The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-20 00:00:00

CENTRAL ITALY.-THE LATE VOTE.

Turin was illuminated on the 16th to celebrate
the votes of Tuscany and the Emilien provinces
for annexation.

The Opinions of Turin compares the number of
votes expressed by Central Italy with the popula-
tion u follows :

No. of inhab. Votes expressed.
TuaosDy 1,806,940 386,445
Endlien provinces (Ar
• MA, Modena, Lega-
tions) 2,127,106 406,791

Totals
or upwards of 20 per cent. of the population, so
that all those who had a right to vote have exer-
cised it. It adds by way of comparison that the
plebiscite for the empire in France comprised
8,475,952 votes out of a population of 35,781,628
inhabitants, or nut quite 23 per cent.
A letter from Pisa, in speaking of the late elec-
tions, says :—" In some places the priests endea-
voured to exercise pressure on their flocks to induce
them to vote againat the annexation. But on the other
hand others declared warmly in its favour. Thus,
the priest of the church of St. Martha in this city
preached a sermon, in which he declared the prin-
ciple of annexation to be 'sacred' and evangeli-
Ital.' Notwithstanding the sanctity of the place,
this declaration drew forth bravos and loud cries of
'Long live the King !' The Bishop of Pesci*, on
his part, attired in full ecclesiastical costume, led
the people to vote for annexation. In fact, in must
places, the clergy proclaim that they ounsider it a
duty to prove that they are patriots and Italians
rather than priests."
The Opinion, in its remarks on the late elec-
tions, states that no intrigue or fraud was neg-
lected by the hostile parties to render the vote by
universal suffrage abortive. Thus, a clique of
gentlemen interested in the cause of the fallen
princes, and,what is most singular, chiefly composed
of foreigners, had a vast number of bulletins
printed with the words :—" Union to the constitu-
tional anarchy," in the hope that, as the majority
of the peasantry could not read, or, if they could,
did not understand the difference between monarchy
and anarchy, a large proportion of votes would be
annulled. The Opinion adds that it knows the
names of the authors of this ingenious device, but
will not publish them because the matter is being
judicially investigated by the Tuscan government.

Th. Tuscan Monitor states that a first instal-
ment of one and two franc pieces, with the effigy
of King Victor Emmanuel, has been issued by the
mint of Florence, and that a large quantity of
decimal copper money coined in England for Tus-
cany will soon be sent over.

TURIN, MARCH 19.

A note from the government of Tuscany ad-
dressed to Europe explains the reasons why the
vote by universal suffrage rendered annexation to
Piedmont s necessity.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY.

The Muni/4w contains a list of persons to whom
decorations of the Legion of Honour are given foe
services rendered to our army in Italy.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Malice 19.

The Conesporaieneia Autogrofa contains the
following :—" Ae the Moore will only consent to
pecuniary sacrifices as the conditions of peace, war
must be continued."

This evening there will be a full council of
ministers.

It is asserted that Generale Prim, Rios, and
Lebola have been raised to the dignity of grandees
of Spain of the first alas.

PORTUGAL

LISBON, NIAICe 18.

The Minister of Marine is dewL The Cortes has
authorised the free exportation of wheat and barley
until the 30th of June.

BAVARIA.

MUNICH. MARCH 19.

The news of the Stettgarder /3eobacidcr, that the
French anihaasador at Munich had already spoken
of a cession of the Palatinate to France, has been
officially contradicted.

THE STADE DUES.
HANOVER, MONDAY.

Hanover proposed an indemnity as bases for
negotiations in universal conferences concerning the
redemption of the Stade Dues. England refused
to agree to the amount proposed. Negotiations
are bring continued.

INDIA.
BOMBAY, Fix 25.
Tin loans are all closed. An income tax of 2
and 4 per oent., and a State paper currency, are
announced.
Important alterations are to be made in the tariff.
The duty on twist and yarn is to be raised to
10 percent.
Saltpetre is to be subject to a duty of 2 rupees
per macnd of 82 pounds.

