The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—The Italian journals are una-
nimous in their opinion of the papal edict and amnesty.
Florence, Turin, sad Genoa alike speak out in this
smase, and consider the act es impolitic, end essen-
tially cootie'', to the interests'of the popedom. The
semiseriously religious men are those who are most
alarmed. At Line the edict is treated in a way
Clearly showing what is the feeling of the population.
The pipit mote-proprio and amnesty were posted up
a second time on that day, and were again defiled
wi h mad, and in several laces with blood.
Ths itttude of the French military authority is
gaiter expectant. It awaits orders from Paris, bat dis-
approves de facto the measures ordered by the papal
government; and whilst the cardinals dare not walk
the streets of Rome for fear of encountering the
popular fury, the victims marked out by their inqui-
sitorial decrees walk about freely.
Tee Colic°, dia of Turin, of the 27th ult., gives the
following account of the persona excluded from the
papal amnesty : Members of the Provisional Govern-
ment, 9 ; members of the Constituent Assembly, 200 ;
triumvirs aid ministers (Mazsini excepted, who is not
a Rouse), 12; commanders of ol,fferent corps, 11 ;
?mons amnestied in 1846, and especially excluded
by the present amnesty, 6,000; officials under peace-
cution, 4,000; the corps of gendarmes now dissolved,
3,000; mai, 13,235.
We have received the following letters from our
correspondent :
ROME, San. 20.
At lee the Pope has spoken out plainly—neither
his rubjects nor the world at large need make any
awe speculations with respect to the future regime
of this country—the coestitution is to be swept out of
the Roman States, as a useless modern ineumbrance,
incompatible with the double attributes of the Sove-
reign Pontiff. The inota-proprio in which his holi-
sees resolution was made known to the public
speared yesterday, and I firward you a translation
of the important document [which has already ap-
peared in our columns].
Thin the solid guarantees which a liberal constitn-
bon would have afforded for the endurance of peace
Si. rejected, the desp,tie power of the Papal govern-
melt is fully retained, and a shado privilege of
advising (when such advice Soaked for)wy is all that is
coneeded to a nation whose late struggles for lib!
sad whose present impaitenes under the powl
emnproakw of foreign armies, ought to be a sufficient
Visaing to the partisans of selesbuitical tyranny.

But Pia IX. has an unfailing point of attack for the
counsellors who surrrund him, and on that side he is
always vulnerable. His conscience is a fulcrum by
which he may be moved to the exentlon of their
most arbitrary designs; aid the incompatibility of a
tree constitution with his character as " Christ'.
vicar," is pat forward as an invincible objection to the
civil advancement of the Roman States, and to their
participation in those ameliorations which the inutl-
pewees of the age gradually developes in
ether Europese eonetries.
With respect to the amnesty, it requires bid a
small share
tz of discernment to perceive that it is, in
seals, sore than a proscription on a very ex.
seals, and a roiliest= of that edict which I
have mentioned in my last communications as conti-
nually impending over the beads of the people. Tree
Romsns themselves, in their usual vein of satire, de-
Glare that those alone are pardoned who have done
nothing to deserve punishment, and that the &moiety
merely extends to steaks, nuns, and persons who
never stifled out of their houses since the proclama-
tion of the republic.
They have already shown the estimation in which
they hold bath the encetwieroprie and the amnesty, by
&Wig and diedgvedag, end in mos instates's spirt-
ing them with blood, so that, in order to remove such
a scandalous want of respect from the light of open
day, the police agents were occupied this morning in
removing the mutilated edicts from the walls alto-
gether. Inscriptions of " Viva la Republica," "Death
to the Neri," 'Down with the soldiers of the Pope,"
appear in large letters on the walls, both parties
being, it seems, resolved to publish their o*n version
of the case.
The prisons of Rome are at present se full that the
fear of contagious diseases breaking out bee compelled
toe authorities to diverse the prieoners, by using the
vast edifice of St. Michael's -Hospital es a place of
confiniment. Three hundred prisoners were acc trd-
ingly marched down two or three days ago t their
new abode, escorted by French soldiery, and it was
melancholy to see numbers of respectable aid well-
attired young men, handcuffed in company with cut-
throats and housebreakers for no other crime than
p liticel opinion, paraded through the strews of the
metropolis in the sight of their parents, their friends,
or them relations.
The exercise of the bayonet, which is constantly
prettied by the light infantry on the Piazze of the
city, must likewise be rather a painful reminiscence to
those who have last husbands, biothere, or eons, by
French weapons whilst defending their native walls
against foreign attack.
We are still under the rule of General Riatolan
here, and such is the hesitating policy of :he French
cabinet, that it is impossible to conjecture how much
longer we nisi' ',mein so. It appears that there was
such an outcry raised at Naples, or rather at Partici,
at the bare idea of • protestant general being
eppoii ted to the office of commander tn-ebief of the
Preach army in the Papal states, that it was found
impossible to carry the men are through ; and M. de
Conic lies, whom I think I mentioned as being
now in Rome, applied to General Rostalen fur •
retraction of his resignation, and begged him to con-
tinue, at least for the present, in the exercise of his
functions es heretofore. Whether Louis Napoleon
will tamely consent to be dictated to in this manner,
remains to be proved, but if the reputation he bears of
being firm, not to say entete in his resolutions, is con-
firmed in this instance, there will probably be a
grand rupture between the protectors and the
protegees.

