The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-29 00:00:00

ITALY.

Accounts from Upper Italy represent the inunda-
tions of the Adige as having caused immense ravages.
A wholrovince has been swept by the destructive
torrent
which has burst its dykes. The late crops
of maize and grapes have been utterly destroyed.
The tributary streams have also overflowed, so that
on all sides communications arc intercepted. The'
population have taken refuge upon eminences which
emerm from the devouring waters. More than 2,000
people are encamped upon the fragments of the
ruined dykes.
We read in the Piedmoutese Casette of the 2lth,
that all the country around Nizza, Dogliani, and
Chemsco is so inunaated that the mails have been
stopped.
NAPLES.

The following note, dated the 23rd ult., has been
addressed by the Marquis Fortunato, Minister of
Foreign Affairs at Naples, to the English Minister in
that city :

The undersigned hoe read the answer given by Lord Pat
menden to the King's minister in London, and he has the
honour to observe to the Minister of the Queen of England
to the Court of the Two Sieilice, that the formal prohibi
non imposed by international right upon every government '
against intervening in the acts of internal administration of
other states, so long as those acts are not injurious to its '
own securty, being admitted as indubitable, it is to be pre-
aumed that the only object of the noble lord in charging '
with injustice and want of prudence the conduct of the
agents of the government of Naples, with regard to persons
accused of po itical Crime', was doubtless to preserve the
kingdom from fresh perturbations. In this case, it would '
have been necessary to inquire whether the faults of
which Mr. Gladstone, in his letters to the Earl of Aber-
deco, accuses the agents of the Neapolitan government
were false or were true. If those accusasions were
true, what course could have been more proper
than to inform the government of them, in order that it
might cause thent to cease, as was its duty. The question
being established on these terms, which is the only proper
one, the noble viscount had only to apply to the English
minister on this subject. Ills lung residence at Na des,
his assiduity, in attending the trial of the stet of the
Volta Italians, and others of the same kind, his perfect
acquaintance with the country, and his well-known
good faith and probity, with which the undersigned
is fully inspired, give to him the conviction that his
excelkitcy would have shown the gross errors, not
to use a more severe expression, into which Mr.
Gladstone hail been led by the implacable enemies of social
order, and of which his pamphlets arc so full. In this way
it would not have been necessary for persons to take the
trouble of exposing these errors one by one, for it could
hove been done by authentic and in ontestabl, documents.
The noble viscount, who is one of the most distinguished
and celebrated statesmen of Europe, could not be ignorant
that the defamation put forth by Mr. Gladstone, instead of
producing the effect which he mid he proposed,
might have produced a very different effect, for
insults, instead of calming the minds of men, irri-
tate them, and particularly when addressed to those
on whom they have not the sliAtest authority, and
who regard, above all, their honour and independence.
The undersigned regrets being forced to allude to so painful
a subject, hut lie will find consolation in thinking that the
noble viscount, when once enlightened as to the truth, will
adopt such a determination as in his wisdom and justice he
will think proper to destroy the illusion in which it has
been attempted to envelop him. With this object the un-
dersigned, in addition to the copies of the pamphlet
already rent to the English minister, forwanls twenty-
eight more copies, and takes this occasion, although a dis-
agreeable one, to renew his sentiments of high consideration.