The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-19 00:00:00

L &TEST INTELLIGENCE.

ANSWER OF THE KING OF NAPLES TO
THE REMONSTRANCE OF FRANCE AND
ENGLAND.

A correspondence in the Cokgns Ga:ette gives the
following u a faithful analysis. if not the text itself,
of the answer of the King of Naples which the Moni.
teur described as "negative in substance and offensive
in form."

"King Ferdinand formally declines to suffer
any intromitsion of the Western Powers in
the 'Hairs of his kingdom. He repudiates,
interference el being contrary to all the rules
of international right and derogatory to the
independence end dignity of his crown. Relying
upon the principle of eternal justice which prescribes
that you ahocld sot do unto others what you would
not have others do unto you, he mks, What would
Lord Palmerston say if the Neapolitan government
were to presume to sit in judgment on the adminis.
fictive acts of the British cabinet, and to recommend
a mt dificsidon in its 'Wore policy, or for instance
the ndop:ion of more lihoral measure, towards un-
happy Ireland, sod more humane ones in regard
to its subjects in the East Indies? What would
be his 'sewer to any power that should thus
dare to intermeddle with the Queen's government?
He would reply as the Court of Naples now does,—
that he acknowledged no right and no power in any
one whatever to d•ctate rule, of conduct to him, or to
indulge in cffecsive remonstrances. Or rather, not
so. Lord Palmer rocn would not even have taken the
trouble to answer, but be would have at once sent
r -sports to the representative of the power that
should have so acted. Ilse not then the King of
Naples en equal right with Great Britain to show
himself jealous of his own honour, and careful of that of
his people ? lie may, indeed, by way of showing the
neighbourly respect and good feeling with which he
is animated, listen to overtures made with the object
of consolidating public order in Europe. But even
these should be laid before him with all that delicacy
and reserve which is due to a free Sovereign. And in
any event, he alone mast be the judge of the effi-
ency of the measures which he may to recommended
to adopt, and above all must be left absolutely tree
to choose the moment which may 12001 boat to
himself fee their application. The King is
better able than any one else to appreciate the
exigencies of his position and the necessities resulting
from it. It is alleged that this situation requires
certain modifications, moan reforms. It is argued
that the revolution no longer attacks the govern-
ment of the Two Sicilies by physical force. Admitting
that to be so, it is a proof that the regions so loudly
complained of has not ken so useless or so harmful
as some people would have it believed. Bat it f+
added, this region* has ceased to be necessary.
The King is not of that opinion, and his
will cannot be constrained unless material
force bee erected into a principle, and then what
becomes of the principle of the royal authority P
And what would be the value of sots accomplished
under external pressure? Under such circumstance*
any concession, however legitimate, would be alike
devoid of merit and efficacy. His Majesty King Fer •
dinged is, thandlere, entirely in the teethe( the 'Rua-
lion when he maintaies his prerogatives, sad when he
asserts his right to be the sole judge both of what
is to be done and when is the opportune moment
to do it. This moment he desires to see
with all his heart; but it is impersible to deny that
the violent sod systematic attacks of the English
press, and the provocations thrown out in parlia-
mentary speeches, are calculated to postpone the
opr.rtuntty for some time yet. Is it irrprmed that
the bad passions of a country still Imbued with the
revolntiooary doctrines of 1848 are to he calmed
by such means ? It cannot be forgotten that
not long ago the " central general com-
mittee of Italy" laid down the principle that
political homicide is not a crime, especially when
a powerful enemy is to be got rid of, &c. &c.," or
that this lame committee put a prim upon the head of
the King of Naples and promised a reward of a
hundred thotesed ducats to whoever should deliver
Italy from this monster! In presence of such facto,
so neer to no, it is more than a right, it is a duty, for
his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilia; to act with
the greatest circumspection, and not lightly to depart
from the system of government which he deemed it
expedient to adopt quite as much for the goed of his
subjews as for his own safety.
"It is insinuated and attempted to be proved, that
the constitution of 1848, under the empire of which
the horrible principles above mentioned were openly
propagated, is the law of the land in the kingdom of
Naples. Bat it is forgotten that when the constitu-
tion wee proposed to the rebel Sicilians they con-
tomptuously rejected it and called foe that of
1812. The only effect of the concessions which
Ferdinand IL then made was to stimulate
the demands of the revolutionists all over Italy,
and the movement' which broke out in Naples
and Palermo were the signal for insurrectioen in
Sardinia, R nee, Lombardy, &o. It is desired in mere
wantonness to KO a repetition of this bloody cycle
of crimes and eitestrophes in which unhappy Italy
wee before precipitated P The constitution of 1848
would be marvellously adapted to bring about molt a
result.

