The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-06 00:00:00

ITALY.

GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN THE FORII/L
(nor ova owa oomaroposam) _ __

ROME, TumuspAY, FM. 27.
I have just witnessed a scene of intense interest.
From the Capitol to the Arch of Titus, and from
thence to the Coliseum, and past the Arch of Con-
stantine, there was one mass of human beings, occu-
pying every available standing-place. The men were
perfectly calm and quiet. There were no tricolours of
badges of any kind, nor cries of " Vine I" or
" biortes !" Their presence there alone was amply
sufficient, and they had no intention of giving
excuse for their tyrants to separate them. Goyon
had mercifully insisted that only French troops and
a very few Roman gendarmes should guard the
Forum on that particular day ; and so everything
was as peaceful as if in a great Engliah exhibition.
The carriages of all classes, some belonging to the
higher nobility, formed a double continuous file,
often stopped and jammed four deep from the
Campidoglio to the Coliseum ; but the most perfect
quiet and good humour prevailed. The class of
people composing the vast multitude was very re,
marksble. Not for a moment could it have been
called a "mob." The members of that respectable
fraternity were all in the Corso. Here, in the
Forum, were men, all of them decently dressed,
most of them as became well-to-do bourgeois, profes-
sional men, and artisans in Sunday attire. About
one fourth or fifth were ladies in carriages or respect-
able women walking with their husbands or fathers.
Never did I understand before, in all my visits to
Italy, what a splendid race physically are these
Italians. There were the makings of some six or
seven of the finest volunteer regiments in Europe
in the crowd which filled the Forum to-day, and
their countenances, illuminated by hope and cou-
rage, assumed an expression very different from the
usual dogged looks of a modern Roman. When
the sun went down at last behind the Capitol, and
the last golden gleam ceased to play through the
rents in the Coliseum, the vast crowd dispersed m
calmly as it had assembled. The people walled
up to the Campidoglio, and there forming a large
column, passed in regular step, with military accu-
racy of time, past the station of French soldiers, past
the statue of Marcus Aurelius, and down the meg-
nifimnt steps to the Piazza of Ara Cash, below
which they slowly separated without disturbance of
any kind. Perhaps the day may not be far distant
when they may meet again in that ancient Forum—
but not so silently—to hear a proclamation from
the Capitol, whose response will shake the pillars
of the old temples around, and make the arches of
the Coliseum echo " Viva the King of Italy I"
FRIDAY SUMP&
A new turn of affairs. The liberals agreed to'
walk to-day in the Corso, there being no carnival
held there on Friday. At the appointed hour
thousands began to assemble, but the govern-
ment had actually resolved on the out-
rageous step of closing the entire Corso
from end to end throughout the whole after-
noon. Troops were stationed in vast numbers at
each end and all down the street at every opening,
and there was an entire stop to all traffic either on
foot or in carriages. To make a person unac-
quainted with Rome imagine the nature of such
an act of despotism, I will my that the Corso is to
Rome what the line of Piccadilly, the Strand, and
Fleet-street, from Hyde-park-corner to St. Paul's,
is to London. Even in the adjacent places vast
bodies of troops were stationed ; 500 or 600 stand
of arms 'in the Piazza di Spigna, and the mole in
the Piazza del Popolo. The people are beginning
to be very angry. The French soldiers are utterly
disgusted with their tasks. Who knows what may
be in store for us this next week ?

WEATHER IitZPOItT.-(THIS DAY.)

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and M. to N. mad lA, tesit.
rain

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—ganextabove—atrong &W. to N.W., moderate to
to moderate. fresh.
. Coast —B. to W. and N.W., B.W. to N.W. and N., mode-
trash, some rain rate to trash.
Ingland.-8.8.W. to N.W., W.B.W. to N.N.W., fresh to
fresh or strong to moderate, moderate.
rank In places.

KIPL&NATION.
11.—Baroroctor corrected end reduced to 92
level ; each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about _
al an Inch diminution; and snob 10 deg., above Pt deg., causing
nosey three.hundredtbs inarease. X.—lammed tbermcatetee
In shade. Y.—Molatened bulb (tor evaporation and dew
point). D.--Direetion cd wind (true—two points left of low
natio). I.—toted (I to la—satimated). C.—Cloud (1 to 9). I.
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b, blue sky: e. clouds (detacbed): f, fog ; h. Mil 1,
ifghtolog nt, misty (hazy) ; 0, overcast (dull) r, rain :a, SCOW
1, thunder. 8., rant-fall, or anon, or hall, since last report, in
Inches and decimals. B.—ileadlaturbauos (Ito 9). Z.—Calm.

dog at mean

MELANCHOLY DEATHS Dv DROWNINO.—The lives
of two young women have been lost under most distressing
circumstances at Garthmill, Mostgomeryshire. Mrs. Swift,
of the Cottage, sent her servant•girl upon a morass, and,
becoming alarmed at her not returning, search was made,
when her hat was found floating on the canal, which she
bad to pass on her way. The canal wee instantly dra
and the body found. The grief of the girl's miativea
very great, 'Mrs. Melling*, of she Nag's Head, kindly sent
her stepdaughter to be company for bee for the night, and
won afterwards called at the house herself. Not seeing her
stepdaughter, who she ascertained had been there, she in.
quired, and (mid she had been sent on the seine errand In
assaying which the servant had lost her life. Another slam
was raised, and early the nest morning the canal was
when bog lifeless body was found not far from theaZ
where the other had been disoovered. It is supposed that
in the darkness of the night both the poor girls mistook the
camel for the road and stepped into it.