The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1859.

not complete without the approbation and applause
of the world. He has now a great opportunity of
commanding the respect of mankind, and he will im-
prove it if he only remains true to the spirit of the
last declaration seriously made in his name.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

EXPECTBD 1108TILMB8 IN BOLOGNA,
The latest reports from Bologna are of a warlike
tendency. It is stated that 8,000 men, under the
command of General Halbermatten, have marched
towards Cattolica from Pesaro, and that an attack is
expected every moment. The Monitore di Bologna
of the 28th, without affirming or denying the foot,
cells on the people to be calm and confident, as the
government is prepared to meet any eventuality. It
appears certain that 2,000 Swiss, with several pieces
of artillery, have arrived within a short distance of
Cattolica, and the government have received
dispatches informing them that these are but the
advanced guard of the papal troops. These
troops are mid to be composed, not merely of
Romans, hut of Modena', who are favourable to
the pretensions of the duke, Swiss from Naples,
who bare been engaged by the Pope, and Austrian
soldiers, who have been disembarked at Anoone,
and dressed like the papal army. Altogether they
amount to 10,000 or 12,000 men. The government
have been further informed that the projected at-
tack will coincide with the period for holding the
elections, so u to influence them in a sense favoura-
ble for the authority of the Pope. On the other
hand, the government of the Legations is adopting
the most energetic measures. The troops of
Mezzacapo are full of warlike ardour. A mes-
senger is sent off to Garibaldi every other day,
and that general is gradually advancing from
Fears, so as to be in a position to give effective aid
if the necessity for it should arrive. Telegraphic
despatches have since announced th►t Mezzacapo
has advanced towards Cattolica at the head of his
troops, and that the elections have taken place with-
out the slightest disturbance.

GeneralFanti has been appointed Commander-in-
Chief of the Army of the Italian League. General
Garibaldi, it is positively affirmed, had been offered
that high post, bat his modesty prompted him to
decline it.

Some arrests have taken place in the Legations.
Agents of Austria and 3lazeini have been ordered to
quit. M. Mario and his wife (Miss White) have
been escorted to Leghorn, where they will em-
bark for England.

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Avourr
The council of state is summoned for the 26th
of September. The opening of the Diet will take
place on the 3rd of October, after which it will be
prorogued for two months.

SP A 2.

MADRID, Avover 30.

The Correspoisdancia ditiogrgfa announces that
orders have been given for the formation of an ex-
peditionary corps of 10,000 men. The Spanish
consul at Tangiers has withdrawn from that place,
after having handed a note to the authorities an-
nouncing that Spain is decided to have satisfaction
by arms for the hostilities against Ceuta.

TURKEY.
MARSEILLES, Avocet. 31.
Advice. have been received from Constantinople
to the 24th inst.

The Sultan had been on the point of death from a
severe attack of fever, bat his health is now restored.
He has had since a lengthened conference with the
Grand Vizir with reference to the interview of the
Sultan with M. Thouvenel, respecting the carrying
out of the Hat-Humaymin, and also upon various
financial matters, that in particular concerning the
customs tariff.

The Journal de Constantinople says the rumour
Cl the modification of the ministry is unfounded.
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Letters from Byria to the 18th (mt. state that fears
are entertained of an extension of the civil war in
that province. 'The Drums were devastating the
country by setting fire to people's property ; the
Europeans are said to be flying from the towns.
Some silk factories had hoisted the French flag for
protection.

The French consul had sent for troops, but the
Turkish fame was insufficient.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(litOM O OWN

PARIS, WEDNESDA.T EVININO.

It would almost appear that the hopes held out of
a slackening of the rein which has hitherto held
the prom are about to be in some degree realised.
The Consritutioome/ inaugurates the event by giving
to the French nation certain letters written by
French exiles which have appeared in the columns
of English and other newspapers. It seems strange
indeed to see in that journal addresses to the public
bearing such signateres as Victor Hugo, Louis Blanc,
and P. J. Prosdhon—and yet to this favour nave
we come. The Press. follows up with the conclu-
sion of M. Peyrat's remarks upon the speech of M.
de Morny; and the Time* itself hardly takes
greater latitude in replying to" the reproaches of the
President of the Puy-de-D6me against the English
orators, ministers, and newspapers." M. Peyrat
considers that when M. de Morny talks of the " re-
ciprocal susceptibility of France and England," and
apprehends lest, one fine day, " some incident of no
importance should become a source of serious com-
plication," he exaggerates the danger. The writer
believes the governments may have had mis-
understandings, but never the people; nor can the
charge of exciting the national susceptibilities
in England against France be fairly brought
against English journalists and public men.
In proof of which assertion be quotes the following
words, addressed by the Emperor to the Legislative
Body on the 7th of February last :—" As to the
alliance between France and England, I have made
persevering efforts to consolidate it, and I have found
on the other side of the channel a happy reciprocity
of sentiments on the part of the Queen of England,
as also on that of statesmen of all opinions." M. de
Horny might easily account for the " explosion of
susceptibility produced by the newspaper articles
and speeches in parliament," if he chose to call to
mind " the insulting violence of that part of the
French press which nineteen months ago accused
the English people of complicity in the attempt of
the 14th of January; still more so if he would turn
back to the Moniteur, where, in company with his
own speech, he will find the addresses of the colo-
nels, soliciting for their regiments the honour of
marching in the van of the army, charged with " de-
mending an account of that land of impunity in which
is situated the den of the monsters sheltered by its
laws. The French government did its duty ; it dis-
avowed these imprudent menaces; bat the impression
was produced, and it has not yet been effaced." lie
further alludes to the remarks of Granier de Cu.
Gagnon in the Pay. and the Cosatituricsussl, that
" France could, whenever she chose, throw suddenly
an army of 60,000 or 60,000 men upon any given
point of an enemy's territory, a warning which
England thought was d son addresse," while if that
belief was erroneous, no attempt, he says, has yet
been made to correct it. M. de Morny's notion that
England ought to be sufficiently reassured by the
loyal fidelity of the Emperor, and his well-known
pacific intention., does not appear to him strictly
logical. He recalls another sentence in the Em-
peror's speech on the occasion already alluded to,
"In order to attain this end, so desirable for the
world (the Anglo-French alliance), I have placed
beneath my feet, on every °cassias, irritating recol-
lections of the past, the attacks of calumny, and
even the national prejudices of my countrymen."
This seems to him of a piece with the remark in the
Constitutionnel about the Emperor's abstaining
from an appeal to the national animosity, whereby
France might, if it were wished, be made to rise as
one man ; and he thinks it quite natural that
England, being told these things upon such autho-
, rity, should see therein " a cause of serious preoccu-
pation." He then continues :
Besides, these comiderstione, in themeless tolerably
weighty, are sot required to account for the anesumats of
England. Three months ago Europe was on the see of a
general war, the faot by which the abrupt peas of Villa.
franca me explained. In such a war would England have
had no part to pis, ? And to play that part, had she no
preparations to make ?

