The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

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the monarchy. In the richest regions.
lons towns, there are murmurs yid& have not
been heard for a long time. The communes are
struggling against defielencies which are crushing
them. The stringent mane employed to get in the taxes,
which it was ISM to use formerly, are now of frequent
I occurrence. The consumption of articles of necessity has
diminished, although the population has Increased;
and as well-to-do-people do not °entreat their
expenditure the entire herdsw of the diminution
must fall on the neceesitous elms. Business is at a
Ard still. Employers dismiss their workmen or reduce
their wages. Families are driven to inferior lodgings.
Tim number of servants is diminishing. Privation, misery,
see words which are heard everywhere. If the distress has
sat even reached the intensity which it has in Rant
Prude, it threatens all parts of the State, and in
the course of some mouths may lead to the
mime sad results. The failure of the crops is the
direct cause of the severity of the distress in East Prussia.
But the source of the general distress lice deeper. It is to
be traced to the augmentation of the military burdens.
For long yearn past Prussia ham had to endure military
burdens beyond the resources of the country. Her armies
were more numerous than those of countries having a
population three or four times greater. The young flatten
was ambitious, end being desirous of augmenting its
power, it made extraordinary efforts. But such efforts
are only possible and fruitful for brief intervals ; when
prolonged they are ruinous. A man may raise with diffi-
culty a heavy weight, but it would kill him if he had to
sustain it for twenty-four hours. The old military organi-
widen coonomiesd our forces in order to have them fresh
when the strain of war awns, which was rare enough. But
under the new army organisation the strain has been con-
stant, and the existing distress is but the result of this
excessive tension. Sadowa, it is said, has proved who was
right in the military conflict. But there is another view
of the question, and it may be contemplated in the condi-
tion of the 23 districts of East Prussia.

Phan de is

Loire, says .
For erre& dip pest Grow& of titres or four hundred
persons have assembled in front of the Hotel de Vile,
mending relief or work. In consequenos of the persistence
of these menial:bons the mayor yesterday celled • meet-
ing of the six commissaries of the central relief commie'
den, who resolved at ease to give tickets for bleed at a I
reduced price to every family out of work. This mossers
appears to we inseicient, and we think an extraordinary
meeting of the Municipal Council, to vote funds for the
distreend, imperstrely sailed for under the circus-
dances.
The Await National says:
Most distressing news reaches us from the north, cents%
and south of France, The general uneasiness produced by
political uncertainty, and increased by other ceases, bee
paralysed trade and industry. It is no longer Epos,
Nantes, Rouen, and Roubaix alone that are besieged by
misery. The Gironde tells as that at Bordeaux the num.
ben of the poor who publicly clamour for bread or week
have sanuned mart unexpected proportions ; it hen been
thought necessary to double the sentries at the Betel dm
Ville, end to place • strong body of police at the main
entrance, which is constantly encumbered by • famished
crowd. At Mlle, Auxerre, Limoges, and many other
places, the bureaux de bits/about have been driven be
resort to exceptional Melliarel. In Paris the nenspes of
" public relief " have received • subsidy of nearly
400,000 tr. from the Minister of the Interior, sad they are
at their wit's end to make it go far enough.
M. Emile de Girardin, in the Libert4, comments
upon the above harrowing news :
Is not this hunger which clematis so loud in all direc-
tion • warning to Europe that she has more useful and
more urgent things to do than to augment her
cadres and her armies ? If it is not to make war, why do
we augment our army I And if it is te make war, whet
are we waiting for! Between amputation before or after
gangrene, no one who is not either a fool or • coward can
hesitate.
There

