The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-21 00:00:00

LONDON. MONDAY. NOV. 21.

Ir the telegraphic despatches from Genoa sad
Turin may be trusted, the full agreement between the
several States of Central Italy, which has been as
remarkable a feature in the history of the last foss
months, has been impaired. Tuscany, it is saki.
objects to the Regency of M. BCOROONIPAGNI,
which Paresk Modena, and the Legations ham
bailed with mtisfactioo, and the head of the
Taman Goseniniont, Baron Ricesou, has mat
deputise to Tenn to mks a reprosestation to that
effect to the Prises DI CARIGNAN. We lOW be
(*cheat to wait a day or two before we can know
exactly how the matter stands; in the meantime,
it will be prudent not to attach too much importance
to the istelligence. The Regency of M. Iit'ONCOM-
PAW4I yea a purely Sardinian expedient, and it was
obviously the right and duty of the Governments of

the .malls► States to decide how fez it fulfilled the
mid of the arrangement voted by the four Assemblies,
the regency of the Prince t.e C"itton vs, for whisk
it WY substituted. That the appointment of M.
Btainctier"cst should be 'entailed by the action of
say foreign lower whatever would have been a
great blow to the emus of Italian independence
but there is nothing in the measure itself
which should make us regret to see it
sot aside fee a better by the free counsel if
Italians. Of owes the Sardinian Governante' will
sot urge these:optima, of its nominee epos a wiles-
t•ut people; OS the other band, we Moat hare better
evidence Ilea we ern at present discover before we
eta believe that the Governments of Central Italy
gee len seenible of the valise and important, if
taiga the. they were whet they lately seaveited the
Assemblies to vote the Regency.

We have again to direct attention to the pecu-
liarly favourable position of the manufacturing is-
tenet io Manchester and its neighbourhood. Is
that centre of iododry, business is considered to be
now both more active and more healthy than at soy
former period of the year. The prices of many
articles are higher now than for a long series of
years. The transactions during the last few weeks
have been very extensive, and in contequence not
only have prices experienced an almost general and
decided Improvement, but buys,. feel keenly the in-
coneenience prising from the scantiness of the stocks
of goods. Customers, in many instances, have ab-
sedately to wait a considerable time before they can
be served. Some of them Sod that their
orders cannot be executed until after the
tore of the new year. Our Manchester
friends are, is fact, 4 a position similar to that of
the coal merchant when wintry weather sets in end-
denly, or of the Peninsular and Oriental Company
at the termination of an Indian war, when everybody
"'rants to get home at once. You are informed that
year application shall be booked, but cannot possibly
be attended to instantly. At Manchester, both &pin-
nate and manufacturers are not merely unable to
execute promptly any large foreign or colonial com-
missions, hot are scarcely able to satisfy even the de-
mand ordinarily witnessed at this mason. Special re-
ference is made to the liberal purchases, at advanced
prices, of " domestics" and the fabrics adapted for
Lome consumption generally. People who ksep
harping upon the dulness of business, and croak-
ing about what they consider the inevitable cones-
csences of a large falling off in the pro.
fits of the nation, will discover, if they
will open their eyes, that, through sheer narrowness
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of view, they have mistaken a local for a national
stagnation. Each individual is prone to exaggerate
the effect of dulness in his owe particular branched
business upon the well-being of the community at
large. This is a natural conseqoenoe of the innate
self-conceit in which wean indulge, and which those
who repudiate it the most indignantly probably
possess in the largest degree. If there be one
grumbler amongst twelve workmen, his Tomos always
drowns the 'Moss of the eleven. Whilst the enac-
t opted members of a trade comprising a few hundred
or a thousand workmen are haranguing the world,
with some essentially selfish end in view, scarcely a
sound la heard from a million of people actively sad
remuneratively engaged in the great cotton masa-
facture. It is only by reflection of this nature that
we can reconcile the complaints still heard V WC*
quarters with the encouraging testimony presented
in the general returns relating to imports, exports,
and the revenue.

the cotton interact i, thus rososikably
prosperous, the woollen laterite, which is estimated
to furnsah etoploymeot to about 300,000 Emilio, is