The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-16 00:00:00

ITALY.

The report which I communicated to Tod last even-
ing, in a postscript to my despatch, of the destruction
by fire of a part of Milan, is given in the journals of
this morning, in terms substantially the same as
those in which I conveyed it. It remains as yet un-
confirmed and unrefuttd. It is, howevtr, littlo cre-
dited here.

There is no further news from Italy. The two ar-
mies remtaned in their respective quarters, the one at
Milan and the other behind the Ticino.

Charles Albert had commissioned M. Merlo, vice-
president of the Chamber of Deputie., and Count de
Revel to form a ministry in place of that of MM.
Casati and Gioberti, which had resigned. A traveller
bad arrived at the head-quarters who reported that
Brescia bad capitulated on the Bth, and was to be oc-
cupied by the Austrians on the 9th. No details or
further particulars are given.
From Genoa to the 9th, we learn that the arrival
of the intelligence of the surrender of Milan produced
a violent popular commotion. The populace assem-
bled in immense numbers, and the cry of treason was
everywhere heard. The national guard collected and
proceeded to disarm the Fort of Casteletto, which
commands the town ; the other form were also seized,
and the artillery and projectiles were removed from
all those which commanded the town.

Letters from Bologna of the 7th have been received.
A troop of Hulan cavalry and a company of Austrian
infantry had arrived there, and took a position in
order of battle in front of the palace of the govern-
ment. The captain of the pontifical carabineers de-
manded, in the name of the prolegate, the cause of this
violation of the convention made with Gen. Welden.
The Austrian officer answered that he obeyed an
order received before the convention, and then evacu-
ated the city; but posts were established by the
Austrians at the three gates of Galliare, Strado Mag-
giore. and San Felice.
The Turin Opinione of the 11th, under the date of
Novara, the 10th, says that during the armistice
Peschiera will be surrendered, the Piedmontese artil-
lery being first withdrawn from it. The Piedmontese
troops occupied the line from Parma to Casteletto
upon the Ticino; they were enfeebled and in the
greatest disorder,
Letters from Genoa of the sth say that the Anstrians
had taken possession of Pavia, which, however, was
completely deserted.
Letters from Florence of the 7th state that the
English minister, iu that city, announced that General'
Welden, on the friendly interposition of himself and
the French minister, had declared that the frontiers of
Tuscany should be respected, on the condition that
internal order should be preserved, and no acts of
aggression committed, which conditions the ministers
of France and England had guaranteed.
The following notification was published by the
Austrian commander at Ferrara: " My troops shall
conduct thi m-elves iu good order and discipline, when
they shall set foot on the Pontifical territory. All
violence against persona and property shall be tried
by councils of war. But I will shoot, on the other
hand, because I do not intend to mak,. any pri,oners,
whoever shall be found with arms in their hands,
or shall show any hostility against us. Wherever the
Imperial troops shall be in garrieon all arms must be
delivered up, and the authorities are personally respon-
sible for this and for the victualling of the Imperial
troops."
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 11th of August,
under the bead of Florence, August 7, gives the fol-
lowing official document :
An °Meld communication from the English minister
resident in Florence, has made known that Lieutenant-
General Welden, in consequence of the interposition of the
good offices of the said minister, in which the charge
d'affairea of the French Republic afterwards joined, hu
declared that the frontiers of Tuscany will be respected by
the Austrian army, on condition that interior order shall be
preserved in the Grand Duchy, anc there shall be neither a
levy en moue nor any acts of aggression. The English
ministry baying guaranteed the execution of these con-
dition", the government has the confidence that the
good tense and the devotion of the Tuscan people
will induce them to preserve the calm necessity for the safety
of the country. In order that the declaration of General
Welden should inspire confidence, and, as • still further
guarantee, the said English minister has also interposed
his good offices with general Pergias, commandar.t
of the troops occupying Modena. Similar results
are confidently expected from that quarter. Nevertheless,
the efforts to line the frontier with troops are not diminished,
and preparations are made for all eventualities—The
Minister, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, N. CORCINI.

