The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-30 00:00:00

SARDINIA AND NAPLES.

All the journals of Turin declare that an alliance
between Sardinia and Naples is impossible. The
Opinions says :—" After the insurrection of Sicily
and the capitulation of Palermo, Piedmont
could not adhere to an alliance with Naples
which would have for its basis a guarantee of
territories which King Francis IL has lost. Pied-
mont cannot advise the Sicilians to take a step
opposed to their moat ardent desires. By
acting thus she would compromise her future, and
the Sicilians, moreover, would leave the advice
unheeded."

TURIN, Jolts 29.
The Chamber of Deputies has voted for the new
loan by 215 against 3.
Baron Poerio and Signor Mancini made inter-
pellatious relative to the state of affairs at Naples.
Ruth speakers opposed any arrangement with the
Bourbons.

The Minister Farini replied in a manner favour-
able to the idea of national unity, but with reserve.

ROME.

ROME, Jun 29.
Reports are current that the Papal government
is about to grant reforms.

THE CARLIST RETRACTATION.

The following is said to be the text of the re-
tractation of Couut de Montemoliu :

DON CARLON DI BOURDON Cr LIN BRAGANCIAI

Considering that the act of Tortosa of the 23rd of April
of the present year, 1860, is the result of exceptional and
extraordinary circumstances ; that, meditated in a prison
and signed at ► moment in which all communication was
forbidden us, it does not fulfil any of the con-
ditions necessary to its validity ; that conse-
quently it is null, illegal, and will not be
ratified ; that the rights of which it treats can only belong
to persons who hold them from the fundamental law
whence they emanate, and who are called by the
said law to exercise them according to their sta-
tion, and in their time ; seeing the advice of
competent jurisconsulta whom we have consulted,
and the disapprobation which our best followers have
several times expressed :—We have retracted, and do re-
tract the said act of Tortes* of the 23rd of April of the
present year, 1860, and we declare it of no effect, and utterly
cancelled.
CARLOS DR BOURDON LT DC BRAGANCR,
COWL DR MONTLVOLIN.

Done at Cologne, June 15, 1880.
The Infant Dun Ferdinand has retracted iu the
same terms.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Joie 29.

By order of the Sultan the Finance Commission
has been transformed into a Council of Control,
with extended powers.
Mehemid Ruacbdi Pacha has been appointed
President of the New Council.

THE ATTACK ON THE FRENCH
AMBASSADOR. _

PARIS, Julia 29.
The King of Naples has instructed the Marquis
d'Antonini to express to the French government
his most sincere regret on account of the cowardly
insult offered to Baron Brenier, and to promise
severe retribution upon the guilt parties, who,
however, wore not yet discovered, having suc-
ceeded in escaping immediately after committing
the assault.

PARIS. dvas 29.
It is stated in the Paris journals that Baron
Brenier is not dangerously hurt.

THE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE.
VIENNA. Jun 29.

It is stated that Lord Loftus hae informed the
Austrian government that England is prepared to
take part in a conference with the other powers
who signed the final act of Vienna, in order to
settle the differences pending between France and
Switzerland.
Lord Loftus having also been instructed to ascer-
tain the dispositions of Austria in reference to an
[ immediate assembling of the conference, Count

Rechberg is said to have replied, that u M. Thou-
venel, in his last despatch of the 21st inet., ac-
espied in the name of lus government the conference
as claimed by Switzerland, Austria does not object
to being represented therein. Count Rechberg
added, that Austria recognises that Switzerland
(whose interests are especially concerned by these
i discussions) has a right to take part in this con-
ference. She persists, however, in maintaining that
Sardinia can show no title for being represented
therein, Count Cavour having himself stated that,
in consequence of the treaty of the 24th March,
Sardinia would henceforth remain a stranger to all
questions in reference to Savoy.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(rßox on ova cormaroximarr.)

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

From the circumstance that the Moniteur says
nothing of the attempt to assassinate M. Brenier
at Naples, it has been doubted, in the course of
the day, whether the news is true. The Momiteur,
however, does not by any deans make a point of
giving the earliest intelligence even of events of
the highest interest ; there can be no doubt of the
attempt upon M Brenier's life. Nothing what-
ever has transpired to show what course the
French government intends to take in consequence
of this sinister event. The last despatches repeat
that M. Brenier is in no danger.

The lying in state of Prince Jerome commenced
to-day ; but only the great bodies of the state,
functionaries, and deputations from the army and
National Guard were admitted. The public will
have an opportunity of seeing the deceased prince
to-morrow and the two following days. lam told
that the mice en scene is very splendid. Five galle-
ries hung with black are passed through before the
chamber which contains the body is reached. The
deceased is lying on a state bed, dressed in his field
marshal's uniform, and westing all his orders. The
crown of Westphalia is placed at the foot of the
bed.

