The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1858.

put in that capital upon Lord MALiensurnY's recent
conduct. Lord MALEFABURY and hie colleagues
may rest assured that if they act thus they will run
counter to the English nation's sense of what is just
and honourable. Whether they are strong enough
to do so it is for them to consider. We appeal from
Lord MALMENBURT to the head of the Government.
Surely Lord DERBY is Englishman enough to com-
prehend that if Lord CLAIENDON did not instruct
Sir JAMES HUDSON to use the language he did,
Lord CLARENDON ought to have done so; and that
it is the interest of his successors to make amends
for his short-comings, not to emulate them.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, 811NDAY Rvismo.

This being Easter Sunday, and one of the greatest
Parisian holidays in the year, is a blank day as re-
gards news. There are no evening papers.
The government has just placed the Corse steam
advice boat at the disposal of Marshal PeHasler, to
convey him and his suite to England.
Its astonishing how little one hears about the
elections for Paris. Jules Favre will, I believe, be a
candidate, but I do not think the liberal party are
yet agreed upon any other name. M. Deamerest,
the barrister who defended Tibaldi, is sp,ken of;
and so are M. Charles Boisselet (au homms da
latres), and M. Havin, of the &ids. Of course
there must be many jealousies and rivalries among
the members of the party to be got over, and as not
only public but even private meetings in any con-
siderable number are impossible, there are great
difficulties in the way of organising an opposition
list. Still I feel no doubt that before the 25th three
name* will appear upon one placard, for whom all
those who returned Cavaign•c, Cernot, and Gond-
chaux will vote with admirable discipline.
A prospectus is oat for a monster building to be
erected on the Boulevard de Sebutopol,which, under
the denomination of " Le Pallas da Commerce
Universel," is to be a bazaar, a library, and an hotel,
all in one. The projectors speak of vast suites of
show-rooms, galleries filled with patterns, and a
special gallery destined for advertisements from all
nations. There are to be thirteen drawing-rooms
dedicated to the principal States of Europe, and each
furnished in an appropriate manner. Tables d'hote,
coffee-rooms, reading-rooms, promenades, &c., figure
in the prospectus. The bill of fare will offer to
visitors of all nations at a fixed and moderate price
their own favourite dishes. The Englishman will
find his rumpeteak, the Italian his macaroni, the
German his sour trout, the Scandinavian his quarter
of reindeer, the Marseillais his bouille-i-baisse, and
the Chinese his bird's-nest soup. This is a very
seductive programme, but where is the money to
come from ? One would think the present period of
unexampled commercial depression a bad one for the
inauguration of such • scheme. The projectors,
however, point to the example of the Hotel du
Louvre, and hold out an expectation that the Uni-
versal Commercial Palace will be finished in six
months.

ITALY.

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CONDUCT OF THE ENGLISH DOVE;
IN THE CAGLIARI CASE.

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TURIN, 31.Asca IR.

The rumour which wu yesterday spread that the
Neapolitan government had rejected the list Sar-
dinian note, without making it any reply, has not
been verified. Naples has not yet spoken. But I
should not have written to you to-day merely to
contradict a false report. Being desirous to inform
myself minutely, and with certainty, about this un-
fortunate and compromising affair of the Cagliari, I
have learnt some particulars which it is very im-
portant should be communicated to you, because tney
relate to your own diplomacy, and because poor
Piedmont can now no longer found her hope and her
confidence on anything but on the power of the
opinion of the English people.
Be it therefore known to you that Count Cavour,
when sending his ultimatum to Naples, at the same
time caused the Marquis d'Azeglio to present to
Lord Malmeabury a note in which the Sardinian
government asked for the co-operation of the British
government in what may be called their common
business of the capture of the Cagliari and the judi-
cial incarceration of the crew. This note asked for
the co-operation of England with the more faith is
its being afforded, since in • communication three
months ago made by Sir James Hudson to Count
Cavour, the British minister had not hesitated to
acknowledge the illegality of the capture of the
Cagliari. Now, in reply to the note recently pre-
sented by the Marquis d'Azeglio, Lord Malmeabury
wishes to have it understood that Sir James Hudson
had wrongly interpreted the instructions and decla-
rations received from his (Lord Malmesbury's) pre-
decessor.

