The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-10 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF A PORTION OF THE SAR-

DINIAN ARMY.

The Times has received the following telegraphic
despatch:—

" PARIS, TiIIVILSDLY.

"The Munitiur says, that advice' from the Crimes,
dated the 9th of May, at 10 o'clock a.m., announce
the arrival there of Central della Marmors, with
4,006 men of the Piedmontese troops."

fAIISSI IN ITALY.

THE political events which have during the last
fortnight engrossed the attention of all chases of the
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community in Piedmont, are full of interest and
instruction. In the midst of the discussion on
the Bill for the Reform of Ecclesiastical Abuses,

a propeattion of compromise was made between
the claims of the laity on the one side and the
pretensions of the higher clergy and wealthy
monastic orders on the other. The proposal ems•
anted from one of the Prelatts, Monsignor CALLA
DIANA, a man described u combining a more mini-

liatory bearing than some of his brethren are distin-
guished by, with greater coolness of judgment and
cloatnaas of vision than generally characterise

the apostolic order in Sardinia, or elsewhere.
To a man of this stamp it had gradually

grown evident that, in a contest between the
oligarchy of high priests and the nation at
large, the issue could be neither distant nor
doubtful. The prejudices of class and calling could

not blind him to the fact, that every day the quesil
tion of Church Reform was publicly debated, whe-
ther in Parliament or in the press, the cause of na-

tional independence u opposed to Papal supremacy
gained ground; and his sacerdotal leanings could not
render the astute Bishop insensible to the loss of,
moral and social influence that his :order must incur,

if, persisting to the end in opposing all change, they I
found themselves finally and utterly defeated. Rome I
had threatened in vain. King, Chambers, and people
were equally impossible to move by menaces of an
interdict. Conspiracy to stir up disaffection among
the least educated portions of the community,
had proved abortive. What remained but to start
some plausible middle term—some Austrian proposal
for peace—which might have the effect of confusing
the popular perception of the exact points at issue,
and of dividing the more flexible from the more
staunch friends of the great principle at stake, if not
of accomplishing an actual accommodation on terms
comparatively satisfactory to the clerical monopolists
and jobbers? In a very crafty and plausible speech
Monsignor CALLABiANA propounded accordingly
certain general propositions, to which like the
Four Points, nobody could prima facie object ;
and u these held out to the timid and
gullible of all shades of opinion a prospect of
reasonable reconciliation between the Govern-
ment and the peril pretre, the Ministry saw that
the only safe sad creditable course foe them to pursue
was forthwith to resign, and leave the FlovenzioN
free to name a Cabinet who might, without loss of in•
dividual or collective dignity, carry into effect a com-
promise to which they could not honourably be
parties. _ _

There is, we must my, something very refreaking
to us, who are half stifled with the dust of Asia
shabbiness and shiftiness, in the candour and earnest.
sees which marks the action of constitutional go-
vernment in more youthful States. M. CAVOUR hes
done many things which prove that he is amen made
of the right stuff for a chief Minister in a constitutional
monarchy ; but no act of his life is in every
point of view more creditable to him and to the Libe-
ral party in Piedmont, than his prompt withdrawal
from office the moment he perceived that his sup
porton had so far been caught by the specious ears
of the wily prelate as to wish for an opportunity of
compromising the great controversy at stake. M.
CAVOUIt retired, avowedly not with any design of
endeavouring to thwart his successor, but with the
conviction, that after having recommended so vigor.
Gas a measure as what is usually termed the Convent
and Benefice Suppeeseiou BiU, and after carry-
ing it triumphantly so far, he was not the man
by whom any half measure could with pro-
priety or honour be substituted, and that at
the instance of one whose political ideas were
of a totally opposite stamp. That he Weed
wisely and acted well for his country and for his own
power and infleenoe, who that has lived in England
of late pare and men the wreck of great reputation
and of powerful parties, can doubt ? General
DIMANDO, a man without the muss depth of cowl►
eons or keen sense of pelitioal consistency, was
named to succeed him; and conferences were fear
diately commenced between the new Minister eetd
the Heads of the High Church faction. Great was
the excitement out of doors, and deep the pegs
emotion. All the nitres, whether melds= or
reactionary, were astir : ere inner believing that
eonatitutiocalism was a tbs point of breaking down,
the latter enjoying by antidpation the dimultkin of
the Liberal party, and the restoration of Omer-
vatimn to power. Everywhere notices ambition was
intriguing, selfish timidity shuddering; " and the
boldest held hie breath fora time."
But the snspeue was brieL Elated with the un-
looked-for nooses of their first move, the Ultra-Mon-
Unlit party became intoxicated and over-sangsinn
When General DURAND° required to bar the
amount of concession to the principle of program
they were willing to make, be was told that a general
*doled= of the liability of Church property to be
taxed equally with that of the laity, for religiose
purposes, would be admitted ; bat that the inaliena-
bility of seelegeatical revenues must be assured, that
no redistribution of such revenues in exclamation et
the public exchequer would be recognised; and finally,
that the seprome veto of the Vatican, as the protect-
ing sanction of the Church in Piedmont, meld Dever
be abandoned. In a word, all the essential principles
of a lay and National policy were set at nought, in
the midi= expectation that the Ministry ad in-
terim would be thereby got rid of, and that a Cabinet
of retrogrades would consequently be famed opal
the HMO. Bat these anticipation ham, happily,

