The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-27 00:00:00

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PARIS, MONDAY En:NINO.
It is needless to observe that the absorbing topic of
the day is the decree published in yesterday's Moni-
ker. Of the leading morning journals the Siete
alone treats the subject at any length, and an evi-
dent reserve characterises its article, which is from
the pen of M. Ravin himself. Time° Demos, et dot.a
f e rentta. "The Emperor," he says---speaking of
the liberty of address--" was willing to restore to
the Legislative Body a right, without which it was
nothing more, so to speak, than a registering coun-
cil." M. Ravin accepts the presence in the
chambers of ministers without portfolios se an
instalment, and nothing more ; and thiuks
" the Emperor, alter having tried the experiment,
will return to the system pursued by the parlia-
mentary government, and will confide to ministers
with portfolios the task of defending in person pro-
jects connected with their ministerial departments."
He demands, in conclusion, the " crowning of the
edifice," because "a free press is the necessary con-
sequence of a parliament called to the fame which
this new system promises it." He thus sums up—
" We cannot but approve the intention of the de-
ores We hail it as a progress, and we rejoice to
see the government take a step in the direction of
freedom."

The Dibats, after rapidly sketching the leading
features of the reforms indicated, says :
it will be °scenery to examine at lame the teadeney
of thew reforms, and to inquire whether they do not nacos-
nrily entail others, in order to their perfection. We can
at present only applaud and congratulate the government
upon the propitious course it ha. adopted. To return
gradually, and be it never so slowly, to the custom of pub.
licity and discussion, will be for our country another ap.
prentiosehip, which it greatly needs, to liberty.
The Constitutions's! observes a discreet silence as
to the decree, and is content to sing an elegy on
the virtues, fidelity, and usefulness of the retiring
Fould.

M. de Lesseps again turns up. One of those
familiar Marseilles telegrams (written in Paris) tells
the world that this great conjuror is gone "to
instal at Sues new masses of workmen." Nothing
short of "mama" will content the eager but un-
fortunate shareholders in this most absurd undertak-
ing. I use the word unfortunate advisedly, knowing
that very many of them are persons of small
means, who have been induced to invest their
savings in this preposterous scheme, partly by the
unprecedented and outrageous system of puffing re-
sorted to, and partly through the culpable system of
negative support lent to it from obvious political
motives by this government.
It is plainly the intention of General Cloyon not
only to guard the frontiers between the Neapolitan
territory and that of the states of the church, but
to keep open the communication between Terracina
and Gaeta, for a French ship of war is stationed
in the Gulf of Terracina. Many things tend to
the belief that the so-called double policy of
Napoleon HI. is about to bear speedy good fruits,
in the departure of Francis 11. for the Eternal
City.

The Bourses described as having been unusually
animated to-day, but the rise in the Route was
leas than might have been expected. It left off at
70fr. Mc. for money and 70fr. 60c. for the acootuit,
being a rise of 20c. and 300. respectively.

ITALY.
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TUWN, NOV' 22.
Whilst I am writing the twenty-two senators who
are to convey to the King the resolutions of par-
liament are at length setting out for Genoa, where
they will embark this evening on board the Elet-
trico. Eighty other senators and deputies accom-
pany them. The King will receive them at
Naples ou Sunday next, and on the following day
he will leave fur Palermo. He will perhaps also
visit Catania and Messina, and will return to Turin
early next month.
General Tillrr is staying here on his return from
the campaign in Southern Italy. His health,
which appeared desperate, not only from the wound
which he received last year at Castenedolo, but also
from disease of the chest, has considerably im-
proved. lam sorry to say this is not the case with
Marquis Trivulxio PaUavicino, the late Pro-Dicta-
tor at Naples, who returned amongst us on the
lame day as General Tiirr. The Martsts says he
suffered more in six weeks in strugg against
the plots and intrigues that surrounded aribaldi
than in nine years of imprisonment at Spielberg.
lie had, however, the consolation of knowing that
he has done his work well, and public opinion gives
him full credit for it.

LsAiiniiiiiii;o6;nator Count Borelli died. He
was Charles Albert's minister when that sovereign
bestowed constitutional freedom on his people.
Tins out of sixty-two ministers that Piedmont has
had during the last twelve years eighteen are dead,
and the half of these were under fifty years of age.
Such a struggle is political life where liberty is new,
and ambition keen.

During the last few days a Russian general has
visited our military arsenal. While examining
the various works which are going on there, he saw
some cannon being broken up, and asked what was
being done with them. He was informed that they
were cannon which had been taken at Sebastopol,
nod that they were being broken up to be made
into others on our new model ; upon which he said,
" I saw some others just now is your arsenal which
I immediately recognised as Russian. If you make
good use of them against the Austrians, the Rus-
sians won't much regret your baying taken them."
Count Mai:Mani, our Minister of Instruction,
while his are busy on wars and railways,
is taking thongs for the increase of schools sof all
kinds, and for providing a supply of competent in-
structors. He has induced to come to Italy a
number of eminent men, whom political penman-
tion, want of freedom, or want of encouragement
at home compelled to emigrate. The Academy of
Bren has just been strengthened by the secession
of Vera, of the celebrated engraver Calamatta, and
the well-known :ithographer Fanoli.
There is a report here that Prince Napoleon and
his wife are coming to Turin, and that afterwards
be will make a journey alone, through the whole of
free Italy. The people of Turin are very anxious
to see once more the daughter of their King, the
Princess Clothilde ; but, to tell the truth, they have
no great desire for a visit from Prince Napoleon.
They consider him • bird of evil omen, remember-
ing his pretensions to the throne of Tuscany, and
the base part he took in the peace of Villanueva,
without having taken any part in the war. More-
over, they all remember with deep regret that it is
his fault that Austria still keeps the three districts
in the Mantuan territory across the Po, from which,
towards Borgoforte, she threatens the centre of
Italy. These are so many reasons for Prince Napo-
leon's visit not being desired by us.
You are aware that Garibaldi, before retiring to
Caprera, said that if Italy wished to be entirely free
she must have a million of armed men ready by
next March. After the four months' experience he
has had in Southern Italy, where, out of nine mil-
how of inhabitants, he did nut suoceed in raiaing
more than four thousand fighting men, we might
have expected a more moderate requirement. The
Ma:finial party is employing this dictum of
Garibaldi to the annoyance of the government.
In spite of this, however, the governineut will do
its duty; it will provide three hundred thousand
combatants, and double that number of national
guards, so that there will be not far short of a
million of men under arms. But our effective
force, both moral and material, would be doubled