The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-24 00:00:00

crown will dispense with the services of Sir Fins°
KELLY in the further conduct of that important 1,
orate
and this satisfaction is increased by learning that th;
Admiralty has come to this determination on the Id.
vice of the ArroastA-Gesreast. Whether, to
plaintiff will now summon Sir Frrator Kluit
resume the retainer which he originally
and subsequently abandoned, we know
but if he do, and thereby avail himself ci
the knowledge of the defendant's case possessed by
the learned knight, neither Captain DEhMAN aorta
Admiralty can complain ; for in that case they „ia
only suffer from the abase of professional 03d,
dente by which at one: time they expected to (sni, i
by which, indeed, they mast already have been
great extent benefited." 'Tis the sport to see to
engineer honed by his own petard."
We certainly do not envy the position in slush
the Admiralty's decision leaves Sir FrrzanY Kum
capering from side to side just as piat4
were offered to him ; and now disclaimed
by the crown iu obedience to an expreseks,
of disgusted public opinion and of outraged prof,.
sional honour. It is from no scruples of his that the
crown has been compelled to dispense with his ItT.
vices ; for when the trial at bar was called on daring
last term, there, to the surprise and astonishments(
the bar, was Sir FITZROY, brief and bag in bud,
amongst the counsel for the defendant, just as act;
and as placidly unconscious of the moral enormity he
was practising, to all appearance, as if he had neva
read a sheet of the plaintiff's papers. He rosy, how.
ever, learn, from the result of our interference in this
scandalous affair, that society and the profession do
not overlook conduct such as he has exhibited; am
that the possession of great ability does not entitle •
its owner to treat the rest of the world as plaintiffs
and defendants merely : but this rather involves ono
than ordinary moral responsibility. The only way
however, in which Sir FITZROY can be effect nslly tad
properly
punished is by the plaintiffs insisting on his
znoearance at the. trial.
has
grounds of complaint on other points. For, it now
turns out that, in anticipation of the trial, a vote of
werehieriet ire
not wouldthattea;;; tieLett.l thee
Of "Baron r.Dentass,^
plaintiff
btr;o4
money has been surreptitiously obtained from the Hone
of Commons as a reward to Captain DEN)t IN for the
very proceedings in the river Gallinas which have
given rise to this suit. We say surreptitiously oh.
tanned ; for the Treasury itself has expressed no sae&
silted surprise that the vote in question escaped the
once unwearied, but now, alas, flagging, attention of
Mr. HOME ; and regards it as a stolen march. For
nearly seven years after the application of Capt. Des.
MAN to be thus rewarded, no vote was proposed to
the House of Commons in his behalf, and there exist,
we are informed, decisions in the Treasury coadem.
natory of his application ; yet, when this action
against him is ripe for trial, then a vote is obtained at
the fag-end of a long and tedious night's debate on
supply. Now, surely, if Capt. Desmss had to be re.
warded by the public money, the vote, after a deli),
of seven years, might, in justice to the plaintiff, hare
been postponed until the trial was over. For that
vote, it cannot fail to be observed, puts in the month
of Capt. DENMAN'S counsel a very strong and a very
unfair popular argument. We feel, indeed, its anfair.
nem so strongly, that we may before the trial explain
the whole facts of the case as we find them detailed
in papers laid before parliament

Our Paris despatches of Saturday contains littli
domestic news of general interest. Nothing of import.
ance had taken place in the chambers.
The commission of the budget of 1849 has coruti•
tuted itself, and named M. Bignon president, and M.
Calmon, jun., secretary.

