The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-19 00:00:00

INTELLIGENCE.

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STATEMENT OF THE " 310NITEUR."
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PARIS, TCLIDAT KosNoe.

The Amiterr, in the course of an article epos the
programs of the negotiation, relative to Italy,
Oates that the Powem were agreed es to tlis
four points which were to be discussed, and which
have alres ly been given in the journals, bat rabic-
vastly the Cabinet of Visalia demanded that Bar-
dinia should first disarm, and this condition having'
encountered objection', substituted that of a general
disarmament before the opening of the Congress.
England judged it sufficient for the preeent to admit
the principle of a general disarmament, reserwthe
the repletion of the details meta the orpiaths
Connie end the Emperor, guided by sentiments
of
oonciliatioo, accepted this proposal. Diagonals,
berm", moos upon the question whether the
Mehl adhesion of Sardinia to the principle wee
previously ladispeneable. The Emperor thought
that Piedmont 'meld not logically and fairly be in-
vited to adhere to the principle unless the
wore ennsmosed to the Congress, but England
having strangly Waisted that Frame sireald
secure the eetpaisecente of Piedmont in the prin-
ciple, the Emperor did not retain to give this sew
proof of his conciliatory wither, but as the wadi-
don that Sardinia and all the other Italian States
should be invited to make part of the Congress;
furthermore, the Emperor, as to the disarmament,
said, that having admitted the principle, he had no
objection as to the moment of execution, and if
the Powers were of opinion that it should be pro-
ceeded with even before the Congress, he saw, on
his part, no rewire for refusing to conform to that
view. Everything then leads to the presumption that
if the difficulties are not yet removed, a definite
understanding will not be long delayed, and that
there is nothing further to oppose the meeting of
the Congress.

The Indlpendastee Belye of yesterday remarks
that if we were to judge simply by the prepara-
tions for war, we mid cons to no other con-
clusion than that we were drawing ass:
with giant strides to actual hostilities, and that the
riteetiag of the coignes, if not actually hopelem,is at
all events extremely doubtful. The /*dependance
adds:

" The departure of the fleet from Brest to join the
Mediterranean squadron, a departure ordered the day
on which the new propositions of France were trans-
mitted to London, appears significantly warlike.
Moreover, the French corps approach nearer and
nearer to the frontier of the Alps; and it is even said
in military ekes' at Paris, that in the present state
of things Franco could in three days
amemble 80,000 men under the walls of
Turin. There is *rid/110y an exaggeratket
here both of assonnt and in the time specified ;
but it is tree that the Lyons Company has
guaranteed to the government the transport
of its troops at the rate of 25,000 men
per day. Oa the other aide, In Piedmont,
the volunteers accumulate at Genoa, and in Lom-
bardy the railway administration has since the 17th
suspended until fresh orders, all movement of its
trains between Venice and Milan, Verona and
Mantua,in order to put the oarriages,&c., exclusively
at the service of the military transports. Finally,
in Germany Carina states are arming, and the chief
talk is of interviews and conferences, with the object
of completing the military measures of the Confede-
ration."

The Nord observes that all the routes leading to
Italy an still covered with military convoys, and are
mosopelleed for the public service. The entire 2nd
(bps d'Annie (Austrian) hu left to join the army
of Italy, and the nomination of three new field-
manhale—Archdake Albert and Generale Hese and
Wimpfen—ia spoken of.

Mr. Reuter imi received the following:
" MARSBILLin, Moinav Ana U.
" Advice' have been received from /tome to the

16th. The departure of volunteers which had
hitherto been ineon.siderable, now begins to Woman
rapidly. 260 young men have left Yeronee foe Pied-
mont.

" A seditious riot took place the day before peter-
day among the students of Bologna, and the troop
were obliged to firs upon the*. It is stated that
several persons were woneded.
" Austria is increuiog the garrison of Feuer,.

- "TRIESTE, Aram IS.
" The shipchandlen of this town have received
orders from London to be prepared for the arrival of
English men-of-war.
" The Austrian government has hired six Austrian
Lloyds steamers."
"TURIN, MONDAT.
"The Piedmont*** Gaulle of to-day publishes the
answer of the Sardinian Government to the London
Cabinet with referees* to the request of the latter
that Sardinia ahead enema to the principle of a
reseal sad iimaltaneons disarmament before the
emesalling of the congress. This answer was foe-
warded by telegraph, and the following is its teat:
" ' If Sardinia had been admitted to the merges ea
the same footieg as the ether great Powers, she
woald, like Frames, lave asserted the principle of a
general disarmament fa the bops that her meat
would sot prodeeeeenesgesnme detrimental to Italy.
Her a:clones hem the __grace does not permit bet
to make any such sagagemest, and still less the ea-
gagement which Ragland requires. However, to con-
ciliate the efforts of England in behalf of the safety et
Piedmont, and in order to maintain tranquillity is
Italy, Sardinia is willing, if Austria will cease seed-
ing fresh troops into Lombardy, to undertake :
" ' I. Not to place her reserve under arms, as had
ben resolved ea since the Austrian reserves had
boss sailed is.

" 'L Not to mobilise her army, which is not on a
war footing.
" ' 3. Not to more hor troops from the purely de-
fensive position which they have occupied for three
months.'"

" The news received favour the expectation of
early assembling of the cosign e."