"Bosh email be the real intention of the Gabfests
at Loudon and Paris, which most desire to assistela
peace, sad the so dearly bought repose of Europe.
Bach above all cannot be the intention of the Frans►
government, which, after having displayed sash
eassiptie starts to vanquish the revolution at home,
cannot design to sacourage it is Italy. That would
b to set I. &grant atatradicsioa to the wise and
able policy which it has ilia practised with se awl
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" Fresco and Zits''s,' shield ressestbsr that they
',gaged in the Eastern war Ike the aprons purpose
of preventing a foreign power floe interfering I.
the affairs of Turkey. Any analogous intervention
In the kiarken of the Two Wellies would be estrange
and inbeard of anomme/y. La Fordiend mass
and will sot believe that any seek thing eta be
intended. H. relies with entire milldams upon the
feet that the eoarts of Paris and Leedom
have is the aunt public Beam recognised
this principle, namely, that every free state, however
inferior its strength my be to that of the pewee
which pretends to offer Wyk* to it, has the Wis.
potable right to reject the advise when it some in
the farm of a threat sad as attask upon its lade-
redeem

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boss said. If, whkils it is impassible to suppose, it
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SPAIN.

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(71011 ♦ APICAL 001

It is the fond question that most duns attn.
tioo. They say the governmint, *Midas by the
fall of prices in Enna, has purchaired 100,000
fanegas of wheat (a /omega is equal to fifty-
flee French litres), and it will speedily arrive
in our ports. This rumour has no effect on the
holders of grain, who seem resolved not to sell yet,
expecting a higher rise. It is not at Madrid only
that this question occupies every mind; all the
provincial journals bring news which is not teas-
oaring; in Biscay, for instance, the harvest of maize
and beans may be considered as lost (the maize
constitutes four.flftlis of the food of the province);
the fields are burnt up with heat; the people hasten
in crowds to the mountain shrines, with prayers
and solemn processions, imploring God for rain. For
several weeks not a drop of rain has fallen ; another
week of such a drought, and all will be last. At
Medina del Campo, bread costs a sum equal to six-
peo,ce for two ponds English, and is of execrable
quality; and on the 10th, there was not food
enough for forty-eight hours. Crowds assembled at the
bakery.' shops, quarrelling for the bread as fast as it
was baked; and there who wanted four pounds
could only get one. At Grenada, the bakers,
tearing au attack from the populace, had
asked the ojuntorniento to fix the price. In the
prevailing dread of a famine, the municipality of
Valladolid has presented an address to the Queen, I
saying, "The capital of Old Castile, the centre of
production and commerce for gran, 8061
it•elf entirely destitute; and in spite of
all the efforts of the authorities, it is impossible far
this city to procure any corn, vales, it be got by force.'
The address goes on to say—" The sant, harvest
this year, the lack of a stock in reserve from former
yaws, everything, in short, imperatively requires
that the exportation of wheat, dour, and barley shill
be prevented and their importation be allowed."

Meantime, it is reported from Oaths, that large
arrivals of grain have taken place, and that there is
now a considerable store. -

The roads in Andalusia are made unsafe by the
bands of robbers which infest them as far u Pena-
for.

