The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-04 00:00:00

FLORENCE, Jam. 31.
It is formally and officially announced that the
Crown Prince of Italy, Humbert, will shortly marry
his beautiful and accomplished cousin, the Princess
Marguerite, the daughter of the widowed Duchess
of Genoa. The announcement has been received
with general satisfaction, so far as one is able to
judge from the language of the public prints in
the short time since it was made known ; it will be
received with much stronger feelings of pleasure
and of hope for the royal house of Italy, when the
Italian people shall have an opportunity of becom-
ing acquainted with the rare intellectual and moral
qualities of the amiable Princess whom the heir of
the Italian throne is about to wed. The Princess
Marguerite is still very young ; she only attained
her sixteenth year last November, but her mind
has been most carefully cultivated, and the moral
influences by which she has been surrounded, espe-
cially the enlightened and liberal training of the
lady who has had the chief direction of her educa-
tion, have been attended with the happy result of
importing to her the soundest principles and the
purest tastes. She possesses a much more exten-
sive knowledge of modern languages than has
hitherto fallen to the lot of either Italian princes or
princesses ; she has a thorough relish for and a fair
proficiency in art ; she has poetical powers of an
order which would invite and receive careful culti-
vation if she were born in a far humbler sphere ;
but, better than all this, a kindness of heart and a
sincere desire to do good, which will now
find the amplest opportunities for their con-
stant and legitimate exercise. It is only natural
that such merits should have been best appreciated
amongst the members of her own family, and when
to such merits are added the attractions of her
youth and her great personal beauty, it can excite
no surprise that precisely on her the choice of the
young Crown Prince of Italy should have fallen.
I believe that, so far as domestic virtues and affec-
tions are concerned, no other marriage—none, at
least, that we have ever heard spoken of—could
furnish to the royal house of Italy such a guarantee
both for the happiness of the heir-apparent to the
throne, and for the sincere and admiring loyalty of
the people. The Italians have many defects in
their character, but they all appreciate good sense,
respect intellectual culture, and intensely admire
beauty, and in the wife of the Crown Prince—" The
lily of Savoy," as the people of Turin love to call
her—they will find the happiest union of all the
three.

assertions of modifications of the September Con-
vention, or the conclusion of a new treaty between
France and Italy. The Notione says :—" It is not
known at the present moment how, or with
what probability of success, negotiations could
be undertaken on the Roman question
unless upon the basis of the September Conven-
tion. After the late events the return to the
state of affairs created by the Convention would be
the sole policy advantageous to the country with-
out compromising the future. We believe that
the Cabinet are unanimous in this opinion."

In to-dAy's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
the estimates of the Ministry of Justice were dis-
cussed.

MALTA.

VALETTA. FIB 3.

The troopship Crocodile, from Queenstown eight
days, has arrived with the 92nd Highlanders and
other Indian reliefs. She has on board 1,246 of
all ranks, under Colonel Hamilton, and 14 naval
supernumeraries.
During her passage W. Adams and ono child
died, and three children were born. She proceeds
for Alexandria to-morrow.

AMERICA.
(Per the Nestorian, via Greencastle.)

