The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-03 00:00:00

FOREIGN MAIL&

CALcurn AND CHINA (HiAyr) MAna.
GIBRALTAR, Masco I.—The Ripon leaves to-day at
9 ►m. LB well. SU may be empeeted at Southampton
on the musing of the Bth Mat.

Diararca or Ai
atirron, Mason 2. —Tho Royal Mail Company's aisanisldp
Plata, Captain Moir, sailed hews to-day, with aria kr
the British and Foreign West Indies, Mexico, die Piribr,
California, Central America, Australia, New Embed, be.
fihe took out 70 passengers and a large cargo of lamb
and English immeltaadies, including English dim, IOW;
jewellery, 1,200/. ; French gold °can, 18,8001.; allow tam,
312/. ; and *Frain, 9,5881.

IdAns.-1300w-

Tin SCOTCH Rgionm Bur..—The Scannas slateal
that • number of the Scotch liberal members have speed
upon an iastructios (to be moved by Mr. Baxter) to the
committee on the Scotch Behem regarCng the name
whence the MT= new mats aro so come :—" net it be an
instructioa to the committee, instead of eddies to the
numbers of the house, that they have power to &draw
aloe the seven boroughs in Bogland which, by the census
of 1861, bad the smallest population." These
ere :—Arundel (2,498), Ashburton (3,062), 11wlitcebrar.
Lyme Basis (3,215), Thetford (4 208), Darouth 4,464),
sad Wells (4,648). The :tiered electors these
boroughs number respectively 1 , 219,'150, 243, 219, 254,
and 315.
SOUTH ILINSINGTON MUSZUM.—Vioitoto awing
the week ending Feb. 29: On Monday, Tomer,
and Saturday (free), from 10 o.m. tail 10 p.m., 9,003 ; er
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (minimise Id.), from
10 a.m.tiil 4 p.m., 1,436 ; total, 10,430 ; average of eon
responding week in former years, 10,(115 ; eager from the
scorning el the EIVISIIIO. 7.220.025.

!INTELLIGENCE FROM ABROAD.

Cnosn's sammuis.l
FRANCS.

PARIS, Was= 2, Emma
In to-day's sitting of the Legislative Body M.
Ravin said that he did not Maud to read to the
Chamber the verdict of the jury of honour in the
case of the charge brought by M. Herrman. He
should simply state that the jury had declared the
allegations of M. Kerveguen to be false and calum-
nious. Ml Hain was repeatedly interrupted
during theldelivery of his observation.
When thin incident had subsided IC idea Simon
requested a explanation respecting the regulations
of the Clabber as interpreted by the President at
the termination of the last sitting.

M. Jerinee David replied that es President he
*Add not Have acted otherwise than he had acted.
The mart of the previous sitting was then read
and passed.

The oomunittee's report upon the bill relative to
fillatilepaa of 100,000 ram, and the third sup-
plementer/ report of the committee upon the Preis
Bill, were laid upon the table.

The Chamkei then adjourned till Wednesday
next.
AMERICA.'_

(IST ATLOITIO THLRGRAPH, THROUGH NH 11101111% AGATIOT.)
1.1 THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT
JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, MAics 2.
The Home of Representatives have adopted the
article of impeachment charging President Johnson
with having violated the Tenure oA Office Aot, by
his order removing Mr. Stanton from the Secre-
taryship at War, and appointing Adjutant-General
Lorenzo Thomas as his successor, without the con-
sent of the Senate.

The Heine has also adopted another impeach-
ment article, charging the President with having
violated the Army Bill, by trying to induce Gene-
ral Emory to obeyforders not sent through General
Grant, the Commander-in-Ohief of the Army.

NEW YORK, MARCH 2.
The Inman steamship Etna and the National
steamship Pennsylvania have arrived out.
Closing Prices: Gold, 1411. Sterling exchange on
London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882,
110} ; ditto, 1885, 1081 ; 1040 Bonds, 101, ex
coupon. Illinois, 139 ; Kris, 66f. Gotten : Mid-
dling Upland, 23. Petroleum, standard white,
26. Flour, extra State, 10 dole. 20c. Corn, old
I mixed, 1 dol. 18c.

