The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-29 00:00:00

irk Court.

BALMOR.AL, Acucar
The Quen, Prince Consort, and Princese Alien
attend. dig.n s.rviee in the parish church of Craeuie
)(AA. rday.
The ladies and gentlemen of the household were in at-
tendance.

The Very Rev. Dr. Barclay, Principal el the University
of Glows, wlciatad.

It being Sun,Ly, the Prince Consort's birthday was tele-
braced quite pnvately.
Princess Helens, Sir Charles and Lady Phipret, Sir
James Clark, and Mr. Helps were the additicem to the din-
ner party.

Mr. Helps arrived at the Castle yestenlay afternoon,
to attend a Privy Canoed to be held this morning.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the official residence of the Firs' Lord of the
Treasury, iu Downing-street. Tho Ministers pre-
sent were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl Granville, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles
Wood, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson, Lonl Stanley of Alderley, the
Right Hum Kdward Cardwell, and the Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers.

Mr. W. Alexander, We Illayor, and Mr. B. Matthews, the
Town Clerk of Cardiff, had nn interview with the Eight
lion. T. Miter Nilson yeetenlay, at the office of the Bumf
of on the subject of pilorane.
Th,• il:ght Hon. T. Haberloon has left town fur
&Wolk.

The Right Hon. W. Hutt ku left Loc.lnn for Paris.
Despatch,. from the I iovernory of the V..PiLlndia Colonise
were received yeeteirday at the Cohmiul•ntli,.•e. De'Plia"
were sent t., the Lord High Continiseouer of the lonian
I.Lusts.

Her Imperial Highotris the Grand Duchene
Marie of Russia, the Coast atrepeoff, and a nunicrons
suite, will loiv,• Claridge's Hotel this toornin, for Torquay.
His Riryal Highness the Cmwe Priam of Wortemberg and
the Grand Duchess Alger, who are also occupying state
apirtnizots at Claridge's, will remain a short time after
the departure of their imperial sister the Grand Dachese
Marie.

Their Royal HiThnessea the Crown Prince and
Prineem of Ilrurtembn, mid her Imperial Highness the
Grand Dachau Marie of Russia, accompanied by Count
G. Stroroaoff, honoured the Hama and Baroness Brunner
with their company at dinner on Monday evening, at
Chesham House. The Prince Galitzin, Count Levacheff,
Count Zepliae, Count Erandenburg, hoop Wizapien, Count
Blonde., and Baron Viotiareand were honoured with invi-
tations to meet their imperial highborn's.

rho Duke and Ducheaa rd,Bucclouch am enter-
Wain a large circle of friends at Drunlaniig Castle, thca
seat in Dnsafriesebirr.

The Dukc vid Dueheu of Norfolk and family
are prolonging their sojourn at Bra, in Belgium. The noble
duke and ducheo arc expects l to return home la the emir.e
of next month.

The Duke of LeiuPter hap not g.uto to Carton,
hie scot to Er Asail. hut has ileteirt,l fur a cnntinent.il
tour. His gr.; uixto:upanied 11 feud Othu Fitzgerald, is
in Park

The Duke of Somerset and the Lords of the
Admiralty leave town to.naorrow or Friday on the cus-
tomary &onus] official visit to the royal dockyards and naval
statiooa.

Mentioning to the British Museum Committee
that it is found necessary to put glees before the pictures at
the Kensington Museum, Mr. H. Cole made a most (-wino,'
statement. "The public," he says, "sneeze upon the
pictures end the saliva runs down the pictures and posi-
tively eats away the surface of them. One of the most
vuluahle of Mr. Mulready's picticres was covered with
the coughing; end sn,eriogs of the I.cblia close
at the picture and laughing in the presence of it." Mr
Cole also remarked on the fancy which the manse of
visitors db.play for teaching the s-nriou, objects. "We
had a little lit of sculpture of a ' Mother and Babe,' sad
the balm excited the inttre-t of ell the radliere that
came to the, museum. They were always measuring their
babies by the side of it, aal touching it WI it became quite
grubby."

