The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-30 00:00:00

MOST MGR CABINETLETTEO TO VIE MINISTER-PILESIDENT.

Dear Prince Schwarsentscrg,—As the responsibility of
the cabinet, as it now stands, is devoid of legal distinctness
and exactitude, my duties as a monarch induce me to re-
lieve ministers from the doubtful political position in which,
as my counsellors, and as the highest executive organs, t.wy
are now placed, by declaring that they arc responsible to no
other political authority than the throne.
1. The cabinet has to swear in my hands unconditional
fidelity, as also the engagement to fulfil all imperial roailu-
tions and ordinances. . . .

2. The Cabinet will in this new position have punctually
to carry out my resolutions concerning all laws, ordinances,
maxims of administration, &c., may they have been con-
sidered necessary or judicious by Ministers, or may the'
latter have been directed by me to consult and propose them.
3. The cabinet and each minister in his department
is responsible to me for the exact observance of the existing
laws and imperial ordinances in their administration. To
each minister is entrusted the direction of that branch
of the administration with which he is charged. I, how-

ever, reserve to myself the rightof issuing suurc exact regu-
lations on this point.
4. The ministerial contra-signature is in future confined

to the publication of laws and imperial ordinances, and
will be that of the Minister-President, or of that of those
ministers with whose branch the matter in question is con-
fleeted, The director of the Chancellery of the cabinet will
sign under the closing formula of " Ily most high com-
mand," which will stand towards the side.
These contra-signatures are us a warranty that the ap-
pointed forms have been observed, and that the imperial
ordinances have been punctually and exactly carried out.
ily the publication of laws and imperial ordinances
the words " After having heard my cabinet" will be substi-
tuted for " On the proposition of my c ibinet."
FRANZ JOSEPIL (M.P.)
Sehonbruno, 20th August, 1851.
ROST Hiatt CABINET LEIIER TO THE PRESIDENT OP TILE

REICIISIINTII (COUNCIL OP TIM
Dear Baron Kubeck,—You will 1 am by the subjoined
copy of my ordinance to the cabinet the resolutions which
I have taken relative to the responsibility and to the future
position of my cabinet. These resolutions induce me to in-
troduce some changes in the statutes of my reichsrath:—
, I. The reicherath is from this time forward to be con-
sidered as my council and the council of the throne.
2. In consequence of this declaration, drafts of laws, or-
dinances, or other Nuch matters have not to be presented
by the cabinet to the reichsrath for its opinion, but always
Ito me. Agreeably to par. 7of its statutes, I reserve to my.
self ,the right of demanding the the opinion of the Reichs.
rath, and of directing the discussion of matters under my
own immediate direction, or that of its president.
3. I reserve to myself the right of commanding the at-
I tendance of ministers or their deputies at the councils of
I the Reichsrath, according to circumstances Ina necessity.
I The alterations in the order of business and in other
matters arising from the ordinances you have to lay before
mo without loss of time. If drafts of laws which have been
forwarded by the cabinet to the Iteichsrath are still under
discussion, due notice is to be given to me, and under all
circumstances the results of the deliberations of the council
are to be laid boterc me.

Fasxz JOSEPH (M.P.)
Settonbrunn, August 20,

ROST HIOII CA.RINii LET CRII TO THE MINISTER•PRESIDENT.
Dear Prince Schwarzenberg, —By the accompanying
copy you and the cabinet will see the alterations which 1
have thought proper to make in the position and statutes of
the Reichsrath ; and the cabinet, in as far as it is con-
cerned, has to act accordingly.
FRANZ JOSEPH (M.P.)
SehonbrutiniAugust 20, 1851.
MOST 111011 CAUINET LETTER TO TILE MINISTER-PRESIDENT.
Dear Prince Schwarsenberg,—As an immediate conse-
quence of the resolutions which I have taken relative to the
I political position of my cabinet, I find it absolutely times-
nary that the question of the maintenance and of the possi-
bility of carrying out the constitution of the 4th of March,
1849, should be taken into ripe and serious consideration.
You have to consult with the President of my Reich*.
rath, and to give mo as soon as possible your mutual
opinions and propositions relative to the manner and extent
of the question, as also as to the proceedings and forms to
be observed during the examination.
During the examination of this question, and in all
future discussions concerning it, you have to consider as
principle and object, and as the irrefragable foundation of
all your operations, the maintenance of all the conditions
of monarchical government, and the unity of the States of
my empire. FRANZ JOSEPH (M.P,)
Schonbrunn, August 20, 18.51.
The Duke of Coburg-Cohary died at Vienna,
Angust 23.

