The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-14 00:00:00

makanduesoa nitilifltiorirtashwilignpmredet°rlniopriseo. Paris itself, Wet
France, found its qua
tiun in a prolonged erste of siege. In minds broken done
hy Every prisicn, the emuire ot force baa more itfintael
than that of law ; and this broumea the Palladium of
th
good. To maintain firm security in Menial' is my lest &lite
on my departure, litloo any interruption of order woad be
for her en incalculable m e`ortune. And yet to tease,
leery danger which might lead to this, and to comfort tke
honest ciUsans of this beautiful lend, which I with ell
might have endeavoured
dtoecrelrieed in a statevefromtheoer sivilewit. : heeiili
fered, I have come to the r. solution of ordeining-1,
Ty
ethiteY'anwtihthoriitsties territory,anin la
functionaries of any branch whaleft
shall fulfil the obligations Red upon them by tat
re4l
ordinance. 3. A permanent council of war shall take
mgt.
lance of all deeds and crimt a which directly or indirectly
tempt the preeervation of order and tranquillity, oloidlem
be considered as temptatiot eto disturb it. The ermineil
proceed according to martial law.—Messina, March 23, Bit
—Lieutenant-Gnderal, Commander-in-Chief, CARLO ft
JAMMER!.
Leaving Sicilian matters again to the last mom.nt,
I advert once more to the pos:tion of Napier. 04
Monday, April 2, eras published the following erde
by the prefect of police:
Art. 1. It is forbidden to publish news relative to thou
sbaut to take place in Sicily in any of tie joarnek, or is a!pamphlet whatever, whether it be occasionalor p.riodiiZ
is to be done only in the language of the bulletins
the
army, sad after they have been published by the did
journal.-2. The offender*, besides the r queitraticn idea;
journals or pamphlets containing this news, shall be p.
niched by detention and fines by the police, to be
according to eireumstaneee. The printers who print te...
and the vendors ot them, shall be punished by a tame Q
detention.

The Prefect of Police, GAETANO Paccarazia,
The Tempo, ministerial journal, on the morning of
the next day, by way of conforming to this order, has
en article upon Sicily, in which it informs its readers
that by this time "Palermo has surrendered,
or shortly will surrender." Tuesday mom
ing, the 3rd of April, an order of the police wee
sent to the offices of the Libertu Italiano,Libtrtn,Boo
de Liberta, Lega Ilaliana (which names the lead'
ng
liberal journal has been compelled to maze, one after
another) to the Independents and the Seca° sayial-
that they were suppressed for ever. It is :lee rig
en good authority, that the reading-rooms win be
closed shortly, aid that the Eimer a lettere in the
Post-office is no longer respected. Everyone too wko
was directly or indirectly compromised by the affair
at last lath May, eitl'er in Naples rr the provinceeie
to be arrested, and the orders to that effect, are, it is
said, already issued. It was supposed that there
would not be less than 10,000 pereons. The gnaw
rigour is, and is to he, used. Yest, rday morning eerly,
three gentlemen were arrested in the Toledo, 14
some portion of a conversation which had been ora.
heard by an officer. Thus, with the Austrian victories
in the north of Irsly, decrees destructive of any
remnant of constitutional liberty in Naples, and
system of terrorism unknown even in the days of Del-
carret'o, the people are confounded and donna.
What might both Fngland and France have done by
the mere exercise of moral power, fir the caused
national liberty in the soul, if instead of ccenetfing
first with one and then with another party, sad
ceivirg both, they had pursued a straightforward ho.
nonrable course ! It is unnecessary to make any com-
ments on our present state. I will only ask yea eke-
ther the facts which are daily taking place about as do
not justify fully the statements I have sent you fa
some months back, and whether the couleur dense
accounts of royalty, and everything ecnntettd with
it, which have been published for the benefit of a Bd.
Ugh public have not been gross misiepresentatiom.
How could the Sicilians trust to promises, when pro.
miss, and oaths aro daily broken ? They therasebts
refer to the state of Naples, and ask the sane
question.
P.S.—Sir Charles Napier came in last night shoat
half-past fcur o'clock from Civita Vecchia, and kit
again at six o'clock.
Five per Cents., 84. Exchange on London, 582,
Aran 4.
After post.—The Ardent, which breught in Sir
Charles Napier, touched here, to leave Major and Mm
Napier, who was too ill to proceed. The admiral
went on board the Ardent, to pay his resp.cts to Sir
Charles.—This morning the Caledonia came in, on
board of which the admiral is about to trawler ha
flag. On the Prince Regent's arriving from Malta,
it is expected that the fleet will sail.
A battalion of marines left, on Mondsy r lett, far
Messina, Filangieri having demanded more troopat
appears that there has been a strong indisposition
for this service • and renor's have been OD*
quently circulated of victories gained by the rap!
troops over the Siciliamand of the fall of Cetaniaud
Palermo—impossible events! Officers were im-
bruing and kissing one another on the event is
the Toledo. The marine, however, have now let,
and the soldiers have found out that they have bee
deceived. Filanzieri, himself, did not leave Minim
until the afternoon of Sunday, April Ist. The troop
bad left before, and were said to have destroyed the
inflate of Patti and blown up a tower near Taormind.
The Caledonia made a splendid voyage from Eat
land of 16 dap. The Oberon leaves to-dsy fa
Malta, touching at Palermo to take up English