The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-14 00:00:00

TIIE INSURRECTION AT MILAN.

The Pads 3lovi?eur of Saturday announced:—
" The government has received by telegraphic des-
patch news from Milan of the 10th. Order was en-
tirely re-established there."
This brief announcement leaves us only the duty
of gathering up the circumstances of the outbreak as
they are to be found iu the Swiss and Italian
journals.
The Official Milan Gaulle of the 7th, after giving
the proclamation of Count Strassoldo, relates the
events of the Gth as follows:

Public tranquillity was disturbed yester-
day. The subversive party, which cannot allow
peaceful citizens to enjoy the innocent pleasures
of the carnival, must needs sacrifice new
victims to its revolutionary propensities. Yes-
terday, about six o'clock p.m., some officers
and soldiers were attacked. The authori-
ties inimediately took the requisite measures;
strong patrols scoured the town in every direction;
some individuals armed with long stilettos were
arrested ; they will be tried by martial law durin4
the state of eiege. At the usual time for frequent-
ing the theatres, tranquillity was sufficiently restored
to allow of their bell g opened to the public. We
have to deplore the death of several persons, both
civil and military; others have been wounded. It
has been attempted to seduce people of the lower
classes by money and excitement of every kind, but
the good aence of the population rejected these
provocations, and not only did the people remain
quiet, but they openly condemned this foolish
attempt as an impious act of madness. The govern-
ment is strong, and will cause order and public
security to be respected by all such vigorous mea-
sures as circumstances muy require. Public Iran-
, quillity has not been disturbed in the provinces."
The above-mentioned proclamation is as follows :
The deplorable disturbances of yesterday were caused by
• party, which, unable to attain the end it aims at, has re-
course to the moat iniquitous means to disturb the quiet
citizen in the enjoyment of his security and nu pastimes of
the carnival, to injure the trader and the workman in their
proli:s, and to excite mistrust in the minds of the public.
As commandant of this city I am armed with sufflcieat
power to paralyse the attempts of that party, and to protest
the peaceful citisen in his amusements as well as in the ex-
ercise of his profesiiion ; therefore let not the inhabitants of
Milan yie:d is fear, but let them confide in the vigilance
and protection of the authorities.
The Lieutenant-Marshal, Count STIABOLDO.

The following telegraphic despatch received at
Vienna from the Governor of Lombardy, dated
Milan ith, is published in the Imperial Gazelle of
the Bth :

" Public order was disturbed yesterday afternoon.
A band, armed with poignards, pistols, and other
arms, having at 5 o'clock attacked the principal post,
I was dispersed; during the night officers and soldiers
were attacked. At 8 p.m. order was restored, and'
has not siuce been disturbed. Twenty-eight indi-
viduals have been arrested with arms in their hands.
I Everything indicates that this attempt at revolt has
been fomented by the revolutionary party. in foreign
countries, in order to frighten peaceable citizens, and,
above all, to prevent their enjoying the pleasures of
the carnival. Proceedings ha% o been commenced
, against the guilty."
The Austrian bulletins are silent with respect to
the extent of the insurrection, and the number of the
killed and wounded. The reports of the Italian and
Swiss newspapers differ widely on this subject. The
Zurich Gazette states that according to the report of
the courier who had arrived at Lugano from Milan,
300 were killed. No such numbers, however, appear
in other accounts. With respect to the manner of
the attack, all the narratives agree pretty closely.
According to the Bale Gazette, soldiers and officers
were attacked in different parts of the city simulta-
, neoasly. Several of the latter were killed opposite
the castle, as also in the Piazza Viacontina, near the
café Reichmann, in the environs of the cathedral, in
the Via dei Tre Re, at the café Gaocchi, and at the
viceregal palace, where the soldiers upon guard were
disarmed, while the officer in command wasstabbed.
It appears that _measures of repression were rather
tardily adopted. The citizens did not take part in
the movement. Another letter in the same paper
states that some Hungarian grenadiers fraternised
with the insurgents, and gave them up their arms.
In the military hospital at Milan there are 56
wounded, and in the civil haspital, 20.
The Opinions of Turin, of the Bth. says:—" It ap-
' pears, from our information, that some men of the
people sallied forth simultaneously from the gates of
Rome, Rosa, and Ticino, and attempted, about one
o'clock, to surprise the military posts by con-
structing barricades with pieces of furulture sod
church benches. A gang penetrated into the castle,
and entering a hall where a few officers were as.
sembled, wounded or (some say) killed two with
stilettoes. They afterwards endeavoured to force an
entrance into the inner court, where the artillery and
ammunition were placed, but, overpowered by the
troops, they were all arrested. Nobody was think-
ing of an outbreak, for in the evening there was to
be a splendid ball at the Duchess Visconti's, and
another at the Club del Marino."

