The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

ROMAN STATES.

Our Roman correspondent, writing on tho 24th
October, states that Sir Henry Bulwer left Rome on
the prooeding morning for Florence, leaving behind
his nephew and secretary. Ho had been partially
successful in the objects of his negociations.
Fresh executions were to take place shortly amongst
Murrav's fellow prisoners.
The Duke of Modena had left Rome.
Brigandage was rife around Velletri.

TWO SICILIES.
NAPLES, Oct. 22.
The King, during his tour in the provinces' has
liberated more than fifteen hundred political pri-
soners. In the province of Catansaro upwards of a
thousand constitutionalists have been sent to their
homes.

ou will remember that in the official reply to Mr.
Gladstone the number of political prisoners was
stated to be six hundred. I have already
forwarded yon the sentences on the May lb
affair. As I anticipated, those sentenced to
death have not been executed. His Majesty has
commuted the decision of the Grand Court thus :
Darden°, Spaventu, and Barbarisi are to pass the
rest of their days in the Ergaitolo; Scialoja and
Leopardi are to be exiled; and the rest, condemned
to the galleys, have already had tho chains put round
their bodies. But they again have received a com-
mutation, and are to suffer half the named periods in

icor. Thus, them sentenced to thirty years will
wear the chains fifteen, and so on. Now, as the
periods are all long ones,s.he clemency of the King,
whoa properly weighed, is illusory, because it is well
known that the class of persons in question seldom
live in the galleys morVthen half the time which the
commuted period will give them. The official print
of the 18th, 19th, and 20th pretends that the men
who have mitered imprisonment, without knowing
why, fur more than four years, are so grateful for
the King's goodness as to follow the monarch with
blessings wherever he goes; and the populations of
towns and villages are mad with delight on seeing
their constitutional King amongst them. How ail
these things are done and officially reported, you
havo an example at the present moment nearer
home. The Neapolitan government is, in a certain
degree, changing its policy. The death of l'occhen-
eda has no doubt facilitated this improvement. And
hero I may. record a singular anecdote of the lato I
noted minister of police. Ho bad lived with the!
wife of a coin dealer for many years, when the hue-1
band died some months ago. Pecelieneda on his
deathbed was advised to marry the lady; but it
turned out that in early life ho had taken the vows
of a priest, and could nut therefore expiate his crime
with the sacrament of marriage.
Sumo of the Italian journals attack the statement
forwarded to the Luily News (with reference to rail-
ways) on the Baancial position of the Two Sicilies,
but none venture on figures. It would appear that
miracles aro not alone confined to the church in
Naples. The government is stronger and richer alter
revolution, war, augmented national debt, and a
double amount of army and navy—the Five per Cents.
are at 1011 ? Speculators must not be derived now
a-day by such quotations; let them come into the
market and see how the game is played. Whilst the
funds aro at 1091,, government contractors are unable
to get their money, the army alone is paid punctu-
ally. Since 1848, the Neapolitan national debt has
been augmented by 14 millions of ducats, and 20
millions have been added to the Sicilian debt, with
this paper the government prospers fur the moment.
I repeat I have only one ohjeet in exposing the
state of Neapolitan finance, and that is protecting
the English public from imposition; those who "get
up" foreign railways protect themselves.
Neapolitan Fives, 1091; Sicilian Fives, 105; Ex-
change on London, 571.