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

LOUIN NAPOLZON AND SIVITZERLA.Vb

It is well known that, in the autumn 0 I
Ny
when tiwitzerland called out her troops in ordei to ..ipp.ot
in defiance of France, her light of keeping within I
ritory a citizen of Sallenstein, in the canton of
a certain gentleman named Louis Napoleon
order to prevent a aanguinery conflict, voluntarily .a,,:to!
the country. On that otxmaien he wrote a t ,!.
government of Thurgovia, from which the
sages are taken, and which it may he useful to red•,:,,•
the present moment :

" Switzerland has shown fur the last mouth, to
getic protests, and now by the decisions of such of
councils as have hitherto been assembled, that -I
ready to make the greatest sacnfices for the r.ake •4
dignity and her riOta. She has known how to do lo
an an independent nation ; I shall know how to do tiros..,
remain true to the voice of honour. I may be
but I never will be debased. 'rho French anvt.llo,..t,
having declared that the refusal of the Diet to vietl t
demands would be the signal fur a conflagration of
Switzerland might become the victim, I have no
to leave a country where my presence in the am.-
unjust pretensions, and where it might become the 15...,
or
great calamities. On quitting this day, lit
will,_ the only cottotry in Europe where .„
with support and protection, and on leaving
me spots endeared to me in many way*.
to prove to the Swine people that I was worthy of tin.
marks of esteem and affection which they har.. Isvt•te-1
upon me. I shall never forget the noble conduit .4 11.
cantons who have pronounced themselves with
courage in my favour ; and, above all, the gencoon.
tion which the canton of Thurgovie afforded me, a ill
deeply engraved on my heart.
I hope that this separation will not be for rye.,
that a day will oome when I shall be able, without voi„)„.,.
mining the interests of two nations which ought to rerr....o
friends, to find again the asylum in which a resides
twenty years and acquired rights had given me a
country

" 1 request, Laudaniman, that you will convey h. 7
feelings of gratitude to the councils, and believe duo
thought of avoiding troubles to Switzerland can alone
the regrets which I feel on leaving it.—Receive, ir.c.
(Signed)) " NAPOLZON, IMt
"Arenenberl, Sept. mt, 1838."

N. VEUILLOT AND HIS TRAVELLING

COMPANION.

M. Louie Veuillot, the ex-editor of the
left Paris some six weeks or two months since for Rot,
He had, after the suppression of his paper, accepted ins r
French capitalist the place of inspector of the Ronan rob
roads. On leaving Paris he found himself in the same
rime with a respectable-looking man of good Milt*, cad
agreeable manners. They soon entered into conve-moPt,
the stranger appeared charmed at finding himself with ,o
famous a person, and M. Veuillot learned with, pleasure
that his attractive acquaintance was also on his way to
Rome on some commercial matters. They .igreed to
travel in the same carriage, to put up at the same hotels,
and even to descend at the same lodgingbotae is
the Eternal City. Their acquaintance grew cloer
they went along, and by the time they reached the
end of their journey they were to all appearance. the last
friends in the world. B. Veuillot announced after soma
weeks, that circumstances compelled him to return to Paris.
His friend expressed deep regret at his speedy departure,
and said that he himself wanted only two or three ,Lys
more to finish his business, when he also intended
re-
turning to France, and that it was a pity they cold t
come back together. B. Veuillot observed that, after
a day or two did not much matter, and that he should w..it
for him. He did wait, and both arrived in Paris last Sunday
morning. They proceeded to the same hotel. M. Veuillot
went out for a bath ; his friend took another direction,
On the former returning to his lodging he was Inturated,
to his astonishment, that police agents had been to his
apartment, and had wined his portmanteau, containing his
papers, kc. He went at once to the Prefecture of Police,
and one of the first persons he beheld was the amiable coma
panion of his journey, who turned out to be nothing more
or lees than an agent of the secret police. He gave informs.
tiom that If. Veuillot had brought important despatcher
for the Papal Nuncio in Paris. "B. Vanilla" (writes a
Paris correspondent), "demanded his papers ; some were re•
stored to him, but the greater part, to the address of the
Nuncio, retained. He went off instantly to the Nuncio,
and informed him of what had happened. Hie
Excellency was greatly excited ; he went straight
to the Foreign-office, demanded explanations, and
declared that if his papers were not given up he
should there and then break off all diplomatic relations
with the French government, demand his passports, and
quit Paris. It was explained that the seizure of the
papers was in consequence of information being given that
B. Vend lot was made the channel of oommunitation
between the clergy and the Court of Rome. with a
view to certain manifestations on the part of the clergy
in the matter of the bulls of excommunication. The
Nuncio's demand was, however, complied with, and the
papers given up. The Nuncio was so far weak that M.
Veuillot had forgotten or neglected to have himself described
in his passports as • courier, or as • bearer of de
'patches to the Pope's Ambassador in Paris. Then
was no seal on the papers, and otherwise nothing
official about them ; and, moreover, it was an leg
fraction of the post-office regulations to bring letters Of
despatches as a private person. The Nuncio has got hie
papers ; Veuillot has got those that belonged to him,
and will doubtless take care not to be too intimate with
the plausible persons he may happen to meet in a railway
carriage when next he goes to Rome. The matter is a good
deal talked about here, and, as people laugh at most things,
it is a good subject for pleasantry."

