The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-10 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EYWXQ.

There is very little news from Italy to-day. A
telegram from Rome in the Abeupost of Vienna
notifies the entry of a Garibaldian band on Ponti-
cal teiritory, near Areae. A despatch from Flo-
rence, received in Paris, reports that an encounter
had taken place between the Garibaldian volunteers
and the Pontifical Zouaves at Comae, in which the
latter were worsted. This intelligence seems to
requ;re confirmation. The command of the Italian
troops stationed on the Pontifical frontier, to de-
fend the entrance against the Gariballians, is con-
fided to General Cialdini.

The Emperor, on the 12th of July, 1861, wrote
to Victor Emmanuel in these terms :—" The Ita-
lians are the beat judges of what suits them, and it
is not for me, the issue of popular election, to pre-
tend to influence the decision of a free people." In
refusing to recognise in Rome, says the demi?, the
right which ho declared inviolable at Milan, Naples,
Florence, and Turin, the Emperor stands in con
tradiction with himself. He would give up the Ro-
mans to those councillors of the Papacy of whom he
speaks, in his letter to M. Thouvenel, as men who,
" without any regard for tho legitimate vindica-
tion of the rights of the people, condemn without
scruple a part of Italy to eternal inaction and
oppression."
The France, a semi-official organ, [by no means
underrates the serious consequences of a rupture
between France and Italy, as will be seen from
the following extract from that paper :

If the antagonism which blind pass Corm seek to excite
between two nations united by so many interests is to
be the issue of this Roman question, let it be well under-
stood at the bitterest misfortune of our age ; it would be
the greatest evil for Italy and for France.

This evil, says the Arenirt is imminent ; and
that it is so we may thank the policy which the
France has always sustained and encouraged, and
which is still maintained and supported by it.
The Accnir National says that foreign states-
men and journalists are very ill-informed as to the
wishes of the French, and the tmdencics of public
opinion among them.
Some English journals lately maintained that the
large cities in France desired a European conflagration.
Nothing is more false. It would be much more
easy for the government to excite a certain bellioose
enthusiasm, more or less durable, among the rural popula-
tions than in our large democratic cities. France was
never hostile to German unity ; she has only regretted,
and still meets, that it has been constituted under the
too exclusive domination of the conservative and military
elements by which Prussia is now governed ; she blames
her own government for not foreseeing the events which
were brought about in 1866, and feels herself in some
degree humiliated ; but, on the other hand, she c►n readily
and promptly restore her prestige by the acquisition of
liberty. It is liberty and not war that she desires. When
will the German and Engl,sh publicists understand so
palpable a truth!

The palace of the Tuileries, being thrown open
to the public dming the absence of the court at
Biarritz, has been an object of extraordinary in-
terest to the visitors to Paris, who have crowded
the imperial residence daily by many thousands.
The apartments have been ordered to be closed to
public view on and after to-day.
The necessary authorisation to publish a liberal
journal at Saint Etienne, to be called the Indepen-
dent Stiphanois, has been refused; while the
Cognac, a journal devoted to the trade and process
of wine growing, and supposed to be more com-
plaisant to the government, has received the re-
quired permission to transform itself into a poli-
tical publication.

The Bourse opened with a better promise of im-
provement than was effected in the course of the
day. As usual the fluctuations were somewhat
considerable, and the Rente closed at a slight fall.
The Italian Loan began at 4Gfr. 40c., rose to
46fr. 70c., and returned to the first quotation.
Credit Mobilier was quoted at the commencement
at 187 fr. 50c., but afterwards retrograded to 187 fr•
The Rente closed at 68fr. 45c. ; Italian at 46fr. ;
Mobilier at 176 fr. 25c. ; and Fonder, 1,275 fr., a
fall of 20fr. from the opening prices.

Dr. F. C. Skey, in a letter to the Times, pro-
tests against the mischief caused to those who row in the
Oxford and Cambridge boat race. He expresses his con-
viction, and he believes he may add, that of his profes-
sional brethren generally who have considered the subject,
that young men averaging from 20 to 23 years of age
cannot perform a feat which compels them to put forth
the absolute strength of their physical frame for 20 minutes
without injury often of a permanent nature. " I venture to
assert that the University boat race as at present eetat
Wished is a national folly, and that, until it is brought
within the range of a harmless effort, it involves a draugh
on the muscular powers of the gentlemen engaged in it
more or less injurious to their future health, some tem-
porarily, soma manently."

_
A London barmaid, writing to a contemporary,
reveals the existence of s treacherous course of tactics on
the part of the landlady of • public-house. The corres-
pondent had newly entered a situation when she found
between the leaves of • book a sovereign, evidently put
there as • bait to entrap her. Previously two sovereigns
had been placed, wrapped in paper, in the barmaid's bed-
room, with the same intent of provoking the young woman
to acts of dishonesty. The " London barmaid," was proof
against temptation. She handed tho sovereigns to her
employer, who said the money was not hers, but never-
theless retained it. There is little doubt that the gold
was marked, and that had the barmaid yielded to the in-
ducement, • police-constable would very soon have ap-
peared upon the scene.

At the ordinary meeting of the Edinburgh Town
Council on Tuesday, a report by the Lord Provost's Com-
mittee, recommending that the freedom of the city should
be conferred on Mr. Disraeli, was approved of, and it was
remitted to the committee to make the necessary arrange-
ments—the Lord Provost remarking that, in order to so-
oommocLte the public, it would be necessary to secure
Queen-street Hall as a suitable place for the ceremony of
presentation. A letter was read from Mr. Bright, 3LP.,
thanking the magistrates and council for their wish to
confer upon him the freedom of the city, but asking that
the honour intended for him might be deferred for the
present, as he did not expect to be in hA' linburgh at an
early period, and could not now arrange to visit the city.
.9a4sman._

THE REPRESENTATION OF BRADFORD. —Teeter-
day, the Mayor of Bradford (Mr. W. Brayshaw), having
received the writ ordering him to proceed to the election
of a burgess to represent the borough in parliament, made
due proclamation of the fact, and announced that the
nomination would take place in front of the Bradford
Court-house, at 11 o'clock on Monday next. The contest
is expected to be a severe one. The friends of each state
that 9,000 promises have been given to bim, and that the
result will depend on the mode in which 1,000 electors who
remain neutral record their votes on the day of the poll.
DEPARTURE OF FENIAN AND OTHER CONVICTS FOR
WEsTERN Aurrnumg.—The Hougoumont, which has been
chartered by the government for the conveyance of several
hundred convicts to Fremantle, Western Australia, arrived
in Portland roads on Tuesday last, having on board •
number of convicts from Millbank, Chatham. and Ports-
mouth. Shortly before midday 90 convicts were marched
down to the government pier at Portland under a strong
escort of the 13th Light Infantry. The party included 23
Fenian convicts, among whom, it was said, was Moriarty,
At the pier six Cosetguarilsmen, under chief officer Mr.
Boxall kept guard. The government steamer employed
in the breakwater service wee used for conveying the con-
victs on board the Hougoumont transport ship. The
convicts were chained together on embarking, and on
board the steamer a strong guard of marines from her
Majesty's ship St. George was formed, and saw the con-
victs safely placed on board the Hougoumont. The gover-
nor of the penal settlement at Fremantle, Captain Young,
is on board the Hougoumont, and returns in that ship
to his sphere of duty after paying a visit to his native
land.

ROYAL LONDON Mattis.—Colonel Wilson has
doubled the guard on duty, day and night, at the barracks
in Finsbury, and given the whole of the staff a full supply
of ball cartridges.