Szrramsza 24.

It will perhaps be hardly credited that a French
general, at the head of b.tween forty and fifty thou-
send melt, should find difficulty in carrying any mea-
sure wrists°. ver, or that he should hewer in putting
into execution, at any rate, the direct and ex-
plicit orders which he receives hem his own
government. And yet such is the case in
this city. I can assure you (and I have it
on the highest authority) that a week has not
elapsed since General Rostnlan received positive in-
structine from the president of the French repoblic,
to publish his letter to Colonel Ney on the affairs of
It-me, in tl e Roman men Up to the present mo-
ment no such publication has taken place. Such a
disobedience to er neglect of orders can only arise
from two sources—intimidation or csrraption—the
fear of offtnding the c.)mbined agents of Austrian.
Russian, and papal diplrmscy, or &secret devotlon to
that party whose weapons are bribny, mystery, and
dt era.

SARDINIA.—In its sitting of the 25th ult. the
Chamber of Deputies of Turin entered upon the dis-
cussion of the bill for the loan of 73 millions, as
amended by the commission. The three articles of
which the bill is composed authorise the government
to issue sixty inscriptions of one million of trance
each to the account of the Austrian government,
as a guarantee for the payment of the war indem-
nity stipulated by the treaty of the 6th August;
the Piedmootese government is further instructed to
procure the hinds necessary for the pajmeet of the
interest of the said inscriptions. l'he minister of
finance announced that the cabinet acceded to the
wording of the commission, but required the addition
of a fourth pamraph, authorising the government to
create additional metes to an amount sufficient to
oLtain on favourable conditions the capital of twenty-
Cur million, to be paid by December next, as part
of the war indemnity. After some violent discussion
on this addition, and on the question whether the
financial bill implied or not the acceptation of the
treaty of peace bj the Chamber, the latter adopted an
order of the day proposed by Deputy Mellana, declar-
ing that the Chamber did not consider keen bound
to approve of the treaty of peace by the mere fact
of its voting the financial part. The three first
articles of the bill were then voted. Oa the fourth
article being put to the vote, Deputy Ratassi and se-
veral membis of the commission proposed that the
article in question be embodied in a separate law.
This course was eventually approved of by the Cham-
ber and the original bill ad Tied by 119 votes to 11.
The discussion on the treaty of peace, which stood
for the following day, was put off to a later period.
NAPLES.—The Of/kial Journal of Catania, of the
9th ult., states that merlons disturbances have taken
place at Nicosia and Orammichele, two communes of
the province of Catania, in oinsequence of the re-
establishment of the tax on flour, which had been
abolished by the late provisional government. At
Nicosia four of the richest inhabitants, who were be-
lieved to tare recommended the re-establishment cf
the obnoxious tax, fell victims to the popular fury,
and at Orsmmicbele two persons shared the same
fate. A moveable column immediately marched to
the disturbed districts, end order was speedily re-
stored.
The following is the letter of our correspondent :
NAPLES, Barr. 24.
The Pope seems anxious to preeenthimeelf as much
as possible to the public. Yet, with all his efforts to
attract attention and conciliate regard, be is eminently
unsuccessful. Nothing can be colder, nor more morti-
fying to hims-lf, I should imagine, than the reception
with which he meets. Benedictions are as cheep 111
nuts. First, as you have heard, we had the benedic-
tion of the military, which was a splendid spectacle ;
then lest Sunday we bad the benediction of the people,
