The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-10 00:00:00

FRANCS.

PARA Yaws 9.
The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The
statement that, in consequence of the agitation in
the Quartier Latin, the students of the Polytechnic
School had been confined to the building, is in-
correct."

ELECTORAL HE SE.

FILITK/FORT-ON-THE-XAINE, liUicrt 8.

In to-clay's sitting of the Federal Diet the repre-
sentatives of Austria and Prussia proposed the re-
establishment in Electoral Besse of the Constitu-
tion of 1831, in due conformity with the Federal
laws, and with the proviso also that the rights of
the Estates should be respected.

OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL.
QUEZNEfrOWN, MAsca 9.

The Royal Mail steamer America arrived here at
4.40 p.m. today, embarked the mails, passengers,
and latest telegrams, and proceeded at 6 p.m. for
Halifax and Boston. All well.

ITALY.

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FLORENCE, Mason 1.
Much has been said of protestant proselytism
in Italy, which doubtless is progressing fairly, and
in many cases is doing efficient work. At
Naples meetings are held four times a week by
thepo-called Italian Evangelists, in aroom off Toledo.
The expounder of the new doctrines is the advocate
Vincenzo Albarella d'Afllitto, who has as many, it
is said, as 200 hearers to whom he expounds the
Gospel. He is reputed to be an eloquent teacher.
In his discourses he makes frequent allusions to the
political state of Italy, her late innovations, and
future hopes. He writes tracts which are widely
circulated ; and is vice-president of a society of ope-
ratives, of which Garibaldi is the patron. Nor is
the Signor Manilla d'Afffitto alone in his good work.
The Marchese Creel is another workman in the same
field. The latter is also superintendent of a very
important institution, a school for Neapolitan
children, girls. They are at present 30 in number.
The school is provided with a very good teacher
and au assistant. The girls, who are from 10 to
13 years old, are taken from the lower classes of
society. The parents have often had a hard battle
to fight with their own priests, who have inter-
fered to prevent the young lambs from stray-
ing from their flock. But the advantages of
the new style of teaching, in its bearing on
the whole conduct and character of the children,
have been so evident that they have courageously
borne the brunt of priestly complaints. There are,
it is said, as many as 400 priests in Naples asso-
ciated for the purpose of eft's:ding, if possible, cer-
tain reforms in the discipline of their own church.
The work of reform at Naples amongst the lower
ceders is of extraordinary importance, for their
condition socially is more backward, in many re-
spects, than may be deemed possible in the more
cultivated world.
In Florence, where the charm of manner and
polish of cultivation exist, even where there is a
lack of intrinsic virtue—in 'Florence, amongst the
sober-minded and measured Tuscans of the country
districts, the new evangelical religion (as is well
known) has thriven more vigorously than else-
where in Italy. In the Etruscan city, the inde-
pendent Italians (as the adepts may be called, for
they belong to no special branch et the protestant
community, and have a ministry of their own)
have schools for their children where the
Scriptures are taught. Schools for both sexes
have been organised by signor Ferretti, him-
self a zealous and able evangelical teacher.
Religious and moral instruction is imparted
in these schools. They are attended by. 150 day
scholars, and by large numbers in the evening. M.
'Ferretti intends, if possible, to enlarge the institu-
tion, so as to impart the new teaching to 500
scholars. On Saturdays, in the evening, M. Ferretti
' holds his meetings on the ground floor of the
Palazzo Borgheee. The gathering is held in a
spaciousand undecorated chamber, with seats placed
in rows for the accommodation of listeners. The
• evangelist Ferretti performs the simple service
after the fashion of the primitive Christians.
After a silent prayer, a hymn is given forth, which
is joined in by the congregation. Next a chapter
from the Gospel or Epistles is read and expounded,
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ADMIRALTY. MARCH B.—APPOIRIIVINIS.--CoM-
mender F. W. Richards, to the Dart, commissioned.
Lieutenant': W. B. Stubbs, to the Narcissus; A. K.
Kay, to the Dart ; A. R. Tiuklar, and F. Durrant, to the
Cambridge.
Second Muter J. R. Osborn, to the Dart.
Chief Engineer H. W. Blake, to the Indus, for service in
the Buzzard.
Engineer J. lAnglands, to the Indus, for service in the

Master's ssistant W. F. Strong, to the Bait.
Assistant Surgeon S. Sweetman, to the Forte.
Assistan► Paymaster in charge C. B. Hills, to the Dart.
Seoonlclaar Assistant Engineer J. Barber, confirmed hi
the Asia; and W. Jones, confirmed in the Warrior.
Mr. H. De B. Devereux Lae been nominated to a naval
cadetship.

