The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-12 00:00:00

ITALIAN EXHIBITION OF 1861.

The government of the Kiog of Italy have re-
solved to bold an Exhibition of Art and Industry at Flo•
ream in the ensuing months of September and October.
Italy will see for the Mit time the works of her artists
and the products of her industry collected together under
the roof of a Crystal Palace. An official announcement has
been circulated which specifies the following as the prin.
deal features of the exhibition :

It will be divided into throe departments, agricultural,
industrial, and artistic.

It is intended that Rome and Venice shall both be repre-
sented. It is calculated that there will be about 5,000 con-
tributors.

Manufacturers of agricultural implements, both English
and others, are specially invited by the Royal Commission
to send in specimens of their manufacture. Not only will
• o.ibeis be reserved for their reoeptiou and exhibition, but
will be permitted. A new market is thus thrown
open to a branch of industry in which the United Kingdom
particularly excels.

The Archduke Maximilian, Lord High Admiral
of Austria, purposes visiting Southampton this week to in-
spect the docks and commercial facilities of that port This
visit has reference to the contemplated line of steam-packet
communication about to be established by the Austrian
government between England and Trieste. A meeting of
the Southampton Town Council took place on Saturday for
the purpose of making arrangements for the suitable recep-
tion and entertainment of the distinguished visitor.
The Official Gazette of Turin publishes another
lid d subscriptions towards the coat of ♦ monument to
Count Carrot, from which it appears that the total sum sub-
scribed rap to this time is 64,M4fr.
The amount of Peter's pence raised in the arch-
diocese of Munich in the course of the present year is
28,336 florins.

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUB MAT EVENING.

The Presse and other journals are strongly im-
pressed with the belief that we are on the eve of
important events at Rome. A letter from Turin
says :—" Good news ! The deliverance of Rome is
at hand. Italy will soon have her capital."
A letter in the SiJele confirms, with new particu-
lars, the accounts of the sneaking, traitorous con-
duct of the court of Rome to Father Giacomo.
The following is the text of the unctuous letter by
which lie was summoned to the papal capital :
Reverend brother, —I am commanded by the Holy Father
to invite you to this metropolis, hie Holiness desiring to
have an interview with you. The Holy Father desires me
to assure you that you need have no fear. For my own part
I am persuaded that, far from meeting with a single re-
proach, you will leave Rome consoled, tranquil, and con-
tented, which result of your journey will be a glory for the
order, and more especially for your convent. Believe me
you cannot do better than come ; if, owing to any aeon.
seen circumstances, you should be prevented from coming
in person send some other father in your place—a man of
experience and worth. You know, moreover, how impor-
tant this order is.

Meanwhile, I bless you with all the tenderness of a father.
Your affectionate servant in God,
BROTHER BERNARDINO,
Miniater•Ueneral.

Rome—Anoelli,
July 13, 1861
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The above document, the Sii,cle observes, is redo-
lent of the church. It reassures, even flatters,
brother Giacomo ; but mark the curt phrase which
intimates that he must obey the order, and
start for Rome. When he got there he
was treated with severity and rudeness, and,
although not actually put in prison, was
confined in a convent at San Francisco di Ripe.,
and when there nobody was allowed to speak to
him. He was sent back to Turin deprived of his
living. So much for the promise that he should
leave Rome "consoled, tranquil, and content',
How the Pope endeavoured in vain to wring from
him an admission that Cavour had retracted his pu-
litical opinions in his dying moments, has already
been described. The following detail of the conver-
sation is new :—When the Pope, quite out of pa-
tience at the ill success of his interrogation, finally
exclaimed, " How, then, did he die 1" Giacomo
boldly answered, " He died amid the tears and sor-
row of all those who loved him—of an entire
people."