A pleasure train, conveying 1,800 persons,
about to run fmnt Viers to Puns iu forty-..eight hour.,
'topping at only four stoti.na im the way. When the
tridge of Kehl ehail h 9 tini.:oal at the end of next month,
the rolular tine of an exprem train between Paris and
''bona will be only forty-two hours.

The commanding officer referred this proposition
to the Gemoral-in-Chief, in order to obtain his
decision.

Iu the meantime the enthusiasm of the Neapo-
litan troops abated, they became disorganised and
dispersed, leaving the batteries without any
defenders.

NAPLES, Avoca? 2+4.
The royal troops in Calabria have again boon
defeated.

Tho insurgents of Basilicata are advancing to-
wards Salerno. It is believed that they will join
Garibaldi and march against Naples.

The Pays, till cry lately ono of the staunchest
adherents of the Kiug of Naples, now publishes
the following desperate "latest news :"
The last despatches from Naples represent the situation
as more serious than ever. The insurrectional movement
spreads rapidly in the provinces, and the desertion of the
troops goes on in daily increasing proportions. A panic
pervades all minds in Naples itsolf, notwithstanding the
material tranquillity hitherto maintained in the city. It is
thought that Francis 11., in this almost desperate situation,
will noon resolve to leave his capital. The tenor of the
last news from Calabria and the attitude of the navy are
said to have induced the King to seek safety in flight.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.
Tie Monifeur contains the following telegmo,
dated Chambery, 28th inst :
" To-day the Emperor and Empress received the
public authorities and the principal inhabitants of
the dep.! -ment.

" Their Majesties then paid a visit to the prin-
cipal church, and afterwards rode out in the neigh-
bourhood of Chambery.
" In the evening a grand ball wag given in the
theatre."

A private despatch received here from Chambery
states that their Majesties have received Signori
Farini and Ciddini.

SPEECH OF THE COUNT DE PERSIGNY.
PARIS, Acorn 26.
The Count do Pereigny, in his quality of Presi-
dent, opened to-day the sittings of the General
Council of the department of the Loire with a
speech, of which the following is a summary :
The count commenced by observing that he was
about to examine the existing probabilities of pcaoe
being maintained in Europe, and said :

" The Emperor's pronamme of Bordeaux has
not been changed. Withoute pretending to abolish
war, the Emperor has, however, repudiated the
inheritance of mere fighting for the sake of ven-
geance for the defeats of the first Empire. Before
the ieaugorauon or the prugAhot empire two extra-
ordinary questions wore pending, viz., the question
of the East and that of Italy, neither of
which could be resolved by means of diplo-
macy. Although the wars resulting from
these questions could nut bo avoided, they
were carried out with promptitude, and the Em-
peror succeeded in realiaing the object for which
they were undertaken.

" The destruction of Sebastopol prevented Russia
from taking poemsion of Constantinople, and the
Eastern question was confided to the charge of
united Europe,
" As regards the war in Italy, the Italian States
were delivered from Austrian domination, and the
principal object of the war was thus obtained.
Although the Italians now jeopardise the indepen-
dence which they acquired in consequence of the
war, the principle of non-intervention, now a re-
cognised rule of international policy, exercises a
dominating influence over the further development
of the question.
" Thew are the only qnestions which occupy taw
attention of Europe at the present moment
"The apprehensions entertained in Germany re-
specting the Rhine frontiers, and the fears of an
invasion current in England, do not merit serious

" The Rhine is no longer a atrategic frontier.
France, being ranch stronger when Germany is
divided, will never support the project of German
unity t au compensation she might obtain.
" Concerning the relations between England and
France, neither of these two powers desires to
enter upon such a terrible struggle as a war
between them would be. The Euglish nation is
peaceful. Their virtuous Queen and the eminent
men in power desire to maintain a good under-
standing between the two nations. _

" In view of so many great results obtained by
France, and the ln.c.re which they throw around
the French nation, it i, intiural that uneasiness
and distrust should have lAell in ]Lampe. France,
however, .li.l not ermte the com:iliattione in Italy,
neither did she counsel Austria to follow the fatal
policy which led to the rLing of the Italians, nor
is she responsible for the treaties which
Austria concluded with the Italian princes.
France nsed every possible effort to pre-
vent the conflict. If the Emperor kept
silence before the outbreak of the war in reference
to his promises to repulse the attacks of Austria
upon Italy, it was with the motive of leaving the
Italians in ignorance of his powerful assistance,
which, had they beca aware of, would have spread
incres...ed excitement amongst then,.
"Thus the silence with which the Emperor has
been reproached was disadvantageous to himself
alone.