The Opinion► Nationale has heard an important
piece of news which it publishes without warrant-
ing, viz., that a treaty of alliance has either been,
or is on the point of being signed between Prussia
and Austria, in pursuance of which the former
power guarantees to the latter her German posses-
sions, but not Venice. This would be a very ra-
tional treaty', if connected with a thorough reform
in Hungary. I hope the news may be true.
The Bourse opened with great languor, and al-
though prices were comparatively firm at the close,
very little business was done throughout the day.
The Rente for account opened at 68fr. SOc., rose to
68fr. 60c., fell to 68fr. 45c., and closed at 68fr. 60c.,
with a rise of Sc. For cash there was a fall of 10c.,
the last price being 68fr. 55c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50e.
Railways, which have for a long while only varied
within the range of 2fr. SOc. to sfr., closed with
scarcely any change.
Please correct a clerical error inmy letter printed
in the Express of June 27, which may very much
mislead housekeepers as to the price of fish in
Paris. I said, " a single mackerel costs 111.
and a small pair of soles as much." I' meant
to write two shillings, and not one. On the day
that I wrote I actually paid 50 sous, or 25., for two
very thin soles, not much bigger than flounders,
and was at the same time asked 24. for a mackerel
—rather a fine one, it is true, but by nu means a
phenomenon.
The most splendid and charming country mansion
and park in the immediate vicinity of Paris—the
chatean de Bercy—only five minutes' walk from the
great wine market, has just been sold by the
Nicolai for the large sum of 10,500,000 fr., besides
50,000 fr. to be distributed among the old servants
of the princely house. The Lyons Railway Company
and some building speculators are the purchasers.
A part of the original property was sold to the
Lyons company some years ago for 3,000,000 fr.
The whole was bought at the beginning of this cen-
tury for 1,800,000 fr. A more striking instance of
the rapid increase in the value of land in awl about
Paris could scarcely be adduced. It is now in-
tended to build a long range of wine warehouses on
that part of the park which borders the Seine.

The post mortem examination of the body of
Prince Jerome led to the discovery of a ball which had
remained in his chest, after a duel which he fought in
his youth with a brother of Marshal Davoust. The deceased
prince, it is stated, has left memoirs, and in his will pre.
scribed all the measures which are to be adopted for their
publication.
One of the most curious theatrical pleasures ever
invented by the fertile brain of Parisian managers has
just been contrived at the Porte St. Martin Theatre, in
Paris. Everyone knows how the approach of hot
weather empties the playhouses. In order that
the shopkeepers left- in the capital may be cheated
into the idea of " doing a bit of rural," a large
part of the audience portion of the theatre has "been
transformed," says the Gazette Muairelr, "into a plo•
turesque garden, which rises in the place where the pit wan,
surrounded with iron seats and arm chairs, with leather
cushions. The box.lobby to the fleet tier has become •
greenhouse, filled with flowers and shrubs. Three of the
centre boxes have been suppressed to form a flower basket,
below which is a heap of rocks covered with marine plants.
From the metre of these rocks springs a cascade, which
falls into a circular basin ; and betwixt the acts a jet
capriciously lighted by gloams of gas, spring,. up in the
midst of the basin, the banks of which are garnished with
flowers, plants, and verdure."
A letter from Palermo in the Sig•te says :•-•
" After having pissed a week in the city, and boring
obtained from the lips of the soldiers and eye-witnesses full
details of the combat and bombardment, Alexander Dumas
and his friends left on the lath, each with a musket on his
shoulder, to accompany Colonel Turr's expedition."
A Berlin paper affirms that the chateau of
Rosenhofen, the summer residence of the King of Bavaria,
is being prepared for the reception of Francis IL, in ems
he should find it necessary to make a precipitate retreat
from Naples.
The independence Beige of yeaterilay evening
announces with great satisfaction that the Belgian civic
guards are exempted from the entranoe fee for the rifle
shooting at Wimbledon, to which we (lately referred.
THE WOUNDED IN SICILY.—The noble generosity
of Garibaldi has encumbered him with wounded enemies,
whose sufferings place them in the rank of friends. The
barbarous bombardment of Palermo has added a long list of
casualties, and the hurried preparations which this bold
enterprise demanded have not permitted any extended sup-
ply of medical necessities and iestrumeata. The experience
of the Crimean war demonstrates how large a stock is
needed, and how direst an amount of suffering accrues from
' deficiency of medical applisnees. The greater the urgency,
therefore, for speedy and immediate help. The heat of the
summergaSieiliattyphus-- i ani-
the ini
twodentgroat
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highly provocative
gangrene and of
the com-
billed armies in the Crimea and of the French troops wounded
in the late Italian campaign. Opium and quinine are
the two sheet-enchant of the aur„non in combating
these diseases; charcoal, chloride of lime, and the
like antiseptics, are hardly kW important while
Imt•
strapping, old linen, and rollers are of inestimable service in
all military hospitals. Some of the prineiisd firms in Lon-
don have promised handsome supplies. Amongst them are
Messrs. Whicker and Blaise, Savory and Misire, Hinther,
Bigg, Allen and Banbury. T. Evans and Sons, Ferguson and
Sons, F. Walters, and Lloyd Bullock, who hare each made
munificent contributions, amounting in some instanoestothe
value of 501. We learn that, if forthwith collected, meats
' will be found to despatch them immediately by it sure chan-
nel. Subscriptions can be meat economically applied, since
some very liberal carers have been made by the firms which
have contributed gifts to furnish all purchased articles at
prices from which the profits are deductol. It is a work of
pure mercy, in which political partisanship has no place.
since these supplies will be employed to soothe impartially
the sufferings of captured Neapolitans and of Sicilian pas
triota.—The Laecet.