Letters from Milan of Jan. 9 have at length brought
some definite information respecting the atrocious
proceedings of the Austrian police and soldiery on the
3rd and 4th. The efforts of the authorities to suppress
and falsify the reports have however been to a great
extent successful. It appears that after the sanguinary
scenes of the night of the 3rd a numerous deputation,
including several of the most respectable citiaens,
waited on the Viceroy, whose personal character
is generally respected. and who was believed
to have had no part in projecting or organising
the massacre of the citizens. On receiving the
remonstrance and hearing the statements thus laid
before him, the Archduke Regnier took immediate
steps to stop the effusion of blood, which, however, he
did not succeed in accomplishing without muck diffi-
culty and by slow degrees. The Archduke found it
necessary to make it publicly known that until orders
should be obtained from Vienna, he had taken into
his own hands the entire control of the government
in all its departments, thus indirectly paralysing the
action of those functionaries, such as the head of the
police, who had contrived and caused to be executed
the recent murders. This announcement tranquillised
to a certain extent the public alarm. The inhabitants,
however, contrived to maintain an attitude of
defence and omitted no measures necessary to repulse
any future attack. The use of tobacco has been to-
tally abandoned throughout Lombardy and the Vaa-
-1 fiats territories. _ _

The revenue produced by the sale of tobacco pro-
duced in 1893 in Lombardy alone 6.723,832 Austrian
livres, equivalent to about a quarter of a million ster-
ling. The lotteries, which have also been abandoned
by the people, produced in the same year 8,200,016
livres, or about 270,000.
On the Bth the Viceroy issued an order prohibiting
the soldiers from smoking in the streets, which was
directly the reverse of the order which had been is-
sued a few days previously by the commander
of the forces and the director of the police. The
Italian authorities throughout this affair firmly op-
posed the Austrian functionaries, and solemnly pro-
tested against the atrocities of which the people were
made the victims.
Letters from Naples of the 10th announce that the
grand court had pronounced the acquittal of the per-
sons charged with taking part in the demonstrations
of the 14th ult., and they were accordingly liberated.
A considerable number of persons of rank and con-
sideration in Sicily had been arrested, among whom
were the Duke of Villarosa, the Counts Amari,
Dondea, Ferrara, Perez, Letsa-pizzuto, &c. These
persons, known to entertain moderately liberal
opinions, had hindered the people at Palermo from
proceeding to extreme measures in the late manifesta-
tions in that city.
Letters from Rome of the 11th mention a report
that Austria had demanded permission to march
30,000 men through the papal dominions to the
Neapolitan territories, and that a large number of the
cardinals were in favour of consenting to this, but
that the Pope peremptorily refused it.
M. Iklorechini, minister of finances, had applied to
the council of state to sanction a loan of above two
millions sterling. The council consented on the con-
ditions :-1. That the clauses of the contract be sub-
mitted for its sanction. 2. That the sinking fund be
re-established. 3. That retrenchments be made in
the public expenditure, and especially that the pay-
ments granted Mace 1814 to religious corporsUoT,
without just reason, be discontinued. The Jesuits
and the retrograde party, against whom these condi-
tions are chiefly aimed, are furious. A crisis was
accordingly expected. The council of state and the
retrograde section of the clergy were thus brought
face to face, and one or the other must yield.

The Madrid mails of the 16th have arrived. In
the sitting of the Congress on the 1 jith the proposal
to take Into consideration the project authorising
government to levy taxes till the 30th of June
next was voted by 134 against 36. This, as has
been stated, was made a cabinet question by Nair-
vaez, though for what reason he did so it is
difficult to guess, as a question of supply could
scarcely be a test as complete as might be desired.

The Cologne Gazelle states that important intelli-
gence had been received concerning the Swiss ques-
tion. A courier was said to have passed through
Berlin on the 13th inst. bearing despatches, contain-
ing the definite adhesion of Prince Metternich to the
changes made in Paris to the project of a collective
note. The Paris conference is considered to be closed,
and it is said that this note will not be signed in
Paris by MM. Radowits and Colloredo ; but these
diplomatists will retire, and the agents of the three
cabinets at Berne will receive orders to present the
memorandum to the Vorort, signed severally by
there.

Since the foregoing was in type, our Paris de-
spatches of yesterday noon have arrived. The
debate on the general subject of the address was
begun and concluded on Saturday. The discussion,
paragraph by paragraph, will have commenced to•
day (Monday).