The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-12 00:00:00

THE STATES OF THE CHURCH.

Cram 00a OWN CONJUNIPONDINT.)
BOYS, Duo. 4.
The newly arrived French general, Count de Ooyoo,
has somewhat surprised the military authontiea of
his Holiness by paying a visit of inspection to the
barracks occupied by the poctifical soldiers, where he
found things not exactly.. he could have wished with
respect to cleanliness, comfort, and arrange-
ment. He is said to have expressed his disapproba-
tion on the subject rather strongly, accompanying his
censure with a hope that suitable ameliorations would
be made without delay in those respects which he
principally complained of. Although the actual
command of the Pops's army by a French general
ceased after the reorganisation of the forces by Gene-
ral Valliant, the supreme command of the soldiers of
all arms actually in Rome is of course vested, either
directly or indirectly, in the commander of the French
army of occupation, and it is probably from this con-
sideration that General de Goyon has taken upon
himself to examine into the treatmeat and efficacy of
the Papal battalions now in garrison.
Austrian martial law, after having been the law of
the land for more than seven years, ceased at the
commencement of the present month in the town of
Anemia and the surrounding province of La Maros,
or at least was to do so, when the last accounts
arrived, if the criminal. still under trial could be dis-
poied of by that time.
By way of getting through business as quickly as
possible, the Austrians shot seven men on the 29th
of last month, who were coodemued to that mode of
punishment by the military tribunal for carrying
arms, robbing, and inflicting wounds. All pending
eases are to be brosght to a rapid conclusion, as the
auditors of the military tribunal are preparing to
leave the sons of their operations. Sentences to the
galleys for various periods have been inflicted whole-
sale, and five more men were to be shot almost im-
mediately for attacking and robbing a diligence in
the neighbourhood of Ancona. No doubt the severity
of these measures mum the destruction of the male-
-1 factors when once they fall into the hands of the
military justiciaries; but legislative ameliorations,
calculated to prevent the demoralisation of the people,
and the consequently perpetual recurrence of brigan-
dage, are apparently beyond the reach both of Atm-
wise and pontifical authorities.

Queen Christina is honouring Ancona with her
ream. She arrived there at the end of last month,
to take possession of the large estates which she has
purchased in that neighbourhood, and which formerly
belonged to the late Duke of Leuchtenberg,who mar-
ried the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. Count
Antonelli, brother of the cardinal, and the Marquis of
Castillo, left Rose, three days ego, for Ancona, to
pay their homage to her Majesty, on her arrival from
Tuscany, and to attend to the count's interests in the
transfer of property just alluded to. The Queen is
expiated daily in Rome, where she is to take up her
residence in the Vidoni Palace, which, if not one of
the most spacious in the city, an boast at any rate of
having had Raffsel for its architect.
The great column is beginning its march from the
shed in which it has been polished on the Pisess
Mignanelli, towexds the bees of the monument on
whose pedestal it is to be erected on the 15th, it
being now ascertained that the preparations cannot
be completed by the Bth, which is the festival of the
Immaculate Conception. Two memos fell from the
top of the lofty scaffolding yesterday. One of them
was killed on the spot, his head striking the has, of
the monument ; bat the other is still alive, although
much usjamd.

The Journal dr BRPefe►ebowrg of the 3rd announces
tb►t Messrs. C. B. Michele, British esbject, and T. Bshal,s•,
have obtained their execrator, the first u English Coastal,
aad the letter me the Causal of Sardinia, at St. Petersham.

The Cauease report, that on the 2nd of November
the hills sear Tils wan snared with mow, sad that flakes
bad Mlles is the streets of the eity. Par a century peat
mew has sot Imes Ma is Tits until the latter pert or
November.