The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11. 1849.

force against liberalism was, however. somewhat
mitigated at the last general election. Bat then, Sir
(Imams GRIT was the whig candidate; and he was
not only a minister known to be consulted by the
Premier in the appointment of bishops, bat an owls-
siudeal cominist loner as well. _ _

Yet has the office of trustee been described as a
"thankless" sae.

Who these suffering, long-enduring trustees are,
and what they are, and how they exercise the
" thankless" discretion confided in them, it will, how-
-1 ever, require other articles to tell.

Msaoa-Gattamti. Sts WILLIAM NAPIER, in a
letter to a con•ensporary which we reprint, is pleased
to rail the Dui y News " a journal which has cor-
dially abused me and my brother, Sir CHARLES
Narita, sines its first appearance." The assertion is
untinna. When either of the brothers has merited
the Doily News has not hesitated to bestow it.
hen the one has sought to appropriate more than
Ids fair share of the prime money due to the
army be commanded, or when the other to wreak
a new grudge oo old friends has violated the secrecy
ins to confidential communications, the Daily News
hes spoken of their conduct as it deserved. But the
Deily News, so far from habitually abusing them, has
wry rarely said anything about them, and when it
did has sometimes praised and sometimes blamed
according as the occasion prompted.
Speaking with the same frankness and entire ab-
sence of any arrier-petssee, which has hitherto
characterised our remarks, we must say that Sir
WILLIAM seems bent at present upon stowing him-
self the very Sir Lungs O'Tnyger of controver-
sialists. The journal to which his first epistle on
regimental colonels and clothiers was addressed,
aadsavoarad, when it gave splice to Mr. Roue rood
OLAOSTONa's reply, to mediate so far between the
aisputants as to exhort them to abstain from person-
alities in the further prosecution of their discussion.
But this will not suit Sir Wituag's purpose. It is
a personal quarrel he wants; the merits of the ques-
tion at issue are with him a secondary consideration.
A wilful man must have his own way. If Sir
WILLIAM is bent upon having a scolding bout we
annot help it, but beg to be excused from taking any
part in the
.equabble.
Oar participation in the controversy which has so
sadly disturbed the equanimity of the gallant Major-
General has been confined to the questions—What
emoluments do the clothing colonels receive ? What
services do they perform In return for these emulu-
menta ? atd in what light are men receiving such
emoluments and performing such services to he re-
prded ?
It appears from official documents that the annual
pay of a clothing eolnnel varies Irom 1,8001. in the
household cavalry to 5001. in the infantry of the line.
It appears, from the same source:, that his annual
emoluments from clothing may vary from 5001. to
about 1,5001. The appointment of clothing colonel
cannot be lees than 1,0001, and may occasionally rise
as high as 3,0001. per annum.
Now what services does the clothing colonel yen.
der in return for this income ? Sir W. NAPIER has
stated in his first letter that the clothing colonel " is
never with the regiment;" that " the interior coo-
nomy of regiments is exclusively " under the control
of the lieutenant-colonel and the captains." The
clothing colonel, therefore, does nothing for his pay;
be is a useless supernumerary, drawing his pay and
doing nothing.
With regard to the clothing, Sir WILLIAM states
in his first letter that the samples for the year are re-
ceived by a general board of officers, that their
examination is checked by that of the inspecting offi-
cers of army clothing, and lastly, that the articles
supplied are tested by a board of regimental officers,
assisted by the master tailor and ehoemakor. From
his second letter we learn that the clothing coloaels
rely upon the judgment of the clothiers with when
they deal. In the event of the clothing being re-
jected, " the bargains made by colonels with their
elo hiers are so string rot, that they in turn
throw the clothing upon the latter, who, evally
provident, throw it on the manufacturer." What
trouble a clothing colonel gives himself in the tran-
medal we have no means of knowinLf., but it is evi-
dent from Sir WILLIAM'S statement that his inter-

