The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1849.

Theamaspasents which the sovereign meditated
wen expressed in be wit, in which he bad occasion
female spsciel refermce to St. George's chapel, as the
gbm is wh'elt he proposed his rtmans to be intoned.
la his will the Xing declared that it was his
desire to grant to the Chapter of Wind-
ier a aew dot itinn—" measures, Madam, tenements
god epithet' promotions is the yearly value of six
hushed pomades: upon certain conditions. Those
editions were to provide for thirteen poor knights.
Is pursuance of tlrs will various steps were taken by
th, privy Csoncil within& swath alter Leg HISNIVeII
death; and on the 4th of Avg**, 047, a deed was
executed, undo:l,ll'th the crown °mimed to the
chapter of Windsor various estates upon a charitable
trest,te convert the proceeds to certain uses to be sub-
olgusatly declared. Troubled times mimed, but it
appears that even in the reign of MART these pro-
esois were devoted to the purposes for which
ebey were intended—for, out of the remove. 13 new
bosses and a mess-room were erected for the knights.
It was am, however, until public affairs we-0 settled
ander Q.IC•11 ELIZABETH that the lIIMIn of the trust
were declared by the sovmeign. That Queeo, by an
igdgeture dated in 1339, espe&ally declared how, and
is what manner, the fees:lees of the estates, then
amounting to 6611. Be. Bd. a year, should be app3r-
dosed. The re was to ha paid to the dean Cr. Bcl.,
Sid to the canons of Windsor, each of them, 8•.; to
tlaety canon., 3a. ; to the clerks, 201. ; to the
.banish-re,
4d., and so on—altogether amounting to
abut 30/. a year. 'Den came the provision for the
bights. They wersto havesach le. a day, or 191.35.
a ye le, and a gown of red, and 13 mum mantles and
arms embroidered thereon. The largAt propor-
tion of the recta was set apart for them.
IVoehing was said about the residue, nor is any
sen'ion anywh. re made of it, except in a
record of doulrful authoril in the Chapter-house of
Wcstmin•ter, in which it is stated that it was to go
for" the vicars' and serving-priests' wage*, the repara-
tion of land.," &c. There are means at the command
of the dean and canons rf proving the validity of this
record, if it b. calla ; hot in the abut nce of such
proof its appearance en' it'es it to be regarded with
great swepition, especially as it is opposed to the
obvious inten ion of the Sovereign, as declared in
the deed itself:
Whereas divers manors, land,, tenements, end tersdita-
meats outfaced in a schedule hereunto annexed, being of
the clear value of 6001. and nb re, were gives and sited
unto the said dean and canons, end their sseesmors, to end
for the intent and pnrpo.e that the revenues and pro of
the sam e shonid be for ever resployed and bestowed or the
waintenweee of thirteen poor knights within Me aide of
Windsor, and (Etter •ise in such manner and form as le oar
Dm*, &a., is declared.

The estae (the new dota'inn) which was devoted
to these pnrptses—to the maintenance, be it remem-
bered, of an assert al branch of the °tiler of the
Garter—is row of the atone anneal value of at least
12,0001. per annum. The chapter, however, contioue
to: ray the Knights of Windsor their " twelre pews
pr dayAr their mainter.eueee." They do absolarely
NOTULm3 mere ! The • hele of the rcadJue, at least
11,800/. • y ar, they carry to titer common fund,
dividing it among themselves individually on St.
George's Day, subject only to the very plight restric-
tioas now impose I upon corporations aggregate by the
Ecclesiastical Commiarnms ! Is not this monetrous ?
Of late years, the chapter have even had the cool
audacity to throw up,a the nation the coats of repair-
ing the knight.' houses, ard the Treasury have abio-
lute y permitted "my Lords Comatissio:.era of Woad,
and Forests" to charge considerable sums for the
repairs of those edifices und r tho head of " %Furl:mos
Cassias" in the Miscellaneous Minn.( a!

