The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Fax 19.

The Paine of this evening says General Me-
nabrea has not directed the attention of the Court
of the Tuileries to the intrigues which are taking
place at the Arnim Palace at Rome. The general
well knows that the French government have never
ceased to discourage hopes and ambitions which
late events may have awakened in the minds of
the adherents of Francis IL, and also to impress
upon the Papal government that it should care-
My prevent all schemes and enterprises hostile to
Italy. The same paper also publishes a letter from
Crete, dated the 7th inst., which makes mention of
three engagements which have taken place between
tho insurgents and the Turkish troops, and in which
the latter gained the advantage. The majority of
the inhabitants of the island aro said to be favour-
able to an understanding being arrived at with
Turkey. .

PASIS, Fix 19, Evarnia.

In to-day'a sitting of the Legislative Body the
amendment demanding the abrogation of the
Bth article of the law of 1819, which ren-
ders a journal liable to fine for any attack
upon public morals or religion, was re-
jected. The amendment proposing to abrogate
the provision of the decree of 1852, which pro-
hibits the public papers from publishing reports of
press trials, then came under discussion. MM.
Picard and Jules Fevre spoke in support of the
amendment. In reply to M. Jules Ferro's speech,
M. Pinard, the Minister of the Interior, said that
the publicity of trials before the courts was a
necessary guarantee, but that the publication in the
newspapers of the proceedings in cases against the
press was a danger without any compensation.
The amendment was rejected by 204 votes against
30. The debate will be resumed to-morrow.

SING LOUIS OF BAVARIA.
NICE, Esc '

The state of the health of the ax-King of Bavaria
has taken an alarming turn. The doctors propose
making a second incision in his log..

AMIRICA:

(lIT ATLANTIC 17aJWIAPII, TIFIONON WC =ITN AOZNOT.,
IigW.YOII.IE, PA 19.
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The Cunard steamship Cuba arrived out at 2
p.m. to-day. The Gui.o steamer Manhattan also
arrived out to-day.
Closing prices :—Gold, 1401. Sterling exchauge
on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds,
1882, 1111 ; ditto, 1885, 1091 ; 1040 Bonds, 1051.
Illinois, 188 ; Erie, 74/. Cotten : Middling
Upland, 231. Petroleum, standard white, 25.
Flour, extra state, 10.40. Corn, old mixed, 1.30.
• (asutia's vv.i.soassr.)
GREENCASTLE, F 0.19.
The Canadian steamer Austrian, from Portland
en the Bth inst., arrived here this afternoon.
(Per the Austrian.)
NEW YORK, Pls. 8, Emma.
The House of Representatives lea voted the re,
standee of the civil and polities! rights of ezalonfods-
rate Oovernon Holden, of North Carolina, and Orr. of
South Carolina ;surd General Lonytrest.

A sub-committee hue been appcanted by the Iteeoustrao•
don Committee to investigate whetherPresident.Tolumento
opposition to the reinstatement of Kr. Stanton es 1,014
taty for War is a violation of the Tenure cd 011bre
ininfying his impeachment.
It is reported that General Grant, seMindussmbers of
the cabinet, and newspaper eorresptehtteeiN lave been
summoned as witnesses.
• • Tbe decision of the committee seieriFtieptesiment
bne..abeady been received by the Atlantis MOIL •
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Tit LAND TILLNSPORT Mum poi irlithialtd•-"-
Tha akeimunder-in-Chief of the Abyasiadak-eiVisidat:
(Lisdenent-General Sir Robert Napier) IMO*
foment by a correspondent, expressed to a=faalr at
Boa* his great dismtlafaction with the
nosehay Commissariat in connection with the PrettlialUlß
and supply of the Lend Transport Tribs eartbseact Alta-
Ostia Much delay and oh:A:nation hats; f
.Mg kain-
penid Ito movement Of the Covii se Bombay,- Ind the
Ocsividesm7vGeneral was excused Of 'ovally Wading the
supplies required by Captain Stateilay, the 'llitoototiottlo
array works corps. All this bad to be settled by' appal to
the Commanderia-Oltief, and s commanfeatkon front hiiio
the Governor of Bombay hu had tie Mime It
the movements of the Bombay Commissariat.

The Tines tel the unionists that they do not come to
be men, citizens, and subjects by forming themselves in
combinations. Whatever their neatened objects or their
iotended motion, their organisations certainly do lead in
innumerable cases to enforced idleness, to the discourage-
ment of skill, to the stifling of enterprise, to the decay
of flourishing towns. Facts, not theories, guide the
course of legislation. Whatever apologies may be made
for trades unions, the facts within everybody's knowledge
will continue to tell on the law. If the trades unions
cannot control results, neither will they control the law.
Whatever may be said for the nstoral right of any body
of men to State recognition and legal protection, It will
not get them if it is seen to bee law-breaker.
The !daily News remarks that the economic fallacy of
the arguments on which the members of trade societies
bees their restrictions is brought up In clearer light by
their defence of these restrictions. But they we amenable
to fact sad reason. Patience, candour, and good temper
clone ere needed to convince them of their errors. The
farmers and country gentlemen of England have been eon-
verged from the heresy of protection ; and we do ant
despair of the artisans.
The Mould notices a disposition on both aides to avoid
coming to close quarters, and Lopes yet to see the day
when our working men will accept the conclusion, long
since arrived at by their truest friends, that every device
for giving labour an unnatural value cripples trade and
increases the cost of production, and in the long run mot
rend nest bsisefully upee their own interacts.