PORTSMOUTH, Maim 8.
It is reported that the Victoria and Albert, paddle
yacht, Captain G. H. Seymour, C. 8., will sail for Gravesend
about the 18th instant, to embark her Royal Highness the
Crown Princess of Prussia. for conveyance to Antwerp.
We understand that the Defence, 18, iron screw yarn,
Captain Powell, C. 8., will shortly proceed on a cruise to
test her seagoing qualities.

CHATHAM, MARCH 9.
Thu appointment of Major-General Townsheud
to the coloonley of the 25th, Xin's Own Borderers, will
place a good service pension of 1001. per annum at the dis-
posal of the Duke of Cambridge.

ROYALNAYAL RESEBYL—To be Sub-Lieutenant,
Alexander Day Harris.
THE VOYAGE OF THE GUARDS TO CANADA.—
In our impression of the 25th January we copied, from
the Plymouth Journal, a letter purporting to be from •
sergeantmajor of the lit Battalion Grenadier Guards, re-
Wive to the voyage of the Adriatic from Southampton to
Halifax Nova Scotia. We have received • letter from
Mouton:a, signed George Baker, in which the writer Metes
that he is the only eargeantmaior in that battalion, that
be was not the author of the letter in question, and that
be has no knowledge of it, or the person by whom it was
written.

slightly elevated platform. His teaching is sim-
ple and impressive. His words, without rising
to any flight of eloquence, are clearly adapted
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are now here in Florence amongst the useful workers
in the new field. These autonomists have a second
place of worship in the "Via Borgo Vittoria Em-
manuelle." Their number altogether is calculated
to be between 300 and 400. Their teachers, besides
Ferretti areltiltailt. Qualtieri (formerly a priest),
and the Sig. • They have no regular ministry,
but the most talented amongst them naturally rise
to the surface, and assume the teaching of the flock.
At Leghorn a sturdy battle was fought for religious
freedom by a young Waldensian pastor, Rihitti by
name, who was twice banished from Leghorn (against
the constitutional law of the country), and twice
recalled through the intervention of the Baron
Rioasoli. He has since his return courageously
maintained his footing as a minister of the gospel,
sad is now generally bald in respect for his reso-
lateness and itpirit by those very people who had
wished to persecute and drive him away.
Leghorn has now one of the most thriving coupe-
gations in Italy. It is said, on good authority, that
in the month of June last 11,651 tracts and
puanbllcattlioensnwuem sold
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the rate of 48 per month. At Pisa the
Independent Evangelists have met with con-
tinued repulsion, and not unfrequently with
insult and aggression. The reason for this
lies in the ill-will borne towards them by
the students, the all-domieant class in that
otherwise quiet university town. The modern
political theories of the latter render them hostile
to any reformation which is not initiated by the
Italians themselves, and is not to be sought for
in the bosom of their own church. Allowing
amply for the amount of good operated, and the
progress made by the sect of the new evangelists
in Italy, it must in general be admitted that the
Italian mind is too little occupied on religious
matters to care for any save political reform.
Religion in this country has for centuries past been
rather a matter of expediency and outward cere-
mony than a requirement of the heart and con-
science. A profound disgust against the arts of
the priesthood, who are generally corrupt, has given
to the cultivated classes a natural horror against the
ministers of their creed, on whom the teaching
of its precepts solely and entirely devolve&
Rather than submit to the rules of fana-
ticism, the better educated oftentimes kept
themselves aloof altogether from religious
pra"tices. Many became accustomed to look upon
mass-goers as priest-ridden Jesuits, or pharisaical
asp to worldly employment through the as-
sumption of a fervour which was anything but
sincere. Thus has there been a division amongst
the Italians into three parties : the self-seeking
priests, indianatical prelates, holding to dominion,
and caring little for the true faith ; the utterly
indifferent on religions matters (this perhaps being
the largest class) ; and a few simple souls, sincere
and fanatical, who hold on blindly to the past,
fear all innovation, and adhere to the temporal
power through terror of change. The Italians are
not what is generally called a religiously minded
people in their natural turn of thought. The
imagination of the Italians is of an artistical,
not of an ethical nature. little do they
care, little have they ever oared for the
involved questions of theolosT. They are by
nature a practical people, and like practical enjoy-
ment, and the application of their faculties to
practical uses. The well-poised intelligence and
happily constituted frame of the Italians render
them a fit people, in the hands of • free govern-
ment, to develop the highest powers of the human
intellect and mind, without fear that they should
be carried off either by fanaticism, or overwrought
by enthusiasm, in their worldly or religious affairs.