bees disappointed. Cieseral DoitanDO and hie
Coalition colleagues have indeed been obliged to
give way ; oa all hands they were felt to be merely
a Miaistry of transition without hold on the country
or the Court ; and their abdication after a brief tenure
of office has been marked by nothing more significant
than a general bum of satisfaction. But instead of
Count Rolm and his reactionary friends, M. CAVoUI
and his former associates have been reinstated by the
Bovereign amid the plaudits of his subjects-it need
hardly be said with enhanced credit and power.
\Timm' Biunorx has in this trying exigency proved
himself to be a truly constitutional King. He has
yielded at the right moment to the preponderating
opinion of the Chambers, though it involved the ab-
negation of his individual will; and the result has
demonstrated with what trail sagacity he judged the
strength of parties and the worth of their pretensions.
The Ultra-Montanists have been allowed to show their
utter folly and weakness; and the, cause they essayed
to retrieve by apostolic trick and treachery has thus
been rendered more irretrievably desperate than
ever.—Daily News.

THE MILITARY DELINQUENTS AT CAN-
TERBURY.

The manner in which the late scandalous pro-'
=Magi is the Enniskillen." has been trifled with
h mot disivastful to the Horse Guards. The " pribe-
deal Jokes" played off upon Cornet Beumoerres were
disreputable in the extreme. No set of men entitled
to the name of gentlemen could have bad recourse
to such measures to get rid of a comrade towards
whom,

, with or without reason, they had contracted
a dislike. The conduct of Adjutant WEBSTER in
accompanying the duellists to the field, proves
him to be utterly disqualified for military command.
The violent arrest of Sergeant BRODIE for
iislarfering to prevent the commission of a
'grave military offence was utterly unwarrantable.
The parties first arraigned were Adjutant WEB-
BTER and his associates. Their cue ought to have
been first tried and decided. The whole investigation,
as far u the military authoritits are concerned, has
been conducted with so much of secrecy and hugger-
mugger, that it is not easy to say what has been done.
Apparently, however, the original culprits, instead of
denying the truth of the charges brought against
them, have trumped up counter-charges against
Cornet BAUMGARTEN and Sergeant BRODIE. And
the officers of the meu (the culprits of course
included) appear to have sat in judgment on these
charges, and have taken upon them to condemn Cornet
BAUMGARTEN, and to have sentenced him to send him-
self to Coventry. As for the Sergeant, he has twice
been placed under arrest, and twice been discharged
without trial. The tyranny and utter lawlessness of
such proceedings must be palpable to every one who
has the spirit of a man ; yet the authorities at the
Horse Guards appear to look passively on and allow
matters to take their course unchecked. The affair
cannot be allowed to rest here ; an impartial, search-
ing, and open investigation of the whole circum-
stances of the case, from beginning to end, is
required to satisfy the public sense of justice.—Daiiy
New.