The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-23 00:00:00

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.— It was rumoured in Paris
that on the 14th Jut. the French bad made another
advaree against Rome and been again defeated; th;s
is merely rumour. However, the Roman journals of
the 14th had not reached Florence on the evening of
the 15th, at which date our correspondent writes as
follows:
FLORENCE, MAT 15.

Letters ana journals from Rome have not come in
at the hoar I write (4 o'clo,:k, p.m.), which is a dis-
tinct intimation that fighting is going on under the
walls of the Eternal City.
Your Roman correspondent must have prepared
you for this upshot of the foilish French iotermed-
dling on behalf of a prir•ciple they themselves have
repudiated, and in direct violteion of national lights.
Our last accounts from Rome le•fc the French,
15,000 strong, in the immediate vicinity of the walls.
The unlucky King of Naples stems to be it'll in a
state of blockade at Albaro ; he hss got fit y pieces of
artillery with him, which are considered by de Ro-
mans as a regular contribution to the future resources
of the young republic. Col. Roselli, with 4,000
Romans, is still in his rear.

A le'tor from Civita Vecihia, of the 14th inst., says
that on the 13th a deputation had left Rome for Palo,
to meet General Outflow, and d• mend an armistice.
In the sitting of the R man Constituent Assembly
on the 12th me, President Bonaparte communicated
to the Assembly two pieces of intelligence be declared
he had received from sources to be completely relied
on. The first was that the Pope had sent a depufstion
to Paris to obtain the retreat of the French troops ;
the stcond that the King of Prussia had signified to
the French government that, after his protest of the
11th of April, he would consider the oontinuatic n of
French intervention in Italy a cams belli. This piece
of news, which doubtless had its rite in Rome, is
not at all borne oat by our intelligence from other
sources.
A letter from Turin, in the Debate, announces the
cccupation of Bologna by the Austrians in the 15th
inst., after a sanguinary struggle.

VENICE.—The Austrian General Haynan, sta-
tioned b,fore Maitre, hu, by a letter of the 10th
lost., notified to the British and French consuls at
Venice that he cannot permit the vessels of those or
any other nebtral powers to ray in the waters of
Venice, in consequence of the blockade.

A piece was acted at one of the theatres here,
willed the " Barricades of Leipzic," in allusion to the
riot which took plum in that town on the night of
the 6th. It drew full houses, partly from the title,
and partly from an =ming esrecature of the Saxon
brogue. It was announced for to-night, but has been
suppressed by Wrangel. The theatres are at present
the ease of rival demonstrations. The other night,

at hieyerbeer's opera of " The Silesian Camp,' att-the
wog of Fur unser= Honig gut and Nut," the ,
wbcde audience stood op and cheered vociferously.,',
To-night there is to be a oonnter-demonstration I
is the theatre of Kiin;gstadt, where I under-
stand they intend to sing the " Marwillaise."
which is eertienly a barren shift enough, and deserves
well to be hissed, if only for the unnationality of the
thing. The Notional Zeitang is to re-appear tc-
morrow ; but it will retain of that pap:r nothing but
the name and type. Neither Zabel, Schutt', nor any
other impertect membir of the "redaction," will have
anything to do with it in its new share.
AUSTRIA.—Our dates from Vienna are to May 18.
The Wiener &Rung is beaded with a decree of
great importance, which will fall heavily open trade
here and throughout Austria. The exportation into
Hungary is bielden, not only of all materials that
can serve fore fabrication of arms and ammunition,
but clothing. Letters which appeared in our piper
same eighty ea months back from our Vienna corms-
po.ndes& touching the trade of Austria with Hungary,
whelp to give souse ides of the fearful extent to
4-arlide AMU -reaper will be impeverished belles
present ordinance. At the same titre, itwill icerme
smuggling to a pitch in the higbe,t degree detri-
mental to the military operations, of which there is
no better tele-bearer than the smuggler. The follow-
' log is the edict :

Tne present war in Hunetary, Transylvania, and • part of
Croatia and Slavonia has induced the necessity of wholly
stopping the exportation of wares calculated for military use
to the parts of those dominions of the crown in the p-seenion
of the rebels, as well as granting, under custom-howie con-
trol, only these exportations which are destined for the parts
of those countries occupied by the imperial army. Among
the excluded articles are:-1. All sorts of weapons, scythe.,
tickles, and implements which may be converted into arm.
2 AU materials which enter into the coespe•ition of ammu-
nition, such as saltpetre, lead, iron, tin, sulphur, phosphorus,
and chlorine. 3. Uniforms and mintary clothing, cloaks,
cloth, sail cloth, drill, linen, 113. 4 Leg and foot-clothing
fnr men, Russia leather. sole leather, tanned leather, &c.
Contraveners of this order will be subjected not only to con-
fiscation of the wares sent, but also to further severe penalties.
Vienna, May 16. BARON V. BUN*, &C.