HAMBURG.— DIRTURBANCES.—Our correspond-
ent, writing under date of Hamburg, August 12th,
ears:
Last night the peace of the city was disturbed by a letter
published in one of the local papers called the Reform, al.
leged to have been written by a person in the asylum,
signed Brakewsagen, who pretended that he had been kept
then: these five years, though of rand mind, and giving
as a reason for such cruelty that he is entitled to property
' to the amount of fifty thousan marks. Improbable
as this story is, it was believed, and plots formed to
liberate the man. Crowds trembled at the pig
market, near the gate through which they had
to nass, but where they would have been obliged to pay the
toll-. they began to form barricades, but were disturbed by
the Burgher guards, who assembled fa large numbers as
soon as the drums gave the alarm, and assisted the police in
destroying the barricades and in arresting the rioters: it
took them from about 11 to 1 o'clock. Three of
the speakers at the Ton-balle on Monday were
arrested yesterday, and will be brought to trial for seditious
behaviour. These are Drs. Tricia and (aloft and Mr.
Man. Some people are afraid that attempts will be made
aright to rescue them, groups having been seen in the
neighbourhood who look stispis; but, with the excellent

organisation and the spirit of our burghers, I do not think
there is reason to tear that their object will be attained. It
has the appearance as if all these things are only taken as
pretexts to create disturbances. The conservative petition
to the Senate, put in circulation yesterday, has got a gre.t
many signatures.

IRELAND.
ARREST OF ANOTHER LEADER.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY.
Mr. J. Harnett, who is charged with leading the
party of armed insurgents that attacked the Kerry
and Limerick mails at Abbeyfeale, was arrested, and
brought into Limerick last night, on an outside car,
handcuffed, and escorted by a party of dragoons. lie
was lodged in the county gaol of Limerick.
The accounts from the south in Saunders today
arc startling enough. One can hardly, however, rely
on them, after the " Inttle" narration of Saturday.
The latest are as follow :
AIGIRYPHALK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12 —This town is in
a dreadful state of excitement. Filty of the coostahulary
were ordered out last night, and proceeded on cars to the
mountains. 1 went with them. and ascertained that
Richard O'Gorman, with 700 or 800 men, was there, and
had attacked some commissariat stores coming here for the
troops. Some police who were out on duty interfered,
and a skirmish took place, but the force with which 1
went turned off the roar, and I could nut be allowed
to Po further with them. A man (torn this town re-
mained with me, and we wont to the C. mmons, t bout six
miles up the mountains. The rotas were tit arly all barri-
caded up with Wei, atones, and the like. 'lige cruised the
ditches, and saw, after a long walk, several clusters of
men, utterly all of whom were armed; they wi re firing
shots, and appeared to be drilling. When we wire ap-
proaching thr-e of them came close to us and warned u• off,
saying th.it if we approached any they would shoot
us. The man with me stopped short, but I tried to share
the men that I was merely a looker on—a reporter, travel-
ling for the press ; but they said, so much the worse, and
that if I did not travel off with cutoff they would me
as they had served the detective Ilogden. Without, there
fore, running any further risk, I joined my companion and
tuned hack, and had not prooeeded many yards when the
came three and another fellow overtook us, and warmed my
coat for pistols. They got my purse, but retuned it, say-
ing that it woo not tb it they wanted, but that guns and
pikes would be their fortune. They mid, we have the men
here that the Peelers want, but God help them if they come
nigh us. They also asked about Smith O'Brien. I
snswered them freely, but felt rather uneasy fer my own
personal safety. This was about four o'clock this morning.
I heard several gun shots at a little distance, and felt con•
slimed that SOME affray between the police party and insur-
gents was taking place, but on my return just now 1 had
there wax nothing heard of it here, Part of the 88th Regi-
ment and a large force of constabulary are here. 'the 61th
Regiment (part) at Cutleisland, and constabulary; also a
atroeg force at Brsff. The postmaster tells me that when he
went with the little boy to get the mail bags which were
robbed, he was conducted into the presence of four men,
each with a gun. They told him that if be attempted a
capture, they would shoot ; that they only took t'.e
government letters and tte.se of the police. They returned
the bags, and all the privet.) letters unopened. Time pr •
vents my adding more.
LIMERICK, SUNDAY 2,.71011T, AUGUST 13.—1 have just
arrived here from Abbeyfeale, and when pawilg through
Rathkeale I ascertained the following particulars re-
specting the three men who were shot at Casth-
town, near Rathkeale, yesterday morning :—A body
of armed insurgents having moved off from tho direction of
Abbeyfeale, towards Charleville, by the mountains, attacked
every house in their way forums and provisions. They su-
et tided in coine pieces, not in others, and crossed over towards
Rathkeale, and made • derptrate attack on the village of
Cutletown, about three miles from Rathkeale, in which
town is stationed a large force of military and constabulary.
S I of the inhabitants went for shelter into a large hoe to to
lenity it, and thus escape from the hands of those lawless
savages. Stine police were also in the house, and this is
now given u a reason for so determined an attack having
been made in the first instance upon it. The insurgents
marched up to the house, halted, and fired several shots,
to show that their guns were loaded. The inmates barri-
caded the doors and.wind nes as well as they could, but the
mob succeeded very soon in starting the door. The inmates
had made up their minds to resist the ruffians to the
last, and providsd themselves with such weapons as they
could fi-td, spade'', pokers, &e., and formcd into position
inside the door, so as to command the entrance; the
door was soon burst open, and the first fellow to enter
was felled to the ground by one of the inmates, by
a blow of a spade which nearly rplit hie face in two;
another was knocked down, seeing which, and the impossi-
bility of forcing an entranx, the assailants levelled their
guns, and fired a volley into the door, killing three men on
the spot • one of whom was the Poor law relieving-olticer
of RathlZeale Union. The constabulary were soon on the
ground, and •coured the neighbourhood for some time, but
without finding any trace of the murderers, who made off
immediately alter firing the volley. It is believed that the
party were the same (or part of that) which attacked the
coaches, against many of whom informations have been
sworn; it is hoped by these means that the villains will not
escape justice. The following troops are stationed be-
tween Abbeyfeale and Limerick: At Abbeyfeale-2 compa-
nies 88th regiment, and 100 constsbulary. Newcastle-2
companies 64th regiment, one troop of the let Kisies Dra.
good Guards, and 101) constabulary. Rathkeale-3 com
panics 64th regiment, 2 troops let King's Dragoon Guards,
and 200 constabulary. Adam—A Mtge force of constabulary.
whose number I could not accurately ascertain. Limerick—
The 93rd Highlanders, 5 companies 64th regiment, 49th re.
giment, 60th Rifles (2nd butt.), enrolled pensioners, Sappers
and Miners, Horse Artillery, 2 troops Font ditto—full bat-
tery ; Ist la agoon Guards, 2 troops. Besides a large con-
stabulary force, making in all in Limerick garrison, a force
of not tees than 3,000 men, General Napier in command ;
cOl. Cex, gitattermaster aelersi.
The Attornev•General concluded his address in Mr.
Martin's case yesterday, at 6 p.m.
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(By Me Electric Telegraph Company's Erprem.)
TUESDAY EVENING. The trial of Mr. John
Martin, proprietor of the Irish Felon, was re.
sumed this morning. The law officers of the
crown gave in evidence the prisoner's declaration
at the Stamp-office, as proprietor of the paper.
A long argument then arose between the counsel for
the crown, w.. 0 proposed to read in evidence extracts
from the Irish Fehm which had not been specified in
the indictment, and the counsel for the prisoner, who
strongly objected to such a proceeding. The court hav-
ing intimated that the Attorney-General was wrong,
he declined to press the evidence, and.," , • '.t
delay, Mr. Butt rose to address the Jo.-
the prisoner. He contended that the question was
not, as the Attornev-General bad stated, whether the
prisoner had published the articles referred to, but whe-
ther he was guilty of an actual felony, and
he demanded of them, if they found his client guilty
at all, only to find him guilty of the precise charge
laid in the indictment. The learned gentleman con-
cluded his speech at a quarter-past live. The Solicitor-
General then rose to reply, and was lett speaking
when the packet departed.

