The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, IMO.

pry, and menaces the semi-independent nation of
the L.wer Danube. France is not expected (rosily to
diminish the forces which maintain the Empire, hold
Algeria. and keep the populations of Paris sad Lyons
in check. Farther, there is no absolute standard by
which the normal armaments of Frame and Austria
ma be assmilmined, and so power which can watch
sear and artily the fulfilment of a pledge to disarm.
Tls 121111410, if agreed on to-morrow, would, in fact,
as kg as the two Great Powers are concerned, re-
sales Itself into the removal of the French
dividers from the toot of the Alps to Chilons or
Baralsgso, and of the Austrian corps dorm& from
Lombardy to Moravia or Bohemia. In the cue of
mos power roily would what is fallaciously ealled a
mond disarmament be effectual. Sardinia has no

Oran or Constantine in which to hide her battalions
until they are wanted in Europe. Disarmament is
her OM would be a real reduction to helphonmem;
it maul be her &gradation in the sight of Italy ;
it woad be the severset blow that could be given to
that moderste party throughout the Peninsula, w►ieh
connects the regeneration or Italy with monarchical
order and seastiottional liberty. Hence, in the eyes

of Anon* it is a cardinal point—an imaginesWs
oondkno.

To begin a deliberation on the affairi of Italy by
dastroying en army to which Lombardy, Tosoany.
Parma, Modena, Rome, have spontaneously fur-
nished 14,000 youth, would be a splendid stroke of
Austrian policy, • sore pledge that whatever else
might result from a Congress, the notion of encour-
aging Italians to do aught for themselves should be
discouraged. But the statesmen at Vienna must
have known that such • proposition could not pos-
sibly be accepted. It wu not meant for France or
Sardinia, but as • bait for those neutrals who, it
wee hoped, caring nothing for Sardinia or Italy,
would MO la this transparent imposture an overture
of pease.

LATEST INTELLIGEN

THE NEGOTIATIONS:

The Inelepeniance Belge, of yesterday even-
ing, states that France has just notified to
England that she accepts the general and
simultaneous disarming as the first question to be
'Omitted to the congress, and that she will under-
take that no attack shall be made by Piedmont
against Austria for three months. In return the
Court of the Tuileries requires that Piedmont
sad the other Italian States be admitted
into the congress on the same footing as
the Ave great powers. The Irukporodance
adds, "We believe we can state that
the Hegraph has already conveyed to Paris
replies from London and Berlin but little favourable
as a whole to them propositions. Ragland, as we
have said before, wishes France to join her in re-
quiring formally of Piedmont that she disarmswith.
cot any moven/Mien. If a solution is not soon
Mad, we most expect to me the Derby Cabinet sepa-
rating its policy from that of France, and if not
allying Melt to Austria, at least to maintain an
absolute neutrality. Meanwhile the military pre-
parations continue unceasingly in France, and if
pesos is not the remit of the negotiations, the
Imperial Cabinet will at any rate have gained by
them the double advantage of aggravating the
financial difficulties of its adversaries and finishing
its own armaments."

PIEDMONT.

The Nord of to-day Wiliam the following
telegram

" 0130 A, BroznAr.

o Six hundred Taman volunteers have arrived,
and a second detachment of the Name atrength is
hourly expected.
"Letters from Milan state that the Archduke
Maximilien has left for Vienna."

Deo" Minister of Marin♦, is jolt dead. He
Preset of the Lot et Garonne, but although his
I 'ate fortune was wry small he resigned his flux
last year, when the Publio Safety Bill was brought
ihrward. This rarecrample of independent feenig
passed unnoticed at the time.