It is stated that at the reception of the corps
diplomatic by the King of Sweden at the Tuileries,
Baron d'Adelsward inadvertently presented the
Chevalier Nigro. as " envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of his Sardinian Majesty ;"
the King, interruptingoaid, " You are mistaken,
my dear baron, you mean his Italian Majesty."
We get from the Department of the Tarn-and-
Garonne a piquant history, illustrative of the
working of universal suffrage. AM. Marquevret,
having announced his inteutiou to stand for the
couucil-general as an independent candidate, the
prefect, M. Levainville, who is a man of "energy,"
proceeded to combat his pretensions by the follow-
ing, amongst other means :—He wrote an electoral
circular, which was read in the market-place
of the prefectoral town by • commissary of
police, supported by an escort of gen-
darmes. In this circular, thus promulgated
with all the terrors of the law, he accused the
opposition candidate of " abusing public cre-
dulity ;" " having assumed a position unworthy of
any man who respects himself ;" and " descending
to low intrigues for the purpose of deceiving honest
men." The prefect further proclaimed that the
wretched candidate, who presumed to come for-
ward on his own hook, was a man who enjoyed
" no credit in any minister's office," and that, as
to the prefecture, " he, the prefect, would take
care that he should never be allowed to set foot in
his office except on purely private and personal
business, and that under no circumstances what-
ever should be ever be admitted to his private room ;"
he added that any request whatsoever which the
opposition candidate might make would be inevita-
bly refused, and that " the mere fact of his recom-
mendation would cast suspicion" upon any proposi-
tion which might be tainted with it. Of
course the candidate, thus put under a
ban, and deprived of " prefectoral" fire and
water, did not succeed, but being advised that some
phrases in the prefect's denunciation of him
amounted to a private libel, he brought an action
against that functionary. The Tribunal of Mon-
tauban, without going into the merits of the case,
declared itself incompetent to try a prefect without
the consent of the Council of State, and it is not
doubted that this disclaimer of jurisdiction will
be confirmed on appeal. M. Marquevret, there-
fore, is preparing an application to the Council of
State, to see whether that body will sanction the
, principle that functionaries are entitled to libel op-
position candidates with impunity.
The Minister of State wrote a circular from
Vichy concerning theatres, which has not yet been
made public, but which is understood to draw a
broader line of distinction than has lately been
maiutaiued between the legitimate and illegitimate
drama. The Theatre Francais is not to be allowed
to receive pieces written with a view to the Vaude-
ville or the Gymnast, and the vaudeville theatres
are to introduce into their pieces the time-honoured
couplets. On first nights, conspicuous boxes are
not to be occupied by ladies of the " horse-
breaking " type.

Iu noticing the death of M. Cauchois-Lemaire, I
observed that he was ono of the journalists who
signed the famous protest in IMO, against the
ordinances of Charles X. That document was
signed by forty-four writers, and it is really curious
to see what has become of them all after a lapse
of thirty years. Seventeen are dead—viz.,
MM. Carrel, Challas, do Jusaieu, Bohain,
Ader, Fabre, Annie, Guyet, Chatelain, Lapelouse,
Levasseur, Bert, Larreguy, Dnmoulin, Coate,
Billiard, and Cauchios-Lemaire. MM. Thiess,
Mignet, and Remusat, after Laving • filled
the highest offices of state, are now devoted
to literature ; so are MM. Dejean, de Gui-
zard, and Betide. M. Barbarous, procureur-
general under Louis Philippe, is a senator. MM.
Avenel and Rolle are librarians. M. Peisse is
keeper of the fine arts museum. M. Fenty is the
head of a bureau of foreign affairs. M. lfaum•
mann, the elder, is the manager of the Journal de
de l'Arnae. M. Leon Fillet is consul at Nice,
after having been manager of the Opera, as was
M. Nestor Roqueplan. M. Mouaaette is the com-
missary to a railway. M. Valliant is a field officer
of cavalry. M. Fazy is the head of the executive
power at Geneva. M. Dupont de Bussac is an
advocate in Paris. M. Gaujal, an ex-prefect, is
now a banker at Nantes. MM. Dubochet and
Dwisard are members of manufacturing compa-
nies. MM. Cliambolle, Stapfer, and Plagnol have
retered into private life. MM. Samos, Busoui,
and P. Leroux have only ceased to be journalists.

The degree of D.D. brut just been conferred on
the Rev. William Cooke, of Loudon, editor of the Methodist
New C011114a47811 Magazines, by the faculty and trustees of
Shurtleff College, Illinois. Dr. Cooke is one of the most
distioguished tkoologic J writers in the methodist body.