The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-06 00:00:00

THE EXPREEIi, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY C, 18b9.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

ITALY.

THE STATE OF MILAN.

The Debats of this day prints the following
letter :

MILAN, JAN. 1.

" The new year has commenced in this city in a
very singular manner. The Milanese themselves
seem stupified, and both people and garrison appear
this morning to be asking each other if it was
all a dream. Midnight had scarcely sounded, when
numerous bands began to perambulate the city,
including in their songs all the cries of the Italian
patriots Vive Phalle!' ' Vive Victor Emma-
nuel!' Vivent les Trois Couleurar At 2 o'clock
in the morning the traffic was as animated as
in full day, and the uproar was so great
that sleep was altogether out of the question. The
bands in parsing before the military poets, began
instantly to hiss, when, extraordinary to state, the
soldiers joined the party,and instead of drawing their
sabres, cried in emulation, 'Vive Phalle!' I 'my-
self observed a group of twelve officers in the Corso
Francesco fraternise with a band of twenty persons,
throw their cape into the air and cry, ' Vivent
les Reheat. The gendarmes on horseback, who
patrolled two and two, and the guards of police
drew up quietly as if in obedience to a
command, and there was not the slightest
breach of the peace. If the garrison had
acted differently, we tremble to think of
what the consequences would have been, for the
crowds who filled the streets from midnight to five
o'clock consisted of the most determined individuals,
and those best capable of opposing an energetic re-
sistance to an armed force. Happily the very num-
ber of the promenaders prevented a conflict."
The Nord of this morning has a telegram from
Genoa, which says that the agitation increases, and
that a report continues to be circulated to the effect
that Garibaldi is about to organise a corps of volun-
teers, or is preparing to play some very active part.

VIENNA, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5.

The semi-official Oesterreichische Correspondent
of this evening announces the reinforcement of the
Austrian garrisons in Italy. " This has been done,"
adds the C'orrespandatz, " as a measure of precau-
tion against a foolish and incorrigible party, and for
the protection of peaceful subjects, but was by no
means dictated by international reasons."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

There is a rumour in Paris to-day that Milan is in
a state of siege. The news seems highly probable,
for the few words addressed to M. de Hubner by
the Emperor on New ]ear's-day—which have pro-
duced the effect which you know in London, and
caused a panic for three days running on the Paris
Bourse—must have driven people in Italy nearly
wild. The impression that we are on the eve of a
general war gains ground immensely. A few
days ago it was said—and said truly—in a
Belgian journal that war was not believed
in except in barracks. That exception had, perhaps,
far more importance than was generally attributed
to it. I can now assure you beyond a doubt, that
whatever turn events may subsequently take, the
French " army of Italy " is at this moment ready
to march "on paper." The commander-in-chief,
the generals, the aides-de-camp, the staff, the
regiments, the artillery, the engineering corps, are
all fixed upon, and the telegraph might in half an
hoar send them on their way across the Alpe to-mor-
row. I am not habitually emphatic, but be well
assured that I do not say this lightly.
Now, notwithstanding all these symptoms, my own
personal opinion is that a great war is scarcely upon
the cards. The Emperor is not strong enough in-
ternally to risk the tremendous discontent which
would be engendered in France by the catastrophes,
the desolation, which would be produced by a war of
any long duration. The national vanity is great,
and doubtless the news that the tricoloured flag was
waving in Lombardy would for a time silence many
hostile parties. If Napoleon NL could see
his way to a grand military demonstra-
tion, ending in a triumph, without any seri-
ous opposition, there is no doubt that
the movement would be popular. But the
" tag "of real war I am sure the nation would
have no stomach to stand. There is no doubt, how-
ever, that a French army might sweep the Austrians
from Italy like chaff before the wind, if no opposing
elements came into operation to check their onward
course. There is no knowing how far France
might be committed by a first, and, possibly, too
sanguine step.
'lns Bourse has been in a disastrous state. Sales
were pressed not only by speculators on their own
account, but by brokers who feared that their clients
would not be able to meet their tremendous differ-
ences. The Bente fell 80c. for cash and tioe, for ac-
count, closing heavily at the lowest prices of the day
' at ilfr. and 711 r. 25c. Mobilier fell 20c. The rail-
ways suffered more from the panic than they did
either yesterday or Monday. Orleans fell 71r. ;Mc.;
' Northern, 151 r. ; Lyons, 13fr.; and Eastern, West-
' ern, sad Southern, Mr. each.
Count de Ilatzfeld, the Prussian Minister at

the Court of the Tuileries, is shortly, accord-
itig to a letter from Berlin, expected in that city,
on account, as it is given out, of family affairs.
Although we are never expected to believe the
alleged reasons for the movements of diplomatists
they may sometimes by possibility be true. In the
present excited state of Europe it is natural to
suppose that the departure from Paris of any
ambassador for the seat of his government must
I have some bearing on political events. I have no
information of any positive kind as to the real
motive for M. de Hatzfeld'e journey on the present
occasion. All that I know is that he purposed to
take a eongj at the end of this month, and that his
departure has been hastened. His principal Secre-
tary of Legation left for Berlin some short time
since, and I see that a Belgian journal attaches
importance to the fact; but I understand that he
only left on a business of diplomatic promotion ;
and that he is likely to be appointed Prussian
Minister at Carlesruhe.

We read in the Flawe de la Loire: "Several
seditious bill. have been found posted op in different
quarters of this town (Nantes); they were imme-
diately removed by the police. They were all in the
same handwriting, but couched in different terms.
An investigation as to the author has been set on
foot."

At three o'clock this afternoon a gas-pipe in the

Place du Havre, just opposite the Rouen Railway

station, burst with a tremendous explosion. One of
the workmen who were in the act of repairing the
pipe was so dangerously wounded that he is not
expected to live. Several people in the street were
knocked down, but I understand that none of them
were seriously hurt.