The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1857.

first instance will, doubtless, be to units
more compactly together the disunited see.
tions of the Reactionary er Aestreu. tactical.
But M. CATOCI has counted the cost, and wisely
judged that the safety of his master's throne and the
stability of the well-ordered liberty he has contri-
buted so mach to establish, would best be consulted
by a fee:leas avowal to the nation of the real issue at
stake.

The thrilling response the Royal declaration met
within the walls of the Senate House, and
the deep and long-continued echoes with which it
was received by the anxious multitudes waiting
without those walls, attest the soundness of the
advice given to the Sovereign by his Ministers.
With true policy and true rhetoric art,
the framers of the Speech reserved to its
close a topic which they well knew would tell
far more than all the rest with the community at
large. After alluding to the statue of Cit.taxte
ALDERT, which was on that day inaugurated and
confided to the care of the Parliament, in whose hall
it had been placed, the XING slowly, but with
unusual emphasis, exclaimed, " May his memory in-
spire all your deliberations for the welfare and
glory of Piedmont, and of our common country—
Italy !" As the forbidden name was uttered, a new
and startling burst of feeling broke forth, Every
Austrian at heart who heard it felt the
might of that spell ; every vassal of the' Vati-
can on whose ear it fell recognised in it a power
greater than votes of Senates, or levies of armed
men, to baffle the machinations of clerical and civil
abeulutiem. To the many, and to the men of their
choice, the utterance of the name of Italy as the
object of the royal hopes, and thoughts, and prayers,
spoke as a rallying cry long unheard, a note of
warning and yet of good cheer ; an augury of better
days to come; a signal, not of constitutional free-
dom in distress, bat of national redemption, never
to be despaired of, and eventually to be won.

EXPRESS FROM. PARIS.

(num ous owls coftineromriel
PARIS, PIIDAT 2•1311X0.

There is an utter dearth of political news to-day,
and the leading articles of the French journals are
wren more devoid of interest than usual. Nothing
is talked of but the leufoese trial.

The Bourse was very firm daring the greater part
of the day, and although the highest prices of the
morning were not quite maintaincd,the Rente left off
with a rile of 16c, for cash and 6e. for account, clos-
ing at 67fr. 10e. and 67fr. 20e. Mobilier rose
2G. 60e. The railway market was animated. Or-
leans rose 17fr. 60e.; Northern, 6fr.; Eastern,
7fr. 60o.; Lyon, 6fr.; Southern, 10fr. ; Western,
6fr. ; and Orand Central, 2fr. 60c. A further re-
daction in the discount of the Bank of France is
confidently expected early in January, if not sooner.

The case of barristers of Vesoul before the
Court of Besancon is over. They were defended
with great eloquence by M. Marie, but the court
found them guilty of a breach of professional dis-
cipline in having refused, en masse, to exercise the
functions of an advocate, and has sentenced them all
to fifteen days' suspension. The batounier, under
whose advice they acted, is reprimanded.
M. Neither, the late editor of the Press.,, is about
to take the direction of a new periodical, to be called
the Rerue Germanique, the first number of which
will appear on January 31. There exists already in
Paris a Reeve Bram:moque, and M. Neither dunks
ray justly that there is room in France for •
PC.si literary organ of Germany upon a eirniler

ITALY.

THE PAPAL STATES.

