The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-15 00:00:00

ITALY.

NAPLES, JAN. 12.

A proclamation of King Victor Immanuel to the
inhabitants of the Neapolitan provinces has been
published. The King says :—"The affairs of the
State compel me to separate myself from you. A
domestic affliction has caused the retirement of
Parini. Prince Carignan will govern the Neapoli-
tan provinces in my name. Show that you allays
fervently desire the unity of Italy."

TUltri, JAN. 14.

The ambassador of the Shah of Persia to the
French court was received to-day by the King, and
presented to his Majesty the decorations of the
orders of Persia.

OPENING OF THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS.
BERLIN, MOYDAY.
The Chambers were opened to-day.
His Majesty in his speech lamented the death of
the late King.
The Kin; then made mention of the new organi-
sation of the army, which he said had become ne-
cessary, the defence of the integrity of the German
territory being his first duty. His Majesty said
that negotiations were imminent between France
and the Zollverein in reference to their mutual
commercial relations.
His Majesty continued thus :—"The relations
between the great Powers have become still more
friendly by the personal meetings which have taken
place. It is therefore to be regretted that the steps
taken by Germany for the settlement of the ques-
tion of the constitution of the German Duchies
placed under Danish rule have remained without
any result. Prussia, as well as the rest of Ger-
many, recognises it ar a natural duty to finally
bring about the proper solution of this question."
The King energetically stated that it was his in-
tention to remain faithful to the principles of go-
vernment which he imposed on himself on assuming
the Regency, as he found in those principles a safe
guarantee against the revolutionary spirit spread
abroad in Europe.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MoNDaY Drum.

A very unreliable telegram, dated this day,
" Rome, Jan. 14," and served up by the Prase
as " latest news," states that the King of Naples
has, out of deference to the Emperor, accepted the
propositions of Frame relative to the armistice
without any reserve, and that General Cialdini
replied that be must refer to his sovereign, but
that he refused to discontinue the siege works
during the armistice. Why does this news—if it
mean anything—not reach Paris ty a more direct
way than through Rome 1 The French government
must surely have had the earliest intelligence of an
answer to a proposition emanating directly from
itself. Why then was the Moniteur silent on
the subject this morning ? Moreover, what is
the French proposition that Francis IL accepts?
The Moniteur told us the other day that the King
of Sardinia had agreed to suspend hostilities till
the 19th, and that if Francis H. accepted an
armistice the French fleet would come away
immediately. Now the telegram from Rome,
piling darkness upon obscurity, represents the King
of Naples as a consenting, and General Cialdini as
a recalcitrant, party ! A further observation show-
ing how perversely this telegram refuses to dove-
tail with the meagre and ambiguous revelation
vouchsafed by the Moniteur, is that Cialdini is
represented as referring to his sovereign on one
point and taking upon himself a refusal as to an-
other. Upon the whole lam disposed to regard
this telegram as not a bona fide one, but a concoc-
tion made up of scraps of heterogeneous news. It
has been already said that Sardinia would hesitate
to discontinue her siege works, and that Francis 11.
would consent to all sorts of armistices, and, of
course, for him the longer the better, but
that he would not take himself away. The
fatal date of the 19th is now fast approaching,
and there is nothing yet known to contradict the
received impression that on that day the French
fleet will leave him to his fate. The Pcdrie's
" latest news" is that on the morning of the 12th
there was " nothing new in the situation at Gaeta,
where the French squadron is still at anchor."
M. Fould was at Marseilles on Saturday, on his
way to Nice, " for the benefit of his health," as the
prefectoral journals of the south say ; but as the
late Minister of State was in excellent health when
he left Paris, and as, moreover, his own chOteau
in the Pyrenees is not a bad retreat for change of
air, it will be only' excusable if the public sees
in the above announcement a confirmation of the
rumour that M. Fould was to be sent to Italy on a
political mission, and more especially when it is
known that the Requin, government steamer,
has been placed at his disposal to convey him from
Toulon to Nice.

The government papers deny that the departure
of Captain Ronciere Le Nonry for his ship in the
Pirseus has anything to do with the state of
Greece, which they say is altogether satisfactory.
One of the reasons given by the Pays is that the
captain requires a few months' active service to
qualify him for Rear-Admiral.
The Emperor, accompanied by Count de Morny
and General de Fleury, left the Tuileries at 8
o'clock this morning to have • day's spurting of
some kind or other at Marty. I say "sporting,"
because the French word chasm is equally appli-
cable to hunting or shooting. English sportsmen
would think the present hard frost alike incom-
patible with either diversion.

- It is announced that Brigadier-General de Bran-
don, a brother of Colonel de Brancion who was
killed at the Mameion Vert in the Crimea, will be
appointed resident governor of the Invalides, in
the place of General Tatareau, who retires on the
ground of his advanced age.
The Bourse was without any peculiar feature.
The Rente closed at Saturday's price, 67fr. 15c.
for account, and fell sc. for cash. Mobilier fell
Mr. 75e. Thera was little change in railways.

HUNGARY.

We read iu a letter from Vienna, Jan. 9 :

Daring a sitting held yesterday at Path it was resolved
that the Diet should meet without delay. The only change
—it is a mat important one--made by the Hungarians in
the electoral law of 1848 is, that persons who arc ignorant
of the Hungarian language an be returned to tho Diet.
All the dependencies of the Hungarian crown have been
invited to send representatives to the Diet, but it in not yet
known whether Croatia will do so. _ _

No further details have been received relative to the
recent conflict at done ; but we learn from Peeth that the
excitement in that city was very great when the news of
t'ie collision between the troops and the peasants was first
received. As is not unfrequently the owe on such occa-
sions the dye person@ killed were idle lookeretin.
By advioesi from Galata we learn that two of the Sar-
dinian ships actually did get their cargoes on shore.
Dining three whole days the crew. of the vessels were
employed in landing cannon, rides, powder, end ammuni-
tion, which weir immediately carried into the interior of
the country.