The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-26 00:00:00

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PARIS, TUESDAY Emma.

The article in the Constaulionnel, signed Boni-,
face, of which you will have received a long tele-
graphic analysis, is undoubtedly semi-officiaL It is,
I have no doubt whatever, an answer framed under
the immediate superintendence of the Emperor
himself, to a new and rather unexpected demand
from Rome. The Marquis de Cedars, the first
secretary of the French legation at Rome, arrived
in Paris yesterday morning with important des-
patches, the substance of which is understood to be
that unless within a very short time--soine say a week
—the Emperor takes measures to drive the Pied-
monteee troops out of the Marches and the Umbria,
and to restore the Pope to the possession of
his dominions in their integrity, the Pope
will leave Rome end place his person
under the protection of some other power. The
article signed Boniface is highly satisfactory,
in so far as it intimates a categorical re-
fusal ou the part of France to comply with this
exigency. France has blamed the aggression of
Piedmont, has withdrawn her ambassadors from
Turin, and maintains an army in Rome which is
ready to defend the Pope to the last man. But if
she were to do more—if she were to send 100,000 men
into Italy to defend the whole of the pontifical tar-
sitory, she would be placing herself in the precise
situation which she made war upon Austria for
filling, she would become the actual ruler of Italy,
and would provoke the hostility of the Italian
people, and the jealousy and distrust of Europe.
So far the world is to be congratulated upon the
article signed Boniface. It shows that the French
government really believes in that most
desirable event, the flight of the Pope from Rome,
land, although greatly regretting the step, is resolved
to have recourse to nothing stronger than argument
to prevent it. But the question is asked in Paris,
why is this important article signed Boniface
Why does K Grandguillot, the recognised leading
government writer, devote his attention in the same
number of the journal to the refutation in the
small print of the last canard of the Courtier du
Dimanche,while M. Boniface, a gentleman who it is
notorious never writes articles, though he sometimes
signs them, has all the honours of type for a capital
communication 1 The answer to this question is
thought to be found in the following studiously
obscure passage at the end of the article :
The departure of the Pops would, in our view, be a great
misfortune for the church ; but this step, while changing
our situation, would not change our ditties, and France
would be always reedy to prove her respect sad devotion
to the head of the church, she would be always ready to
take part in the reparation of faults, for the commission of
which she would have been in no way responsible.

Dos not this mean that although the Pope may
go away from Rome, the French troops will not ?
Does it not mean that the promise which K
Grandguillot was made to sign the other day that
the army would be withdrawn in the event con-
templated, was an idle and dishonest threat
never meant to be acted upon ? And is not the
moon why another man of straw is put
forward upon the present occasion, simply that
K Grandguillot could not in decency be asked
to sign the very contrary of what he was told to
put his name to a week ago ? At all events,
if the construction which I feel inclined to put
upon the expression "the duties of France will
remain unchanged " should be thought too
strained, the absence of the renewal of K
Grandguillot's promise now that the event seems
really to be drawing nigh is a most suspicious

The Opinion Nationale reports the extraordinary
intelligence that the wretched King Francis 11., in
the dying struggles of his power, has shot a general
at Gaeta for high treason. The name of this
officer is General &Llano, and it is said that he
was executed in four hours after his trial by a

The Bourse opened with much firmness, and the
Bente rose to 68fr. 70c., but, without so much as
the suggestion of a reason, it dropped to within a
fraction of yesterday's prices for the close, leaving
off at 68fr. 50c. both for cash and accouut. Mobi-
her and the railways also left off with scarcely any
change.

SOUTHERN ITALY.

(MON OCR OMX

NAPLES, Barr. 19.
I do not wish to create difficulties where so many
must perforce exist, still it is undoubtedly the fact
that a sense of uneasiness and dissatisfaction is
creeping over the Neapolitans. Now that the illumi-
nations and vociferation have passed away, that
hope has been exchanged for reality, and that the
mystery with which distance clothed Garibaldi has
been removed and that truly great man appears
amongst them with a simplicity ill appreciated by a
people in the infancy of their civilisation, they begin
to feel dissatisfied and apprehensive of the future.
There is, too, I must confess, some foundation for
the feeling, for though many or most of the decrees
which have been issued are admirable, much
bat been done which shows that, however
great Garibaldi may be in the field, he is not
equally so in the cabinet. The publication of his
letter refusing to be reconciled with Devour occa-
sioned so much ill feeling that Ministers offered
their resignation, and were only induced to remain
in power at the intercession of the members of the
moderate liberal party.
The commission which has been given to Dumas
has created much irritation. The abolition of the lot-
tery, though highly approved of in principle, is consi-
dered an imprudent measure, as being almost imme-
diate' and calculated to bring on both financial
and socialdifficaltiee ; and it is recollected that such
a measure in 1848 almost drove the people into a
counter-revolution.

It is asserted, too, that in the direction of affairs,
men who have long been exiled, and who have lost
the chain of Neapolitan events, have taken a pro-
minent, almost an exclusive, part, and that cram-
quently many men have been put into office wholly
unsuited to the circumstances. lam fully inclined

to admit that where all are seeking place many
must needs be disappointed. Still, thedissatisf action
is a fact, whatever may be the causes of it, which,
as a faithful historian of what is passing around
me, I am called upon to note. The most serious,
because the truest, ground of complaint is, that the
extreme republican party affect and have an in-
fluence which leads to the adoption of many im-
prudent measures, and worst of all to an antagon-
ism to the only power which can now ensure order.
To make matters worse, Mazziui is said to be in
Naples, and as his presence here shows that he has
much promise of success, so it adds strength to a
party which I regard as the most dangerous to the
real liberties of the country. I content myself with
reporting the feeling which undoubtedly exists, and
now pass on to mentionsomeof the moat recent acts
of the government.
Virtually the annexation of the country to Pied-
mont is announced in the following decree, siwied
on the 7th and published on the 17th of September :

Einem Libor", Romano, Minister at the Uterine, by pre-
sented hinted, before me, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Dictator al
Souther' Italy aid his requested me to receive his oink
to the Ring Victor Emmanuel, Which be has peasounoed is
the followiag Emmet : "I, Libor". itoniaue, Minister of
the Interior, swear fidelity and °bedlam to Victor Em-
Manuel, Mai of Italy, and We wISNOIII4II. I 411reut to ob-
serve, and cause to be otworred, the statute and every other
law of the state for the inseparable good of the King cud of
the Italian country." At the same time I have empowered
the said minister to receive the same oath from the other