The Gaulle publishes the conditions of the sale
by suction of 17,000 arras* of copper from the
stock of the Rio Tinto mines. The sale is to be at
the end of August.

Much is said of a violent article, published by Gon-
zalo Moron, opium the English press. I shall have
something 0 say about it to-morrow.

The .Madrid Gast. tie of the 14th publishes the
text of the circular of the Minister of the interior
to the governors of provinces, of which mention has
ben made in a telegraphic despatch. It sets forth
the principles on which the government intends to
have the dissolution and reorganisation of monied-
palitiss and provincial deputations carried cut; and
then proceeds to tray :
The government Is lithely determised to restore fumy
to the principle of authority, which has been shaken, and
not to permit that prinbiple to be irjured. It will there-
fore en to the rigorous abd pereevering siltation of the
mesthres It hes adopted. sad will repress with a severe sad
intssible hand all tendeaeles of a SCUM to caw the coun-
try to fail again into the state of confasiou and anarchy
from which it has just happily emerged. In the political
system which the gone:mint proposers to tarry out are man-
prised all opialoas compatible with the constitutional mon.
azalea systems order which we live. It the government
rejees on the one band say connection with villeins fallen
into dominant*, oa the other, it cannot sneer that, ender the
.lasdow of it. stbor IsasesCSl
shall enemata, anew the same of order, of society, sad of
liberty.
The Bp6ca, a semi-official organ, says that in well-
inform d circler it was reported that the
government had at list resolved on its line of policy,
sod that it is to the effect that the Coestitnent Cortes
shall be dissolved before the period fixed for their re-
sisembling, that the constitution of 1845 shall be
brought into force with modifications (the principal
of them being the nomination of a senate of distin •
plotted men), that electioes for the Cortes shall take
place in accordance with the law of 1887, that the
Cirtes shall have power to modify the 'constitution;
that the National Gaud shall be disarmed, sto.
The Clamor Publico says that it was ponsidend
likely that the Marquis de Torgot wooklnot return
to Madrid es French ainterrador, bat that he would
be replaced by Marshal Csnrobert. It says also that
M. Mama was waiting in Paris the arrival of Mar-
shal Serrano, his encomeor, to present him in society,
and that the Marquis de la Vise de Armijo had
.re.
fused the embassy at Berlin, offered him by the
government.. M. Ccello y Clan ed& has been nomin-
ated minister at Constantinople. It is denied that,
as was reported, the Closes is to go to Final for sea
bathing.

A loiter from a Ministerial imam says :
The cabinet h perfectly salted; all the ministers admit
the ablaut' aweemity of silos to combat saarehy and ream
tioa, both of which ars equal, dilemmas. M. Patna°
de la Earmark the late Misfit's of the Interior, yesterday
denuded his posepseh; thus to had am left Madrid, as
seared by the newspapers. Bum elbows of the King's
leasehold are, it is said, to b• chained, bet the aidse-de-
camp, ma isoluding M. Baresistegid, formerly elit-4111-
soap of as Deka de la Vistods, are to remelt

PORTUGAL

RIOTS AT LISBON.

A letter from Lisbon of the 11th, in the
states that en attempt at disturbance bad taken plies
in that city is coasstmoce of the dearness of provi-
sions. A meeiderable body of the working Glasses
asinesbled en the evening of the Bth in one of the
squares, sad, being molted by some addresses from
ill-dimmed persons, were about to break into the
bakers' shops. whom General Coast de Fromm, cost-
mender of the mankdpal gaud. dissuaded them from
their design. They, however, proceeded with
cries of "Long live Don Pedro V!" "Down
with cora spesalaters ! " to the maidens. of
Eugenio d'Alaterido. one of the con-
tractors for the tobacco monopoly and owner of
several Rills and broke all his windows. Some
similar excesses took plans in other parts of the city,
bat afar midaight the rioters retired. The next
eveniag grasps ware spilt farmed, and several biking
establishments broken into and ailed. They ales
again attacked M. d'Almsrliheo house with crowbars
and pickaxes, and serried off what they could
lay their has& on. They thee set fire to
the house, bat a detaelusent of lancers suc-
ceeded in extinguishing the flames, and dis-
persed the crowd, making some arrests. On
nether poiat, a clerk at a prevision shop, seeing
hbatelf attasked by several men, drew oats pistol in'
his own debacle, bat was iannediately tars to
pima; by the crowd. The agitation etatinsed the
sent day, sad on the 11th the Kik( vethrsed from
Mars. His that step was to diaries the smintander
of the assaisipal guard ler his want of meoletise and
snow. Mewls of rioters were all day going
through the sweets NNW the babas to sell their
wail at half risk bet I! the Malaffi the Military
bNag essopied the priielpal paints of the copilel.
the. Grebe beeessa alsanted and retired to wedgy
disease.