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ROKZ, Decal.
It is now asserted that political motives have act
been entirely foreign to the Marquis Campana's
arrest and rigorous treatment, although his adminit
tration of the Monte di Piet" is made the plausible
pretest for his ruin. It is attain that one of
Cardinal Antonelli's brothers has been promised the
place of Director of the Monte for a long time. The
police imagined that they had got the clue to some
mysterious political complot by arresting the
marquis's medical attendant, Dr. Petacei, last week.
It appears that, on leaving his patient, the doctor
was presented with a glove by the marquis, asif ho
had dropped it, or was leaving it inadvertently
behind him. The gendarme, who was present
at the interview, suspected some correspondence,
but did not examine the glove. On the
doctor's next visit, however, the glove again
changed hands, whilst the atient's pulse was
being felt, and the lynx-eyed gendarme, pouncing
upon. the said glove, found a little note inside,
aspirin the marquis that "the brothers would
For:se the secret violable." The doctor was fol.
eedry in
by spies for the rest of the day, and arrested
at midnight in his own house. It is affirmed that
the mysterious missive had no political meaning
whatever, but merely referred to the secret of the agar-
movie/ea, or artificial marble, for the manufacturing
of which the marquis had an establiehment outside
the Porta del Popolo, in which the brothers Leva
were concerned. The question of the competency
of the criminal tribunal to try the prisoner was to
have been decided yesterday, but was put off at the
request of the advocate for the defence.
The terrorist assassins of Ancona received a cheek
on the night of the 27th ult. by the simultaneous
arrest of twenty of the most notorious characters,
who were at once transferred in close carriages to
some unknown destination. Tho panic-stncken
inhabitants of the town have began to breathe
a little more freely since this vigorous mea-
sure, and the stiletto slumbers for the moment in its
sheath.

The Pope celebrated the festival of the Immaculate
Conception with the customary solemnities in the
Sistine Chapel on the Bth. His Holiness has ap-
pointed Dr. Cornthwaite, Rector of the English
college, one of his honorary Camera:we%
The meet of the Roman hounds, at the favourite
and classic spot of the tomb of Cecilia Metells, on
the Via Apple, on Monday last, was saddenei by a
fatal accident which betel a Roman lover of the
chase, Signor Bassi, who was thrown from his horse
with inch violence uto injure the spine. Although
he recovered his sense, after the fall he died on the
following day, and the fiat Roman victim to head-
long fox hunting was followed to his lest home by a
long train of Roman and English gentlemen.
The Grand Duchesi Helen of Russia has jut ar-
rived at the Hotel du Iles Britattniques.

THE TWO SICILIES.

(nom orz OWX

NAPLES, Dar. 12.
I have now to state that the Grand Criminal Court
of Salerno hare accepted the alto di aecusa of the
Procurator-General as against 287 of the prisoners of
Sapri, amongst whom our countrymen, Watt and
Parks, the engineers of the Cagliari, are found: in
other words, a true bill has been found, and the de-
, mend of the public accuser has been legitimatised.
The documents beloeging to the cue are now
placed in chancery, and will be open to the inspec-
tion of the counsel and the friends of the
prisoners. This trial will be pending for •
great length of tune—perhaps, say soma who
understand the forms of the Neapolitan courts, for
several months • meantime, those who are in prison
will have suffered punishment by anticipation, The
gentleman who had been chosen to conduct the die-
fence of our countrymen is Signor Laurie, who is
distinguished by his high integrity and his talents.
In Naples he is well known as baring been one of
the defenders of Settembrini and others, who were
compromised in the affairs of 1848; therefore, what-
ever can be date by individual effort will be done
to secure to our countrymen a full and just consider-
ation of their case.

