The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-13 00:00:00

BADEN.

M. Elehhardt, Frcnch Minister at Baden is dead.
M. .Incog has gone to St• asburg to confer with
Rahn t.4inver • :14 to the means of preventing
ismiLitious of the Rhine.

ITALY.
TUSCANY AND THE MADIAI.
FLORENCE, Nov. 3.
The failure of the Medial deputation communicated
is my last,was to have been anticipated both from the
influence of the Jesuits at court, and the mistaken
course adopted ray Lord Roden and his colleagues.
Os their arrival the English and protestant ministers
both hastened to Floccuce, with a view to render any
assistance that might be required of them, but found
their services declined.
The deputatiah, without any official introduction,
applied direct ly fur an audience of the !hike; thinking
thereby to keep themselves clear of any political
complication; but they might have foreseen, that, ;
without diplomatic support, they would only be
treated as the reprementativra of that very even-
geileal propaganda which it is the object of the
T 4,4,411 government to put down. The audience ,
le, rehired, and the second memorial of the
deputation unceremoniously returned. Lord Barden ,
obtained prem./non, but with great difficulty, to see
Rea Nladiai, who is in • prison at Lucca, surrounded
by the lowest and most degraded clam of her own
ors, and subject to the prison regulations of diet, ,
which to a person accustomed, u she has been, to ,
the hymn; of English families, must not be a little ,
yskive. In the way of indulgence, she has been
wed as a substitute for coffee (a luxury formally ,
wellibited) a compound of water and grated bread, ,
lasoured with oil. She dines on salt fish and vege-
tables, soh the additioi of broth on Sundays. Meat
b but seldom idioms'.
A hint has been given that, as it is customary to
publish au act of grace for venial offences on the
birth of a prince ;or prince., the Madiai may pos-
sibly Is liberated after the accouchement of the
Grand 'Nebel's, now approaching; but any hope
founded upon tl.is will probably prove delusive, for
in the eyes of the clerical party the criminality of
the Hiseiri has been aggravated by the sympathy
their ease has excited.
As persecution fur religion always defeats its own
end, plotestantism is here rapidly increnaing, and
the Jesuits arc every day more and more alarmed
and ezeperated at the growing spirit of revolt.
Their first attempt to check it was the arrest of an
Italian printer, fur printing copies of the New Tes-
tament, 011 arrest which gave rapid circulation to •
large edition—the police agents themselves realizing
handsome profits by the surreptitious sale of the
copies seized. The next step was to send Captain
Pakenhatu out of the country, as the foreign enemy
supposed tube engaged in sowing the tares.
Chia ILS followed by • police edict prohibiting
Italians num attending the services of the Swiss
protestant church. The edict being neglected two
Welch listen ministers, with Count Guieciardini and
several of his friends,:were expelled the state, the
count only escaping imprisonment in a fortress
situated in the pestilential marshes of the Maremma
through the prompt and energetic interference of
Mr. 'hid. A multitude of minor arrests succeeded,
and among them that of the Madiai, who were kept
in separate prisons for nine months without trial
until a charge could be concocted against them.
Suborned witnesses were then brought forward
to prove that Francesco Medial and his
wife had read lessons out of the gospel
of Bishop Calvin, and had taught that there
were but eight commandments instead of ten.
Francewo Madiai is at Volterra, where his health
has been so much impaired that he is now in the
infirmary of the prison. A little book has been
pablisheti for 2s. &Ladled "The prisoners of Hope,"
giving an account of the trial, the profits of which
arc to be devoted to the re-establishment in life of
Mediai and his wife should their release he obtained.
It is to he hoped, for the sake of the sufferers, that
the work will meet with some encouragement from
the public.
Ile remain in expectation of further and more
rigorous measures to put a stop to the protestant
movement ; the government is aware that the pre-
sence of the deputation has inspired the protestants
here with renewed confidence in the ultimate triumph
of their principles, and that an address expressive of
this sentiment, emanating from a very numerous
body, and thanking their Christian friends of dif-
ferent states for their exertions in favour of the
Medial was placed in the hands of Lord linden
before his departure.
A report of the attempted assassination of M.
Baldasseroni has already reached you, but you may
not perhaps have learnt that M. Haldeman°oi makes
to secret of his conviction that the blow came from
the Jesuits. At the present moment they are en-
deavouring to make it a foundation for a wide-spread
charge of conspiracy, for which only a colourable
pretext ass before wanting.
A letter from Florence, in the Opistione of Turin,
of the Nth, states that • new Taman lean, of 70 mil-
lions of franca, is spoken of, a great part of which is
to be applied to the aggrandisement of the port of
Leghorn.

ROME, Nov. 4.
After the late awful butchery at Ancona, a second
scene of the same kind was to have taken place, but
the artillerymen, disgusted at the part they had been
forced to play in it, protested 11, a man against un-
dertaking the office of ezeondowon again ; so that
Monsignor tmici has Wm Slily& to write to Rome
and wait for instruction. bake antber set of cul-
prits an be seat to this last amount. Vincenzo
Rocehi, alias the Moor, after tainving his inn of
bullets, spun round three dime, megiming to s di's
tine, but soon recovered Ys balm* mit Ingehed
back rcrolutely to his brow series, where 1m was
dually dcrpatebed. Bisorlid retied to bo
and requested to be allowed to gin the sigtistr.
Others called oat " Eraser a fratelli Ilandiera
" In Petrie &e.