THE FRAUDS IN THE AUSTRIAN
COMMISSARIAT.

TRIESTE, MARCH

The engrossing topic of the day is the gigantic
frauds discovered in the commissariat department, whii-111
no doubt, were in no small degree influential in lainging to
so sudden a termination the recent hostilities between the
Austrian and Franco-Italian armies, and which drag to light,
despite must powerful influence, a series of disgraceful Este,
involving a multitude of names, some of them bidding psis
tion P so high as to render even allusions hazardous, i u charge
of the moat flagrant political and motel turpitude. The to
counta in the Vienna and other Austrian newqoperi are
meagre in the extreme ; and, but for the suicide of fenced
Eynatten on the 70-Bth inst., which admitted of no couces.l•
ment, these frauds would probably have never been :.Iluded
to. The deficit amounts to the astounding sum of no less doe
17,000,000 florins, or 1,700,0001. sterling, of which:l,ooo,oo3
florins, or 300,0001., is laid to the charge of some ut the
leading capitalists of this city. One was imprisned. tio
have fled, and others are undergoing forced examinations
of books, papers, documents, &c. The strange...! part of
the tale is, however, that which is certainly the Wet
known. It is said, and from the sources from whence
I bear it I believe it is true, that at the celebrated
meeting of the rival Emperors which led to the
armistice, and subsequently to the prelitoinares
of the treaty of peace at Villafrancr., when Vas
poleon and Francis Joseph were left Trost ,done fax
nearly three quarters of an hour, the former, addressing
the latter, said, " Your Majesty would do well to listen to
friendly and well-meant counsels. You are surniuudel by
traitors. Your Majesty believes that your fort ss of
Mantua is provisioned for sic months ; I tell you," elc•
phatically raking his finger, "it has not foal for Ras,
days. Test my information, and set accordingly." .tod
so it proved, and afforded another lesson also of the !ohs
cite superiority of the French over the Austrian `,.t,", ad
apionaage.
To give some idea of the barefaced effrontery of tba
fraud, arid the number of accomplices necroory. . one ins
stance will suffice, though, if needful, I could :Odin, many
others. Mantua is a walled city, and the bullock.: which
were driven in at one gate pained through the toss!, oUt at
the opposite, and then, making the half circuit of th., walls
re-entered at the first gate, and every bullock made this
parade five times! The richest part of the tale in c..iiir•iioc
with Mantua is yet to come. A firm in Trieste nue!, A epees
tract with the Austrian government for the hide- of the
bullocks supplied fur the use of the troops. sow, Although
each bullock did duty living for five, still he could
killed once, and supply one hide. The coal:I:tor, 0,1"
fore, called upon and actually received from the g.o,"'
ment the forfeit, as stipulated by contract, of one
upon every hide short delivered ; thus profiting to the .t•
tent of 30,000 florins for the non-delivery of the .kin" of
animals which had never been killed Timor.

The Courricr de -Varmilk states that the
corvette Medved, which is now in that port, has en 1..-4
some hears, which ct certain times are let limor ..1. '1„I4
and allowed to amc,e themselves by climbing u1..,.1 the
rigging. The animals are so well disciplined as to I."— ut
no danger. Crowds assemble on the quays to see
throufh their strange gating.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mt Bann) llunnrll anal Mr. Justice Williams.)