The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-16 00:00:00

THE CONGRESS AT BADEN-BADEN.

A letter from Berlin, dated June 12, says :
The following has transpired respecting the arrangements
of the Prince Regent for his visit to Baden. He leaves
on the 13th instant, and remains a month at Baden. The
Emperor Napoleon will spend two days with him. The
King of Wurtemberg ia already there, and the King of
Bavaria and Grand Duke of Baden are hourly expected.
The Empress Dowager of Russia will remain at Wildbad
while the Prince Regent is at Badge. They will then leave,
together with the Princess of Prussia, for Weimar, to attend
the ceremony in commemoration of the death of the Greed
Duchess of Saxe Weimar, who was a Russian Princes*, and
mother of the Priem" of Prussia. Thence the Prince of
Prussia will go to Potsdam with the Empress, who will stop
• week there. The Prince will then acoompany his sister
to Warsaw, where the Emperor of Russia will come to fetch
her. The Prince Regent will thus have, within six weeks,
interviews with the Emperor of the French and with the
Emperor of Ream.
There was a general rise on 'Change to-day, in come-
, quence of the confirmation of the corning interview, as it is
'spilled as a guarantee of the duration of peace.
This interview, moreover, has been the subject of • com-
munication addressed by our government to all the German
courts, which shows what importance is attached to it. It
is known that many German princes fear lest Prussia should
deprive them of their sovereignty, and annex their states.
They fear that the actual state of things may further the
plan. The Prussian note is to reassure them on this point.
At the same tame Prussia also invites various German
Princes to attend the meeting at Baden-Baden. The
Prince of Mohamed/era will remain with the Prince Regent
during the whole of his sojourn at Baden.
The Vienna papers, naturally enough, present
the meeting at Baden in a light unfavourable to
Prussia. A letter from Vienna, dated the 10th
init., in the Deutsche Nord Zeitung, says :
Opinion is much divided here respecting the interview
between the Prince Regent and the Emperor of the French.
Some feel satisfied, others annoyed, but all ages in be-
lieving that the Prince Regent has committed an error by
accepting the interview, and that it is the commencement
of the humiliation of Prussia. German patriots deplore
this weakness of the Prussian Government. The Austrians
per rano, who regard the Prussians in the light of rivals,
chuckle with delight.
The following is from the Oat Deutsche Post :
It is said that it is the governments of the south that
have proposed the project of a congress of German princes.
The Queen of Bavaria, who is a Prussian princess, and a
woman of superior intellect, may have contributed to render
the relations between Bavaria and Prussia more satisfactory.
The presence of the Emperor Napoleon appears equally
certain. The Dresden Journal strives to no purpose to
dispute the political importance of this interview by point-
ing out that the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of France and
Prussia will not be present. The real Foreign Minister
of France is the Emperor himself, but the reel Foreign
Minister of Prusaia, M. von Schleinitz, remains at Berlin.
The Prince of Prussia will be there alone, the Emperor
Napoleon brings his minister; Prumia, then, is badly re-
presented.
The absence of the ministers would prove nothing. At
the interview of the Emperors at Stuttgart Count Walewski
and Prince Gortchakoff were present, and yet no treaty
was signed ; at Villatranca no minister accompanied the
Emperors bf France and Austria, and yet a treaty was
signed next day.
No doubt the advances of Napoleon will call forth reci-
procal attentions on the part of the Prince Regent. This
courtesy towards a prince who is not yet on the throne is
an obligation on the Regent to pay his visit to Paris.
Points of contact are established, and it may be left to the
rhoner//cries of the two Powers to complete the connexion
at their leisure.

The city of Bologna celebrated, on the 12th,
with gnat pomp, the anniversary of its Revolution of
1858.

The Italian Chamber of Deputies, in its sitting
of the llth, pawed the bill extending the Sardinian law on
the press to Tuscany, by 203 rotes against 3.
Madame de Lamoriciere and family have arrived
at Marseilles from Rome.

The Bristol Mercury says of General Garibaldi,
"This brave man worked • free passage • few Years ago from
New York to this port in • ship, the IA Quanta, which is
now in our ducks."
The Weekly Register states that the Pope has
sow received from the " diocese " of Westminster 6,3401.,
and from Shrewsbury 1,5001.
It appears from a statement in the Weekly
Register that on the announcement of the Papal loan
80,0001. was allotted to be raised in England.
AN ARTIST IN D ITICULTI Wt. —The Illuatrated LON-
don News of to-day contains letters and sketches from its
special correspondent at Palermo Mr. Prank Vizetelly).
Here is his postscript :—" Palermo, June 7.-1 intended to
send you five sketches by the Caradoc, which leave. to-day
for Naples, but lam unable. During the days of the fight-
ing, and immediately afterwards, I was so much about in
the sun, and this, combined with the stench of the deal
blocking the narrow streets in all directions, brought on an
attack of fever that completely knocked me up for three
days. I sat iunougst • pile of dead fir two hours or more
at the White Benedictine Convent sketching the horrors
there, and this, I believe, brought on the attack. I have
five rough sketches, made in different prate of the town, of
injury done by the bombardment to life and houses, and of
different points where the fighting was most severe, iusd
these sketches it was imp einble for me to finish on the spot,
as I was exposed to falling houses and chance shots. Had I
sot have been knocked up there would have been sent off ;
as it is, I will despatch them the Ant opportunity."
THZ IRISH RECROITH.—The lhiblin Morning
News, the recognised organ of Dr. Cullen, in publishing
an unmistakeable command from his gram, says :—" We
are now in a position to state, with authority, that such a
number of Irish emigrants have already reached Italy, that
no
more should think of proceeding there for the present.
It is hoped that employment may, so some few weeks, be
proviifed for a further arrival of them ; but until there is
announcement to this effect from the proper bootees, we
trust our friends throughout the country will in
to prevent the further departure of emigrants ; itelrich
could only result in disappointment to themselves and
inconvenience to those to whom they mean to tender their
services."
THR NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. —A fine
filldwigth portrait of the poet Wordsworth, painted by
Plakersgill, bas Mat been added to the National Portrait
Gallery. A spirited head of Flaxman, grouped with a bust
of Hayley, author of an "Essay on Sculpture," and the
"Triumphs of Temper," and young Hayley, Flianian'a
pupil, has been presented to the gallery by the sculptor's
fried and executor, and • known lover of the fine arts,
Mr. Crabb Robinson. The trustees have elm done well in
mooring • portrait of Charles Dibdin, the writer who did
60 much to promote a national feeling in former times by his
naval songs, and whose dramatic entertainments many yet
living can remember. The picture is a rough early work
of Thomas Phillips, and well known by the mesao-tint
engraving. Two other portraits of very inferior workman-
ship, hut of important men, have also been exhibited on
the walls. One is of Joseph Lancaster, the educationalivt,
and the other of Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, who,
more than any other person, seems to substantiate the
pointer's favourite allegory of " Time unveiling Truth."—
Atheneum.
THR NORWICH PROIIRLYTININO CARR. —NORWICH,
JUNI 15. —The journey made by Mester Yansittart for the
purpose of identifying, if possible, a person supposed to be
the priest who he states recommended hini to " cut sod
run" from Rackheath rectory for the purpose of becoming a
catholic, proved futile ; and the young gentleman returned
to Norwich on Thursday evening with the Rev. Mr.
Hodgson. The case is to come on for further hearing on
Monday week.