"The same can be said in reference to the cession
of Savoy and Nice to Franca
"The Italians, after the oonolusiou of the peace
of Villafranca, having acted in violation of that
treaty nu the other aide of the Alps, France could
not renounce her Alpine frontiers, seeing that a
greet Italian kingdom had been constituted. France
has never concealed her intentions either from
Sardinia or from England. She has deceived
nobody.

" Tito Emperor has certainly replaced France in
her le,itintate position without shaking the confi-
dence of Europe. Taken ee a whole, his policy
wan pure and honest. Übe has made war in Italy
it was only because the other Powers were nut
willingto engage their own responsibility. As 140013
as it was poa.ible to arrive at a definite result, he
concluded the peace desired by the world.
" Since 1815 France has been forced to follow
the role imposed upon her by the Treaties of
Vienna. Another spirit now reign., and the poli-
tie:.l system of 1815 has been subverted by Europe
herself. This system we. the result of a violent
transitiou which by two put convulsions entirely
tlinturbed the European equilibrium. 'how trip it
has been the great interest of Europe that a general
reconciliation should be effected between the dif-
kreut powers, :.eel that France should, by common
consent, re-assume the position which belonged to
her in the Councils of the Powers. She nu loupe

The programme of the minority of the 21 mem-
bers of the committee of the Reichsrath is said to
originate with Count Hartig, and to be a kind of
compromise between the views of the government
and the wishes of the Hungarians.
In order to arrive at an immediate solution
Count Hartig proposes to confine the constitutional
reforms within the limits indicated by the imperial
patent decreeing the creation of the enlarged coun-
cil of the empire, and recognising the principle of
the autonomy of the provinces.
According to the above-mentioned programme
the Reicharath would preserve its present powers
for the regulation of the general afikirs of the em-
pire, and its privileges would successively become
more extended.

Every province would settle its local affairs by
menus of provincial dieta.
. .

The privilegesof these latter would comprehend
the right of making laws, awl of exercising a delibe-
rative vote on all questions of provincial adminis-
tration.

• Concerning the general affairs of the empire, the
provincial diets would have the right of petition and
the liberty of bringing complaints resuust the mi-
nisters before the Emperor. Should the Emperor
find these complaints to be justifiable, the minuitets
would be brought to trial before a tribunal, to be
chosen by the provincial diets themselves.
The Emperor would exercise the right of veto
upon all decisions emanating from the provincial
diets, in the event of their being considered pre-
judicial to the general welfare the empire. But
the exercise of the veto would always be explained
and justified by a special imperial patent.
In order to complete the autonomy of the pro-
vinoes, the programme of the minority of the com-
mittee proposes the eetabliahm in
dependent
municipal of
municipal institutions.

THE UNITED STATES.

GALWAY, WEDXERDAT.

The Royal Mail Company'a ateamor Prince
Albert, Captain Prows., sailed hcoce yesterday at 2.45p.m.
with the mails for America and 619 passengers, of Whom 80
were cabin.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(rsom 01..11 Ow2t 0011ISPONDILITT.)

PARTS, TVEBDAT EVENING.

