The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-06 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS•

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PARIS, FIUDAT EVININO.
Some attention has been excited by a paragraph
in last night's Petrie, which seems (assuming it to
be authorised) to betray a suspicious anxiety on the
part of France to keep the door open for further
annexations of Italian territory, although M. Bil-
lault was instructed but a few days ago to tell the •
Corps Legislatif that any such idea was calumnious
and absurd. The Pattie, referring to M. Ricasoli's
speech, says :
M. Riessoli declared that the "King's government did not
know an inch of Italian territory which it could cede." By
these words the First Minister no doubt meant to allude
to fait x accomplis, to retrospective seta. We think
it right, nevertheless, to remark, in order not to allow any
portion of the truth of principles to be lost, that it has
always been admitted that a nation, can without compro-
mising its independence, without failing in its dignity, and
consulting only its own interests, voluntarily make a cession
,of territory. Has not history in modern times presented
and justified the example of numerous such cessions? How-
ever able and honourable may be the sentiments expressed
by M. Iticasoli, such absolute declarations as those he has
just made, and which cannot prevail in public law, would
be, in fact, an invincible obstacle to such transactions which
in political order two countries have always been able, and
are always still able, to accomplish freely.

Now the Temps of this evening remarks upon the
above passage that it is absurd on the part of the
Patrie to pretend that M. Ricasoli referred to the
past. The Italian minister knows as well as every-
body else that Savoy and Nice are already ceded to
France, and it is plain to everyone that he meant
to say that he would never consent to the cession of
an inch of territory in Sardinia. " The remarks of
the Patrie are as inopportune as inexplicable."
At the resumption of the Mires trial to-day, M.
Mires was allowed,at the request of M. Plocque, to
read a paper criticising the accountant's report on
his affairs. M. Plocque then began the defence,
stating that the reason for his being there in a
secondary capacity (for M. Mathieu was the pri-
soner's principal defender) was that he had been
for four years oounsel to the Caine Generale, and did
not like to desert it in the hour of misfortune. He
denied that Mires had at this moment any pro-
perty, or that he had secured anything in the name
of his wife. He proceeded at great length to ex-
plain the transactions imputed to the prisoner in a
favourable point of view for him. It is expected
that M. Mathieu will be well enough to plead to-
morrow.

The Emperor, before leaving Paris fOr Vichy,
announced to M. de la Guerronniere that he was
a senator. In consequence of his elevation, M. de Is.
Guerronnibre resigns the direction of the press, and
the poet is conferred on M. !mon, a particular
friend of the Count de Persigny, who was formerly
a colonial delegate.
The Pays, complaining that its note of yesterday
denying the reception of the Roman deputation
either by the Emperor or by M. Thouvenel has not
been sufficiently understood, desires to repeat that
M. Thouvenel neither received the deputation nor
the Prince Pionibino.

The Patric says, as latest news, that Florence
and Naples having, in consequence of the recogni-
tion of the kingdom of Italy, ceased to be capitals,
the French government has appointed consuls.
general to each of those cities.
General de Beaufort d'Hantpoul, commander-in.
chief of the Syrian expedition, arrived at Marseilles
on Wednesday evening, on board the steamer
America ; he was accompanied by Commander
Ricuard, a son of Queen Christina.
The Bourse was less animated than yesterday.
The Rents fell 15c. for cash, and 6c. for account,
closing at 67fr. 65c., and 67fr. 85c. Mobilier main.
tinned yesterday's rise, and there was little change
in railways.