The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-27 00:00:00

ITALY.

ROME, APRIL 20.
Mr. Lyons, who supersedes Mr. Metre in his diplo-
matic capacity here, arrived on the evening of the
18th.

The event of the week, concerning which the
whole town is talking, is a grand fray between
French and Roman soldiers, near the fountain of
Trevi, night before last. It appears that a Roman
trumpeter, named Mariam, was solacing himself
with a mug of wine in company with a pothouse
Dulcinea, when some French infantry soldiers
entered the oateria, and invited the frail fair one to
partake of their Falerniau also, which, being accus-
tomed to general complaisance, she accepted, thereby
so irritating the Roman that he flung a glass of wine
in her face, and in those of her new protectors. An
appeal aux artnes was the immediate consequence,
and the trumpeter, fiercely attacked by five or Rix
Frenchmen, was driven out of the pothouse and took
refuge in a cafe opposite. In rushing in, however,
hotly pursued by his enemies, his scabbard got
between his legs and he fell to the ground,
where he continued to defend himself slashingly from
the French soldiers, and likewise front a French ser-
geant who was in the cafe, and attacked him with
his sabre. Three Roman dragoons in the café, seeing
such tremendous odds against their comrade, unhe-
sitatingly drew in his defence and a regular cavalry
and infantry meMe ensued, which made such a row in
the quarter that strong patrols of French immediately
marched up, and occupied all the outlets, and ulti-
mately captured the trumpeter upstairs, and the other
three Roman combatants in the Marquis Maccarani's
stable. Meanwhile the whole regiment of Roman
dragoons in the neighbouring Pilotta barracks were
with difficulty restrained by their officers from rush-
ing out en masse to rescue their comrades. Yester-
day morning the colonel of the dragoons repaired
with eight men to the French guardhouse at San
Marcell°, and demanded his captive soldiers, who
were consigned to him by order of the French
general, and lodged in the Papal Military Prison of
St. Anne, whither, although wounded, they were
quite able to walk. Some of the French are severely
wounded also.

The Peruvian minister hero has invited the sculp-
tors of Rome to send in propositions for the execu-
tion of as equestrian statue of General Bolivar, and
twelve other marble statues, probably destined to
rival the great Washington monument executed by
Mr. Crawford.

NAPLES.

A letter from Naples, dated March 24, stating that
news had been received there of a soldier having
been murdered at Palermo, and that to the dagger
with which he had been stabbed was attached a
paper with the words " Vengeance of Mancini," that
a groat number of arrests had been made, that five
persons had been immediately shot, and that General
Pilangieri, the Governor of Palermo, had pub-
lished proclamation. announcing severe measures
for the repression of any attempt at insurrection,
was published rather more than three weeks ago in
one of the Paris journals. The Constitutionnel now
publishes a letter from Palermo, dated the 13th, and
signed Caldareira, in which the writer asserts that
the murder spoken of was never perpetrated, and
that no proclamations of the nature alluded to had
been published. All that was true in the letter
of the 3rd, says M. Caldareira, was the fact that
arrests had been made of some conspirators
against the government. Four of them were
condemned to death for having concealed arms, but
the King almost immediately granted their pardon.