ITALY.

—..onseration of his fate. The inscription is as
follows:
" Quicti et cineribus Pellegrini Roui coin. domo Callum
Qui ab internis negotiis Pii IX. Pont. Mat. Impiorum con-
OM meditate code occubuit XVII Cal. Dec. Ann. 1848.
'Etat. ann., 61, M. 4, D. 12."
Amongst Italians, who delight in hyperbole, it is
impossible to praise with fewer superlatives.
If tho legal proceedings in Couut Rossi's case do
not 11et on very fast, others arc not more rapid in
coming to a conclusion. The police is very zealous,
hut at the same time very ill-informed, so that it
seizes upon a vast number of persons against whom
no kind of evidence eon be brought, and who, after
fifteen or twenty months imprisonment, are obliged
to be let out again. This was the case a few days
ego with a man named Latini, who had been in con-
finement eighteen months on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the murder of Monsignor Patina; as there
were no proofs whatever, he has been let out, hut re-
mains bound by the precrlto, the nature of which I
have already explained in a preceding letter, and
has been warned not to complain of or even to men-
tion the length of his unjust imprisonment.
Apropos of unjust imprisonments, a very droll oc-
currence took place here the other evening. About
ten days ago, Monsignor Mussolini, the elinryl
d'affaires for Parma, on returning home about mid-
night, was attacked by a party of young men, who
bastinadoed him as severely as any .iustrian lover of
order could have done. The prelate limped home,
the police was apprised of his mishap, but the authors
were not discovered. This monsignore, who is a
great partisan of the Sanfedisti, and a great friend of
the whole round of spies and Jesuits, in order to aid
the researches of the sbirri, informed them that a
few days before his cudgeding, whilst he was driving
before baron's cafe, in the Corso, his coachman had
nearly driven over some youngmen who were sitting
before the door taking ices, and that he had been well
hissed iu consequence. M. Itufini, the director of police,
wisely jumped to the conclusion that these were the
young men who had beaten the prelate, and that, by
sending a body of sbirri to tho eqP, although sonic
days afterwards, the same individuals would be
found sitting in exactly the same place. This was
done—the cafe was surrounded by gendarmes, and
the persons sitting in the fatal corner whence the
hisses had proceeded, were dragged off to prison,
where, on examination, they turned out to be Signor
Pandolti, one of the Popes noble guard; Signor
Belotti, a captain in the papal service ; the banker
Itempieci, devoted to the clerical party, with Signors
Orengo, Luigioni, and Bucci, all noted upholders of
the present system. As soon as the police authori-
ties read the names of the prisoners they hastened to
order their release, but the persons arrested only owed
their delivery to their retrograde opinions, and had
they unfortunately entertained liberal sentiments,
they would certainly have passed some months in
prison, and then have been placed under thepreeetto,
or police surveillance. An instance of this distinc-
tion between liberals and retrogrades was in fact
afforded the very same evening, in an:osteria near San
Nirobt in Armee, where several young men were
arrested, amongst whom were the brothers Sozzi,
Signor Taddei, and another Signor Orengo, whose
three brothers were also nabbed during the night.
All these arrests were effected on the sole pretext of
the young men having been guilty of smoking
pipes. You must know that the employes of
the tobacco monopoly watch with Argus eyes
all the phases of the anti-smoking demonstration
and have lately suspected that pipe smoking is be-
coining the vogue. They know very well that a
long established habit cannot be broken off all at
once, and that those persons who do not smoke in
the streets very likely smoke nt home, but if instead
of smoking cigars, people smoke pipes, the adminis-
trators of the monopoly only gain about a quarter of
the profit. Renee comes a war against pipes, and a
hundred persecutions against the poor smokers.
It is said that the triumvir, Calandrelli, will leave
Rome in a few days, thanks to the intercession of
the King of Prussia. lie had been condemned to
death for the crime of having courageously defended
his country against foreign invasion. It is also
said that Signor Sabatini, one of the young men who
was recently condemned to the galleys for
twenty years, for having had Bengal lights
in his house, has been pardoned, but that he has
generously refused to accept pardon unless it be ex-
tended also to his companions in misfortune, who
are as innocent as himself. Since we are upon the
subject of rumours, I may as well mention that seve-
ral persons are mentioned as likely to be created pre-
lates in the ministry, amongst whom one now holds
the portfolio of Public Works, and another that of
pro-Minister dtthe Finances. No more lay ministers
are to enter into tho l'apal cabinet, excepting in the
war department. In this manner Signor Galli will
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that the Papal treasury declines in the exact ratio
that his own increases.