The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-25 00:00:00

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S. 1847.

IA was meal hared that this degree would not be
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I adir sa the more and confiding principle
ado&r:t Rome the eyes of the Tuscans.
fromptsles 'the lath, say that the situ-
I ation of that ea remained the same. The attitude
of the population excited serious apprehensions on
the part of the government. The insurrection had
continued ta be propagated through the Celabrias,
in spite of all the efforts of repression used by the
commanders sent against it, and the terrors of the
most bloody system of executions.
Letters from Palermo toe 12th represent the move-
ment there as having been generally quelled, but
still the police made domiciliary visite, victims
were incarcerated, and even the most noble
were suspected. The papers of Prince Granatelli
were seized, and the greatest irritation prevailed. In
Messina the moat ruthless system of martial law pre-
vailed ender the dictatorship of Marshal Landi, who
was invested with unlimited powers, having the royal
commission of Aller ego.
The proclamation issued by this person affords a
revolting specimen of the atrocities of which the
Neapolitan government is capable. This abominable
document was published at Messina on the Bth. The
following are its articles:-
1. Military commissions shall be established in the form
and according to the instructions which may be given--2.
As the duty of every good citizen, of every good Messinese,
is to unveil every machination, or to denounce those who
endeavour to promote such execrable things, I will receive
Ind listen to all those who, apart from all private hate, end
only on behalf of the public welfare, will come and state to
me all that may disturb order. Their names shall be buried
in the secrets of the police, and a prompt recompense shall
he granted to them, according to the importance of the in-
formation they may have given. 3. I require that the tri-
bunal shall proceed with the greatest promptitude possible
with the prosecutions, which being of a criminal nature,
depend on them, in order that the justice which must punish
the guilty may not be delayed, and that good citizens may
be reassured.
After this it will be easily conceived that crimes of
the blackest description were perpetrated by this
butcher, who is the other-self of the King of Naples,
at Messina. In that city, within a few days, sixty
youths were led out and shot, after such mockery of
a trial as M. Landi was pleased to observe. The
government meanwhile was making the insane
I attempt to surround Sicily with a cordon, which
would stop the transmission of intelligence to any
other part of the world.
The Semaphore of Marseilles gives as an example
of the gravity of the situation of Sicily, the circum-
stance that the Count of Syracuse, who had been for
some days at Marseilles, was on the point of embark-
ing on board the Lombardo steamer to return to
Naples. All the baggage and the carriage of the
prince were already on the quay and partly on
board, when the news arrived by the Vesuvio of the
state of the kingdom of his brother. On receiving
his despatches, he countermanded his departure, and
returned to his hotel.
The rumour of the departure of the Count of Syra-
cuse had inspired the Gazette da Midi with the fol-
lowing observations, which have been curiously con-
tradicted
by the determination of that prince to
remain in Marseilles. The brother of the King of
Naples, says that journal, has been for the last few
days in Marseilles, and is, it is said, about to start for
Italy. We congratulate the prince on his resolution;
it could not be longer delayed without astonishing
the friends of the august name of Bourbon. We were
sure that that fidelity which unites the branches of
that noble house would iuduce the count to join his
-brother as soon as the danger of the Sicilian throne
became apparent. . . . Before a common enemy
every prince is a soldier, who should offer
his arm and even his life in the cause.
It is no doubt with these thoughts that the Count
de Syracuse is about to embark to join his post
of combat. We cannot believe, as has been said,
that his object is a pleasure trip, and that he will stop
at Genoa, in order thence to go to Rome, and spend a
year, looking on quietly at events which may occur.
No; the prince who has had the honour of governing
Sicily, and the misfortune of finding malcontents
make a rallying 97 of his name, well knows the
duty which such injurious hopes impose upon him,
and he will take this opportunity of giving them the
only denial which parties will take, viz., that of
deeds which, once engaged in, there is no retreating
from.
Reports received from Palermo say that Reggio
was in the hands of the insurgents until the 4th,
when they evacuated it on the arrival of a body of
troops by two steamers from Naples.
Letters from Turin, of the 17th, say that the popu-
lar demonstrations which had taken place in different
parts of Piedmont had produced a spirit of reaction
in the government, and that M. de la Margarita, a
reactionary, who had been for a time suspended in the
cabinet, had recovered his influence with Charles
Albert.
' Advices from Rome say that the proclamation of
Cardinal Ferretti had elicited marks of discontent
from the liberal party. All this is truly to be re-
gretted, for, assuredly, nothing could so effectually
retard the progress of reform in Italy as
any manifestation of the discontinuance of those
cordial sentiments of confidence between the Pope
and his people which have already excited
at once the admiration and the hopes of every
friend of human progress in Europe.

