The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-25 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

ITALY.

BARDLNIA.

At the review held by Prince Napoleon at Turin,
as already stated by telegraph, of all the survivor(
of the Grande Arm& decorated with the medal of
St. Helena, his imperial highness addressed them
in French in the following words :
.. . .

"I thank you for the eage rams which you hare
shown in assembling here to meet me. lam deeply
affected by it. Noble and glorious remains of our
armies! you are an additional bond between France
and Piedmont, which, as well as our dynasties, are
and will be allied in future. I shall inform the
Emperor of your ardour, and I thank you in his
name. Pire tßompereur ! Vice le Roi Victor -gm-
, matsuel!"

(MON 001 01.171

TURIN, JAN. 20.

I will mention a few particulars respecting Prince
Napoleon which have not been noticed by the press.
In his conversation he is extremely liberal, and ex-
presses the opinion that it is necessary to give
France a larger amount of freedom. As the Prin-
cess Clotilda, his intended bride, is staying at the
Castle of Moncalieri, Prince Napoleon went there
the day after his arrival, and remained there all day.
As the people perceive in the new match a sure
pledge of the French alliance against Austria
they profess to be satisfied with it, al-
though they say it is an act of abnegation
on the part of Victor Emmanuel in behalf of Italy,
their common country. On the other hand, the
high aristocracy speak of the coming event in a dis-
respectful way, and call the marriage the sacrifice
of Iphigenia. They got up a petty plot to hiss
the Prince, both on his arrival and on his appear-
ance in the theatre, but the king, having heard of
it, accompanied the Prince in the evening to the
royal box, when they were saluted with applause
such as has not been heard these many
years. The cheers lasted for several minutes.
The high aristocracy then thought they
would revenge themselves by staying away from
Court, and from the first ball given on Monday
evening by Count Cavan?, in the apartments of the
Foreign Minister's official residence. Bat the people
laugh at these puerile marks of spite. There are,
however, a number of emissaries from Vienna and
Rome here, who endeavour to promote disturbanoes
and even public demonstrations against the war.
They strive in vain, for the behaviour of the muses
in the capital and provinces could not possibly be
better. All resign themselves to the additional, and it
must be said most heavy, sacrifices which this little
state is forced to make. There is, as it were, a mot
d'ordre gone forth, that they must avoid shouting,
and meetings, and festivities, and the thousand other
outward signs of the year 1848. Deeds, not words,
is the motto for 1859.

I believe I can confidently announce to you the
despatch of two diplomatic notes, both of them by
your government. One was sent to Austria, the
other to Piedmont. In this second note, it is said,
that as the sincere ally of Sardinia England feels
it her duty to divert her from the dan-
gerous path she seems willing to follow.
She reminds Piedmont, amongst other things, that
her true and noble task in Italy is to exalt and im-
prove the other Italian governments by the efficacy
of her own example.

I believe it will not be difficult for the Sardinian
Minister to reply, that ten years of quiet and
prosperous constitutional government have produced
on the other Italian governments the sole effect of
uniting every one of them against Piedmont, and in-
ducing them to surround her with a sort of sanitary
cordon am it were, so as to exclude the influence
of her free press, and the development
of her trade. If we look to the peoples of the Penin-
sula, the example of Sardinia has converted them
all from the commencement of her parliamentary

system. But if we look to the rulers, they maintain
themselves, in opposition to their subjects, solely by
means of armed foreign intervention, but for which
they would have to quit the scene of their misrule
long before Sardinia's influence could reform it.
Lord Malmesbury's other note, to the Count Buol,
is a warm exhortation to the Imperial government
to remedy the serious grievances of Italy, thus de-
stroying the causes and pretexts of the threatened
war. I think I can affirm with accuracy that speciali-
ties are not entered into, unless it be concerning the
Papal government, of which his lordship says much
evil is reported, and the earl invites Austria to join
France sincerely in causing the suggestions con-
tained in the memorandum presented by the Sar-
dinian legation to Napoleon 111. during the Congress
of Paris to be adopted.

The Austrians are changing their form of defence.
They had, u yea know, sold some forts of recent
construction. Now they have bought back the
fort of 'ATOM), on the Lago Maggiore, and they
wish to do the same with the fort of Porta Tors, in
Milan. This is owing to the tactics of General
Hess, who, as I sent you word, will in the end be
entrusted with the supreme command of the Italian
army.

