The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-12 00:00:00

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without whose
cannot take effect.
The banking house of Thurneyssen and Co. has
suspended payment this morning.
Bou Maza passed through ltoucn yesterday, on his
way to the Fort of Ham, where he is to be imprisoned.
Letters from Melilla, of the 26th ult., state that the
Moors had made some further attacks on the place.
Shocks of an earthquake had been felt.
The chargé d'affaires of Spain at Paris has ad-
dressed a letter to the Provisional Government, in
which he says that, having learned that reports were
abroad that the Spanish government entertained sen-
timents of hostility towards the existing government,
and that it was making preparations hostile to France,
he has deemed it his duty to contradict them, and
assure the Provisional Government that the Spanish
government desired to entertain the same friendly
feelings and relations that had hitherto existed.
General Cavaignac has agreed to become a candi-
date for the N,,tional Constituent Assembly for the
department of the Lot,in compliance with a requisition
to that effect.

La Club de la Revolution, which has some import-
ance from its president, Barb:2s, lately elected colonel
of one of the legions of the national guard, has de-
cided to request the Provisional Government to take
possession of the Bank of France, the assurance com-
panies, railways, salt mines, and canals, and to create
paper money in notes of small amounts, guaranteed
by the domains of the state, valued at two-and-a-half
milliards.

LOMBARDY.—To the news from Milan, of the sth,
which I sent yon this morning, I have to add the fol-
lowing, from the Piednumtese Gazette:
The legion under the command of Manara drove back
1,500 Croatians from Salo on the 2nd, who wanted to
open for themselves • passage by the Valsabbia. The
Austrians evacuated Montechiaro, Calcinate, and Lonato on
the night of the 4th, and took the roads of Mantua and
Verona. The Piedniontese are advancing towards the latter
city. General Sims has occupied Montechiaro. A procla-
mation of General Rsdetzky declares Verona in a state of
Beige. Verona is said to be garrisoned by 11,000
men. The Sardinian army was to pass the Oglio
on the sth ; its head-quarters will be at Possalo,
and the first corps at Martinis. The Austrians leave ell
their positions, and cross the Mincio. General Zucehi, at
the kead of the Venetian column, has surprised Palmanova,
• fortress of some importance. The Austrian generals
Giulay and Nugent have assembled five regiments, to retake
it, it possible.
The Concordia of Turin, of the 7th, announces that the
citizens of Parma bare repented of their acceptance of the
duke's constitution, and have made overtures to Piacenat
fur the purpose of leaving the ultimate fate of Parma to the
arbitration of Pius 11. and Charles Albert.
The Pope has issued a proclamation, dated the 30th
aildres.ed to the people of Italy, in which, after recognising
the will of the Almighty in the extraordinary changes that
are taking place in the condition of the Italian peninsula, be
exhorts the people to moderation after victory.
The Vienna Gazette of the oth announces that the Aus-
trian gem rnment has given orders for General Count Zichy,
ex-governor of Venice, to be tried by a court-martial, for
giving up that place to the insurgents.
The Nuabion Mercury states from Vienna, that a large
quantity of specie has been sent from that city for the army
in Italy, and that reinforcements of troops were about to
march. Upwards of 8,000 volunteers had come forward to
join the army.
The Vraie 11,inibl;pte contains the following
statement :
On the 23rd and 24th February there were raised in Paris
1.512 barricades, each barricade composed, it is calculated, of
853 pavino stones, so that the people tore up, in a few
hours. 1,277,6-10 paving stones.
They rooted up 4,013 trees, broke or injured 3,701 gas
lamps and columns, burned 53 military station houses, 71
hackney coach bureaux, 11 bureaux of the octroi, 41 sentry
boxes, 104 advertisement columns, and '29'2 seats, besides
railings, &c., &c.
General Radetsky hos ordered the inhabitants
of Verona to deliver up their arms in twenty-
four hours, under pain of death. He has dis-
solved and disarmed the guard of that city, who
refused to join the Austrian ranks; he has imposed a
contribution of three millions on the city, and
has sequestered the town-hall, the house of the
farmer-general of taxes, and some others. T. prevent
the tocsin being sounded, he has occupied all the
belfries with his soldiers. He has also dissolved the
mur.icipal council.
GALLICIA.—A private letter, received this morning,
in Paris, says the accomplice of Metternich, Szola,
the chief of the assassins of Tarnou, and decorated
in that quality by the Emperor of Austria,
wishing again to bring about a massacre in Gallicia,
the peasants, indignant at his menaces, hung
him on a tree in front of his house, and they pet
his house on fire. Thus, justice has been done !

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