The Windsor chapter ought to be made dingarge.
Both under the deed of the 4th August, 1647, and
under the direction cf Que n ELIZABETH, there is a
resulting trust under which the crown has the power
at any period to make a sew direction with regard
to the appropriation of the profits of tic estate. As
sovereign of the Order of the Garter, it is clear tha-.
the Qi.cen has the right at any time to make what
directions her Majesty thinks tit for tae maintenance
of the dignity of that order, and for the preservation
of the privilegot of its members. If so, it may be
asked, why have sot sovereigns in past times who
bare been, as was GEORGE IL, favourable to the mili-
tary koiAlota of Windsor—why have not they made
new directions to meet the circuma:ancoa

The answer is tbie. Up to the year 1843
the deed of EDWARD VI., under which the
Mates of the new deletion were conveyed
to the dean and chapter spas tried, was not produci
ble. It had been referred to in various old legal in-
struments, and its intent was inferred, but the deed it-
self was nowhere to be found. Now, in the absence
of that deed, it was by no means clear how the estates
had passed to the chapter, and the law officers of the
crown were unable to advise that in equity the chap-
ter property could be touched. Sir DEDLET RYDER,
to whom the case was referred by GEORGE a, laid it
(lown that in the absence of the deed of EDWARD VI.
there was nothing to show that the dean and canons
were feoffees in treat or were bound by the direc-
tions of ELIZABETH, but he said in care the dean and
miaow are bound by tho c Jirtctions, the distribution
of the improved revenues among the objects of the
donation becomes a very doubtful question. The
deed of EDW.CRD VI. having now been discovered in
the Public Record Of it is quite clear that the
chapter are bound by the directions of ELIZABEIII,
and that they bold their estates upon trust to ad-
minister them for the purposes of the Order of the
Cuter, as the sovereign shall please to direct. The
cues therefore assumes a very different aspect. The
equity is now all spinal the Chapter, and all in
favour of a new direction. It is • matter of great
importaace to the credit c f the Order of the Garter,
that melt • direction should be made. It is • matter
also involving enact of justice to the Military Knights
and to the service of which they are the representa-
tives. These Knights are or have been officers in the
British army, holding the commission of the Sne-
reign, old and faithful screen!s of the crown and of
their country, at the expense, in Diary instances, of
wounds, and suffering, and loss of limb. Inde-
pendently of the provis;on intended for them by the
munificence of former sovereigns, they have generally
very slender mesns of support. Is it right that the
priests of their order should be permitted any longer
to treat these gentlemen u paupers, paying them a
shilling a day for their maintenance, and reserving
for their own benefit all the residue of an estate of
the improved value of 12,0001. a year ?
At no distant day it is, we understand, intended to
move the House of Commons to address the Sovereign
to nuke a new direction, or to take such other step in
this matter as may be necessary. It is so obviously
just that the chapter ehoul be made to put their
military brethren upon a proper footing, that we
trust, for the credit of the Older of the Garter, the
Lords and Commons of England will pray her
Majesty to sec " that right be done."

MADRID, Fan. 8.
A suspension of the Corte, is much talked
of in pilitical circles. It is said that the
intervention in Italy, and the wish to remove
all obstacles and remonstrance, to it are the
principal causes of this measure. Besides the minis-
ter dreads the discussion of the budget, which has
already been mercilessly handled by the public preen.
M. d'Hareourt, seers at the French legation in
Madrid, has arrivedtary. It appms that M. Napoleon
Bonaparte is not expected till the end of the month.
The eaptain-general of the military district of Bur-
gos (in Old Castile) has est a price of 2,000 dollars
(4000 ea the head of the Fetudiante, a Coxlist Oahe-
!We. A fresh invasion of the Carbine is much feared
in the MAestraego, an extensive district in the pro-
vince of Aragon, between Cuenca and Valencia.
Th• war in Catalonia still continua in the same Mate.
The Cortes are still busy discussing the Clergy
Bekaa Bill.
No definitive line of conduct has as yet been
lioPted by the progreeieta minority, though many
Programer are on the lapis.

NAPLES, Maim 4.
In the chamber this week there has been plenty of
" tett" and some important business has been done.
On the 27th, De Peppe, in the House of Deputies,
ttonght in a bill for repressing any abuses of the
Intos—a power which has hitherto been despotically
exercised by the pilice authorities. Leave given.
On the same day, Conforti moved a revision of mili-
tY punishment, with a view especially to the aboli-
tion of corporal punishment. On the 28th was happily
removed tbeoppos:tion which existed between the two
chambers on the question of voting the taxes, the oom-
suttee brought up their report, which, instead of
adopting the amendment suggested by the Peers, and
which was resented as an infringement of the liberties
of the lower house, embodies an additional clause,