in front of the king's palace. In both cases the cere-
mony wee the same; the Pope, dressed in white,
presented himself on the royal balcony, amidst twelve
cardinals, in their scarlet robes, and after • short
prayer, blessed the thousands who were kneeling in
the piazza below. The canton then boomed from all
the forts around the harbour, after which the crowd
sang the hymn to Pio Nono. It was evident, how-
ever,
hat the demonstration was completely got upi
—those who shouted were of the lowest claims, and
betrayed but too manifestly that they were hirelings
by waving white pocket handkerchiefs, the first ofl
the kind perhaps they ever had possessed, unless on
the occasion of relieving the pocket of mom hapless
forestial% During the benediction the old Prince
Leopold was on the balcony, whilst the king stood
withiaside the window, apparently sheltering his
bead behind the frame. Another benediction has also
been given from the cathedral church of San Glennaro,

when so few were present, and those, too, of the
lowest clams, that his holiness was evidently disap-
pointed; in fact, it is a remarkable feature in all the
papal exhibitions that the more respectable classes of
society have almost altogether withheld their pre-
sence. The Pope has thought it necessary
also to visit the church of Pie di Grotto; not
however on the great day of the feast: he came over
from Portici by steam, and almost every other day he
continues to do se, bestowing his benediction on the
sante crowds who are hired to cheer him. It seems,
indeed, as if he had resolved on making the tow of the
churches. Pio's mode of entering his carriage wents
greatly to have shocked some ladies : During the hot
weather his holiness wore only drawers beneath his
ling robe, a fact which was made evident by his
lifting his robe above his knees immediately on his
entering his carriage; hence the offence. Whether it
was that the modesty of the fair ladies was shocied,or
their knowledge of papal anatomy proved to be at
fault, having laboured under the impress:on that the
successor of St. Paw was a cherub. I cannot say
bat I presume the former. This week we have had
tie wraotioa of the bleat of Boa Cisme* apdn
is the poonsos of isasiousAksoomodo
ft=as performed early, in bower perhaps of
Pope's residence in the country. Yesterday the king
himself went to worship the holy Mood, accompanied
by a guard of homer, whilst soldiers were drawn up
in the streets in many directions to maintain order
and prevent the passage of c ; this is the
second time that his majesty liraritiaCwn himself in
public since M iy, 1848.
There is still talk of a change of ministers, and Fi-i
lacgieri has been spken of for the war department,
and Castelcical* for the foreign. Ido not, however,
place any confidence in the report; there is too strong
a party against Filangieri, besides the king, it is said,
fears him. Others add that he would not act with
Longobardi, and that he insists on certain conditions
which the king will not concede. How public affairs
sr: administered it is puzzling to guess ; for the only
ostensible ministry is represented in the person of
Fortunate, minister of finance, who, by the bye, is
a clever financier. Ade ee was issued on Saturday,
22nd, tisk ng off the prohibition in the free exporta-
tion of gold and silver. Some troubles have again
taken place in the city in consequi Roe of the imposi-
tion of the oppressive, impolitic, and infamous tax on
the flour mills. Twenty gendarmes, it is said, have
been killed near Catania. Filangieth who had come
tip a few days before, left immediately.
The Prince It•gent, which left us for Cephalonia, has
been succeeded by the Oberon and the Bull Dog; the
former from Malts, the latter from Cleft* Vecchia,
She (the Bull Dog) is going over to Castelaman for
ball practice.
Exchange on London, 511. Fire per Cents., 66,1.

