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

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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The Emperor's government thinks it expedient
to inflict a minor excommunication upon Prince
Murat. The Moniteur is silent on the subject of
his manifesto, but the Constitutionnet says :
We published Prince Yurat's letter merely as a demi.
meat, but as this publication may give rise to false inter-
pretations, we are bound to declare that it was altogether
spontaneous on our part, and, like everything else we give,
engaged only our own responsibility. It will be under.
stood that we saw no reason for refusing publicity to •
letter which might interest our readers. We are authorised
to add that this document, being purely personal, cannot
in any way engage the policy of the government, for it is
evidently contrary to that policy.
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Why, it may be permissible to inquire, did not
the Constitutiontiel publish the comments depreca-
tory of "false interpretations" simultaneously with
the document itself 1 Moreover, where did the
document come from ? What is " the foreign
journal" which, according to the joint and several
authority of the Const►tntionnel, Pays, and Petrie,
originally produced it ? and how comes it that these
papers which, notwithstanding the idle assertion to
the contrary, do continually publish intelligence
on other than their "own responsibility," had pri-
vity in this instance over all the independent
journals ?
The Gazette de France remarks that the name of
the duke to whom the letter purports to be
addressed is not given, and insinuates that no such
person exists. It further observes that as the
document is dated from the Chateau de Buzenval,
March 27, there is a physical impossibility that the
letter could have time to go to Naples and come
back by the Ist of April, the day on which it was
known in Paris. The letter, it appears, was
despatched from Paris to all the Italian journals,
and was treated by them with contempt.
The Opinion Nationale, which yesterday would
not treat the letter seriously, now observes that
the pompous way in which the Pays—M. Granier
de Cassaguac's journal—" with its habitual male-
volence towards Italy," announces the arrival in
Paris of a Neapolitan general with a Muratist pe-
tition, makes it worth while to point out in a few
words the utter rottenness of Murat's pretensions.
The principle on which France claimed Nice and
Savoy was to strengthen her frontier against a
neighbour likely to become powerful, and implied
non-intervention in Italy. Her continued inter-
ference, on special grounds, in Rome alone brings
her in contact with the hatred of the catholic party,
the impatience of the Italians, and the jealousy of
England, and has sufficiently proved that she can-
not in any way whatever mix herself up in the
affairs of Italy without irritating her enemies
and displeasing her friends. " What, then,
would be the case if the Emperor were to seek to
place one of his own relations on the throne of
Naples r The Opinion then calls to mind the in-
gratitude of Murat, who, in 1814, allied himself
with Austria against France, and drew from
Napoleon this prophetic exclamation :—" That
man is at once a villain and a fool ; he is the occa-
sion of my losing Italy, perhaps more, and he has
lost himself. You will see that, one of these days,
he will be reduced to ask me for shelter and bread ;
but I trust I may live long enough to punish his
monstrous ingratitude."
The modern Murat, who talks so indignantly
against the revolution, now that he who never did
anything for Italy has the impudence to claim the
benefit for himself of Garibaldi's victories, is the
grandson of a Languedoc innkeeper, and has as
little claim to be a king on the ground of divine
right as on that of personal merit.
Among the proposals made by Count Cavour to
the Pope is one, it is asserted, in pursuance of
which the island of Sardinia would be ceded to
France, in order that the Emperor, following the
example of Pepin and Charlemagne, might make
it over to the church as private property fur the
residence of the Popes, but without compelling
them to renounce the honorary title of Sovereign
Pontiff.

The Bourse continues to decline seriously in
consequence of the warlike rtunours. The Rente

fell 10c. for cash and 20c. for account, closing at
67fr. 45c. and 67fr. 60c. Mobilier fell 7fr. 50c.
With the exception of Northern, which declined
6fr. 25c., there was little change in railways. The
Mires securities are worse again. The Canine, which
the other day was quoted at upwards of 100 fr.,
now at 90fr. Roman railways fell 15fr.

ITALY.

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TURIN, MAME 31.

