The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

T EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1847.

lied—rdipmed to I. city, and had visited General
Dufbur, %arier ponied by his staff, returned the
visi
t the day.
Lettere freeeufehitel say that the division of
Burkhart wets about to occupy that canton.

ROME, Nov. 28.
The freedom of the press has produced its first
fruits in this public denunciation of a Figanticjob, and
& consequent action for libel. The jobs Duke Tor-
lonia's contract for salt and tobacco, in which a public
officer has detected and proclaimed the abstraction of
several millioa dollars from the public purse, has
accused the aforesaid duke and tobacco broker of
"rapine," " peculation," " financial massacre," "mon-
strous perjury," " a chain of prevarication," and the
action for libel is founded on the above letter in the
atemporaneo against Pio Mole, the publisher, and
'Merit) Paradiei, the writer of the same. Now you
most know that this Tiberio is a man in the full confi-
dence of the Pope, and has recently been named to an
office of delicate responsibility in the statistical
department, by which he has been able to trace and
publicly expose the delinquencies of officials during
the late reign, and the probable result of the action
for libel will be the utter discomfiture of the banker
and • general rat-hunt of the bribed and bribers.
The newspapers here are all full of the controversy,
and startling revelations are expected from day to
day. Had there been no public press the matter
would have been kept snug, as everything else
hitherto.
A French steamer has brought, this week, the first
instalment of the 15,000 muskets, purchased for our
nationals. I was amused to find several of those now
in nee at the various guard-houses bearing the
"Tower mark," and the letters O.R. They came
from Naples, and were probably a deposit of Nelson
in that quarter for the troops of Cardinal Ruff°.
The Bulldog steamer came in yesterday to Civita
Vecchia, with despatches for our =Weeder, Lord
Minto.
The last piece of clever rascalitf by Count Rossi is
en attempt to create a broil between England and
Rome apropos of the national guard. Several English
artists, fond of a quiet life, were known to be repug-
nant to take their turn, and the parson here has
issued his opinion that religions scruples should deter
them from " presenting arms" to cardinals, who are
supposed to be the court of Antichrist. Others repre-
sented that "their lives were insured, and they might
forfeit their insurance." Rossi, anxious to fan the
Same, brought the matter to an open scandal this
morning. In concert with Borghese and Prince
Msaaimo, whom he has made tools of (the second
wife and the mother of Borghese are French), he caused
Prince Aldobrandioi, colonel of the Campo Marco
district, to arrest Mr. Nugent Dunbar, a Roman ca-
tholic, who, having married a Roman wife, they
thought a proper object on whom to enforce the law,
and he sow lies in the guard-house opposite the
Borghese windows.
The question, you will perceive, is of the utmost
importance, and skilfully calculated by the conspira-
tors to effect a misunderstanding between England
and Rome. The genius of old Louis Philippe is con-
spicuous in this transaction, and Rossi has shown his
talents for mischievous intrigue in their full develop-
ment. Yon shall hear more of this.

THE Tama, which was expected at Southampton
to-morrow with the India mails, Las not, it is mid, a clean
bill of health, and will be obliged to remain during two or
three days at the Motherbank to perform quarantine.

AMERICAN MAIL PACEETB.—SiE,—I perceive
from the advertisement put forth by the North American
Mail Steam-ship Company, that their remelt are to sail from
Liverpool, New York, and Boston on the same day. The
average passage of these vessels is fourteen days. Thum the
Cambria will leave Liverpool on Saturday, January 1, and
will reach New York nearly at the same time that the home-
ward.bound vessel is starting from Boston, thereby delaying
for nearly a fortnight any replies to the letters taken out by
the Cambria. The same rule applies to England. If the
days of sailing from Liverpool were to take place on Wed-
nesdays instead of Saturdays, it would enable persons in both
countries to answer their fetters nearly ten days in the
winter and four days in the summer earlier than by the
present arrangement. The days of sailing from New York
and Boston to remain the same as at present agreed on, viz.,
Saturdays.—A Stutecarsaa--Edinburgh, Dec. 4.