FRANCE.

OPENING OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

PARIS, MONDAY, 630 P.M.
There has been no excitement whatever to-day at
the meeting of the Chamber. There were very few
more people about the house than usual; though a few
blouses %ere seen around and along the quay., they
were not allowed to loiter. The democrat members
were in fall force on theirbencbee,but the Chamber was
by no means fnil, only 400 members being prevent.
As I informed you would be the cue, the government
immediately demanded the necessary credits for the
payment of the Roman expedition, and it is supposed
that they will be voted by considos able majorities.
The conviction is gaining that M. Dufaure will keop
his portfolio. After the members present had been
called over by a ausitin dr division, M. de Tocepr.--
vilie ascended the tribune, and announced
his intenti'm of proposing the credits above
mentioned. He said that the moment had
not arrived to take away the French troops from
Rome, bat that the present stat 3 of negotiations gave
well-founded hopes that the occupation would not be
prolonged. He begged to present a project of law
for a credit of 140,000 f. for supplementary expellees
arising out of the Roman expedition. He asked far-
ther, that a committee be chosen to which this project
of law should be submitted. This was granted. Tee
minister of war then presented • project to
the lame t ffict, demanding a credit of 6,817,000 fr.
and she minister of merino a project also to the same
effect, demanding a credit of 1,946,000 fr. The money
thus demanded for the expenses of the expedition
amounts to 8,902,000 fr., or, as nearly as possible,
10 millions. The projt ce.s of law were all submitted
to the ume committee.

