The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY, .XV

Ivote his emit/intim', which declares that I
the debates of the Senate mei secret, forgot
to make an exception in case he himself
should choose to authorise their publication. If
the Senate did their duty they ought now to
denounce this exceptional publication as " n noon -
at t utiosisl " It is, however, a valuable criticism
on the imperial institutions that the Emperor
should feel the necessity of having recourse to pub-
licity in a case not contemplated. M. Dnpin's
speech is a monument of learning,-logic, and elo-
quence, which might have a most beneficial effect
upon the country. It completely exhausts the
cluieagainst ultramontauists. TheOpinionNationale,
remarking upon the novelty of the publication,
regrets that, having no alternative between re-
producing the three pages of the Moniker and
leaving it out altogether, it is obliged to adopt the
latter course. I believe the Opinion mistakes the
law. The debates in the Corps Legislatif
must either be taken just as they are in
the Itmo deur, or let alone. No comment,
no analysis is permitted. But the publication of
a debate in the Senate being altogether illegal, no
rules exist for the conduct of the public papers.
They will commit an illegal act by noticing it in
any way, and it would be no answer to a
prosecution in a court of law to say that
they had copied the whole from the Monikur.
The Bourse opened with animation, and a large
business attecded with considerable fluctuations
has been done in the Rente. The highest price of
the day was 70er. 15c., and the lowest 69fr. 66e.
The closing quotations were 70fr. a d 69fr. 90c.,
with a rise of 90e. and Ifin Mobilierse Mr. The
Orleans railway fell Mr. ; the other lines were
1f r. 2.1 c. to 2fr. 50c. higher.
The Pays says it is authorised to announce that
the New Turkish Loan will be negotiated at Paris
by the Ottoman Ambassador and the capitalist+,
who will find the money without the intervention of
any third party. The period for the operation will
be fixed hereafter.

The uncertainty about the retreat of the French
army from Rome and the occupation of some part
of the Roman states by Neapolitans, still continues.
The reiterated assertions that the King of Naples
has finally determined not to interfere are not ac-
cepted as authentic by the official journals. The
latest news ou the subject is the following para-
graph in this evening's Pays:

Negotiations one going on between the Courts of Rome
sad Naples relative to the entry of Neapolitan troops into
the States of the Church ; the result of these negotiations
ie not yet known. The conjectures one way or another
reported by certain journals are therefore, to my the least,
premature.

PROTEST OF THE GRAND-DUKE OF
TUSCANY. `0
The protest of the Crand Duke of Ttnewhy
against the annexation of his dominions to
is published at length in the French papers. Its
sense is as follows :

As long as he hoped that respect for treating and senti-
ments of justice might still prevail spinet intrigue and
ambition, he had maintained silenift, 'brat recent events
tending to the destruction of his house and the happiness of
his people, render it his duty to speak and appeal as In
Italian sovereign to the justice and loyalty of the European
powers,
When in the beginning of 1(467 the dissensions between
France and Sardinia and Austria made war seem imminent,
the government of Tuscany hastened to announce its nen.
trslity to the power. of Europe. This proposition, agreed
to in Vienna, was about to he accepted by the other powers,
when, in consequence of the events of the 27th of April
diplomatic gave way to revolutionary action. The move-
ment wee long in preparation by the Piedmontese govern-
ment, and Its emissaries arrived at Florence on the 213th
and 27th, and at once took the dirertioo of the insurrec-
tionary movement, and the command of the Grand Dotal
troops.
The conduct of affairs was then entrusted to the Morris
of Lajatico, but he, on repairing to the aeration Legation,
the headquarters of the insurrection, found that the abdica-
tion of the Grand Duke was under diesamica, and, being
unable to defend his authority, he himself patented hie
sovereign with the act of depoeition.
In presence of this outrage the prince, whose generous
intentions were socruelly misunderstood, was forced to
consult his personal dignity, and refusing to subunit to the
abdication required, he protested against the violence to
which be was subjected, and withdrew from the country.
The war soon led to the armistice, and the preliminaries
of Villafranca, which 'penally provided for the restoration
to their States of the Sovereigns exiled by the revolution,
' and for the formation of an Italian Canfedeestios. At this
moment Leopold IL, wishing to remove au taxes of ancient
disagreements, abdicated the crown, and the Gaud Duke
Ferdinand was recognised by almost all Europe es the legi-
timate Sovereign of Tuscany.
The treaty el Zurich, signed by. the King ef Sardinia,
consecrated again the rights renreinued at Villafranca ; bat
• new event had intervened. The revolutionary authorities
of Tuscany, docile slaves to the government to which they
owed their existence, had convoked an assembly and voted
their annexation to Piedmont. Thus, by • disregnrd of all
public law, a government, bound by the ward rind signature
of its king to preserve a strict neutrality towards, if not to
support the Grand Duke, so far neglected its mowed duty
as to excite a factious manifestation his authority ;
and while the Emperor of the faithful to his pro-
mises, was advisiug moderation, his ally, prating by the
=of the French army, was peneksg the pokey of
the last phase of which is asweatioe.
Before facts like these silemx is no Mager allowed, The
Gnarl Duke protests against acts, the very principles of
which Rinke them null and void, "gainet the violation of
treaties, against unworthy lIIIIIIICOMITIS, soden the employ-
ment of these new means of usurpation of the votes of popu-
lar assemblies. He appeals to the sovereigns of Europe,
to the Patio. of the Emperor of the French, and to the Tuvans
themselves, who have enjoyed • prosperity of which they
were justly proud for more than a century under his family.
If they have been deceived into believing that their
independence will be ensured by union with Sardinia, he
calls on them to undeceive themselves. Italy has none
but moral strength to defend her against powerful neigh-
bour', but by muting with a central state they are exciting
the distrust of parts of Italy and creating a dengerona an-
tagonism ; and when the ambition which Yu soceeeded 42
the centre makes an attempt upon the swill, Italy will be
again torn by civil war. If the Italian Otededsestioe led
bees formed, the lead would have devolved epos Nanny •
but as it is, Florence will be no more than the chief towt;
of a Piedmotttese department. The Grand Duke concludes
by hoping that the reason of his people may not reseals
perverted. "The day may come when the injustice of
which I am the victim shall have reached its end, and that
day will end me ready to devote to you all the power of
my existence." (Signed) FERDINAND.
Dresden, March 24, 1960.