terence is quite unnecessary. The boards which
inspect samples and clothing could deal directly with
the clothier, or even with the manufacturer. The
employment of the colonel at all is a rank job to
afford an excuse for giving him the emoluments.
Sir WILLIAM has been rather unfortunate in his
selection of an illustration of the manner in which the
system works. He says in his second letter: "Three
regiments, and it is uncle, stood two others are in the
same predicamect, received their clothing some
mouths ago. That clothing had passed the board ;
had passed the inspectors of clothing; had passed
the regimental board of officers ; had been
nareived by the men, and worn for several
months, when by experience it was discovered that
the cloth was not so good as it ought to have been.
None but a very skilful manufacturer could, without
the test of wear, have disoovered the defect; but it
was discovered, and a report was immediately made
of di., fact to the Commander-in-Chief, who at once
ordered the clothing to be returned to the colonel✓,
directing th.m to provide new and better." The re-
giments received their clothing "some months ago;"
the men had " worn it for several months ;" the
transaction is evidently quite recent—of yesterday.
The noise that has been made about the abuse in re-
spect to army clothing honest the array authorities on
the alert, and the consequence is, that already three
clothing colonels have been convicted, and two are
strongly suspected (there are 27 et them to all) of
supplying an inferior article or allowing it to be
supplied.
We have proved from official documents that the
clothing colonels are in the receipt of large emolu-
ments; we have proved b•` the evidence of Sir
WILLIAM NAPIER that they do nothing—do not even
prevent the soldier from being imposed upon. We
leave Sir WILLIAM to choose the epithet which is
most accurately descriptive of men who pocket the
proceeds of taxes wrung fro.o ill-requited industry
lupon such terms.

ROME, Dcc. 30.

Yesterday evening, at sunset, the caitle of St.
Angelo, by the consecutive discharge of one hundred
and one great guns, announced to this metropolis and
the world in general, that the dynasty which bad
reigned over Rome for 1,000 and 48 years has come to
a close, and a new government is to be called into
bring by the mandate of the whole population assem-
bled ID a coustituent representative body by universal
suffrage;—the rest bell of the Capitol, which only
tkAla for the death of a Pope, pealed solemnly. It was
exactly on the 24th November (the fatal night of the
Bight of Pio Nono) that in the year of our Lord, 800,
Charlemagne arrived in Rome to be crowned on
Curistmas day of that year by Leo 111., and to iced-
tate and formally corroborate the donation of Pepin
by the erection of the papal sovereignty. That ar-
rangement, the key stone of the arth of European
politics for the following eight centuries, was occa-
sionally disturbed, and in our own times the papacy
has relapsed into its mere spiritual essence twice,
under the two popedoms of Pius VL and VII; but
these occurrences were from without, by erernal

pressure and accidental combinatioc the popedom
had a recuperative energy within the Roman states;
bet now the disconnecting agency is from within,
and for the first time the Romans themselves have
declared that no priest shall bold king's authority in
Rome.
The effects of this extraordinary revolution, by far
the greatest that has marked the current year, are not
dreamt of by the parties engaged in its accomplish-
ment, ear rerhaps by the superficial reader of a news-
piper. Far from being fatal to the great we-tern
church called catholic (and by accident Roman), it is
the harbinger of a new vitality ; and by the destruc-
tion of the mere Italian exclusivenesp, which has been
a corroding ulcer for ages, that church will really
become what it scarcely has been of late, really not-
versel ; and instead of being under the narrow manage-
ment of an Italian club, will seek for intellect, virtue,
and sagacity throughout the range of Christendom,
and recruit its staff no longer from the petty bowl-
dwits of a very ignorant territory, but from the
whole domain of civilized Europe and America,
"ri Ter •Attsverrer!
There are now sixty cardinals, and out of that
whole number of dignitaries, in whom there is sup-
posed to reside some undefined and nebulous claim to
regulate the church of Gel, only seven belong to
Europe and the world; the rest belong to this penin-
sula, including Sicily and Sardinia. To plane this
very important view of the subject in its true light
arid to understand holy far the ruling power

