The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(TROY OUR 01,11 CORRieIPONDINT.)
PARIS, SATURDAY ETWORG.

The news which I announced en bloc at the be-
ginning of the week that the Emperor hoped to
have a constellation of sovereigns in the month of
October, is now being dealt out to the Parisian
public in driblets. On Friday and Saturday the
King of Holland and the King of the Belgians
were talked of, the latter "vaguely." Now the
latest news is that apartments are being prepared
"in all haste" at Compiegne for the King of Den-
mark, who is to be there at the same time as the
King of Prussia. Said Pacha, the Viceroy of
Egypt, ix also said to be expected.
A new diplomatic note on the affair of Ville le
Grand has just been remitted to the Swiss govern-
ment by the Marquis de Turgot.
A monstrous inquisitorial act of government has
been resented with commendable spirit by several
departmental journals. The editors of papers at
Bordeaux, Marseilles, Nantes, and other places
have been called up before a commissary of police,
and required to give the names and descriptions of
every writer in their journals, the place of his
birth, the position of his family, the amount of his
salary, what degree he took at the university, what
are his antecedents, and what his scientific and
literary works and honorary distinctions. Both at
Bordeaux and Marseilles the editors have refused
to answer such parte of these interrogatories as are
foreign to the "civil status," which is no secret to
anybody. This affair will make a great noise.
The Council-General of Finistere (at the ex-
tremity of Brittany, not the most civilised part of
France) goes in for a Maine liquor law, and calls
upon the government to make it penal to drink
absinthe—the favourite but pernicious hob-and-nob
beverage of the French army.
The Bourse continua; firm. Bente rose 5c., both
for cash and account, closing at 69fr. 20c. and
69fr. 30c. Mubilier rose 3fr. 75c. Railways were
fully from lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. higher.

SUNDAY EVKNING.

It continues to be said that the King of Prussia
will be at Compiegne on October 6, but the Cons&
tutionnel repeats the very extraordinary statement
that his stay in France will be limited to twenty-
four hours. The Emperor and Empress remain at
Biarritz longer than was contemplated, and, accord-
ing to present arrangements, will only come to
Compiegne on October 5, the eve of the expected
arrival of the King of Prussia.
The Pays, by way of " Latest News," endorses
the report (the truth of which I greatly doubt
myself) that General Cialdini will leave Naples at
the ent) of the month and be succeeded by General
Fanti, M. de Villamarina becoming at the same
time civil governor. That M. de Villamarina will
shortly go to Naples I believe to be true, for it is
well known that Cialdini wishes to be relieved from
the civil government, but I cannot think that the
repression of brigandage in the Neapolitan states
is yet so complete that it would be politic for the
King of Italy to part with such a successful and
popular commander as Cialdini.
I have received from au Italian friend some
curious details, which I believe to be thoroughly
authentic, of the elaborate machinery set in
motion some time ago to induce a belief in Eng-
land that France was going to pounce upon
Sardinia, and by means of which Mr. Roebuck was
hoaxed. Count Cavour, shortly before his death,
was informed that both Austria and the Italian
reactionary party, which, under favour of the
French government, has its head-quarters at
Rome, had resolved to start the Sanlinian
C4l44rti in the hope of creating a preju-
dice in England against France and Italy.
The Austrian councillor Brentano, and a secre-
tary of Prince Carini, the ex-King of Naples'
ambassador at Berlin, were simultaneously sent
to London with instructions to propagate the story
of the cession. It is not necessary to suppose them
to have been willing instruments of a fraud. In
all probability they were dupes themselves. But
at all events they were furnished with a forged
document, purporting to be a copy of a
convention between Count Cavour and the
French Emperor for the cession of Sar-
dinia, and which copy, it was given out, had
come to the bands of the Austrian government
through the treachery of a Foreign-office clerk.
This tale was artfully palmed off upon an intimate
friend of Mazzini's, who duly reported it the famous
triumvir. Notwithstanding, however, all the
exertions of the propagandists, the affair took no
hold upon the public mind at this time. But after
Cavour's death, the visit of the Archduke Maxi-
milian to England was thought a good opportunity
fur renewed efforts. The favour which the arch-
duke's professions of constitutional principles
obtained for him in the eyes of certain members
of the English parliament is well known. Encou-
raged by his reception, the archduke put into the
hands of a M.P. (whether Mr. Roebuck himself,
Mr. Kinglake, or anybody else is net material) a
copy of the terrible convention in question. Accord-
ing to my information,it was stand in the 4th clause
of this forged docu went " that Sardinia cannot be con-
dered Italian, because its inhabitants are principally
of Arabian or Spanish origin," and that it had been
agreed to make over the island to France, as a
compensation for her services to Italy in obtaining
Rome for the capital, and in order the more firmly
to consolidate the Franco-Italian alliance. If this
statement should be contradicted iu any quarter
whatever, I am assured that names and dates will
be forthcoming.
Thu Echo de l'Aeeyron has received a warning
for an article, " odiously insulting to a friendly
sovereign recognised by France, calculated to pro-
voke agitation, prophecying imminent catastrophes,
and spreading false alarms, with a malevolent pur-
pose." I presume, from the tenor of the warning,
that the journal must be a clerical one, and that
the friendly sovereign alluded to is the King of
Italy.
A literary journal, called the Gazette de Bayonne,
having received a warning, and been intenlicted
from selling its numbers at Biarritz, informs its
readers that it means to give up the ghost. At the
same time it states that it has had several private
warnings before, and that existence was not worth
having under such harassing circumstances.

With a deep regret, which will be shared by all
lovers of the drama in Europe, I have to announce
the death of that charming actress Madame Rose
Cheri, who expired yesterday of a malignant sore
throat, called by French physicians artgirie count-
neuse--disease answering, I believe, to the English
diphtheria. It is said she caught the malady by
nursing her son, who is now out of danger. Ma-
dame Rose Cheri was only thirty-seven years old,
having been born at Stamper, in 1824. In 1845
she married M. Lemoine-Montigny, the manager of
the Gymnase.

The French Consul at Cagliari, in a letter ad-
dreasod to the Gazette' del Popolo of that town, protests
spinet an article in which th►t journal had asserted that
the employee of the consulate spread report. in favors.
sod drinking shop that the island of &Mints is forthwith
to be ramie over to France.