The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid mails cf the 23rd inst. have reached us.
The following are the principal points of the project
of reform of the tariff voresented by the minister of
finance. Mon establishes, as the buis of his
system, that articles of which the manufac-
ture is unknown in Spain, mast pay an
entrance duty of 15 or 20 per cent., and that
ad manufactured articles which compete with native
produce most pay a duty of 25 to 30 per cent. The
kng list of prohibited articles, which in the present
tariff is almost as long as that of articles admitted, is
reduced to a few productions of art. The same fact
appears in the list of exportt. M. Mon proposes the
creation, as in France, of bonded warehoaece, where
all kinds of merchandise will be admitted. No change
is made in the earn law as at present existing. With
regard to cotton, M. Mon proposes to admit No. 60
thread and upwards, and all stuffs considered as fire,
mach as Holland, muslin, cotton velvet, cotton stuffs,
ard handkerchiefs of 20 or more threads. But all
they articles most pay an ad valorem entrance duty
of 35 per cent. The produce of foreign colonies, and
even of the Spanish West Indies, is excepted from the
present tariff, and M. Mon intends even to increase
the duties at present levied.
Our correspondent writes as follows :
MADRID, Mar 23.
The Tariff Bill has produced various effects upon
the public mind. The free traders consider it as puny
and inefficacious. It has alarmed the cotton monopo-
lists and as it really does not admit the importation
of any other than the superior elseses of cotton goods,
and even these with duties of 35,40, and 60 per cent.,
the consumers will reap no practical advantage. The
manufacturers on their aide, either through cunning
or fear, will give up manufacturing certain articles.
which, by rendering them dear, will increase their
price. So that,while the consumer will be disappointed
the workman whose employment fails him, will
clamorously attribute it to the Tariff Bill. Besides,
the corn-law here, prohibiting the importation of
grain, is one of the causes that keep up the rate of
wages in Catalonia, for it k-eps breaddear, and bread
is the principal article of food among Catalenian
workmen. If, instead of this mere shadow of reform,
a complete change were made, although English cot-
tons should come to compete with home manufactured
ones Odessa Wheat would furnish the Spanish
workman with sufficiently cheap food to enable
to take a smaller salary for his labour, and, the
expenses of trade being diminished by the ob-
stacles being taken off it, Spanish production would
become infinitely cheaper.
With respect to the new Tariff Bill, the practical
results of its unimportant modifications will produce
all the evils of change, without the good that would
result from complete freedom. Nevertheless, the
free-traders hail this bill as an auspicious omen of the
possibility of something better hereafter.
From Aranjaez, where our youthful queen is lead-
inga ac merry hfe of it, we receive a daily budget of
p gossip, which is too similar to that elsewhere
to be worth mentioning.
In the discussion of the budget two amendments
were adopted, one to augment the sum consecrated
to the telegraph service, and the other for the print-
ing of the codes of law. The deputy Machette, in
proposing an amendment on the naval budget, made
a fearful expose of the dirty work done in that de-
partment, and of the money uselessly squandered
away. Meadizabel proposed an ameadment of the
debt, and an amortization is 40 years.

KAMM. KAT 2.l.—Tiree per Oate., piper. Flve pee Cats.,
Ipaper. Omar, papa. Bank 9t. Fentlased..77. Izeiange
Lealca, 30.30.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—The intelligenee from Rome
is of the 20th inst. The terms proposed by M. Lesser,
have been rejected by the Constituent Assembly.
This occurred in the sitting of the 19th inst., of which
the following is a report :

After reedia-g a letter framed like a preamble, from M.
de Lessem the French savoy, the three cuttirei”iourre
aimed by the Roman Assembly presented the following
project of a convention proposed by the French represen-
tative.

The Roman States invoke the protection tithe French
republic.
tad. The Roma populations have the right of declaring
freely the form of gavraumt they prefer.
3rd. Rome ahell naive the Freer army u an army of
broke'.

The series of the city shallmilitary bo dose is oosjoactices with
the Meepa, mud the civil sad
tit.* Iss est assnllag M their Leg detionsauthorities shall coa-
.
Theo peopealle. eamearmisolled le the Assembly, elicited,
after a siert illemdest, the tailowing answer, which was
anaalaseudy adapted
The MOM* regrets it comet admit the project of the
extreautioey arm of the Pima gewareaseat
It topetweestbe trianvlse w =pieta the =tins, sad to
esstim tbe iteemeary ussellitleme he eatablishing the beet
soiwolowilm Wyss! die two stpolills.

