The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-27 00:00:00

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—The Statute of Florence hes
advice. from &me, of the 17th inst. M. de Corceiles
had not arrived, but tent a courier to General R:stolan,
who had an interview with the three c4rdinals. The
papal government rigorously excludes from office all
those who have served in soy capacity under the
republic. The grades granted by Durando,
Ferrari, and Pope, are declared void, aLd 120 officers,
who had given their adhesion to General Oudinot,are
dismissed. A Lew coin of 5 bajoccbt (5 was) is shortly
to be street and put into circulation. M. Galli, pro-
visional minister of finance, has gone to Poetics,
order to lay before the Pope a financial project for
paying off the Treasury bills at toe rate of 300,000
wadi every three months, by the sale of church pro-
poly which is already mortgaged
We read in the StaturootfgArrorence, of the 19th, a
letter, dated Pottici, 15th inst., containing the follow-
irg fragment of a letter, written, says the correspon-
dent of the Statute, by the minister of the French re-
public, well-known for his devotion to the Pope (M.
de Felloux is evidently meant), to a diplomatist, who,
in vain, says the letter from Partici, labours to open
the eyes of the men of Gaeta :
Is the harm done by the three lut weeks of hesitation,
coatradietion, and a deplorable diplomacy, not known at Poe-
tic" t Cardinal Antonelli cannot be ignorant of what fruit
his obstinsey will bring ; and therefore can faith be reposed
either in his wisdom or his siaearity ? He should turn back
a thousani times rather than as,ume the tr, =redoes
responsibili.y of making so many Must:ions political
personages, who had begun to e "tackle, with the
consolation of true catholic', the church and Pius
IX. as the only and true refuge against the
miseries and disorders of false philosophy, cast a maledie•
tion upon the church and the Pope. At t resent, these very
persons begin to reproach thesseilves for this holy inspiration
as if it were a weakness. And shall this be the work of a
cardinal, of a minister of Pius IX., of Pius IX. who bad
hitherto bean the emblem of all that was considered as a re•
novenas and neoneiliatica of this unhappy gl ? As for
me, when I shall have lost my last hope, which even now
ugly hangs by a thread, I shall wiltdraw frem them court
intrigues, of which I luau all the fatal consequences.
The (,batieezionale of Florence' publishes the follow-
ing atter from Rome of the 17th :—" Two questions
engroesthe attention of the people of the Roman States
at this moment; the political and the financial question.
The sulutioa of the political one will take a long time,
became there is obstinacy on both sides. Pius IX will
concede the statute in the end,but perhaps when it will
be too late. The great evil, well-informed people ray,
ccmes from the men France sends to Gaeta. Neither
generals nor lay diplomatists are listened to there.
Were Fiance to seed a dignitary of the church to the
Pope., as, for example, the Archbishop of Paris, all
would be battled within twenty-four hours. The
financial question is very different. It is shocking to
see such a penury of coned money. All the silver
the French spend here immediately disappears from
circulation, and many shopkeepers car not give you
change even in notes of 20 bajocelii (20 sons). The
notes of the republic loge 18 per cent., besides the re-
ducion fixed by the government, without any hopes
of a rise. It is true that in the higher circles a loan is
spoken of u concluded, or nearly so. This loan is to
be applies to the withdrawal from circulation of all
, the small notes of the republic, but the rumour of this
loan gains but lit'le credit. Bankers do not lend to
uncertain governments. When the holy father shall
have p iitively declared his intentions as to the form
, of rm. nireent, a loan will be mote likely to be
obtained.