Most exciting news from Naples is telegraphed
from Marseilles to-day. It will be remembered that
two Piedmontese ships of war, having on board a
considerable force of riflemen (Irersaglieri), lately
anchored in the Bay of Naples, with ulterior ob-
jects not avowed, and that several of them landed
and walked about in uniform in the streets of the
city. We now learn that some of these bersaglieri
having been set upon and killed or wounded by
Neapolitan troops, the Marquis Villamarina has
called for immediate reparation, and had, up to the
date of August 25, received no answer. The great
probability is, that before this time, the whole force
of Piedmontese bersaglieri will have landed to seek
reparation for themselves, by aiding an insurrection
in Naples and assisting to open the gates to Gari-
baldi's army. But a most extraordinary and, if true,
sinister statement in this telegram is that within the
last few days Baron Brenier, the French ambassador,
has demanded a just satisfaction for the outrage
committed upon his person. What can this mean t
It will be fres:e in the recollection of all politicians
that several months ago a rufflinly assault was
made upon IL Brenier in the streets of Naples.
Explanations were given at tir.! time compatible
with the entire and undoubted innocence of the
Neapolitan government and the dignity of the am-
bassador, and nothing more of the affair has been
beard since. It moms utterly incredible that Baron
Brenier should now rake up this affair in order to
afford a pretext for a military interference by
France pari passe with Piedmont. And yet there
is no suggestion in any quarter whatever of any
new outrage against Baron Brenier. It is most
puzzling. What " just satisfaction" can he nor
justly want I
It appears to bo expected in Paris that before
the Emperor leaves Savoy he will give a public
answer to Lord Palmerstou's last speech. The
Petrie, after quoting an opinion of a London
paper, as evidence that the Emperor's speech at
Lyons is "generally approved of " by the London
press, goes on to say :
We desire to hope that the speech which his Majesty
will make at Chambery, where he has met with such au
enthusiastic reeeptiou, will be eye illy well received by the
English journals. Eut the "unjust mistrust" which Lord
Palmerston has never ceased to manifest on the sub-
ject of the cession of Savoy —a mistrust only lately
expressed in his recent speech leaves us but
little hope that the London newspapers will be pleased
with what the Emperor is about to say. We shall, how-
ever, easily console ourselves, and if Lord Palmerston ex-
pected an answer he will Anti it in the warm reception given
by the population of Savoy to Napoleon 111.
It is stated in Bnilier's Corrcspondenze that the
Emperor has resolved to create two new regiments
of Zouavea ; and that in consequence of observa-
tions of Count de Persigny the programme of Prince
Napoleon's voyage to the British islands—it having
been originally announced that ho was ta visit the
meats of England, Ireland, and Scotland—has been
materially changed. The latter announcement is
mysterious, and I cannot explain it. Why should
the French ambassador in London have objected to
the prince ibitieg one put of the British islands
more than another 1 It is too ridiculous to suppose
that the prince is suspected of conspiring with Mr.
Smith O'Brien and the other um-respondents of M.
Marie Martin, of the amstitutiomici. And yet
nothing more serious suggests itself as a reason why
any part of the United Kiugdom should be inter-
dicted to him.

The Bourse was again weak, and tho amount of
business done was less than ever. The Rentc fell
10c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing in each
case at GSfr. 'Meldlier fell lfr. 25c. The Lyons
Railway fell 2fr. 50c., Orleans Hr. 25c., and in the
other hues there was no cham,,,e.
It is reported that, according to a banker's de-
spatch received late this afternoon, there Is a fall of
10 per cent. iu the Neapolitan funds.
The List three days of sunshine have been most
favourable to the harvest in ninny localities. In
many places the priests exhorted their parishioners
to go into the harvest field without scruple on
Sunday, assuring them that in such an emergency
" to work is to pray."
It is expected that important political speeches
will he respectively addressed by M. Fonhl, Count
de Monty, and M. du la Guerronniere, to the
Councils General of the Rotates Pyrendes, Puy-du-
Dame, sad Haute Vienne.