The Ware fres Item, ap to the 19th, is that
the remanent the Bolognese army had arrived there,
and that Garibaldi, at the lead of 12,000 men, was
in paiwidt of the Neapolitans, who had begun to re-
treat Eros Albano to Velletri„

The French 'any was still encamped near Rome,
and the triumvirs had not come to a satisfactory un-
derstanding with 21. de Lamps.
Our correspondent writes :
ROMII, MAT 19.
The attention of all Rome is new earnestly directed
to the molt tithe expedition will' the Neapolitans.
I 7t weed thepelacipaUnalisler lieseiready
mesa hie amps ftcen die jut vsegemass tithe ens-
=pd Iteseans. King Pardiend me emir ob-
tidings of the hemblebie sertsi prepared
airainst his, than he absnimed the eulrisin
hghts of the Pope's palms at Oadel Gandolfo,e left his

"faithful and hocourable soldier." (u Pins IX.
teemed them in his c:lebrated benediction at Gaeta)
Is get out of the scrape as well as they could, and
IA en the wings of terror to Porto d'Anso, where
be embarked for his own happy land, resolving, I
presume, not to furnish Europe with such a spectacle
as that of a conquered monarch led captive, more
=forum, through the streets of the Eternal City.
We expect to receive, either this evening or to-
morrow morning, official accounts of the military
operations of the Roman army ; and I can therefore es
yet only furnish you with such intelligence as is
brought in by the ountry people and by the warier.
continually despatched to and fro. It appears that,
after driving in the Neapolitan outposts, Garibaldi
succeeded in working his way, by Valmontone Cori
and the southern base of the Albin hill, to Cistern,
where he immediately commenced breaking up the
roads, and cutting down the trees which form that
majestic avenue, twenty-four miles long, leading
across the Pontine marshes, to Temecula. Being
thus imprisoned, as it were, at Velletri, with
Garibaldi in their rear, and Roselli in their front, the
Neapolitan forces will either have to give battle on
very disadvantageous terms, or to lay down their
arms and retire immediately from the territory of the
republic. It is rumoured that a considerable body of
the troops had time to effort a retreat before the
arrival of Garibaldi. and that the corps &armee in
Velletri does not amount to more than 7,000 men.
Certain it is, that the Swiss battery, with six ;pieces of
artillery, which left Rome this morning for the scene
of action, returned to the city ea an hour's absence,
having met a warier, two miles and a half on the toed
to Albano, bringing orders for the commanding officer
to stay his march, as his pretence was no longer ne-
t emery.. Two rich farmers of Fres' Senni and
Jscobiai, have been fined 70,000 scudi, f r giving
intelligence to the King of Naples, and thus enabling
hint to get off to the sea-side in time.
The French are still in the same positims, and the
officers are very anxious to be allowed to visit Rome.
If matters ere satisfactorily arranged he permission
will not only be granted to them but t) the priva'es
also, provided they come in small parties and unarmed.
The tii-colound banner of France hqt been again
hoisted at the Patens Colons, the residence of the

ambassador (when in Rome), is well as at the Hotel
d'AUemagne, where the Commissary Lesseps is at
prevent residing. The truce is to last, according to
the latest acoonats, until another deputation can go to
Paris and return; but ()moral Oulinot is stated to
have declared, in the conference at VillaP4mfili, which
took place yesterday, that, should the orders of his go-
vernment oblige hem to march a second time agait.st
Rome, he should come well provided with heavy
artillery, bombs, and rockets, aid effect an entrance
by all the moyena militaires afforded by the sciecce of
modern warfare. -

Bologna causes great uneseituss here, and the sol-
di,rs of Romagna now in Rome are with difficulty
withhold from rushing back to its &finer. Military
discipline is being enforced strictly. Four privates
were shot this morning opposite the Temple of Vests,
being tte first t;me that the condemnation to death
has been carried into execution.

TUSCANY.—By a decree of the 19th, the com-
miasioner extraordinary Serriotori hoe imposed a sum
of 390,000 lire npon the commerce of Florence, in
fulfilment of the law of the 28th of March, 1848.

The pentifical extraordiusry commissioner fir 80-1
logna, Monsignor &dial, has issued a proclamation
from the head quarters 0! the Austrian guvernor-ge-
neral Gotzkowslti, at Villa Spada, 19th in.t., in which
he regrets the evils brought upon the city by the late
obstinate defence, and advises t'e Bolognese to join
with him in restoring tranquillity and obediecce to
the Pope, soon to be reinstated on his throne.
The Corriere Mercantile of the 23rd inst. states, at
the hour of geing to prey, that the Austrians entered
Florence on the 21st.