The people, which ban been the soul of the four greatest
coalitions that the world has witnessed sham the end of the
18th century, which etrugglei victoriously against Loins
XIV., arrested the euterprieee of Gustavus Adolphus
against Danmark, and of Catherine against Turkey, sus-
tained against the French republic and empire a struggle
without parallel in history, peopled the United States, Bri-
tish Amerce, India, Australis, and founded ea army point
of the globe colonies, some of which are great and power:ill
states; such a people cmnot remain a mere spectator
of events which may possibly change the hoe of &u•
rope. Above all, it cannot expose itself to witness a retain
of the time when Tromp and Ruyter sailed up the Thames.

He then alludes to the much talked of change in
the system of naval tactics owing to the introduction
of steam, and the supposed facility with which a
landing might be effected in England. He does not
incline to this belief. He thinks, moreover, that
"England is so situated u to render extremely
difficult, if not impossible, the only danger which can
seriously menace her, namely, the junction of all the
European fleets. She cuts off the communication
between the north and the south of Europe "sou to
prevent effectually a junction between the fleets of
the Baltic and the ocean, still more of the Mediter-
ranean." "These idea of maritime coalition are not
of our time; besides which, history teaches that
they are almost always powerless. In the American
war the French and Spanish fleets were unable to
effect a junction after the battle of the 12th April,
1782. . . Louis XIV. was convinced that all

attempts at • descent upon England would
bet cad in the increase of her means of
defence; and Napoleon, even while preparing the
most formidable attack with which she had been
menaced, said the going was easier to accomplish
than the returning, in the face of a nation which
would arm to a man." He observes that an invasion
would be useless and an anachronism, even if it
could be carried into effect ;and concludes by ap-
plauding that part of the speech in which the war
of commercial competition is recommended as the
only war consistent with public feeling and the
general prosperity.
I have only time to point to another very remark.
able article which appears in the Courrier do
Dimassehe. It is by M. d'Haassonville, assumes
the form of a letter to the councils-general, and oc-
cupies about one-half the journal. Nothing half co
strong has been printed since the famous article by
M. de Montalembert, end there is no doubt that it
would have met the Caine fate which overtook that
article, had not • great change recently come over
the spirit of M. de la Gnerronniere's dream. As it is,
I know that functionary and his advisers sat in
judgment upon M. d'Haussonville's article ; but the
decision arrived at was that a prosecution or even •
warning would, in the present state of the public
mind, be unadvisable. The tone and obj:ct of the
article may be gathered from the following and
almost the concluding passage :

We would ask the mothers of the counclls-general who
may peruse there pages whether it does not appear to them
that with a flee prem, which would bare been envlited bt
discuss the acts of government, to watch Its tendencies, and
to call public attention to their probable consequences, our
county would sot have been earlier forewarned of the hotels
nonce of the late war, end cuisequently less repot.' to the
deplorable oriole which so shook public credit F We would
Implore them to consider whether reeponeible ministers, ea-

nossclag their policy to the Chambers, would not have suc-
ceeded better than mere articles In the Noniteur, in explain-
ing to the public of France and Italy the difficulties of the
enterpias about to be undertaken. We would mak them to
commit their consciences. and say whether the repose of
Europe and the welfare of France would not be better gua-
ranteed by decisions calmly deliberated in the bosom of a
national parliament that by thee* which depend upon the
will of one man.

In the affair known u the saltpetre affair,"
Demaret has been acquitted, and Sebille found
guilty, with extenuating circumstances. He is con-
demned to six years' imprisonment, to pay I,ooofr.
to each of the parties injured, with five years of
coatrainte par corps. Moreover, he was declared by
the court to be degraded from the Legion of Honour,
as having " marquea l'honneur."
The slow progress of the Zurich conferences damps
speculation at the Bourse. The market opened hea-
vily, and continued so to the end. Renter left off at
138 fr. 70c. both for cash and for the account, being a
fall of 30c. cash, and 10c. account. Credit Mobilise
was 821 fr. 25c. cash, and 820 fr. account.