not at all prejudicing the queetion in dispute; it is as
follows : " On the 31st March, if the business shall not
have been voted and ranctiosed, the government rhall
be empowered provisionally to order the collection of
the indirect taxes, and to make disbursements up to
30th April, 1849, within the limits prescribed in the
preced.ng articles, and within this new interval, and
to cue the budget shall not have passed into law,
the farther collection of the taxes for another two
montheaball be provided forby a special law." This Ma
mere temporary =mare to met a premier difficulty,
as the question "whether the pars have the right to
emoted a seamy bill or Mamas the amount of taxa-
tion' by common consent was left unprejudiced, the
peers strongly claiming the right and tho deputit a as
llgliNv
'Oar resisting. The additional clause was voted
is the ties by 96 to 9, and in the Peers unani-
mously. isanelli afterwards brought up the report
of the committee on the address to his Majesty.
The discussion on the address came on yesterday,
and as the preeentst on of it may be attended with
important results, I send you a translation of it in its
amended and complete new form:
Site,—The Chamber of Degnike within& to prose to your
Majesty, and to the wholeessenlay, that it is its constant
desire to give to the ezeerselee its frank and loyal sup-
port, in the silence of the nsiaiMisß has spontaneously voted
the provisiemalsollestien des lams. It now feels the duty
and the emetell, of le year Majesty, who first
isengeraledeneedtediseel la the Italian peninsula,
and with r- '--e It awaits voice which will restore
Wavy Woe's the constituted antherities, sad prevent •
=freely elves, from Mies destroyed by supreme re-
agents. Sire, dm dspoiss of the nation, per-
snadsd that the tree neesedise of the prince are identical
with the • of the people, of whim he is the head and the
supreme avenge', de art Wale to &dare to your Majesty
that the mesons mishay las astilheeteidotee elks country,
and that, is faisifying the inellniimie et the esuetitution it
betrays at OM* the interests of the prises as well as
thole of the people. Sea meeeeeithe and faunas
are resumed, etre, in the dome nod fall working of the
constitutional regrew assented se hy the prince, the legitimate
right of the countrr, the first with of its representatives.
There is no doubt, sire, that the ministry has opposed to it
the almost unanimous reproof of the elective chamber—a
reproof sufficiently justified by the conduct which it has ob-
served and still continues to °biome. The ministry has ob-
stinately concealed from the chamber all that regards the in-
ternal policy of the government of year Majesty, thus making
it appear that it believed it hostile to every reasonable and
honourable proposition. It has refused it every information
respecting the financial and administrative condition of the
country ; it has blameably neglected the initiative of any
one law of which there was a supreme necessity at the com-
mencement of our new state • not content with this, by re-
peatedly proroguing the ;lumbers, and preventing the
arrival of their voice to the throne, it has rendered every Wa-
tery provision impossible. Nor did it fear, when the cham-
ben were silent, to substitute its voice for that of the repre-
sentatives of the nation, usurping the legislative power by
sets heavily weighing on the conditioa of the finances and
the taxpayers. Emily, it has neglected, and still
continua to neglect, to assist an extinguishing
the lamentable causes of discord which have dis-
turbed the affectionate understanding between the mili-
tary and the ci'rzens—an understanding which never would
have been interrupted, and which the chamber will rejoice
to see re-established, between the eons of the same country
having comma rn neoarnities, glory, misfortunes, and hopes.
What more ? The same rights, strongly e-eured to the na-
tion by the statute, were not for the ministry a sub;ect are-
ligions observance, but of worn. Your Majesty desired that
individual liberty should be guaranteed ; that maniferation
of thought should be free ; trial in face of the law should be
firm ; that the franchise acquired, sad public tranquillity.
should be sustaiurd and defended by the arms of careens ;
hound of which, the ministry has not left inviolate one of
these sacred wpm And well might the chamber now pre-
sent to the eyes of your Majesty a grievous picture of un-
speakable suffering and anguish ; the prisons overflowing
with those accused or suspected of political o,inions ; innu-
merable families deprived of their dearest members, who it real
b-en driven into exile ; and this universal sadness
still more embittered
.by the ministers, who deprive
your Majesty of the glories and the joys of pardon. Sire, the
chamber can sever hope that • ministry so often o mewed will
ever retrace its steps ; nor, on the other side, does it think
it suitable to its own dignity and to the interests' of the nation
to consume its time in an unprofitable struggle in combating
the illegalities and the indolence of the minis err. Against
their faults it feels fall well it by severe rights to exercise,
but fur the sake of civil moderation it prefers this day to turn
to their prince. Placed as your Majesty is in the high sphere
of those sublime constitutional attributes, which, while they
deprive you of every possibility of doing ill, leave you the
onsnipoti nee of doing good, you will not hesitate to proffer
that royal word, supreme medicine to the maladies of the
state; as on their side the deputies have always been and
ever will be prepared to give to the goreinment of your Ma-
jesty that full and constitutional support wl.ich will acquire
for you sot less a substantial strength than the love and re-
veneers of the people.
Such M the address in its new form, which will, I
suppose, in s few days, be presented to his Majesty;
and from all that I can hear the fall of the ministry
is imminent. Filangierl, probably, will be the pre-
sident of the council and minister for foreign affairs,
uhe virtually is at present. The discurrion yester-
day terminated with 79 voter in favour of the address,
and 23 against. The deputation to present it to the
King is to be chosen by lot.
Tares is a series of questions which Prince Pips-
tell. gave notice he intended to put to the Minister
of the Interior, which shows clearly tho state of the
proviccee. They are as follow : 1. Was it truee, as it
was communicated to him from the Calabrisi:, that
the public force was insufficient in that country to
maintain public order and security ? 2. That Gen.
Statells, who had made every effort to restore order,
is now reduced to fraction from want of clear instruc-
tions from ministers ? 3. That the authori.ies not
knowing the precise intentions of government as re-
gards the amnesty, a great number of those who took
port in the revolution were obliged to live in conceal-
ment and armed. 4. That, on the contrary, the im-
punity which is permitted to malefactors obliges well-
disposed persons to abandon even agriculture and the
most useful arts? The prince wir ds up his ques-
tions by stating that unless the public force is sup-
ported by a good national guard, formed of men not
stained by frequent crimes, order can never be esta-
blished on a firm basic.

