The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-07 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TULSDAY EVINING.

The aneaer of the Giornale di Roma to the Duo
de Gramont's charge of forgery against the Papal
government, has at length appeared, and is in the
following words :
The French ambassador has expressed a desire that we
should rectify as expression used in the telegraphic despatch
inserted in No. 244 of this journal, on Oct. 24, wherein it
was said that the Emperor of the French had written to the
King of Piedmont to declare to him that if be attacked the
Roman States, he should oppose the attack by form (c 011.%
form). We therefore make biotin that the despatch com-
municated by the ambassador was in the following precise
terms, viz. :—That if the Pialmontese entered upon the
Pontifical territory, the Emperor would be lonia
to oppose them, and that orders had been gives
to reinforce the garrison of Rome. These =pm-
lions led almost everybody to believe in a more reel
interferenes, and beyond all doubt contributed to the,
inaccuracy pointed out in the davit.* of Sept. 10. We
must, however, add, in the interests of the most exact
truth, that three or four days later another communica-
tion was received, in which it was said that the Emperor
would oppose the invuion as an antagonist.
I rightly surmised that the Roman government
would not leave the last word to the Constituticmnel.
Nothing could be more snarling towards France
than the ironical note above cited. The Pope
persists officially in the assertion that he was
deceived by offers of assistanoe from the French
Emperor.

The Union de Must publishes the following
letter from the Count de Quatrebarbm, governor
of the town and province of Ancona, before and
during the siege :

In the Asti d; la Religion of the 30th ult. I find the
following despatch, dated Rome, 29th:—" An article by
General de Isimoricih.e, inserted in the official journal,
and commenting on a pretended despatch addressed to the
consul of France at Anemia by M. de Graniont, has
called forth from the latter a protest which he insists on
having published in the official journaL" I have not to
discuss here the Duc de Gramont's protest, I leave that
task to my noble and pliant general, whose word will be
believed throughout Europe in spite of all contradiction.
Bat what I have to say is this : On the 11th or 12th of
September, when the brave Colonel Sapi was heroically
defending himself at Pesaro, in as open town, one against
twenty, in face of the Piedinootele army, the consul of
France at Awns, M. de Courcy, came in all haste to the
Palace of the Delegation, where I then was. He held in
his hand a telegraphic despatch which he had just received,
signed by the Duke de Gramout, the Ambassodorst Rome :

"The Emperor wilt not toleratt the culpable invasion of
the Pontifical States by the Piedmontese gorcrnment.
The Emperor has written from Mareeille.v to the
King of Sardinia to inform him that he would
oppose it. Orders have been given at Toulon to
embark more troops, which will arrive at Mita
Vecchia without delay." Except the lines u italics, I am
not certain enough of my memory to guarantee the literal
text of this despatch. But I can pledge my word as to their
strict sense. I went at once with M. de Courcy to the Con.
solar Palace, and we agreed that, to put an end to the shed-
ding of blood in an unequal and impious struggle, one at
the clerks of the consulate should travel post to Nitro to
. . . . . _

communicate the despatch to the General-in-Chief of the
Piedmoutese army. A few hours afterwards the represen-
tative of the French consul delivered the despatch to the
Piedmonts.e general, who merely acknowledgod its receipt
in writing, and resumed his march without other notice of
the prohibition from the French government.
Corn DE QUATEEDARDES.
Chanzeaux, 31st October.

Notwithstanding a statement to the contrary in
a London journal, I axa still warranted in believing
the correctness of the news I sent yesterday that
Count de Persigny will be present at the Lord
Mayor's dinner. It is given out here that Lord
John Russell wrote a special letter requesting him
to come, and that speeches are likely to be made at
the banquet highly favourable to an alliance with
France.

The French papers say positively that the entry
of Victor Emmanuel into Naples, prematurely
announced for the 6th instant, will positively. take
place to-morrow, Wednesday, November 7. Ac-
cording to one account Garibaldi will accompany
the King. The Pays, Which heretofore dwelt upon
the strong defences of Gaeta, and the resolution of
Francis H. to defend himself to the last extremity,
is now reduced to admit that many of the King's
advisers look upon the game as up, and that the
remnant of the royal army cannot be depended
upon.

For some days past conflicting intelligence has
been received from Rome concerning the intentions
of the Pope with regard to his army.' We have
been alternately told that recruiting was given up,
and that it was resumed. But now a letter from
Rome of Oct. 81, in the Pays—a journal conducted
by that fervent catholic, M. Granier de Cmaagnac—
says that "in spite of much opposition" it has been
determined to reform the battalions which were
scattered at Castelfidardo, that recruits arrive
every day "from France and Germany," that pro-
motions are the order of the day, and that Mgr.
de Merode, the minister at war, proposes to take
the command of the army in person. This letter
further proceeds to intimate that refugees from
Castelfidardo who have " married in the hope of
escaping the service," will find themselves mis-
taken, and that the prisoners released by the King
of Sardinia, who " pretend" that they have sworn
not to fight against him, will be " forced "
to join their regiments. I could hardly have ex-
pected to see a French and a catholic journal
thus confirm the news which it might have been
thought had been circulated by an enemy, that the
Pope was ready to give a dispensation from their
oaths to the prisoners who were treated with such
unusual kindness and indulgence by the Pied-
montese government. When I speak of a dispen-
sation from their oath, I understate the comae, for,