The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-23 00:00:00

SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1861.

they do the teaching of experience, and the rightly
understood lemons of religion.
The perilous who hays raised the cry of Manias
against Mr. Porrsa at Carlisle are without excuse.
The Liberal candidate is not a bigot or a prose-
lyiizing sectary, but a gentleman whose heart and
hand have always been open in aid of the
pious and charitable enterprises of his fellow-
Christians of all diversities of belief. That
those who disagree with him on political grounds
should strenuously oppose his election is not in the
least to be deprecated ; but should he be defeated
by the abuse of sacred subjects and the perversion
of sacred feelings, it will be at the expense of the
cause of religion, which is never more betrayed
than when placed in antagonism to that of liberty.

LATEST DITELLWENCE.

THE ITALIAN CHAMBER.

Baron Ricasoli's speech in laying before the Italian
Chamber the documents relating to the diplomatic
transactions which the government carried on with
the Papal court, through the mediation of French
agents, with a view to the settlement of the Roman
question, was very brief. Count Cavour's great
idea, he said, that such a settlement could beat be
effected by the establishment of a free church
in a free state had been the leading point
upon which the count's successors had acted. They
thought that the Italians should go to Rome, avoid-
ing all revolutionary movements, and acting hand-
in-hand with France. The Emperor Napoleon had
expressed his opinion that the moment was not
favourable for the solution of the Roman question ;
and that solution was necessarily adjourned.
Baron Ricasoli himself thought that: time must be
given for the quieting of men's consciences, and
till it was evident to the most pious Christians that
by the cessation of the temporal power of the Pope,
the King, the government, and the nation, bad rio
other object than that of providing for the dignity,
independence, and real well-being of religion no
less than of the church.

Upon the motion of the Deputy Mnsolino, it was
voted that a day should be appointed for the
cliscnasion of the documents then laid upon the
table ; when the Deputy Zuppetta asked leave to
put some questions to the Minister on the condition
of the Neapolitan provinces. Baron Ricasoli and
the Deputy Boggio moved that such interpellations
should come on after voting some financial laws,
which are the great business of the house at the
present moment. "Europe is looking at us,"
said the Minister, " and it is from the attitude of
parliament that the world will form its opinion of
Italy. We must organise rand arm ourselves ;we
want acts not words." This language was vehe-
mently cheered by the majority.
A brisk discussion ensued, in which the Deputies
Ricciardi, Safli, Ferrari, and Brofferio were heard
on the side of Zuppetta, and Ricci and others sup-
ported Bodo. The house agreed then that the
interpellations respecting the condition of the
Neapolitan provinces should be put on the Mime
occasion on which the documents relating to the
Roman question were put under discussion.

(azurza's TZLIGRAWL)
AMERICA.
NEW YORK. Nov. 9.
(Per Glasgow vii Liverpool.)

The Associated Press of New tort publishes the
following official despatch, dated Washington,
Nov. 9 :

" The withholding of cotton from Europe is not
• military result of the war between the revolu.
tionary states and the Federal government. The
'exportation was prohibited, under severe penal-
ties, by an act of the rebel congress in July last.
" The object was to force England and France,
through the suspension of their manufactures and
distress and discontent of their starving spinners, to
recognise the Southern Confederacy.

"The great naval expedition is undoubtedly a
eucceen, although the details of its landing have not
been received.

"It will establish the Federal government per-
manently in the heart of the Sea Island cotton
district. From Port Royal a regular export trade
in Georgia and Carolina cotton will be established
on government account, and the account of
individual planters, who at heart desire the
restoration of the union and dread the social
results of the war.

"The great army on the Potomac has grown daily
in numbers and discipline. The delay which has
been suspended over Virginia yet prevails. Every-
where else the rebellion is being speedily contracted
upon its own soil. The rolls of the War Department
show that already 575,000 men are under arms to
save the republic."

r, Nov. 23.

The United States steamship Arago, Captain
Lines, from New York on the 9th inst., has arrived.
She brings 117 passengers for Havre and 12 for
Southampton, and 400 dollars in specie for Franco.
Among the passengers are General Scott and
family, Colonel Scott, Mr. Hockmelle (attachd of
French Legation at Washington), and Captain de
Balincourt, of the French navy.
Inside Sandy Hook the Arsgo spoke the ships
Bavaria. and Mercury from Havre, and American
ships Lucy Thompson and Constitution.