The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-11 00:00:00

ITALY.

ROME, Ern. 28.
The diffidence of the Papa! government has hcen
not a little increased by the recent events at Milan
and Vienna. Nardoni, the chief of the sbirri, is stated

to have been questioned by the government regarding
the number of republicans in the city. Ile was re-
quested to state whether be could engage to have
them all arrested in one night, an undertaking he
energetically declined, on account of the great num-
ber of the disaffected, but engaged to make sure of a
good batch of the most hotheaded partisans of liberty
in the time requited. Hitherto his services have not
been culled into play, but several of the religious
confraternities, and especially the Jesuits, have de-
clared that they shall consider their lives in danger
so long as any of their sworn enemies are at large in
the present moment of excitement, and have there-
fore requested the government to provide for their
safety, by stationing a guard of gendarmes within
their convents, a request which has been complied
with by the authorities.
Meanwhile the suspicions of the police have
proved very inconvenient to several individuals, and
amongst others to Captain Gaisford, an officer in her
Majesty's service, who was going on foot to a party,
at about 11 o'clock on the night of the 24th, w hen
he was stopped by four gendarmes on the Piazza de
Santi Apostoli, and minutely investigated by them.
Although nothing whatever was found on his per-
eon to excite the slightest suspicion, he was taken
into custody by the gendarmes and conducted to the
guard-house in Via Rasella, under pretext of his not
having a carts di sicarezza, which is the paper with
which foreigners staying in R fime are furnished on
depositing their passports at the police office. At
the guard-house ho had to wait some time, the
officer being at that moment asleep, but on that
functionary's being aroused to consciousness, Captain
Gaisford succeeded in regaining his liberty,unaccom-
ponied, however, by a word of apology for so gra-
tuitous an outrage. Captain Oaistord laid his com-
plaint personally before the Assessor Dandini, who
received him politely, and addressed a remonstrance,
through the medium of the British Consul, to the
Director-General of Police, Monsignor Matteneci.
These molestations having occurred more than once,
it has become necessary to inquire officially whether
every foreigner in Rome is obliged, under pain of
imprisonment, io have his carte, di sicurersa about
him night and day, an obligation which has never
hitherto been intimated to foreigners, and which, if
insisted upon, ought to be printed on the paper it-
self, as a warning calculated to prevent the bearer's
occasional sdjour in prison, "amongst pickpockets,"
and " drunk and disorderlies."
Since the Milanese outbreak, all has been beetle

amongst the Austrians is the legations, as if their
turn was to come next. A variety of precautionary
measures have been resorted to, but the disarming of
the Papal troops at Bologna, a rumour current here
for several days, appears to have been a premature
piece of intelltErence. The position of the authori-
ties at Ancona is anxious, between the apprehension
of popular disturbances and the little reliance to be
placed on the troops in garrison, who are Hunga-
rians. The soldiers desert whenever they can find
an opportunity, although nearly certain to be re-
captured and shot. Two more deserters were shot
lut week.
The Tuscan and Piedmontese loans, and the rail-
way operations in Tuscany, have brought a great
deal of English paper on the money market here,
which has reduced the Exchange on London to 482
Roman Consols, 95.
Tho trial of the Duke of Cesarini for homicide

commenced this morning. You may recollect that
about a couple of months ago the duke fired upon a
mob of people who were making a tumult under the
windows of his palace at Gensano, and unfortunately
killed his own cook, who was coming across the
square at that moment. The duke, in consideration
of his rank, obtained permission to defend himself a
piede libero, and will probably escape condemnation
unless some political feeling bo dragged into the
questior, the inhabitants of Gensano being generally
neri, whilst the duke is suspected of an opposite
tendency.
The Papal government, having failed in the rail-
way negotiations hitherto undertaken with various
tors, recently resolved to have the line from
through Ancona to Bologna surveyed at its
lows expense, in order to have some data for further
I gostracts. A new company, comprising the Duke of
lauchtemberg, Fould, and other capitalists, then re-
quested to be allowed to undertake the survey, mi-
-1 mite eastwards to present a project for the exeow,
Osier the line. If their plan is approved of, the ex.
wee of the survey will be defrayed by the company,
but if not it will be repaid by the government. These
preliminaries being established the French engineer,
N. Michel, and the Roman, Signor Bettocchi, made
calculations, from which it resulted that the whole
line would cost rather more than 148,000,0001. The
subsequent propositions of the company turn upon
two principal conditions—firstly, the duiation of
their privilege for 50 years; and secondly, an interest
of 6 per cent. to be guaranteed upon the presumed
capital to be employed, 150,000,000 f. It is not likely
that these conditions will be accepted by the govern-
ment, as similar ones offered by other contractors
have already been refused ; meanwhile the financial
consults has deputed five of its members, inhabitants
of the provinces to be traversed by the line, to make
a report on the subject.