The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-27 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

The government of the Netherlands has pined a
signal victory in the first division of the Chambers
this session. The old anti-ministerial Speaker has
been rejected, and the three candidates offered for
royal nomination are decided supporters of the
cabinet.

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 19th are destitute of
political news. The 11-eraklo states that the Queen
of Spain, to recompense the probity of a private
soldier named Crespo, who, having founds of
money, took it immediately to the commissary o the
district, has conferred upon him the cross of Maria
Isabel Luisa. The same journal informs us that con-
siderable sensation has been caused in Catalonia by
an action for defamation, brought by the editor of
the Actuaiidad against the Bishop of Barcelona. The
prelate having refused to obey the citation of the
alcalde, the latter has sentenced him to a fine, and
the plaintiff has carried his case before the supreme
tribunal of the province. The account lately given
in the Madrid journals of the destruction of a band
of brigands near Gibraltar is now contradicted. It
seems that the project for reforming the courts of
law will be adjourned indefinitely foe fear of sur-
charging the budget.
A telegraphic despatch from Madrid announces the
death of an old companion in arms of the Duke of
Wellington, General Castancs, Duke of Baylen, who
died on the 21th, at the age of 95. 'the battle of
Baylen, from which the general drew, a quarter of a
century later, his title of duke, was ono of the most
memorable defeats of the French in the Spanish war
of independence. Cantonal was free from tho jea-
lousies entertained by several of the Spanish com-
manders towards their foreign allies. He cheerfully
served under English commanders, and was beg of
all the Spanish generals liked by Wellington and his
brave army.
MADRID, lire. 21.
Orders have been given for the return of the court
to Madrid on October 2.

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

The poet Manzoni arrived at Chiavari on the 19th
from Genoa, on his way to Tuscany, on a visit to his
daughter. Marquis Camillo Pallavicini otfved him
hospitality in his noble mansion, and the municipa-
lity gave him a serenade.
The treaties for the protection of literary property
concluded between France and the Sardinian States
have just received their first application. At the
request of some publishers of Paris, the shops of se-
veral booksellers of Chambery were a few days since
visited by the police to search for pirated copies of
the Geography of the Abbe Gaultier, printed at
'Annecy by M. Burdet. 77 volumes were seized,
which were handed over to the Avocet. &cal to
await the proceedings which are to be instituted
against the printer.
We read en the private correspondence of the Offi-
cial (Mune of Savoy, of the 24th :
The Doke of Parma is at Vienn►. His neighbour, the
Duke of Modena, is at Naples. These two little sovereigns
of Central Italy seem to follow two opposite lines of policy.
As to Sir H. Bulwer, the British ambassador at Florence,
he is charged with a more important mission at Rome than
that of the deliverance of Edward Murray from the prisons
of Anions. In spite of the malaria, he has gone to Rome
so treat with the pontifical court. A concordat for Ireland
is in question. Religious affairs are of the utmost import-
ance fur the English. They desire to put an cod to the
troubles of catholic Ireland without severities, and without
using military force. The diplomatic dexterity of Sir
Henry Bulwer is relied upon to bring about this solution.
The Sardinian Gazette says:
It is with a real satisfaction that we announce the formal
conclusion of a peace on the hth of this month between the
shepherds of Tempio and Monti. This pacification of vio•
lent parties, who have reddened the soil with their blood,
111 due to the seal of M. Conte, Intendant of Temple.