This communication, which was certainly a most
unexpected one, has excited in the cabinet of Turin
no =at astonishment. It does, indeed, seem most
extraordinary that a noble and powerful govern-
ment like the English should disavow its own
spokesman, after an official act done by him
has for several months put been producing
notable effects upon the deliberations of the Court to
which he is accredited, and after the Marquis
d'Azeglio has been several times reminding the late
English ministry of the signification and interpre-
tation attached to that official act. It cannot be de-
nied that Lord Clarendon's words spoken in the
House of Lords upon this matter have been uncer-
tain, and those of Lord Palmerston likewise. But
the Sardinian cabinet was bound to pay much
greater attention to the official declarations
than to the phrases uttered in a Parliament
where the Ministers always shun making any
speeches by which the liberty of their operations
might be restricted, or by which they might
be more or lees compromised with foreign govern-
ments. One thing, meanwhile, is certain ; and that
is that the vigorous proceedings of Sardinia towards
King Ferdinand have induced the latter to release
the two English engineers. All the previous nego-
tiations had proved of no avail; and it was only
after the arrival of the ultimatum of Sardinia that
the King of Naples all at once became benign and
compliant towards England. I therefore feel it my
duty to tell you that if Lord Melmesbnry persists in
disavowing the explicit declarations of his ambas-
sador, the British government may find itself justly
accused of haring first excited Piedmont to make an
exhibition of resolution and energy towards Naples,
and then, when by means of such demonstrations of
vigour the two English subjects have been liberated,
intending to abandon its generous but weak ally to
such fate as may befall.

This suspicion, however injurious it be to your
present system of diplomacy, finds but too frequent
confirmations in the history of foreign policy. In
any cue, there is one single thing of which I feel
quite assured, and it is this—that the magnanimous
English people abhor such artifices, and would
abhor them all the more i■ our case, inasmuch as
they would have been employed to the damage of
an ally which, though small, is a loyal one, and
which is not less jealous of its own dignity than poorly
furnished with the means of readily and securely
1 defending it. A.

(710111 ANOTIIII COSAIIIPONDINT.)
TURIN, Naacz 27.
Mr. Hodge underwent his second examination
yesterday ; tt woe not minute, and wu conducted
with great fairness on the part of the Sardinian
authorities, who alone were present. The knowledge
of M. Outrequin by Mr. Hodge, as manifested by
the letters of M. Bernard, was satisfactorily ex-
plained. The fact was elicited that the latter ten-
' thin= had given Ilr. Hodge two or three letters of

introduction to tradesmen in Paris, that he had
availed himself of them, but on finding that the
character of these houses of business was not alto-
gether satisfactory he wrote to Bernard to that effect,
who thereupon sent a letter to M. O•itrequin request-
ing his services in favour of Mr. Hodge. These ser-
vices were accepted by him, and he was so satisfied
with the manner in which M. Ontrequin behaved
towards him that he invited him to dine with him
once at the table d'hote at the Louvre.

It is reported that no farther examination will be
allowed by the Sardini .n Governments and that as
soon as there is time to communicate with France
Mr. Hodge will be discharged, as the Sardinian
authorities have admitted they have themselves
nothing against him of sufficient importance to
justify his detention on their account. This fact is
contrary to the statement of the Gavottes del Popolo
of the 24th inst., wherein it was stated that Mr.
Hodge would have to undergo his trial there, and
that M. Brofferio. as mentioned, was engaged for his
lefence. The conclusion probably was come to from
the fact that Brofferio had visited him in the Ospe-
dale del Cavalieri, but the positive statement may be
made that no further proceedings will be had against
him in Sardinia, and that the Government of that
country will not object to his further residence in
Piedmont.

