The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-11 00:00:00

VENICE.

A letter from Venice of the sth, in the Noni of
Brume's, says : _ _

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When the second quarter's subscription to the Verona
Journal became due, all the coffeehouse keepers refused to
renew. In fact nothing could be more singular than for
them to continue to pay for a journal the evident object of
which is to serve—and blindly so—foreign domination, by
heaping calumny and insult on the Italian nationality.
The police authorities summoned the coffeehouse keepers,
and ordered them to renew their subscription' under pain
of having their licenses taken from them. It was in rain
that they remonstrated against this arbitrary measure. M.
de Straub, the director of police, remained inexorable, and,
as the majority of those coffeehouse keepers persisted in
their refusal the proconsular order wan carried into execu-
tion. Fourteen establishments have been closed in this
city, and as many in the provisoes. The Fenice theatre will
remain silent during the next carnival, the company refits.
tag, for want of means, to support an expense which would
moreover offend the feelings of the country. In addition
to the Archdukes, brothers of Ferdinand, ex-Grand Duke
of Tuscany, who are here for sea-bathing, the Duke of
Brunswick has arrived, and taken up his residence at the
Zuchelli Adam

At Venice, in the evening of the 4th, a fire broke
out in the arsenal, but it was extinguished before
any great damage was done. It is supposed to
have been wilfully occasioned.

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FRANCE.
PARIS, JULY 11.
The Monitcur of to-day contains a decree nomi-
nating the Marquis de Lavalette Grand Cross of
the Legion of Honour.

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
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PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The government journals, which made so much
mystery about the name of the new minister to
Turin, take no notice of the announcement of the
ladipendance that M. Benedetti, the Director-
General at the Foreign•office, is appointed ; and
their silence may, I think, be taken as a confirma-
tion of the positive assertion of the Temps that the
news is true. The statement of the indipendanee
that he will not go out till the end of August, be-
cause he cannot be spared from the Foreign-office
until M.Thouvenel'e return from his vacation trip,
is probably the truth, which served as the basis
of the fiction put forward by the Pays last night,
that the decision as to who should be the minister
wax reserved until the end of M. Thouvenel's holi-
day. M. Benedetti is almost an Italian, and is full
of Italian sympathies. His nomination is a good
omen.

The Temps says that the Marquis de Lavalette
will supersede the Duke de Gramont as ambassador
at Rome, and that the Prince de la Tour
d'Auvergne, now at Berlin, will be the new ambas-
sador to Constantinople.
Dr. Bayer, one of the Emperor's physicians, has
gone to Vichy for a consultation.
M. Le Clerq has left Paris for Berlin to discuss
the objections raised by the Bavarian government
to the proposed commercial treaty between France
and the Zollverein. It is not doubted that the
difficulties in the way of the signature of the treaty
will be overcome, but the negotiations may pos-
sibly drag on for a long while.
The arguments in the Mirka trial were brought
to a close at a late hour last night, and judgment
will be delivered to:morrow (Thursday). M.
Mathieu was not well enough to reply as he had
intended to do, but he took the opportunity of em-
phatically denying a report that lie had feigned
illness because he did not like his case, and desired
to express his belief that M. Mires was innocent.
There is more activity now at the Bourse, in
consequence of the subscription for the Trentenaire
Bonds, which opens to-morrow. Many people are
selling Rente to enter into the subscription, and
some speculators are buying in anticipation of a
rise to result from the success of the great govern-
ment operation. To-day the Recite for account
rose 10c., closing at 67fr. 85c., after having been
quoted at 90c. ; Mobilier rose lfr. 25c. The
Southern Railway rose Bfr. 75c. The other lines
were about lfr. 25c.

The Sabet Public says that the Minister of State
has interdicted the performance of Tartuffe, at
Lyons. Madame A. Pleasy, who was to have
played the heroine, vainly wrote one of her
prettiest letters to the minister to endeavour to
shake his resolution. It therefore appears that
one of Motare's favourite plays, which is con-
tinually performed without let or hindrance in
Paris, may not without danger be represented at
Lyons. How funny all this is ! Count Walewaki,
the Minister of State of a Sovereign who has just
acknowledged Italy, and is all but excommunicated
by the Pope—Count Walewaki, the legally regis-
tered father of the two children of Rachel, the
Jewish actress, prohibits Moliere in the second
city of France to please the priests. The Safest
says they will at least read Tartuffe in Lyons, and
" the reading will have all the relish of forbidden
fruit."

A letter from Turin, of July 8, in the P rem,
1114)11 :

It is still very difficult to get any reliable news about the
Pope's health. In Rome itself people are obliged to be
content with flying rumours, and the optimism of the car-
dinals. A person just arrived here from Rome states posi-
tively thetthe Pope has not given a public reception for mere
than a month. A more significant fact than all the rest is
that pretenders to the papal chair are already canvassing.
The secret college is divided into two very distinct camps—
those who will yield nothing, and those would gladly give up
the temporal power. The present number of cardinals is sixty-
seven. If I may credit a marked list which I have before
me, there only eight of the latter party, end these eight
are all Italians. The foreign cardinals, without exception,
are looked upon favourable to the temporal power.
Nevertheless, when it comes to the point, there may be
• greet many shades of opinion among them. Cardinal
Vermicelli, archbishop of Ferrara, who is far from being a
liberal, is openly spoken of as likely to be the successor of
Pius IX

Whether the Pope moven or not, the position of the
Holy See is a most embarrassed one. The St. Peter's
Pence Fund yields scarcely anything; the long abundant
source of pious charity seems drying up. It is more than •
fortnight since the Ansonia has had a single offering to
record.