The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH AT LYONS.
PARIS, Auautrr 26.
The Moniker of this morning publishes the
speech of the Emperor, in reply to the addresses of
the civic authorities of Lyons :
His Majesty said, "I thank you for the manner
in which you appreciate my efforts to increase the
prosperity of France. Solely occupied with the
general interests of the country, I scorn all that
which may place obstacles in the way of their deve-
lopment. Therefore the unjust distrust excited
abroad, as well as the exaggerated alarms and
selfish interests in the interior, will not affect me.
Nothing will make me deviate from the path of
moderation and justice which I have followed, and
which maintans France on the height of grandeur
and prosperity that Providence has assigned her
in the world. Therefore give yourselves up with
confidence to works of peace. Our destinies are in
our hands. France gives in Europe the impulse to
all great and generous ideas. She only suffers from
evil influence when she is degenerating. Believe
that with the assistance of God she shall not dege-
nerate under my dynasty."

THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
QUEENSTOWN, Arovirr 26.
The Cunard screw steamer Australasian, Captain
Hoekley, from New York on the 16th, hu arrived hero.
The rams had arrived oat. _

The s;elEasternssiil7d for England on the 16tli inst.,
sad was in company with the Australasian on the 24th and
25th from let. 51, lax 24, to let. 50, lon. 16.
Advice* from Mexico report no alteration in the state of
affairs. Bishop Espinosa had been unconditionally released.
in the hope that it would induce liramon to release Urup,
but that hope had not been realised.

COMMERCIAL I h"TELLIG ENCE.
In money and exchange there wee nothing doing. Stocks
were buoyant. New York Central, 67. ; Erie, 28i ; Illinois,
86. Sales of cotton 1,500 bales at stiff prices. Flour was in
improved demand; sales, 20,000 barrels. Wheat active.
Pork firm. Sugar and coffee steady. Freighta active and
higher.
NEW ORLEANS, AUGUR? 15.
The cotton market ia steady. Middling, 10.1 to 10i.
WASHINGTON, Auouer 12.
The following is a recapitulation of the appropriations
for the tint session of the thirty-sixth Congress :
Dollars.
Legislative, Executive, Judicial, Civil, and
Miscellaneous appropriations
For Diplomatic and Consular expense. 1,158,3110 00
For the Indian Department, Revolutionary,
Invalid, and other pensions 3,427,22.1 23
Tor Army, Fortifications, Military Aca-
demy. and Military Roads
For Naval Service 10,461.0.10 02
For Post•offloe Department for 1860•
For ditto ditto for 1861 t

Total 87,434,803 74
• This amount embraces • double appropriation for
3,138,324 dots. for the same object, one being an appropria-
tion out of any money it the treasury, sod contingent upon
the insufficiency of the revenues of the post.office depart-
ment, out of which the other is appropriated to meet the
SAM!.
t This amount embraces a double appropriation for
5,007,424 doh. 75c. for the some object, one being an appro-
priation out of any money in the treasury, and contingent
upon the insufficiency of the revenues of the poet-office de-
partment, out of which the other is appropriated to meet
the same.

The total actual appropriation is thus reduced to
79,301X4 dole. 99c.

QUEENSTOWN, AuGun 26.
The Royal Mail steam-ship America arrived here
at 4.30 p.m., embarked mails sad passengero, sad pro-
ceeded at 5.20 p.m. for HsMita sad Boston. All walls

THE SYRIAN EXPEDITION.

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MALTA, Auouere 21.
On the 19th the French steamer Jourdein
arrive4.l.rith_ 15 allcers, 25 uon-commiadioned onions, and

486 .oldies for Syria.
On beard the Finisterre there were 400 mounted Spahis
from Africa ; they were, up to the grade of captain, natives,
above that, Frenchmen, and appeared the very men for
Syria. They bad come direct from the frontiers of Morocco,
and did not find the heat of Malta oppressive. They are
apparently difficult men to manage and fellows thnt • ould
slick at nothing.
The Finisterre on which they were was not • large
steamer, yet the 400 men and 400 horses with all the
necessary accompaniment were very comkrtahly arranged.
The French certainly are perfect in their arrangement& for
carrying troops. Very many of Spahis landed and appeared
full of boisterous mirth.
Her Majesty's ship Cressy it is mid will go to sea to.
morrow for a cruide of ten dam. Thu Megrer& hue returned
from Corfu, and will shortly leave far EngLuad, probably
her Majesty's ships Queen and St. Jean d'Acre will ac.
company bait.

