The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-13 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

A letter from Vienna in the Breslow Garotte,
says :—"lt is asserted hers that Field-Marshal Rs-
detaky has written to the Emperor himself, request-
ing him either to come to a decision with regard to
the projects of reform concerning the political or-
palmation of Lombardy, or to accept his resigna-
tion. It is also said that the field-marshal hu called
the attention of the government to certain suspicions
looking individuals who have assembled on the Sar-
dinian frontier, and to the facilities granted to Sar-
dinia for rendering herself popular in Italy, and
acquiring partisans even in quarters which formerly
were most hostile to her."

A letter from Berlin in the Cologne Gazette says :
—"Prince Windisebgratz is expected here imme-
diately, and it is assured that Austria has the inten-
tion of opening negotiations with our cabinet, in the
view of having the integrity of the possessions of the
two countries guaranteed reciprocally."
A letter from Berlin, in the Hamburg Correspon•
dent, says:—" Austria and Prussia have resolved to
adopt the new state of things as a basis fora well-
defied policy. We have bed some indications of
this lately. The Emperor of Austria was at first to
pay our King a visit ; bat the present situation of the
Empress has prevented him from leaving Vienna.
It is sow certain that Prince Windiscbgratz will soon
be here; be is, they say, entrusted with negotiations
for the renewal of the treaty of April, 1.854. It is
the Italian question that bee impelled Austria to this
step."

ITALY.

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ROME, MAT 3.
The Romans are still anxiously discussing the
"to be or not to be" of political ameliorations
in the dominions of the Pope, through the media-
tion of Prance and England; I cannot say that
they are sanguine upon the subject, and my
own humble opinion is that after the first brunt
of inquiry or suggestion, or whatever other form
of interference Of any at all) the foreign powers
may adopt, the Ecclesiastical Court will successfully
mystify them once more, and prop up the dilapidated
fabric of the double sovereignty a little longer with
all its infallible right. and privileges. The priests
themselves are gradually recovering tram their alarm,
and feel that they have a powerful ally in the person
of his Apostolic Majesty the Emperor of Austria,
with whom the recently pacificated powers of the west
an hardly go to loggerheads upon such an intangible
question.
The only recent changes to be signalised in the itd.
ministration of the country are the removal of the
restrictions hitherto existing on the export of corn,
and the doubling of those fees hitherto levied by the
police authorities for the vim of passports and per-
missions to aside.

The late exploits of the brigands in the neigh-
bourhood of Rome, especially near Velletri, have in-
duced the authorities to show a little severity by
way of warning. Two of the famous band of robbers
that haunted the same locality three years ago have
bad their heads cut off and exhibited to the inhabi-
tants of Velletri, amongst whom many of their old
associates were spectators in the crowd. Fifteen or
sixteen cues of proved robbery and murder, in which
these malefactors were concerned, appear in the
printed 'eaten:a now pasted upon the walla of Rome,
as is customary after cases of capital punishment.
The Council of State had another deliberation on
Monday with regard to the final award of the line of
railway from Rome to Bologna. The Spanish com-
pany, and that represented by the Marquis of Moo-
nier, are the rival pretendants. The Frascati line is
actually to be opened to the public in a month's
time, when a great festival is to take place in that
town, as customary every hundred years, in honour
,of Bt. Roch. Between the antiquity of the saint and
the novelty of the railway, the directors expect all
Rome to be backwards and forwards for some time,
The locomotives, carriages, and machinery requisite
foe working the line arrived at Civita Vecchia in the
beginning of the week, in the British vessels Nepaul,
1,000 tons, and Mary Aon, 500 tons.
Prince Turlonia, the Colossus of Roman bankers,
hu left the Eternal City for Naples, whence he pro-
ceeds with the princess, hie family, and suite, to
Paris, and it is reported that his establishment Me
will be broken up and the firm closed. The non.
renewal of the salt and tobacco contract and the
enmity of Cardinal Antonelli are said to have dis-
gusted the prince with Rome.
Exchange on London, 473; Roman Consols, 841.