The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

went with that minister to Bt. Cloud, where a cabinet
council wu held before the departure of Queen Chris-
tina. Monsieur de Broglie was admitted to a seat at
the council board on this occasion.
The announcement of the capture of the city of
Taza by Abd-el-Bader, which we have already given,
has been fatly confirmed by the adviccs received from
Algiers to the sth inst. It appears that Abd-el-Kader,
at the head of 8,000 men, presented himself before the
gates of the city, which were opened to him without
the slightest resistance. Tare v only. three days'
march from Fez, the road to which city the Emir
immediately took. It was feared that the prestige of
this success, and the religious character attributed to
the Emir would attract around him the population of
Morocco to such a degree as to render all resistance
on the part of the Emperor Abderrahman ineffectuaL
Although despatches with the details of these events
had arrived in Paris they were not made public by the

government.
The Duke de Broglie, on returning from St. Cloud,
had a long interview with Lord Normanby at the
British Embassy. It was expected that his Excel-
lency would have left for London on Monday.

The Madrid mails of the 7th have been received.
General Alai: had arrived, but had not yet obtained
any appointment. It was doubted in some quarters
whether he would be nominated to the Captain Gene-
ralship of Madrid, and it was positively stated that
this office had not yet been offered to him. Some
letters say that before the departure of General de la
Concha for Catalonia, he had received an assurance
that no change would be made in the articles of the
tariff which affect cottons; we, however, are still in-
formed that a large and liberal measure of reform is
contemplated in the entire system of customs duties.
Don Francisco de Paula, with his daughter, were
about to remove from St. Sebastian to Burgos.
Advice' from Catalonia to the 6th inst. continue to
represent that province as in a formidable state of
insarreotion. An army of 3,000 men, divided into
small bands, sweep the country, and keep the villages
under their absolute command. They levy taxes,
the payment of which the local authorities have no
means of resisting. Want of funds alone prevents
them from presenting a most formidable armed force.
The rolls of the army actually enlisted in favour of
the pretender amount to 9,437 men, a number ready
to take the field if funds were forthcoming to enable
them to do so. At the date of the last'advices there
was not yet time to show what the effect of the re-
cent events at Madrid—the amnesty, the dismissal of
Pavia, and the appointment of General de la Concha
—would be. The result of a few weeks will exhibit
this.