The conviction that Mr. Hodge had no know-
ledge of the attempt at Paris has awakened • very
lively interest iu his favour amongst the Piedmon-
tees rand an invitation has already been sent to
him by a gentleman of fortune to spend some weeks
with him at his villa on the Lego Maggiore.
The sacrifice which the unfortunate Orsini has
made of himself for the redemption of his country
has raised in his favour amongst the youth of Italy,
and the republican party in general, an intense ex-
citement. A handsome monument will be raised
to his memory ; a medal will also be struck in his
honour, and his two children will be fully provided
for. It was reported at Turin that the Empress of
the French had offered to take them under her espe-
cial protection, but that the uncle of Orsini, who en-
joys both wealth and position in the Roman States,
had treated the proposal with indignation.

tared, and there are but twelve of the runaway loose at the
present moment. The re-captured prisoners are not
punished very moth for running away and they heat the
affair as rather a good joke. All the punialunent awarded is
that the prisoners have for a few days been handcuffed and
kept on "spare diet"—the spare diet, we suspect, is much
better than the diet the Kaffir, have been accustomed to.
The prisoners, without the least hesitation, tell the sentries
bow the escape wee designed. They say they selected the
fleetest runner, who was to alarm the sentry, and then jump
from the wall and run as fast as he could. They thought
the sentry would cheat§ him, and then the others, 160 in
number, could run out at the door, which they calett-
lazed would be left open, and they were all to take
an opposite direction from the man pursued. The man
who was to start, they all felt sure, could never be overtaken
by the sentry. The sentry, however, did not run after the
Bret who started, before be had called out the guard. The
whole of the 160 had not time to get away. Forty-three
only succeeded in doing so, the others were compelled to run
b ick to their cells. It is rather remarkable that none of the
prisoners whale wives are now in Cape Town, escaped from
the battery. Some of those who are looked to as head-
men among the prisoners, remarked, when questioned
about the attempted escape, that no one provided with a
wife had made any each attempt. Some persons allege
that the cause of the attempted escape was the
vain hops entertained by the Kaffir, that they would be
able to make their way to Kaffirland to get their wives.
There Is to be a court of inquiry, over which Mr. Charles
Piers, superintendent of convicts, is to preside. It is not in
, and near Cape Town only that they have escaped; the
'same thing hes occurred on the frontier also. Twenty-
' three Kaffir prisoners just before this escaped from the
gaol at King Williams Town, including the chiefs Tote,
' Umfuudisi, Kozo, and other unpronounceable celebrities.
Sir George Grey is said to regard this es a most pro-
yoking circumstance. The escape totems to have been
I mangged with the characteristic cunning and boldness of
the Kettle :n the middle of the night hideous yells were
heard to issue from the piece, giving the startled gaoler the
idea of lire, or were other dire calamity. The door wee un-
locked in all haste, when out rushed the Kaffirs, and before
their unhappy custodian amid recover his feet and give an
alarm, they had got far beyond the reach of immediate pur-
suit. Two men, under sentence of death, who were confined
in a separate cell, were ell that remeined in the prison. A
cordon of sentries was at once put round the town, and
we meet out in all directions, but without effect. The
patrols ure police were sent in pursuit.

The Cape Mon Mail states that a sergeant-major and ten
men of the German Legion, who had been engaged a coast shies
at King William's Town, have been dismissed from their
employ taint by the magistrates on account of neglect of
duty, In having allowed a number of iiiffirs to break out of
gaol. They were to be replaced by as many English. Mr.
Hood, a military settler, and formerly a non-commimioned
officer in the C. M. K., had been appointed superintendent of
the new force, of which six, it la said, wore to bs mounted
and armed with Coles reodvers.