The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

trios ors

PARIS, BA:num' WRONG.
I have never mentioned the story of M. Rosario
dismissal from the Coolstitutionnelothervrim than as
• Bonne rumour. I Warn this evening that it will
met take place.

•
The Bourse opened with some firmness, the peal-
ing of :he Deforests Bill in Piedmont by a large
majority, and the note in the Monitesur contradict.
log the statement of the Indepeadante about the
navel armaments, having led to some speculative
purchases. The /tante for account rose to 69f. 46c.,
but this price tempted many who on Thursday had
bought at about 69f. to realise, and the market
gradually declined till the claw, when the prices
were 69f. 20c. and 69f. 23c., with • fall of 15c. and
Be. In Mobilier there were violent oscillations.
This security after • long period of almost unin-
terrupteddepreesion has this week risen 100 f. in
two days. The cause of this sudden rally is at-
tributed to • rumour that the society is to be re-
organised on an immense scale, and is to become an
imperial railway bank. Its capital of 60 millions
ie, it is said, to be augmented to 200, the new shares
to be issued at 600 f., and allotted in preference to the
holders of old shares. if, however, this scheme
should come to nothing, and if the report at the
annual meeting on the 29th should be unfavourable,
a rapid decline may be expected ; and on these
grounds many people today thought Mobilier a very
dangerous stock to hold at the present moment, and
hence the fluctuations. After touching 790, it closed
to-day at 732.30, with a fall of 27.30. The railway
market Ass decidedly brisk at the opening, and the
reaction in these securities was less than in the
Rente. The closing quotations were about those of
yesterday.
The Ntegeitegur deg Loire!, a provincial journal of
legitimist tendencies, has been prosecuted to death—
that is to say, it has been twice convicted in a court
of law, and the second conviction, according to the
Draconian decree of February 17, 1852, entails
r▪ eF.4l:lcihan his just published a new book which
is said to contain some very startling passages.
Although he is considered a privileged man, and
was on a memorable occasion protected by the Em-
peror against the Procureur-General, I hear this
evening that his production is to be proeseated.
The Duke of Montebello, the newly appointed
ambassador to St. Petersburg, will leave Pans for
his post about May 15.
Lord Howden has arrived in Paris from Madrid,
on his way to London.
M. de Balabine, the new Russian ambassador to
Vienna, has not yet left Paris, and will not do so
until the Conference at Paris has finished its labours.
He is to be adjoined to Count de Kieseleff during the
deliberations.

It appears from an advertisement for the sale of
the late Mademoiselle Rachel's mansion, in the Rue
Trudon,poOed on all the walls of Paris to-day, that
Count Walewski, the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
has, in the forms admitted t..; French law, acknow-
ledged himself to be the -father of ace of her
children, who, with his F.xoellency's sanction, bears
the name of Alexandre-Antoine Walewski.

Madam* Szarvady, the celebrated pianist (late
Wilhelmine Claws), his left Paris to-day on a pro-
fessional tour for two months in England.
Letters from Jerusalem of March 20 state that
the troubles on Mount Hebron were not yet appeased.
The governor had asked for reinforcements, and all
the consuls had supported his demand.

ITALY.

THE PRISONERS AT SALERNO.

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SALERNO, APRIL 19.

Again the trial has been suspended, and this time
until the 30th inst. Meantime the heat of summer
is coming on, and it will be found difficult to prevent
not only " insetti," but fevers. The only day on
which the court has sat since I wrote was Friday
last, and the proceedings were very short, terminat-
ing soon after mid-day. Some uninteresting wit-
Balers to prove cases of theft were called, and several
others whose testimony was indirectly in favour of
the crew of the Cagliari. Thus Michele Manfre-
donia recognised only three of the strangers dressed
in red caps and shirts. Two entered the house of
the commandant, and the third stood at the gate.
Be accompanied Guarini across the piazza, and on
hie return, late in the evening, he saw five or siz
at those who were dressed in red, but not others.

Epifanio ViSeal said th►t some time before the
Cagliari came it was reported that either the French
or the English were about to send a vessel to change
the government.
Vincenzo 0111116,0 Rave similar evidence to Min-
fredonia. And thus ended this day's sitting, for
want of other witnesses to examine. Aatonini, the
commander of Ponia, who has sent in certificates
of illness, and who is at Aquila, has been cited again
to appear. The court wait also for certain declara-
tions which have been requested from Genoa, as
also for the decision of his Majesty whether
Roberti is tubs examined in court. If not Roberti,nei•
ther;willCaptain Proxies, a Sardinian, who has been
sent down here to decide on what spot the Cagliari
was taken. The impression is, however, that Roberti
will not be ex►minsd, and that the government of
Naples will not take a lesson from a Sardinian officer.
Indeed, England and Sardinia being of one opinion
as to the illegality of the capture of the Cagliari,
the first step ought to be to gnash the proceedings
against the crew. They ought not to be suffered to
remain one hour in confinement. A supposition is
started by some that Russia and Prussia will act as
arbiters but arbiters when P At the end of the
trial, if it should ever have an end ; and meantime
Captain Sitzia and his crew will continue to suffer
after a violation of international law has been com-
mitted.

One of those horrid cases occurred on Thursday
which show the excesses which men will commit
who have been educated under • system of
excesses, and who are driven at lot into
a state of hratility against order and morality
by • sense of fear or vengeance. One of the
prisoners at Salerno had secretly intimated
to the procurator-general that he was anxious
to make some revelation to him. During the follow.
log night cries were heard ; the guard ran to the
place where this man was confined, and found him
pierced [with numerous wounds. The procurator-
general arrived in time to receive his deposition,
which was to the following effect :—That Nicotera
and his companions were in continual communica-
tion with the Comitiva at Naples, and were in con-
stant receipt of money from them ; that they carried
neon in their collars at the back of their necks,
after the fashion of Sicilian soldiers. and that their
design was to escape from prison. Soon after mak-
ing this declaration the man died. A perquisition
throughout the prison was made immediately, but
nothing was found, nor has anything transpired to
bring the crime home to any one. The impression is,
however, that many hands were engaged, and that
all are bound together by an oath of secrecy. Ni-
emen has come forward and asserted that no part of
the declaration made by the victim was true, and
he has shown himself so truthful and honourable
throughout that I accept his statement. The con-
cealment, however, of the instruments of crime
in • place of confinement, and the impossibility of
detecting the authors of it, are important facts, show-
ing cotneation and a strong and determined spirit.
Despotism haboustes people to the necessity of
combination, and that which is adopted in the first
instance for self-defence is afterwards made available
for any other circumstances. The guards are
doubled in the prison, and every possible method is
adopted for preventing disturbances within it.
I spoke of fever in my last, and what I stated
was upon the authority of the persons of the court ; but
by diteition of the Sardinian Chargt-d'Affaires, the
Sardinian Consul has been at Salerno to make strict
inquiries. The rcedinl men will not pronounce it
" l7Pbus." which at present exists in the prisons,
and only one appears to have died. Every prepara-
tion had been made too for the reception of patients
in a healthier locality.