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

still larger supply was expected from Belgium. A
number of French and Polish officers resident at
Rome had tendered their services to the pontifical
government. The forces to be encamped at Forli
are now estimated at 54,000, of which 24,000 will be
regular troops, and 30,000 the national guard. The
Augsburg Gazette adds, "our government have made
very friendly offers to the pontifical government."
' The Nuremberg Correspondent, under the date of
Rome, the 30th, says that the city of Ancona has
resolved to apply the funds which were intended to
construct a theatre there, to the purchase of muskets
for the aational guard. The magistrates of Perugia.
Oscine, and Bologna have adopted a similar course. '1
The Pope has been enchanted at this, and it was
hoped the example would spread. The government
was engaged in preparing a new municipal corpora.
tion for Rome.
A communication in the Augsburg Gazette front
Rome, dated the 3lst ult., gives the following :
The first part of the great process is terminated. The re-
sult proves that there have been emoluments in the interest
of the retrograde party. The Pope has just addressed to
nearly all the Europsiut sovereigns a note signed by Cardinal
Zerretti respecting the solution of the dispute with Austria
relative to the city of Ferrara. About the middle of the
month his holiness will hold a secret consid.ory.
We recorded yesterday, as an example of the
homage which public opinion in Europe has extorted
from the cabinet of Vienna, that Prince Metternich
has found it advisable to transmit an explanatory and
apologetic note to President Ochsenbein respecting
the occupation of Ferrara. Truly, things must have
come to a sad loam when the apostle of despotism
finds himself obliged to parley thus with the captain
of the free carp?, and to resume diplomatic relations
which be had insolently and contemptuously discon-
tinued for so long a period. But we have to-day a
more striking, if possible, instance of the irresistible
power of opinion over this crafty diplomatist. Some
of the journals of the Rhenish states, like all the
other organs of public opinion in Europe, have, it
seems, been discussing the Auetro-pontifical question,
and the Cologne Gazette and a Heidelberg journal
have indulged in some general reflections accompanied
with some unpalatable historical retidepections upon
the repressive influence of Austrian rule in the Italian
peninsula, and its universally acknowledged tendency
to check every effort at social and constitutional pro-
gress, whether originating from the people or their
rulers. The Austrian Obserrer has upon this received
for insertion in its columns from the authority under
which it exists another apologetic and explanatory
mote, which we will here give in detail :
We can now completely tranquillise the Gazette de Co.logne on the subject of its premature apprehensions. But
we really think the Gazette itself could have spared us this
trouble, for it appears to us that the obscurity in which
Austria wishes to envelope herself, so as to be impenetrable
te every German eye, needs not the eyes of Argus, but good
sense and love of truth, to read in contemporary hi-tory what
Austria is desirous of doing and of avoiding. Austria de-
mands for itself what every father of a fatally has a right
to claim, that is to say, to be master in his own house. She
allows the same right to all other independent nations. She
respects their independence in the largest sense of the word,
with no other restrictions than those which proceed from
treaties and the rights of reciprocity. The Gazette de Co-
logne reproaches Austria with having stifled in Italy
every manifestation of the public spirit. But im-
partial history will place the facts in their true light.
It will say that Austria, when avoidance had been
at different times solicited by the legitimate governments of
Italy, threatened or overthrown by revolt, has aseisted them
in the sentiment of het right, and appreciation of her own
interests ; that she asked for no gratitude, and has reaped
the furious hatred of those parties her opi ortune interven-
tion had deprived of the fruit of their criminal undertakings.
Austria forces her advice and assistance on none. She
knows how to do so when good advice is of no avail, and to
wait fur events she can neither impede nor direct. If, in
such conjuncture, a feverish agitation should take possession
of whole states, nobody has a right to be discontented with
Austria because she does not lase sight of what is going on
beyond her frontiers (a duty no government can neglect,
even in the most tranquil times), and, at the same time,
tikes every precaution on her own territory she may judge
requisite, in order to offer an energetic resistance to that
anarchy which might penetrate into it from without.
Such principles are so simple and so clear, and agree so per-
fectly with the precepts of justice, prudence, and legitimate
defence, that it can scarcely be conceived how it is possible
for them to have been converted into a mark for the darkest
calumny, if old experience did not teach us that political par-
ties are in the habit of judging their adversaries by them
selves, and perceive on all sides cunning, artifice, and hidden
views, because their conscience cries aloud that such disloyal
arms are to be found in great quantities in the arsenal of
their own policy. That is the reason why the reinforcement
of the Austrian garrison at Ferrara has been considered as
a political demonstration, and even u the commencement of
an armed intervention, whereas it is nothing but a mere
measure commanded by the military authorities of the Lam-
bardo-Venetiao kingdom, which they had not only a right to
command, but which it was their imperious duty to command,
on account of the grave responsibility they were under of
attending to the safety of the fortress and the garrison, when
assailed by the moo violent cries of " Death to the Ger-
mans," and by the continual provoations of a press that
know no restraint. But the above-named journal throws
another reproach into the face of Austria. " Austria," it
says, " does not bow down to the idol of our century," to
the pretended progress. He who distinguishes aright,
hems well, says an old proverb, and we can apply it to the
present question. We do not eousider as progress every
movemeut which carries us far from the point of departure.
