The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-30 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(110 x OUR OIRII

PARIS, MONDAY Evertwo.

The Patric, which appears to have received a
special commission to defend the French occupa-
tion of Rome, returns to the subject in conse-
quence of the perseverance of the Indipenel-
ante Beige and several French journals in
maintaining the position that the evacuation
will soon take place. By the pen of a
writer, bearing the irrefutable name of " Tren-
chant," the Patric now desires to give a "categori-
cal" explanation. It considers the presence of the
French army in Rome under three heads—religious,
political, and military. The first of these points—
the religious one—it disposes of summarily, by say-
ing that it is not ripe for a solution, and therefore
the statu quo must be maintained. There is in this
argument an assumption very much at variance
with the sound doctrine of the separation of the
civil and religious powers dating from 'B9—the as-
sumption, namely, that it belongs to France to
settle religious questions all over the world : but
let that pass. The next point is that the "object
of France—which is to assure the independence of
Italy by peaceable means "—would be frustrated if
site were to withdraw her troops from the states
of the church at this moment. Here the Petrie
reiterates the assertion which I denied the other
day, that all the governments (including the Eug-
HA) approve of the oonopeaiaa. The third
oonsideration—the military one—appears to be
only treated of separately for the lore
of No. 3—just like Sir Robert Peel's cele-
brated throe courses—for, in point of fact,
it is merely a repetition of argument No. 2. Taking
direct issue with the Opinion Nationale, which con-
tends that the influence of France in preventing
Austria from attacking Italy would be just as great
without as with an army in Rome, the Petrie
argues that the withdrawal of General de Goyoa's
force would open the floodgates of war. At pre-
sent, it says, the army of the quadrilateral
is forced to remain upon the defensive,
because it could only take the offensive
upon the Mincio or upon the Lower Po. In
the first case it must call away its troops from
the Po, and so leave the quadrilateral upon on that
side, and in the second it must abandon the line of
the Miucio,and so expose the quadrilateral from the
north. The argument is that the French army of
Rome is, in point of fact, a reserve force of the
King of Italy, acting the part of an army of obser-
vation on the Po, so as to enable the bulk of the
Italian forces to be concentrated on the Mieoio.
This point of view does indeed leave the religious
question very much in the background.
Notice has been taken of the disposition shown
by the bulletin of the Mon kur to put the worst

construction upon the recent despatches reporting
disorders in the Neapolitan states. The heaviness
of the Bourse is by some attributed to this cause.
It is to be remembered that the severe letter said
to have been written by the Emperor to Prince
Murat on the subject of his pretensions has never
been autheutioated, awl it• is quite certain
that the contemporaneous rumour of the prince
having been banished was not tru3. All that is
known, therefore, of the degree of displeasure with
which the Muratist proclamation was regarded at
the Tuileries is that an official censure of it ap-
peared in the Moniteor, and that, Booth to say, is
not much. The latest news to-day is that, both in
Naples and the southern provinces, tranquillity is
completely restored. We shall see what the
ifoniteur will say on this subject to-morrow.

All the evening papers announce that the powers,
including France and England, have agreed with
the Porte ou the union of the Danubian princi-
palities during the life of Prince Couza, and that
a conference will moot at Paris to regulate the
details. The Prase adds that the Porte admits the
principle of the union generally, and not merely
for the life of Prince Couza. Here is a great
European question settled.
M. DuminEray, the publisher of the Duke d'An-
male's pamphlet, has received notice of trial for
Saturday, May 4. He will be defended by MM.
Dufauro and HEbert, two of the most brilliant
members of the French bar. Amidst the excite-
ment occasioned by this publication, the question
whather after all it contains any libellous matter
in a legal point of view has been quite lost sight
of. That question, we may be mire, will now be
thoroughly argued.
At the Bourse the Rent* fell 100. for cash, and
sc. for account, closing at 68fr. 60e. and 68fr. 86e.
Mobilier rose 2fr. tiOc. Railways were rather
better.