The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-01 00:00:00

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•Up teterse, this evening, states ths liglpear
and Empress " and the Imperial Prince" will litre Bt.
Cloud for Biarritz to-morrow morning, aid thabso
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psbdnis aepartnre.„, god it is announced that he
will remain hare arts dipp Wier. The end of
Beptember is stillf treks* of, as the period of his
It is reported AA ilitrots Circa is to be made
senator, in consideration of his eminent service e in
China. It is also said that one of the new streets
it Pain is to be mina La Rue Tian-Bin.
The Bourse * been altogether brilliant. The
Rente rose 360. for omit, and 00c. for amount,
closinto:t 71fr. 25g., and 71fr. 40c. Mobilier rase
17fr. The settlement is going altogether against
the " bears." The railways were all higher, but
the rise seemly exceeded in any instance 2fr. 600.
The Press. says, in in weekly commercial re-
Time
Comewskialfsha lugs sow remold their regular move-
ment. TM astirity whieh begs* to develop hest shout s
nee* since saes farther progress every week. The shop
are laying la err &mongrels, ht the elpsolation of a good
winter mass* ; and tgom amentsotarars who, 'meteor sold

off this old stooks, an short of goods In mt/ohms: Ind
theologw obliged to pat on extra hands, to ardor to meg
ohs harm sad foreign Essasod. Than Is a good deg of
bps*, kr *Maio ergots. foe sapodilla', and In mess-
imam assay brimless of industry whioh have long boa-
gsgasat sex now oho** coaddavale sotivity. Advkes
tan flea grogaoss are ralidsetery. Important orders for the
United Stales sad the Brazils have ban ghee at Lyons and
ec Bliseas. Saw are Wish at Mulhomem and Room ; some
the meankstarsee are 'Mang somewhat higher rates for
gawky dims, bat prises are still not eery remaasmang on
acoaant of the soatinowl rise In the prim of the =mann-
Motored siege. TM qmoilioll' of credit I. now the only
dillooky r the way of • thorough revival of Mathew

Neanteeturers very generally prefer to decline orders rather
then mode them, if long credit is proposed ; and in mars
oases they require part payment in cash. Even in this re.
sprit, however, theirs is a decided improvement within the
list two mouths. The lest crisis swept sway many week
houses, and tarnished the means of judging of the solidity
of those width rudeled the shook. There Is great activity
is our serports. This is proved by the 11110110110 Or goods
trek on the runways. Peas are rising In all the comer-
dal towns; It was shown by the last custom-hoses retinue
that stocks in the entry6ta have greatly diminished. Cereals
are again lower in all the markets. It is now an ascertained
fact that the harvest of 1858 Is {SW Of In point of quentil7
to that of 1857, but them is still a best deal of old oath in
hand. Although we receive coullicting opinion' tram like
wine countries, and although the vines have staked in
curtain localities, the vintage will certainly be very abun-
dant. The grapes will be gathered from a fortnlebt to three
weeks earlier than uausl, and that is a great meson for
hoping that the wine of 1868 will be of supertor quality.

The reports which the Prefects make annually to
the oounoils general concerning the state of their,
departments give very various accounts of the
result of the harvest (recoils) using the word as'
applicable, not to the corn crop only, but to agri-
cultural produce of all kinds. The Prefect of the
Rhone says that although the crops "may not
have realised all the hopes which were at one
moment conceived, yet they promise sufficient and
even in some respects satisfactory malts." The
Prefect of the Hants Vienne affirms that "the
crops of every kind are magnificent, they realise
every hope, and richly reward the labours of
the agriculual populations." He promises
that bread this year shall be cheap everywhere.
A violent contrast to this sanguine view is to be
found in the address of the Prefect of the Lot, who
thus I had hoped to have been able to
congratulate myseur without reserve apon the &ban-
dana of the crops. Cereals are, indeed, plentiful,
but the incredible pestilence of the drought com-
pletely destroyed a great part of those second
growths which are so precious that they may be
called the poor man's harvest; and even the brilliant
hopes which the rich promise of our vines justified
us in entertaining are dashed from the same cause."
The Prefect of the Boucher-do-Rhone announces
that the harvest is not so good as last year, but that
it is nevertheless " satisfactory." The Prefect of
the Oise observes that the farmers have suf-
fered both from the dry weather and from the
want of hands. He states, however, that oereais
have not been so much injured by the drought
as the green Grope. It must be remembers&
that in a great country like Franco, eamprerisenp .et
many climates and latitudes, agricultural ar
from different departments could not possibly ble
calved if they were alt alike. Ido not, howeyeei,
think that this consideration sufficiently accounts for
the very great discrepancy in the opinions of the
Prefects. Probably some of them coetinise to act
upon the rule established at the foundation of the
empire, that everything was to be represented
couleur de rose, without reference to facts ; while
others think the time has come when truths net
immediately bearing upon dynastic points may
safely be told.
_ . _ _