I am able most positively to confirm the report,
that when the fresh troops entered Milan the execu-
tioner came with them, and that he has publicly
exhibited the infamous implements of his trade. My
former report was the exact truth. A cart, with
the gallows standing upright in it, has been paraded
through Milan. The numerous imprisonments of
which I spoke to you in my last are equally true,
but the persons imprisoned are of the lowest chum.

The Duchess of Parma and the Duke of Modena
have gone to Vienna. The latter is expected back
to-morrow, or the day after. It is said that he is
dissatisfied beyond all measure, because he has
failed to obtain some German troops he waked for.
I think myself that the Emperor will not send an
armed force to the Duchies, because, as they entered
on one side, Piedmont would cause her troops to
enter by the other side, and war—which Aus-
tria seeks to avoid—would begin. Nevertheless,
she has increased her garrison in the fortress
of Piacenza, and also at Ancona, where she is
hurrying on her fortifications, and everything leads
us to believe with the full consent of the Pope.
In Tuscany the stream of events is becoming daily
more and more turbid. The Grand Duke's first
impulse was to incline to severity, and he wished to
(lionise the minister Baldasseroni, a man considered
to be moderate, to be rather tinged, in short, with
liberalism. Reflection, however, made him change
his mind, and some go so far ss to assert that he is
meditating the resurrection of the Btatuto, such

as it sese in 1818. If such be his inten-
tion, it will be dangerous to delay it until
too late. The Tuscans will accept the Statuto,
but they will fight against the Italian cause.
General Ginlay has gone to Florence, for the purpose
of persuading the Grand Duke to unite his forces
with those of the Emperor Joseph. Should Leopold
ever venture to do this, the rage of his subjects
would be uncontrollable, tot ithstanding their
usually gentle disposition.

NAPLES.

TRIESTE, lioxnvr EvrNING.

A telegram just received here from Naples an-
nounoes the continual improvement of the K;ng's
health.

All the guests who have arrived here from Naples
are going to Vienna, according to an invitation re-
oeived from the imperial court•

BELGIUM.

An interesting discoseion is going on at present
in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, on a
petition addressed by the inhabitants of St. Jesse-
ten-Noode, near Brussels, praying for "a compulsory
public education; the modification of the law of
1842, respecting the inspection of primary schools
by ecclesiastics; and the withdrawal of the Ant-
werp convention relative to the assistance of eccle-
elastics in religious instruction in schools, superior
to the above." M. Rogier, Minister of the
Interior, asserted that persuasion did cot

suffice to decide parents to send their children
to school, and that it would be necessary to have
reoouree to fine and imprisonment. A member of
the left, M. Muller, opposed such coercive measures;
maintaining that parents are in general most de-
sirous of giving intellectual training to their clnl-
dren, and that by establishing schools everywhere,
the youthful population would be infallibly attracted
to them. The discussion has been adjourned.
The majority of the Chamber appears disposed to
refuse to ecclesiastics the legal right of inspection,
but to authorise their presence in establishments of
public instruction whenever it may be desired by
parents.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. MONDAT !VEXING.

The oracular words of the ifimiteur have natu-
rally been very closely scanned to-day, and the ob.
Nervation is in every mouth that they do not deny
the existence of • treaty offensive and defensive
between France and Sardinia, but merely that such
a treaty was the price of the marriage. The scorn-
ful reproof administered to the Union for citing the
paragraph from the Independance Beige does not,
therefore, touch the real point which excites public
anxiety. Nobody doubts that the negotiations for
the marriage have been conducted with sufficient
skill to save appearances as much as possible.
The Indepandance of yesterday, u if anticipating
that its news would be questioned, contains in its
Parisian correspondence some paragraphs bearing en
pertinently on the matter that I think them worth
citing. One correspondent says :
Nothing Is more difficult nowadaym than to send any
authentic amount of French polidcs. It would seem that
than is a bifurcation, and that the court of the Teileeies le
acted upon by two distinct impulsions: the first finds
a voice in the cabinet; bet It is the second which
acts. It is to this second impulsion that we owe the
marriage of Prince Napoleon with the Princess Clotildas
the mission of Captain La Reuelore le Nourry to St. Peters•
burg, and doubtless., the signing of the treaty of an offensive
and defensive alum between France and Piedmont. The
prudent reserve with which the latter important news was
communicated to the Indeptradenee has been remarked.
The public felt in a manner obliged to you fur announcing
this additional step towards a conflict whicY may bacJine
European, with a certain hesitation in point of form, which
it is inclined to think was not warranted by the nature of you
Information on the subject. The fact was accepted u true
without utoniahment. It was coui hired as the natural
. . .

