The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1867.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THZ ROMAN QUESTION.
The gravity of the announcement contained in
the Paris Muniteur of this morning cannot be over-
estimated. It appears from the statement of the
French official journal that the presence of Garibaldi
on the scene of action has kindled anew the flame
of Italian patriotism, and that he was by the last
accounts marching on Rome at the bead
of 4,000 volunteers. In all probability the
citizens of Rome, with a knowledge that
the popular hero is at hand, will rise in insur-
rection and with more effect than in the partial
rising made by the Deputy Cairoli, who lost his
life in the attempt. It is no doubt in consequence
of this new state of things that the Emperor Napo-
leon has come to the serious resolution of order-
ing the French troops to embark at Toulon. The
iron-clad squadron has in fact left already. In
this critical position of matters the resolution of
the Italian ministry will be looked for with intense
interest. The situation of King Victor Emmanuel is
one of the greatest difficulty. He must apparently
choose between revolution at home or resistance
to France. The consequences of either are the
most serious that can well be imagined, and it is
possible that they may extend even beyond the
two countries immediately concerned. Of the
excited state of public feeling in Italy there can
be no doubt. As we have made our readers aware,
that excitement has been augmenting day by day,
and there are indications that the popular en-
thusiasm has penetrated some portion of the
regular army.
According to the last accounts the agitation in
Florence was very great. On Tuesday morning
the walls of Florence were covered with the follow-
ing placard :—" Italians ! Fighting has been going
on in Rome since yesterday evening. To-day, at 11,
there w ;Übe ameeting on the Piazza della Signora."
Notwithstanding the rain, a great number of persons
met, and two battalions of the 32nd Line were in
the street, who were loudly cheered. After send-
ing an address to the President of the Council,
the multitude assembled before the house
in which Garibaldi was staying, and in a
few seconds the general appeared on the balcony.
Everybody at once uncovered, and the place re-
sounded with acclamations. Garibaldi begged the
people to cover themselves. The peopla in turn
cried, " General, cover yourself," which he did,
and then proceeded to address them in impassioned
words. Among other things he said, " The people,
with the fraternal concurrence of the army, will
enter very soon into possession of the Roman ter •
ritory, which has been soiled but too
long by foreigners. As to myself, I pledge
you I will do my duty to the death." At 2
o'clock on the same afternoon Garibaldi left for
Foligno and Terni by special train. It is said that
when Rattazzi, as Minister of the Interior, was
asked to put a locomotive at Garibaldi's disposal, he
replied, " Instead of one give him two." Gari-
baldi had with him Basso, his son-in-law, and a
dozen men as body guard. He left behind him the
following proclamation :

Italians l Our brothers at Rome have put up the barri-
cades, and since yesterday evening have been fighting
with the creatures of papal tyranny. Italy looks to each

of us to do his duty. GA RI BALD!.
Oct 22, 1867.
The central committee announced the intelligence
in the following terms :

Italians ! Rome has risen. Our brothers fight to re-
store to Italy the capital which a reactionary conspiracy
disputes with her. Shall we abandon them? No : in
spite of the menacing bravadoes of foreign governments
which insult our brave army by imposing on the countij a
cowardly retractation of its rightr. Hesitate no more. The
hour looked for for centuries has come. To Rome, to Rome!
—let this be our cry, our aim.
The central oommittee, G. PALLAVTCThO, F.
CRIBPI, E. CAIBOLT, L. LATORTA, A.
OLIVA, F. Ds BONI, L 1111cr.u.
Florence, Oct. 22, 1867.

Addresses are being prepared at all points of
the peninsula calling upon the King to uphold the
national honour. From Turin, in particular,
which may be called the cradle of the dynasty,
there is a strong and general demand that the
government should push on to Rome, and the
journals are openly discussing the necessity of a
federal republic if Rome is not made the capital of
the kingdom. A subscription on behalf of the
wounded patriots was opened in Turin, and the
first name on the list is that of the Countess Mira-
fiori, who has subscribed 601.
A letter from Rome of Oct. 19, in the Saha
Public of Lyons, says :

In Rome everything seems ready for an insurrection.
We are told every evening that it may be expected the
next day. The form of a projected plebiscite is in circula.
tion, and it contains a clause expressly stipulating that the
pontifical authority is to be respected. Rome et this moment
presents the aspect of a besieged city. Ito streets are silent
and deserted. The native: troops are confined to barracks.
They are in fact prisoners, for they are presumed to be to
a man favourable to the insurrection. The young men

not yet arrested sleep away from home and change their
lodgings every night. Not a single corps of Roman volun-
teers has been formed for the defence of the Holy See.
Not one Roman has enlisted in the Papal Roman army.
There are few families who have not relations either
prison or:in voluntary exile.

Letters from Toulon describe the city and all the
villages round as being full of soldiers, and all
the roads as being incumbered with artillery
waggons and horses. The commander-in-chief of
the expeditionary army had issued two orders of
the day of a very bellicose character.
We find the following in the Temps of yesterday :

Very serious rumours were •float on the Bourse
to-day, which we are not in • position either
to confirm or to deny. Amongst other thicgs
it was reported that Garibaldi was before Rome,
and as a natural consequence that fresh orders were issued
to the fleet. All we can say is that the report relative to
Garibaldi is not improbable after the facts which marked
his stay in Florence and his departure from that city.

THE ADDRESS OF THE ROMANS TO THE
POPE.-ITALIAN INTERVENTION ASKED

FOR.

One of the official journals of Rome has denied
the fact of an address having been presented to the
Pope asking for the intervention of Italian troops.
We find, however, from other sources that the in-
cident really took place. The address, which was
signed by 12,000 Romans, was as follows :
Excellency,—The situation of the country has become so
grave that it has no guarantee for anyone. Prison, con-
stant perquisitions, the threat of a state of siege, the
show of military forces, instead of allaying have but in-
creased the irritation of our people, already excited by
so many evils. The numerous insurrectionary proclama-
tions lately published, especially that of the 16th—e copy
of which we send you—mast show everyone that re-
volution I. imminent. The undersigned citizens, whose
signatures over various @beets exceeded 12,000, in the
strong desire to preserve Rome from great calami-
ties, address your excellency with confidence, begging you
to kterpret to his holiness our lord the sentiments of the
population, and to implore the only remedy which can be
efficacious, the intervention of the regular troops of the
Italian kingdom. Excellency, the citizens of Rome, of
whom you are the lawful representative to the Sovereign
Pontiff, are convinced that you will interpose efficaciously
in the common interest of the country which has never
failed and never will fail in respect to the common father of
the faithful, but whose authority would be enfeebled by