The Petrie, notwithstanding the caution which, I
believe, it has received, protests against that part
of the Count de Persigny's speech which advocates
the maintenance of the present laws on the press;
it particularly objects to the system of warnings,
with all its oppressive useertainty.
The Utsiois gives the following version of the
affair of the protestant, arrested at Matabenge
In the town fa questicm them was a military sot-intendant,
• embus protereast. This functionary, being desirous to
open • plead worship In the town, where there never had
existed any protestant ampegatioe, anooseded in collecting •
certain number of signalmen, •tad wag to the mayor is order
le obtain the requisite perrelmion to amemble with the perms
who had even their signatures sad a protestant =Water.
The mayor granted the authorisation ; but the Praha of
the Nord, Wog informed of all the circumstances of the
roes, revoked the mayor's decree Notwithstanding this, the
military eats-Intandent and the protestant minister persisted
is bolding meetings for the purposes of worship with wee
weelheee. The prefer* caused the house of meeting to be
semoteedid by the polioe,said the persona wi.hiu to he arreSed.
larlorNeg the rob-Wadded and the minister. It le pro-
bable they will be promoted for holding illegal meetings.
A Paris correspondent of the Ind4pendance of
Brussel, thus alludes to the same subject :
" "

I can inform you that order, have base gives to reheat the
four meow hwarawated, but that thew pelage, awe of
whose le the raiskter, refire to leave the prime. ead Nur-
ptleally feast that a judield deoldes es the .s
shradd be glum The tessoisree team elites. the pools&
teats vomit affairs, adopted by cadge of the enivyeetest et
Amass, who weet 7 te Kallboodll her lbws
sweented. The assuming*/ the division hut ewes
Is Peale ca the sodded. The queen**, after all, is way
staple: skim the protestant. had obwrved the tersellthe
imposed es reilitous iweelage, sad is that ease the Dona
*nary who send spinet than seseeded Ids duty, est
should be pwebhed ; or they bad stet observed these Ise-
sends; and la that owe their roceplehtts ere uwhwelai,
So far u regards the dry law of the case, the sew
chiding observation of the above letter is perfectly
jug. But the for were important question sug-
gested is—in what spirit are the laws of Priam
which are supposed to gtuinuttee the free exercise of
religious worship to be administered in &tars ?
The military °Meer who got up the congregation
is spoken of in an odious Genie as a " se dons pro-
testant." Well, I suppose none but aealoves protes-
tant. are likely to take the initiative of founding
a chapel, and yet the zeal of this gentleman is ths

!Oily aplt reapon why the Prefect of A vesnes
went out his lay to revoke the authorisation
granted by the 4payor. This event is the first
fruits of the Bator's declaration to the priests in
Brittanyo*ltifis "accepted" the principle of tolera-
tion. The matter will doubtless be explained away
to the satisfaction of superficial obssyypen,_ blit it kt

'ay important: -: ----: • - -
Maezini's journal, the Italia del Perdition owed
to appear, being at length 'rushed stodurjhoweight
-1 illielAVlA9i4lll,l4,Mfft4KradegOlkinDurt•-
• A *tura& in yesterday's! Gehlessissi Molise to
Lord Lunen has tolled forth the following letter
from his lordship, who is now in Paris, to the editor
of that journal :
It is amt tree, as oared into your paper of Koedip, that I
Ist* bed the opportan4 el making the acqueinamee of
him* Gertabakoe at &via, and of oceiversing With hint
ca the allots of the late wet, Had it been so, It meld
sourely, I think, be fairly Brestuasd, es you presume, that
I should have explained She repediemoy of the light
cavalry charge at Balakiirea, when it is so weli-inisers
that I objected to and remonstrated against it previous
to Its execution, and have expired my strongest disappro-
bation of it on every occasion dam I cannot doubt that
whilst that very diciagnished and aide general Prince
Gortchskoff world equally dieapprove of the expedisaci of
that movement, he would not the lees omen, In the opinion
held by all the highest military authorities everywhem, that
for me, a divisional sod subordinate general, thee was no
optics, but an imperative obligati's' to obey, sad terry out
the positive sad written instruotices of Lord Raglan, who
was my commander-in- &Wahl litho was preaset.—l am,

ITALY.

TEE TWO SICILIES.

