The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-19 00:00:00

THE RISING ON THE PAPAL STATES.

The most merlons news in connexion with the
struggle now going on in the Papal States is the
resolution of the French government to send a new
military expedition to Rome.
The Avenir National, which up to the last mo-
ment refused to believe in the possibility of such
a decision, says :
There is no longer ground for doubt. The die is cut ;
the fatal resolution is taken. Yes, we were wrong ; we
were optimists when we affit med that a new expedition
to Rome was a moral impossibility. There are still ma-
terial disabi'itiee—more of them now than ever ; but for
the last Li years the words moral impossibility have had
no meaning, and we should have been aware of that fact.
The Unirers may triumph. It is master of the situation
in France. Events will soon show the consequences of this
victot y.
The &bats says :

We have been amused that the French government has
resolved to interfere. We must needs hope th►t so grave
• resolution, which may have such terrible results, has
not been yet taken, although the language of the officious
journals is anything but re-assuring.
The Silde observes :

The Monittur of tbis morning has not a single word on
the Roman question. The alarming news which circulated
in Paris yesterday evening has not been confirmed or
denied. There is still reason for doubting the reality of
the disastrous resolution which we are assured has been
taken by the government. The new French expedition is
not yet an accomplished fact.
The Temps says :

Our information enables us to throw some light on the
situation which engages the attention of all France. A
new French expedition to Rome has not been decided
upon; but it is threatened. The m►teriel ►nd men are
assembled at Toulon ; and ►t the first telegraphic signal
the expedition commanded by General Dumont may set
sail. Still there is hesitation about crossing the Rubicon.
The Liberte has the following :

The Moniteur has appeared this morning without die.
sipating the obscurity which troubles the minds of all
men. Anguish is at its height.

In its " latest news" the Liberte says :

False news is abroad. If we were to credit it, the French
government has given up the idea of sending an army of
occupation, and has confined itself to the threat of an
absolute maritime blockade. It is also said that King
Victor Emmanuel has notified the French government that
if a French army of occupation was sent to Rome it would
be forestalled by an Italian army, that the state of men's
minds in Italy allowed him no other alternative, in which
case Signor Nigra would be at one recalled.
The Liberte further asks " whether it is false
news that General Dumont has been called to Paris
by telegraph, and that after a few hours' delay ho
set out for Lyons."
All the French liberal journals, without excep-
tion, regard the decision of the government to
send a French expedition to Rome, if it really has
been taken, as one fraught with the most perilous
results. Of this there can be no doubt if it has
been decided in Florence to be beforehand with
the French. On this point the Opinione, the organ
of the Italian moderate party in Italy, says in its
issue of the 15th :
We shall be in Rome before the French. As to the
possible consequences of such an act (intervention) we
believe it to be useless to point th-m out to the French
government. Now the die is cast, and it would be mad-
ness to wish to oppose the aspirations of the nation. The
government that separates itself from the national will is
condemned to impotence. The government which sepa-
rates itself from the national will in consequence of the
menaces of a foreign power—though a friendly one and
deserving all respect—could no longer ralee its bead before
the nation.

The Nord says that a new French intervention
was decided on in principle at the Council held on
Wednesday at St. Cloud, and that a telegram was
immediately sent to the Italian government, intima-
ting that if the invasion of the Garibaldians wasnot
put a stop to at once the French government had
absolutely resolved to interfere with an armed force.
The reply of the Italian government, which arrived
on Thursday, and communicated by M. Tigre to
M. de Moustier was, it says, very indefinite. It
stated that " they could not believe at Florence
that the resolutions of the French government
were so precise." A further telegram is expected
from Italy to-day or to-morrow, adds the Nurd.
The Times of this morning affirms absolutely
that M. Rattazzi has declared to the French go-
vernment " that the intelligence of a single French
soldier being embarked at Toulon or Marseilles
would be the signal for the Italian army to cross
the Papal frontier." The statement that M.
Crispi was to enter the Italian cabinet as Minister
of the Interior would tend to confirm the report
that M. Rattazzi was resolved to meet the French
in Rome, comp what would.
The following order of the day was issued by
Commandant Ghirelli at the moment of his cross-
ing the Roman frontier :