The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3,. 1867.

United States to accept payment in piper, end to boy corn,
option, and sow, for exportation to Europe. It is probable
that theme operation will Mors tits prices of awe 'dicks
for some time to own*. Mail trade in Paris is stocker in
almost all Its bronchi*. The sale of times In the
alter is not so attire u it ought to be at this time of the
year. The mildness of the season accounts for this in wane
samsare. The active movement in the factories which Ism
nmadisi 4 September and during the first fortnight of
October has also slackened. The difficulty in negotiating
bills foram all the manufacturers to restrict their credit, sad
la many instances to decline orders. Crroobt are generally

lower—not so much on amount of the abundant hwvest so
became holders of emn and sour are in want of money.

The l'atrie being very much afraid that corres-
pondents of foreign journals will give an exagge-
rated account of the interference of the police with the
funeral of General Cavairic, undertakes to tell the
public the exact troth. Knowing nothing myself of
what the polioe may have done, I can only tell you
what the Patrie says. The Prefect of Police sent
an agent to confer with the general's family upon
certain details of the funeral, but with the sole view
that nothing might be done against their wishes.
The agent took that opportunity of asking who would
make speeches over the grave, but it is asserted that
the inquiry wt..' only made in order that the police
might be in a position to prevent unauthorised ora-
tors from making themselves conspicuous. M. de
Pokily, the general's cousin, replied that nothing
had yet been definitively settled on the subject, but
that if anybody spoke at all it would probably be
M. &nerd or M. Dufaure. On the morning of the
funeral M. de Pointy told the Prefect of Police that
after consulting with M. Dufaure, it had been de-
cided that no speech should be made. He added
that tho government had left the family the utmost
latitude. After the ceremony Madame Piscatoty

came to the prefecture to thank the prefect in the
name of Madame Cavaignac for the atteition he had
shown to her and her family on this melancholy oc-
caaion. Thf Petrie has been moved to make this state-
ment on account of a conversation said to have taken
place in the Le Pelletier cigar divan, wherein it was
represented that the police had required to have
copies of the speeches to be pronounced, and that
the family had protested against the requisition on
the ground that it was impossible coolly to discuss
beforehand the terms in which the intimate friends
of the deceased might desire to say a last farewell
over his tomb. All this the Petrie declares is posi-

tively untrue. I see no reason to doubt that the
inquiries of the police were made in the most polite,
tender, and delicate manner, but at the same time I
have no doubt whatever that the reason why Gene-
ral eavaignaes Mends abstained from pronouncing
those funeral orations which are, or till lately were,
customary in France, was that they felt the impos-
sibility of saying what they would have liked to
have said.

The Prose contradicts the news that Count Nil-
geon intends to appeal against the sentence of the
Court of Colmar.
The French colonels killed at Sebastopol, Lieut.-
Colonels Fonfrede, Jolly, and Deshayea, were ex-
humed on October 5, with the permission of the
Russian government, their relatives desiring to re-
move their remains to France. The whole garrison
of Sebastopol wu under arms on the occasion, and
rendered military honours to the coffins as they were
transported from the cemetery to the French sl:p
waiting to receive them.
In consequence of Sunday (All Saints Day) having
been kept as a strict holiday, not one of the Yetis
morr'ig journals has appeared.

ITALY.

THE TWO SICILIES.

01011 OUR OWN CORR]

NAPLES, Orr.
A re4ious mission has just returned from Calabria,
composed of Padri Liguorini, Padri delle Vergini,
arid of regular priests. Before leaving they received
instructions from their government, and during
their perambulations they have been preaching de-
votion to the sovereign, and have well surveyed the
spirit of that country. On the return of the mission
the superior of the Liguorini went immediately to
Gaeta to report progress. Such is the service which
the church as expected to render, and which it does
reedsr, to the government, to watch and subdue the
pabße mind. I must explain what a " mission "
means. A party of priests, regular or not, go forth
into a district to produce such impressions as they
are commanded to do. They are as much political
spies as they are laments of Jesus Christ, and the
country is in a state of treater. Every one sets his
house in order, and the contest is who shall
be the greatest hypocrite. You may see
reverend gentlemen burning their wrists with
torches, to illustrate tho pains of hell-fire ;
you may, by way of variety, see the same gentlemen
lashing themselves with iron chains, and a thousand
people following the example of their fugleman with
ropes which they have brought with them by order.
Shift the scene, and all the gentlemen of the district
may be seen crowned with thorns, and girdled with
ropea, and preceded by the cross, making the round
of the church. They are exhorted, and confessed,
and vilified, and threatened with the anger of Christ
and the Madonna; lastly, they are absolved, and
promised celestial joys—the farce winds up with
"'re l)eums" for the King amidst solemn prayers.
The priests go home to report what they have done
and seen and heard, and the people remain to laugh
with one another at the absurdities they have been
perpetrating. " Why do you commit such ab-
surdities, then ?" I recently asked of one. " Because
I cannot help it," was the reply, " I must be a hypo-
crite—we are all hypocrites, and the government
mskes us so." These missions continually move
about the country; one has now returned from the
('alabriss, and thus is it, through the surveillance of
the clergy, that the nation is well trained in hypo.
m:sy, and the King kept au courant of all that is
going on.
Considerable excitement has existed in Naples
during the last week, perhaps created in some mea-
sure by the precautions of the police themselves. In
the early part of the week all the police were kept
it the Prefecture and at the stations of the various
commissaries. Similar precautions were adopted
with regard to the urban guard in the neighbour-
hood, and all were under arms. The mane orders
were issued later in the week. lam perfectly igno-
rant of what may be the precise object of this move-
ment, as on the surface there is perfect tranquillity;
bat, as I have often said, when there is so much real
cause for discontent, it is impossible to answer for
the peace of the country for one moment. Agitation
and conspiracy are the trade of thousands in the
Two Siciliee. Men dream of them night and day;
and at the present time expectation has been mach
raised by reports of what passed at Stuttgart.

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THE NETHERLANDS.

(MOM OUR OWN 001lisPONDINT.)

ROTTERDAM, Oct. 20.
The recent commercial fluctuations of America and
England begin to make their effects felt in the com-
mercial transactions of the Netherlands. Money,
though there is doubtless abundance of it, is kept in
tight hands, and only parted with for discounting
good bills at good interest, or for speculating in the
funds. It is consequently harvest time for the legion
of Jews that frequent the Exchanges of Amsterdam
and Rotterdam. The autumn sales of the Dutch
Trading Company have passed off very heavily. The
Java coffee imported by that company is considered
the supply for Holland end Germany from autumn
to spring and from spring to autumn. German
commission agents in Amsterdam and Rotterdam
generally have orders from their customers for the
purchase of more coffee than the Trading Company
can supply, and prices run even higher than the
estimates made up by the brokers. This autumn