Is made up of catholic or universal elements,
the following ...rays s of the Pope's counsellor and
the supreme Areopagus of the church, according to
locality of birth, is just now a at subject for the medi-
tation of catholic Christianity :-6, Ostos: Umbras-
chini, Fransoni,Spinola, Briguale, FieschL-7, Rome :
Rerberisi Mellini, Toeti, Aided, Marini, Simonetti,
Naples : Serra, Pignatelli, Carta, Riario.
—3. Florence: Corsi Siena, Parini, Piecolomini.—
I, Milan : Opissoni.-1, Bologna : Missofaute.-22,
Other towns In the Roman States : Feretri (2), Macchi,
Bernetti, Ousoli, Mattel, Outman., Della (lenge,
Orioli, Ciaeohi, Ugolini, Soglia, De Angelis, Paused,'
Seratlni, Oise, Muni, Bala!, Boron%
Vissudelli, Antoaelli.—l, Sardinia Island : Amt.-
6. The rest of Italy : Bisset!, Vilisdicani,
Azevedo, Asquini-49 of strictly Italian origin.—
Amen north and south, none; Asia, none; Africa,
none • England, with over 80 Roman catholic bishops
subject to her sway, not one; Spain, not one.—
1, Portugal : Carvallo.-4, France: Oirand, De
Ronald, De la Tour d'Auvergne, Dupont—l, Austria :
Swartsenberg.-1, Belgium: Stench.
This state of things can have now no palliation or
excuse. The church must be dis-ItaliauSed to re-
become catholic, and such narrow exclusive decisions'
as that lately given on the question of Irish education
will no longsr be possible, emanating from a body of
prelates consisting of ttee and enlightened Americans
with European intellects of a higher calibre than
those now in adverse polemics of power to rule.
Returning to secular matters : the government
keeps its position, and sinless continue to regulate
the eaves' departments until the meeting of the con-
stituent assembly on Feb. 6. Unlike the beggarly
governments of Stain and Portugal, the Roman ad-
ministration have announced their readiness to pay
the national creditor in full. The dividends will be
met with punctuality in January.
Count Mamiani is dying, and can have no object of
earthly ambition.
The supreme junta bas cashiered Prince Massimo,
the famous postmaster, whom I have been putting
this three years in vain. Prince Chigi is also turned
ea! of office. These vigorous acts have given general
stisfaction.

NAPLES,Dac 29.

