The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

The Zurich Gazette states that the mission con- I,
tided to M. Brenier, at Berne, is explained by the
following extract of a letter from Pans:
The difficulties which hare arisen relative to the quern-
' den of the °lnterns' duties between the southern states of
Germany and Switscrland are regarded with great interest
hare. For same years past a treaty between France and
Seritaerland has been in contemplation, but Berne ha+ been
always opposed to it. At present I understand that Berne
appears more favourably disposed, and in France the govern-
ment is prepared to make sacrifices even at the expense of
the protective system now in force. M. Buffet the Minister
of Agriculture and Commerce, hopes to profit by the dif-
ferences to which I have alluded above.

ITALY.
LOMBARDY.

The Venice Gazettegi;Wn; follows the itinerary
of the Emperor of Austria :
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His majesty will arrive at Verona on the 11th, and stay
I there until the 18th ; on the 19th he will make an ezeur-
' sion to Mantua by rail, and return to Verona in the even-
' ing. On the 20th he will set out for Pesehiera, and visit
Rive. on the Lago di Garda; on the 21st he will visit
I)efenzano, Brescia, and Monza, where he will stay until
the 23rd, and then set out for Milan, return the same even-
ing to Monza, visit Milan again on the following day. stay
lat Monza the whole of the With, proceed by sail to Como on
the 26th, visit the principal points of the lake, return to
Monza, where he will pass the 27th. On the 28th his Ma-
jesty will go to Varese, Laveno, and the Lago Maggiore ;1
and, thence from Sesto Calende to Somma ; on the Ist of
Octo`ser to M.ilpensa, where he will stay until the 3rd, and
I afterwards return to Monza. His Majesty will commence
his return on the sth.

RCME.
The Venice Casette quotes a letter from. Rome,
stating that the railway question meets with great
favour among the members of the Roman govern-
ment, and that a plan is under consideration to gua-
rantee 6 per cent. to a French and Belgian comismy
upon a line connecting Ancona with Rome and Mo-
dena. A new extraordinary commission has been
named by his Holiness for the reform of the code of
laws now in vigour, and the re-organisation of the
tribunals. It is composed of Cardinals Antonelli
(president), Marini, and Bofondi, Monsignor Martel,
and Monsignor Bastoli. The expenses of the police
department for the current year have been increased
by 3,360 scudi (17,100 fr.)

NAPLES.
A letter from Rome, of the 6th, states that his
Holiness the Pope has sent 4,000 seudi (21,000 fr.)
to Naples for the relief of the victims of the late
earthquake in Basilicata.
Our correspondent writes as follows :

NAPLES, Sari. 0.
From what is taking place at Vienna, coupled with
the tenacity with which his Neapolitan Majesty holds on to
the present degraded government, we may expect, ere long,
a decree abolishing the constitution. The infamous Pecche-
meda, the minister of police, continues his course, and pro-
secutes his war of vengeance against constitutional opinion
with a vigour :worthy of a better cause. More illegal ar-
rests, and fresh degradations of the courts of justice, fol-
low .ach other " hot and foot." A mau named Aversans,
one of the condemned of the trials called those of Sept. 5,
declared in the public court-yard of the prisoners, that his
statements were all false ; that to save himself be
had said what the police agent told him to say; in
fart, that he hail allowed himself to be corrupted.
Shortly after, his irons were taken off and be received
the royal pardon. His companions were removed to
Ischia. These men, as I have &f ore stated, are sent to the
galleys for shouting " Long live the constitutional King,"
in opposition to a mob paid to cry " Down with the consti-
tution." An unknown example of injustice characterised
this trial, since the judges actually condemned to irons fur
periods of 20 and 2.5 years some men fur whom the public pro-
secutor only asked a slight correctional sentence. Such dar-
ing crime and injustice, at such a moment as the present, is
a clear illustration that the King intends to do what ho
likes at home, knowing he can have support front without
if necessary. Mazzini need not trouble himself to send
either agents or printed protest., or addresses, to this part
of Italy. Pecchemeda is doing; his work more effectually.
The present government is nothing more than a republican
manufactory, by royal authority.
I have reported from time to time the progress of our
Sicilian claims, and I am now happy to state the question
is satisfactorily cleared up, I think with great credit to
the Foreign-office. It will be remembered alter the labours
of the mixed commhsion at Messina, the representatives at
the court of Naples of France, Prussia, and Great Britain
met a Neapolitan commission for the final adjustment of
demands which the agents of the Neapolitan government
had already admitted in Sicily. It was sought en the part
of the Neapolitan deputies to reduce the claims by five per
cent. It was also further urged that no interest should be
paid, and finally that the accorded money should be paid
with an illegal Sicilian stock. Sir W. Temple found him-
self alone in resistingthese reductions,' which came with ill-
grace from a government whose official agents had already
accorded, after a careful examination and considerable
diminution of original demands, the various sums
already fixed by the Messina commission. For some time
past the representatives of France and Prussia have ceased
to be national, and I may say with perfect confidence Sir
W. Temple is the only diplomatic agent who really repre-
sents his country, and that Englishmen are the only foreign-
ers really respected in the kingdom of the Two Swam. I
have simply to add, that through the energetic representa-
tiom of the foreign office the Neapolitan government now
accords all that was originally asked ; and ere long the
claimants may exact, in legal money, the sums accorded at
Messina, with interest thereon, up to the present time. It
is gratifying to knew that every opportunity has been given
to the Neapolitan government to investigate every indivi-
dual claim, and that our proceedings throughout have been
essentially those of a friendly power.
His Neapolitan Majesty, in opposition, I suppose, to the
policy of Piedmont, has lately granted some of the many
demands made by the Roman Church to punish offences of
religion—such as absence from the confessional, non-observ-
ance of festal, the mass, &c, &c.—in fact, a " Holy
Office " will be instituted in Naples, and a power given to
the church which hitherto the sovereigns have resisted.
You will see this act followed up in other Italian states,
and the inquisition again cursing religion and peopling the
dungeons. The dishonest governments of Italy can only
exist aided by the corruption of the church. Austria, and
even Protestant l'russia (I speak of the existing govern.
ments), will countenance similar aggression of the Homan
church; one of the features of modern despotism is the re-
production of those laws and institutions which in past
time* chained the mind and degraded the man.
Yesterday the great national Asia of Piedigrotta took
place. The greatest tranquillity prevailed.

GERMANY.

TREATY BETWEEN