The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-26 00:00:00

of the Modenese soldiery in several districta of that
duchy. At Carrara, says that journal, M. Tueehti
was watching over his dying daughter and his sick
wife, when he was summoned from their bed side. He
proceeded to the door, and there received his death
from a musket ball. The soldiers rushed into the
apartment, beat the wife over the dead body of her
husband, and then sent the latter to the cemetery,
These reports reaching Fivizzano and Pontrentoli,
put the people in a perfect fren7. The peasants
receive arms from the priests on their knees, sweet,
panied by a benediction, and then rush to their pests
with all the fury of fanatics. Upon the mash, la the
houses, in the churches, all is agitation and wild
desperation. Every height is crowded with videttes.
Armed men are every where in ambush. Ali are
armed for resistance without distinction of age, me;
or condition. Pontremoli is one vast camp.
The King of Sardinia has granted to the Greed
Duke of Tuscany permission to conduct the troops
destined to reinforce Pontremoli through the Genoese
territory. The Tuscan troops will disembark intim'
Gulf of Spezzia.
The outrages committed by the Duke of Modem
are aggravated by the absurdities of his officers. X
Guevra, who commands the division which seized
Fivisaano, and by whose orders the soldiers tired upea
and murdered several of the inhabitants of that sty,
published a proclamation on the 11th, in which the
following specimen of Medencee eloquence is found:
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The coilspan ionate and clement heart of H.R.11., deplore
ins the sad ci•cumatanxs and the desolation occasioned be
death or injuries, which bare befallen persons or families, sad
wishing as far as it is in his Dower to hold out to them the
hand of succour, has requested me to di tribute among tan
sufferers the sum of SOO lines (something less than 200,
which he has sent me fur that purpose.

Since the above was written we have received the
journals and correspondence of Florence of the l7th.
The greatest difficulty existed to obtain intelligence
from the district of Lunigiana. The Modenese police
having established a footing in FivizrAtio, the chief
place of the district, opened all letters, and searched
' the persons of all couriers and private messengers.
The soldiers are reported to give themselves up utile
most detestable exceqses.

Lord Mioto was received by the Pope on the
Bth inst., and had a conversation of nearly an hour
with him. Many of the principal personages of
Rome have been to wait upon him.
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Great activity is remarked at the Austrian legation
at Rome. Count Cristoforo Ferretti, it is said, has
been instructed to treat the question of Ferrara defi-
nitively with Count Redetzky at Milan.
The .Augsburg na:ette has the following, under the
date of Naples, Nov. 12 :
It is reported • dreadful plot has just been discovered at
Leghorn. A reward of 24,000 livres was to be given to the
I person who should have killed King Ferdinand. We ari
assured that 24 persons are greatly inculpated ; the number
of arrestations is said to amount already to 8. We treat
these reportare exaggerated, and should be happy to find
that this rumour, which hu spread throughout the town, is
without founds ion. We know nothing certain relative to
the successor of M. Benson. Several persons design M. de
Bois le Comte as being about to be nominated to that peat.
The Noxrellige of Marseilles gives the following
correspondence from Naplts:
I informed you in one of my late letters that the King
would probably commute the penalty of death pronounced
by the different military commissions up in four individuals;
and in fact the Gazettg Officielle, of the 13th inst., loudly
extols the royal clemency in granting this pardon to the
condemned. But the writers of the Delcaretto school, with
their usual duplicity, do not acquaint us with the nature of
the condemnation which has been substituted fur that of
death. These worthy disciples of Escobar have carefully
avoided informing WI that these wretched men have been
condemned to hard labour for life, exactly on the same foot-
ing as murderers or highwaymen. But amidst the infamy
and among the execrable men who abouud in our country,
it is consoling to hear from time to time of the noble and
generous conduct of some men of heart. 11. Pietracaklla,
the president of our ministers, whom I have so
often praised to you, can no longer restrain the
profound sentiments of disgust which the act of this go-
vernment, to which he is involuntarPy attached, hare ex-
cited in him. lie has jut, for the third line, sent in his
resignation, declaring to the King that it was meet urgent, if
he desired to avoid putting the throne in danger, to dismiss
from the palace MM. Coale, Dclearetto, and Santangelo,
and to enter upon the reforms demanded by the country.
That as for him, being neeeilling by his presence to become
the accomplice of a catastrophe rendered inevitable by the
odious system pursued at present, he was about to retire to
his estate of Pozzuoli. M. Cock, alarmed at the demos-
stration of M. Petrautelia, and thoroughly acquainted
with the versatile character of his royal penitett, prepared
secretly for his departure, in case an modification should be
made is the form of government. The affection and very pe-
culiar gratitude which the Neapolitans bear this worthy
bishop, sufficiently explain the desire M. Code may feel to
secure himself from the manifestations of these feelings.
As to Delearetto, he appears to increase in cruelty. His
tyranny augments every day. It is thus he flatters himself
that he is consolidating his reign and rendering his iniqui-
ties more lasting. lie feigns a continual belief in the cant-
een of a conspiracy against the life of the King, to remove
from the royal mint all plans of amnesty and reform. It is
an infamous and unqualifiable calumny ; and the liberals of
the Two Sieilies have sufficiently prayed the horror in•
spired by the thought of an assassination, since Delcaretto
and Campobaseo still exist. The persons taken into eustody
during the night of the 4th, are placed under the surveil-
la, ce of Campobasso, who subjects them to the most cruel
treatment : among them is a priest, who is subjected each
day to a serves of tenures, in order to make him acknowledge
suppcsed crimes. The prisoners of Reggio do not meet with a
less cruel treatment. Delearetto has sent the commissary
Cioffl, to institute an exsmination. It is necessary to in-
troduce to you this new personage, the worthy acolyte of
Campoduse—Cioffi, formerly a torturer in the time of
Canosa and Intonki, those savage ministers of the police,
who have left such • bloody remembrance in the Two
,Sicilire, is the very man whom Delcaretto calls a wild bent,
chained up in time of peace, and let loose on the people in
times of insurrection and tumult. Those are the expression
of the Minister of Police—what an I add to them This
torturer is sow invested with judicial functions, and the
letter of the brother of a prisoner at Reggio will fully let you
into his manner of proceeding. I impart to you the public
rumours occasioned by the retreat of Petracatella and of
Ferri. Should these resignations he accepted, it appears the
ministry will be reconstituted as follows :—Prince Camp-
franeo, an honest but weak nun, to the presidency; I.
Fortunato, the renegade, despised by all parties, to the
Finances; Santangelo, to the Council of State, ss
president ; Spinelli, a moderate and intelligent man,
would have the Interior; as to the inevitable Dela-
retto, and the o'her ministers, they would retain •heir pow.
This ministerial modification, should it be confirmed, would
produce no change in the order of things, and would but in-
crease the benighted despotism which weighs heavy on our
country. Thus all the plans of moderation and reform attri-
buted to King Ferdinand are positively contradicted. Ca
this oystea continue without producing • catastrophe ? That
is the question which now occupies every enlightened Mid.
The question becomes more difficult every day, for the paw
of Europe is evidently connected with it. We here see se
solution possible, but in an intelligent interference of
macy, which cannot, without danger, continue the
sible pert it has been acting till now in the affairs of Naples.
emir:coolly when England is actively preparing b avail her
self of the ensuing event.

