The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-08 00:00:00

ITALY.

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110318. Nov. 30.
Th,.bilit.haro Giatt:e having given as the motive
id Cardinal wisetian's visit to Home, the arrange-
went 01 future diplomatic relations, upon a regularly
seine" :Aged feeding between the British and papal
evert: emote, it may be as well to state the utter
improbaiiilite of such a proceeding; any negotiations
that might be ',eliding upon the subject would eer-
taiels erne to the British government through a
tvryd.travnt channel, nor arc the conditions men•
nand each as could possibly be accepted by either of
the patio. Mortimer, the cardinal's visit to the
„time; city was not contemplated, even by himself,
at the time he left England. His eminence preached
s sermon on Sunday afternoou, at the church of
M. At Jrea delle Fratte, to a numerous English
io:.gri lotion ; a great number of his auditors being
protestant.. the cardinal directed his discourse more
urticuiarly to them, dwelling upon the usual topics
of antiquity, unity, and immutability, es characteris-
tic of the church of Rome, and describing the pro-
testant trete! of England as already "trembling in
the whey," and breaking up and dispersing in
countless sectarian divisions, u the ice of the north-
ern ocean cracks and yields before the warm breath
of summer. The cardinal's sermon was in fact more
ornamental than argumentative, and wound up with
a piece of tautology which seemed to surprise and
disappoint his auditors greatly. "In fine, my bre-
thren," said he, " you must contemplate Home as the
city of God's apostles—consequently, as the city of
the apostles of God"- —a variation of the same senti-
ment difficult to express in any other than the Eng-
lish lae,tuage. A select band of pickpockets exercised
their predatory arts upon the congregation the whole
time, delighted to have to do with such respectable
and unsuspecting victims. It is really disgraceful
to the Homan police that whilst so many hundred
sbirri are always forthcoming to explore political
offenders, two or three cannot be spared to prevent
sacred edifices from being so notoriously
.profaned
by thieves as they are on every public occasion here.
Whilst the English were attending to the car-
di.are sermon, the Horning were on the Piazza
before Diocletian's baths, witnessing:the ascent in a
balloon of an aeronaut from Bologna, named Luigi
Pius, who for some weeks previously had been pre-
vented by bad weather and other circumstances from
executing his aerial journey. At three o'clock he
ascended, and at half-put four the balloon de-
scended near Civitella Sas Paolo, about five-and-
twenty miles from Rome. The country folks,
greatly excited by so novel a circumstance, congre-
gated round the unexpected visitor, but on the bal-
loon's reaching the ground the unfortunate aeronaut
was discovered to be quite dead.
The extreme rigidity of the atmosphere, and the
excessive rapidity with which the balloon arose,
proved too much for the enfeebled system of Signor
Piano, who was an elderly man. It is a curious cir-
cumstance, and one which has given rise to some
irreverent speculations as to the efficacy of the
Pope's blessing, that ithe aeronaut had been prohi-
bited from making his ascent by the Cardinal Vicar,
on account of its bein the first Sunday in Advent,
but he, being engaged to the public, waylaid the
Pope during his rive some days before, and peti-
tioned his Holiness to grant him the required per-
mission, which Pio Noma most urbanely did, blessaag
the kneeling suppliant at the same time.
lor signor Sacconi, Apostolic Nuncio at the court
of the Emperor Napoleon, left Home for Paris on the
13th inst.
Mr. Fenton, British Secretary of Legation at Flo-
rence, has just returned to that city, after bevies
passed two or three days here for tho purpose e/
exchanging the treaties establishing navigation as}
eiprocity between Great Britain and the Papal
States. The necessary formalities having been gone
through, the treaty will shortly be published by the
Cardinal Secretary of State.
The works on the Pia-latina Railway have sit bet
been actively resumed, and se several Miro st'
ready exist, constructed by the ex-conspeey. twee b
nothing to prevent the rails being laid &WO ea do
first portion of the line, so as to facilitate the
ties of the rest. There appears to he ever;
bility of the line from Rome to Civita Vecchia
undertaken by a French company, which wil ,
at any rate, allow travellers to visit the Eternal
City from the Mediterranean coast without fear of
being stopped and robbed by brigands. The diligence
on that road was stopped last week, and a large sum
of money belonging to the government abstracted by
the bandits, who seemed to know perfectly well
what they had to look for. The travellers in the
diligence were unmolested, with the exception of one
gentleman, who attempted to secrete his watch
under the seat cushion, a proceeding the brigands
resented with blows, considering it no doubt as con-
trary to the received adage, " Honour among
thieves."
The official paper continues to give long lists of
vessels arriving with corn in the Mediterranean and
Adriatic ports of the state, but, in spite of these sup-
plies, the price of bread is still on the rise.
Exchange on London, 4811; Consols, 971; Bank
shares, 2AI.

SWEDEN.

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A Berlin correspondent of the C'ologne Ga.lette
writes : " The energetic speech of the King of Sweden
in which he speaks of extensive additions to the
military strength of the state, has caused us the'
hvelivot satisfaction. The Swedish government has
ercady dedicated an extraordinany credit of a mil-
lion and a half to this purpose. The hand of Eng-
land in this matter it unmistakeable, and we trust
that the intimate relations of Prussia and Sweden
will neigh considerably with the Emperar of