The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-17 00:00:00

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PARIS, FEDAT DIVING.

"The Chinese of Europe" is the style and title
now in vogue here for the Bourbonista and Ultra-
montanists. An appeal to such of them as have
money to invest is made by the Spanish pretender.
The Union and the Monde should receive advertise-
ments free of charge. As the " proposals " may
not yet have been mentioned in your stock ex-
change, here they are. A loan of 3,000,000 ster-
ling, secured upon the Spanish Civil List, bearing
interest at 3 per cent. ! What will it be done at 1
General Lamoriciere is rich, and may entertain it.
Making virtue of necessity, he has—be it said by
the way—declined to draw any further pay from
the Pope's empty coffers. The Parisian papers
still make capital of his famous "report "—some
to glorify, some to satirise. Needless to 'observe
that the satirists greatly outnumber their
opponents. Adopting a strain somewhat more
serious than common, the Siacte says:—" It
is possible to carry bravery to imprudence,
but bow is this 1 General Lamoriciere, a man
of such great military experience, com-
manded such troops as he has himself described,
and yet dared to publish the proclamations with
which the world has echoed ! It is with these run-
away soldiers, these officers without authority,
these unpractised gunners, that he hopes to make
head against a revolution ! At the head of an
army which is no army, he defies the entire revo-
lutionary world ; in other words, the most resist-
less of known forces ! Without even the certainty
of being supported on the battle-field by those
under his command, he undertakes to deal with
the revolution as the crusaders dealt with t
Islamism !"

The incognito visit of an illustrious lady to Scot-
land still continues to furnish food for gossip. Nut
that there is really anything very remarkable in
the mere fact of the trip in question from Paris to
the north of the United Kingdom, even in the
middle of November, but that the journals have
maintained, and still do maintain, strict silence on
the subject, and that the initiated will know the
said silence is enforced. In the absence of reasons
authoritatively published, rumour assigns many
and various. Health, religion, and others to which
it would be indiscreet to allude, are by turns pressed
into the service.

There is a general impression here that the
English and French governments are perfectly
agreed as to the common recognition of the king-
dom of Italy, whenever Francis IL shall think
proper to move off from the corner be yet holds in
the kingdom be has thrown away. Some little
uncertainty prevails as to the part now played by
the French fleet in those waters ; but the natural
wish to defer unnecessary bloodshed, so long as
a hope remains of ultimately avoiding it, is gene-
rally attributed to Napoleon 111.

The tone of the Bourse was favourable to-day.
It is not supposed that the Bank of France will
follow the example of the Bank of England in
raising the rate of interest. The arrivals of gold
in Loudon will, it is thought, maintain the equi-
librium of the respective markets. Rental rose
firmly from the opening of the market. The Three
per Cents. rose 36c. for cash and 30c. for the ac-
count, the latest prices being tiOlr. 05c., both for
cash and the account.

ITALY.

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PIEDMONTS/3E HEADQUARTERS,
NOLA DI GAETA, Nov. 7.

It soems that Francis 11. has made up his mind
to remain in the dirty hole which he still possesses
in his former kingdom as long as the 5,000 men
who are within the walls of Gaeta do not chose to
send him away. Since the last defeat, sustained
on the 4th in this village by the supporters of the
Bourbon cause, they have dispersed right and left,
so that the Neapolitan army may be considered as
almost aunihilated. On that day, as General de
Sonnaz was advancing with his division towards
this village he found it strongly defended by 12,000
men. The streets had been barricaded, and the
houses turned into small fortresses for the caccia-
tori. The barricades were defended by the mer-
cenary troops, and the Piedinontese had a tough fight
to carry them at the point of the bayonet. Had it
not been for Admiral Pentane, who saw that the
resistance of the Neapolitans was greater than he
had expected, the fight might have lasted the whole
day, and the village would nut hare been carried
without great loss of life. In spite of the threats"
of M. Barbier de Tinan—for the French admiral
actually intimated to Admiral Pereano that he
would open fire on the Ssrdiuian ships if they dared
to fire a shot against the Neapolitans—in spite of
thee.' unwarrantable threats, the defenders of Mola
were soon put to flight by a shower of shells
poured upon them from the Sardinian men
of war. Some French papers seem to
have denied the fact of this arrogant interference
by Barbier de 'Pinan. I san, however, in a position
to state that, not only did lie try to prevent Per-
son') from doing his duty, but, as I said before, be
actually threatened to blow up the Sardinian
squadron if his intimation was not properly
attended to. M. Barbier de Tinnn, however, din
not blow up the Sardinian ships which had disre-
garded his orders. But had Admiral Perrino been
a less energetic man he would not have helped
General De Senna; then engaged in a serious
struggle.
England and Europe will decide whether the con-
duct of the French navy at Gaeta is not a manifest
interference in Italian affairs. When the Neapoli-
tans saw themselves attacked both by laud and sea
they had no other chance left but to bolt at uncle,
which they did with their usual alacrity. The
cavalry took the Terracina road, crossed the Roman
frontier near Ciaterna, and having arrived there
sent two officers to General Citildini to treat about
a surrender. Whilst the negotiatious were going on
at the Piedmontese camp, a French regiment ar-
rived at Cisterna, disarmed the soldiers, took their
horses, and sent the men to Cirita Vecchia. The
bulk of the Neapolitan army retired or tied towards
Gaeta, where only 5,000 men were allowed toeuter.
The others, about 12,000, are two miles from here,
under the protection of the Gaeta artillery, but they
are in such a hapless state that yesterday General
de Kahane sent a pariessente;re to offer a capitula-
tion. Victor Emmanuel refused it, saying that
if they wanted to surrender they nowt do so by
opening the gates of Gaeta. The negotiations
were therefore broken off, and tho.,e wretched men
are still there, exposed to the heavy rains of the
season and to the sharp cold wind of the Novem-
ber nights.
Although the cause of the Bourbon may be con-
sidered as altogether hopeless, Francis 11. has
declared to his generals his intention of holding
out at Gaeta while there is a ration or a cartridge
left. The decision of the King compels the Pied-
montese army to keep up a close blockade of the
place ; but I much doubt whether we shall at
present engage in any active siege operations. It
is all very well for Francis 11. to resist at any cost,
hut the question is whether the 5,000 neon lie has
with him in Gaeta will share his obstinacy when
they find themselves placed nu half rations.
With the taking of Mola the campaign, so
gloriously begun by Garibaldi, may be con-
sidered at an end. It has been the only fight in
which the Neapolitans stood their ground for an
hour against the Piedmuntese. The struggle was
fearful, fur the fire of the fleet was not only opened