`ln a letter dated Lugano, Feb. 7, and published in
the Ticino Gazette, we read—" The victims in the
affray at Milan are numerous. There are 56 wounded,
in the Military Hospital, and 20 in the Civil Hospi-
tal. The populstion,tt is said,took no part in the mani-
festation. On the 7th, in the morning, all the shops
were opened, but, it having been reported that a new
outbreak would take place, they were again closed.
In the meantime, the government disposes of so large
a forme that no serious disorder is to be appre-
hended."

A letter from Milan, in the Zurich Gasegge, states
that the: movement was currently talked of on
the sth, as being expected to break out on the fol-
lowing day. The other particulars coincide with
those giren above; strong patrols soon restored
order, the troops fired upon the rioters on several
points, land more than one hundred persona
have since been imprisoned. The poniards
need by the insurgents are said to have been all
of the same manufacture, and marked with a cross,
The theatres were not closed in the evening, but
very thinly attended, there not being above 140 spec-
tators in the theatre of La Scala, which is capable of
holding 5,000. The Veglione, or masked ball, was
attended by 15 persons, while 200 infantry soldiers
were stationed in the vestibule. Another letter of
the 7th, from Milan, says that at noon on that day
several people were beginning to shut their shops, it
being feared that the disturbances would recom-
mence.

We read in the Parlament° : "Several persons
were stabbed with poniards, bells were put in motion,
and two or three barricades erected. The result of
the affray was 10 killed and about 40 soldiers and
civilians wounded. Many of the latter were taken
prisoners. The prisoners all belong to the labouring
clan."

The Deesls states, on the faith of private letters,
that M. Mazzini, who left England about a month
since, was at Lugano, in the Swiss canton of Tessin,
a few days before the outbreak at Milan.
A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna 11, an-
nounces that certain journals of Vienna, which have
' accused the French government of having fomented
the outbreak at Milan, had been energetically con-
tradicted, and were about to have proceedings insti-
tuted against them.
Another despatch states that the Press. is the jour-
nal particularly referred to.

EDCCATION.—At the beginning of our last parlia-
mentary session there were certain reports in circulation as
to an alleged intention on the part of government to inter-
fere with the national ',chew, of education now so benefici-
ally at work in Ireland. The government, though it
satisfactorily disowned the idea thus ascribed to it—did not
attempt to carry it into effect. What they would not do,
however, when in power—the same party, it is now said by
their own organs, are about to try in opposition. The
Dublin Ezpreu announces to its readers, that early in the
coming session Lord Ciancarty will move in the House of
Lords, and Mr. G. A. Hamilton in the Commons, for •cont-
mittee of inquiry into the whole subject of education in
Ireland. The form is specious—but the seal aim, it may
be feared, is hostile. It looks like • renewal of the old
battle between the secular and sectarian theories, in which
the partisans of the latter wish to choose their own ground
and impose their own conditions. To • freo and neutral
inquiry into the system as it exists and operates we happen
to know that those who ate charged with its administration
would oppose no obstacles. In fact they court publicity.
Strong in their facts, they have no fears for the result.
But any sectarian attempt to temper with an institution of
which the fruits are lie far good, and good only, should be
strenuously resisted end rebuked by press and parliament.
We deprecate the renewed agitation of a question which,
when once carried, should have been set at rest in order to
give it a fair chance of attaining that success of which its
nature was capable.—Atheneurn.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY Erainwo.

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The Gazette de France has received a "first warn-
ing" from the Prefect of Police for having stated
that ki..Rothechild bad received a domiciliary visit
from the police—" no such visit," it adds, " haring
taken place."
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Several witnesses in the case of the persons ar-
rested on the charges already mentioned were ex-
amined yesterday and the day before, and others
are summoned for to-morrow. It does not appear
that any charge of a grave kind will be proved
against them, and it is probable that the number
finally brought up for trial will be still further re-
duced. Some of them were enabled to see their
families yesterday, and others, who had hitherto
been kept more au secret, can now be visited by:their
friends on obtaining the permission of the Prefect of
Police or the Juge &Instruction.
The Muniteur ➢ublishes an Imperial decree confer-
ring the decoration of the Legion of Honour on
Madame Massin, alias Sister Jeanne Claire, Supe—
rioress of the Sisters of Charity of the hotel-Lieu'
of Compeigne, who has been during 60 years mem-
ber, and, for the last 45 years, Superioreas of the
Convent.

