The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-08 00:00:00

THE ADRIATIC.

The following telegrams were received at Mr.
Renter's office this morning :

"FIUME, JILT 7.

"Yesterday evening the French frigate Julie and
a war steamer appeared off the port. Upon one of
the vessels discharging a gun the mayor and four
consuls went on board. The commander explained'
that he had received orders to reconnoitre Fiume, 1
Hamad, and Porto-RI, and asked whether Austrian
war steamers were in the port, and also concern-
ing the strength of the garrison. He further gave
his word that nothing was intended against the
population, and that the garrison, authorities, and
archives might be withdrawn. This morning the
vessels have left, and everything has returned to its
former state."

"TRIR!TE, TRVIIDAT, Jv 7.

" The arcbducal yacht Fantasie, after having sac-
oessfully broken through the blockade, has arrived
here from Venice.

The French squadron before Ltissin numbered on
the 3rd instant sixteen vessels, of which three were
liners.

"The inhabitants of Fiume were yesterday even-

ing alarmed by the appearance of hostile vessels off
the town. The sailing of fishing boats, and the
nightly traffic between Venice and Chioggia hu been
strictly forbidden."

BERNE. TIMILSDAY,

Advises have been received from Samaden to the
6th inst. All the Austrian troops have left Wind-
achau, and are now concentrated on the fltelvio
Paso. where a conflict is expected to-day.

THE GERMAN FEDERAL ARMY.
FRANKFURT, THOILIDLY.

In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet Austria
proposed that the whole Federal Contingent should
be mobilised, and that the Prince Regeat of Prnesia
should be requested to mums the command-in-
chief of it.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PlO3l ova OWN COI

PARIS, THURSDAY ETZXINO.

This evening's Patrie says:—" No despatch of
any importance has reached us to-day from the
theatre of war. All that we know is that the sani-
tary state of the army is excellent, and that the
Emperor is in good health. All goes well."
_ _

The assurances of the Petrie as to the health of
the army are very well timed ; for the extreme heat
of the weather, added to the notoriously unhealthy
reputation of the neighbourhood of Mantua in the
summer season, was begioning to excite uneasiness.
The Petrie, referring to the late speeches in the
House of Lords, says :
Torsisni being beaten at the electione—condomned by the
high court of electoral justice—make to take its revenge by
resuscitating every antiquated passion and prejudice against
Franca. Theta tactics deserve severe reprobation, and the
noble peers who have lent tbsroseless to this ridiculous and
disloyal campaign, and who, as the Daily Newsier, are but
a hot:dint of men, will b 3 judged by the tribunal of public
opinion In Europa, before which their policy will not merit
with greater success than it did in the late elections
in their own countly. Lords Lyndhurst and Stratford de
Reicl.tfe, in order to recover that infinence which is
slipping away from their lefty, have condercended to
use the old scarecrow of invasion, and they treat England
as a child, who must be threatened with old bogy befit,e
It will be obedient. When noble lords talk In this way, they
abindon the domain of politics for that of fairyland.

The rumour that the Marquis Masaimod'Azeglio
was to go to head-quarters before proceeding to
Bologna, which I represented yesterday as impro-
bable, is now indirectly contradicted by the Patrie,
which says he will stay for "come time" on his
way, at Florence, in order to confer with M. Boon-
compagni, the Sardinian Commissioner there. The
Patric adds that M. d'Azeglio'a mission to Bologna
is " exclusisely " to organise volunteers; and—but
hire I thill the Petrie is somewhat illogical—that,
according to what is said in political drawing rooms

in Turio, " his mission will be at once favourable to
the interests of the holy See and to those of the
Italian cause."