against the village, but continued to be directed
against the retiring masses of the enemy. The
Piedmontese bad but 100 men hors de combat,
amongst whom there are one captain of the bersa-
glieri killed and ten other officers wounded.
As nothing is likely to go on here just now, I
have made up my mind to follow Victor Emmanuel,
who starts for Naples in half an hour.
NAPLES, Nov. 9.
It is not my intention to enter into any details of
the reception which Victor Emmanuel met with in
this city. Your able correspondent here wil! tin.
doubtedly send you a full report of the fifes which
since Wednesday have not ceased. When I left
Mole for Santa Maria, where I knew the King
would arrive at 8 o'clock, I was fortunate enough
to meet Garibaldi, who had come froin
Caserta, at the station. I joined his stall;
and came to Naples in the royal train. I was, there-
fore, in a position to see what happened on this
important occasion, for it was on that day that
Garibaldi had to decide whether he would remain
here or go back to hie island of Caprera. The meet-
ing of Victor Emmanuel and his friend at Santa
Maria was of the most cordial kind. Neither
Farini nor General Fanti were present, and Gari-
baldi found himself more at his ease. You know
that the General has an insurmountable antipathy
to these two advisers of his Sardinian Majesty.
After the receptions at the palace, Victor Emmanuel
sent for Garibaldi, and remained with him
more than an hour. Already, on Tuesday last,
General Cialdini had met Garibaldi at Santa Maria,
with the object of bringiug about a reconciliation
between him and the Piedruoutese ministers. The
gallant general did not, however, succeed in his
endeavours ; for what Garibaldi asked the ministers
would not grant. Victor Emmanuel hoped to be
more successful, but the general was firm iu his
proposals. He asked two things. Ist That the
decrees ho had signed during his dictatorship should
be respected, inasmuch as they did not oppose the
constitutional laws of the country. 2nd. That the
rank conferred by hint upon his compactions in arms
should be recognised by the new government. These
two demands were peremptorily refused. What
therefore could Garibaldi do but leave the country ho
had freed and governed for two months I He leaves
to-morrow ; and I fancy Europe will be astonished
at hearing that the man who has added to the
Italian crown 9,000,000 of people left Naples on
board a small vessel, accompanied by only his
son and three of his intimate friends. lam not
going to enter into the causes of this painful affair,
nor will I be hard upon the government of Victor
Emmanuel. There are, however, things which no
honest man can refrain from pointing out to the
judgment of Europe. Why did the advisers of
Victor Emmauuel send both to Sicily and to Naples
the very men who, wrongly or rightly, have
always been considered by Garibaldi as his personal
enemies I Why was not the humiliation of seeing
La Farini amongst the first Piedmontese appoint-
ments spared to Garibaldi I Why send here as the
future commander of hie gallant army General
Valfn;, who, I have been told, has always been the
greatest adversary of the volunteers and the bit-
terest enemy of Garibaldi ? I understand that two
months ago Victor Emmanuel found himself under
the necessity of answering the General, who had
written to him these few %ord., : "Get rid of
Cavour, and allow toe to march ou Rome ;"—" I
shall not get rid of my Premier, and you shall not
go to Rome." But now the iptestion is altogether
changed, and to refuse to Garibaldi what he has
undoubtedly the right to sal is an unpardonable
mistake.

It is useless for me to add that the sudden depar-
ture of the General has produced the must painful
impression upon his army. General Turr had
already tendered his nisiguation which lam glad
to say the King has not accepted. 'Purr will, how-
ever, quit the army on sick leave. The last day
Garibaldi remained in Naples I visited him. He
had nothing but words of praise for the King, and
did not make evon the slightest allusion to the
cause of his retirement to the solitude of his iskuuL
His secretary told me that all the money Garibaldi
possessed did not amount to tio/. With this sum
the former dictator of one of the richest kingdoms
of Italy has departed for his humble homestead in
Caprera. Before sailing from Naples Garibaldi paid
a visit to Admiral Mundy, on board the Hannibal,
whose guns paid him the honours due to a Gene-
ral. England is more just to him than Italy is
grateful. Whou on board the Washington, which
has taken him to Caprcra, Garibaldi bade farewell
to the officers of his stall; and left to Colonel
'rrecolii, his aideqle-camp, a despatch foe the King.
The despatch containetl him resignation of the rank
of General in the Army, and of the Knighthood of
the Collar of the Annunsiata which hail been con-
ferred on him.