The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-03 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Parma Gazette announces in its official part
that Baron Ward, the English gentleman who ma-
nages that duchy, has been decorated with the Impe-
rial Constantiman Order of St. George.

ROME, SEPT. 24.
A gloom has been thrown over the middle classes
of Rome by two deaths, resulting from the recent
political arrests, which have been already commented
upon so fully. The first of these victims was a young,
accomplished, and beautiful lady, the wife of Signor
Casciani, who, upon her husband's arrest, was so
horror struck, and made such exertions subsequently
in his behalf, in the season when the air of Rome is
most unwholesome, that she brought on a violent
fever, under which she sunk on the evening of the
19th, at the age of 24. Being universally beloved
land admired her death has produced a great setaia-
tiou. The next case is that of the daughter of Dr.
Aurelj, who was so alarmed at seeing her
father torn from his family and carried off
to gaol at midnight by a band of sbirri,
that she only survived the shock a few hours. This
catastrophe is the more deplorable, as the offence of
Dr. Aurelj was of the moat trifling kind. He was
one of the precettati, or persons under police surveil-
lance, who are not allowed to change their residence
without riving due notice to the authorities. He
had changed his house, and left a w ritten notice of
it to the porter of the President's office, the office
being shut. The paper was mislaid, the doctor ac-
cused of having transgressed the regulations, and
dragged off to prison. In consequence of the misfor-
tune resulting from this harsh treatment the doctor
has been pardoned the year's imprisonment to which
he would otherwise have been condemned for his
offence.

The gradual revelations springing out of the con-
spiracy examinations lead to the almost daily arrest
of newly inculpated individuals. Several soldiers of
the second regiment of Roman infantry, quartered at
the Cimarra barracks, were arrested on the 19th and
20th, accused of participation in the plot. It is a
curious coincidence that, immediately after the dis-
covery of the conspiracy, two Roman soldiers made
inquiries at the British Consulate as to the possibility
of their obtaining British passports to enable them
to leave the country, alleging that their time of ser-
vice had expired, and seemed much disappointed on
kerning the irregularity of such a request.
The same official paper of the 23rd instant men-
tions, amongst the recent palace promotions made by
his Holiness, that of "Signor John Selby, of the dis-
tinguished catholic family of Niddleston, in the
county of Northumberland," to the dignity of
" honorary chamberlain wearing sword and cape."
The corn question still continues to embarrass the
government, and to agitate the capital and provinces.
At Ancona the Gonfaloniere and four of the muni-
cipal councillors have resigned is consequence of the
difficulties of their position. Here in Rome the price
of hard wheat, such as is generally used for the ma-
nufacture of maccaroni paste, has fallen from 15 dole.
to 121 the rubbio—a measure differing little from
our quarter—in consequence of the government hav-
ing imported 20,000 rubbi of Russian wheat of that
description, but good Roman and other soft wheat
for bread maintains its price at 14 to 141 dollars.
Exchange on London, 471. Roman Consols, 961.
Bank Shares, 253.