Whilst this state of things ffils the provinces with
agitation and misery, thousands are daily coming up
to the capital to seek for that support they cannot
fled elsewhere, and to enter the service of the King
" to be shot at" for a few grains a day. Yet even such
a source as this seems insufficient for the present de-
mands of the military service, as it is said that a new
levy of 18,000 men has been ordered. And, indeed,
with war io Sicily (should it unhappily break out),
intervention in Rome, and agitation in the provinces,
la tolerably strong force will be required.
In my krA I mentioned that despatches had just
been received by Mr. Temple from England—l
should have said Rme. They threatened retaliation
of the most desperate character on the kingdom of
Naples, in case of the large forces concentrating on
the frontier pawing into the Roman States.
Many letters from the provinces complain, in the
strongest terms of the priests, whom they accuse of
e.pposing and combating the constitution with
shameful and blameworthy arts, unworthy of the
sanctity and august mission of the priesthood." In the
city the quarrels between the townspeople and the mili-
tary are incessant ; our prisons become fuller every
day, such is the number of arrests, and commerce is
at a miserably low ebb.
I have little to add to what I communicated in my
last letter regarding the Sicilian or paptl question.
On the former, expectation is on tiptoe to know what
reception the ultimatum will meet with from the
Sicilians. There is great reason to fear that it will
be rejected. In expectation of the possible rejection
of these terms, the most active preparations are being
made in the arsenal, not being suspended even on
Fridays or Sundays, though it is Lent. The expedi-
tion of which I 'poke ismy last has not yet sailed ;
it is, however, quite wady, and may start at any
hour. It is to consist of 14 vessels, seven being
steamers. I saw them loading a polacca with shells.
There are also shipped SOO hones, with their stalls,
and a regiment of lancers, all destined for Messina.
Perhaps, however, all the preparations in the interior
and for Sicily may not have any other meaning than
"Si via porcern pars &liana."
Immediately on the termination of the interview of
the two admirals with his Majesty, orders were given
to the fleet to be in constant readiness for sailing ;
and we have been in daily expectation of their leav-
ing. Palermo was said to be their destination, and it
was added that in the event of the ultimatum being
rejected, the two fleets were then to sail, and leave
the Sicilians to their fate. Day after day, however,
has passed away, and the fleets ate still here; so that
I have conjectured some otherobstacle must have pre-
sented itselL The facts are, I believe, as follows :
Amongst the conditions agreed upon at the last inter-
view which the admirals had with his Majesty, was
not the one excluding certain individuals from the
general amnesty ; and this one condition, it has ap-
peared to the admirals, is sufficient to render all nego-
tiations with the Sicilians utterly unless ; first,
because the parties with whom negotiations must be
entered into are the very parties who are to be ex-
cluded from the amnesty, and most unlikely would it
be that they would condemn themselves. Se-
condly : equally unlikely is it that the Sici-
liana
would sacrifice such men as Ruggiero,