ITALY.

(non oci

FLORENCE, FLII. 47.

We have not heard the end—indeed it would
rather seem as if we were only hearing the begin-
ning—of the great artistic discussion as to the
Girolamo Benivieni, purchased by Count Nieuwer-
kerke Atha Relives sale as a masterpiece of the
Renaissance, but which Signor Bastianini, •
sculptor of !rissole, declares to be of his own pro-
duction. One would have thought that the de-
tailed aloont published some six weeks ago by
the Eeo dell' Arno, and which f at the Sine trans-
mitted to you, would have left little more to be
said on the question. It would appear, however,
that Count Nieuwerkerke and his friends are un-
willing to acknowledge a mistake which, after all,
they have shared with some of the fust artists of
Europe, and that the count has made an offer of
16,000 francs, to be paid to Baatianini if he can
execute another bust of equal merit with the Beni-
vieni, it being assumed of course that he is ince-
-1 pegs of doing so.

Bastianini has just published a letter in reply,
which appears in the columns of yesterday's
Nazione. It would serve no important end to re-
produce the whole of this letter; but that part
directly relating to the offer of the 15,000 francs
may as well be given, as another curious episode
in what, from the beginning, has been a series of
extremely amusing episodes in the contemporary
I history of art. The Flesole sculptor does not
mince his words ; and the following passage might
have been dictated by the haughty spirit of Benve-
auto Oellini

Dwelt your then tbounnd tram In if. hands, and
let an noose, by annul sonsent, a neeniasion to indo—
or, not imposed solely of French members—and I
=gage to execute, for three tboussad Loco, a bust equal
to that ofl Benivieni ; and se to the running tinkly'
thousand francs, I further engage, in order to do a Wu
grateful to you, who an now, in Preen, one of the pillars
of the emend unpin, to supply yourfor your own domestic
decoration, with twelve plaster ads of the twelve Caws
at • ensued francs eta.

FIARENCE, Frs. 29.
In three days the Chamberi will :mums buil-
nee% and we are likely to have a more than ordi-
nary amount of angry controversy on other ques-
tions besides those of dOmestic and financial
arrangement. Oenaral Immarnaors and the ex-
Minister of Public Works, Jacini, are both engaged
on pamphlets respecting the foreign relations of
the country, and the relative interests and ties
connecting Italy with Prussia or France. Juin'
previously distinguished himself as a writer by a
vary remarkable work on,' the Roman question,
which appeared in the'springiof 1863, and in which
there was most clearly sketched out the pre-
cise arrangement for the settlement of . that
question which eighteen months later took
the whole world by surprise in the font
of the September convention.,; It is not
at all improbable that Jaeini' who has been
familiar with many of the earlier and less
known doges of the Italian policy towards Prowls,
will communicate some curious details. Nothing
can be more absurd than the outcry made in the
semi-official organs of the French government, and
again and again repeated in the French legislative
body, about Italy having contracted aloes rela-
tions with Prussia unknown to and at • variants,
with the interests of France. It is quite true
that the real foundations of the connection between
the leading men of Prussia and Italy are laid by
Baron Ricssoli during a journey made by him
through Prussia in 1869. But the actual alliance
in the more definite form of a positive agree-
ment between the Italian and Prussian go-1
vernmenta was first really formed by Count
Pasolini when on a special mission to Paris in
1864, there formed with the complete knowledge
and unqualified approval of the Emperor of the
French, who at that time did not regard with such
apprehension the aggrandisement of Prussia, be-
lieving that it might even be made to contribute
to the territorial aggrandisement of France. It
was only after the course taken by events in
the seven days' campaign of 186 G proved to
Napoleon 111. that hil,lrrpes wore not likely
to be realised that,hllbessa to view with much