The knell of absolutism has sounded beyond the
Alps. Italy awakes like a strong man from a long
deep sleep. fhe wisest of her princes have recognised
the prognostics of her regeneration, and have identi-
fied themselves with its progress. Those gifted with
less foresight hesitate, but soon receive a lesson by
which they learn to yield to the imperious law of
progress. An example of the folly of offering re-
sistance to that law has occurred in one of the smaller
states, which will not be lost on its more powerful
neighbours. We have, on a former day, announced
the events which took place in Lucca, on the Ist,
when the sovereign of that principality, awed by the
popular voice, proclaimed the liberty of the press and
the establishment of the national guard. We have
now to raise the curtain on the second act of the drama.
It appears that this feeble-minded prince vacillated
immediately afterwards, and regardless of his pledged
and published promise,withdrawing to Massa Carrara,
a place not far from Lucca, but in the Modenese terri-
tory : he there declared that the proclamation of the Ist
inst.,granting theliberty of the press,and the establish-
ment of the national guard, " was extorted from
him by force, and that he would not fulfil it !" This
most unexpected announcement fell among the already
excited population of Lucca like a spark in a maga-
zine of gunpowder. . The national guard, refused by
the Sovereign, started in a moment spontaneously
into life. The Marquis Nlazzaross, who had been
prime minister, but had resigned, headed a deputation
to the duke, to induce hint to return to his capital.
The duke refused, but issued a decree, appointing a
regency, under the presidency of the Marquis Mazza-
rota. The council of ministers refused to publish this
domment, and again supplicated the prince to resume
his position and authority. 'While these negotiations
were pending, ..-the popular agitation was aug-
menting.
The object of the people was to
obtain the desired political reforms without revo-
lution, and consequently they required it to be ren-
dered conspicuously manifest that the grand ducal
government was sustained, the person of the sove-
reign inviolate, and that the constituted authorities
were the fountain from which all reform proceeded.
To compel the prince to return, it was given out that
his revenues would be seized, and his palace and pro-
perty sequestrated. The population of the surround-
ing country poured into Lucca, and every train which
arrived by the railway from Pisa and Leghorn
brought hundreds of enthusiastic partisans of reform
from those cities. The intoxication was general; the
populace, in a delirium of enthusiasm, thronged
the streets and squares. The female part of the com-
munity played a conspicuous part in the scene. A
troop, consisting of several hundred women, pre-
ceded by the pontifical flag, paraded the town. A
body of volunteers were enrolled to march to the de-
liverance of Ferrara. Such was the condition of
Lucca on the afternoon of the tad and the morning
of the 3rd, when suddenly and unexpectedly, at one
o'clock in the afternoon, the duke, accompanied by
the hereditary prince, returned from Massa Carrara,
and presented themselves at the gates of Lucca unes-
corted, in the midst of the excited populace, by whom
they were received with the greatest demonstrations
of joy.
The official journal of the government (the only
newspaper permitted at Lucca) announced that on
the return of the duke, the entire population, in-
cluding even women, children, and priests, bearing
the national flag, presented itself in the Piazza
Grande to salute the Sovereign; and while passing in
front of the hotel of the commander of the troops,
where the Italian flag was unfurled, the place re-
sounded with enthusiastic exclamations. In the an-
nouncement of these facts, given in the official jowled,
the epithet Italian, as applied to the flag, is given In
large capitals. It may be observed here that this
Italian flag is, in fact, the revolutionary tri-
colour—green, however, being substituted for
blue. In this official announcement no allusion
is made to the retreat of the duke to Massa, nor of
the events which took place during his stay there.
The report concluded with a prayer that no recollec-
tion may be preserved of those days in which the
mutual attachment of the prince and people seemed
to be diminished.
The correspondent of the Journal des Debar says
that the animosity of the populace is directed more
especially against the hereditary prince, and that the
princess, his wife, taster of the Duke of Bordeaux,
had rebuked him for his conduct, reminding him of
the events which proved fatal to her own family
seventeen years ago.
Events so important in Lucca could scarcely fail to
produce sympathetic demonstrations in its near
neighbourhood at Leghorn and Pisa, where those who
had gone to Lucca returned by thousands, bringing
with them the tidings of the day.
In the theatre of Leghorn a demonstration in favour
of the national guard took place in the evening. The
next day a deputation from that city went to
Florence to supplicate its immediate organisation, and
brought back a decree to that effect, accompanied by
the Intelligence that nothing remained but the regu-
lations under which it should be established. This
intelligence was, of course, followed by a fresh out-
break of enthusiasm : above ten thousand men
assembled with the national flag, preceded by the
hurts of Pius IX. and Leopold 11. A procession took
place through the city by torch light; the windows of
all the houses were illuminated and decorated with
flags. These rejoicings continued for seven hours;
notwithstanding which no disorder took place, and
the whole population, even to the lowest classes,
seemed filled with the liveliest gratitude to the
sovereign who had given suck proofs of confidence
to his people. " This revolution," says a corre-
spondent of one of the Marseilles papers, writing
from the spot, "is incontestably one of the most ex-
traordinary pages of our history—a revolution un-
stained by a single drop of blood.' A solemn popular
celebration of the great reform was appointed to take
place on the Bth inst., in which all the ladies of the
town were to assist, clothed in white and wearing the
national colours.
The Augsburg Gazette, under the date of Turin, the
2nd inst., repeats the report we gave long since, that
the French government had placed 12,000 muskets at
Marseilles at the disposition of the l'ope, and that a