Settee°, and °them, who have stood by them through
this noble contest, which has been maintained with
so much honour to the nation. Affecting, then, to
enter on a path of conciliation, no condition could
have been so absurd; and, viewing it in this light,
the admirals, I understand, have declared that they
will not go to Palermo so long as that is to be in
d in the Ultimatum. Aocordingly, orders were
yesterday morning given for suspending the sailing of
the fleet; and Admiral Parker went on board the
Spitfire to Bake, whence, together with Admiral
Baudie, he went by a French steamer to Gaeta, to
a4They lay their joint viewof thisquestion before his Majesty.
On his 'esty's answer it depends when the fleet
sail. returned last night shoat six o'clock.
but as yet I have not heard the result of the inter-
view. That the objectionable condition was inserted
posterior to the former interview I cannot assert as
absolutely true.
The King has been at Gaeta during the whole of
this week, where he has been visited by Admirals
Parker and Baudin twice, and by Filengieri twice.
It was also understood that Bouelli Ruggiero, and
two others of the ministers, had also left Naples for
Oa- to on Friday. This circumstance gave rise to
mach conjecture, but it was generally understood that
the cause of their leaving was the arrival of intelli-
gence that some skirmishing had taken place on the
frontier between the Neapolitan and Roman troops.
Indeed, in the present excited state of the Italian
mind, I think it impossible that a collision can be
avoided. Troops are continually leaving Naples for
the frontier, where great numbers are now concen-
trated; and by letters from Rome last evening, I find
that the Romans have 4,000 men at Terracing
and that the roads are lined with volunteers hasten-
ing to the Neapolitan frontier. A letter from the
Minister of Foreign Affairs at Rome, to Prises
Cariati, I see published in this day's Lampe. It is to
the following effect :
Ezeslionsey,—l am compelled to apprise you that the NNW
esateation of the royal Neapolitan troops ea ear frostier ex-
gible the just distrust of the government of the republic,
ukase acts have not been such as in any way to authorisa
AM accumulation of force. The proems of Oen. Zuochi,
openly heetile to the republic, and the men whom he
Is collecting on the very frontier with the manifest in-
timation of Wading them against us, increase the doabts
of this government as to the intentions which that of
Naples may entertain towards it. On the 20th of
this month occurred a fact which might have given
siossien to terrible coasequetoes, if to the love of liberty
whisk satiate s the people of the republic was not indissolubly
netted the love of Italy. Oa the day to which I allude a
body of a hundred Neapolitan soldiers entered our territory,
asked a variety of suspicious questions as to the state of oar
tree's, and then retired beyond those confines which they
never skenld have passed. That fact might have excited
Germ reprisals if, as I have observed, the love of Italy dI4
met burn in the hearts of all who dwell upon our soil, and
if the thought that they were Italians who had entered
had not moderated that sudden indignation which the viola-
tion of our ten itory had awakened. To prevent such future
ellediets, however, as might ensue, te remove the danger of
• war which should not be made with any but the enemy of
hely, the government of the republic addresses these re.
maestrasers to your excellency, and awaits at your hands an
Maasdas on of what h occurred, and that just satisfaction
hno European government can ever refuse to an out-
live' people.—Rome, Feb 28, 1849. C. Rescxerr.
Thus the affairs of Naples, both north and south, are
embroiled, and however confident the King may be
in the power of his army, great prudence will be
needed just now in the management of affairs. None
of the royal or papal guests at Gaeta have as yet
visited Naples, nor will they, I think, at present.
Fives were 81i on the 3rd. Eichorn°, 583.
P.S.—I see no preparation on the part of our fleet
for leaving this morning. Indeed her Majesty's ship
Powerful has just arrived, with a email steamer, both
in quarantine. I regret to say I cannot give you the
result of the interview of the Admiral with the
King yesterday. More troops (lancers) have passed
me en route to the arsenal, to embark for Sicily.
Can it be true that there is no serious intention on
the part of the Neapolitan government (as it is mur-
mured) of accommodating Sicilian sifters pacifically,
and that events in central Europe are encouraging
them to resistance? A few days will show. Public
opinion is here rising in favour of British diplomacy,
which, it is hoped and believed, will not abandon
Italy.—The Sicilian expedition cleared out lest night.
The British fleet intended to sail for Palermo con-
sists of the Hibernia (flag-ship), the Queen, which
Genie up from Bake two days since, and the Terrible
(steamer). The Odin is already there; the Rosa-
mond at Messina; the Howe remains here. At
Leghorn are stationed the Bellerophon, Vengeance,
Thetis, and Porcupine. The Antelope left on Friday
for Malta, with the Admiral's family on board.
The King of Naples has imitated with regard to
the Sicilians, his brother monarchs of Austria and
Pleads. The following is the charter which he
grants:
FERDINAND THI HRCOND, 1T ME 01AC1 OF Ono KING