No where less than in Austria, where there are so many dif-
ferent nationalities, each having attained different degrees
of civilisation, do people believe is a practical theory out of
which there is no security. That is why political quacks,
who pretend they have found a universal panacea for
every human imperfection, find it more difficult to get rid
of their bad goods with us than with other nation!. That
is very easily accounted for. Daily experience informs us
that a people is happy but as long as they remain faithful to
the peculiar social conditions which are the result of nature
and history. But this respect for the glorious past, this at-
tachment to the data of experience, does not prevent the
Austrians from thinking of enlarging their house when it is
become toe small for the number of its inmates ; only dry
are prudent enough, in such cases, to place the new miselierg
in what remains of the old, and to join both together by a
strong cement, so as to keep them fast, but without attarr*
ing the old foundations. " But if every well-thinking rasa
is obliged to acknowledge this, Low does it happen," says
the Gazette de Cologne, ' that the time is past when it could
be said that a few adventurous and exalted youths were the
only adversaries Austria had to contend with in Italy," This
is our reply to such a question. A political poet cf
modern France has perfectly characterised the state of this
country by these words, which can be very well applied to a
part of the Italian peninsula: "La France s'ennuie." This
ennui is nothing but interaal discontent and the disorganisa-
tion of the public mind, which have destroyed the moral
sense, and among whom ambition and egotism have de-
stroyed ancient faith and the feelings of right and morals.
Then man renders every authority which refuses to submit
to his caprices responsible for his discontent, which is but the
result of the abuse of his liberty. This kind of ennui has
played a great part in the merrier of every state.

FRANCE.—THE WIEDER OF MADAME DALKE.—
The trial for this murder, the commencement of which we
noticed in our paper of Saturday, was concluded on that day.
Two of the accused women, Poirie and Dubois, acknowledged
having received the gold produced from the murderess,
Jubliot Delannoy, who owned that it was taken from her mis-
trues drawers. In answer to the president, Delannoy re-
peated with a firm voice that it was Francois Dubois who had
stifled her mistress. Dubois solemnly declared that previous
and after the time of the murder he had not been in Paris
for six weeks. The jury pronounced Delannoy and Theobald
Francois Dubois guilty, the latter with extenuating circum-
stances; the woman Dubois was found guilty of receiving the
stolen money, but without knowledge of the murder. The
three other accused : Poirie and his wife, and the younger
Delannoy were declared innocent. The court having deli-
berated:condemned the elder Delannoy to death ; Francois
Dubois to perpetual labour with exposure : and the woman
Dubois to six years' imprisonment, without expoeure.
AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, SEPT. s.—The Gazttee
Allensatuie de Iloideaerg received the following from Frank-
fort, Sept. 5 :—The great question of the press, which was at
last to have been settled by the Germanic Diet, SI it has
been repeated for upwards of six months, is to go no further,
The proposal of Prussia, tending to substitute a law on the
press instead of the censure, has been favourably received by
the great majority of the German states; but Austria,
Hanover, and the Electorate of Hesse, have peremptorily
objected to it, declaring censure to be an indispensable means
of government. Then, one of the states of the south of
Germany has proposed that each state should have the fa-
culty of regulating the affairs of the press as it should think
proper; hut this proposal met with little encouragement,
and Prussia herself considered this expedient as dangerous
and inadmissible. Thus, for some time to come, we must
relinquish the hope of seeing the German press withdrawn
from the insupportable situation in which it is now placed,
despite the public opinion.
CAUCASUS.—ST. PETEIVBURG, SEPT. 2.—The
Journal It Caucase contains a letter from Dsghestan which
gives some particulars concerning the troops in Caucasus,
and on the march of the cholera. The detachment of the
troops of Sauter, commanded by the general-in-chief, is at
Zurlechidug. The soldiers go through their manivuvres and
practice ftnng ; the cases of cholera are less numerous in the
plains, hut it has not yet entirely disappeared. It has broken
out in Daghestan, and on the line of the Caucasus, and in
the circle of Wladikanksa. The enemy is a great victim to
its ravages. The chief of the central army died of the
cholera. Lieut.-Gen. Schwartz has destroyed the principal
village of West Daghestan, because the inhabitants had re-
fused to give him hostages. He hes considerably improved
his military poeitioo. Iffh the 3rd July the Cossacks pursued
a troop of 100 men. He lost 11 men and some arms. The
prince, at Kuloff, has contrived to defeat several bands.
BAVARIA.—MUNICIT, SEPT. 3.-I'he patent of
nobility granted Lola Mentes has created a Int disagreeable
sensation among the higher clue of the nobißty at Munich.
Several noble families have immediately left Munich, de-
claring their intention of never again returning to the town.
Among these families are those of Arco, Scheuborn, and