The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-15 00:00:00

COMMRRCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CALCUTTA, San. 9.--Imports have declined. Ex-
ports Sr. moderate. Prices unaltered. Freights
better. Exchange on London, 2s. 21d.
- .._ _ .

BLunoo, 13—Exchange on London, 2t. id.
to 9.. Id.

HONG BONG, AUGUST 24.—Freights unaltered.
nutting, on London, 4s. 11d. to 4s. ll}
CANTON.—EipOTHI have risen; importsiquiet.=:
"SHANGHAI, AUGUST 116.—Silk Canimatetl.l4:Tea
limited. Exchange on London, 61. 61d to 61. iid.
Freight': for Ms, 21. 10s. to 31. 10s. ; for silk,
41. 10s. to 6/.

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The mail left for London at 10. Letters on
Monday.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

(TlOlll OCZ OWN 0011.11.111PONDINT.)

TURIN, Oct. 11.

The conclusion of pesos, although delayed by
accidental causes, may yet be regarded as a fact,
and immediately about to be announced. The im-
portunities with which the Sardinian government is
visited from Paris are such that it seems not to be
prudent to persevere in any longer resistance to
them. There are not wanting some persons who
blame this deference on the part of our government,
and allege that it has not managed to obtain any
important modification of the first article of the pre-
liminaries of Villafranca. In reality, the frontier
line has been left, as I told you, precisely the same
as it was marked out by the armistice. As for the
debt charged upon Piedmont, Austria has certainly
obtained a great deal, though it may seem
but little compared with her strange and exorbi.
tent demands. At any rate, the present Sardinian
government defends itself with this consideration,
that King Victor Emmanuel receives Lombardy such
as France chooses to hand it over to him, since it is
to France that Austria has ceded it. This would not
have happened if Count Cavour had not been re-
moved from the ministry. I believe I am accurately
informed when I assert that he would have advised
the King not to accept Lombardy except on condi-
tion that this act should be preceded by the free vote
of the population. You may well understand that
this fact would have altered the character of the
Conferences of Zurich, and would have invested
Piedmont with an authority and a right which she
dose not at present enjoy. Bat the strategy adopted
preparatory to arriving at the Villafrauca prelimi-
naries of peace was to deprive Count Cavour of
power. It is, perhaps, useless to refer to these cir-
cumstances now, but as they belong to history, I
have thought it worth while to mention them.
The exemplary quiet and order of Central Italy
have been unfortunately and culpably disturbed by
the atrocious homicide of Count Anviti. But if the
iniquities, the provocations, and the impudence of a
wicked instrument of tyranny could diminish the
guilt of those who immolate him, without trial
and mercilessly, to popular vengeance, this would be
the cue. He wu the most shameless and the most
odious satellite of all the blackgurdisms of that
Caligula in duodecimo, the late Duke of Parma,
Carlo 111. Nevertheless, Puma would not now
have had to deplore, along with all Italy, the com-
mission of such a misdeed, but that all organisation
of a polite force was lacking, and ever since the
horrible times of the late Duke the people have been
urged by despair to defend themselves by the
agency of the secret societies, and to arm themselves
with daggers, to one of which the Duke himself
fell a victim. The effects of all this could not
disappear in one moment, and the populace of the
city could not forget all at once the habit which had
been imparted to them of witnessing revolting scenes
of violence and torment. Jostle will, however, be
done. Yesterday evening the dictator Farini arrived
at Parma, in order to make speedier and more ener-
getic arrangements. France might therefore have
abst►ined from passing such a bitter though indirect
censure on the government of Parma as she did by
publishing in Ler semi-official journals an announce-
ment that if the crime were not promptly punished,

her epresentative, Cavaliers Paltrinieri, had orders
to withdraw. I cannot tell you how cinch public
opinion has been agitated by the sad event at Parma,
and, in general, by the inactivity of which the pre-
sent ministry are accused with respect to Central
Italy. If I am to judge from the signs which
seem to me perceptible, some course will quickly be
decided upon; and the Sardinian troops would
already have entered Parma, it Commendatore Rat-
tarsi had been present at the last cabinet council,
but he has been confined to his bed for several days
by indisposition. The times are becoming difficult,
and it is to be hoped that the courage which they
require will not be wanting. The clergy here be-
have quietly so far, though the circular lettere des-
patched from Rome to the bishops throughout
Europe command them to get up a general lee4e de
boueliers, and you have doubtless read the curious
pastorals and protests of many of the French bishops.
The greatest impression has been produced here by
the publication of Monseigneur Dupanloup, who, as
a Savoyard, is a born subject of King Victor Em-
manuel's, yet speaks of him in the most irreverent
manner parable. The Piedmontese and other Italians
read his letter oat of mere curiosity, then fold up the
paper, and shrug their shoulders. We shall ass
whether it will be received with the same good sense
in France. A.