Rear-Admiral Lugeol is named Major-General of
Marino at Toulon, in place of Vice-Admiral Delas-
seux, admitted into the second section (reserve) of the
calf. A number of legal appointments in the de-
mriments and promotions and nominations in the
Legion of Honour are also garotted. The Provisional
Chamber of the Court of Accounts, instituted bT de-
crees of the 15th January, 1815, is suppressed from
tho Ist of March.

A Cabinet Council, at which the Emperor presided,
was held yesterday at the Tuileries.

The Emir Abd-el-Kader arrived at Bream on the
17th ult., and was joined the following day by his
family and those of his two former Kalifs. All ap-
peared enchanted with their new residence. The
Governor of Brooms& rev is them with the greatest
distinction. By his orders, one of the principal
personages of the city, Si-Nfokhtar-Bey, met Abd-
el-Kader at Guemelek, the port of Bruussa, with his
own horses, his finest saddle, and his carnage. An
escort of cavalry also awaited him there, and the
greatest number of the officers of the Yazd:it's house-
hold came out to compliment him, and joined his
escort on the Guemelek road The Sultan assigned as
a residence to the Emir one of the finest houses of
Brous's, which was lined with carpets and divans
at his own expense. The French government sup-
plied him with all the other articles of furniture he
wanted, and Abd-cl-Kader and his family are now
most comfortably installed. The families of the two
Kalifs are lodged in adjoining houses.
The Meniterr of this morning contains an official
article on the recent publication entitled "Lettres
Franques." The Monsieur states tkat if it were nut
from a fear that the silence of government would re-
ceive a false interpretation, such a publication would
not merit more notice from the government than
from the public. But the Emperor, like France, ar-
dently desires peace, and would not permit, by taci-
turnity, a sort of approbation to be given to senti-
ments which would be for Europe a permanent cause
of inquietude and defiance.

The Bourse yesterday was firm, although business
was limited. The Three per Cents. closed at Mt
15c.; and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 103 f.
80c., for the account.

PARIS, SATURDAY ETRNINO.
It is officially announced that the Emperor will
open the legislative session in person on Monday
next, for which purpose the great bodies of the
state have been summoned to the Tuileries. The
members of the Senate, Corps Legislatif, and Coun-
cil of State will, on this occasion, be called upon in the
Emperor's presence to take the oath prescribed by the
new Imperial constitution. Although the expression
"opening in person" is used by the Pays, it does not
seem apposite to the occasion. The constitution
requires the Emperor to eeni a message ones a. year to
the Corps Legislatif, describing the political situation
of the country and setting forth the general nature
of the measures about to be submitted to their con-
sideration. This musage, I presume, will be read
by M. Billanit in the Lower House, after the cere-
mony at the Tuileries is over. The Comtitutionnel
has an article in reference to the message,
written in the style of a government print,
instructed to make known the contents of an official
document by anticipation. It is, however, impossi-
ble that the message can he so meagre as the sketch
in the Cbastilutionnel might lead one to suppose. The
article makes no allusion whatever to legislative mea-
sures, and merely recounts at tedious length the
events of the last year, upon which the message may
be expected to dwell for the purpose of contrasting
existing institutions with those in force prior to the
coup Vial. It is pretty evident that no revelations
have been made to the Constautionne/,:which I suspect
assumes an official tone to give itself importance in
the eyes of country readers.

There are a Good many political „accidents and
offences" to notice to-day. I am informed that two
guards of the Northern Railway were arrested yes-
terday, upon the charge of having clandestinely con-
veyed political correspondence into Belgium. They
were pounced upon, a fow minutes before the Brus-
sels train started, in a café opposite the station,where
it is alleged they were in the habit of receiving the
parcels entrusted to their charge.

