The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-21 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY EVININO.
It is very positively stated that preparations are
making at St. Cloud for the reception of the King of
Holland and the King of the Belgians, but, as I
understand the rumours, they will not be here till
the King of Prussia's visit is over. It is vaguely
hinted that Victor Emmanuel and the Grand
Duke Constantine may swell the list of the
Emperor's royal and imperial guests this autumn.
As a pendant to the above news, I must men-
tion a very odd story which has boon set going to-
day. It is said that immediately after the depar-
ture of the exalted personages whom the Emperor
is about to entertain, he will hold a sort of
"family congress" in which he will explain his
general policy, the execution of which, be will, at
the same time, confide to a few chosen friends of
his government and dynasty. What may this
portend /
Although there is now no doubt that Garibaldi
will not go to America, the subject of the extraor-
dinary offer made to him by the United States
government is stilt on the order of the day. The
Mmiteur, which puts the reduction of the Bank of
England's discount at the head of its bulletin, de-
votes the second paragraph to Garibaldi, and on the
strength of news from London, which it considers
" slmost certain," attributes his final resolution to
remain in Italy to the emotion he felt at the recent
demonstration in his honour at Naples. By letters
from Italy I find that Garibaldi's friends were by
no means unanimous in the advice they tendered
him on this occasion. Many of them, among whom
were Bertani and Mizell, urged plausible reasons
for his accepting the American offer. They told
him that he would make the great American re-
public a grateful and permanent ally of Italy ; that
he would open immense channels for Italian com-
merce ; that his old officers (upwards of 200 in
number), who were ready and eager to follow him in
this expedition, would have splendid opportunities
of acquiring experience in the art of war instead of
becoming rusty in idleness, as they were now doing;
and that if he stipulated, as of course he would do,
for the right to return to Italy whenever he pleased,
he might come back at no distant day surrounded by
a staff which would have acquired world-wide fame,
and with his own great prestige so much enhanced
as to be absolutely irresistible. Bixio, Omens, and
Medici, however, were not convinced by these
glosing reasons, and argued that Garibaldi's absence
at the present juncture would encourage the reac-
tion, and furnish the Marzieists with a pretext for
saying that Victor Emmanuel's government had
Wished to get rid of him and his volunteers.
Garibaldi is not well, and that is a secondary
reason for his remaining at Caprera ; but it is part
of the history of this extraordinary man that,
although a permanent invalid, his health always
improves when the necessity comes for active
exertion.

A telegram from Rome announcing that the
Pope had pronounced the nuptial benediction on
Prince Charles of Tuscany and one of the King of
Naples' sinters, mentions that the entire royal
family of Naples was present at the ceremony ; but,
inasmuch as it says nothing of General de Goyou
and the French legation, the inference is drawn that
they were not there, and that remarks made by oar-
tain foreign journals on the supposed orders that
they should attend, are therefore unf3unded.
In oonsrquence of the supposed predominance of
English influence at Constantinople, a hint has
been given to the French press to run down the
new Sultan and to predict the inevitable downfall
of Turkey. Letters full of jeremiads are circulated
to-day, affirming that the Capitaaa Pacha Mehemet
Ali is a creature of England, that he is, under Eng-
lish advice, putting a stop to all reforms, sending
the best Turkish statesmen into exile, and "teach-
ing" the Sultan to love the harem and all these ex-
cesses which dwarfed his brother's intellect and
brought him to an early grave. lam sure that
diplomacy is, or shortly will be, much occupied
with this new view of the eastern question.
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