The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-18 00:00:00

SARDINIA.

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TURIN, lax. 13.
Now that the Congress has become most no-
certain, Count Cavonr has thought it better to
return to his seat at Leri, but he leaves the minis-
try in a most difficult position. Ministers, in fact,
are not equal to the emergency, are no match
for the circumstances of the time; and if the
country does not oppose them very strenuously, it
ls because the good practical sense of the nation per-
ceives how necessary it is at all oasts to keep united
in the face of Europe. In Lombardy, however,
where political experience is in its infancy, there is
a more openly displayed discontent against the
ministry. The people are excessively displeased there
with the precipitate change introduced into the whole
administrative system, by an abuse of the full powers
which were conferred at the outset of the war on the
government, and which it has tenaciously grasped
beyond the limits of necessity. The government, it
is true, has dismissed properly enough certain
persons generally believed to have been well-
affected to Austria ; but then, this was a
family question, so to speak, and the Lombards
take • pride in the free institutions they enjoy.
These home affairs were all but forgotten and merged
in the consideration of those foreign affairs which
immediately concern the whole nation. The an-
nexation of Central Italy is the thought that fills
the minds of all, and should Rattaui display ability
and energy in the negotiation, he might recover en-
tirely the love and confidence of the people. But
what chiefly causes concern to us all is to see the
convocation of the Chambers so loog delayed, and
whether by chance or design the tenor of the
new communal law, es well as that of the new
electoral law, leads us to suspect th►t the
Chambers will notesit before the end of March.
The session may possibly be kept back till
the middle of April. Such being the case,
the country has no very efficacious mode of in-
kenning the government, or exercising great moral
pressure within the confines of strict legality. It is
the want of such control that the " Society of the
Liberal Union" is endeavouring to supply, and its
ranks are being rapidly filled by the most indepen-
dent political personages of the state. Garibaldi is
at Fino, in Lombardy, where he is taking to himself
a wife. Perhaps it is as well for the moment that
he should return to private life,and there hold himself
in readiness for new exploits in the field, which have
become not altogether impossible. He has written a
letter to Sir James Hudson, asking him why he had
so unfavourable an opinion of the " Society of the
Armed Nation," now abolished. Sir James, with his
well-known and national frankness, and in accord-
ance with the great ■ffiction he bears the Italian
cause, replied to him in these terms Seeing,
General, that an armed nation was rising by the side
of the King's army, and a committee for the consti-
tuency by the side of the King's government and
ministry, I wished to know to which of the two
governments I, the representative of Queen Victoria,
was accredited P" Garibaldi himself smiled on read-
ing this graceful pleat of irony.

Most of the imperial courts of France have re-
orntly received from the litigator of State a full-learth
portrait of Napoleon 111., to be placed In the halls where
they hold their sittings. All the prefectures of the country
end most of the great public, establishments have received
similar promote.
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A Gibraltar journal announces that Baron Jame.
de Itotheoldld, el Pares, has sent 25,000(r. for the Jews who
lave tad to that ptaoe from Morocco.

GARIBALDI'S Box.—The youngest son of the
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haiku gendenten et New Brighten, as the Cheshire M 4 of
the Mersey. Young Geribaid le, it Is said, a most geosidag
youth.