The Ami de FOrdre of Amiens has been forced by
the prefect to insert an account, occupying four co-
lumns, of the rejoicings at Amiens in honour of the
Emperor's marriage.
On Sunday last the Mayor of Metz issued an order
that no pupils of the Lyceum there should be ad-
mitted into any café, restaurant, or house of refresh-
ment, even when accompanied by their relatives.
This unprecedented order occasioned such dis-
turbances in the school that 105 pupils, belonging to
the best families in the town, were sent to their
homes. Whether the expulsion of these young men
is definitive is not yet known. The school was in a
state of great agitation during the early part of the
week, and all the lectures were adjourned till Friday.
A cafe at Crest (Drome) has just been closed,
upon thund that •01110 of the anarchists re-
cently pardoned, instead of blessing the Emperor
for hbi clemency, met there to renew their connexion
with secret societies. Another cafe in the same
town is threatened. The police of Toulon have made
a seizure, in a tobacconist's shop, of 130 pipes orna-
mented with the head of Ledru Rollin. On the oth
inst., some soldiers of the 46th Regiment, stationed
at Masamet, near Toulouse, quarrelled and fought
with some operatives in a public-house. One of the
soldiers was so much hurt that he died in the hos-
pital next morning. An inquiry into the cause of the
disturbance is going on.

The Gazette de France has received a warning for
falsely stating that a domiciliary visit had been made
at M. Rothschild's.
M. Calla, the ex-representative, has just been ex-
pelled from Belgium, in consequence of a pamphlet
published by him hostile to the-French government.

A letter from Brussels states that an action has
been brought by M. de la Rochejaquelin against La
Nation journal for a libel. The plaintiff demands
30,000 fr. damages and the insertion of the judgment
in ten Paris, and three Brussels journals.

Four more of the prisoners arrested on Sunday
have been set at liberty, MM. Chatard, Chareau,
Villemessant, and Pelloquet. The Freese says that
out of forty persons arrested, only fourteen now
remain in custody. Thus the importance of tha
" plot " diminishes everyday. M. Charles Mouselet,
who it appears was ono of the thirteen arrested
at Montmartre has also been released, together with
all his fellow-conspirators but one. That one, with
whose name I am unacquainted, we must needs sup-
pose to be a very dangerous democrat. The Inde-
pendence Beige says :—" Steps have been taken
without success in favour of several amongst them,
and particularly of M. Tanski, in the first place by
Count Walewski, his old and intimate friend, and
afterwards by a celebrated banker to whom his posi-
tion secures great influence, not only in the financial
but in the political world. The answer gives was
that the affair was in the hands of justice, and that
lit could alone decide on the fate of the prisoners."

MM. Alphonse Karr, Edmund, and Jules do Con-
court, writers in the Paris, and M. Lo Barbier, the
r:rant of the journal, appeared to-day at the bar of
the Thbunal of Correctional l'olicc, to answer a
charge of having published pasquivades offensive to
decency and public morals. The court postponed its
judgment till this day week.

GERMANY.

We have received the following. telegraphic des-
patch from Berlin, dated the 11th inst. :—" The se-
cond Chamber this day discussed the bill on the or-
ganisation of the first Chamber, and which had been
adopted by that chamber. The article of the bill
declaring that the Chambers shall be convoked only
every second year was rejected by a majority of 52.
The article declaring that the budget shall be voted
for two years was also rejected. The Chamber
adopted by a majority of 13 the article which fixes at
six years the duration of each parliament."
Thus again, the attempt to nullify the constitu-
tion by reducing the action of the Chambers has
failed. That it will be revived in another form is
scarcely to be doubted. But although these endea-
voursof the King to repeal vital provisions of the
charter by octroye himself betray a longing for au-
thority without the semblance of control, it is only
justice to his Majesty to remember that hitherto he
has resorted to no means of changing the constitu-
tion not consistent with that charter itself.

Our correspondent writes:
BERLIN, Fr.. 8.
It will be remembered that the cavalier party en-
deavoured to tack on to the government bill for the
organisation of the First Chamber a clause to the
effect that the 120 representatives of the aristocratic
class shall in future sit in the Second Chamber.
'lb, government, indeed, contemplates, and is pre-
, paring such a memure; but it opposed the introduc-
tion of the clause, because it would lead to the rejec-
tion of the present bill by the Second Chamber. That
is, however, the very reason why the cavalier party
proposed the clause. They want to have
elective peers ; while the government bill pro-
vides that all members of the future First
Chamber shall be nominated by the Crown,
either with the right of inheritance or for life. The
obnoxious clause was rejected by a majority of G 6 to
48, and the government bill then adopted by 70 to
42. This is, nevertheless, a victory of the aristocratic
over the bureaucratic party ; for M. von Mauteuffel
has been obliged to drop, in the present bill, the very
provision on which the scheme of bureaucratic re-
action was to turn,--namely, the right of conferring
seats in the Fret Chamber for the term of office,
whereby the assembly might be transformed into a
state council of the chief administrative officials.
Nevertheless, what cannot be done in a direct way
will probably, as is usual in Prussia, be effected in an
indirect manner. M. von Manteuffel will take care that
the future First Chamber shall be comp sed chiefly of
high officers of state nominated merely for life; and the
same policy, which rendered the King averse to
offending the aristocrats, by giving to the bureau-
crats a formal ascendancy, will lead him to avoid the
conferring of hereditary . peerages, whereby the
aristocracy might acquire virtual power. Tho rawa
will pursue the see-saw system with a mixed minis-
try, and endeavour to prevent, as long u it can, the
carrying out of any decided
.princrple whatever;
because a decided principle came, the government,
even against its will, ,forward to some goal; and the
Crown, not knowing what this nifty bc,:would rather
stay where it is. But as principles will' work their
way in time, and no monarch can stop the movement
of the whole world, it is evident that to remain
stationary, while all around moves, is not the way to
I preserve one's relative position ; yet such is the pal-
pable error of so-called conservatism.

