The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-26 00:00:00

GREECE.

An Austrian oorresporTienoe of Trieste, of July
19th, states that King Otho will leave Athens in as
days, and arrive in Trieste on tho 22nd or 24th.
A letter from Athens of the 13th, in the Itultspetr
dance of Brwoels, states that the monk Christophoras
has been arrested.

ITALY.
ROMAN STATES.

THE BRITISH CONSUL CALLED TO AC-
COUNT BY THE PAPAL GOVERNOR OF
ANCONA.

ROME, Joi.v 20.
Mr. Moore, our worthy and zealous consul at
Ancona, has been reprimanded by Monsignor Ainici,
papal governor of that city and commissary extra-
oidiaary for the province of La ?tierce, with rather
more asperity than the circumstances of the case
(which I narrate below) seem to hare warranted.
Ou the 13th inst. an Austrian steamer arrived at
Ancona from Trieste with a number of passengers on
board, many of whom had come to attend the
great fair of Sinigaglia, and a Mr. Davis.
an Englishman, who came to visit abrother of
his, who is mentally afflicted and under charge
of Mr. Moore, after which he was to leave again
by the same steamer on the following day.
From the steamer Mr. Davis wrote to Mr. Moore,
informing him that having inadvertently omitted
getting the l'apal consul's visa affixed to his passport
at Trieste, he feared that difficulties might ensue and
objection. be made to his landing. Similar cases
have frequently occurred at Ancona, and Mr. Moore
has always arranged them with the local authorities
without any difficulty, by allowing the immediate
disembarkation of such persona, and afterwards writ-
ing • letter explaining the innocent cause of
such informalities ; therefore, on receipt of
Mr. Davis's letter (time being very precious
to him) tho consul started instantly for the
director of polio 's office, which ho unfortunately
found closed. Ho then repaired to the steam agency
office, to see if he could arrange anything there for
the passenger, but found that office shut also. Mr.
Moore next went on board the steamer, and caw his
friend, who was under no restriction whatever, verbal
or written. The captain recommended him by all
means to leave the ship, so that Mr. Davis stepped
into the boat with Mr. Moore, who took him to
the Health-office, and asked the officers there
whether there was any restraint upom Mr. D.'s
movements, to which they replied that they had
nothing whatever to do with him. The consul, re-
solved to leave no stone unturned to set his friend's
brief stay in Ancona upon • regular footing,
then conducted him to the police-office once more,
but, finding it still closed, he repaired to the Dele-
gation, the palace of the papal governor. The fates
decidedly frowned upon Mr. Moore's efforts. His
reverence wu at dinner, and the consul, unwilling
to disturb him for what he considered so trivial
a matter, arranged with his (the consul's) secretary
to give notice of it to the police when the office
opened at eight o'clock, p. m., in order to settle there
the kind of letter or guarantee that might be re-
quired to repair the slight error in the passport.
Next morning, to his utter astonishment, he re-
ceived from the governor the following arrogant
communication, which sufficiently chews the anmaus
of the ecclesiastical authorities and their constant
readiness to pick quarrels with British representa-
tives and subjects:
It has been reported to me that amongst the passengers
who arrived yesterday on board the Austrian Lloyd's
steamer, coming Inns Trieste to Binigaglia, there was a
British subject, named John G. Davis, who was forbidden
to disembark on account of his passport wanting the rise :of
the pontifical consul. Notwithstanding this, I hose been
informed that you, sir, presented yourself on board the
said steamer, and bringing the passenger back with
you, introduced hint into the city. I do not know
how to account for such an infraction of the pratique reru-
lotions having happened. You know better than any other
person that it is an international right and custom with all
governments to prohibit any passenger from disembark-
ing who has not the required consular rue. If my
memory does not deceive me, it appears to me
that every time that you have hitherto requested
permission for the disembarkation of English subjects not
provided with rum, 1 have granted it to you, although
contrary to the regulations. Alter all this, therefore, not
knowing how to qualify the step of taking from on board
the steamer a passenger not furnished with regular papers,
and whose disembarkation was consequently prohibited
nail my intentions were known, I now demand from y,,u
an account of the occurrence, reserving to myself, atter
your reply, to return to the very serious argument treated
of in my present official letter.
In this communication—than which a more dicti:
tonal one could hardly have been written to one of
his own subalterns—Monsignor Amid appears to
have entirely overlooked the efforts made by the
British consul to accomplish the disembarkation of
his friend, with the knowledge and consent of the
police authorities. Mr. Moore replied in civil
terms, simply narrating the facts of the
ease, and then waited to see whether the
governor returned to his senses or not,
It is absurd to call the landing of tho passengers a
strange "infraction of the pratiquc regulations," as
he was not called to appear before any authority, nor
were any steps whatever taken to show him, or the
consul, that he was prohibited f ore landing. His
remaining on board at all, after the passengers and
goods were landed, was always an actilof tolerance on
the part of the Austrian captain.
What chance is there of harmony existing
between governments when important commands
are entrusted to men like Monsignor Amici, who
magnifies so trifling an affair into a " very serious
argument " (grarusimo argornento)? Meanwhile
his reverence has become the laughing-stock of the
town by the circulation of his letter, and several of
the foreign consuls who have perused it are highly
disgusted at its tone.