The minister of finance thea presented another
project of law, moving for the payment of the pen-
sion allowed in 1842 as dowry to the Duchess of
Orleans. After some other formalities of no interest
at present, the Chamber adjourned before five o'clock.
Much anxiety exists in Eerie as to the future con-
duct of Russia in the affair of the extradition of the
Hungarian refugees at %Viddin. This anxiety caused
another fall at the Bourse to-day. The questi'in is
generally asked whether Russia can let the matter
drop, or whether she will resent the spirited conduct
of the Porte. Contrasts are drawn between the con-
duct of the Emperor a Russia to the Hungarians in
Hu'tgary and that which he seems inclined to hold
towards those who have taken refuge in Turkey.
Why did be affect clemency in the former care, ani
why is he so relentless in the latter ? and it is sup-
, pcsed that there is a determined spirit of animosity to
'turkey under this affected resentment against the
Hungarian refugees.
It is a curious sign of sympathy on the part of M.
Dufanre for the cause of the Romans that he has
allowed, and does still allow the representation at the
theatre of the Porte St. Martin of a grand spectacle
entitled "Rime," in which the history of Pius IX. is
given at full lengh, with all the episodes up to the
capture of Rome by the French. This piece was
first given on Saturday eveniog. His holiness the
Pope is the principal personage; and is tint seen
u a soldier, next as Bishop of Imola, afterwards
as cardinal, and finally as Pope. The name
of the piece was of course sufficient to attract
crowds, and the theatre was crammed to excess in
every part, immediately on the opening of the doors.
Before the rising of the curtain the blouses in the gal-
lery amused themselves by "
_einging the " Mareellsise
tt Mourir p.m la Patric," and other patriotic air's.
The first three acts passed of quietly enough, both
blouses and oriel/as loudly applauding. In the fourth
act the Pope is represented es making liberal con-
cessions and granting a constitution to his people ;
but instead of meeting with their gratitude,
the people r'se in revolt. His holiness goes among
them, and says : " It is foreigners who have caused
you to do this." At the word foreigurs," an up-
roar of the most terrific description arose. Shouts,
yells, hire, catcalls, stamping, matches of the " Mar-
reillaise, with arias of " Vive la Republique Ro-
maine," "Vire les Romaine," blended in hideous
confusion, and literally made the roof shake. The
occupants of the boxes, and the orchestra valiantly
made head against this demonstration by heartily
applauding, but the blouses decidedly had the best of
it. They occupied the entracte by mooting ex maw,
again and again, matches of revolutionary song% and
especially the chorus, " Les peoples soot toujours nos
Nees." The next act introduced the triumvirs, and
repressated the attacks on Rome by the French. Ona
of the triumvirs, intended for Massint, harangued
away in pompons umiedramatio style on the
duty of defending Ike Vellum against the French,
of dying fur liberty, sod national independence,
&o. This drew down thandses of applatme from
the galleries, with loud disoppelratica from the
boxes and orchestra. The bistro shiglod out one
ggeenntieman in the boxes, who was rather noisy in his
demonetratiaae, strongly biked that he was M. de
Fallon, and glamorously demeaded that he should
be pat " i la parte." A mss in a rad ileum, with hie
hair and beard arranged to »F semi the portraits of
Garibaldi, next appeared before the triumvirs. He
was received with a prefect herdsmen ef delight lsz
the galleries end pit, answered hi limos and
from the other parts of the gleans& The uproar
continued for some time, and at length Manint and
Garibaldi began to talk in a patristie style, which

The Moniker publishes a citcular addressed by the
minister of the interior to the prefects, regaestlng them
to tarnish him u soon as possible with the opinions of
the municipal councils on the subject of the old and
presect electoral districts for electing municipal am-
ninon, and what changes may be desirable for the
interest of their respective local►ti:s, particularly in
the event of the adoption of a system which would
divide each town into as many electoral districts as
their ere councillors to bo chosen.

The democratic associations of Paris were yesterday
to have given a monster =oat at the Chalet, and
more then 6,000 tickets had been disposed of. Tee
prefect of police having, however, says the Aseemblie
Nationale, received information of a nature to con-
vince him :bat the meeting would not be unattended
with danger, refused his authorisation.
M. Gunter, representative for the Saline-et.Laire,
has just died at Macon, of an attack of apoplexy.
Tne cholera appears to have cmae nearly t r its end
at Paris. Oa the 26th and 27th ult. there were only
four or live deaths in the hospi'a!s, and the Hotel
Dieu did not durirg that period receive a single cho-
lera patient. In private practice there were only
eight deaths on the 24th, and not a single one on the
25th. In 1832, when the ewes fell so low, the epi-
demic was considered at an end, and no further bul-
letins were published.
The Courrier de Lyon states that Sergeant-Major
Boichot was compelled to leave Geneva under a threat
that if he did not do so he would be put into prison,
and that it was on his way to Lausanne that he had
the quarrel with the SpaNish Wood, already men-
tioned, and received • wound, which, it is said, has
liana his Ids is danger.__

PARIS, Oar. 1. Tor lan Amount.
1
Koaey.rOpeoLig lilibiot. Lowest. Closing
2 per Cads. ....... 33 13 I 33 25 55 45 63 0 63 3
3 pre Ceuta. . . s32o ' 67 90 II 23 67 70 47 90
3 do. New Id;o.a ~ I • 0 0
41 per Oasts.— .,
Ciao 1 „ 0 0 0
1 per
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fusel le as 14;thdoili 30 days.-2.5 ii&ye, 2.3 17e.