BOMBAY, Fn. 25.

The income tax will be two per cent. on incomes
of twenty to fifty pounds, and above that four per
cent. No clam will be exempt.
The licence bill has been modified, and the Wale
reduced to one rupee, four rupees, and ten rupees.
Hemp, jute, hides, wool, flax, tea, and coffee,
are to be free of duty.
Twenty per cent, duties are to be lowered to ten
per cent.
An invasion of Kokees has taken place in Tip-
porah. 1,000 persons were murdered.
A report is current of treason in Indoor, the
capital of Holkar.

THE lINIT'ED STATES.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY Nunn.

The Royal Mail steamer Europa has arrived
here. Her news is generally anticipated, rid
Queenstown.
A fresh aggression on the British territory, at a
place named Langley, was reported from British
Columbia. Much excitement on the subject pre-
vailed at Victoria.

Sterling exchange at New York quiet at 1081
to log.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(mom oua owm colutzaroprmerr.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The Bourse was dull. The Rente, after fluctu-
ations not extending beyond 10c., closed at yester-
day's prioes—Mr. 90c., both for cub and account.
Mobilier fell lfr. 25c. Railways were tolerably
firm, but with very little change in quotations. A
report was in circulation that to-morrow, March
20—a Napoleonic anniversary—S►voy will be occu-
pied by French troops.
The Imperial Court has, in my opinion, done
quite right in acquitting the Bishop of Orleans.
The editors of the Sikhs, of whom the bishop knew
nothing except by the hard things which they had
said of him and his cloth, were too sensitive when
they fastened upon the expression in a letter from
the prelate to M. Grandguillot, of the Constifit-
tionnet--" You are a man of honour "—aa im-
plying that the writers in the Sidcle, of whom
he had just before been speaking, were
not, and bringing their action thereupon.
This imputation upon the "honour" of the
Sack ought to have been construed in a
" Pickwickian " sense, and so the court thought.
But M. Chain d'Ent Ange, the Procureur-General,
who, as I have already told you, threw the
Siècle overboard, pressed for a conviction of the
bishop in the other action, which, of the two, was
infinitely more absurd. The present Bishop of
Orleans, an enthusiastic ultramontanist, being told,
in the course of a bitter controversy, that one of
his predecessors in the see, Mgr. Rousseau, who
has been dead and buried these fifty years, ex-
premed opinions different from his own, replied in
writing that Bishop Rousseau was reputed in the
diocese to be but a "poor creature," and that he
had sacrificed his allegisuce to the church
for the sake of promotion and the patron-
age of Napoleon I. These charges, supposing
them to be well founded, only show that
Bishop Rousseau was a " man of his epoch." If
not true of him it is quite certain that the libel I.
more or less applicable to most of the bishops who
took service under Napoleon when Pius VII. waa •
prisoner at Fontainebleau. However, a certain
widow Bertin, an obscure old woman of fourscore
and upwards, living somewhere in the provinces,
and who is a collateral relation of the late Bishop
Rousseau, was put forward as a champion of the
honour of her family, and an action was brought
in her name against the present Bishop of Orleans.
A notion is undoubtedly prevalent in France that
a man has a right to take up the valuable time of
courts of law by actions to defend the memory of
his ancestors, and this notion received judicial
confirmation in a complaisant judgment given
some short time ago in favour of the memory
of Prince Eugene against the author of the " Me-
moirs of Marshal Marmout." But this extension
of the libel law is supremely ridiculous. If the
Bishop of Orleans had been ooudemned for • libel
upon his predecessor dead and gone at a period in-
finitely remote, if we consider the various dynasties
and forms of government that have risen and fallen
in the interval, it would have been impossible to
write history with safety. Just as reasonable
would it be to entertain actions on behalf of the col-
lateral relations of Voltaire and Rousseau against
the publishers of half the religious works of the
day. The judgment of the Imperial Court, de-
livered this morning, has reconciled the law with
common sense. It repudiates, in the most distinct
manner, the right of au individual to prosecute
for a libel in the name of his dead an-
cestor ; and, by way of illustrating the ab-
surdity of the idea, the judgment asks what
is to be done in the case of one descendant wiahiug
to bring ►n action while another thinks it more
prudent, and at the same time more respectful fur
the memory of the deceased, to remain quiesceut.
After having stigmatised the action as au attempt
to invent a new offence, unknown to the oude—
that of a libel upon a dead person—the judgment
explain, certain decisions which have been supposed
to countenance the notion as proceeding upon the
fact that the essence of the libel in those eases was
an intentioa to injure the reputation of living per
by the means of allusions to their ancestors.
In the present case the court expresses the must
decided opinion that the incriminated letter of the
Bishop of Orleans applied solely to the memory of
the late bishop, and, being in no way pointed at his
relatives now alive, was therefore not actionable.

