The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-03 00:00:00

ITALIA!! AFFAIRS.

Whatever in the late crisis was lost by revolu-
tion must thin, the Times assumes, to the profit of nego-
tiation. If France is bent on an out-and-out support of
the Papacy, a return of the French flag and of a French
garrison to Rome would be, if not a consistent, at least a
straightforward course on her part. But if, on the con-
tram y, the Papacy is to stand on a compact of non-inter-
vention, there must be no subterfuge of foreign enlist-
ments, no equivocation about territorial guarantees, no
reserve about freedom of action. Napoleon must be wholly
in or wholly out of Rome, and the Times would form no
high conception of M. Rattarzi's abilities if, in the present
conditions of Italy and Europe, be did not find the means
of placing the Emperor in that alternative, and insisting on
his explicit and peremptory decision.
The shirking of agricultural labour by the Sicilian
peasant, which has been lately the subject of comment, is
is not wholly to be accounted for, the Doily News thinks,
by the theory of wilful laziness. That opening of the soil to
the peasant cultivator which pacified and contented
France would greatly benefit such countries as Italy and
Spain. Hitherto the middle classes in those countries
have exclusively profited by constitutional government.
Give the Irish, the Andalusian, the Sicilian peasant an
interest in the soil, and they will both cling to it and
exert themselves to make it fructify in peace.
The St. James's-hall meeting on Tuesday night is
censured on various grounds by the Post and the con-
servative journals. The Herald has no patience with
the vanity of the Reform League, and is esp- -
daily angry with it for thrusting forward Rio-
cloti, "the eon of the Caprera demagogue." It also
tittles the Post as shameful that this young man
was allowed to come forward. He is a mere lad, and was
lionised simply oa account of his rel►tionship to the hero
of the evening ; no sane person would take him as an ex-
ponent of the sentiments of a nation ; none but persons
utterly reckless of consequences to him would have en.
°enraged him to be present at the meeting, or, ;* there, to
speak more than one short sentence. The King of Italy
may have his faults ; they are pretty well known. But
the King of Italy, judged and condemned by an Italian
boy, to the cheering!' of an audience of male and female
English Reform Leaguers, is too preposterous, and
the hery's countrymen will require good proofs of a saga-
cious manhood from him before they quite forget, or let
him know that they have forgotten it.
The Star doubts whether the objurgation directed by the
Pope towards the Italian government can appear imposing
to any rational catholic. The day when Papal ex-
communications ►ffrighted states is too long gone
by to allow the threats of the Pope to have
anything whatever of grandeur or solemnity. The
thing is a mere anachronism. The Pope might
as well summon the Emperor of Austria to do penance
bareheaded on the Pincian Hill for having allowed the Con-
oordat to be questioned, or send for Louis Napoleon and
Victor Emmanuel to hold the ath rops while his Holiness
mounted his horse. Every despatch from Italy denotes
that a crisis is at band, and whatever the danger may be it
cannot be scolded away.

"Argue," of the Post, says :—" A meeting of the
creditors of • gentleman well known in racing drake, and
who at one time had a large stud in training, and whom
name has frequently come before the public in connexion
with the affairs of an heir to an earldom, took place yes-
terday (Tuesday) in the Old Jewry, when, from the num-
ber of persons who were present, it might have been taken
for • meeting of the friends of Garibaldi assembled to
petition for hi. release from Caprera. The amount of
liabilities was stated to be 387,0001. Ws. 10,1., to meet
which the debtor had to offer 2.5,0001., which would be
equal to • dividend of eighteenpence in the pound. Many
of the creditors declined to accept this composition, but
whether they will ultimately sign the composition deed,
and prevent the ease coming into the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, remains to be seen."
Morning performances, called Matinies (a word
which in England is usually confined to concerts), take
place at New York every Saturday at almost all the
theatre., commencing at half-past 2, and at Barnum's
Museum there are two performances eves/ day.
One of the effects of the law dosing all public-
houses in New York on Sunday is to send crowds of people
to Hoboken, in New Jersey, where teetotalism is un-
known, and this fact supplies • droll instance of a dra-
matic joke answering a purpose which the author never
intended. In Mr. Robertson's Caste the old plebeian is
advised to retire to Jersey, and drink, reference halal, of
course, to the absence of customs laws in the Channel
Islands. As the privileges of these Wanda do lot greatly
occupy the mind of the Britisher, the wholesome counsel
did not produce much effect at the Prince of Wales's ;
but when the piece was brought out at the Broadway the
smart American instantly applied the passage to New
Jersey, and the rear was louder than at any other line of
the comedy.
THE PRINCESA or WALES.—The St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital annual dinner took place on Tuesday even-
ing at Willis's Rooms, under the presidency of Mr. James
Paget, F.H.8., who has just returned from Wiesbaden,
having been in constant attendance on the Princess of
Wales since the departure of her royal highness from this
country. Mr. Paget, in proposing the health of the Prince
and Princess of Wales and the rest of the royal family,
said—" It is a great pleasure to me to state that the health
of the mrinnoesson wsal,don'yt tlitneri,till,:luepeorflailliT departure
ely from
satisfactory.
Those who sit around me can appreciate the gravity of the
affection under which her royal highness was labouring,
and it is with profound and heartfelt pleasure that I am
enabled to announce to you, by the permission of the
Prince of Wales, that the limb is progressing most favour-
ably, and that her royal highness will shortly return to
England, folly capable of pc." ticipating in all duties and
pleasures connected with her exalted rank and very great
Popularity."
THE BODY OF MAXIMILIAN.— A correspondent
of the New York Trainee at Queretaro on the 24th of
Amnat states that he visited the remains of Maximilian,
and writes that he found the coin containing the corpse
in • room in the second story of the house occupied by
Don Munos Ledo. A soldier guarded the door, but any-
cue was admitted, especially if they were willing to pay
him a few reale. The apartment bore the appearance of
having once been • store room, and was both wily dark
sad extremely filthy. The cotfin was in the centre, rest-
ing upon two rude wooden benches. It was covered with
black cloth and adorned with • cheap quality of gold
lace, while the top had • false cover, the opening of
I which revealed three glasses, through which the last
remains of the ill-fated Emperor were dimly visible.
He was dressed in a blue coat with military buttons, dark
blue pantaloons and heavy cavalry boots. His hands were
- covered with a pair of white soiled gloves. His mouth
Mr. George Scharf suggest& that while the new r
oomidou7eo; his eyes, tanialidyh open, revealin
beard we itutinis teethe, and the
arrangements are still pending for the National Gallery in with the greater part of his hair been cut off, it is said,
Trafalgar-vinare, two or three spacious apartments, equal by the Dr. Limo who had charge of the embalming, who
in dimensions and decoration with the rat, should be set sold it, receiving as hig
small lock.. This ehmasanfivtionnonces, 80
ndroielsi;i
adds,
very
aside for the reception of certain very choice or remarkable . the Emperor's body for some time° at his house, using'it as
pit/tures and sou lures belonging to private individual., ; a mesas of 'peculation, and selling pieces of his garments
which they, although not willing to part with them, might , sad his personal effects for large prices. The n-
permit the poblie to enjoy in an appropriate locality for a dent also states, but for this he will not vouch, that t ere
reasonable period. These collections might be changed 'is a report that Lasso removed • small portion of the skull,
which he sold, replacing it with wood. The body of the
or closed according to circuntatanees, and need not be Emperor was in a good state of preservation, as far as out-
liable to any fixed period as at the British Institution. ward appearance showed.