We have received, under date of Bristol, intelli-
gence from the south of Ireland, by the Hose, steam.
packet, Captain Burgess, which left Waterford at
nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, and arrived in the
Bristol river at five this morning.
The intelligence she brings, although of a pacific
character, and possessing nope of the " warlike "
features which characterised south-of-Ireland intelli-
gence a mouth ago, is yet interesting and important,
as showing how the news of Meagher's capture has
been received in his native city, Waterford. The
vauntings of the confederates, that the laying of a
finger on the person of Meagher would be the
signal for such an outbreak of popular feeling
as must prove overwhelming, has been sir.gubirly
falsified. Perhaps there is no par' of the United
Kingdom where the intelligence of his capture will
produce less commotion. He seems to be regarded as
a rash, impetuous, but not an ungenerous young man;
and there is just as much sympathy manifested for
him as might be expected to be felt for a young
gentleman connected with the people by ties of
citizenship, and whose family and connections have
long lived among them in honour and respect. Sym-
pathy with his proceedings there is none; and oar
correspondent was assured by a gentleman well
conversant with the district of which Waterford
forms the chief point, that there is an
extensive re-action of a bona fide character going on
in the public mind; that people were beginning to
inquire as to the grounds upon which it was souet
to justify the raising of the standard of rebellion; and
that the result of this inquiry was making manifest
the folly and wickedness of the late proceedings.
The government packet Birkenhead left Waterford
on Monday night, at 6 o'clock, with troops. It was
understood that she proceeded to the west of Ireland.
There were reports in Waterford on Monday night
of disturbance at Kerry, where, it was said, that some
conflict had taken place with either the police or the
troops. The statements, however, were of the most
vague character, and will probably have had their
origin in the brain of some stupid alarmist.
As the effect of tranquillity, trade is represented as
Improving at Waterford, and the town begins to as-
sume its wonted bustle.