Marshal Valliant gave a grand diplomatic dinner
on the 15th to Marquis d'Asglio, governor of Milan, and
other distinguished personages.

. _
The Brussels journals state that the Duke tie
Brabant intends to set out in a few days for the Turkish
capital.

Golignani gays that when conveyed to a private
lunatic eayluni Id. Jullion exhibited the wont phew' et
madness, and hie medical attendants entertained ne Lope
whatever of a speedy cure. Ms reason returned some hours pre-
viously to Medians" and after receiving the last sacraments,

be passel sway in perfect consciousness. His last wails
related to a hymn which he had not long since °armored,
and called a Napileonieune, from its being In honour of the
Emperor of the French. "Let it be sent," he said, "to
his Majesty. It will, perhaps, procure bread for my poor
wife." K. Jullien has left a widow and two adopted chil-
dren, one of whom, a !hie young man of two-and-twenty,
engaged himself some months back in a French lancer regi-
ment, in onler sot to be a burden on K. Jullien in his mis-
fortunes. The other, a girl, lives with Kw. Jullien, and is,
like the widow, totally tuiprovitled fur.

• LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(TWA DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holrqd.)
II IL JAMB ALLEN.

The bankrupt wasa;;MnibTis-
proprietor, of Pelham-tel.
race, Bayswater. This was the certifiutte meeting. Thu
liabilitift are small, 7671. ; auets about 100/. At the be.
ginning of 1A59 the baakapt had a capital or surplus of
; eleven mouths' trading yielded hum a gross profit of
730/. ; but on the other side there were looms of 1,373/.„
and expenses of 6764
Mr. Lumley supported ; Mr. Abrahams opposed for the
assiguees.
• •• • - - • - - -

li:appeared that the bankrupt had originally been the.
driver of one of the Bayswater omnibuses ; at the beginning
of last year, by the assistance of some gentlemen to
whom he was favourably known, he was enabled to
purchase some omnibuses and horse. on his own
account ; but he had incurred heavy losses from the
mortality amongst his cattle. The chief complaint
against the bankrupt was, that a very few days before the
bankruptcy he had allowed a creditor, Mr. Kemp, corn
merchant, who had taken proceedings against him, to obtain
poestArion of an omnibus and some horses.
His Honour said the case was one of misfortune in some
respects ; but what weighed most strongly against the
bankrupt was the fraudulent preference. He must have
known that it was his duty, when he could not pay all hip
creditors in full, to allow them to share alike. The °elfin.
ate (second class) must be suspended for three months.
THE PATENT DICIUUCIL COMPANY (LIMITED).
The petition praying for a vrinding.up order in this case
stood for hearing by adjournment to-day.
Mr. Lucas stated that all parties concerned had agreed,
with the sanction of the court, to take au adjournment tot
six weeks.
Adjourned accordingly.