The same paper publishes an official list of the sen-
threes by court-martial cn the 13th inst., which is
hithly instructive. By this it is seen that an im-
prudent word, or critical remsrk, unfavourable to the
ce•royed constitution, an allusion to the dinners of
the war, overheard by the spies of the police, is fol-
lowed by such tcrtible inflictions as six months im-
prisonment in irons.
A voluntary subscription has been act on fad
throughout Moravia and Silesia for presenting 600
horses with their harness to the army for cannon-teams.
The sum required is about 200,0008. convention
money. The first day's subvription at Briinn, Faye
the Wiener Zeitung, reached 40,0008., of which Prince
Alois Lichtenstein contributed 20,00011., and Prince
Dietrichateie, 6,0009.
Lloyd announces from Trieste (14th), that three
Austrian friga•es had, at Pivot+, received .on board
the battalions of the regiment Hess, sent thither from
Trieste, and several other battalions (?). This expe-
dition is presumed to be directed spinet Ancona,
which city would also be reached by the Austrian
troops marching by way of land in the course of the
ensuing week.
The mine paper cestains Radetzky's final answer
to Manin, on the 6th of May. To the Austrian gene-
rare message, in which he summoned the Venetians
to submit, Manin returned for answer on the 6tb, that
he had appealed to the cabinets of France and Eng-
land on the 4th of April to mediate, and on the 22nd
ult. had sent fresh instructions to Paris, from which

liehopedafavourable result. But this would not
prevent direct negotiations with the Austrian govern-
ment, if the field-marshal thought proper to admit
such. Radetsky answered on the B'h as follows:
Our sovereign having resolved
vention of foreign powers between him and his rebellious
subjects, every hope of the revolutionary government of Vs.
nice is illusory, vain, and merely calculated to deceive the
pror inhabitants. Accordingly from henceforth all further
orgotisions are at an end, and I regret that Venice mast
suffer the fate of war Rant rzsx.
Head-quarters, Villa Papadopoli.
The chit f news from Hungary concerns the chance
of government at Debretzin. Kossuth, on the 9i.b,
brought forward a motion for the formation of a
government corresponding more fully to the present
wants of the nation than the directory of the National
Defence ammittee, all the members of which, in-
cluding himself, resign. The future system of govern-
ment, which most be the fruit of ripe deliberation, he
proposes should be brought to completion by the
National Assembly; and that in the meanwhile the
government of the country should be delivered into
the hands rf a governor-pre& dent, responsible to the
people, and assisted by responsible ministers whom he
is to appoint. The speech in which Kossuth made this
motion is given in the Ungar. It is fall of character,
and entirely free from declamation. It gives a high
conception of the great Hungarian as a man and a
statesman ; and where the Vienna critics see only cun-
nirg and ambition, perhaps clearer and more impar-
tial .yts will discern the great practical views of a
sincere patriot. It is, in fact, a model of unadorned
eloquence.
The news from South Hungary is important and
authentic. Perczel entered Panceova with his Mag-
yars on the 11th inst., but found the town quite
deserted. He issued a proclamation, in the Servian
language, promisirg amnesty and protection of the
Set vian nationality. All capable of bearing arms were
swept without remission into his corps. Between Bec-
sk•rek and Pancsova,in the valley of the Temea, he had
collected in this fray 2,000 recruits for his mks.
The fate of Semlin was no longer doubtful. All the
inhabitants of that city were sending their prop-riy
and flying themselves to Belgrade. The overflow of
the Danube might retard the operations of the Mag-
yars for a few days. The Ban had landed from the
steamer Tisza at Brod, on the Save, on the 11th,
and went in great haste to Esseg. His vanguard of
4.000 men was landed at Schabats, and would pro-
bably wait till they were joined by the Russians
before moving an inch nearer the Magyar Paladin.
Perczel had applied to the Prince of Berrie to send
back all fugitives from the Banat. General Maier-
hoffer visited the Prince Karsgeorgewitch and the
Turkish pasha at Belgrade on the 11th. The whole
Banat is in the possession of the Magyars.
Defeats of the Russians by the Magyats are re-
ported at various points of the frontier, from the Jab-
lanka to the Rothenthurm Pass; but these rest on no
sufficieat authority.
Kossuth has declared the Austrian forced loan
assignata, for 5, 10, 100, and 1,000f1., issued in Hun-
gary, to be an illegal tender.

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A deputation, including Mr. W. Evans and Mr.
Mandy (members for Derbyshire). Dr. Peach, and Mr. W.
Le Newton, had, yesterday, en interview with Sir George
Grey.
POST-OPTICS NOTICE.—Many newspapers, ad-
drtwed to New South Wales and New Zealand, having
recently been pelted unpaid, it baa beromeneceastry to repeat
the announcement that the packets heretnt,re onveying the
mails between this country and Sydney, New South Wales,
have been discontinued, and that all newspapers for the colo-
nies above-mentioned, being now transmitted by private
ship, are liable to a postage of one penny each, which postage
must be paid in advance, or the newspapers cannot be
forwarded.
LACNCH OP THE STEAM-FRIGATE 111gGinth.—
Yesterday the launch of this powerful war steamer took
place at the ship yard of Messrs. Fairburn and Sons, at Mill-
wall. The dimensions of the Keglers, one of the largest
screw-steamers in the service, are-207 feet; breadth of
beam, 27 test; depth in hold, 24 feet; tonnage, 1391. Her
keel and stern are of wrought iron ; screw, upwards of 13
feet in diameter ; mounted with 14 guns.
MIXED BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE COMMISSION.—
Notice is hereby given, that the office of the above commis-
sion will finally class on the Met of May instant. All
parties holding titmice, either for pay or price money, are
requested to present the Nam for payment without delay.—
Gazette.
TRADE OP LIITERPOOL.—Aa a sign of the times we
may note the feet that the town dose of Liverpool for
Moaday emanated to 1,1001.
COMMISSION SIGNED ET THE LORD-LIEUTENANT
Or Hiner —Tee Viseinnt Nevill to be Lieutenant in the
Weil Kett liesiaeLt of Yeomanry Cavalry.