The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-21 00:00:00

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IAY EVENING AUGUST b,211, 1862.

by France and Russia against a repetition of such
a deplorable event as the bombardment of the city
in June. It is understood, however, that these
guarantees are to be moral, not material. Alto-
gether the state of affairs in Servia is described as
improving.

Opinion Nationale, a good authority, boldly asserts
its incredulity of the fact, and for three reasons : i
"1. Such a step is diametrically opposed to the in- !
tercets of France and of the imperial government ;
2. Even admitting (which we do not) that the Em- I
peror intended to follow the policy indicated in the
despatch, it appears to us impossible that the Em-
peror
should choose a moment like the present to'
make the announcement, for to do so would be to
revolutionise Italy ; 3, and lastly. The assurance
stated to have been given to the Pope by M. de !
Lavalette is refuted by the denials and disavowals
given to the new journal La France, precisely for
having supported this opinion."
The fêtes in Milan and Naples on the 15th are
remarkable as orderly demonstrations of public;
feeling in favour of Victor Emmanuel and Gari- ;
baldi. It is observed that the former city, so
French in its tendencies, did not display a single
French flag, and that even the French consul I
avoided raising the French tricolor, lest the anger II
of the people should be excited at the sight of what
typifies to them less the victor of Solferino than
the guardian of the Pope.

At the Bourse the news of Garibaldi's arrival at
Catania was counterbalanced by the favourable
state of the funds in Turin. Rentes rose 10c. for
cash, leaving off at 68fr. 85c., and 68fr. 95c. for ac-
count. Little doing. The return of fine weather
has sent people out of town.

ITALY.

(nos ous OWN

TURIN, Avourr 17.
I have told you that a priest and pretended
demagogue was arrested in Naples ; that a letter
directed to Cardinal Autonelli was found upon him,
and that he attempted to commit suicide in prison.
I now send you the letter :
Eminentissimo Signor Cardinale,—lt is of little import-
ance to the happy issue of the business I propene to
you, in the interest of the church of Italy, that I should
set forth the motives which have determined me to ass the
very great influence I posers in the party of action for the
purpose of making that party the unconscious instrument of
• crisis which will wry as once more into the ways of

right and order, to be re-established on the bases
traced by the treaty of Villsfranai. Briefly then, to arrive
at these resulta, the only ones which can reconcile the in-
terests of the present situation with the past, and those of
the church with the exigencies of progressive civilisation, I
proceed to lay my plan before your Eminence, telling you
frankly that if it be not speedily accepted religion and the
country will be lost together. It is expedient to stimulate
republican passions against Piedmontisra. A revolution in
this seem la ripe in Naplee. Let the friends of the past
make a show of supporting it energetically. It is expedient
to let the red revolutionary torrent widen and overflow in
the act of laying hands on the French ; this will frighten
Napoleon, and he will be forced to change his policy, and
resolve in earnest that the treaty of Villafranca shall be a
reality, The mode of applying the conditions of that treaty
to the exigencies of the present time, sad according to the
modified situation of the several Italian states, will be
matter for future discussion ; for the present, what is neon-
wary is to give a helping hand to the disorder which is to
bring back order.
Furthermore, it were well that your Eminence should I
clearly understand that Venetia must be governed sepa-
rately by an archduke ; that it will be expedient to adopt
a system sincerely federal and constitutional, of which
Rome will be the centre, and to reform the discipline of the
church through the prompt convocation of an ecumenic
council: If your Eminencetwill confide in me I can gua-
rantee to give you here complete revolution. Ido not
wish to be in direct communication with any of the parti-
sans of King Francis ; it is enough that they be instructed
that when the moment of action is come they are to
supply the aid of persons who shall not excite suspicion
amongst my partisans. HOT, those blessed Bourbonist com-
mittees snake very gross blunders, and squander so lunch
mosey to no purpose.

