The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

THE TWO 81011.1E8.

NAPLIffi, MAIIIYI 27 Oa Marseilles),
No military movement has yet taken place. The
Xing has granted several commercial conoeesions to
the inhabitants of Sicily, and has decreed the con-
struction of a network of public roads in the three
Calabrian provinces.

UNITED STATES.
LIURPOOL, MONDAY, APRIL 1
The Royal Mail steamer America, Captain /Mar,
which touched at Queenstown at noes yelAtwAsy, has arrived
here. Her sews has been anticipated rid Queenstown.
Nnw Yom—Eichaoss on ladoa dull but dm, at
108 t.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom ous owir coltrarommxr.)
PARIS, SUNDAY Evsensa.

Several journals advance the opinion that the
general words of the Pope's excommunication apply
to France, the French Emperor, and even to the
individuals who subscribed to the loan for carrying
co the late Italian war. This view receives emir-
oration from the note in the Moniker calling to
mind that the concordat prohibits the publication
in France of any bull, rescript, Are., from the court
of Rome without permission from the government.
It is therefore probable that we in Paris shall not
see the text of the excommunication until it
appears in the English papers. I hoer that it is
short, and contains very little fun. The form of
excommunication lately given by several French
papers, and which differs very little from Slaw-
kenbergiva's curse in "Tristram Shandy," has not
been adopted.
The Patric persists, not only that the King of
Naples is not going to occupy any part of the
Roman states, but that he has never had any idea
of doing so. What, then, becomes of the great
IL Orandguillot's article, which made the evacua-
tion of Rome by the French army entirely depen-
dent upon the Neapolitan troops coming to guard
the Pope in their stead 1 Is the French army after
all going to stick in Rome I
M. Thouveners despatch to Berne, dated March
26, in which he refers to the article of the treaty
for the cession of Savoy, which stipulates that the
Emperor will " come to an understanding with the
powers" as to the neutralised provinces, as a gua-
rantee which ought to relieve Switzerland from all
uneasiness, affords some countenance to the reports
that after all France will give way with regard to
Chablais and Fauckry.
M. Grandguillot, in the course of the homily
which he ►ddressel yesterday to the English parlia-
ment and press, wrote :

Let u■ suppose that, departing from the moderate course
which it has hitherto followed, and altogether changing its
system, the imperial government were to soy to the Corps
Legislatif, " Harangues for harangues. Just like the English
troops at Fontenoy, the deputies of England have fired first;
gentlemen deputies of France, it is now your turn;" and then
addressing the journals were to say, " Articles for articles,
diatribes for diatribes; reply, retort, cale•nniate es much
as you like ; follow the example of the journals on the
other side of the Channel."

This awkward confession on the part of the lead-
ing government writer, that French legislators and
journalists are tongue-tied until they get the word
I of command, is cleverly fastened upon by the Silde,
which ventures to say :
' There may be certain journals which write to order ; but
is it not a libel upon the government, the elect of universal
suffrage, and the press ►t large, to make such an assertion
as the above? For our own parts we can declare that we
never received orden to write a line, and we certainly would
never have submitted to inch humiliating dictation ; neither
our wo believe that any delegate of the nation ever made •
provoking Of calumnious speech at the request of the
government. Having now protested against the ill-judged
sally of the Constdationnet, we shall be delighted to learn
that it spoke inadvertently, and acknowledges its error.
I told you some time since that the French go-
vernment, in oonsequence of the stagnation of trade
caused in some measure by the prospect of delay
before the new tariff comes into operation, had de-
termined to present a bill to the Corps Logislatif
for taking off the duties upon raw material, more
especially cottons and wools, almost immediately,
and before the time anticipated by the commercial
treaty. I have not seen this important matter
alluded to since, and you may possibly have begun
to doubt the accuracy of my information. It was,
however, perfectly correct. I have now before me
the draft of a bill signed by MM. Michel Chevalier
and Butenval, councillor of state, and counter-
signed by K Baroehe, the President of the Council,
entitled " A bill concerning the tariff of wools,
cottons, and other raw materials." The preamble
states that it was at first thought that the let of
July next would be a date which would suit all
interests, by giving sufficient time to sell off stocks
on hand, but that yielding to the urgent request of
influential manufacturers, the government had re-
solved to shorten the term, in order to avoid, if not
a suspension, at least a slackness of work, and that
the new tariff, as to the admission of wools, cottons,
and other raw materials, should come into opera-
tion on April 15. It is proposed that the present
drawbacks on the exportation of cotton and woollen
threads shall continue to be levied for two months
from the passing of the new law, and that those on
cotton tissues shall be levied for three months, and
on woollen tissues for four. 1

CZWISAL ITALY.—Oar special oorrespoudent,
writing from Bologna, March 27, says
Lb. otlicial return of Bologna elections has been pur,a2
la the Int °allege, nut of 346 electors, 320 voted far Count
Cavour. lu the second, out of Zird voted for Mar-
quis Pepal. Mignon Beni, Pichat, Miughetti, and Andre.
cot were elected in the other by overwhelming majorities.
Mr. Corbett, your charge d'aftaires at Florence, is just ar.
rived in this city. He will gu back to Tuscany to-morrow,
and then start for England, tho Fatglish legation at Flo-
rence buying been Milady.' in oousequence of the &LUKLIII-
tif the duchy to Piedmont.