The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-16 00:00:00

1860.
EXPAISS PROM PARIS.
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, PARIS, SUNDAY EVINDIG.
The news Irani- Nice, that "every voter" was
marching to the poll this morning with an annexa-
tionist bulletin in enormous characters stuck in
his hat, is honestly published by the Frew as a
communique ; from which fact I presume that only
government amounts) of the electoral farce in Savoy
and Nice will be allowed to appear in France. The
Pays gives the same despatch verbatim, but without
the confession that it is official ; and the Patric is
at the pains of altering a few words, and passes it
off as from " one of its own correspondents"
By way of extreme precaution, and to provide
for the event of the Sardinian parliament not
ratifying the treaty of cession of Savoy and Nice,
the government journals are now beginning to
argue that the ratification, although expressly
stipulated for in the treaty, is of no consequence
whatever ; because universal suffrage supersedes
the Sardinian statute and all other considerations
whatsoever !

There is a clever thing in the Charisari. A
French soldier is represented crossing the frontier
into Savoy without taking any notice of a man in
a porter's lodge, who calls out lustily to ask him
where he is going. The free and easy proceeding
of the soldier is described as Entrant saws s'addresser
an Suisse 1 English readers may require to be in-
formed that Suisse is a synonym for • hall porter,
because that office was formerly filled by Swiss
people more than any other. In the courtyard of
many houses in Paris you see written up to this
day, "Parlez au Suisse."
The Empress of Russia, who is now staying at
Nice, having been asked by Napoleon lIL to select
a guard of honour from the elite of his army, made
choice of the ZOUAVOS of the Guard. In conse-
quence, four companies of that regiment, forming
a force 360 strong, are to leave Paris for Nice by
an express train to-morrow.
The Pays appears to have received something in
the nature of a communique, although not so termed,
on account of recent animadversions upon Sir
James Hudson for having asked Garibaldi to
dinner. The importance of this news, the journal
now says, consisted in the fact that Sir James
Hudson was supposed to be about to accompany
Victor Emmanuel in his progress through Tuscany.
But the British minister has given up the project
in pursuance of orders from home that he should
act in concert with the French envoy. Now it is
certain—says a Turin letter, for which the Pays
vouches—that M. de Talleyrand some days since
officially declined the King's invitation to accom-
pany him to Florence, and therefore the inference
drawn is that England agrees with France that
the "true interests et Italy and Piedmont will be
furthered by resistance to extreme opinions and an
ultra policy." It is quite possible, though Ido not
accept the fact with the Pays' authority, that the
English government may think it expedient not to
accentuate the difference of opinion between the
two cabinets on the Italian question by sending Sir
James Hudson with the King of Sardinia, when IL
de Talleyrand positively refuses to go ; but what
the Pays means to insinuate is that England shares
in the arriire pens& of France with regard to Tus-
cany, and will not recognise the annexation. This
I do not believe.

CONMILUISM2I4.4I are the order of the day. The
Union and Gazette de France have one for calling
the Count de Montemolin "Charles VI." In
giving him this royal title, " these journals deny
the constitutional rights of the Queen of Spain,
which all Europe has
,recognised, and with whose
government France keeps up the best relations. It
is therefore useful to remind these two journals of
the respect due to those international courtesies
which are reciprocal guarantees of peoples and
governments."

PARIS, SATURDAY JITZNING.

There has been a debate in 'the Corps Legislatif
on foreign affairs which lasted three days. The occa-
sion was the discussion of the bill for reducing the
contingent of recruits of the class 1859 from the
number originally fixed, 140,000 to 100,000.

The debate was brought to a oonclusion yester-
day, the government proposition being earned by
238 against 8.
The Gazette de Nice of April 10 contains, on the
eve of the vote of annexation, some very strong re-
monstrances against the way in which the ceremony
is conducted.

In another article the same journal objects that
the vote of April 15 will be in any case radically null
and void, because Art. 5 of the &auto, which confers
upon the King the right to sign treaties on certain
conditions, adds: "Treaties containing financial
obligations, or changing the territorial conditions of
the state, are only valid after having been sanc-
tioned by the Chamber." Now the vote imposed
upon us is nothing else than the "result of a
treaty," and that treaty not having yet been ratified
by the Chambers, the vote is necessarily void.
The Constitutionnet and Patric are very angry
with our minister at Turin, Sir James Hudson, for
having asked Garibaldi to dinner.
There has been very little change at the Bourse.
The Rente, after unimportant fluctuations, left off
at 70.30 and 70.25, with a rise of 15 and 5.
Mobilier rose 1.26. The Lyons railway rose 11.25 ;
Eastern, 5 ; the other lines were about 2.50 higher,
except Westerns, which fell 2.50.

