The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-14 00:00:00

Mr. Scarlett is thus once more left charge erafalres
at the wart of Tuscany, and it ii a matter or no
little doubt and anxiety with us here whether Lord
Palmerston will finally suppress the Tuscan mission,
as far as a plenipotentiary is concerned, and leave
affairs in the hands of Mr. Scarlett, or appoint a
successor to Mr. Shell in the person of some liberal
protestant diplomatist who may be sufficiently near
to Rome to let his arguments be heard and felt at the
headquarters of papacy. Another death has taken,
place this week in Rome amongst the members of the
Sacred College, Cardinal Vizzardelli, prefect of the
studies, having departed this life after a long ill-
ness. He lay in state for three days at
the Laute Palace, and his funeral obsequies
were celebrated on Wednesday at the church of San
Lorenzo in Drunaso,
_the Pope assisting. Ilia Holi-
ness, when questioned with respect to the successor
whom he should appoint to Cardinal Vizzardelli's
office, inquired who was generally supposed to be
fitted for it, and, on hearing that public rumour
pointed at Cardinal Fernery he replied, " Ah ! I see
he is the man d la muds ; ho was to have succeeded
A ntonclli also as secretary of state!" Besides the
above funeral service, his Holiness has twice made
his appearance in public this week—on Monday at
the Chime Nuova, in honour of the festival of San
Filippo Neri ; and on Thursday at St. John Lateran,
to celebrate the Ascension, on which occasion he
ascended into the balcony, and invoked the blessings
of heaven upou his loving subjects collected in the
piazza below. On all these occasions the attendance
of people is tolerably numerous, for the Romans are
reat holiday keepers, and fond of pomp and show :
but not the slightest approach to joy or loyalty is
demonstrated when the Sovereign Pontiff with his
gorgeous. cortege and military escort, sweeps through
' the serried ranks of spectators. A chilling silence
now greets the once popular Pie None, and fear has
taken the place of love in the hearts of his subjects.
This feeling is just:fied by the merciless severity
just now shown by the pontifical authorities. Be-
side Signor Politi, a member of the Roman Assem-
bly, another member of the republican government,
Colonel Calandrelli, who occupied the post of trium-
vir for two or three days after the resignation of
Maraud, Seth, and Armellini, and has been ever
since in confinement, has just been condemned to
death, but it is hoped that the sentence will not be
curried into effect. The comparative cruelty of the
Austrians and the priests may be judged of by the
re diffence of their sentences for the same offences.
For instance, at Ancona, an individual was recently
condemned by the Austrian authorities to fifty blows
of the stick, for preventing another from smoking,
but as he was weakly, and unable to bear corporal
punishment, it was commuted to two months' impri-
sonment, with bread and water three times a week ;
whilst for the same offence, not half so clearly proved.
the ecclesiastical authorities here sentenced that unfor-
tunate Ercoli to twenty years of the gales. besides
which the abirri gave him a bastinadoing fully equal
to the fifty blows which formed the whole condemna-
tion of the Austrians. The liberals still abstain from
smoking, but the demonstration will doubtless die a
natural death ere long, and so Prince Torlonia will
return into the pecuniary benefits of his monopoly.
The rumour of his receiving compensation for his
losses, by an increase in the price of salt, has re-
ceived a contradiction front the official piper.