In addition to what I said of the trial and con-
demnation of Domenico I.uizzi on a charge of having
attemptei to poison his Royal Highness the Count
of Aquila, I have to report that no one believes
the semnation. I have heard it said that the
periti or triers even smoked the cigars which were
I alleged to have been poisoned. The trial was con-
ducted with closed doors, as the law, which I quote,
permits in certain given eases. Art. 219 of the Pro.
cedars in Criminal Cases says :—" A cause may be'
discussed with closed doors when the discussion
in a public audience is likely to offend
Kood morals or occasion scandal and me
inconvenience." The cause which has
fore terminated in the condemnation of the
confidential servant of his Royal Highness the
Count of Aquila, after a yeses imprisonment, may
be supposed likely to bays occasioned "scandal or
grave inconvenience." As far as lan hear, the ad.
vocate for the defence want down to the Ring, by
order or sanction of the Procurator-General, to pre-
sent a report of the trial, and to demand a diminu-
tion of punishment. It is now said that it has been
commuted to exile. If so, it is a rare instance of
mercy towards one who wu condemned to death for
attempting to poison a royal prince, and proves
rather more than it was desired to prove.
I must again allude to the case of Mr. Drinkwater,
whose property this government has most grossly
outraged, and is now on the eve of appropriating
against
his will. Dung an interview with Lord Clarendon some day last month he was assured by
OW Foreign Minister that his case should be taken
up and arbitration insisted upoe. I)own came
orders directly to demand that the dispoaal of the
pr pset~ should be settled by arbitration. But, as
meal, tb s has been refused. In fact, this govern-
ment dem just as it like., and it may do so with
,wbon breign geummests register its acts,
jsr at sweats de net interim to prevent them.
The price of flume has been raised, and the effect
midis easimmres will, it is expected, be of the best
possible kind. A miaiderial order published lest
night Imps the mint price of silver from the 18th
December, 1867, to the 13th of Jane, 1868, at 1
ducat 36 grains the ounce (30 trapesi). The fact
is that scarcely a dollar we. to be found, and people
feared very much the state of things next year.
Exchange.on London, 660; Five per Cents.,ll4l.

IBUFORSE TRIAL.

ADDRENIEE OP THE ADVOCATEA.

We gave a brief report, received by electric
telegraph, la yesterday's Boren, of the proceedings oa
Thursday,* the above trial. The witnesses for the priioners
gave Gala a very bed character, and *ohs highly of
Madams Isabela