ITALY.

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SARDINIA.

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TURIN, Aram 11.
A letter just received from Ancona by an in-
fluential member of the Sardinian parliament con-
tains intelligence which I think it important to
place before your readers. On the 26th ult. an
extraordinary steamer from Trieste landed first and
ostensibly Monsignor de Merode, and after an hour,
and as if by stealth, four more passengers, one of
whom turned out to be General Lamonciere. Mon-
signor Mirode immediately set out for the Trouto,
• small river which separates the States of the
Church from the kingdom of Naples, and after an
interview with General Pianelli, the commander of
the Neapolitan corps, returned to Ancona
on the 27th, and set out again in two days
for Rome. At that date General Lamoriciere was
still at Ancona, studying maps and holding mili-
tary conferences with all the colonels and staff of
the different arms, some of whom he had even
summoned from Rome. It was generally reported
that the Bayard of his Holiness was waiting there
to meet Count Guerra, a Modenese officer, who is
supposed to be the leader of the small army of six
' thousand men, composed partly of Modenese, who
were in the service of the late duke, and partly of
disguised Austrians. If the adhesion of these
trop were a settled point, the whole force at
the • lion of the Roman government for the de-
' fence the MarchesandUmbriawould be as follows:
Neapolitan troops at the Tronto frontier, 20,000 ;
Ducal troops and disguised Austrians, 6,000 ;
Swiss in Ancona, 600 • Swiss on the Romaguol
frontier of Pesaro, 2,000 ; Swiss on the Tuscan
frontier of Perugia, 2,000 ; garrisons of several
towns in the interior, formed by undisciplined
militiamen, called Barbacani, the riff-mff of society,
4,000. There is besides a considerable number of
Austrians, who have mostly served out their term
of conscription in Austria—they are a valuable
and well disciplined body, but dissatisfied with
their officers, many of whom are inexperienced
young civilians : all these are quartered in Ancona.

There are no cavalry except the Neaplitans, for
the only good horsemen in the Pope's set.
vice, the dragoons, have been disbanded, and there
remain only about 1,000 gendarmes. These are
without military training, although they are a fine
body of men, and warm partisans of the Papal
cause. From all this it appears to us (adds the
writer of the letter), in spite of the inyetery with
which the whole is surrounded, that if the Niapuli-
tans have really made a league with the Pipe (which
I cannot positively state, although the Pope's parti-
sans affirm it), all these folks threaten Romagna.
As to the spirit of the populations, it is of course
all against the Pontifical government. You would
scarcely find in Ancona one hundred men sincerely
and heartily devoted to the Pontiff ; witness the
fact that nearly all his army is composed of foreigners.
Besides the Austrian steamer which regularly
arrives on Wednesday, and constantly brings to
Ancona from 100 to 180 Austrian and Bavarian
soldiers, the Pope has got two very small steamers,
the fit. John and the Bt. Paul, which nearly every
week ply between that town and Trieste, and carry
also from 100 to 150 men every week, all Austrian
soldiers. They are again working Very steadily at
the fortifications of AnOODA ' • but you must know
that there is not a fourth part of the guns or am-
munition required for the defence of the forts and
outworks raised by the Austrians, and afterwards
abandoned by them ' • for Austria has withdrawn
to Verona a great portion of the pieces of ordnance
and stores sent to Ancona before the war.

To-day it was rumoured in the lobby of the
Chamber of Deputies that the government hail
received official intelligence that what the King of
Naples calls order bad been re-established in
Sicily and Calabria. The threatening volcano of
the popular math may have been got under for a
short time, but it will never be ipieuched till the
infamous system enthroned at Naples has been
totally destroyed.
P.S.—At the end of to-day's sitting the deputy
of Nice, Avvocato Laurenti Robandi, rose and said
that General Garibaldi had charged him to ask from
the house leave to address an mterpellation to the
premier to-morrow. Count Cavour answered that
such a demand could be made to-morrow, after the
newly-elected president had taken the chair. To-
morrow, therefore, we may have a debate upon
the Nice business. Count Cavour, while answering
Signor Robandi, was rubbing his hands in the
manner of a man ready to meet his adversaries.