The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-09 00:00:00

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diameter being 6 lines. Some degree of fever took
place at night. A royal decree, dated yester-
day, states that the Queen, according to the
advice of the council, has resolved not to con-
voke the senate to try the aseasain, but that he is to
be given over to the ordinary tribunals. He has,
consequently, been tried to-day, and condemned to
suffer death by strangulation. The cause has, there-
fore, been sent before the supremo tribunal, who are
to judge him difinitively. A young advocate named
Urikuiota has been appointed to defend him, ho
having refused to defendlimeelf. The assassin is a
cousin of the famous curate Merino.

The assassin is nearly six feet high, stout-bodied,
dry, wrinkled countenance, very bright eyes, low
forehead, white hair. Ile left his convent in 1820.
He has a small annuity. Ho is said to be a good
classical scholar. It appears that he had sung mass,
and confessed and shrived several penitents on the
day ho committed the crime. During his examine'.
tion, every time that a witness was introduced, or
any person entered bearing any order of knighthood,
he pointed invidiously and sneeringly at his crosses
or elasps. The modenulos attempt to show that he'
is a republican, but all authentic accounts agree in
stating that he was an emigrant in times of liberal
government, in 1820. Ho was a captain in Don
Carlos's army, and came over to the Queen in the
celebrated convention of Vergarn. This news is
copied from the Gazeta Mailer. This newspaper has
been seized, in order that the provinces may not
know that the wretch is a Carliat. The government
wish it to bo believed that ho is a socialist. Many
priests have been insulted to-day in the streets.

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

In its sitting of the 3rd the Chamber of Deputies
of Turin commenced tho discussion on the modifica-
tions proposed by the government on the law on the
press, in order to prevent offences towards foreign
potentates. The government bill proposed that
periodicals might bo prosecuted without an official
demand on the part of the offended power, and tkat
the jury should be so formed as to offer better
guarantees than prevalent national antipathies for
the fair examination of questions of that nature.
The parliamentary commission, on the contrary, had
entirely rejected tho government bill, and pro-
posed ono of its own, in which it required
that a written declaration from the Minister of
Foreign Affairs should be produced in court by
the public prosecutor, to the effect that a diplo-
matic correspondence had taken place on the subject
of the incriminated article. M. Pescatore proposed
the previous question, in order to give time to ex-
amine a third bill, of which ho gave extempore out-
line. Count Cavour declared formally that the go-
vernment considered this a cabinet question, would
maintain its own bill, and resign if it were rejected.
M. Tecehio, notwithstanding this explicit declaration,
supported tho motion for tho previous question, and,
after going over the same ground as the former
orator, insinuated that government, in proposing
such a measure, yielded to pressure from without, an
imputation which Count Cavour indignantly repelled.
The previous question was ultimately rejected, and
the general discussion adjourned to the following
Iday.
1 _ _ ROMAN STATES.

The IMbats says : The Austrian government has just
offered to the pontifical government such great facilities for
the creation of a Roman army, that that measure may now
be considered as definitively decided on. The effective
strength of the pontifical troops was settled by the treaties
of 1815 at 20,000 men. The following is the plan in which
this matter will be carried cut. All the existing corps will
be disbanded and remodelled ; two regiments of • foreign
legion will be recruited for out of the country. Austria
lends the town of Como es the centre of formation for this
force ; each of these regiments will be 2,500 strong.
These five thousand men will none of them be
Italians, and, as far u can be, Swiss, Austrian, and
Bavarian. Baden will also furnish its contingent. Two
Roman or Italian regiments, each of 3,500 men, will
be formed from the remnants of the regiment of guards
and other troops which were in the course of organisation.
The gendarmery will be carried up to a strength of 6,000
men, 4,000 of whom are already enrolled ; a battalion of
foot ehasseurs, of from 1,000 to 1,600 strong, a regiment of
dragoons, and one or two brigade* of artillery will complete
this force of 20,000 men. The 6,000 gendarmes, the 6,000
Swiss and Germano, and the battalion of chasseure com-
manded by M. Alderon-Polomba, an officer devoted to the
holy see, will form an effective force which will ensure the
fidelity of the two native regiment', and will permit the
pontifical government to protect itself with its own troops.
The formation and the support of this army will entail
fresh charges on the treasury. The necessary outlay is
estimated at about two millions of piastres, which is
just about the amount of the deficit of last year."