The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1867.

going of his own free will to Caprers, antra-
moiled by any conditions, is one which must
have greatly tended to reassure the populace.
M. RArrAzzi may yet find that the high
courage which could risk personal unpopularity
to ward off national danger is universally appre-
ciated. But it may be that GARIBALDI and
RarrAzn have both done something in the present
master to hasten Italian unity. The conviction
that Italy must and will be one, that Rome DMA...
be its capital, and that the temporal power of the
Porn cannot be permanently sustained, is now
nearly universal ; and the French EMPEROR, who
is not often blind to the signs of the times, must
be increasingly uneasy in standing in the way of
its accomplishment. If GARIBALDI is madeasacrifice,
and Rarrazzr the priest who offers it, all the world
perceives that it is the Imperial policy which de-
mands and exacts the offering ; and to be the grim
deity to whom the idol of a nation is sacrificed
must be an unendurable position for one who pro-
fesses to take nationalities under his peculiar care,
and delights to play the part of a beneficent Pro-
% idence towards them. The times have greatly
changed since Aspromonte, and the map of Europe
has changed with them. Italy has found a new
ally s,,ice then, and France a new rival, and
F. nce can ill afford to force Italy so consolidate
that alliarce and to repudiate her own. But as
Italy could well be happy with either ally, it is
quite within the limits of probability that her
statesmen, wisely waiting for the tide in her
affairs, and resolving to take it at the flood, will,
if ro premature ebullition of national impatience
prevents them, make the possibility of her alliance
the purchase price of Rome.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

the !Court.

BALMORAL, OCT. 1.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, honoured
James Clark with a visit yesterday at 111liepronie.
Prince Christian and Prince Arthur, with Sir Stafford
Northcote: and the Gentlemen in Wait" 4, went out to •
drive of deer in the woods.

His Excellency M., Madame, and Mir Van de Weyer
had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal
Family.

A committee of the Lords of her Majeety's Most Honour
able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council.
office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The
lords present were the Lord President and the Right Hon.
Spencer Walpole.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of British Colt-mbla.

The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness Camden, Lord and Lady Londes-
bororlh, Lord Da'many, Captain and Hon. Mrs. Fgetion,
Major Banister, Captain Edgcumbe, Mr. Corry, and a
toleat party have been among the guests of Mr. C. Sykes,
M.P., at Brantingham Thorpe, Yorkshire, during the put
week.

Lon' Stenley, M.P., arrived in town yesterday
from Knowsley.

The Duke of Buocleuch arrived at Montagu
House, Whitehall, last evening, from Scotland, on his way
to meet the duchess and Lady Margaret Scott in Paris.
The Duke of Rutland has arrived at the Hotel
Bristol, Paris, from London, on his way to the south of
France.

LATIIST INTELLIGENOL

AN ITALIAN CIRCULAR.

The Paris journals continue to speak of a note
which M. Rattazzi is said to have addressed to the
different European courts, in which he describes
the situation of Italy, and insists upon the neces-
sity of modifying the September convention. Some
of the papers think it significant that Italy should
now address herself on this matter not exclusively
to France but to Europe generally. The same
authorities discover signs in Italian and Prussian
journals of increased goodsoi between Italy and
Prussia.
The Prussian journals are unanimous in de-
claring that another Roman expedition on the part
of France would constitute a mortal ofience.
, The Nazione thinks it would be a cases &Ili.

(1.11/Thlefl TZIJIGIA1111)
THE PAPAL STATES.
FLORENCE, Ocr. 3.

The intelligence received here concerning the
insurrectionary movement in the Papal province
of Viterbo is of a very contradictory character. Up
to the present, however, no serious confl4ct has oc-
curred between the Papal troops and the insur-
gents. The latter continue to occupy certain
localities. At Rome many arrests have been made,
and the authorities have taken various precau-
tionary measures to prevent disorder. Some of
the detachments of Italian troops left Florence for
the Roman frontier yesterday.