The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-12 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(RIVTIR'S TILIGRAM/1.)
WAR RUMOURS IN PARIS.
PARIS, Aram 11, Evrterxo.

Rumours have been current here to-day that the
reserve had been called out, and that General
Palikao had issued a warlike order of the day.
This evening these rumours,are denied.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, APRIL 11.

To-day Signor Rattazzi communicated to the
Chamber of Deputies the list of the new ministry,
which does not differ from that already telegraphed,
with the exception that the Portfolio of War is
entrusted, ad interim, to General Pescetto, the
Minister of Marine. Signor Rattazzi made a
speech in which he said, " The aim of the ministry
and of the parliament should be to at once se-
riously take into consideration those financial mea-
sures which are demanded by the country and by
the necessity of restoring the public credit.
No preoccupations exist for Italy abroad, we
ought therefore to actively occupy ourselves
with home affairs. Relative to administrative
and. financial questions, that is, to the intro-
duction of reforms in the administration and the
redistribution of the taxes, the ministry will
follow the course traced out in the speech from the
throne." He announced that the government
would introduce bills for the reorganisation of the
army, and would sanction the other reductions in
the budget agreed upon by the committee. It
would also bring forward bills for the conversion
of the ecclesiastical patrimony, for the introduction
of a regular system in the carrying on of public
works guaranteed by the State and the credit
establishments of the country.
With reference to the late ministersal crisis,
Signor Rattazzi announced that ho would reply to
the interpellation of Signor Ferraris on that
subject.

SWITZERLAND.

BERNE, APRIL 11.

Federal councillors Fornerod and Knusel have
been commissioned to sign the treaty concluded
with Belgium for the mutual protection of artistic
and literary copyright.

THE HUNGARIAN DIET.

METH, Ann, 11.

In to-day's sitting of the Upper House of the
Diet, the resolution of the Lower House relative to
the Croatian question was adopted.
Count Anton Szapary, in his quality of Deputy
Chief Equerry, has been entrusted with the organ-
isation of the arrangements for the forthcoming
coronation.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PARIS, Anti!. 11.

The return of the Bank of France for the week
ending to-day shows the following changes as
compared with that of bet week : Decrease—
Cash in hand, 8,900,000 f. ; bills discounted,
12,200,000 f.; advances,2oo,ooof.; n0te5,3,333,000f. ;
Treasury balance, 4,400,000 f. ; private accounts,
13,800,000 f.

THE JAMAICA PROSECUTIONS. Whether the
Jamaica Committee will take any further steps against
Mr. Eire will probably depend upon the shape taken by
the trial of Nelson and Brand ; but his conduct in oon-
flexion with the Jamaica outbreak will not wholly escape
investigation in public courts, for Dr. Bruce is now on his
way from Jamaica for the purpose of instituting an action
against Mr. Eyre and Colonel Nelson for false imprison-
ment.—The Engli.J. Independent.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 11.—The New York and
Havre Company's United States steamship Guiding Star,
from New York on the 30th ult., arrived here this after-
noon, with a large general cargo, 30 passengers, and
144,000 dole. in specie for France. She proceeded for
Havre at 2 p.m.
At Liverpool yesterday Mr. Branch offered for
sale, by orders of the liquidators of Barned's Banking
Company, some office property fronting Castle-street,
Liverpool, and adjacent to the Exchange. The highest
bid was 41,4001., but the reserve being 65,000/. the pro-
perty was withdrawn. A similar result attended the
attempted sale of some property in the same neigh-
bourhood ; the reserve price being 13,000/. (or 30/. the
square yard), while the highest bid was only 3,300/.

(nom OUR OWN COI

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Antic 7.

Of course the news of our misfortune will have
arrived, and will have been commented upon
in the unfavourable sense in which alone English-
men can comment on it, long before this reaches
you. I think that there is hardly anybody here—
certainly no political party—that does not feel and
admit the last change of ministry to be a misfor- '
tune. It is a misfortune quite irrespective of the
qualifications or disqualifications of the late and
of the new ministers, let those be what they may.
And the commentary which foreign nations, and
especially Englishmen, will not fail to make, is that
Italy is showing herself, whatever else she maybe, to
be unfitted for the special duties and requirements
of parliamentary government. Here is the
second ministerial catastrophe within a few weeks,
and that in the face of circumstances imperatively
' requiring patriotic forbearance, mutual co-opera-
tion, and the postponement of personal suscepti-
bilities and petty feelings to the paramount consi-
derations for the national welfare. And the ,
worst feature of the matter is, that these changes of ,
front in the face of the hostile army of circumstances
are occasioned by no sufficient or parliamentary
reason. It is not that the country has condemned
one political system or set of ideas together with
the partizans of them, and that the supporters
of an opposite policy are therefore to succeed to the
duty of administrating the affairs of the nation. I
Not a bit of it. We know nothing of any change
of policy or principles which is embodied.
in these changes of ministry. There is no overt
and intelligent reason why Ricasoli should resign.
A majority of the Chamber, stronger than he or
anybody else had been inclined to expect, seemed
disposed to give him all the support he could
desire. Why did he and his cabinet resign ?
Because, say the street and cafe quidnunc'', Baron
Ricasoli recently promulgated a cabinet regulation
the effect of which would be to concentrate all real
power in the hands of the premier, and leave the
other ministers mere clerks. But this is not so.
For the gist of the promulgation in question had
been law before, by virtue of regulations
previously made in 1884, '65, and '66. Ay ;
but the manner of the fiero Barone was
haughty and offensive, in calling attention to
and desiring a more exact observance of these pre-
existing regulations ; that is to say, that the
motive for the destruction of the cabinet, under
circumstances which most imperatively required
that it should remain at its post to do the duty
it had taken upon itself to accomplish, was mere
pique and personal jealousy and petty resent-
ment. And all this cannot but be felt to be doubly
ominous and of evil augury by those who are well
acquainted with the course of Italian, especially
Tuscan government in the old times, when last Italy
tried her hand at self-government—in the days be-
fore the three hundred years of lethargic sleep from
which she hassbrecentlyawakened. Thecauseswhich
are impeding the possibilities of government now
are terribly like those which used to make all
good government impassible in old Florence : the
same selfishness, the same quickness to mistrust
and utter incapacity to trust any man, the same
bitterness of hatred, the same readiness to sacrifice
anything to the gratification of it, the same deter-
mination to pull down anything tall enough to over-
shadow one's self.