bird Shrewsbury's servants were stopped by the
briKratols last week, near (latent°, whilst on their
rowl to Naples, and a maid servant of the party has
been extremely ill at that city ever since, from the
fright. His lordship escaped being ransomed by
going down by sea. We have, however, some hopes
of gt DOI rid of these troublesome marauders by the
loyertuitt revelations and extensive awaits which
bore led% taktn place. The band which infested
the noidn.rn road and the satirises of Viterbo, has
beet broken up by the murder of one of the accom-
plices, by his father and brother, in • dispute
waving from the division of some booty. The de-
cea,.,ll as in love with a young peasant
gill who carne unexpectedly upon the father and
broth. r as they were about to bury the corpse. The
murderers fled panic struck, and the girl went at
once to the town of Itonciglione, and denounced
atm to the yendarmes, who soon arrested them, and
from their revelations several other suspected indi-
viduals of Itoneiglione, Vetmlla, and Viterbo.
Thaw' who adopted the road to Civita Vecchia for
the lb. ;arc of thew exploits have been arrested, in
great part through the denouncements of one of
their ,-oomplices, who was accidentally stopped on
the and by the gendarmes, and found to have a
stiletto concealed about his person. One of these
s!oethies was discovered concealed in a ditch, oppo-
site Mr. Freeborn's villa, where he, no doubt, pro-
posed pitying a nocturnal visit, if tho bull-dogs on
gusrd wouid allow him.
The disastfoos result of the protestant mission in
hslf of the Madiais is occupying universal atten-
tem in that city as well as here, and the preeipita-
bee of the English part of the deputation is generally

condemned as having contributed to the failure of
the whole. The bigotry and obstinacy of the Grand
Duke need no additional spur, bet even were he in-
clined to give way the suggestions of the Propaganda,
and the influence of Austria would always more than
counterbalance the tolerant veMonstranime of pro.

testiest essesiations and the betre d the /Lieiget
Prelim I shall revert eosin to this stair, and
maths the impression it has passed at Rose se
soon es it lee hese brought to a ccesission.
The roma eft Pilatimehridr, which so
often, ender the dsesmiedsa et Peale Rotto, tempts
the pencil d the artist in Ike" is about to exchange
picturesquarei for utility, by a suspension-bridge
being thrown over that portion which was carried
' sway by an inundation of the Tiber in Michael
Awrio's time, according to that great man's pre-
diction. M. Bandies, the French engineer, is now in
lull possession of the premises, after having been
kept waiting for several months by the obstinacy of
• man whu had established himself on the entire
part of the bridge for a rent of twu dollars a-year to
the government, and ri slated all legal ejectment.

NAPLES, Nov. 4.
Whilst there is a French army in Rome, Italy will
be agitieed. Louis Napoleon's return to Paris, with
its attendant events, brought his Sicilian hlajesty
back from Sicily precipitately; so much so, indeed,
that Ferdinand 11. did not visit his loving subjects
at Palermo, a city which is mid to be more devoted
to the royal rule than the half-burnt and half-
bombards d towns of Catania and Messina, cities that
have made their sovereign an altar of love, if the
official reports be correct. In Naples it is believed
that Louis Napoleon has called upon the Pupe to
place the crown upon his head. The Pope
is in a strait, and would gladly hold • rim
roes confab with his Sicilian Majesty: but the
agents of the Protector of Holy Places ' are equally
jealous of holy persons, and the Pope, I am assured,
will not be allowed to visit his old nest at Gaeta.
The King is, therefore, expected to enter the Roman
States, it matters can be satisfactorily arranged. The
government here, front all I can learn, is by no
means confident about Louis Napoleon's peace pro-
testation.. The liberation of so many political pri-
soners, and the relaxation of the police severities, are
supposed to emanate from the position of French
affairs. The portfolio of the late Minister' of Police,
Pecchenedn, is still vacant, and • new combination
of the ministry is expected.
Two English engineers have arrived in Naples,
and are now employed in tracing the proposed line
of railway between the capital and Brindisi. It
appears the reports I have forwarded to you on this
subject have given great offence in certain quarters,
and that the Da4 tetra is charged with seeking to
check a useful and profitable operation of commerce.
If the company interested look carefully and dispas-
sionately at the hints thrown out, they will perhaps
I find in what has been said matter for consideration,
interesting both to themselves and the public. If I
mistake not the gentlemen now employed in tracing
the line will report the impossibility. of exe-
cuting the work at the mileage price which
the Neapolitan government propose to gua-
rantee. They will find, too, that very
Neapolitan capital will be forthcoming, and that a
great portion of the nearly 300 miles must be
completed with English money. The existing lines
of Castellammtre and Caserta are no temptations for
Neapolitans to invest in railways. Look at the his-
tory of continental railways generally : a prospectus
appears, the towns and number of inhabitants are set
forth all very promising, and in addition • govern-
ment guarantees the shareholders a per center.
Front such data the English public invest their
money—they calculate from English experience in
railways—from English enterprise, and English faci-
lities of making a railway useful. But suppose the
land through which a foreign railway cuts its lines
mast pay 20 per cent. to the state when it grows
produce, will the railway bring such land into general
cultivation ? Suppose the ports touched by a railway
have a custom-house which imposesduties on foreign
goods so high that the mass of the people cannot
think of bringing them—surely the utility of a railway
under such circumstances is greatly circumscribed.
Suppose the people are an anti-locomotive people,
and have to be taught to travel. If such be the
case, I repeat, continental railway statistics are no
data for English speculation. These are the
difficulties which I point out, not to impede the com-
pletion of a railway which will unite the Levant,
Egypt, Malta, and form the great Mediterranean
line, but to guard against impracticable engage-
ments, for which the public pay. If the English
company weigh honestly all the difficulties of the un-
dertaking, and obtain a just guarantee, with a prolon-
gation of time to complete the works, they will come
into the market with • ;itemising speculation. As
the matter now stands, with the existing articles of
concession, it is simply a speculation of engineers,:
iron-merchants, and all that family of the rail which
the British public his already pod enough to sup-
port both at home and abroad.