The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-22 00:00:00

ITALY.

SARDINIA.—It bad been stated that the secret
committee bed refused to sanction the payment of the
Austrian indemnities. It was not so. In the sitting
of the secret committee on the 15th, the minister of
foreign affairs communicated to the ministers the text
of the treaty of peace. lie described the different
Lte:of the negociations, and made known the
projects presented by Merritt. The minister
of finance presented a project of law, the object of
which was the emission of sixty millions of
bills to be given as payment to Austria at the moment
of the ratification of the treaty. A lengthy discus-
sion was then commenced on the question whether
the minister could present such a law at a secret com-
mittee, and whether the act of presentation there
could be validated. This question was determined in
the negative, and the committee adjoined till next
day, when it was determined that a public sitting
of the Chamber should take place for the purpose of
hearingthe project of lawpresented to the entire Cham-
ber, the motives for the presentation being withheld.
This, as we have seen, was done and urgencydeclared,
so that probably the indemnity fuad will be granted.
The report of the committee chosen to examine the
project of a loan of seventy-five millions, was not read
in the sitting of the 16th instant, but was placed on
the order d the day for the next sitting. The minis-
ter of finance announced that be would shortly make
two coniro.'-2 as, one relative to the present state
finances second relative to the

of the Piedmontese ; a
presentation of the budget of receipts and expendi-
ture for 1849.

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TUSCANY.—Letters from Florence, of the 14thl
inst., mention as probable a second amnesty, that is
to be more extensive in its effects than the last. The
grand duke is to have 12,000 Austrian troops perma-
nently in garrison in his territory for 10 years at
I least, no funds existing to keep up Tuscan troops. so,
at least, say the duke's partisans. However, it is
difficult to believe that Austria will not be paid' for
the services performed by its troops.
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ROMAN STATES.—The Semaphore of Mar- i
sillies, of the 18th, announces the arrival of the Her-
culanum steamer, with the intelligence that the ,
government commission of Rome bu named M.
Camillo Jaeobini minister of commerce, agriculture,
fine arts, and public works.
Oar correspondent writes :
ROME, Allover 14.
The course now pursued by the ecclesiastical go-
vernment strongly resembles that adopted by Gregory '
XVI. in 1831, when, at the preseing suggestions of
the great European powers, that pontiff reluctantly
consented to admit smne laymen into the administra-
tion of the state. The functionaries chosen by him
were systematically men of retrograde principles or
weak abilities, and so totally unfit for the situations
to which they promoted as to leave the mass of
the pee. in the hard necessityof wishing for the
Flints bidc again in their dm& The nomination of
Signor Jacohini, of Gensano, to the situation of mi-
nister of fins art., commerce, and agriculture, is likely
to prove a renewal of this canning system. The new
minister is the identical rich proprietor whom I men-
tioned in a former letter as having incurred a heavy
fine (the payment of which,by the bye, he managed to
'heap off) from the republican government, after the
defeat of the Neapolitans at Velletri, for having fur-
nished the king with intelligence respecting the Ro-
man army.

Another measure is now coming into effect, whis. b,
his most of the present triumvirate's operations, is
calculated to produce great discontent and distress
amongst the middle class of citizens. The "commis-
sion of censure" is about to commence its labour of
investigating the conduct of all government employh
during the late pditical event' ; reporting, degrading,
dismissing, or re-instating, as the cue may be. What
a field is here open for calumny, oppression, and pri
vate as well as public revenge ! The lower classes
have a share in the beneficent care of the government
at the same time. The extensive works for the res-
toration of the Basilica of St. Paul's extra mares,
were stopped yesterday, and three or four hundred
workmen were thus soddenly thrown out of employ.
ment. They repaired to the Capitol in order to re-
present their case to the municipal commissioners,
bat a French general informed them that all those
who were willing to work might find it at the Ponte
Male (two miles from the Porta del Popolo), at the
rate of two Fouls (tenpence) per diem—tot a flatter-
ing prospect for stone-carvers, moulder., and
men accustomed to far higher wages in the city !
Their ill-humour was evident, and the usual concilia-
tory alignment appeared, about an hour before dark,
and throughout the whole night, in the shape of
Ktaerona patrols of horse and foot. In fact the art
of governing hen is reduced to the irresistible answer
which we have all of as heard at school, when
Zet any obnoxious measure, " You
. it,ilgurethlt against
:sir, don't you? Coins here ;ru soon
nabs you like it." The untenable point being maic-
talsed by blows ad lib. It is reported (and the report
is said by some to bass been artfully spread by the
ordinal himself) that Cardinal Della Genga talks of
resigning, on accatugspf the arbitrary decrees he is
oil ged to publish •, but his well-known ambitions
cis:meter readers, such a step and such a motive alike
ifirb_Lbte. I hije heard an anecdote of his eminent
Cardin* Patrizi, the vicar-general, which,
f;o7tlt7t; spectability of its source and its concurrence
with the men's character, I cannot for a moment suspect
of being incorrect. There is in Rome a benevolent
cofraternity, having for its sole aim and object the
pr oiding of Christian burial for those unfortunates
whose bodies, chiefly from fever, but sometimes from
aitidents or violent deaths, are exposed to the incle-
I't
y of the weather in the eutrounding campagne.
Marquis Del Bufalo, who is at the head of this
i ution, requested permission of the vicar-geoeral
tick other day to repair with some members of the
cdnfinternity to the environs of St. Pancrazio, where
human bones, scattered abundantly amongst the
neighbouring vineyards, call for sepulture front the
charitable hands of their countrymen. The cardinal
flew into a violent passion, and declared that if any
other than the marquis had dared to make him such
a proposition in favour of a sit of excommunicated
wretches, unworthy of the rites of Christian burial,
he would have sent hint to the gales immediately.