OF TEI KINGDOM OT THE Two SICTLIZO &c.
111•11101111,—If the enors of a few have sufficed foe a moment
to Wiese some amongst you to become alienated from the
etteshment that your forefathers had to our dynasty, which
hes peedded with so much affection over your destinies far
men than a Century, we who have pealed our infancy
amongst you, and have never ceased love you with the
teatkrnees do father, are willing to delay no looser telling
yes, that we satisfy the desires of our hearts, and fulfil this
dearest duty imposed upon us by our august and hely
religion, when we assure you that we have forgotten,
and will consider as if they had never happened, the
hales and political offences which have brought upon you
se muse misfortune from tte beginning of the past year,
1848. Return, therefore, at once to your private oicupa-
dens, cultivate in peace your fruitful fields, restore to the
Lad of Ceres by the force of your constant toil, its former
fertility, which Divine Providence always yields to man as a
recompense for the labour that it prescribes to him. 041
beak its former activity to your industry, to your traffic,
to your mercantele navigation, and shut your ears to the
@odder:ions of those who are seekiog to delude you and lead
you to sedition, to rebellion, and thence to anarchy,
which is their inevitable coneequence. After the most saw
tare reflection and accurate examination of your nem**
and of those wishes which can with utility and equity prow
tinily satisfy them—considering all the acts which have ap
pearly in Sicily sines the 12th of January se not baring w-
eaned, and of no effeet, either in right or in fact—we hence-
forth grant a statute, the begs of which is the constitution
of 1812, with the exception of those modifications demanded
by. the change of circumstances and by the law now in
existence. This statute, which we reserve to ourselves to
put into ample form before the end of June of the present
year, shall contain in substance the following disposition :-
1. The religion of the state shall be only and solely
exclusively of every other, the catholic, apostolic, and
ATMS.

2. Individual liberty is guaranteed, and
3. No one shall be forced to give up his property, except
for the sake of public utility, and after indemnity.
4. The Sicilians have the right of printing and publishing
their opinion', conforming to the law.
6. 13:c•ly, continuing to make an in part of the
united kingdom of the Two Sicilia, shall be governed by
a ocautitutional monagthy, with • divining' of powers as

OT TUN

POWIII.

6. The executive pow er belongs exclusively to the king.
7. The king sakes war and peace, concludes treaties of
peace of alliance, and of commerce.
9. He convokes, prorogue', and dissolves the parliament.
10. He commands the army and navy.
16 The solemn act for the regulation of the succession of
the crown of the august King Charles 111., dated the 6th of
October, 1769, confirmed by the august Sovereign Ferdi-
nand 1., in the sth article of the &h of December, 1816 ; the
sovereign acts of the 7th of April, 1829; of the 12th of
March, 1836; and all the acts which relate to the royal
family; remain in full force.
17. When the king does not reside in Sicily he shall be
represented there by a viceroy, with such attributes and such
power as shall be determined by his Majesty.
18. There shall be in Sicily a sufficient number of minim-
ten, among whom shall be divided the departments of grace
and justice, interior. finance, public works, agriculture and
commerce, ecclesiastical &taus, public instruction, and
police; the constitution reserving to the king the disposition
of the army and navy, and the supreme direction of ford=
relations ; there shall be only one minister of war and
marine, and one minister of foreign affairs, for the whole
monarchy, who shall both reside near the king. Military
and international questions which present themselves shall
be considered by a delegation from the king. either through
the viceroy or through one of his ministers.
19. There shall reside, moreover, near the king, a mini►
ter for the affairs of Sicily.
26. The judicial order shall be independent, the:collegiate
magistrates shall be irremovable after three yews of satisfac-
tory exercise of their functions, and which shall date from
the day of their definitive election.
27. The agents of this
_public ministry in the touts and
the tribunal are essentially irremovable.
28. The judges which are sleeted for Ulf may be trans-
lated; the whole of these provisions being in senforni7
with the Organic Laws of hoe 7,1319.
29. Ever7lWol,lllMoll. arieregeserat of functions between
Naples and Melly having eneed the Wainer, the public
fonstioateries, sad all poems who an chr
i with any
sdrelaberatne drill he @lefts, and public bew-
ail' gad width from henceforth are
*be reviled fershallitedenwilos Bicilisas slew.
30. 'The budget shall he entirely separated, and the pub-
lic expense of the Two Sicilian shall be apportioned between
the two parts of the kind= in the numerical
of their pnulation, aid shell be fixed at the sun of three
million of duals ananily (3,000,000 dusts.)
81. Moreover, the, eeftessinery bran of the Treasury of
Naples which have beau enniessi by the events of the
years 1848 and 1849, which aro nand ma below their
real estimates. shall be fixed at Wad 11111•918 (250,0001
sterling). Thb sun, united to time whisk the Treasury of
Naples is creditor for, shall fent the ddeef Liily, @Wolin
cassolidated by none of es amides of meat % imam' wtik