As the decilitre niumint draws near in which the affairs of
Sicily are to be decided, either by niploamy or army. more
copious detail teach us from that island. At Milano, near
Messina. all the forts which rendered that port inaccessible
to hostile vessels, had been demolished by the Neapolitan
troms. On the demolition of So. Elmo, the strongest of all,
the emaciation of a mine was so treureendons that the windows
of the houses in the neighbeerbeed had been destroyed by it.
Ibis operation having occasioned peat divest faction to the
!delimit it was deemed prudent to %eyelid it ; on the fol.
lowiug day, however, it was resemed, tranquillity having
been restored. With the solitary exception of Messina and
the neighbourhood, all Sicily still continua ia the hands of
the Medians. At Syracuse I Aare heard it said that 15,000
of the people were 'road. General Antonini had arnvol
some short time since at Palermo, and was immediately sp-
rinted Inspecor-General of the Sicilian army. Directly
afterwards he left on board the Peloras to visit all the meats
of the island, acesonspenled by the officen of emitheers who
have recently designed a military plea of the state, in
order to provide for the fortification of the cefeesible pAnts
if the island. Together with Gen. Antonini it was said that
22 french officers of artillery and engineers had arrived.
The preparations for defence and the armaments in Sicily
were oristinued with the greatest possible activity, and had
become very imposing. Amongst the many reports in air
=tenon, it is said that the Sinks= bad arrested for taking
into their pay • body of Beim; I mention it merely as a
report. In the Chamber of Deputies at Palermo a long
discussion took place on a decree proposed by the Minister
of Foreign Affairs for the adhesion of Sicily to the I.alian
manstithent. Two amendmeets were made, one by the
deputy Bertolansi, and the other by the density Raela they
were, however, both njeceed, and the decree passed,—the
se and and third reading Wag diepesed with. Everything,
tnerefore, seems to promise a strong resistance in ease of a
descent on Palermo by the Kin``,' should this be decided on,
sad, indeed, from what I hese to-day, little flout,
el it seems to remain Filangieri was to have left
en the night of the 27th for Neely. but I ustlerstend be
is gone agate to Gaeta ; he will leave for his destination
immediately. On the side of the Pharo three strong camps
of observation will be formed—one in the Apulia-, samba
it. the Abelian, on the frontiers, end • third in the Calabria,.
It is difficult to know what remorse can induce the govern.
meat to form theca military comps in places where order and
tranquillity are maintained.
In Naples little is doing now ; in feet, Gaeta is Naples,
and as such is the strong point of interest Before, however,
I give yon any reports thence I will mention two rumours
that ere afloat in the miry—the one speaks of a new proroga-
tion of the chambers for four months, whilst the other (eastAt
I mentioned yesterday) says that sedan have been already
Owed for decreeing the badges of 1849 to be the IMO es that
of 1848. It such be the case we may well ask where are the
guarantees en solemnly sworn to tor the observance of Oar
constitution in all its Inviolability. Visits of surprise end
ingaisiti in are made daily to the differeat printing-offices
of the city, showing • dispositisu certainly, and
perhaps a diterealnauon, on the part of the go-
vernment to resume its former authority and power.
Amongst other ditto:onto arrivals at theta are these of
Signor Vsldivieeo, Bray Ertraoriinery for Mexico, and
Cavaliero Foreiredo, Minlsterof his Basilian Majesty. The
Duke Bonelli was also presented to the Pope, in order to be
recognised as a Roman duke, on the death of his father. On
Christmas.dsy the diplomatic beefy, incressed by the arrival of
Count Creptowicb, Minister of Russia at the court of the Two
Sicilies, went to pay their respects to hi. Holiness, when the
representative of Spain thus addressed the Pope, in the name
of the diplomatic body, " Holy Father, the diplomatic b
on this solemn day, oossecrated by religion, fulfils a duty in
laying at tne feet of your Holiness its most respectful and
sincere homage. %Faeroes of the virtue which your Holi-
ness has displayed in circumstances too painful ever to be
forgotten, we think ourselves happy in exposing at this
conjuncture the same sentiments of admiration and devotion
—sentiments as unalterattle as are the virtues which
awakes them. Is wishing your Holiness the pesos and hop-
piness of which you are so worthy, we are only the faithful
interpreters of the wishes of our governments. They ell
take a Itvely interest in the fortunes of the pontiff,
greater still, it it be possible, on a foreign .oil than under the
root of the Vatican. Your cause is too just, too holy, not
to be protected by him who holds in bisomnipotent hand the
lot of kings and people." T n this discourse the bely father
replied, " The new demonstrations of aft ction, and the in-1
tenet of the diplomatic body towards as, awaken in our
bean frith sentiments of gratitude and satisfaction, Vicar,
though unworthy, of the God-man whose bath we this day
celebrate, it was ail his strength which came to us in the
days of oar afil aloe, se it is all his gram which permits us to
love our subjects and children is the place in which now foe
a time we find ourselves with that love with which we see
garded them when residing in our city of Rome. The
holiness and justice of oar cause will cause God to inspire,
we feel assured of it, salutary councils into the governments
you represent, ic onto that it may obtain that triumph
which is the triumph of order, and the catholic church,
supre may intent upon the liberty and independence of its
head." the diplomatic body then proceeded to pay their
rt "pots to their majesties, passing thence to the Cardioal
Doc teMsechi. A war steamer, Neapolitan, left yesterday for
Gaeta. Admiral Boodle left Gaeta on the morning of the
26th, en board the Salunarteer,after having paid his respects
to his Holiness.
Orders, it is mid, have arrived from his government for M.
Rayneval to demand the fullest satisfaction for the insults
bilt red to the French by the soldiery u well as the govern-
meet Tho Frenchman who was so severely injured some
time Inner is not dead, bat still continues under medical ors.
Inquiries are made daily for his health from the palace, and
his medical opuses are paid by government; money ho
been moreover offered to him, but, by counsel of his ember
cedar, declined. It is to be hoped that we shall shortly beer
of our own government also &shinn the strongest notice of
the slights sod insults offered to British subjects.
Cardinal Ostini, who fell down the hatchway of the
Hibernia, is still is great danger
A Spanish steam-frigate come fa lest night. This morning
oar admiral has been on board the Rodney, to inspect her
prevents to her leaving this port on the 2nd of January.
Five per emu. left off yesterday at 821.
Falangioi arrived here from Gaeta on Wednesday night,
and was to have left immediirely for Sicily, but, on Thurs-
day morning. was recalled by telegraph to Gaeta, together
with the Minister of War. This recall wee in ountequ<nat
of despatches from Petersburg.