The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-26 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

In the sitting of the Federal Council, on the 21st,
the Austrian note was again discussed, but no reso-
lution was taken. The Federal Council has received
from the government of Ticino a report on the un-
happy destiny of a Ticinese named Taddei, who was
hanged after the &mite at Milan. This report has
produced a most painful impression, as Taddei was
not hanged for taking part in the revolt, but in con-
sequence of a combination of circumstances which
misled his judges. He was commissionaire in a
lailerie where arms were found. The proprie-
tor of the es•ablishtnent is now in prison.
The returned Ticinese protest the innocence of the
latter, and the cantonal government prays the Fede-
re) Council to intervene on his behalf.

The Bund affirms that the---Swlas"..government has
received from the Finance department of Lombardy a
notification that it has been authorised to permit the
export of salt. Orders have therefore been given by
the Swiss government to bring away the salt which
had already been paid for, but which the Austrians
had retained.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.

An Austrian court-martial sitting at Ferrara, has
condemned 10 persons to death, one to travaux
forth for fifteen years, and a twelfth to two years'
imprisonment. The first eleven were charged with
belonging to a revolutionary society, and the twelfth
with having circulated seditious prints. Itadetsky
commuted the sentence of some of the prisoners,
but three have been shot for want of a hangman.
Their names are :—Succi Giacomo, of Ferrara, aged
48, a landed proprietor; Malagutti Dominic°, of
Saletta, near Ferrara, aged 26, unmarried, physician ;
and Parmeggiani Luigi, of Ferrara, aged 46, father
of two children, innkeeper.

AUSTRIAN ITALY.
The Patria of Turin of the 20th publishes a cir-
cular, dated Milan, the 12th, and signed by Count
Straw°ldo, but which has not yet appeared in the
Milan Gazette. In this circular the Imperial Lieu-
tenant of Lombardy instructs the authorities to whom
it is addressed to examine all contracts of sale, mort-
gage, or any other disposal of lands or property,
which may have been made by refugees as far back
as 1847; the Imperial Government having strong
reasons to suspect that many refugees, whose pro-
perty would be now under sequestration, have had
the foresight to attempt to save their property from
such a measure at that period, by signing ficti-
tious agreements, purporting to transfer their
leatates under various shapes to other hands.
In such cases, the circular says, and on
the slightest suspicion of such agreements
being fictitious, the said authorities must consider
them as null and void, and sequestrate the property
described therein in the name of the state. If neces-
sary, such stringent inquiries are to be extended even
to contracts previous to 1847. No question or dis-
pute as to the validity of an old agreement is to be
submitted to the Fiscal-office, because all doubts of
the kind, the circular says, are to be decided by the
respective supreme authority of the province, " there
being no need of consulting the Fiscal-office in mat.
ters expressly withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the
judicial authorities."
The Milan Gazette, of the 17th, publishes a sen-
tence pronounced by the court-martin of that city,
condemning three persons to death for having taken
a part in the movement of Feb. 6. It adds that the
sentence has been executed apon them.