M. Cresson (of the Rotten bar) the advocate for Marne
Gild Dot and her children, than rose, and commenced
speech se follows:—" Before coming into this court, for the
Bret time, the feeling uppermost in my mind, notwitiontad-
Mg the house of mourning (turning towards Madame Onll-
- which I represent, was one of pity for the prisoners. I
thought of the cruel position of that woman and her two ems,
fallen from the highest position in society to the criminal
bench in an maim court, and my heart bled for those young
ma, listening to the sobs of their mother. There wee a
moment when I hoped not to have raised my voice at ell In
ad of the prosecution. I bad heeled that rernam
would have touched the consciences of the pri-
mers, and that they would bays mingled there
repentance with their tears. lied it been so I, who
represent • murdered husband, • widowed mother,
and two bereaved children, might have been justified to
maintalring elthough I had no authority to
pardon. But I and I was mistaken. The primness at that
her ere but ordinary criminals. Their eyes are dry sad
their speech amused. Pr.de led them to aims, and pride
alone 'animates them le the presence of the bloody remains d
their victim. Am in the fatal night of June 12, they
would to this hour refuse to glee their old friend the
glue of water which he called for in the agonise of
death. Seeing these things, my thoughts reveled
to this young lady, who comes here in her widow's weals is
fulfil the duty of a Christian wife end mother, sad a thaw
children who may cm day demand from me en alatini
the task which their guardian basconfided to me, end now,
solely by a desire to engem the him* alright
I come before you to sustain lidepasagatien=
of the brilliant adversary with she, I beget,
dose net tenth alter all, elms =rage?
am ben to maintain °MUM,
that the widow de lesimes awl her bee ems
were aecomplices In the aims reesdar, that
they devised, preeneditated, and empenfeed,, deed.
I ma alto here to defend the memory at heirsA
This double task is imposed op= me by the SWF
atom def men which is eat up; for the pram, after Win
put • price upon the blood of Emile Gluillot, aka having
furnished the arras which were to kill him, offer laving
themselves laid wait for their prey, night after night, after
having mortally wounded bins, listened to his death rattle
without pity, and withholding all help in his agony, now
insult your 1111•011 by asking you to believe that never
inert to kill him. And then, sa a subsidiary
they say that (Millet was • smitc.b, who only lost
with his death, that he sought to blast the chars:ter of
Mdile. Blanche in order to revenge himself upon her mother
for breaking off his acquaintance; and that his only object in
coming into the pork of Jailors was to make his Meads
believe that the stories he had told than about Ms is
with Millis. Blanche won tam I will meet thernotZZ
these grounds end since they, the guilty put*
dare to become accuses, may the responsibility
of their hardihood ratapm their own heads.'
The Mama advocate than at gnat length the
facto of the mat se they appeared is evident*, sad contemild
that, as a review at Mt the drimmitemem el the cam, it meld
sot be doubted OW Ballot bed conceived a violent parks
for Blanche de Isalleses, sad that be had had mad teem.
spondesce sad laterviews with Sr; that her mother ead
brothers having began. acrmakantd with fhb, wire to dimply
wounded in their awed/ peas, that they resolved le be
avenged ; that they scossiagli with wamsdialian planed
the killing of the man ; end that it was Cmg who, ca their
Instigation end by their enceatmlaniat, Wen deed. In the
courour his eperchhemsde sensmaysevoreemmenite on the
two young men, estrodelly the ads, ; ha ilseetßed
Blanche as ill Mose* op and Ili almatad ; and ha dwelt os
the brutality whisk be saki had bees displayed by Mole. de
Jenfome in not aiming anything to be done for Guillot when
lying the agony of death fn bar groande.
M. Beam advocate of Mom. der Jedosee, next rose and
meld .—" My drat, gentlemen, is accused of being en
accomplice is this affair, but she preemets herself before you,
through me, as the sincipal author of the act reproached
against her; she desires that my voice shall be raised the
first, trot so mat to justify berself, as to covet by her re-
sponsibility the other prisoners. It is to protect what Is
dearest to her in the world, the honour of her daughter, she
now invokes my voice. It was by her order that a man's
hand was armad, and if her soca excited the vigilance of
that man, • eery ent, it was beans they reopen task
mother. It is, then, to her that all respectability must
ascend, end she now teals you that she telly
acorate that responsibility. Yee, grthmen, it is she who
supported the =llk the terrible con in which eke en keg
lived—a conliot at uptight and maternal sentiments, at
dignity and honour, against Infamy, with which it was en-
deavoured to stain the chastity of her house. From rowed
to Madams Gall* has present, I will not enter tato Ms-
grans derails, bat I mum tell you. that Madams de lesion,
was coostantly attached In h repose, end a her
dignity—ma, so to lesierd is ha
er ova home, and,
coseropteatly, not only powered the right of legitimate
dream of her family and her bousehdd bat was plead
reeler the micemity of tssecishe it. That I maintain was
incestestabk —that necessity, I shall show was itoperativa"
The learned gentimosa then went on to argue that it was