This is Easter Sunday, a day of peace, and every
one is reposing. Count Cavour is at his villa of
Lori, the King is at Stnpinigi ; senators and depu-
ties are paying flying visits to their homes for a few
days. The Ministers •of War and the Interior are
alone debarred from taking part in the general re-
pose, even for the three Easter holidays. Both are
obliged to watch respectively the Austrians and the
Mazzinians with unflagging vigilance. The Aus.
trians are in a menacing attitude on the frontiers,
hoping for some provocation that may give them a
pretext for attacking us before we have been able
to form a powerful army. The Mazzinians, partly
through intemperance and political ignorance,
partly from a spirit of disloyalty, are disposed to
give the Austrians the pretext they desire. Through
one of his secret agents Mathni has published a ma-
nifesto, in which he says :—" Advance, assault ; the
government will be compelled to follow you." Thus
be sets himself up as a judge, and believes himself
authorised to direct the nation according to his
own caprices. A schism among the Garibaldians
has been the consequence. The better part of them
object to receive orders from any one but Garibaldi
himself ; the other part consider Garibaldi to be a
general, and nothing more, but in Mazzini they
see their prophet, forgetting how he has always
urged them to the brink of a precipice. Meanwhile
Garibaldi's generals, Sirtori, Comm, Medici, Bixio,
and several of minor fame, are weary of this divi-
sion caused by Maszini--a division so full of perils
—and they are not displeased to see the government
endeavouring to prevent the folly of premature
aggression. Garibaldi, still at Caprera, has not
yet received an accurate account of all this. The
generals Medici and Cosenz have recently had a
conversation with the King. General Bixio
started yesterday for Paris. Generals Dunn, Tarr,
, are here, and so also is Count Pianciani, of
sinister augury.
General Cialdini no sooner arrived here, than he
was sent on to Milan, that he might persuade Ge-
neral La Marmora to withdraw his resignation, but
he has failed in his mission and left for Bologna,
where the corps is concentrating that carried on war
in Southern Italy under his command. La Mar-
mota has written to the King to justify his re-
fusel, and says :—" As the defensive works sug-
gested by me for Lombardy have not been car-
ried out, I feel myself incapable of resisting an
Austrian invasion." The Minister of War be-
lieves, on the other hand, that Lombardy as left
by the peace of Villafranca was not to be de-
fended even by the most expensive works, but
that it was best defended by Austria's cession of
that territory to France, so that any Austrian
invasion in this quarter would give France a caaus
belli.

The head of the moderate liberal party at Rome
bag arrived here, Dr. Pantaleoni, and had been
exiled suddenly within the last few days by the
Pontifical government. He oonfirms to me what
others had written, that the Pope himself was dis-
poised to listen to betterconneels, when all at onoe from
some new hopes not precisely known to others he
changed again and returned to his old state of ob-
stinacy. It is believed, however, that it has been
caused by a promise from Vienna that before a
fortnight an Austrian army would enter Bologna.
The soul of these warlike ideas among the Austrians
is the ex-Duke of Modena, who is thirsting for a
bloody revenge. All the ex-Princes are leagued in
this attempt, 'Which will perhaps disturb all Europe.
The fallen and the falling rulers are banding them-
selves together, and therefore the Spanish Bourbons
are more or lees openly playing the same game.
The parliamentary vacation of Easter will last
over Tuesday and Wednesday ; if the Chamber
meets in sufficient strength, Signor Maaaari will
then bring on his question respecting the affairs of
the Neapolitan provinces.
Just as I was about closing this letter a few
notices came in. After a council of ministers pre-
sided over by the King, in which the King stated
Is Marmora's reasons, and the demands this officer
had made for the military security of the country,
namely, "that at all events they should form
an entrenched camp at Pavia, and should sus-
pend until quieter times the new organization
of the army," General Fanti, the Minister of War,
declared that Pavia should be armed with artillery,
and that with a little labour an entrenched camp
would soon be formed ; further, that the new
organization could not be completed in a hurry, and
therefore that the army would, in fact, retain for
the present its previous organization, with the
exception of a few things, the utility of which was
acknowledged by La Marmora himself. The last-
named general, having received these assurances,
has consented to withdraw his resignation and
retain the command of the second army corps.
News has arrived from Genoa that Signor Bel-
lazzi, the agent of the Mazzinian Dr. Bertani, is
enlisting for some unknown expedition. The
Minister of the Interior has Usual the (necessary
orders for watching these proceedings, and putting
• stop to them in case they should go beyond the
limits of constitutional liberty and endanger the
safety of the state.

