The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-12 00:00:00

asesaiingly employed in opening a breach in the
bastion on the right of the gate, so as to be able to
attack at every point at otce.
The report of General Garibaldi towards the thee
of the day was to the effect that he could hold his
positions until about eight o'clock, beyond which
time he considered the Janicaluoi as untenable, and
proposed, as the only plan of defence practicable
(should the government intend to continue any de-
fence at all), to withdraw the troops to the left side
of the Tiber, break down the bridges, and leave the
heights, together with Trastevere, and, in fact, every-
thing on the right bank, in the power of the enemy.
This plan, which would have placed the whole city at
the ti et of a ferocious army, whom mortars and
heavy artillery experience shows as would certainly
not have been lelt inactive during the night, was not
recommended b 7 Garibaldi, but merely mentioned as
the only remaining method of oppc&ng the enemy's

Prlos National Assembly, after having duly weighed
all the pros and eons, came to the resolution, as you
are already aware, to "discontinue a defence which
was no longer possible, but to remain at its past."
Thus no political concession was made, no point
given op ; whatever change will becceforth take
place will be ender the influence of foreign bayonets
and in consequence of superior force.
This detenalaution being taken, the triumvirate

directed the municipality to-take thi oppartun• steps
he the safety of the city, in ormseqeence of which
that body wrote to the British and American consuls
begging them to repair to the French camp in order
to prepare the way he treating of those details which '
pseeharly behold to the municipality elltoese.
The British wield replied to the members of the
deputation that he did not consider him elf justified
in acting without previously consulting the billy of
foreign consuls, and that, in his opinion, it was none-
enemy for consuls to go to the camp int rely to prepare
the way for the municipality ; but that if they met with
any obstacle to their reception on the part of Gen.
Outlined, he should then rugged to his colleagues to
accompany him to the French camp, and use their
united endeavours to mitigate the horrors of war,
beyond which be did not consider himself calla I on
by the nectssity of the case to act. This plan the
municipality adopted, and despatched a dragoon with
a gag of truce at halt past eight last night, announcing
the determination of the National Assembly, and
stating that three members of the municipality (the
senator Sturbinetti, with De Andres and Pasquali)
would follow shortly after, to request a conference
with General Oudinot.

The first molt of this deputation has been that we
have all pa.sed a quiet night, without the danger of
being burnt or brained in our beds, an advantage
to be the more appreciated when it comes imme-
diately after such a night as that of the 29. h.
Amongst the many reasons which determined the
National Assembly to discontinue the defence, I may
mention that of a scarcity of ammunition. The con-
tinual firing, during two months, in one direction or
another, had nearly exhausted the stock in the city;
and the French not only intercepted the supplies sent
from the province., but took the trouble of destroying
all the powder-mills and iron-foundries in the neigh-
bourhood. Their last exploit in this way line been
the complete destruction of the long-established
powder manufactory at Tivoli, by 1,600 men, under
the command of General Batman. A superior officer
of artillery reported yesterday that the ammunition
would barely suffice to keep up eight or ten hour?'
more fire at the rate Bien going on.
The bombardment, too, interrupting the silence and
tranquillity of the night, began to preduce a certain
degree of trepidation; not in the lower classes (for
they are heroically disposed even now), but in the
middle ranks of citizens, unused to hardship, and un-
willing to see their wives and children destroyed by
Oudinot's projectiles.
Much praise is due to Mr. Moore, the British con-
sul at Ancona, for his assistance in facilitating the
departure of those unfortunate refugees who have
compromised themselves in the late events, and there
is no doubt that our consul here will, on the score of
humanity, adopt a similar course.
Henr•rAsr Two, r.m.—l have just learned the
actual state of nc?ociations. The deputation was
well received by Oudinot, who did justice to the
bravery with which the city had been defended, and
desired the deputies to form the conditions to be ob-
entrei on the entry of the French troops. They are
,I as follows :

1. The French army will enter Rome, and take up the
position it shall think proper. 2. Those Roman troops
which, by commea agreement between General Oudinot and
the Roman commanders, will be destined to remain in the
city, will perform the service of the city and the Castle of
St. Angel. jointly with the French troops. 3. The Roman
military authorities will appoint various quarten for the
other troops of all arms who will not remain in the city.
4. The communications with Reme, now interrupted by the
French army, will be again free. 6. The preparations for
defending the interior of the city, being now useless, will be
mislaid, and free circulation re-established. 6. Individual
liberty and the inviolability of persons for any antecedent
a', as well as the safety of property, will be guaranteed
indistinctly to aIL 7. The national guard is kept in acive
envies within the limits of its institution. 8. France will
set interfere in the internal administration of the country.
Such are the einditions now under discussion.
It is said that Oudinot requires the Castle of St.
Angelo all to himself, but that the other articles will
meet with no opposition. The triumvirate resigned
this morning, it being contrary to Mazzini's principle
to yield. The Assembly is now uncertain whether to
elect the consuls, as decreed by the constitution of the
republic, or to appoint a new triumvirate. In case of
Oudinot's refusal to grant reasonable terms, hostili-
ties will be furiously renewed. St. Pietro in Mou-
ton* and the right of the Janiculum ere still held
by the Romans, and the French line, are a stone's
throw off. So much exasperation prevails in the city,
that the shop-keepers this morning commenced rend-
ing down the French signs and inscriptions which
the more fashionable of them had hitherto displayed
for the attraction of foreigners and winter visitors.
We hate en armistice of fifty hours.

JULY 4.

The number of troops that left Rome with Gari-
baldi appears not to have surpassed three or four
thousand men, but the man of the army will, if not
hindered by the French, shortly follow in the same
direction. The National Assembly decided yester-
day, in a secret meeting, to appoint a committee of
nine of its members, charged to accompany the army,
to direct and communicate the strait of its opera-
tions, and, in case of the Assembly now sitting at the
Capitol being dissolved by force, to represent in the
provinces the sovereignty of the people. Mazzini,
who has not as yet left Rome, Cerraischi, Sterbini,
and other influential deputies of extreme principles,
were named for this office. The entry of the French
troops, en mane, did not take place until 7 o'clock
yesterday evening, but the gates were occupied by
them at a much earlier hour, and small parties of
bar and five at a time were to be seen walk-
ing about the streets as early as noon—an
imprudent thing for the general to allow, and one
that was very near producing more fatal results than
them already to be deplored. The public mind was
too exasperated to look camly on the authors of so
much mischief, and the few acne who ventured into
etas, eating-houses, or public places, were imme-
diately left " alone in their glory" by the Romans
abandoning their vicinity. Some priests and spies,
who were more ainiaVe in their manners, and went
so far as to applaud the new arrive» in a public
manner, were killed by the people on the spot, and
one or two unwise French stragglers were only res-
cued by the national guard from a similar fate.
The main body of the army was salleed, on the
whole line of its march through the streets, but espe-
cially in the Corso and Piazza Colonns, with tremen-
dous shouts of " Viva la Ripublica Romani!"
" Viva rlialia!" " Death to Oudinot!" " Down
with the priests?' with other compliments
of a more practical nature, such as flinging tin buckets
and other noisy missiles at the heels of the soldiers, so
as to interrupt the movements of the platoons, and
required a menace with levelled bayonets in order
to put a stop to similar demonstrations. As soon as
the long array of mill closed, and the last ranks
defiled peat the great ca Respell, the people seized
the national flag, the trioobx, which always