A paragraph lately appeared in the French

. .
papers, headed " New Method of Making Recon-
noissances in War." People laughed as they read
on, for it was stated that M. Godard, after nicking
an ascension in a balloon to survey the Austrian
positions, had returned to the camp and reported
that he had " seen nothing." It is now admitted
that the " new method" was a failure so far as the
first experiments went; but M. Godard lately made
a sudden appearance in Paris, and it is reported
that he has gone back to the army with new appa-
ratus, which it is expected will wined.
The Austrian general, Count de Creoneville, who
was wounded at Solferino, is, as his name would in-
dicate, of French origin. He is, in fact, the son of a
Frenchman. His father, Count Folyot de Creme-
vine, was a French nobleman, who emigrated in
1791, took military service in Austria, and died at
Vienna so lately as 1840, with the rank of lieu-
tenant-field-marshal.
One.of the new boulevards now making in Paris
is to be called Solferino.
One thousand more Austrian prisoners are ex-
pected at Marseilles shortly. This will bring up the
number already housed in Francs to something
like 10,000. An exchange will not relieve the
French very materially from the burden of providing
for all these men, since the Austrians made compara-
tively very few prisoners. The manufacturers cry out
lustily against the empty) ment of prisoners in any
kind of handicraft which would come in competition
with them, and it is said that the government, mo-
difying its original intentions, will only allow the
prisoners who remain in France to work in the
fields. The h t, for getting in which hands are
scarce, will afford plenty of employment for the
moment.

A pamphlet on Garibaldi, by Madame George
Sand, will appear to-morrow.

M. Landrin, an eminent member of the Council
of the Order of Advocates, died this morning after
undergoing a severe surgical operation, which
induced acute peritonitis. .

News of a terrible accident has been received
from Bordeaux. Yesterday evening the central
reservoir of the city, which was very full of water
at the time, burst with such a tremendous noise
that the inhabitant, of the quarter believed at first
that the Bt. Medard Powder Mills had blown up.
Their delusion was soon dispelled. In a few
seconds the torrent of waters rushed with fury in
the direction of the Rue d'Ares and the Rue
Judaique, carrying with it the ruins of many houses,
furniture, beds, men, women, and children. The
tocsin was soon sounded, and the firemen and the
troop. if the garrison hastened to the scene of the
catastrophe. The Prefect of the Gironde, the
Procureur Imperial, the Mayor of Bordeaux, and
many other principal functionaries, gave their
. .

assistance. At a late hour last night three or four
dead bodies had been found, and about a dozen
people more or less seriously injured were in the
hospitals of St. Andre and the Hotel Dien.
The Bourse was in a state of complete stagnation.
A false report of a fall of 30 per cent. at Berlin
caused some sensation, but it was soon ascert►ined
that the real fall was but The Rente closed sc.
higher than yesterday, at 64fr. both for cash and
account. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. Scarcely any
change in railways.

ITALY.

SARDINIA.

(molt Orli OWN COILNUFONDENT.)

TURIN, Joe 4.

I am happy in being able to inform you that rela-
tions between the Government of Sardinia and that
of the Queen have greatly improved, and, what is

