The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1853.

BAVARIA.

The official journal of Stuttgardt contains a royal
decree re-establishing the penalty of death in the
kingdom of Wurtemberg.

ITALY.

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ROME, Ocr. 10.
The intelligence of war having been declared by the
Porte reached us on the morning of the htb, and has
produced great uneasiness in ecclesiastical circles,
the government of his Holiness being equally alarmed
at the prospect of success on either side, and fore-
seeing danger to the Holy See as well in the triumph
of the schismatic Czar as in that of the Mussulman
potentate. The part Ns hich Austria intends to play
in the enstming war forms a point of most anxious
consideration here : as, should the Olmatz visit have
consolidated an alliance between the two Emperors
against that of France, England, and Piedmont, it
will become necessary for the Austrian forces now
in the legations to paia the Po, and concentrate their
straggling line of garrisons behind the Adige, so
leaving the Pope to the sole keeping of the French
and the affection of his own subjects, neither of which
can be very satisfactorily relied on.
The following notification appeared in the official
journal of the 6th inst.:

To do away with the uncertainty arising from the move-
able tables regulating the importation and exportation of
corn, in the present state of things, the ILlineas of Our
Lord, having heard the Council of Ministers, has ordered us
to publish, as we do in his Sovereign name, the free import-
ation of wheat, maize, and Blur, large wheat (farro), bar-
ley, oats, pulse, excepting lupins, potatoes, chestnuts, and
their flours, until the end of February, 1354, whatever may
be the medium price of such artielte resulting from the corn
tables, as well for the section of the Mediterranean as for
that of the Adriatic, derogating for this purpose from every
law or regulation to the contrary.

The quarantine regulations at Civita Vecchia, to
which the Papal authorities appear disposed to ad-
here rigidly, threaten serious inconvenience to com-
mercial operations. Subsequently to the Candidate,
another British vessel, the Donor, of Newcastle,
arrived at Civita Vecchia, with coals for the Anglo-
Roman gas company, and has been also subjected
to ten days' quarantine._ _ _

Monsignor Sagratti, Vice President of the Sacred
Consulta Sanitary Congregation, has replied officially
to the efforts made in behalf of the British schooner,
Candidate, that the quarantine regulations, when
once put forth, must be enforced upon all vessels
coming from infected countries, even although they
should arrive but one instant after the publication of
the edict, it being impossible to determine exactly
when the contagious germ may have invaded the
country. Monsignor Sagretti also states that the sa-
nitary congregation has precise statistical informa-
tion of the cholera in London, from which it results
that from the 10th of July, during a space of two
months, 937 persons were attacked by the malady,
thus invalidating the argument of the Candidate's
having sailed from Liverpool before the occurrence of
any cholera cases. The Papal authorities have acted
in concordance with those of the King of Naples,who
are ever in the van with their quarantine pre-
cautions.

A shock of earthquake was experienced on the
24th ult. at Cittaducale, in the Neapolitan territory.
The Giornale di Roma of the 4th announces that
the electric telegraph, which already extends from
Rome to Bologna ;and Modena, is to be continued
to Terracina, there to meet the Neapolitan wires;
so that Naples, Rome, Bologna, and Modena will
form but one uninterrupted line.