consrquences of the marriage. It is as little probablet m—
it the truth he spoken—it is possible, that this news &mild
be contradicted by the government journals. Some foreign
commandants may perhaps venture to hint a timid denial to
deceive the public. I happen to know, moreover, that after
the delivery in Paris of the number of the Iridependanat
which contained the news, several great banking houses for-
warded it by telegraph to their correspondents, and the de-
spatches were allowed to go; while, on the other hand, when
the news of Prince Napoleon's marriage was first broached,
the clerks at the telegraph offioe received orders not to trans-
mit the intelligence.
Another correspondent of the Indipendance says;
It appears to be certain that the hand of the Princess
Clotilds will not be definitively granted till after the conclu-
sion of this secret treaty. filer h►nd will not, of course, be
the prioe of the treaty—it will rather be the reward of it.
• • • Now is there to be a treaty properly so called, or
merely a lass solemn conventi•m I know not ; and inch
distinctions are of little importance. It suffices to know that
Piedmont upsets to derive a benefit from this family
alliance, and that so long as this benefit is not secured the
family alliance will not be an "accompliehed fact."
The same correspondent protegees to know that
the English ambassador was so much moved by the
extraordinary complimentary attitude towards
Francs, assumed by Count de Kisselef at a recent
diplomatic dinner, that he sent a telegraphic
despatch to his government on the subject, and that
" he received an answer, which I will not attempt to
reproduce even in substance, which, when it became
known in political circles, greatly aggravated the
effect of the words pronounced at the banquet."
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Among other ambiguities in the Moniteur, the
expression that the marriage will "shortly be cele-
brated at Turin," may lead to the belief that the
prince will not come away without his wife. I
understand, however, that he is expected alone at
the Palais Royal to-morrow.
Leading articles in the Slide and the Debate
have excited an unusual degree of attention to-day.
In the first named journal M. Ravin, the political
director, who has been for some time absent from
Paris, while uttering a faint hope that diplomacy
will be powerful enough to avoid war, expresses
a clear opinion that if Austria will not voluntarily
give up her Italian provinces France must drive
her out of them, and he undertakes (going, I
believe, beyond his authority) to guarantee the
enthusiastic approval by all fractions of the
democratic party of a war for such a
purpose. In the Debuts M. de Saey.
one of the most experienced editors, reviews at
length the various circumstances which constitute an
" undoubtedly complicated aituation," and while
strongly advocating a congress, concludes by an
emphatio:denial of the assertion that if war should
be necessary, it would fear or regret the success of
the French arms under the imperial flag.
This evening's Presss warmly approves of the
above articles, and evidently considers them as a
confirmation of its own belief that war is inevitable.
As to a congress, the Press' considers that it would
only " postpone a difficulty which would soon revive,
ander more embarrassing and terrible circum-
stances." It also ridicules the idea of Austria con-
senting, without • fight, to withdraw her troops
from Lombardy on the condition of placing the
iron crown" on the head of the Archduke Maxi-
milian.

The funeral of the Duke de Plaisance, Grand
Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, was celebrated
to-day with extraordinary pomp. The guns of the
Invalids. were tired, and almost all the dieposable
troops of the garrison of Paris were under arms.
The Bourse was extremely sensitive, and violent
oscillations took place during great part of the day.
The Haute, after being quoted at one moment at
68fr. 20c. (15c. lower than on Saturday), rose ulti-
mately to 68fr. 65c., closing with a rise of 30c.
Mobilise rose 15fr. The Orleans railway rose
17fr. 50c.; the other lines left off about 2fr. 50c.
higher.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, KoNDAT, JA+. 24.

`iu.day the Chamber of Deputise has unanimously
adopted the tuldrers in reply to the Prince Regent's
speech.
NI. Simeon pronounced a brilliant oration on the
occasion in support of the address.
The Polish members of the Chamber took part in
the discussion by making a conciliatory declaration.
The members of the former Right also voted in
support of the address, reserving, however, some
pointy in 'I. Simson's amplifications.