no slight advantage, have been disentangled from
that maze of doubt, ambiguity, and distrust, in
which the diplomacy of the late cabinet was in-
volved. The judgment formed by politicians here
of your present ministry, in respect of Italian
affairs, consists in the assertion that the English
people have compelled their government to turn
over a new leaf and act as common sense dictates.
You know that, notwithstanding the ample licence
you have granted me of opening my mind as to the
proceedings of English diplomacy, I am very cautions
about using it, remembering the old Italian saw " A
fool knows more of his own affairs than a wise man
knows of his neighbour's." But since the publica-
tion of the last pages of your Blue-book I have
taken a little heart of grace, seeing that facts have
so completely gainsaid the statements of Lords
Derby and Malmesbury, showing too how little they
were acquainted with Italy, how little they divined
the true and efficacious means of securing peaoe. In
order to finish this section of my letter, I will now
venture to state what is generally considered here to
be the line of conduct suggested by plain common
sense to the new Palmerstonian Ministry, towards
the present Italian revolution. The more the Ita-
lians co-operate with their own arms, and the greater
the union of Italian minds, the less will they see any
necessity for foreign protection. Hence it is ex-
tremely desirable that Naples should join
the league with Piedmont. To preserve the
independence of the Peninsula, it it requi-
site that there should be a strong sub-Alpine
kingdom capable of bringing into the tield at least
200,000 men. If it cannot do this, Austria will en-
deavour more than once to re-invade Italy, and the
latter will have again and again to invoke French aid.
Our government, it is true, has improved its re-
lations with Naples. The last report sent by Count
Sahnour does not extinguish our hope of seeing the
young King espouse the national caw*. Our envoy
confesses that the King is too much imbued with the
maxims of his late father, to which may be added
all the intrigues of the Austrian party, at the head
of which is the Queen Dowager, supported by all
the agents and go-betweens of the police. Notwith-
standing all that, to Count Salmour conclude', the
bestowal of the presidentship of the Comical of
Ministers on Filangieri proves that the necessities
of the time are beginning to be felt ; and Filen-
gieri himself has repeatedly declared to the Sardinian
envoy that it was time for the young prince to
reflect pacifically on the state of things. The
rumour recently propagated is therefore false, that
the King had offend the Pope any armed force that
he might desire. Here you see lam naturally in-
duced to "peek of the Court of Rome. Its relations
with Sardinia are hourly growing worse. As the
Pope does not dare quarrel with Napoleon DI., he
expends all his wrath upon Count Cavonr and Victor
Emmanuel. The Sardinian King and his Minister
do not seem greatly alarmed at that. Yesterday
there came here a copy of Pio Nono's eirculsr and
his address to the Sacred College, the very day when
the official Piedroontese gazette announced the mis-
sion of Cavaliers Massimo d'Azeglio as royal com-
missioner to Romagns. This act, according to the
precise terms of the consistorial address, causes the
entire Sardinian government to incur the " greater
excommunicatioh. Perhaps you may not know
that this peculiar excommunication is tantamount
to a spiritual condemnation, in virtue of which all
persons are prohibited from having any friendly in-
tercourse with the parties so condemned ; cohabita-
tion is interdicted ; nay, the faithful may not sit at
the same table with them. The most singular part
of the document is where the Pontiff declares "that
the said pain of excommunication is incurred by all
persons that shall dare by deed, advice, or assent, or
in any. way whatsoever, to infringe on his tempers.
sovereignty ;' knowing, as he did, that tLe entire
population of the Romagna. and Umbria, with a few
exceptions, would be consequently excluded from the
bosom of the catholic church. It does not appear
likely that Rome will persist in having recourse to
these spiritual means for maintaining its temporal
sovereignty, seeing its sad and quite recent expe-
rience of their utter inefficacy in one sense, and of
their great detriment in another to itself. In the year
1832, Gregory XVI. excommunicated by:Papal bull
the people of Ancona, for having festively enter-
tained the French troops on their arrival there.
What did the people do ? They wrote the bull out
at full length in uncial letters upon a paper kite, upon
which they further inscribed : " We return to the
sky that which came down from it," and then they
set it a-flying. The only result of this step now will
be, that the discredit and dislike of clerical rule will

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be doubled in intensity throughout the provinces.
For the rest, the address to the cardinals tads by

lauding the fidelity with which the Emperor of the
French has came to the assistance of Pio Nono's
vacillating throne, and reminds their eminences in a
general way of the promises that seem to have
been made by Napoleon 111. But in what
terms were they made? Would it not have been
as well to have cited the exact words used?
Leaving that theme, I am able to inform you,
th►t before be sent the Swiss to retake Perugia,
the Pope sent for Central Goyon, and *it'd to him that
Providence offered the Emperor a glorious oppor-
tunity of displaying to the world his catholic zeal,
by sending his own soldiers to subject the rebellious
provinces. The general wrote off immediately to
Napoleon at his camp, but all the answer received
was so emphatic negative. The act then is grave,
and all the more bitter to Pio Nono, seeing that in '
his tour about two yesrs ago he fancied he had re-
ceived the most ample and sincere tokens of
love ►nd devotedness to his paternal administration.
The fact was, the people paid homage not to the prince
but to the head of religion, non tai sed Petro, as
Barbarossa said to Alexander 111. Another, and yet
more poigrrent anguish, is about to be lnflic•ed on
the court of Rome. It is this. The popular govern-
ment of Bologna has summoned to serve under its
flag General Mt wimp% with the 11 battalions of
volunteers from Umbria and the Romsgnas, and
which he has organised in Tuscany. Now, if these
troops should obey the call, the Swiss guards of the
Pope will be beaten, so that the insurrection will
spread again triumphantly as far aa the gates of the
capital. •