The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

OFION OWN OWN

PARIS, FILIDAY Evunia.

The evening papers take for their text the
Moniteur's telegraphic report of a speech of Gari-
baldi, according to which he designated the French
army of Rome as an "enemy's army," and, with
one honourable exception (that of the Opinion
Nationale), they all cry havoc upon Garibaldi.
Even M. Pena, generally so judicious as well as
so liberal, has not patience to wait for the text of
the speech, but putting the worst possible con-
struction upon the single phrase underlined in the
Monitrur—certainly with no friendly object—do-
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nounoes Garibaldi in the Prase as " without ex-
cuse—as being guilty of ingratitude without a
name—of speaking language the most incon-
siderate, the most anti-Italian, and the most anti-
patriotic." M. Peyrat does not seem to feel the
importance of the prolonged occupation of Rome
by the French. " The peace of Europe,"
he says, " the interests of France, of
right and justice, required that Italy should
be free and independent—she is so." How
is she so ?—with Venice in the hands of avowed
enemy and Rome in the hands of—France ?
Strangely enough M. Peyrat contradicts himself
in the very next sentence when he proceeds to
say "The war has not, we know, given complete
satisfaction to the Italians, but it has enabled them
to make an immense step." An immense step to-
wardt what ? Why, to that very freedom and
independence which but a moment befoee he avers
they have completely Rained. As long as the
French army remains in Rome everything is in
question, and this Garibaldi strongly feels, and
bitterly if not discreetly expresses. The Pays
says, " It always knew that the ideas represented
by the French army were incompatible with the
ideas represented by Garibaldi." It is glad that
he has said so, and hopes that Count Cavour has
taken the opportunity to break definitively with
"men of disorder." In this hope the Pays
is already disappointed, for the latest
telegram states that Count Cavour, after
interchanging explanations with Garibaldi,
had agreed to take his proposal for an armament
of the country into consideration. The Opinion
Nationale, as I observe above, does not join in the
chorus against Garibaldi. Its principal editor, M.
Gueroult, after quoting the expression " enemy's
army," from the Muniteur, says ;
We would make one single remark upon this subject.
Thanks to the policy we are pursuing at Rome, the Pope
treats us as revolutionists, and in the eyes of Garibaldi we
are enemies. Do we please Y. Cavour any better? or
Austria! or England ! Even in France has this policy
many partisans ! We wish we may be mistaken ; bat we
do stand in the utmost need of enlightenment as to the
merit. of a policy which united against it the unanimous
opposition of friends and enemies.

It is now said that the Emperor will neither go
to Compiegne nor Fontainebleau this spring. Ac-
cording to present arrangements his Majesty will
leave the Tuileries for Chalons early in May, to
inaugurate the camp, and on his return will take
up his residence at St. Cloud for the summer.
There has been an unusually severe contest at the
election of a deputy foe Chambery. M. Bartho-
lony, the government candidate, only polled 5,250
votes against upwards of 4,000 given to his op-
ponent, M. Quetand.
The Bourse was wonderfully firm, considering
the news from Italy, and the various other alarm-
ing rumours. The only reason that I have heard
for the upward movement is the rise of in Con-
sole, and the pacific tone (as it is understood) of
Lord Palmerston's speech. The Rente roes 35e.
for cash and 30c. for account, closing at 68fr. 25c.
and 68fr. 20c. Mobi:ier rose Bfr. 750. Railways
were from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. higher.
The printer of the famous pastoral letter of the
Bishop of Poitiers, a person of the name of Ondin,
' of that city, was the day before yesterday tried
by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Poitiers
on the charge of having published the said pas-
toral without making the deposit of it required
by law. It was proved that on the 25th Feb.
he announced at the Prefecture of Vienne that
he had printed 1,200 copies of the pastoral, and
that on the same day he had sent through the
poet 781 copies of it addressed to the clergy of the
diocese and to the Bishops of France ; but that,
though it treated of political matters, he bad not,
twenty-four hours before making the said distribu-
tion, deposited copies in the office of the Procureur
Imperial, as he ought to have done, under Art. 7
of the law of July 27, 1849. The tribunal fined
him 500 fr., and to pay the costs.
The lune rousse does not this year maintain its
traditional character for inclemency. In Paris,
the day before yesterday, the thermometer in the
court of the Louvre stood at 25 deg. above zero
Centigrade (77 Fahrenheit), and not • cloud was
visible in the sky. At Rene also, and along the
western coast, the weather is equally fine. The
sun is bright, the sky clear, and vegetation of
every kind progressing rapidly.