Your Emieenos may write to me under the addrese--
Signor Giovanni Ferretti, Postoffice, Naples. We shall
then arrange whether it will be conveetent that you should
used, or make known to me here, a person fully in your
confidence and mine, through whom the affair may be beet
Carried on.

In my next I will tell you where are the revolutionary
committees of Rome, Veßotel, Albano, Viterbo, and of
whom they comet. Trust for trust. Not to lose time,
and that I may have a proof that this offer of mine is taken
into consideration, your Eminence will send me to the
above address in such a way sa shall seem to you safest and
most convenient, a sum the amount of which I leave to
your discretion, the same being necessary to put in motion
forthwith the forces which are to produce that crisis through
which alone this cursedly tangled skein can be unravelled.
You may send the money in note* of the Roman bank, by
sea post, or through some banker of Rome, taking care,
however, that in sending it that the name of your Eminence
shall in nowise appear.
Kissing your sacred purple 1 declare myself your most
devoted, GIOVANNI FrAILITFI.
You shall know my real name presently.

As the writer of this letter spent a part of his
wicked life in London, you may like to know more
of the man than you will find in any of the Italian
journals. I therefore send you au outline of his
biography. He is a native of Valle, near Belluno,
and his real name is De CoL He studied at
Padua, and was ordained a priest in 1846, so
that his age is not yet 40. In the commotion
of 1848-9 lie appeared a warm patriot. When
the fortunes of Italy fell at Novara he
remained with the emigrants in Piedmont, and was
always found among the most ardent of them,
some of whom afterwards unmasked themselves as
agents of Austria. One of these was Perego, at
present director of the Official Gazette of Verona.
When Massimo d'Azeglio began to weed the emigra-
tion, De Col started for London, went over to the
church of England, and got a good deal of money
out of the protestant clergymen, who thought they
had done a fine thing in converting this pions
priest ; but when his dissolute life became known
to them they closed their purses. He then left
England, and went with an Austrian passport
direct to Rome, where he presented himself to the
Pope, declaring himself deeply penitent, and ready
to serve the good cause with the utmost zeal. Fur-
nished with recommendations from the Pope he re-
turned to Belluno, where, to the astonishment of
everybody, he was not molested in any way what-
ever. But the second part of his life was not more
edifying than the first, and having broken the
domestic peace of some families, he was
shut up for a while by the police in the
lunatic asylum at San Servolo in Venetia.
Afterwards, on the approach of the war
of 1859, the police let him out, and its
subordinates were ordered to allow him to speak
freely, under the pretence that he was insane, but
in reality, for the purpose of using him as a decoy,
and discovering the plans of the liberals through his
instrumentality. He moved about in Lombardy
and the Emilia, always consorting with the extreme
liberals, and especially with the emigrants, and
finally he went to Naples, where he pursued the
same system up to the day of his arrest.
The religious ceremony which used to take place
on St. Napoleon's Day, wherever there was any re-
presentative of the French government, wu omitted
this year, because the French officials had received
information that arrangements bad been made in
Genoa and Milan for • demonstration against the
Emperor, which was to be simultaneous with the
religious celebration.

A letter from Kehl states that four English gen-
tlemen, aooonipanied by one servant, arrived at that plane
three days since front Hada, haring &mended the Rhine la
a very light boat of their own, about 40 feet and little
more than feet wide. After remaining one night at Kehl
the continued their voyage down the RUDA and it was
said that they intended to go the whole way to London I.
their fail maft, for the purpose of deciding • wager.
A sail accident happened on Tuesday at Haws
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troop of MM. Nazi sad Leysnote, in • large test 41111 tb
Boulevard InapiriaL A youth. about 16 years of ark
named Limey, English by birth, was gout& through the'
exercise of the trapeze, when he mimed the second one,
and fell to the ground, breaking his left arm in two places.

SERVIAN AFFAIRS.

The following despatches have pulsed between
our own and the Servian government :