(rum ov* °wit

NAPLICS, AUGUST 24.
The correspondents of the daily press are discuss.
log the probabilities of the return of tag British and
French Legation to 'NINA .10.001 are those
probabilities founded? On the yielding of the
Western Powers, or of the Neapolitan Government ?
Neither the honour of the former Powers permits it,
nor do their Lettuces require it. Will the latter
power yield? I doubt It; but if eke does, to what
extent will it be P That is an important snbjest for
eossidaration, for I foresee that the time will come
when she will be driven to make some concessions,
end that then every opportunity will be
taken. to satisfy the expectations of England and
Frans at the least possible 'mace. An someety
has been meek talked of. • Now an amnesty with-
out political changes and guarantees is worth
nothing ; it would give freedom from imprisonment to
certain suffering individuals, but would confer no
good on the nation. The power of the government
to commit the lame abaus and cruelties would re.
main the same, and the same motives to discon-
' tent, exuparation, and coespirsey wield exist SI
strong as ever. Do not imagine that the Neapolitans
will be intimidated by past sufferings from renew-
ing their efforts to gain their liberties, for such
a supposition would be bistirricaUy erroneous;
and the probabilities , ere that an amnesty
would soon be followed by fresh deadest:se
dons and fresh arrests.. Another view of the
case is this—that an enlarged amnesty with.
out political change would expose the country to
the chances of commotion, and perhaps the life of
the sovereign to danger. Men smarting under such
injuries ae do many who are now in prison would be
neither very prudent nor very moral, and if they
found themselves and their country in the same poli-
tical position as when they were at the commence-
ment of their arrest they would strike a blow for
liberty be assured. An amnesty without great poli-
tical changes, therefore, would be se dangerous
that I regard it u an impossibility ; and as
his Majesty, in the true spirit of the
Bourbons, will never concede the latter, depend on
it he will never grant the former—that is to up, on
a very enlarged basis. As to a change of men,
whilst the same power pulls the wires it hi drivelling
to speak of it as • change for the better. , ;
Almost my last letter informed you that dump-
manta were being made for the marriage of the here.
ditary prince, and that directions were even given
to urge forward the preparations for the royal
palace. Now again they have been suspended, or a
esnaiderable, relaxation is manifested in the eitecu.
tile at the orders, and the inference is that some
other obstacle has arisen to the completion of those
long talked-of espousals.. Indeed, amongst certain
members of the royal family it is said that the mar-
riage will not now take place until January;
perhaps this is a gentle way of letting down
the whole matter. I believe that throughout
the negotiations such extraordinary conditions have
been insisted upon, that, taken in conjunction with
the singularly unpromising aspect of affairs in the
country, some considerable hesitation is felt in pur-
suing them any further. The Piedmontese papers
assert that the whole affair is abandoned. I am
not in a position to speak so decidedly, but from the
facts I mention you can draw some probable con-
clusion.

As straws show which way the wind blows, so
the following incident declares plainly enough what
is the spirit which animates the Government of the
Two Sicilia.. In 1848 there was one journal in
Salerno, the second city in the continental part of
the Two Sicilia'. It was suppressed, of come,
when the reaction took place. Recently an
attempt has been made to get op another.
The editorship was placed in the hands of two or
three priests and an advocate. What objection
could be made if Holy Mother Church had a finger
in the pie ? Expectation was all alive, but the In-
tendente was iIL At last his excellency, by royal
permission, got well, and license was demanded to
start a literary journal. The license was, however,
refined I and the youth of Salerno may go on u
usual, smoking, and trifling, and lounging in the
cafes. That is the life of a young man in this
country. He may not think nor read, but he may
do everything eke which tends to sink the indivi-
dual and national character. It is saoh a country
that the Neapolitan government and the Holy
Church can govern with the least difficulty, and
therefore the cry here will always be, " Evil, be thou
my good."

From a report of the statistics of mortality in the
capital, I find that from January Ist to August 15th,
in • settled population of 460,000, or, reckoning
provincials and foreigners, 600,000, SAS deaths
have occurred. In the same interval of time, 1,600
infants have been received at the Foundling Hos-
pital (the Annunciate), of whom 200 have died.
What the causes of this great morality may Writ
would be difficult to specify; but doubtless the low
state of medical skill is not an inooneiderable one,
and the little value which is attached to human life,
as may be attested by the negligence which is shown
often by medical attendants. Bad sewerage, too,
mast produce the worst effects, for there are certain
quarters which in the summer are perfectly uninha-
bitable, and they are generally those quartets to
which the English throng in order to have a file
view. In some degree the last evil is caries*
enough a police question, for last year last bete*
the fête of Pit di Grotta, certain of the sewers in
Chiatamon were blocked up, under the impression
that evil-minded men might have concealed thesi-
selves in order to lay violent hands on the King.
Nature, however, avenged herself, and at the begin-
ning of winter the whole street was broken up by
the accumulation of the sewage, and considerable
damage done to public and private property.
Since writing the above I have been warned
against trusting too much to the reports that the
royal marriage will not take place. This is ems-
tray to the fact, say some, who affirm that they an
in the secret. Perhaps, say they, the report is
spread about by the police of a court which tumbles
at every novelty. The apartments of the late
Queen-Mother are being decorated; but, as they
will not be ready until the commencement of the
new year, the loyal pair will occupy the Palace a
the Favorite, it is said, near Portici. Her Mejek
has asked for a separate apartment for her ded
son also. Her ambition, or maternal affeetfila
seeks to place him on a par with the hereditary
Primo., and some months have elapsed sines I
eanoemeed to you th it the young Prince had boat,
permitted to be present at the Councils of Stets.

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