THO EXPRID3B, TUESDAY VINING, AUGUST 19, 1956.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MN OMR OWN

PARIS, NOM: EvulNo.

The Emperor and Empress paid a visit to the Pre
Catelan on Sunday. This afternoon their Majesties
came to the Tuileries from Bt. Cloud. It is defini-
tively settled that their Majesties and the Imperial
Prince will leave for Biarritz tomorrow (Tuesday)
leveeing. On the occasion of the fe'e of August 18,
the Minister of State appropriated a sum of
1,800,000 k., part of the publio funds destined to
I answer the obligation which the state hu taken upon
itself of carrying into ezeoution the will of Napo-
leon L, to b 3 apportioned in sums of 60,000 k.
lamong the twentysiz departments designated by the
testator. Another sum has been handed by the
Minister to the Orand Menetllor of the Legion of
Honour, to be distributed among four or five thousand
old soldiers.

Marshal Caerobert wes to leave Aix les Bohm yes-
terday to »tutu to France. His health he- greatly
improved daring his stay in Savoy. Yon will we
that there is a talk of his being appointed azabar-ador
to Madrid.

I do not know what tt nth there may be in the repot t
—and it is only one among many reports of a contra-
dictory character—that the governments of England
and France really contemplate a hostile demonstra-
tion against the King of Nsples, but I remark that
the Sieth, which, although a semi-republican j3urnal,
was quoted on a memorable occasion by the dlonileur,
and deem sometimes receive hints which the govern-
ment prefers not to ventilate through its ordinary
organs, speaks of King Bombe (as it calls him) in
terms which it would hardly use if it were not
cored that his Sicilian majesty may for
the moment be safely abused. It says, moreover,
that, according to private iofoamation, "a legal resist-
ance is befog organised egainst a detestable and
detested power, and that if the King does not take
care, he may very shortly be sent to join the other
branches of his illustrious raise who are now in exile."
It would be superfluous for me to say that Ido not
augur much good to the canes of liberty or program
in any country from the intervention of the prime
government of France. But itmay well be that it enters
into the designs of the French Emperor to get aid of a
Bourbon in Naples as well as to prevent oae of the
family from acceding to power in Spain. A private
letter lyn been communicated to me to-day, from
which it appears that Marshal Pelissier, about whcee
halt at Palermo on his way home from the Crimea.
the French journals have curiously enough been
entirely silent, was almost insulted by the authorities
there. This letter, which was written by one Sicilian
to another, and was not intended for publication, is
as follows;
Palermo, Alvan 7.
I do cot know whether Marshal Folksier visited Finny in
pursuance of order from his Emperor, or merely localise
he droned to see the two prlaelpal cities ia the Blind. Bat
whatever may have beta Is emus of his visit
to Messina sad Paleface, the marshal mast have
men for himself that the Sicilia& people under-
stand serioany what the Waiters Powers have send in
favour of the cavalries subjoined tithe despotic end brutal
domination of the King it Naples. Marshal Pelissirr bad
goireily linded at Messina whoa be was warmly received in
every street with the expreadua of the most signers gym-
pithy, sad of a hole that, by the mediation of Prance and
England, a better goverment might be obtaiaed. From
Messina the marshal went to Palermo. There a great
number of chinas bad organised a demonstration to prove
to him what were the sentiments of the capital of the
Aland. But the Folic* pat a stop to the gathering sad ar-
restedAfty imaioldtals. The dernmucation was to have
bean made oe the beautdel promenade on the sea-
shore. The marital, on hating, paid a visit to Prince
Cagteltioals. They remained in convention for sa hour
and a quarter. The lientenstatieneral had urembled ill
his aldss-dc•camp and orderly Milton to accompany him oa
his return visit to the marshal, but the latter hid scarcely
left the palace when the llentenantgeneral sent all the
omens home. The commandeat of the place went none on
b;nd the marshal's vessel, but it is said that he was not
I received. The fact is that Marshal Palmier having been
told that the Marist-parade was the Ault and most ire-
quested is Palermo, was astonished to see ant social upon
it. Upon inquiry he heard of the amen, and learnt that
the public had kept away Mena the parade is order to make
a negative demonstration—the only one they were per-
mitted to do. Ten esplaiss the ill humour of the marshal.
Other unite were afterwards made. The agitation in•
mane every day, and the more so became, otoottlioll to
the latest news from Naples, a serious movement there it
expected from one day to another.

