The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-29 00:00:00

0, DECEMBER 20, ,11152:__4

I quality Se the best of the productions of the environs
of Bonteam
Nhiebtlf•gaido, the °eget' of the modgeato liberal
party, raomi up, smog the eriuses of Bravo
Murillo% pirernosent, thirty capital Wreathes of
the nonatitation, all to the pergat of the rights of
Ithe aerts&vAl many of them origialitag
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rate forty-sem extraordinary •
amostating b the reamers van of 1,772,027 L, t
liquidatioa the wefts. eg Prance, 0f.000.0004
I he-ragihiiielit, and e,-"w of others, besides
eine railway M.paatay without public edjudica-
tics.

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ITALY.
A letter from 'Moreno* of the 20th says :
The sitting for the adjudbiation of the Three per Cent.
Tuscan lan of one *Mee seek place to-day. The mini-
mum filed by the peenement wee 66. The tenders which
ware equal*, sr shovelled ram MOM seven in amber,
Omealag topethertfaM teepees out of 16,600, which had
ham pat up fee adindiestlea. The tenders below the al-
einem of the government were two, representing 70 OM-
POLL This result is uatortaaata, bat it had been foresees.
The affair could neither suit the capitalists of the country,
am the public, nor foreign speculators. The chambers of
commerce of norm:a sad of Leghorn, who have given a
proof of reel patriotism on this occasion, had made an
appeal to the publie ; that appeal has not been re-
sponded to, and it is inconceivable that the ad-
ministration of the flaancts shouid have cloaca fur the
adjudication the very period when money is tho most mares
in the market on account of the wants of the end of tbs
year. The Mullaney of Finance broke up the sitting by
annotating that fresh tandem alight be presented until to-
morrow. Yesterday the minimum of the government was
a secret; now it is not so. The game is not, therefore,
equal.
The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the 23rd,
states that the encyclical letter against the Civil
Marriage Bill, which wes read last week from all
the pulpits of Turin, was signed by the Archbishop
of Turin, the Bishops of &luxe°, Alba, Acqui, Ivrea,
Asti, Mondovi, Cori, Saga, and Pignerol, and the
Capitular Vicar-General Fossano. The bishops of
the island of Sardinia have also framed a declara-
tion in accordance with the letter of the above
prelates.
The letter reminds the faithful that no law of the
civil power can ever change that which has been or-
dained and settled concerning marriage by the
church, and especially by the Council of Trent ; and,
moreover, that any person who should profess, de.
fend, or teach aught contrary to the doctrines of the
church concerning marriage, would be by that fact
separated from the communion of the faithful, and
exposed to all the dreadful penalties fulminated
against heretics in the constitution AUCtUrC/11
.telki. Further, any one contracting marriage
in any other form than that prescribed by the
church will incur the greater excommunication,
and be deprived of all share in the sacraments both
daring life and at the hour of death, unless they
shall have previously retracted their errors, repelled
the injury and scandals which they have caused, and
either legitimated their marriage according to the
preemptions of the church, or separated themselves
from the person whom the church canuot but regard
as a concubine. In like manner, any. person thus
transgressing and dying impenitent, will be deprived
of ecclesiastical sepulture. Children born of mar-
riages not acknowledged by the church, are illegiti-
mate.

Some elucidations of the fears of the Austrian go-
vernment and its intentions towards its Italian pos-
sessions, will be found in the letter of our Berlin
correspondent.

TURKEY.

The correspondent of the Trieste Gazette writes
from Constantinople :—Prince Kallimaki, irritated
at his recal from Paris, and the nomination of Vely
Pacha to tho same post, due solely to Mustapha
Puha'', gold, has informed the Porte that he not
only renounces his barren principality of Samos, but
also divests himself of the character of a Turkish
subject. The Prince is possessed of ample inde-
pendent means, and doubtless feels more vexed at
being withdrawn from Paris just as the glories of
the empire commence, than does Prince Caradja,
who, like him, hu been recalled from Berlin. Just
now, however, the star of the Fanoriots is not in the
ascendant, and almost all the foreign posts which
they have hitherto filled will be occupied by pure-
blooded Turks.

INDIA.
THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We hare received our Overland Indian despatches,
via Marseilles, by the Ceredoc. The following is the
principal portion of our Bombay correspondent's
letter :
• BOMBAY, Dim. 3.

