The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-04 00:00:00

The memage was referred to tbe Judiciary Committee.

BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS AND CALCUTTA
AND CHINA MAILS.
The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 8 ►m. this day.
Mails leave for Loudon at 10 ►m.
The Nubia, with the Calcutta and China mails, arrived at
Saes OM 28th May.
The Eras% from Australis, had not arrived at Sues on
the 29th.

The New York Herald says :—" Some of the
European governments, as well as our own, are about to
send out expeditions of observation to report upon the Isolar
eclipse which will eclair on the 18th of July. Our govern-
ment is sending officers to Washington territory, Labrador
and the Hudson Bay territory—the former, we believe,
start from this city to-day. and another company of ob-
servers to Chile—so that we shall obtain observations of
the phenomenon under the most favourable circumstances.
We have • decided advantage over European countable,
owing to our being in • more southern belt, and we should
nut wonder if tho United States expeditions produce the
most intelligible and instructive results."

THE SARDINIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE CLERGY.
—A letter from Turin in the Perserenntsa of Milan lass the
following : " The affair of Cardinal Corsi is settled. As
a prince of the church he refuses homage to the king and to
the law, and the government in its turn refuses Mm the
aid of the secular arm in the exercise of his powers as Arch-
bishop of Pisa. If the cardinal does not acknowledge
Victor Emmanuel for his king, the government in return
cannot acknowledge his quality of Archbishop of Pisa. His
Eminence is free to go or stay wherever it may please
him, except within the territory of that diocese. Never.
thetas', the cardinal attempts to peas himself off for • mar-
tyr anal • primmer, and pretends that he cannot leave the
Co' nveat of the Middens, where he is at present, without
an express order of government. But the Keeper of the
Seals has officially- notified to him that he has no other order
to give him but that of keeping at a respectful distance
from his diocese ; and that if it be his pleasure to stay in
the coavent he is perfectly free to do so, but that it will
Uhl' own act and not that of the government." The
Raper° of Turin states that the house of the Duchess of
Montmorency at Borgo, near Carignan, has been searched
by the police. Father Gianolio, one of the contributors to
11641 Caslarsile of Turin, has been arrested.
AN EXPENSIVE VISITOR.—It is only in our cha-
racter of complete local chroniclers—so far ea the amplest
news-gathering agency we can employ permits that
we notice a piece of gossip which has been current
during
,the past weak touching the Duke of Brabant's
late sijour at Fmairghan. The dory is to this effect:
On the arrival of his royal highness, his Majesty
the 'Sultan, desiring to show all honour to his
illustrious guest, despatched a right imperial oollection
of chit:rogues and mishit& to Smirgban for the Duke's
116 C ,luring his stay. These, it is said, amounted to no
fewer than seventeen pipe-sticks with the costliest amber
mouth-pieces, all dlamond-mounted—seven of them
worth about 30,000 p. each—four others with enamel
mountings, also of groat value, one diamond-mounted
narghilf (worth 150,000 p.), and four ditto, of lesser value
whole representing a value of some 7/10,000p. Several
of these, we are informed, were the very ue plus ultra of
' Turkish art, and the Duke, it is add, gave
utterance to his admiration in terms loud and explicit
enough to reach Dolnia.backtf. The result, of course
I could only be one—" alsinier," said the Sultan ' and, inter-
prating this orientally generous phrase in all its literal am-
' plitude, his royal higleos.., the story goes, packed up the
whole 7,000/. worth of smoking gear. It is not im
table that this allusion to the incident may elicit
an official tatimation that the above version is all
wrong, and that the ducal approvriation was but a
" gift;" but we have the best authority for believing the
fads to he as we love stated them. To this bit of " court-
• ar" gaseip we may add that the three diamond-
mounted scuff-boxes presented by Mr. Solvyns front King
laePold to tbea Excellencies Fund and Hussein Pashas and
Kiantil Bey, amounted in aggregate value to about 2501. I
Lama B—eritld, May 93.