The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-07 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Opinions of Turin says of Radetsky's confis-
cation decree, mentioned by the Parlament° and
published in the Gazetta del Popolo, that its applica-
tion has been provisionally suspended, on account of
the serious international difficulties which might
arise with respect to the emigrants who are subjects
of other States.

The railways in Lombardy have been at length
restored to their legitimate use, and paseengers travel
on them as before the Milan outbreak.

The Mediterranso of Genoa states that the Tuscan
treaty of commerce with France is for thirty years,
but may be terminated by either party at the end of
the tenth or twentieth year.

ROME, Fin. 24.
The official journal of the 21st contains one of
those oracular replies which it occasionally puts
forth when the attacks of the liberal press, especially
in Piedmont, become insupportable to even ecclesias-
tical forbearance.

The following paragraph disavows the diplomatic
negociations and secret treaties recently attributed to
the government of his Holiness :

Although long accustomed to treat with indifference and
silence certain newspaper articles which have not tenth in
view, still we will mention a word of what is amerted in a
Piedmontese paper, referring to secret diplomatic meetings
(which would be very comic and ludicrous as they are de-
scribed), and even to treaties secretly concluded between
our govenunent and other powers. With regard to such
abeurd and ridiculous assertions, therefore. we sea ware
both journalists and readers that there is no truth In them.

Alter this very explicit denial, we must receive
cum gran salis the accounts of the conditions stated
to be offered by Napoleon 111. for the Pope's conde-
scension in visiting Paris to perform the coronation
ceremony. The journey of his Holiness is rendered
very doubtful by the determined opposition of the
Sacred College ; nor is the harmony between the im-
perial and papal courts improved by the recal of
General Gemeau, who was devoted to the Holy See,
and for whose longer stay. in command of the garri-
son here the Pope in vain implored the Emperor.
The new general is by no means a grateful offering
to the priests, being an austere man, of few words,
averse to visits and courtly attentions. He visited
Rome last year as inspector-general of infantry, and
was not complained of by the troops : but his officers
are now grumbling at his severity, because he has
ordered them not to appear abroad with their uni-
forms.

The weather continuing awfully bad, crowds the
streets of Rome with poor country labourers, whose
distress is partly alleviated by the government allow-
ance of a loaf per diem for each man. jeA French
regiment yesterday cultivated the goodwill of the
people by giving their rations to the starling coun-
trymen collected upon the Piazza di Ban Pietro.
Brigandage is not likely to diminish in consequence
of distress, and we have had a recent proof of it in
another robbery on the Florence road, near Monte-
rosi. The Tiber has made some victims amongst the
shepherds and sheep of the Campagna.
There has been no movement in the northern pro-

since. of the Roman States that could be sup ed to I
have a connexion with the Milanese ontbres The •
Austrian butinado, which has resumed the flogging
of women in Lombardy, was not inactive during the
buccaneering expedition of the Crests to the town of
Rimini. One et the citizens, who was found with a!
forbidden publication in his possession, was bead-
nadoed for several days with a number of strokes,
doubled each day, until he revealed the name of the
person who had given him the paper, but who had
been warned in time to make his escape.
The execution of the monument to Pope Pius VIII.,
to be erected in St. Peter's, according to the will of
Cardinal Albani, who left 20,000 scudi for that pur-
pose, has been entrusted by his Holiness to the cele-
brated Roman sculptor Tenerani. The eight prelates
to be soon numbered :amongst the members of the
Sacred College, comprise five Italians, the nuncios
Vaile and Brunnelli, the under minister Santucci,
the Capucin monk Guisto, and the prefect of the in-
quisition Casterinetti—two Frenchmen and one
Hungarian fill up the list.
At the moment of closing my letter I ant informed
that the government has dec►ded to maintain :the
system of paper money for the present. Tho deficit
must be at the bottom of this rejection of an advan-
tageous plan generally approved of.
The Cardinal Secretary of State is reported to have
left Rome secretly yesterday, upon a visit of the
highest importance to the King of Naples.

NAPLES, FRB. 24.
An error, said Voltaire, is a crime, and so, I fear,
Italy will find it to be. Already is the untimely
effort at Milan producing its unhappy fruits in this
kingdom, as might have been predicted, for bad or
weak governments are ever willing to seize on the
mistakes of others to cover their crimes. Arrests are
the order of the day again, and amongst people of
some consideration, of whom I may mention two
advocates, and the fashionable medical maa of
INaples, who was much liked by the young nobility.
Other arrests are expected. Thus it would seem that
the reign of terror would never cease, and that the
powers that be are determined to rush upon the fete
which inevitably awaits those who are resolved to
reign by fear. Whilst the events of Milan are thus
giving a motive for fresh suspicion and arrests, it is
to be apprehended that they will be followed by the
worst consequences, as regards those who are now
pining in our " bagni" and gaols. But what greater
injustice can be committed than that which
has already been, or is being committed ?
I do not allude to sentences passed con-
trary to all law and justice* but I speak now
of the cue of those who, having undergone the
punishment, having been amnestied, are yet detained
in confinement. Let me mention the case of one
amongst many who, after twenty-seven months of
imprisonment, was put on his trial, included in the
amnesty of 18th September, 1852, which remitted
one-half of his sentence ; his legal punishment was
expiated on the 9th December, 1852, and yet still he
sighs in hopeless confinement. I say hopeless, for
what redress can he have ? There is no press to call
attention to the facts; if the kindness of humanity
does creep abroad, no one dares to give expression to
an opinion, which will involve himself in certain
trouble, without bringing relief to the particular
cases which called it forth. Royal decrees are of no
effect, for yet higher than the royal authority would
seem to be that of the police, which sets aside, or
does not carry out the provisions of a royal decree.
In 1822, the amnesty accorded by the King was re-
spected to the letter; in 1852, an amnesty much
more comprehensive, nay universal, is rendered illu-
sory, by a power which usurps the rights of sove-
reignty, and makes itself superior to the monarch.
"Oh Lord, how long P" is the eager aspiration of
many who are panting for the liberty which seemed
to be within their grasp, or who are undergoing a
punishment which was assigned to them through
the denunciations of the shameless spy.
For some days we have been led to expect the
English fleet here, though it is more probable that
only a portion will visit our port. The Retribution
steam-frigate was to have left Malta on the 12th inst.
for Genoa, Leghorn, and Naples ; the Samson steam-
frigate, direct for Naples, as also the Arethusa, sailing
frigate ; they have not, however, as yet made their
appearance.
Some of the casts ordered for the Crystal Palace
have been already seat off ; others follow shortly.
The rage for excavating continues as strong as ever,
and important discoveries have been made recently
at Herculaneum. Amongst literary notices I caa in-
form yna that the " White Slave" has been prohi-
bited here, and is, therefore, in great demand, whilst
another translation of Mrs. Stowe's work has come
out under the title of " Papa Tom," the first being
denominated " Zio Tom."

A few days since came off a steeplechase in the
neighbourhood of Carerta. Several members of the
royal family and many of the knowing ones were
there, though as the rain came down in torrents the
sport was a failure ; the race, however, was run, and
men won and lost.

Five-and-s-Half per Cents., 1071. Exchange on
London, 663.

SPAIN.

M. Martinez de la Rosa has been elected Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Deputies. The Bordeaux
mail havinic failed to reach Paris on Saturday, there
are no particulars of the division.