The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-07 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AUSTRIAN ITALY.

A Milan latter of December 3 brings sews that
the French system of seizing journals at the post-
office is now in full play there. In consequence of
their comments upon the state of the " Italian
question,' three-fourths of the French journals had
been stopped, and even the numbers of the Debata
of November 28 and 29, in which the cause of Aus-
tria was warmly defended, were not thought safe
reading in Austrian Italy. The existing irritation
in Milan had been considerably increased by the
appointment as censor of the press of one Signor
Rossi, • man who was formerly commissary of
police, and made himself obnoxious by his ex-
ecutive zeal in the prosecution of political offences
after 1861. There was much talk of the
discovery of extraordinary waste and fraud
in the management of the archduke's house-
hold. Five of his servants turn out to have
been old thieves, and have been arrested. An
author named Salari—having received from the arch-
duke a diamond pin in return for a presentation
copy of a book—found that the diamond was false.
He returned the pin, thinking the archduke had
been cheated by his jeweller. The intendant of the
palace has sent no answer. Another similar ease is
cited. The letter though dwelling upon the various
causes of discontent in Lombardy, express an
opinion that there is no foundation for the serious
alarm which resent articles in the French and Pied-
-ontesejeazade Iwo bout eekulatsd So motto.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY Evwis.

The Minister of Justioe, assisted by all the great
lawyers in the service of the Crown, has been very
hard at work for the last two or three days, puzzling
his head how to make the beet of the eery bad maw
into which the government has got itself by prema-
turely thrusting a pardon upon M. de Montalembert.
The law, as laid dovfn in M. de Montalembert's
letter, that the Emperor had no power to deprive
him by a pardon of his right of appeal, is so clear
that I believe all idea of attempting to reject the ap-
peal is given up. But then a variety of embarrassing
questions arise as to the best course to be followed
consistently with the dignity of the Crown. How
can M. Choi: d'Est Ange, the Procureur-Oeneral
Imperial, be decently allowed to make an eloquent
speee.h to the superior judges calling on them in the
name of public safety to condemn the defendant
when it stands on record that the sovereign dose not
mean him to be punished ? He cannot tell the court
what was the het, that the pardon " on the occasion
of December 2," was a bitter taunt! Then 'gain,
if the Procurenr-General should simply declare,
when the case is called on, that be retires from the
prosecution, the duty of the judges, in the ordinary
course, would be to reverie the original judgment
on the ground that the offence charged was not
sufficiently established. But this comes, it is ob-
jected, would be an insult to M. Berthelin and the
other judges of the court below. Some lawyers
have suggested that the judges of appeal, taking
judicial notice of the pardon, will declare themselves
incompetent to examine the merits of a case on
which his Majesty has irrevocably pronounced a
sovereign decision, and will base their acquittal on
that express ground ; they, it will be said accord-
iog to this theory, administer justice in the Em-
peror's name, and it would be an anomaly to pro-
nounce a judgment at variance with his known
intentions. In any of the above hypotheses M. de
Montalembert will come off with flying colours,
and will be freed from all those prejudicial

consequences of the sentence to which his
passive acceptance of the pardon would have
left him liable. Even if the appeal should be
argued in a hostile manner, it is a question whether
the previous pardon will not override the sentence.
I cannot help thinking that the government will not
gre. MM. Berryer and Dufaure an opportunity of
speaking again on this subject.
The Pays has reason to know that the paragraph
in the Queen of Spain's speech touching the rela-
tions of Spain with the Holy See, was originally
worded in quite a different manner. The draft was
shown to the Pope's nuncio, who suggested some
*lterations, which were at once accepted by her
Majesty. The Pays sarcastically adds, that "it is
no doubt owing to the wish of the representative
of the court of Rome to say nothing binding for
the fattier, that the passage in question is not quite
so explicit as it might have been without danger."
The Bonne to-day has been on the whole some-

what firmer, although the attention of speculation
wu principally occupied by the Credit Mobilier,
which fell 18fr. 75c., in consequence of apprehen-
sions about the projected imperial bank. The
Rente fell Ma for cash, and closed for account at
yesterdsy's price-74fr. The Eastern Railway fell
2fr. 600.; the other lines were from lfr. 250. to
Ur. iioo. higher.