The Patric says that the nomination of Baron
Ricasoli as President of the Chamber of Deputies
(vice Batumi, Prime Minister) is considered certain.
♦ Turin letter of March 2 in the Temps meals
that among the guarantees claimed by Garibaldi
from the new cabinet is a stipulation that he shall
have the command in chief of the army of the
South, which was given by Baron Ricasoli to
General Sirtori. This army, now consisting only
of its cadres, would at once be raised to 100,000
men by an appeal from Garibaldi.
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The Marquis Biracque de Viache, proprietor of
the clerical journal the Ansonia, died at Turin on
March 7. This is a great loss to the papal press.
He was wealthy, and cheerfully paid the frequent
fines which the Armenia incurred. It is appre-
hended that his heirs will be less disposed to suffer
for the cause.

The following is the allocution addressed by the
Sovereign Pontiff to the Lent preachers :
Bach year we meet again on the same day, and each year
we promise ourselves that the following one the griefs
which afflict us shall be passed ; we lull ourselves with
sweet hopes, the realisation of which is long in arriving.
Meantime the evil continues its ravages; the revolution
does not cease to seduce and corrupt, to destroy, and over-
throw. Nevertheless, it must also be said, and I have
already made you to understand it, God can cause good to
oome out of evil, and there is good in the misfortunes which
we suffer. It is by trials that the elect appear, and It is
by trials that the wicked are known. Times of revo-
lution are like the barn ill which God threshes
his wheat ; the good seed remains, and the straw
is separated to be trodden under foot, and thrown t 3 the
flames. (The preceding year the Holy Father had com-
pared revolution to the waves of the see, the church to •
rook, and Use wicked to the foam driven by the tempest.)
Let us pray that the evil day may be shortened ; but you
especially who are called on to exercise an immense in.
!thence on the populations, preach, strengthen the good,
bring back those who have been led away, and if pos-
sible the seducers themselves ' • them latter will come
perhaps to vetch you in your discourses. Your must sodas-
sour to catch them. There is a specious objection made to
my government—that it extends over a small state, and
that my subjects, in accepting • greater lord than myself,
will have lees to pay. That is a deplorable
illusion, ands • matter on which, should the case
arrive, each should endeavour to enlighten those with whom
he may have to do. As to the dreams of Italian unity, of
the resurrection of a past Empire, they are mere chimeras—
impoesibilitiee which an only deceive men out of their
senses, and on which it is hardly allowed to pause.
The Central National Committee of Venice has
addressed the following proclamation to the people
of that city :

Yeast Lusa! A rumour is current that the government
will allow nimbi to be worn in order to render the last days
of the carnival more brilliant. We remand you of our
former proclamation : prove that you have understood us
by abstaining from all joyful demonstrations. Recollect that
the oppressed country will call those to account who insult
her grief.

THE CITY OP BAIZIMORII STEAM SHIP.—LIVER-
POOL, ESATURDAT.—The anxiety, which for tho Last few days
was Considerable in Liverpool, respecting the fate of the
abee vessel happily subsided on Saturday. when the an-
nounoetneut was made known that the ship was off Holy-
head on her way to Liverpool, having bad her propeller Ms-
abled, as we anticipated on Saturday, by the me. All the
paseengers on board are well, and nothing the worse for
their long voyage of 21 days from New York.
CAPE MALL& —The Athena, Captain Clarke, Car
Mail steamer, oa board et which the month's mails or
Ascension, St. Helena, and the °ape were embarked at
Plymouth on Thursday evening. wee obliged to remain
there through the violence of the gale blowing from the
S.W. until Saturlay morning, when the gale having some-
what abated she left at 6.30 a.m., and proceeded on her
voyage. The lull is the weather lasted until Sawturday even-
ing, when the gale taros on again, and blew fury heavily
through that night and on Snaday. A supplemental mail of
les hags was embarked on board the Athens on Friday, and
another of seven bags reached Plymouth on Saturday morn.
img, but too late to be sent on board the Athens.