The Official Journal of Naples of the 28th ult.
states that on the preceding day the poet-office authorities
seised are sacks of copper-money coined ill the name of
" Francis Bourbon " (the es-King of Naples), and which
had been sent from Rome by the Messageries. The
address of the person for whom they were intended was
marked upon them.

M. Victor Hugo is now staying at Brussels on
his way to Spa.

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Tne Nearotrran Pam—A letter from Naples
of the 27th ult., in the Dibats, says :—" The sad spectacle
now presented by the Neapolitan prow is but the last effort
of extreme parties ere they expert:. You have several times
witnessed the same state of things in France. The &W.
wawa violently assails the unitarian policy of Count Cavour,
evokes the phantom of I know not what European coalition.
ladies at the ambition of Piedmont, which, it says, assume
the meek of unity to cover its usurpations. La Pietro
la-
fernale, • worthy imitation of the Pare Dueltene edited by
two ex-agents of the old police, Giovanni Gervari sob
Terenzio Sacchi, thus expresses itself in speaking
of the famous valley of Boehm (the traditional
resort of bendite)—' the real brigands are in the
ministry at Turin, in parliament, in the Supreme Court
of Justice, Ike., ix. And only think that not one of
them is in the Vioarin (prison of the Palace of Justice).
By heaven ! it must be a very stupid people that submits to
be governed by such rabble !' On theother hand, the Repute
limn morsel, Popoto teltalio, supplies arguments for Car-
dinal Atitonelli and Francis 11. by accusing the moat honour-
able persons who have taken part in the government of the
Southern provinces for the last six months of peculation.
extortion, and embezzlements of considerable sums bel..ug•
leg to the public treasury, of which it even specifies the
amount. The Court of Justice has ordered M. La Fran-
ONO% the Attorney-General, to institute an inquiry, which
will prove the falsehood of these assertions mule by the
Masainian patty. Six actions for slander have already teen
commewoed against the director of the Popo!o crlialra and
public opinion, which has never been for a moment the dupe
of these stupid calumnies, patiently awaits the issue."
A Naw TUNNEL TN ROUt: H Tli 6 Amt's,—A
Piedmootese commission has just been charged to examine
the question of a tunnel through the Alps which separate
Italy from Switzerland. Different plans have been laid
before it, passing by the Saint Gotherd, the Lukmanier, the
Splugen. the Bernardino. and the Septimer. The commis- •
'ion will have to decide through which of the above moon-
tains the tunnel can be moat easily and most adynntagrously
cat. The Lukmanier appears to promise the greatest
facilities, as it is lower than any of the others, but
as • set•off, the line of railway to be connected with
the tunnel through that mountain would be 17,t
kilometres (Atha of • mile each) in length, while if it was
to pas through the Saint Gotham' it would only be 1:43,
and through the Splugen 120. The two lines by the Sahli
Gothard and the Lukmanier are each estimated at a cost d
ninety millions of francs, and that by the Splugen at one
hundred million.. If, In the examination of the queen",
the only objset were to put Italy simply in communication
with deputed Switzerland and Basle, the Saint Gothard
would certainly have the preference, but if this line is to
open an easy road to Germany and Belgium. Genoa and
Turin will advocate the line of Lukmanier, and Milan that
of the Saint Gothani.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)
L't la aocua.

The benirrepten importer of foreign geode, of the Strand,
i I be.l fur his ,ertifiaste. Liabilities, 2,3UUi.; suet., about

Mr. Cheney supported ; there was no opposition.
The bankrupt, so answer to the court, said that he bad
0,04. witli I xidge and Giantionati (bankrupts), and had
1•• n maw t.sievept bills eiinsiderabli beyood the amount
. t ,ods that bad bees supplied to him.
llon.ur %Juba that these accommodation bills were the
•test el,ll+ of the day The bankrupt might take • cer-
- ..ie of the lowest class.
IN RR Jer:erros.
The bankrupt wax a printer, of Gough-square. This was
• meeting. LLibilities, ; assets, about
t.s.llMitkm_.