The only real point of urgent interest is what
the new—newest--finance minister will do. Signor
Ferrara has the reputation of an able financier.
But the antecedents of Signor Rattazzi are not re-
aasuring. In one sense it is well to see a ten-
dency to recruit the cabinet from the new blood
of the Left, as indicated by the presence in the
ministry of Signor Crispi. But severed from all
indication of the policy the new men mean to pur-
sue, it remains to be seen whether this is to be re-
garded as a ground of hopefulness or the reverse.

We have the celebrated United States turret-
ship the Miantonomah, with her consort, the
Augusta, at Leghorn. Crowds have gone down
from Florence to see this strange monster of the
deep—doubly strange to these people. Nothing
can exceed the kindness and courtesy with which
the officers of both ships have received the throng-
ing guests, who have boarded them in an almost
continuous stream. I was at a ball given on the
deck of the Augusta, turned for the occasion into
a most picturesque marquee, on Friday last ; and
I do not think that I ever saw a festivity of the
kind at which every one present seemed to enjoy
themselves so heartily. The lads and lasses
danced through the night " till all was blue "
bluest of all the lovely morning star-spangled sky,
beneath which the ship's boats carried us ashore
when nobody could shako a leg any longer.

ADMIRALTY, APRIL 11.—NAVAL APPOINTMENT.
—Surgeon X T. Mortimer, to the Virago.
ENGLISH AND SWEDISH BANE.—An extraordi
nary general meeting was held yesterday, at the London
Tavern, " for taking into consideration the dissolution of
the company, and the time, mode, terms, and conditions
at, in, and on which such dissolution (if determined on)
shall aka place, and for providing that the winding up
shall be effected by the board of directors." Mr. John-
ston in the chair. The chairman, after referring to the
circular intimating that the negotiations for the transfer
of the Waness to the Scandinavian Credit Company bad
failed, stated that having regard to the wish expressed by
some shareholders at the meeting a fortnight ago, that the
number of directors should be reduced in order to save
expense, he proposed that two directors only should be
appointed liquidators with whom should be associated
two shareholders, to be named by the general body. He
also recommended that they should fix now the remune-
ration of the liquidators. He moved that with a view to
the dissolution of the company it be wound up voluntarily.
SirJ. Bowling seconded this, and asked what amount the
directors expected to return. The Chairman—From UM.
to 19/. a share. The motion was carried unanimously.
Messrs. E. Johnston and J. H. Johnson (directors), and
Messrs. C. Bell and T. A. Mulkey, shareholders, were on
the motion of Mr. Beaumont appointed liquidators.
At the suggestion of Sir J. Bowring rt WWI agreed that the
liquidators should receive for their services the same rate
of remuneration that was now paid to the directors. Mr.
C. Bell and Mr. Monkey, hawever, intimated that they ,
could only consent to serve on the condition that they •
served gratuitously. The two directors appointed likewise
stated that they did not look for any remuneration. The
chairman stated that a confirmatory meeting would be ;
necessary, of which due notice would be given. Thanks
were voted to the chairman and directors, and the pro-
ceedings terminated.
RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT.
—The only business transacted yesterday in the House of
Commons' committee was the further consideration of the
bills in group 3, which include the Ilfracombe Railway,
the Devon and Somerset and Bristol and Exeter lb.ilway,
Devon and Somerset Railway, and the Devon and Somerset
Extension Railway. The committee adjourned after taking
further evidence.

DR. DR JONOH'iI LIGHT BROWN COD LIVER OIL.-
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cross Hospital : " For several Ts past I have been in the habit
of preserfoing Dr. de Jonglis t Brown Cod Liveroll, laud
It to be much more efficacious t an other varieties of the same ,
medicine which I have also employed with a view to test their
relative superiority." Sold orly in consoled bottles, 2s. otl..
N. 9d., and sa., by Dr. deJongh's Agents, Amer, Hatton', and
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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1867.