At Frankfort-on-the-Maine, on Sunday last, a
banker's office in one of the most frequented streets
was broken open and robbed during church time.
One of the partners, who probably interrupted the
thieves, was found murdered, his throat being cut,
and his hands very much wounded. The perpe-
trators had not yet been discovered.

Berlin manufactures very beautiful furniture of
basket work. The French ambassador here has pur-
chased a set of such furniture for some chambers in
the Tuileries.

The following is the answer put in by Gervinus
at the Heidelberg court, on the 28th ult., in answer
to the indictment charging him with inciting to
high treason and endangering the public peace :
" I find upon close examination of your indict-
ment against my brochure, called ' Introduction to
the History of the Nineteenth Century,' that it is
based upon a total misunderstanding of the charac-
ter of the ,work. You exhibit my composition as a
political pamphlet, written with a personal political
tendency, while its strictly scientific character is
most clear. Nowhere, in speaking of the ten-
dencies of tho times, have I stated that my in-
clinations coincided with them, much less have I
sought in it to effect the same tendency in others. The
indictment alleges that I have accumulated all praise
upon democracy, and all blame upon monarchy : but,
in truth, nowhere in this book is aught so bad maid of
monarchy, or even of absolutism, as is said, ez gr., at
page 7, of the " French Democracy ;" and, again,
nowhere is so much good predicated of any state
system as of the constitutional monarchy of England,
upon which (vide pp. 84-88) all conceivable praise is
accumulated. The statement that I represent the
abolition of monarchy as a just and necessary act
on the part of the people is so far from the truth, that
even all the incrimated passages, separated as they
are from their contexts, contain its refutation. The
indictment makes me affirm of democratic forms of
government where I hare only referred to demo-
cratic institutions,' such as the constitutions of Eng-
land, Belgium, Norway, and other countries, show
to be perfectly compatible with monarchy. From
these and similar misapprehensions the con-
clusion is drawn that I signalise the sub-
stitution of the republican for the monarchi•
cal form of government as the crowning
success of the tendency of the present age. But this
induction of yours drawn from isolated passages, only
incidentally referring to the subject, must to the
ground, if any one passage is found in my book
directly opposed to it. Such a passage is found
not only in the work, but in most conspi-
cuous place,—namely, in the recapitulation of the
chief inference drawn in the course of the core=
lion, where it is said that it is not to be p
with certainty whether the tendency of the age
(which surely the author was not called on to abuse)
was leading to the supremacy of republicanism or
monarchy, that is to say, constitutional or democratic
monarchy. Since this conclusion is, in fact, the pith
of the whole charge, it appears to me that your in-
dictment falls to nothing, as a thing constructed upon
an unreal foundation. I reserve the right of further
defence before the proper tribunal. I also declare
that I am the author of the work, and that I com-
mitted it to the bookseller for distribution to the
public.

" G. Gramme
A correspondent writes from Carlarnhe on the Bth :
—"Except in the revolutionary period people in Baden
have been so little accustomed to political prosecu-
tions that the seizure of Gervinus's ' Introduction '
and the subsequent indictment of the author have oc-
casioned a real sensction. The conviction is universal
here that the Professor will be acquitted, since the
charge of inciting to high treason is quite untenable
on the basis of the legislation of Baden, and the
alleged tendency of the inculpated book to endanger
the public peace cannot in anywise be shown. The
District Court at Munich has rejected the appeal
preferred by the booksellers against the seizure of
the 'lntroduction,'—the latter is therefore contraband
in Bavaria."