Maar from the evidanoe that after persscutiag Male. Lau-
rens,. Misgoverns's, and being very properly repulsed by la,
Ocilla pad attention to *Mu Bleach', but /AWL. Bleach.
told her moths'', and had never gives him any encourage.
meat. It wee is eoaagsence of that dirloeun, and of
something which Guillot had mid st his club at Gdßoe, that
Mum de Jailors detrained to break off her acquaintance
with him ; but in order not to compromise her daughter in
say way, she desired to do so as quietly as passible. " What,
however," asked the learned monad, "was the conduct of
Ouillu It Wm it that of • man who, being engaged In an
Intrigue with au innocent young person, sought atones and
mystery? No—it was • meths of odious manoeuvres to
comprionke the talker family. To do so he climbed weer
walls—that is to say, violated en enclosure, a domicile; ma
Inviolable asylum; sad he acted so is order to canoe
aoiee and aiontial—he did it in order to be esan—he
made marks in the snow, and blew his born, in order that
nom might doubt that It was ha I Aid under such chomp
stares could it be persisting that his cheat had not the
right to protect her household, as the would have protected
her crops, her ft Id YIP% or other things of seemprativily
little value ?" After dwelling at sours lrgtk_an the maser
+a whisk Guillot had osereecotod Blanthe• end after
station that Mom. de indoor could not, as hod' hen sag-
read, excite hoe eons to kir him in • dual, since that
would here been flaking the honour of one child and the
lives of the others, the learned counsel went on to contend
that Mme. do Jenfosse was rider the neareity of prevent-
ing Guth* frees knew about the chateau at night,
end that the only means by which the could do
so was by isatructiag her gensekeeper to fire at
him; yet biers airing the order to-do iso, She had caused an
examluiag maturate to he asked if she bad the right to do
It, and was answered In the afinnesive. Arriving at the
shooting of Guillot, M. Farmer said that his client had
been reproached foe not having given assistance to him
wises he fell wounded. "Bat," he Joked, " whet could she
dot Was it possible that she mold have the bleeding Italy
brought Into the chateau, to be seen b Blanche and the
novenae P Beside; she was , and she had trial
to cos of the witnesses, Oh, do everything! Act as the
master here I I am the most unfortunate of women, the
most afflicted of mothers I' What had happened," matiossi
the learned gentleman, "was a great misfortune, aellealthirst
was it sot mated ty the victim himself ? flan yea asthma!
that he took pleasure in branding ohm innocence at MAK der
lathes.? liars yon not seen that though he pre-
boded to love her, he had described her to every OM he
knew, even persons of the lowest class of society, as • most
abandoned character ? And yet she novo, gave him the
slightest encouragement, none' she never wrote him • word,
p foe, U she had, It would have limn produced. But suppose
that she were guilty—" Here Mine. de Jenfoem ex-
claimed, "Oh, weer; sae." " I beg your prim, madame,
but let me suppose for a moment that Blanche was guilty,
and men that I say that the mother was Ins* the necessity
of defendieg her. She, however, was pure, and was it not
the duty of her mother to protect her character r' M.
'Mayer then proceeded to argue that Mow. de tallow, in
cream Ouillot to be fired at, was acting in her loglll=
defence, inasmuch as Article 329 4 the Penal
says that " riddance to • forcible entrance, a hoe-
tumid entrenos," is legitimate ; and he again asked
If what was justifiable for protection of property .was
rot infinitely more so for the protection of • daughtre
honour? lie reminded the jury that a hueland has In all
countries In the world the right of killing his wits toad
In adultery, and her lover as well; and he emertod that •
parent had an equal right, and the solemn duty of esfesillag
the honour of her children. After speaking in
tern of Wills (Mello, and expressing regret forte,
he said in 001:1CIUSi011 I know that you :11 declare that
so mina, no offence has been committed—that no culpability
Milli •' but lifter your verdict, what will be the existesce ad
this mother and her daughter ? I see in it sorrow Inesoeble
sod of inuneunninle depth 1 Oh, you will feel as Ido that
there le • victim who &warms more regret thud
—more even than his unhappy who. heart I preeg
Ood may te spared the torture. whk:b mum that of -this
mother to bleed! ' When the learned gentians& rammed
Ida seat, load °deed " Bravo I bravo I " broke forth from
all parts of the moat, which ware bat feebly rammed by the
President and the AdasoabsOmaraL
The power at M. Beirryee a abegmase conga pelncipely
the Whitt's of hielda seesaw ambas, nod so
mom ma cramp the ,ga aides tithe edict which it
sever fells to produce sari dos konsiee. Madame de:adore,
lamed, whose firmness threogloset thi nisi had been the
athyset d gems' mat* shed taws abaiadaally Ideas W.
.
• Berrygr sal doss. . •

A telegram from Errant, dated yeatatiey er.stgas, Asir
that rib& callosity was greater this ow. The primers
maintained the almost iMiglioaae Maki whisk tbay
stewed how tba OM. Mad d the pal Intl' .4..
of the deparaust al Or Itaka inn mestept fM.rWore.
M. De.claimpe (st the RIOS WO was brad ter Clesal
sod Kama tie heatioata ear. The aitutehrOgeseal

I had gabbed him spool to the prosecution; end, es the
vegan of the Fiend OMNIi wen not likely to be Ing, It
was thought thin the millet might be given late in the
man.