The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-24 00:00:00

VENICE.

The Debate of to-day has the following letter from
Venice, dated the 15th :
I have again to announce to you numerous prosecutions.
You know already that a military cornmiasion of inquiry is
charged to commence the trial of many Venetians, excellent
and distinguished patriots—the Advocates Clement Fon-
nato, Rensovich, Doetri, Charlie Padovano, Dal 80,
Brian, Cora, &c., all accused of having favoured
the emigration of the young Venetians who are en-
rolled in the Italian army. This oommisaion gives
a new character to the proceedings, and the affair
threatens to assume the gravity of the wicked prosecution
of Mantua, which sent to the gallows so many excellent
and honourable citisees. By order of this military com-
mission there were arrested, on the 9th of this month, at
Venice, the advocates d'Angelo, Deodati, Orditcci, and MM
Franceschini, Rove, Michieli, and Dell' Asta ; at Padua, the
professor of mathematics, Henri Legman, and the notary
Florian Rosa, and many other persons in the other Vene-
tian provisoes. It even appears that matters will not rest
there. In the prosecution at Mantua, in the years 1852,
1853, and 1854, the object of Austria was to destroy at
one blow all the chiefs of the national movement, end to
subdue Venetia by terror. The number of victims was
then very great ; although Austria did not reap any other
fruit than a hatred more profound and an increased aversion
against her domination. She is now recommencing this sad
attempt ; she is torturing new victims, and accumulating
hatreds to end ultimately in a last and decisive national
rising.

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FRANCE.

PARIS, JAN. 24.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes a derpatch
from Admiral Jurien de la Graviere, dated Vera
Crus, Dec. 16, giving good news of the army which
was advancing and finding supplies upon the plains
in its route.

1,200 mules and 250 waggons had arrived from
New York, and 450 mules from Santiago.

SPAIN.

CADIZ, JAI. 24.

News received here from Vera Cruz, dated Dec.
24, states that the French army, having left gar-
risons in Vera Cruz, Jalapa, Cordova, Orizaba, and
Tampico, was adiancing upon Puebla.

The commander of the Normandie wax dead of
the vomito.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE MAIL.
PLYMOUTH, fixrcluuT Kowtow.

The Cambrian, with the ;hove mail, has just
arrived here. Her dates are Table Bay, 26th ult. ;
St Helena, 29th ult. ; and Agoonsion,‘ 2nd inst.
She brings 45 passengers.

CAPE TOWN, Dzo. 25.
The Governor and Colonial Secretary have re-
turned from their tour.

Parliament will be called upon to make good the
deficiency of 40,0001. of expenditure over revenue.
Drought still prevails throughout portions of the
eastern province. In the western province the
weather has been fine. Harvest prospects are good.
All quiet on the frontier. No further hostilities
have taken place in Transvaal, but Pretorius was
expected to attack the President.
Mr. Macfarlane, speaker of the Legislative
Council of Natal, has been invited to become Pre-
sident of the free states.
One of the sons of Moshesh has made two
attempts to murder his father.

The ship William, of London, from Singapore,
foundered off the river Kei on the 22nd November.
The captain and eighteen men were drowned, and
two boys only escaped.
The Dane arrived out January 13, and the Queen
of the South, January 11.

THE BOMBAY MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 24.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam-
ship Elton, Captain BeHock, with the heavy
portion of the above mails, has arrived. She
brings 23 passenger ; 1 package specie, 2001.; also
282 boxes of oranges, 750 bags of beans, 86
packages of sundries, 29 cases of silk, and
600 bales of raw silk, value 50,0001. sterling.

The Roman catholic Archbishop of New Orleans
less Just arrived in Paris from Rome.

So much snow has never been seen in the Ticino
valleys within men's recollection u this year. The disaster
at Looarno might have been far more fatal bad not many
of the faithful been providentially kept away from the if-
tenons unite by the fearful storm which wee gaging at
the moment. The Sunday-school children, also, bad not
yet arrived. The village of Sedretto di Mezzo was over-
whelmed by as avalanche on the 7th, at noon. Only two
bonus escaped; 32 persons perished. At Crodo, our
Domodcesola, SO persons were buried under the snow. News
from Lunigiana and the province of Lucca give sad pant-
culua of the meagre mused by the torrents swollen by the
rein and melting snow.

Signore Missari, now at Naples, as secretary to
the parliamentary commission, bas just completed his
labour of editing the works and writings of Vincenzo
Gioberti. Much that is very minus in the history of
this country during the ministry of " the groat philo
sopher" now appears for the first time. It is mid that
Count Cavour wee very unfavourable to • premature
publication of this work.

A Vienna, letter says :—"This day week •
Roman catholic priest, attended by several policemen,
made his appearance in the house of a widow lady of the
Jewish persuasion, an inhabitant of Verona, to demand
the surrender of her only child to the ecclesiastical autho-
rities. The canoe assigned for the demand was the oath eta
catholic servant, who had deposed to having administered,
several yeah ago, the ceremony of holy baptism to the la-
tent d►ughter of her mistress. The lady having beep warped
in time of the intended visit immediately despatched the
child to Italian territory, and, on the demand being
raised, declined, arguing the queetion upon the unanswerable
principle of the n.a, possuatits. His victim being placed out
of his reach, there remained nothing for the representative
of the church but to return the way be came, and to regret
he had been too late. Before going, however, he intimated
his conviction that a criminal *airy would be instituted
against the mother for shutting a Roman catholic child
oat from the blessings of the church, and devoting a soul,
marked out for salvation, to a disproportionate stay in pur-
gatory."
The twin iron -clads which are known as the Hec-
tor and the Valiant occupy a place in oar iron fleet
between the larger vessels of the Warrior and Black
Prince type and the smaller oar, named the Re-
sistance and Deimos. These venal' are now nearly
completed and ready for launching; one of them, the
Valiant, is in the bands of the Thames fron-works,
the other, the Hector, is buildieg in the yard of
Messrs. Napier and Co., on the Clyde.