News from Hannah oomes down to the 18th Nov.
It has long been currently reported that General
Godwin had tired the patience of the Govenor-
General by his dilly-dallying, and that he had been
told the war would be more speedily brought to a
close and Barmah conquered were he out of the
country altogetber. How far this may or may not
be true of course no one can tell ; but certainly never
was general more unanimously voted unfit for the'
conduct of a war than has been General Godwin
throughout India. Last accounts from Rangoon state
that on the 18th Nov. the general was in person to
have left for the town of Pegu, with a force consisting
of 300 men from each of the fusilier corps (Bengal
and Madras), 350 of the sth M. N. 1., 30 artillery.
men with two 24 lb. howitzers, and 60 sappers—in
all 1,030 men,—on board the steamers Bentinck,
Nerbuddah, Damooda, and Mahanuddy, with some
gun-boats from the ships of war. The expedition
would, it wu expected, be away only a few days—
the geseral at least—for it is likely the force will be
left to guard the town, out of which it will be re-
membered the Burmese troops were driven on the
30th May last by a party of men (230) from the
Phlegethon : unwisely the town was aban-
doned immediately when tie brave Burmese
returned and treated the people to the most
dreadful extent,—and ever since then the inha-
bitants have ceased praying for our protection.
All things seem working on to the same end—the
annexation of the country as far as Prome, and the
only surprise here is, that the proclamation to that
effect has not ere now been published. On General
Godwin!' return from Pegn he proceeds to Promo :
and what follows next seems matter of un-
certainty. The ex-eoeinueder-in-chief of the
Burmese rabble, and the son of the ex-go-
vernor of Rangoon, with their families,remain quietly
under our protection, and the soldiers above Prome
are ready to run the moment we move out ; but the
movement is not made, because General Godwin is
not himself at Proms, and prohibited General Sir J.
Cheape from acting on the offensive during his ab-
sence ! A party of the 40th 8.N.1., under Colonel
Handsoombe and Captain Beecher, on their way up
to Prone, landed at Henzadah, and drove out a large
body of the enemy, killing some thirty or forty of
them; the cowards fled in all directions, though
numerous enough to have swallowed up every
man of the 40th, and the two gallant commanders to
boot! Since then a party from the 40th and 51st,
with three guns, have been sent down from Proms to
occupy the poet. The small sergeant's party of
manure which formerly held it had been compelled
to seek safety in their boats when 3,000 Burmese
soldiers made their a ce in its vicinity; and
these cowardly rascals fled before Colonel Hands-
come add his two or three hundred eopoys! Call
you this fighting ?—the thing is a satire on warfare
The idiot who was wasting his powder at us
from a position across the river at Prome, and
who had been nicknamed " Smoky Jack," had been
ousted, and his guns taken. He narrowly escaped
being captured. Some half score of his rabble were
slatn. Captain Randall, Madras Engineers, died of
cholera at Prom.; as also a few European soldiers.
Provisions were very wane, owing to the enemy in
the vicinity preventing the country people from
bringing in supplies! when a wing of the Royal Irish,
or 80th Foot, would scatter the rascals to the winds
before breakfast and bring in on their backs as much
se would give the entire force a good
FurZreenrd dinner to boot. About Rangoon also
the Barmen were playing similar pranks, and
becoming bolder daily, encouraged thereto by our
inaction,---and detachments of native infantry had
been stationed at Della, Pusendown, and Keenan- I
dine. Bands of robbers were ravaging the country,
—firing the villages and ill-using the people;
and the sooner the whole is annexed and taken
under oar protection the better it will be for all
parties—if we will not help:the inhabitants, they
may join with our enemies—at ?resent they are all
on our side so far as they dare. fho greater part of
the 4th Selkh locals had arrived at Rangoon
also the small party from the irregular cavalry
portion of the Ramghur Battalion.

SCINDE.
News from this quarter comes down to the 24th
November, The Commissioner and General Robert-
son had returned to camp from Manors Point. The
former had delayed his departure for the interior,
owing to the great amount of sickness prevailing

dew dm Wes. The general is said to be on the
point of leaving for the Cape; if au, probably Gene.
tai Somerset will succeed him. The Command-
me d Artillery, the collector and his deputy,
sad s few other officials, with their establish.
slab bad commenced their tours of inspection. The
awn& for the northwest who had arrived by the
Dakeet Argyle, were to leave by the ,tamer for
Mooltan about the 26th. The wing 64th Foot had
been ordered to quit Hyderabad forthwith—they
were nearly all sick and unfit fur duty. The 6:;d at
Kurrachee were nearly as bad, and numbers
of natives were dying daily in camp and
town. The 2nd Grenadiers (wing) had arrived
from Bhooj, and were about to move up the
river to Sukkur. The building for the Great Fair
was nearly completed : a rent of la. per month is to
be charged occupants for each yard of fronicee they
take. it is probably to see this fair opened that
Mr. Frere hu remained sh long, why should he
above others fear the sickness in the interior. The
weather was cool and pleasant, and the general
sickuess was therefore coueidered very unaccountable.