is no doubt about the thaw now, the
snow has entirely disappeared, the thermometer is
6 degrees above Zero ; there is a soft south-
westerly breeze, and we have had a sunny day
with a blue sky only chequered by light feathery
clouds. The coldest day in France of this cold
season is said to have been January 3. On that
day, while the intensity of cold which sufficed to
freeze the Seine in Paris was measured by little
more than 11 degrees centigrade, there was regis-
tered 12 degrees at Lons-le-Saulnier, and in 1
various parts of the department of Jura, 16, 18,1
and 20 degrees, and at one place, the Jou: fort,
23 degrees. At Chalons a man crossed the Same
with a barrel of wine on a wheelbarrow.
It is affirmed that M. Magna told his friends at
a dinner party yesterday that he would bring out
his financial statement on Wednesday next,
assuming that, as hoped, the army bill will be
passed to-morrow.
The Bourse opened with much firmness, and)
Rents turned the point of 69fr., and was quoted 1
. at one moment 69fr. lc. There was afterwards all
considerable reaction, and the Glaring prices were I
68fr. 90c. for cash, and 68fr. 874 c. for account,
with a fall of sc. and 10c. Italian fell 10c. ;
Credit Fonder, 2fr. 50c. ; aad Mobilier, lfr. 25c.
Comptoir d'Escompte rose 6fr. 50c.

GARIBALDI ON THE STALY.TE OP PRANCE AND
ITA

" Caprers, Dec. 31, 1867.
" My very dear M. de —,—Thanks for the
works which oar mutual friend Psavialno has been good
enough to transmit to me. I shall road them with great
interest, like all which coma from you. ` Why attempt
a solution by force which would have come of itself ?' you
ask of me. 'Well, my worthy friend, lam of a contrary I
opinion. To wait till the Papacy operates its own de-
struction Is to commit an error, and France pays to-day
for the credulity of which she was guilty in 'B9. Murices
and England plume themselves upon their religious
liberties: the first did certainly escape national
assassination at the hands of the Papist rioters of New
York and other States : but the second has a gloomy
task before it in clearing away the clouds of Femanisni.
Shall we be simple enough to believe that the piens
would put an end to themselves to oblige humanity
Thistles and all harmful weeds propagate themselves
with more fecundity and less trouble than any useful
plants. I know you say, ' Liberty of worship, liberty oil
conscience, liberty for all opinion,' and I repeat the my ;
only it must he in the mouth of honest men. Does any-
body believe in liberty for vipers, for crocodiles, for
thieves or ansaasins ? and what is the priest but the an-
mann of the freo soul—far more mischievous than the
assassin of the body France, who for good and evil must
influence so vastly the destiniee of the world—do you I
think France was morally less advanced or more 73 years I
back, when she proclaimed to humanity—divided by I
the sacerdotal tricks—the sublime principle of fraternity,
with Rational Religion end the One Supreme Being
for its basis? France was then in the apogee of her in-
fiueaca
; but, thanks to the pestilential germ of priest-
craft which she spared, she stands now robbed of a cen-
twyli growth in the splendid career of progress and free-
dom to which her high destinies call her. Prieotcraft
and Bonapartism, which openly now-a-days take hands to
That
each other up, give meas the enemy of France. I
That is much as saying I am c
an enemy to fruit because I
hate slugs. Yes ! I avow Ido hate evil, hate vice, hate
corruption, of which these pests are the emblem. But,
France ! Alt, my thousand friends in France, they will
not let me stoop so low as to justify myself against that
calumny ! I will say something more. It would be vary
wrong to think that the absence of French contributione to
the Italian ante:tone was a proof of French No,my
countrymen have too much intelligence not to distinguish'
between the despot who insults us and the noble nation
which he gags. Certainly, when the Italians reflect that
the duties on your export goods pay the Pope's soldiers, I
think they do well not to go much by " lists of contri-
betors." I accept your pleasant augury of seeing me I
shortly in Frame. Truly, I should return with a filial
love to y
esm ancient land of exile, where I met a hospitality
so cordial nd generous. But you must be well persuaded
that this will only happen when you have turned those
black points' white which now Warm your fair land. I
grow old faster than my age, and I confess the condition
of my country hastens life downwards. But I never de-
spair of her future, above all with friends as devoted and
noble as you. I embrace you with all affection and am
for life, yours devotedly, " G. Clandtauct."

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The correspondent of the Pod at Rome, says :
" The botch voinatess for the Highland company in the
Papal Zany, Regiment having turned out to be chiefly
Irish, and smacking of Fenlanism, have been dismissed by
the Pope, and were sent away from Rome some days ago,
to the number of nearly Mr. Their conduct in barracks
was eztremely ineuberdinata. There are now 120 bialt and
20 English in the Zooms lieginsint."
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