. ITALY.
N PLES.
frsait'esm own comilsrosnam)
NAPLES, Atictsr 21.
The government appears to be in perfect darkness
as to the intentions and movements of the revolu-
tionary party. The Intendente of Salerno, who
was telegraphed for on Saturday, confirms the
statement as regards his province, but for all this
the work is going on, and Garibaldi is so secret in
his action, that not even his staff know what his
intentions are. Perhaps this great tranquillity is
only the precursor of a atom.
All the foreign residents are, of course, anxious as
to the future, not knowing where to take refuge, or
at what moment, if public order may be disturbed.
Tlie vessels, of course, would be open to them ; but
to be packed like anchovies, with the glass at 85 or
90 degrees, would not be agreeable. Some have
spoken of fitting up the church which is in the
consulate, and will probably have a guard of
marines ; but the best suggestion I have heard is
that the English should retire to the beautiful and
healthy island of Capri, where Mr. Elliot will send
over a vessel every now and then to see that all
goes on well. I think that this will be the plan
adopted.
After despatching my letters on Saturday there
was considerable movement amongst the military,
and a concentration of troops in the direction of
the palace. Souse said that fears were entertained
of an attack on the frigate, the Bourbon, now in
the offing ; others, that a landing had been effected
near Gaeta, and that another was expected near
the capital. Meanwhile, copies of despatches have
been in circulation from Foggia, Poteuza, Corleto,
and the mountains of Basilicata, which tell of in-
surrections amongst the people, and fraternisatioms
of the troops. I do not attach any importance to
theme reports, but consider them as only so many
indications of the extreme sensitiveness of the
public, mind.
There have been various domiciliary visits during
the last two or three days, principally in search of
arms ; nor was the villa of Prince Luigi, at Posi-
lippo, excepted. The peasantry told the guard
that boxes of arms had been concealed there, but
had been consigned by his royal highness to persona
unknown to them.

The College of the Jesuits was also visited. I
believe, for the gendarmes were seen in it yesterday
morning, though the holy fathers are not there.
On Sunday last some Piettrnontese were arrested
in the Bongo di Loreto, fur what causes it is easier
to imagine than to assert ; and some acts of ven-
geance were attempted against the authors of the
arrest. As for desertions, they occur continually,
and I must observe that they nu longer consist of
individuals, but of masses, so much so that the
Comitato has not funds sufficient to provide for
them. In short, society has fallen to pieces—there
is universal and complete disorganization.

ArcenT 22.

My. yesterday's letter reported movements in
Foggia and Potence. I now confirm them, and the
bulletin of the " National Unitarian Committee in
Naples," which now lies before me, describes the
encounters between the gendarmes and the people
in Potenrs ; the triumph, of the latter after a
trifling loss ; and the establishment iu all probabi-
lity of a provisional government At Capo
dell' Armi two steamers from the Sicilian eons:
had landed bands of armed men, who were
marching towards Reggio. The royal troops
had fired upon them, but the result is
not known. Another outbreak is spoken of as
having taken place in Bari ; in short, the whole
kingdom is in a state of revolution. I told you
that the elections were to have taken place next
Sunday ; but an address to the King, signed by all
the ministers, has just appeared, in which his
Majesty is advised to defer them. It says :—" Sire,
—Your ministers have omitted nothing to give
effect to the representative institutions revived by
the sovereign act of July 1. Above all things, it
lime been their hope to assemble the electoral col-
leges, so that the country might be legally repre-
sented as quickly as possible. But that it is in vain
to hope for, as the country, strings to the exer-
cise of its constitutional rights, finds itself in a state
of ever-inerea,ing agitation in consequence of the
war on the other side thu Faro, which has now
been transferred to the continent, and above all,
for the movements in many cities of the provinces,
where, if every effort in made to calm them, the
tranquil reunion of the electoral colleges would be
found to be impossible. All these facts would
compel citizens to absent themselves from the
peaceable exercise of their civil privileges. In this
state of things, and under the pressure of the facts
above-mentioned, the committee to be nominated
could not offer the free or full expression
of the true national majority, and which
might bo productive of errors, of which
the enemies or the liberal institutions of the cotntry
.would take advantage. The undersigned are,
therefore, of opinion that the elections should be
deferred for the whole course of the ensuing month,
in the hopes that by that time the country being
free from all apprehension of external aggression and
internal disturbances, and withdrawn from the
impression of every illegal suggestion, will be able
to exercise fully and independently the right of
voting, which may have so great an influence on
the future destinies of our kingdom and of the
whole Italian nation. (Signed by all the ministers.)
An order leas boon issued for the arrest of Ma-
riano Ayala for an article signed by him in the
Bandiera Itslinne, and a domiciliary visit has boon
made in the house of Gaetano Anichiello, the friend
and the companion of Poetic,.
The parliament is not to be convoked before the
20th October.