MADRID, SEPT. 18.
It is now plain in what direction the ministry are
I steering. Sines the completion of the cabinet, the dead-
-1 atop which followed the decrees of September 2 and 3, has
been exchanged for a retrograde movement. The publication
of the great unexceptional amnesty, the restoration of Es-
partero to his country and former rank, are a mockery and
mere deletion. Spain is to be cheated out of the universal
heartfelt tributes of gratitude which have been poured out
at the foot of the throne. They are to be taught to
look upon raid Isabel, whoa they called the angelical,
the bounteous—upon whose head they called down blessings—
as a vain thin hollow phantom, the mere painted semblance
of a queen, whose words have no meaning, whose decrees no
authority. In a word, the last news is that &varier.) is to
be prevented from entering Spain. Orders, it is said, have
°been sent to the frontiers to prevent the Duke of Victoria
from penetrating under any pretext into the kingdom. After
this announcement, it is but a trifle to add that the excep-
tions to the amnesty include other persons, such as General
Amettler, who has been denied a passport into Spain
by the Spanish embassy at Pane. According to
the ultimo horn of the 800 of yesterday, Chris-
tina had presented herself at Bordeaux on her way
back to Spain ; but the telegraph wee put in action to pro-
hibit the entry of any member of the royal family without
the formal and express authorisation of the Queen. This
is regarded, however, by. many as a paparrucha. For the
rest, there exists no particular reason for supporg that the
Queen keeps her mother out of Spain, the character of
Isabel being affectionate and confiding to a fault.
Among other rumours stands foremen the report of a
milirary insurrection on the point of breaking out at
Pompeian' on the 15th the rebellions humour having been
inoculated and fed by French gold. The insurgents were
to proclaim the regency or triumvirate of Nantes, Craws,
and the King. Certain it is that, on the 13th, the regiment
of Castile was ordered with much precipitation out of
Pampelana in the direction of Catalonia ; end thus the fear
of revolt ended.
The Gazette of Thursday announced that it was autho-
red to deny formally that the English Minister at Madrid
had accused any person or party of conspiring ageism the
Queen or her government. In spite of this MEM &eleva-
tion the moderado papers returned next day to the Mite
with undiminished virulence. The Gazette, they imad, has
not denied, and will not deny, that Mr. Bunny mete a
private note to Signor Escosura, announcing that thorn was a
plot on foot for pouncing on the Queen upon law way to the
theatre. Upon which a fresh heap of filth is diesharged
upon the head of our minister. The slide journal
might, however, have made the sexed Mid as safely
as the first, for the private note of Mr. Bulwer
simply stated that he had been told PO; whisk was quite an-
other thing from manning positively the Maim of the
plot. No one but a modem& Spaniard can daibt ke aa
instant the propriety of Mr. Bulwer's condo* in making
this ereamenication. Ssppposa there had been seek a OM,
smi ekes it had succeeded, Mr. Bulwer having boom tbs
noweenducting recipient of the alarm—could any paid*
be frer, men for • private reeldent at Madrid, let ekes a
minister ? " What' yen heard old* ashaisns intest,_ead
took no step to put the goverment wpm its guest i" Bach
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' modomed• pees MO Mr. Balm to epithets grate
[ se has* as say of those. Is not this a dinpreefid
r and mandalose *sepals—the organs of a great party, who
6 bar of char imams sugenity in die Cortes, and
is rugarmit the rairkansy of werkit, birth, and iete
sjd=man, with the mein ririly insults a Amiga
, who is naprinhisi with those means of *ties
whisk guarantee the giresosimat or a rival party he omit
i anther, who wields r mass. do pm, sad raft slily
, upon the sacredness of hissed* charsoter, as the Topmern-
, aye of a friendly nitre, let his hilarity dm seek vio-
rel.
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• party. Pne this sf the lisratish, which is mosson-
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incurable rancour of a party in France, who And in Eng-
land an insurmountable obstacle to their ambition, of whose
designs the Spanish moderatos have cunsented to brooms
the tools, as they have become the mouthpieces of their dis-
appointment.
Pursuing the subject of Mr. Bulvrer's note to Sr. Esconirs,
the lieraldo of to day challenges the English minister to
prosecute them for a libel, and taunts ►im with hie fear of
resorting to the tribunals for reparation. No doubt there
would be one objection at least to pursuing that course, an
objection the delicacy of which perhaps it would be difficult
for the men of the Iferakto to comprehend, namely, the
neees•ity of delivering up the authority upon whose commu-
nication the warning in the note was founded. This is the
only fear, and one which is highly honourable to the feelings
of Mr. Bulwer.
The tact that Senor Sertorius, rfdacteur of the Heraldry,
was set down for a place in the ministry under Barnes,
whose intimate friend and cherished client he is,
and whose fall must have been a severe blow to his
feelings and prospects, account* in come measure for the
sudden exacerbation of the Ileraldo's tone, and its violent
attacks upon Mr. Bulwer and the English. Upon Thurs-
day the public was informed that Senor Sartorius had been
accused of try ing to reduce the garrison from its allegiance
to the Queen, of having been twice by night to the quarters
of San Francisco to distribute money among the soldiery,
and ripen matters for a military insurrection. This calumny,
which Inc one had heard of till that moment, appeared,
together with its refutation, in the Heraldo. Senor Sar-
torius, in consequence, applied to the government to have
hive brought to trial, that his innocence might be proved,
and his accusers known and confounded. The ',newer,
although not complying with Senor Sartorius's request, is
satisfactory for the rest to that gentleman's feelings, and
complimentary to his civic virtues. I bear that Senor Sar-
torius has resigned the directorship of the Iferaldo.
Among the decrees which have lately appeared in the
Gazette the most important is one establishing 105 new lights
on the coast, at an expense of twenty millions of reels, to be
spread over four yetrs. This and the erection of an archive
office, at considerable additional cost to the public, do nut
say much for the economy to be expected from the present
ministry.
No doubt lighthouses and record-offices are very useful
establishments for a country; so is a clock a very useful piece
of furniture in a household. But if a man with a large
family, ill clothed and ill led, were to order home a hand-
. some timepiece from Mr. Dent, to be paid for by the sacrifice
of muttonchops, beer, and stockings, what pity would such
a manager deserve, while writhing under the severest cur-
tain-lecture ?