The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-28 00:00:00

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INTELLIGENCE.

T EVENING, JULY

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(7101[ 0111, OWN

PARIS, WIDNIBDAY EVINING.

The Univers aim in its money article says :

ITALY.

SARDINIA.

There was to have been a council of ministers at
St. Cloud today, bat, instead of it, a meeting was
held of the Privy Council. This body, which was
created only last year, after the Orsini affair, has
been so little talked of since that the very name
sound' strange. People have a mine idea that it
mossista of men enjoying the Emperor', especial coo-
Mama who would have a part to play in state
affairs in case of a regency, but what are their attri-
butions under ordinary circumstances and whether
in any case they have a mission to supersede a
council of ministers ars points on which the public
is quits in the dark. An impression, however, pre-
vails this evening that the Privy Council, which, if
I remember rightly, bee never been officially
assembled before, is now called upon to consider the
relations between Frame and England. The Cor-
respotulance Belier, sent by this evening's post to
all the provincial journals, gives out that the Em-
peror's government will probably demand, very
shortly, loyal explanations from the English cabinet
as to the attitude of England and the " affected
alarms" which lead her to maks continual defensive
preparations. Count Passim was present at this
mysterious meeting.
The Massager de Paris of this evening asserts
that the Emperor will shortly pay a visit to England
in order to re-assure Queen Victoria most completely
al to his conduct and intentions. A rumour of this
kind has been afloat for the last two or three days.
Osborne House, it is said, is to be the theatre of the
visit ; but I look upon the whole story as a canard.
Many of the journals put a sinister interpretation
upon the article in the Moniteur on the defences of
England. The Pays says in its money article :
. . _

Tie note bas been variotialy interpreted at the Bourse.
Some people ew la ft sa Macedon of a general disarma-
ment, while by ethos it wu ocastrned as a symptom of
discord between the two governments. It appears that the
latter view was the prevalent one, slue the Rents fell.

The only thing talked of was the article in the/61411W,
sad the many opinkse expressed upon it; all agreed in this--
that the Italian question is net the only one now in agitation.
The Gazette de France observes that the note
" sensibly modified the dispositions of speculators."
The Union says " it did not confirm the rumours
of a disarmament, and chilled speculation."

According to the &eels the " rumours of a dis-
armament were thwarted (contrarii) by the article
in the Moniteur."

Bat the most remarkable criticism of all is the
following one, which appears in the leading column
of the journal des Debate :

The object of the sots in the Moasteur appears to be to
meet the expressed wishes of oestain members of the Englhh
parliament, that there should be a mutual agreement for a
disarmament, by proving that there is now as much era-
geration about our maritime armaments as there was about
our military preparations on the eve of the Italian war.
The idea of a war between France and England
seems to have attained a more rapid maturity at
Madrid than elsewhere ; the Independence of that
city exclaims, " The time is at hand when the
taking of London will revenge Waterloo."
The Boars. was exceseively inanimate all day. I
doubt whether any instance is on record of so little
business having been done. The usually crowded
arena was almost deserted, and for many minutes
together not a voice was heard in the parquet. The
Rants was last quoted at 67fr. 80c. and 67fr. 96c.,with
• fall of 6c. for cash and a rise of sc.for account. The
Mobilise did not vary. Some of the railways were
from 2fr. 60c. to 6fr. higher, bat many lines were
not quoted at all.
The Minister at War went to Vincennes yester-
day to select a place for the encampment of the
troops expected from Italy during the few days that
they will have to wait in the environs of Paris be-
fore making their triumphal entry on Aug. 15.
M. Marc Foamier, the manager of the Porte St.
Martin, went to an enormous expense to get up a
grand military spectacle, called La Vde Sao*, or
Les Btapes de to Guerre. The number of supernu-
meraries engaged to represent Austrian soldiers run-
ning away in the most approved fashion was quite un-
precedented. Bat the piece had only been represented
three or four times when, as a consequence of the'
treaty of Villafrance,the Emperor gave orders that all
public entertainments in Paris of a nature too dis-
agreeable to his imperial brother of Vienna should
be prohibited. The theatres which were affected by
this interdiction applied some time since for com-
pensation. The question was considered a difficult
one. The justice of the managers' claims was
obvious under the circumstances, but it was feared
to create a bad precedent: I now hear that M.
Fournier is to have a contract for the illuminations
of Paris on August 15. What, if any, indirect
means will be devised to indemnify other individuals
in the like case I have not learned.

Preparations are being made for a grand illumi-
nation at Milan, to take place on the arrival of the
Xing of Sardinia, who is expected in a few days to
visit his new Lombard capital.
The rumour lately circulated of the recal of the
Sardinian Commissioners is confirmed by the Opt-
nione of Turin, in an article headed " The Duchies,
the Peace, and the New Ministry." That journal
declares that orders relative to the recal have been
already despatched, and are in course of execution.
While warmly regretting the me sure, the Turin
journal affirms that the conclusion must not be
drawn that all hopes of the annexation of the
Duchies to Piedmont are at an end, or that the re-
Moration of the old sovereigns is certain.
The Piedmontese journals have turned their atten-
tion at present to a curious article which appeared
in the Verona Gazette, of the 14th, that is two
days after the meeting at Villafranca. M the
article is headed " QaartiereSuperno," it has all the

authority of a " communicated " article. After
stating that the Emperor hes concluded peace in
order to put a stop to the scourge of war, the writer
alludes to the Emperor's complaint that he had been
abandoned by his old allies, and remarks as follows :
" The sacrifice of Lombardy is great, no doubt,
but we find consolation in the reflection that what
is momentarily ceded is not always lost. Influences
change, fortune will not always be against ns.
Sooner or later we shall cross the Mincio in order to
reconquer the tombs of the heroes of Somme and
Custoza—that land soaked with our blood shall still
be mire. God promises it to us from the heavenly
regions, through the voice of the white-haired
Radstzky. Austria is obliged to make peace; but
we must not forget that while she retains the
quadrilateral of the fortresses, she may still con-
sider herself, in a military point of view, as the
mistress of the whole valley of the Po. She only
leaves the Lombards to the intemperance of their
political feelings—the end of the drama we shall
see presently."