offices, that they might add their "yes" to
the answer of the province. I may have chanced
to witness the entry of the seven crosagrained
negatives, and may have wasted my sympathy
upon them. Yet as I watched the latest arrivals
in one of the districts of Venice, they seemed so
1 anxious not to be shut out, that I could not
believe that they were going to say "no." Such
negative creatures would have been half-hearted,
and would have allowed themselves to linger ; but
these tame straight forward, ticket in hand, like
honest men. One old fellow, with an aspect of
I decayed gentility, with a flower at his button-hole,
and a tricolor cockade pinned to his threadbare
' Coat, advanced leaning upon a stick. He could
Imove but aloe lay, though he kept a straight
line to the electoral urn, and murmured,
I " Si, si, ai, for Italy, yes." Then there was a
Imore rapid advance, that of an artisan, with care-
worn face and with some tool of his trade, brought
with him in the hurry of the moment. He had
, passed in and voted and come out again before the
i poor old fellow with the flower at his button-hole
reappeared alter saying, " yes" fen Italy.
Ignorance of the law does not excuse us, though
ignorance of the facts may form a good defence,
pARIs,Ocz . 29. and it is well that Venice should know something
The Petrie of this evening publishes letters from
positive of the stabil.° fordastentale" under which she
. tatute,
h" or, as
as been
Mexico to the 20th ult., according to which the .
is in future to be governed This
embarkation and departure of all the French troops ' we should call it, the. Italian constitution,s
in a body at one time would take place very shortly. i issued gratuitously to the people at the instance of the
Patriotic Society. The constitution is prefaced by
Marshal Bazaine had concentrated them in such a
a table of the royal family, which sets forth their
manner as to enable them to execute promptly his
names and titles. There is to be no mistake about
instructions in this respect. The organization of
the person of the King, for his Majesty's likeness
the national army was in a sufficiently advanced
i
stage to enable it to keep in check the bands of is depicted in a rough woodcut on the cover, and
1 as to the various clauses of their fundamental law,
Juarist partisans. " The Mexican population,"
adds the Patric, "was determined that the country. Lenetians must have critical eyes if they wish
more clearly printed. Thousands of copies
should not relapse into anarchy, and would not
" away at the first issue, yesterday
carried
again submit to a system of prontmciamentos and 'were
morning, and thousands more have been asked for
writhes. to-day. So in the present lull between one great
festivity and another which promises to be yet
greater, the city will have time to master a neces-
sary amount of constitutional learning.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Ocr. 29.

The Crown Prince of Prussia is expected to leave
Berlin on the 2nd November next, for St. Peters-
burg, in order to be present at the marriage of the
Caarewiteh.

A solemn thanksgiving and great national fite
will take place at Berlin on the 11th November, in
celebration of the recent oonduaion of peace.

SAXONY.
DitI23DEN, Ocr. 29.
The Saxon Diet has been convoked for the middle
of November next.

A royal decree has been issued ordering the strict
observance of the paragraph in the Pruaso-Saxon
treaty of peace relative to the political amnesty.
General Bonin, the Prussian commander-in-chief
in Saxony, has arrived here.
The following towns will receive Prusaian garri-
sons, namely :—Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Baut-
zen, Zittau, Grossenhayn, Oschatz, Riess, Meissen,
and Pinta. All other tow as in Saxony will be
garrisoned by Saxon troops alone.
The Saxon portion of the Dresden garrison will
oonaist of the Royal Body Guard.

BADEN.
CARTARIIHE, Ocr. 29.

The Chamber of Deputies has almost unanimously
rejected the bill proposing an increase in the public
taxes during the year 1867. Only one member
voted in favour of the bill.

MEXICO.

THE SWISS ELECTIONS.

BIERNE. Ocr. 29.

The elections to the National Council took place
yesterday throughout Switzerland. Many new
members were returned, but the majority still re-
mains on the liberal side.

GENEVA, Ocr. 29.

At the elections to the National Council in
this city the conservative canditlates have been
victorious.

THE BANK OF PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, OCT. 29.
The Bank of Prussia has reduced its rate of dis-
count from 5 to 4i per cent.

AMERICA.

VENICE, Ocr. 25.
There has been a gradual making fast of the
Venetian galley alongside the national ship of
state, and they are now so closely lashed together
that they begin to have the appearance of one com-
plete vessel. Italian soldiers and sailors have be-
come as familiar with the narrow passages of Venice
and with the small stone bridges across the canals
as were Austrian soldiers and sailors a month ago.
The military coffee-houses and dining-rooms have
another race of customers, whilst the stagnation of
trade and the suppression of literature which cha-
racterised the Austrian Venice are succeeded by
activity and enterprise. Those steamboat lines to
which I alluded in a former letter—lines connecting
Venice with Egypt and the Levant—are being
rapidly organised. We have advertisements of a
joint stock bank and of two additional newspapers.
The post has become Italian, with Victor Emma-
, nuel's head on the postage stamps, and at least a
couple of days saved upon letters to England, by
their not going round through Vienna. The arsenal
is in charge of an Italian admiral, who announces
that its labourers shall be presently re-employed ;
and as to the municipality of the city, it has
undergone a peaceable but complete revolution.
The former mayor and councillors, who had
been appointed under Austrian rule, have given
place to a body of gentlemen thoroughly in the
confidence of the people. Not only are the retail
shops of the city painted, plastered, and extended,
but new branches of business have been added to
the common stock of Venetian industry. The gun-
smiths are a sight to see, with their tempting
revolvers, their double-barrel breech-loaders, and
their array of bayonets on sale for the National
Guard. Then, too, there are a score of news-rooms
and of newspaper stalls stuck at the street corners
like birdcages neatly framed and glazed. A free
press is the crowning novelty of the season. Not only
has Venice her own six or seven daily papers, which
have sprung into life during the present month,
and some of which must soon be crowded to death I
amongst their rivals ; but Florentine and Milanese
prints are regularly received and distributed. We I
live in the full light of Italian journalism, the old
barriers are swept away, and the curtain which
shut out Venice from her sister cities has faded
into empty air. Illustrated papers, comic papers,
and detached caricatures are sold at the stalls, so
are photographs of Victor Emmanuel, Gari-
baldi, and Bismarck. I have noticed other pic-
tures, not produced until the Austrian dominion
was over, wherein are portrayed the incidents of
1848. There has been a long silence about those
days of wild despairing effort to shake off the yoke,
but now that everyone may speak his mine, the
people are not slow to show how well they remem-
ber who fought for them and who suffered in their
I cause. Amongst the most honoured guests—if
guest he can be called—who have lately arrived in
Venice is George Marlin, the son of the dictator of
1848. His father died in exile, always believing
that the time of deliverance would come, though
scarce hopeful that he should witness it himself ;
and it is a comfort to the people that the son
should come amongst them as an officer of
rank in the Italian army. George Mania has
proved no unworthy inheritor of the name which
he bears having played a distinguished part in the