the corresponding risking fend, alma give the Id neces-
sary te discharge the aisreseid adrenal el the ad
;I*.s. Is the UM serum the debt. of Melly esstraeted
I
12th of January, 1848, and than sabiequantiv
eanteanted, shah remain la aerie la the Treasury of Sicily
Hasa

U. The Maims shall have sa oral slime fa the proper-
dos IS the parabolas ofdipleaatie espioraeat. The shay
palls aims whisk are paid tram *a united hada shall be
aradhsai bilamatly ea Sicilians and Niigata's.

PAILIAMM.
33. The gnag OP TIM
owst of Sicily shall be emaposed of two
eharal4l.--ft See epees, the other of OMIZIOnS.
34. The demilies
shall be for four years.
36. If • itelen se diesels** take plea parliament
Mall be ites while the year.
37.. The marmot shall marries. unitedly with the thin,
the aguish,* power. It has the right to impose new tame
of every kind, sal to alter these whisk am essabliehed. The
direct tame shall be mead for the year by the legislative
chamber% The indlesst term ma be voted for a longer pe-
riod, or for may peine.
43. The esers in the eltanthen are public, except when
they Wllk In motet ccmtnittes.
44 Ne the two ehantbsn can be molested or
Premoded Witt. at punished ha anything said, dime, dh-
ows', snatedi in their respective chambers.

Or ma mumniti or rzzaa.
45. The Pion shall be named by the Bing, end for life.
The number shall be unlimited.
46. No one tan be sleeted a peer if ha has not reached
kb 40tbThe year.
47. Chamber of Piers, In amordanos with a royal
ordinance, shall constitute itself into a high mart of justice,
for the pumas of taking cognisance of the mime of high
treason, and of attempts against the coustitution.

07 Till aovaa or 001010111.
49. The Home of Comatose shall be soutreed of the
deputies of 24 districts, of deputies sleeted by the oniversi-
Cos of Bay, of Palermo, Mrseias, and Cataaia, and of the
deputies ef the cominams, aoeordti to the number seta-
bii.hel by the constitution of 1812.
60. The 00111•11111•11 which. from their Inc:reseed population,
have acquired a eight to elect a fermentative, or to elect
am this ow, meal these populations wtikk, after 1812,
wow meta tun sinuses, and have the number of in-
tuit:42re alsbablmmi byte aforesaid oonstitutka, can tasks
• delto the cham of the Commons, who will take
sVace, Ina legal rammer, of the truth of their expo-
_

62. The mode of electing representatives stall be that
which was established by the amstitution of 1812, and if the
path* offices by which the elections were conducted are abs-
ked or suppose, the king will reenve to himself the ap-
pointment of publicd functionaries in their place.

Or THE ELECTORS.