Tho proceedings in yesterday's Senate were
opened by the president announcing to that body
the death of one of their most distinguished mem-
bers, the venerable, erudite, and patriotic Sar-
dinian, Baron Menne. The island of Sardinia
has not furnished to the Italian political
world many persons of eminence, indeed one
cannot point to more than two very distin-
guished Sardinian!, Menne himself, and General
Cugia, whose plain common-sense is constantly
found of the greatest value in political and party
complications, said who is uuderstoud to possess
much influence (and to exercise it very wisely)
over the mind of the Crown Prince. Menne, .iust
deceased, was not only a sensible politician and
great lawyer, but a very accom-
plished man of letters. His history of his
native island is the best on the subject,
and he has also written two volumes of a more popu-
lar character, one called " The Fortune of Words,"
the other, the production of his later years, " The
Fortune of Books." " The Fortune of Words" is a
most delightful volume of literary gossip end deli-
cate speculation, and will always servo to keep his
name in honour amongst the scholars and culti-
vated thinkers of his country.
Another Sardinian Senator, a clever but very
eccentric elderly gentleman, Siotti Pinter, has this
week published a pamphlet under the title "Non
pill Francis" (" away with France"), which might
almost be regarded as au intentional antidote to
General La Marmors's praise of the French alliance,
did not the totally different style of the work quite
preclude such a supposition. Senator Slott* Pinter
combats France and the French with the intel-
lectual weapons which lie was taught to use in
some Jesuits' college sixty years ago. He shows up
the church fathers in line of battle against the
imperial author of the Life of Julius Cesar, and
seems to have no doubt of securing a complete
victory.
The Chamber of Deputies, having finished its
discussion on the budget of the interior is now
engaged with that of the ministry of agriculture
and commerce. Ono of the first circumstances that
has presented itself in the discussion is character-
istic of the turn public fueling is taking. It has
been repeatedly proposed that the ministry of
agriculture and commerce should be suppressed,
and that there should be left only a department
• • attached to the ministry of finance. Chiefly for
DESPATCH or THE AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND, i this reason no separate minister has been
Wear INDta, am Panne Manx—SonnioNnott, appointed in the Menabres cabinet ; and
Frs. I—The Royal Mall Company's steamship Shannon, Broglie has held the portfolio provisionally
Captain Gilles, sailed hence this afternoon with the above with his regular and permanent one—that of public
mils ter the British and Foreign West Indies, Maxim, the instruction. But at the commencement of yes-
Pacific. California, • Central America, New Toehold,
terday's discussion one member after another got
Australia, he. She took out 116 pasragen and a large
a gamma erchtabe, jujuibi leach jewellery.
up, and spoke to the effect that this ministry should
cargo
8,3341.; French specie, 4241.; English jewellery, 1,3301.; be considered as second to none is importance ;
and :'led bottles of quicksilver, value 1,7001. that it was a matter of the greatest urgency to
Despatches were received yesterday at theColonivl- develop the agricultural and commercial resources
office from the.Governers of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, of the country ; and that, so far from being sup-
Malts, British Columbia, British Honduras, and the pressed, it ought to receive additional extension.
Settlements ea the West Coast of Africa. Despatches
Yesterday's debate was chiefly marked by a truly
were sent to the Governors of ,
Count Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon,
Hong Kong, Labuen, the Straits &Ulan sets, and to the eluent and feeling appeal, addressed by Deputy
Charles Arrivsbene to General Menabres,
Governor-Gement of Canada.
LONDON CO-OPERATIVE BUILDING COMPANY.— as Minister of Foreign Affairs, calling upon him to
A general meeting of the delegates from the operatives in take such steps as might seem beet fitted to check
the various branches of the building trade, forming the
what he termed " the white slave trade "—the
provisional committee for establishing the above company,
lw' was held last evening at the Brown Bar Tavern, Blooms- way in which poor little Italian children were
bury ; Mr. Belitt • meson, a"aPhal the chair. Several kidnapped or purchased from their parents,
letters were by the secretary, Mr. Carter ; some
making useful enggestions, and other. applying for to be sent, in their earliest youth, to England or
shares. The operative plumbers desired to seed delegates America, and there made the objects of a heartless
to the committee, as their business in many of its breaches
was immediately connected with honse-building. The *Peculation by the dealers in little erg= grinders
prevailing feeling appeared to be that operatives of an or image boys. Count Arrivsbene's observations
traded should be milt
ed
es shareholders, but that none
,on this natter were received with the greatest
but practical building operatives should take any part in
the management of the company. A variety of details attention by the Chamber, and elicited from
were diacesied sad misled, and it was resolved that the General Menabres the promise that whatever lay]
shares should be U. each payable payable by Re. per month per
share, and that 2s. should be paid oft application. A sub. •in the power of government would be done to check.
committee was then appointed to draw tip the memo. such a state of things.
randtim and articles of association for oederatiott at the •
adjourned meeting. The committee are ataxy Broglie, in his double capacity of ?dinkier of
effortm get the morsel in workingorderiwirls sem- I Agriculture and Commerce and of Public .fnafrun-
roonoesseng of the approaching building season, as they
to tender for
bays already nseeived several applications awn, has takes several "BP. of the greatest imPee-
ceetraiien A vote of thanks to the chairman easelnded tame to both the intellectual and the matdrisd pro-
the_preemdlese-
'Tun Cirrus TsAng.—At the monthly meeting of has .greas of the ceeesi- try' In the former capacity
he
the list Riding Chamber of Agriculture, at Beverley. enPolialP, the very best thing in secure the
Saturday, rimolations were passed recommending the ex- real unity by the appointment of n coni-
motion of the mamas foreign cattle market to asep sad minim be examine and report on the meek,
pip,. and to Ow parts of landing besides= iratalaz
provuig thepropord to estoblialt County pudica methodii lot diffusing in all the various
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NEW YORK, JAN. 23.

The Committee of Foreign Affairs have come to
an agreement, and it is reported that they will soon
introduce a bill declaring that naturalised citizens
abroad are entitled to the same protection as
native born citizens, unless such protection shall
have been forfeited by crimes against the Federal
laws, or against foreign governments committed
within their jurisdiction, or by desertion from actual
service in or by enlistment in a foreign army
or navy, or by adoption of a domicile beyond the
limits of the United States for over one year. By
this bill the President would be authorised to de-
mand the release of citizens detained by foreign
governments upon the groundof Federal naturalize-
Lion not absolving them from allegiance to their
native country. Should the release be refused or
delayed, the President would be authorised to
cause the arrest of any subject of such foreign
government as an indemnity and reprisal.
President Johnson has sent a message to Con-
gress announcing that the bill granting political
equality in the district of Columbia had failed
because Congress had adjourned before the expira-
tion of the ten days allowed to the President by
the constitution for the consideration of bills.

..The house has rejected the compromise of the
Conference Committee on the cotton tax, recom-
mending the removal of the duty on foreign
cotton. A new conference has been ordered.
...

It is reported that the Reconstruction Committee
have agreed to report a bill to deprive the Supreme
Court of jurisdiction over cases arising from the I
execution of the Reconstruction Act.
General Hancock has issued an order permitting
the sale of crops to furnish funds for the payment
of freedmen's wages when such wages should be
illegally withheld and civil redress impracticable.
General Rieger, the military governor of Georgia,
has rescinded the order of Governor Jenkins sus-
pending the collection of the State taxes.
The majority of the Louisiana Convention has I,
petitioned Congress to remove General Hancock,
and to authorise the Convention to remove or ap-
point the State others.
Mr. Stanton has announced, positively that he
will not resign.
Baron Gerolt, the envoy of the North German
Confederation, was officially received by the Pre-
sident yesterday.

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