D*. S. NU
Do. 44
7

10.4.-Paris sad Orleans, -
and avre, —; Avlgooe and 1
Bals, 101 23 ; Centre (Vierzos), 400
453 73; rani and titrtaboari, 332
Dieppe Ma recamp, 130.

sspkto Emma Matey.
aria Lugs _ 771
Timmy Hoods
Bank Mara ... 7325

.; Parts sad Roam, US; 1100 en
arsedlles, ; Htrasbourg sad
—; Bordeaux, 407 60; North.
I; Thu* sad Nantes, 391 23;

Yam% Sher. 2.—Three per Cents, 21 account; Four per Cents.,
11 ; Fire per Cents.. 11; Coup iss. ; Sank or St. Penni:until, 77
paper, Exchange on London, 30 eh.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—Our correspondent writes as follows
BERLIN SEPT. 29.

The interpella'ion of Beckerath on the Gennan
question, fixed for to-day, drew a considerable
audience to the Second Chamber. But the ministers
were not reedy with an answer, so that public
expectation has been baulked. The news has lotely been
spread on all hands, that a new central power is about
to be formed, which is to undertake the functions of
the old Diet. A presage in the speech from the
throne to the Bavarian Chambers, declaring that the
only source of welfare for Germany lay in the quick
organisation of a federal executive, has given count°.
nanoe to these reports. But the formation of such a new
central power imp& s the extinction of the plan
of the Prussian Bundes stoat. Beckerath's
inter-
pellation was designed to prornre answers
to the following questions : Whether the government
was prepared to give up the fortresses of the German
confederetioa to such new central power, and whether
the government, in conformity with its professions
that, adhered to by few or many state!, it would still
pursue the same course, intended to take an early op.
portunity of convoking the Reichstag. The minister
of foreign affairs, Baron Schleinitz, declared that he
was not prepared to answer the interpellation of Herr
Beckerath at the present moment, but would satisfy
the house on these points next Friday. This answer
of Baron Schleinits is a decisive proof of the nullity
of all the cactradictions which have appeared in the
ministerial papers to the generally expressed opinion
that the policy of Pros a in the German ques-
tion was not • firm and decided policy, was
in fact no policy at all. Beekerath's interpell .tion
was announred some time back, and has been post-
poned for the convenience of ministers. The fact of
Its wow being postponed for another week must lead
to the conclusion that the Prussian government is not
prepared to stand by two points, which a few weeks
ago it would bare sworn through thick and thin to
maintain. It dares not to-day affirm that it will con-
voke the Reichstag ; itdares not to-day deny that it
will surrender the fortresses of the German confede-
ration to a central power appointed upon a base
which excludes the projected constitution of May 26.
A mouth ago those who affirmed what is now made
clear by the answer of Baron Sibleinits were vio-
lently attacked by the ministerial pew. The same
press is equally ready today to cry oat that the fish of
their employers is quite fresh. In the mean time, a long
article appeared yesterday in the CWogne Casette, in the
shape of a correspondence from Berlin, which is
merely an echo, in a less authentic shape, of the
ministerial papers of Berlin, upon the German qua.
Lion, protesting against the general scepticism which
prevails with regard to the sincerity of the Prussian
((averment, and declaring that nothing can be more
mistaken. I can only warn you against reposing the
least confidence in this article.

The grand jury of the Criminal Court, have
found to-day a true bill againt Waldeck. Ohm, the
err
trieod. furnished evidence against Waldeck, will
aisl

The imminence of Waldeck's trial induces me to
mention all that has been hitherto made out with re-
gard to the motives of this preseesution. The pr,n-
opal documents to be adduced in evidence against
him are two letters found by the Polito in the peen.
don of a commercial traveller, one Ohm. These
letters are signed " E," and directed to Hermann
Jacobson, of Hunburg. Their substance refers to the
insurrections in Dresden and Baden. In one there is
the following plumage :—" Go to Waldeck, and tell