The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-04 00:00:00

ITALY.

In its sitting of the 28th ult., the Piedmontese
Senate toted the answer to the speech from the
throne without a dissentient voice, and without a
discussion. It was as follows :

Sire,—The Chamber of Deputies is happy to address you
at the beginning of this session. The noble and generous
words by which you inaugurated the present legislature
have moved the nation, which has read the faithful history
of the sets of your reign. It remembers with pride that you
bravely fought by the side of your magnanimous father for
the independence of the country. It is aware that your
wisdom and political moderation have obtained the approba-
tion of the world, and that your firmness in difficult times,
end your unalterable loyalty, have inspired universal confi-
dence. It rejoices at having co-operated with you in saving its
liberties, nearing the national independence and honour,
and upholding spotless a banner, the symbol of our wishes
and hopes. This noble people, sire, bears your august name
deeply engraved in its heart, and is animated with the
sincerest devotion and gratitude towards your sacred person
and dynasty. Accept that pledge, given to you by the re-
presentatives of that people, who participate in its senti-
ment. and affection. We thank Divine Providence for
having granted us the honour and happiness of proving to
Europe that the reign of the laws is assured in this
land, when the Prince is the Palladium of liberty.
May it please the Almighty that the happiness with
which it has blessed this kingdom shall prove the pre-
lude of the glorious destinies which Providence, we trust,
has reserved to us in its inscrutable decrees. We will
continue the work of the last legislature, and afford the
government of your Majesty the most efficacious co-opera-
tion possible for the development of agriculture, industry,
and commerce, and the improvement and propagation of
public instruction. No sacrifice will be too great for us.
when required fer the defence of national honour, the con-
solidation and development of the constitutional institutions
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inaugurated by your august father, and which flourish in
safety under the tegis of your throne. All our exertions
shall tend to facilitate that moral, intellectual, and material
program, which is the life of nations. Sire, united and
arrayed around you, we feel our courage and strength
redouble. May Rod bless and perpetuate that union, and
permit yid, Majesty to reign many years over your loving
and grateful people.
The Chamber afterwards authorised the cabinet,
by a majority of 88 to 13, to levy the taxes until the
dose of March, 1854.
The Senate also voted on the same day the reply
to the King's speech, without any discussion.
We read in the Parlament° of the 29th ult.:—
The budget of 1854 fixes the expenses of the State at
149,314,294 lines, and the receipts at 126.061,061, leaving
a deficit of 24,263,233 Here., viz., 13,097,300 livres for
the ordinary expenses and 11,155,926 for the extraordinary
totes. If we compare these numbers with those of 1853 we
find a diminution in the expenses of 3,813.081 lines, al-
though there appears an agmentation in the ordinary ex-
penen of 4,000,609 lines. The ministry is not preoccupied
with the deficit of 11,000,000 in the extraordinary section,
because it relies on the results, accruing from the construc-
tion of the Alexandria, Novara, and Arena Railway. It
directs all its attention to the deficit of 13,000,080 in the
ordinary section. A considerable reduction is to be
effected in the estimates of the Ministry of Justice, and if
the general state of Europe was not opposed to the cones •
elan of the Five per Cents., now at par, the desired balance
between the public receipts and expenses would be im-
mediately obtained by that very simple financial opera-
tion"

ISLINGTON EXTRAMURAL CEMETERT.—The poll
demanded on Thursday last to decide the question as to
the adoption of the report of the burial board, recommend-
ing the purchase of thirty acres of land at Finchley, of the
parish of Bt.Pancrasifor an extramural cemetery, opened on
Monday morning at eight o'clock, end continued yesterday
from eight till six o'clock last evening, at which hour it
finally closed. The numbers at the close of the poll were:
For the adoption of the report of the burial board sanction-
ing the purchase, 997. For the amendment to refer the
repottlback to the burial board for further consideration,
390. Majority for adopting the report of the burial board,
607.
ACCIDENT ON THE ST. HELEN'S AND RUNCORN
GA, RiILWAT.—On Monday afternoon a very serious col-
lision occurred on the above line, by which several passen-
gers sustained considerable injury. The late severe frosts
having rendered the utmost caution necessary, the 12.40
p.m. train, with about 30 passengers, from St. Helen's, was
a few minutes behind its time reaching the Oak Tree sta-
tion, where the Runcorn line crosses the Bt. Helen's, and
jast as the passenger train from the latter place reached the
crossing it was met by a luggage train proceeding to Parr.
The engine driver of the luggage train, which at the mo-
ment was descending the incline, upon seeing the wean-
ger train instantly endeavoured to stop the engine, but,
owing to the slippery state of the rails, the brake would
not act, and a violent collision occurred. The engine of the
luggage train struck the other engine, shattering it almost
to pieces, causing a great concussion of the carriages, and
severely injured several passengers. The Rev. Dr. Bows,
of St. Melon's, sustainei a severe injury to his nose, sad
which it is feared he will entirely lose. A young lady sus-
tained a severe contusion on her lip, and was taken to the
hotel, where she had a succession of fits. One man who
was in the act of taking a pinch of snuff when the collision
took plane, and his teeth striking against the carriage two of
them were knocked into his muff box. Both engine drivers
escaped unhurt.