The Bonne has -been heavy today, and a great
part of the not very considerable improvement which
the Rents made last week has beerlost. The market
was affected by a fall (although the fall was I per
cent. only) in Consols, and by the news that money
was more loam in Loudon and discount more diffi-
cult. The Threes fell 20c. for ash, and 150. for
amount, closing at 70fr. 850. and 71fr. Credit Mobi.
liar fell 15fr. There was a considerable fall in some
of the railway line', occasioned in grist measure by
the depression of the Grand Central, which fell nearly
20fr. in oonsequence of its being known that the ne-
gotiations for a fusion with the Lyons and Mediter-
ranean line had not been brought to a conclusion
either on Saturday or at the adjourned meeting to-
day. A great many epeonlative purchases bad been
made in the line, in the expectation of an immediate
solution, and when the disappointment became known
these parties hastened to close their accounts. The
fall in the Grand Central weighed heavily against the
Lyons and Orleans line. The former fell 7fr. 500.,
and the latter 10fr.

There is a great talk in the financial world of an
motion which has been commented before the Tribunal
of Commerce, by the founders of the General Con-
pan, of Credit in Spain," spinet MIL Prost and Ca,
in coonesquenec of a makunderstanding relative to the
term of the original entreet between them. Among
the plaintiffs are the Merquis de Bedew, the Mar-
quis de Clapiers, and Count d'Alton Shea

The &ode etsttains a leading article headed " Why
does England drink port wins P and thus responds
to its own inquiry—" L sosesqnsass of the treaty
of Methuen." Now, although this mit Mit bs
sonsiderod Walking cad assatiskstory to isastro-
aassioal point of view, it is substantially *Wet is a
political man ; for, says the tfieek, s"-- • ,
Oar legislate* nut neM tbriot that it WINN prohi-
bition is Ida 7 of the Issporistion of Brunton so pa which
dosed to mike Rorke* of liegland. Portugal, mg Bonsai
dada, • *gamy end aUK and which ss rift to the
nosey of mothson, that ..woad to tho "rime of Oporto the
*dad* rule ova lagligh gellare. Let a. NM that the
prosperity of &ilia& le alma always &rivet! Irma tke
Wilts etingaitted by Mr rival, sad that * &Oda
maw en stoma to for seethe= 'lngmar** fault
mat be *tribe** to the imapneoble elialsoeY be Colbert.
"Amongst the lab arrivals at Fiche days the
&wits de Lyon," mete MM. Barash*, NUR* sad
Meru, oonncillors of state ; the Primula Belgiojeso,
and the Bishop of Calton."
The Marquis de Turgot, andoessador et France at
Madrid, arrived on Friday rsarniag at /Wotan% and
left a few boars ages by the express teals for %o-
da=

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