The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FIMI OM OWN 00111EIPONDIIIT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY Evzanco.
The positive statement of the government
journals last night, that the consent of the Porte
to the proposed expedition to Syria had arrived,
was untrue. The assurances of the Prase this
evening that the " news of the adhesion of the
Porte is confirmed," and of the Pays, that "it
may be regarded as certain that the acquiescence has
arrived," are equally valueless. There was a con-
ference yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, but the Pays admits that no definitive
resolution was come to, and that difficulties in
point of detail occurred which, though " not of
great importance," necessitated a reference to
their governments on the part of the respective
plenipotentiaries. Another conference was held
to-day at M. Thouvenel's, and it is said that the
convention was " accepted "—whatever may be
meant by that expression. It is certain, however,
that it was not signed ; the Turkish ambassador
said that he had not sufficient powers ; and the
consent of the Porte—that indispensable condition
which is made so light of here—is yet waited for.
It is rumoured that the Spanish ambassador was
allowed to take his seat in the conference to-day as
the representative of a " great power," pursuant
to the desire of France some time since expressed.
The &Wine& Tcndonnaise estimates at 1,500 the
number of sailors arrived at Toulon within the
last few days.
We read in the Paine the following remarkable
admission :

In Germany the armad intervention of France in Syria
continues to be very coldly received. Most of the journals
exhibit an unjustifiable distrust of France, and it is even
stated that the meeting of Toeplits is due in part to the
eventualities of the eastern question.

The Bourse was dull with little business doing.
The ascertained falsity of the news put forth last
night about the acquiescence of the Porte produced
a depressing effect. The Rente closed with a fall
of 10c., at 68fr. 10e. Mobilier fell 3fr. 7k. The
Orleans Railway fell Mr. In the other lines there
was little doing.
I hear that the Meuager de Path, a journal
which has been for a long while in a chronic state
of transition, has now definitively passed into the
hands of the police, and that M. Hippolite Castillo
is its director.

ITALY.
SARDINIA.

Pam ous owl am

TURIN, Jima. 24.

A monstrous canard has been freely distributed
at Naples, in Sicily, and I believe out of Italy,
viz., that a secret treaty exists between the French
government and ours regarding the future
.arrange-
ment of Italy. The object of this fiction is to sow
discord in Italy, and to render the Piedmontese
government suspected iu the eyes of foreign, more
of especially English, diplomacy. The distributors
of this alleged treaty are agents of Lamoricihre and
the dispossessed princes, and many copies have
been found on a much suspected Austrian
traveller. The substance of this invention is
as follows :—Piedmont shall be allowed to
take possession of the Two Sicilies ; all propaga-
tion of her ideas in the Marches and in Umbria
shall be forbidden, but if a spontaneous revolution
should break out, and those countries should de-
mand to be united to Piedmont, no intervention to
prevent this shall be tolerated. France, on the
other band, will not aid Piedmont if she should
ever wish to deprive Austria of Venetia by force.
In return for these concessions (you see that the
last is not much of ono), the King of
Piedmont shall, without consulting the popu-
lations, give purely and simply to France
the whole of Liguria, including Genoa, the island
of Sardinia, and the island of Elba! Even
persons not particularly well informed will at
once perceive the absurdity of this invention, which,
among other objects, has that of taking away all
hope from Venetia and driving out of our army the
large number of Venetian volunteers at present
serving in it. For the rest, it is beyond doubt that
Europe would oppose such a transaction iu a far
plainer and leas mild and gentle manner than
she did the annexation of Savoy and Nice,
which Piedmont was obliged to consent to
through want of external support. The annexation
to France of Liguria, Sardinia, and Elba
would entirely upset the equilibrium of
Europe, and make the Mediterranean a French
lake with a vengeance. This absurd fiction has,
however, its lesson, and it is this—the abstinence
of all the other powers from taking any part in the
resurrection of Italy has left to France all the dan-
gerous merit of her conduct ; I say " dangerous' "
not only to France herself, but to Italy, and the
principal European powers, to whom the Italian
resurrection cannot give offence, and may even bo
useful, but to whom the aggrandisement of France,
already too great and too powerful, may turn out
most mischievous. May it not be, in future,
good policy for England to do something herself in
aid of Italy, so that France may not be able to
claim such usurious and ruinous payment for ser-
vices rendered "for an idea 3"
Another canard is the strange list of conditions
imposed by our government on that of Naples for
the conclusion of the desired alliance. Our go-
vernment has not yet laid down any condition at
all ; it has taken time, and has replied that it must
see things a little more settled first, must wait till
I the Neapolitan parliament is opened, to learn what
aro the legitimate opinions of the people, and whe-
ther it really wishes for this alliance, which would be
a new phenomenon in the history of Italy. That
the King of Naples, reduced to extremities, throws
overboard a great part of his cargo to save the rest;
that after having despised and threatened Piedmont
he implores her alliance, is quite comprehensible
to any one who knows how vile the Bourbons
are ; but that our government should wish to
aid in saving the King of Naples must be incredible
to every one ; not for reasons of ambition, as has
been so often falsely said, but from motives of self-
preservation, and in order not to lose the support
of public opinion, which is its best strength, in
order not to fall into the clumsy trap that has
been set for it by the reactionists, it must and will
refuse this insidious alliance.
One of the Neapolitan officers who have thrown
up their commissions and come here to offer their

services to Victor Emmanuel, has written an article
in the Opinions, which, I hear, our government
is not very well pleased with, since, if
it should be imitated by the other officers
who have come here, it would impede rather
than facilitate their admission into our army,
especially as the tone of this indiscreet article seems
to imply that these officers are deserters, which is
not the fact, since they had obtained their discharge
in • perfectly regular manner. But as this act bears
a merely individual character, it will not prevent
our being able, without the slightest violation of
international rules, to make use of these officers,
among whom is the gallant captain of artillery,
Somme, belonging to the princely house di Circella.
At 10 o'clock to-morrow morning the Neapolitan
ambassadors, Manna and Winspeare, accompanied
by Signor Canofari, will have a special audience of
his Majesty. This audience, however,we may be sure,
will not advance their object a single step, for the
matter is now taken out of the hands of diplomacy.
It belongs to the Neapolitan people, more than
any one else, to settle the question, and I believe
they will settle it in a few weeks, if not days, by
kicking the Bourbons out of that pleasant city of
Naples which they have so skilfully turned into a
hell upon earth. They themselves begin to think
so too, for they have already begun to send to
Vienna certain things which they had placed at
Gaeta, with the intention of fetching them back to
Naples when the storm should have blown over,
and matters have got settled again.