Hotimir remarked in this ease also the bankrupt bad
him''!! liable fur other parties, though not to II bilge

It L.rtag dated that those liabilities would pot come
the estate,
His Honour gleaned a drat-elan certificate.
at DZAII.—ADJI Dlc‘tiom,
1 petition for a/naval/et was recently presented by
C Dean, oil, lead, and colour mtrchaat., of Trig
Upper Thome-street. The matter we.% pow turned
Int.. beak: spicy. Hie debts are 1,940/. ; assets stated at
I,2At

01 Ili JOIMPII HOOPIII- irniegvr.
The bankrupt, a leather factor, of New Weston.street,
Isniondeey, recently &Kind for his certificate, and
judg-
ment wee now given.
His Hamm mat—ln this eme the assignee opposed, Dot
from &in angry feeling. but as • duty he owes to the
trading world. The ease is in auhetrace this :—Hooper
been a servant in an irounmager's shop in 1•57.
cad when quite young was so weak as to he pennaded to
mow la • bummer of which he knew little or nothing—
the bminese of • leather merchant, aid to carry it on, not
is • mederste, but on • very exteueive scale ; sod the
meek lies bees bankrut4ev, wall indebtedness a. the amount
.1 in, oot, 16,00 W. of which is due to trade creditors, aid
14,Merf. an acesp4sases is which his name ap-
peal. He bee ben in trade little mote
than arm yews ; him profile have been 3,4001.,
but bin tends 'upturn have been 6,7001. Is these three
r.sas be hail set op two weans in busipemes, appearing
loth.. world to Ise iodepeadest bar Ulnae, --Goa named Parry.
the other Nidilee -who were merely big tools. He required
those penes a. uvula bills for goods supplied by him to
them. awl t...k theme lbereptegfee to dealer' in moony for dig-
MUM. its though they were regular trade bills. By them
ae.l.4ber contneanase b managed to struggle on till the
Tali Jame, IWD, wham he was obliged to atop payment.
months Ware he knew he wee imaleent for be had
idiot in an accausiast, a Mr. Bowyer, who bad draws
sp • profs., statement and shows that he was insolvent to
lb. .*tent of .t,76;k1. Nevettbalem, betwes• the 110th at
0,44), and the Nth of Jane following, he acc
tab, to the amount of 5,0001, and upwards, datedb
am, rasf. 17.. was paid. Just before hie s
be .•uweised favaaritism in favour .4 erne Barrow, who
Ii aamptanos for 1971., due on the 26th June, by bandies
tom rode of the value of 3.10/. He allowed his mother
111, , and the may before his stoppage he gave her 90/. in
rash, sad a eitatomer's acceptance for hi/. It is, how.
ev,r, • favourable circumstance in his in.. that his
meets have relined 3,5110/. His indebtedness, however,
neediness hie pcsitioe. is twornsous. He owee to trade;
erehten 16.0001.. and he has put Ws mune on bills to the
amount of 24,000 f. The debts actually proved are, how-
ever, noly 31,675/. It is also a circumstance in his favour
that his personal experts" have bes,n moderates—cmly 7ROI.
three years and four mouths. Looking at all the air.
.-inutanees of the cam, considering his youth, and canal,
.1. nog the extraordinary excitement in the leather
trt
into which trade be wee drawn at as early periad
life, and before his judgment bed been natured
experience I think I may venture to give him a certifi-
cate of the second class, at the end of one year from the date
.4 his bankruptcr, with protection from arrest in the mean-
tune. Ile is still young, and I hope the past will operate
as a warning to him for the rest of his life.
Tilt 111.711uPTAN wore.caowene ANIOCIATIOIC—PITI77OI,I

rolt WINDING•VP,
Mr. Midler promoted • petition oa behalf of Mr. Wm.
Frank wine-merchant, of &Movielie, praying for • wind.
ing•up order against the above limited mammy. The corn-
sr ear registered is May last, the proposed capital being
half a million, in 10,000 shares of 10/. each, and its rev
tried of at Victoria-homey 111, Victornaotreet, West-
minder. The petition contained the usual allegations es to
than-fourths of the capital having beep hart or become un•
sod the company being unable to lay its debts.
The hearing was axed fur the 20th lost