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TILTILIN, Ammar 22.

Seven hundred volunteers had already embarked
yesterday at Genoa, when an order came suddenly
from the ministry to prevent the departure of the
vessel. The command was obeyed, but as other
vessels were going to leave the harbour, the larger
part of the volunteers, no longer in militaay array
it is true, managed as passengers to get away in
driblets, and the rest will doubtless find means of
getting out of the harbour to-day. These apparent
inconsistencies arise from the vexatious interference
of diplomacy on the one hand, and respect for per-
sonal liberty on the other. In England these tlungs
are better understood than elsewhere.
Tho circulars of tho Minister of the Interior and
the breaking up of the committees scattered
throughout the kingdom have had the effect of
slackening the arrivals of volunteers at Genoa,
for tho seven hundred, just mentioned, had been
collected there five or six days before the publica-
tion of the manifesto. Thirty thousand have left
in all, notwithstanding every obstacle, and the
smallness of their pecuniary means. If our go-
vernment had not been compelled even to cheek
every generous impulse and conceal its sympathy,
could it only have said, " Go," the number would
have been doubled. This marvellous spectacle of a
people waking up from its lethargy, this noble
1 feeling that in an age accused of being moved by ma-
terial interests alone stirs up our young men to
brave a thousand dangers as they rush to the suc-
cour of their enslaved brothers of the south—these
things have touched the beet minds of civilised
Europe, except a French poet, who first insulted
Italy because she was dead, and now insults her
because she has come to life again. I allude to
M. Lamartine, who in his recent " Entretiens "
has proved bow a poet's heart may become har-
dened and an author's talents changed into base
metal. There has not been for ages past a theme
more worthy of poetry than Garibaldi's expedition,
but Lamartine has not felt its inspiration. The
Italian hero is fortunately not intent upon making
wealth and seeking honors. Such heroism seems
to be above the comprehension of a man who now
writes for money, not for faille. But even in point
of scholarship and history 1.-martin° is, on this
occasion, singularly infelicitous. He gives out that
he has studied Macchiavelli, telling his readers that
the Florentine wished to see Italy divided and
the Pope a resident in Hely. Now it so happens
that Macchiavelli, like Dante and Petrareh, desired
the unity of Italy, even if under a tyrant. M.
Lamartine really read the 26th c r of the
" Prince," he would have known that hiavelii
wrote precisely as our most ardent unionists do
now, who invoke Victor EmnianneL Take this
in proof : "This opportunity should not
Cartstgg7ected for enabling Italy, after such • length
of time, to see its redeemer. . . . What people
would refusel to obey him : What envy would he
encounter I What Italian would refuse to pay him
homage 1" Surely this language is clear enough.
Macchiavelli's question as to what envy the Prince
would encounter way be answered by saying that he
would only be opposed by the envy of the pseudo-
republicans, pseudo-liberals, and pseudo-literati of

As for Macchiavelli's alleged wish to retain the
Pope, what he did say was that the Pope was the
chief cause of Italy's bondage, and that if the Pope
were living in Switzerland instead of Rome, that
ancient re üblio would soon cease to be free and
united. • e has been confounding Father
Loriquet with Maochiavelli.
Signor Manna is expected back from Paris this
day. His diplomatic mission has been a failure,
but whether he has succeeded or nut in bribing any
journal there to espouse the cause of the Bourbon
I cannot pretend to say. These envoys tried here
at Turin to tempt several journalists with money,
but unsuccessfully. They gained one venal soul at
Milan, where public opinion was soon found to be
incorruptible.
The Dictator of Sicily has sent to Turin the
Genoese advocate Brusco on a special mission, and
the latter having had an interview with the minis-
ters this morning, has returned well pleased to
Genoa. The loan for Sicily has been raised, as
you know, but financial matters, as affecting Gari-
baldi's expedition, are not in a satisfactory state.
The Torino, which landed 1,500 volunteers, but no
provisions, on the Calsbrisn coast, has been de-
stroyed by the Bourbon's ships. The steamer in
question was insured, it is true, at your Lloyd's for
a million of francs, but the loss is great notwith-
standing, and will be severely felt in Garibaldi's
future operations, for his naval mans are very
limited.

Signors Pianciani and Niootera have resigned
their commands, by which act, as many persons
think, the cause of Italy will nut be much a loser.

AMERICAN MAIL DESPATCII.--011 Saturday the
British and North American royal mail steamer Canada,
sailed from the Mersey for Bake with the Vatted States
and North American mail, and a fair complement of pm.
wagers.