MADRID, Nov. 18.
The session of congress held yesterday,although node-
bate took place, offered some points. of interest. The listed
deputies who bad received favours from the government, sed
another of thews who had resigned their seats, were pne
tented. The Minister of Finance then read • project @f law
by which her MOULT authorised the government te r
collecting the taxes till the end of the present year. I *4•11
have stated yesterday that this bill was referred to a new
mitten. For the rest it is a pore formality. It would beer.
less at the end of the year to dismays the budget of 1847.
The Minister of the Interior then read the bill introduced by
government for preserving pnblie order. At the rising d
congress, to meet in the sections, the president made knora
that a motion had been laid upon the table, requesting ea -
tain documents from the government, of which an Domed
would be given when come member of the gourmand
was present, which was not the ease at that IDOMIIIt
This document refers apparently to the accusation subset
Senor Salamanca and his colleagues, drawn up, it is. said, by
Senor Tejada. It seams that during the last few days Ms.
pouts have been exchanged between the partisans of Moe
and Salamanca for the reconciliation of those ex-Finsnes
Ministers. The conditions on the Salamanca aide were that
all notion of impeaching himself or his colleagues should h.
dropped, end be would give up the intention of retaliating
upon his adversaries, that all hostilities should be forgettells
and that the government should not oppose his re-election
for Alcor. The ministry, according to all accounts, is des.
interested in cementing this peace, and Moo, fearing
divisions which will result in the moderado ranks fres
keeping up the war, is aiding the ministry in their efforts to
allay strife. The quarrel, in fact, had been all but aceomnse-
dated, when one of the investigating committee would sot
give in ; and other moderados out of the committee declared
that they would take up the subject if it were abandoned by
those to whom it had been committed. The motion alluded
to was made in consequence ; but all the documents hove not
been demanded which it was at first in contemplation to ask
for. Mon is said to wish to put off the subject, and for this
reason he did not give an amount of the motion, as he ought
to have done, reserving the diacumion till the ministers
should be
Ortega Leilettitioned retirees to settle whether the go-
vernment have acted according to the law in sending his, •
national deputy, to quarters in Gallicia,
The London correspondent of the Espanol state,' that
Isturits has resigned his poet of minister at the court of
her Britannic Majesty. His motive for so doing is said to he
that he is affronted at being degraded from =humidor to
simple plenipotentiary.
The Queen's flee occurs to-morrow. ller Majesty has
fixed two for the hour of reception of the deputation from
congress. The daughters of the Duke of Riansares us
not to appear at the ball in the evening.