The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-17 00:00:00

ITALY.

TURIN. Fan. 11.
According to the news received indirectly from
Milan the rage of the Austrian chiefs there is beyond
conception. No man is safe, however harmless he
may be—no one knows how to dress ; the military
patroles, having authority to arrest any one and to
fire on whoever they please, under the slightest pre-
tence, aro not sparing in making use of it. Ihe
number of those daily arrested is so great that all
the individuals confined for debt have been set at
liberty to make room for political prisoners. Among
these are now to be found many respectable people.
More executions are expected, as hangmen have been
sent for in the neighbouring provinces. All the
Theatres are shut up—an order is on the point of
being issued compelling the municipality of Milan to
settle a pension for life on all the wounded military,
and all the widows, relations, or children of the
killed. Many Hungarian officers and soldiers are
arrested, and several have been shot in the Castle
(of Milan) for having shown sympathy for the
PeoPle-
Our government, on the other hand, has ordered the
immediate arrest of any one attempting to go from
this into the neighbouring states to take part in re-
volutionary acts ; the immediate expulsion of all the
refugees who may have made bad use of the hospita-
lity afforded them from this state ; and the removal
' into the interior of all those who reside in the fron-
tier province excepting such only as are in the em-
ploy of government.
After writing so far, reports are in circulation of
insurrectionary movements having taken place at
Bologna, Parma, and Florence. People, however,
are so excited that exaggeration is natural, and
alarm creates evils which do not exist. So, at least,
I sincerely wish, as the moment could not bo more
unpropitious for an Italian revolution.
Of the seven persons executed at Milan, two were
joiners, one was a waiter, one a porter, 0110 a type-
founder, one a hatter, and another a journeyman
butcher. There being no gibbet ready, the porter
was shot instead of being hanged.

The Opinion of Turin states that the gates of
Milan have been re-opened. The police, according
to this paper, are still making new arrests, and the
prisons are so full that the prisoners for debt have
been released to make room for others. The quarter
of Porta Toes has been militarily
.occupied, as also
the public edifices and the principal houses. Two
hundred soldiers are quartered in the Palazzo Rests,
and others in the Pahtaxi d'Adda, Sornani, and
Acconti. The proprietors of the houses before which
the paving had bees taken up to make barricades
with, have been ordered to get the streets repaired
at their own expense, as they ought to have opposed
the making of barricades, and informed the author',
ties. The gates are open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Workmen living in town, but belonging to manufae.
tones outside the gates, are allowed to return later
through certain gates, if provided with certificates
front their masters, countersigned by the proper
military authorities.
Letters from Novara of the 10th, in the Opinione
of Turin, state that all the refugees living in the
communes adjoining the frontier of Lombardy have
been ordered to remove either to Vercelli or Casale,
at their choice.
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In its sating of the 11th, the Piedmontese Cham-
ber of IJeputtes voted, by a majority of 108 to 3,
a bill authorising the government to levy 250 sailors
for the royal navy. In the Senate, the bill for the
issue of two millions of francs rente on the public
debt was passed by 43 votes to 6. Three bills were
afterwards brought in,—viz., Ist. For the better re-
gulation of bills of exchange, and bills to order
upon persons not concerned, in trade; 2ndly. For
the re-organisation of the Chambers of Commerce;
3rdly. For the cession of certain domauial property
to the town of Novara