The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-16 00:00:00

562.] LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1848. [THREEPENCE.

If the the information 1 have given above be correct
it would seem that they have changed their determi-
nation since the morning.
Pnais Jena 15.—New Loan, —; 'Three per Cents. —' Do.
Mee per Cents.. • Vow-and-11411, SO ; Pours, 01 75. BelPian
Rives, 15111, ; Sin. UHL —. 110. Tercet, 14 ; Iw. Tern.and-R-
-1101, • N ins Renters, 70 50 ; Roman Loan, 591 ; Treanor)
Bends, 25. Bank Sham, 1200; hacking° on Loudon, no Nan'
mons.
RAILWAY..--rarla not Orleans. SR; '0 Pada end Rouen, 115;
Rouen and Havre, 200 25; Mignon and 74.‘eneillot, 222 541; Stew
tourg and Bale, —; Centre Timm, 265 75 ; Annetta and Bou-
logne, —; Bardenux, 390175; North. 389 40.

ITALY.
The Pensiero !Milano of the 10th states, from pti-
vato correspondence, that the legion under the com-
mand of Z. imbeccari had returned to Treviso on the
4th, after having beaten 603 Austrians at Casale,
and taken sixty oxen from them.
Travellers from Verona state that it is not known
where Railetski is at present. Verona, hitherto
crowded with military, now appears quite deserted,
all the troops having retired to tho forts. 800 Aus-
trians are stationed at Crespino.
The Italia del Poled° of Milan, of the 9th, publishes,
in a supplement, the electoral law fur tle, Constituent
Assembly, dated that day. The number of representa-
tives for Lombardy i 5267. The elections will be effected
by direct universal suffrage. All citizen', having com-
pleted their 21st year, and not subjected to legal dis-
abilities, are electors. Tho day on which the elections
shall take plane is not decided upon.
Tho Epora of Rome, of the oth, contains an account
orate opening of the Roman parliament on the preced-
ing day. The two councils, under the presidence of
Monsi;inor Mazzareri,assist;d by the Vice-Presidents, I
Prince Odescalchi and Count Peutolini, assembled at 8, I
a.m., and proceeded in procession to the Palace of the
Chancellorship, where the sittings are to be held. The
pageant was splendid. The sitting was opened by a
speech read by Cardinal Altieri, in the name of the
Pope, stating that his noliness rejoiced at his having
t succeeded in introducing into him states the political
reforms demanded by the times; that the attention of
the Legislative Assemblies would be directed to the
state of the laws and adni:nistmtion of the Pupal tend '
tory, and the difficulties of the exchequer. 'the laws
promised by the fundamental statute would likewise
Ibe presented. The sittings were then declared to be
opened.
The Canton/ ranee of Rome, of the 6th, publishes
the new law on the liberty of the press. The ceesor-
ship is abolished. Every publication must bear the
name of the printer and the place of publication.
Clandestine publications are punished by fine and
imprisonment. Public journals meet have a
respensible editor. Attacks against the church
or its ministers, or against the temp sal
power of the l'ope, or insults against forei4n
powers, or their ministers, are punished a ith impri-
sonment for six months or a year, and a fine of from
60 to 100 scudi (600 r.). The law contains four
chapters and thirty-two articles.
Letters from Rome say that the address delivered
on the opening of the parliament excited much
disappointment. No allusion, iv made to the war
of independence in Lombardy, and the address is con-
fined chiefly to projected reforms in the public
administration,especially in the department of finance.
Order and peace are recommended as the only
means of aiding in the development of liberty.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(Tnis DAT.)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.— Before lb. Damn Rolfe.
UNELITTULLY SIGNING A LUNACY CBEtIPIC►TE.—A
surgeon, mimed John Arthur, who had a very respectable
premien, was indicted for having unlawfully ►igned a lunacy
c2rtitkete.—Mr. Bodkin appeared to prosecute, at the in-
stant* of the Commissioners of Lunacy. The facts against
the prisoner were not of an aggravated character, for he had,
it appeared, signed the certificate in gucs.ion, net tram any
corrupt motive, but as an act of kindness to a man whose
wits had been tor some time a confirmed lunatic. The cer-
tificate signed by the defendant averred that ha had seen her
the same day, and that she was a lunatic ; but he Cdr.
Bodkin) would he in a position to show that the de-
fendant had not men her that morning. The lunatic's
husband was anxious to have her removed to a privets
lunatic asylum, and he asked Mr. Arthur, as a favour, to
sip the certificate upon which she couid be removed—a
favour he very imprudently granted. The commissioners did
not peril lur punishment. the defetolano, by the alviec of
Mr. Clarkson, then pleaded guilty. Mr. Boron Rolfe said I
he was very glad that the commission. rs had i atituted this
prosecution, for it was fraught with considerable public im
partsnce. Ile should order the defendant to pay a tine of
20., ; but if any •imilar case rame before the court alter this
public example, the result would be very different. The de.
fenclant paid the tine, and win liberated.
' NEW COURT.
Tito CARE Cl A ishattAm StagOND9.-0 I the applica-
tion of counsel, the trial' [this prisoner, a public in, chatged,
it will be remembered, with feloniously receiving tw o 1.0001.
notes, which had been stolen ►n 1813 from Mr. R. Blake
more, era postponed wdil the next a iosion.