53. The re hitless of a district in the Chamber of
Deputies shall be elected by all those who possess in that dis-
trict a net rent, for life. of 18 ounces by the year, whether
it proceed from freehold or usaf►aet, or from any rent or
mortgage, as wall as nay other kind of praperty. The re-
presentatives of the city of Palermo shall be elected by all
those w►o poses in the city or its territory a net teat for
life, of at least 50 ounces by the year, whether it arise from
freehold or neafract, or from any other rent or mortgage, or
any other sort of property.
The representatives of every other city or parliamentary
territory shall be elected by all those who possess in that city
or territory a rent for life of at least 11 ounces annually,
w►ether it erten from freehold or usufract, or any rent or
mortgage, or any other kind of property.
54 The professors of the Univonities of Palermo, Mee.
sins, and Catania ars alone exempted from the possession of
the aforesaid rents, and the necessity of proving them, for
the election of their own representatives.

OF Till PWON TO II ILICTZD.

65. Thom alone can represent a district who have in Sicily
a net revenue for life, either from freehold or uaufract, from
rent or mortgage, or from any other kind of property
amounting to 300 ounces by the year.
Those alone can represent Palermo who are in posse/eon
in Bien y of a .... us of the above-mentioned kind, of 500
amen by the year.
Thom done can represent a city or parliamentary territory
who possess a revenue of the above nature of 150 ounces by
the year.

ROME, Mutest 4.
The course of events keeps its onward march, and
the prospect of undoing what has been done in Rome
becomes every day more dim and distant. Since the
unutterably foolish step of refusing to receive a depu-
tation, headed by Prince Goesini, and composed of
his own two chambers of representatives and peers,
to arrange an amicable return to his dominion*, the
Pontiff has gradually placed a wide barrier indeed
between the tiara and the ones submissive and de-
voted population of these territories which all the
powers of Europe can never remove. There may be
an abrupt and violent attempt to force a clerical
ruler again on these people, but what is to become of
his successor, and how many thousand troops and mil-
lions of dollars will suffice to garrison and keep
down the twenty or thirty large towns, which all
vie with each other in sustaining the Roman common-
wealth and its popular assembly P The flippancy
with which folks talk of intervention," as if it
were a mare foraging excursion of some ten thousand
troops, to come and go with a truss, eidi, trici, is mar-
vellously absurd. The doings of the last three
months have created a spirit here which a whole
century would not develop in any other circum-
stances; and to • person on the spo', conversant
with the feelings of all classes of sxiety here, nothing
is more lamentably ludicrous than the Neapolitan
speculations of the Timed correspondent, and the
wind-bags of inflated rhetoric put forth as leaders in
the Chronicle.

A decree of the 25th February, having for pre-
amble that the late clerical government, improvident
of the future, and worked out for the sole benefit of a
privileged caste, had fur a series of twenty years
wasted the finances of the country in the most
shameless and profligate expenditure, proceeds to
levy a forced loan on the incomes above 2,000 dollars
lon a graduated scale, until thou of 12,000 are reached
—on them the taxation is fixed at two-thirds of the
revenue of each propriettr. The details of this
financial measure are very explicit.
On the 24th February an edict of the executive
triumvirs was ratified by the National Assembly,
to the following effect : " The tribunal of the holy
office [inquisition) is for ever abolished in Rome. A
pillar commemorative of this act shall be erected on
the piazza in front of the building hitherto desecrated
to such unholy object, that posterity may not forget
this solemn deed. The Minister of public works is
charged with the execution thereof." The only pri-
soners found, when the government officers broke
into the concern, were two nuns undergoing incar-
ceration for misdemeanours which, in the case of a
Roman Ves'al, were punished by living burial. There
was also found a bishop, or at least a man who had
given himself out as one, and had acted in that capa-
city in Syria and Egypt until detected as an impos-
tor. He had been rotting in this dungeon for the
last 25 years. All records were found burnt and
truce of recent incineration were very perceptible.
Attu Vannucci, envoy from the Tuscan republic to
that of Rome, has arrived and presented his cre-
dentials.

I am told that two French commissioners arrived
yesterday, and represented themselve s u sent by their
government for the purpose of placing under seal the
contents of the Pope's private apartments in the Qai-
ring Palace. I understand that no objection was
offered by the authorities, and that they proceeded to
seal up accordingly.
Every activity is displayed in the war depart-
ment; and, come what may, it will be no child's
work to put down this revolution. There are
a hundred and thirty thousand men here, with mus-
kets in their hands; there are about 13 thousand more
armed men in Tuscany ; and any intervention that
takes place must not be under a fora of forty thou-
sand regular troops to be kept here for an indefinite
period. Who's to pay ?
All the coach makers in my part of tha town are
employed in making artillery waggons. Nothing is
heard but the_
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