The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-06 00:00:00

VENICE.

A Venice letter of the 2nd, in the fiord of
Brussels, gives a lamentable account of the situa-
tion of that province. Trade and industry are
described as being at an end : and the expense el
lodging the troops has completed the disastrous posi-
tion of the inhabitants. Formerly the troops were
concentrated in the towns and fortresses, but since the
war they are spread over the country also. Country
mansions and farm. houses have been converted
into barracks, and the communes have to pay the
met. A notice from the superior authorities, to
which a retroactive effect as far back as the let ha.
has been given, declares that the government will
only pay the communes the expense of soldiers'
" lodgings on the footing of troops on the march,
and not of troops in garrison." This last act, it is
stated, has completed the financial discomfiture of
all the Venetian communes.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY Evrmngo.

The Pays says there is now no longer any doubt
that Paris is the city selected for the meeting of the
Congress. Although this fact has been taken for
granted for a long time, I remarked apes the ab-
sence of the mention of any specific place when the
Congress was announced by the ifoisiteur, and the
present statement leads to the inference that up to
the present time the matter was not absolutely car
fain. The Pays farther says that "at present,'
January 6is the day fixed for the meeting. It
also announces that the English government boa
accepted the Invitation sent to it, and that Lord
Cowley will be the first plenipotentiary of Great
Britain. The Petrie states that not only England,
but most of the other powers have sent in their an-
swers, and this news was also current at the Bourse,
The Russian answer cannot be received for some
days to come; despatches of this kind must of neces-
sity be sent by hand and not by telegraph.
The telegram of yesterday from Turin, stating
that all difficulties between Piedmont and Tuscany
relative to M. Buoncompagni's regency had been
settled, was premature, at least so says the Pays,
which, at the same time, expresses the opinion that
" the difficulties will probably be arranged,although
no definitive solution has yet been C9OlO to." A
despatch from Florence announcing the convocation
of the Tuscan assembly seems to indicate that M.
Ricasoli, firmly resolved not exceed his powers, is
about to consult that assembly in order to confirm
the agreement made by M. Parnetti, at Turin.
Should M. Buoncompagni ultimately assume the
reins of power in all the four states of Central
Italy, this curious state of things will result that
any discontented parties in Modena, Farms,
and Romagna will be able to cite the
opinion and the conduct of Tuscany in support of
the proposition that his regency or governorship
(whichever it is to be) is illegal in those three pro-
vinces, for want of the consent of their respective
assemblies; and at the same time M. Ricasoli, while
incurring some odium and displaying much courage,
will have followed a regular and legal course, with
soother object than that of attaining the same end
which the three states to be incorporated with
Tuscany will have acquiesced in, though acoom-
plished in their cue loosely, and by less scrupulous
means.

The Pays, speaking of the important step taken
by Governor Parini towards the annexation of
Modena, Puma, and Romagna to Pied-
mont, sneeringly says that he " preferred
huts to good speed." It also pronounces
very strongly against the idea of Count di
Cavour being the Sardinian plenipotentiary in
the congress, opining that " whoa after the prelimi-
naries of Villafranca this statesman resigned, he
assumed an attitude incompatible with his taking
part in deliberations of which those preliminaries
are to be the bailie, since he is, in consistency, neces-
sarily bound to oppose them." Thus you see that
down to this hour Count Wslewski's organ osten-
tatiously nails it. colours to the mast of Villafranca;
and yet there are many people who will not allow it
to be questioned that France and England are quite
agreed that the disastrous stipulations then made
are not to be carried into rff.ct.

The revival at the Bonne is now aasuming such
large proportions that the brokers indulge exult-
ingly in the hope of a return of the palmy days of
speculation. The provinces, which eo long remained
dormant, are beginning to send numerous orders.
The Rents opened at an advisor of fully 15c. on
Saturday's prices, and soon rose to 71fr. 400. and
71fe. 46z. Some sales for the fall, by speculators who
had attained a sure position by their dealings in
peensiums, caused a retrograde movement to
71fr. s6c.; but the quotation of 71fr. 50c. wee
speedily regained. Many oscillations followed, and
the last paces were 711 r. 35c, both for cash and
account, with a rise of 35c. and 20c. Mobilier, altar
having reached 825 fr., closed at 816 fr., with a rim
of lOfr. Spanish Mobilier, in which a large bud-',
nom wee done, rose sfr. The railways were in groat
demand. It is taken for granted that no raw obli-
gations will be issued before the month of May.