The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-02 00:00:00

ITALY.

The King of Naples has issued a decree, dated the
I;th ult., regulating the police of printing and li-
thographic establishments. By this decree no such
establishments can be opened without the permission
of the prefects of police of Naples or I'alermo, or
that of the intendants of the provinces. In the applies-
cation is to be mentioned the number of presses in-
tended to be kept in activity. Permission having
been obtained, caution-money must be deposited to
the amount of one ducat of Neapolitan rentes for
every press up to five; five ducats for every press
more up to ten ; and ten ducats for every press be-
yond that number. The said caution-money to be
double fur every steam-press. Every proprietor of a
printing establishment is nsponsible for the viola-
tions of the laws on the press committed in his of-
fices. No work is to be printed without a written
permission of the competent authorities. The go-
vernment names one or more censors fur the revision
of writings. Praise in verse or prose is not admitted
without the permission of the person who is the sub-
ject of praise. Public sales of books are not to be
authorised until the police has examined the cata-
logues.

NOTE ADDRESSED TO THE ENGLISH,
AMERICAN, FRENCH, AND SARDINIAN AM-
BASSADORS AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

The following document has been transmitted to
us by a highly respectable g‘ntletnan, who %ouches fur its
authenticity:—
We fulfil a sacred duty in bringing under your notice a
recital of facts, which demand the attention of your Ex-
cellency.

For some time rumours of poisoning have been spread in
several towns of the Ottoman Empire. Mention has even
been made of an inconceivable number of deaths, which are
said to have taken place in Smyrna and
This rumour is now unhappily confirmed by incontestible
facts which have taken place iu liutsja.
On the 27th of March two highly respectable men, one of
them a merchant, the other a Dervish, died after eating
some sugared kaimak ; the sugar and the remains of the
kaimak were found mixed with arsenic.

On the 28th of the same month, several Turk% died sud-
denly, after having drunk some coffee. Some children,
without any apparent cause, remained several days between
life and death.

Arc these misfortunes occasioned by the carelessness o
the merchants, who sell indifferently to every purchaser
sugar, pepper, arsenic, salt, opium, and coffee, using the
same spoon and scalm for each article ? The population of
liumja declare that everything k poisoned—that the public
safety is compromised—that it is a maw:corm of secret
enemies.

The government agents have closed all the retail shops.
We applaud these precautions and the measures taken—but
these are sad truths fur mt. We are obliged to tremble
every instant fur the lives of our brothers.
First deprived of their liberty they are now deprived of
the first necessities. Life on these conditions is a frightful
irony.
e trust that your Excellency will intervene with the
government of the Sublime Porte, in order to put an end to
a state of things so full of danger to our brethren.
We are, with the most profound respect, fur the Hun-
garian Committee, L. VAY
Constantinople, April 12, 1841.

M. GUIZOT ON TEE ANTI-PAPAL EXCITEMENT IN
ENGLAND.-At the annual meeting of the French Protes-
tant Bible Society, held in Paris on Wednesday, M. Guisot,
who was in the chair, said :—" We have at present, at our
very door, a great and glorious example (of liberty of con-
science). See what is paa-ing in England; certainly the
protestant irritation there is exceedingly great, and there
exists there a general and ardent movement in favour of a
popular and powerful belief. The government itself joins
in the movement and followsit. English protestantism shows
itself strongly tempted to seek its security and its satisfac-
tion at the expense of the religious liberty of the catholics.
Well, gentlemen, what appears to be taking place in Eng-
land. is really not done ; they dare not, they cannot,
and, at the bottom of their hearts, they do not wish that
it should. In the midst of this protestant effervescence, the
religious liberty of the English catholic persists and gains
ground ; the liberty of their worship, for their chapels are
open and even increase in number, their priests exercising
their functions without any hindrance ; the liberty of their
press, for they publicly defend their belief and their acts,
the liberty of their sentiments and of their votes in parlia-
ment, for they openly maintain their cause there. That, gen-
tlemen, is' an admirable spectacle; certainly the trial is a
severe one for religious liberty, and I can well comprehend
that it should be uneasy at what is taking place. But it will
issue from the trial triumphantly ; and to the honour of the
protestant Christians of England, the catholic Christians
will not then fall under oppression."
VAUXHALL BRIDGE COMPANY.—The general La-
nual meeting of the shareholders of the above company was
held yesterday' at the George end Vulture, Cornhill, to re-
ceive the half-yearly report, elect officers and to transact
other business of the company. The chair was taken at
two o'olock by it. Parnell, Esq. Mr. Thomas Jeffery, the
clerk, read the reun, which showed that the tolls taken
from October 25, 1850, to April 24, 1851, were 4,1521. The
total receipts were 7,1631. The expenditure, 1,7261.135. 10d.
Dividend, 3,7511. 14s. Cash at bankers, 1,6831. 14s. 3d.
A dividend of Ils. per share was agreed upon, payable on
and after the 11th of June. The chairman regretted to
announce the death of Mr. Baron, in whose place they
would be called upon to elect a gentleman as a director,
and the committee had much pleasure in recommending
for the office Mr. Thomas Gaskcll. He congratulated the
shareholders upon the prosperous state of their affairs; it
was gratifying to find that, notwithstanding the late trying
times, the company had been so prosperous, and he did hope
that this speculation might long prove a source of gain to
the proprietors. He also called attention to that part of
the report which reeommended a reduction in the toll upon
two-horse carriages ; he was of opinion that they must,
more or less, be guided by the practices of other tolls, and
it was his opinion that the decrease occasioned by this re-
duction would be soon compensated for by the increased
traffic to and from the Exhibition in Ilyde-park and other
localities. In answer to a shareholder, the chairman said that
the charge on onull buses would not be affected by the proposed
reduction. They were charged by contract, at the rate of
4id. each journey; the proposed reduction would affect the
receipts to the amount of 1801. per antrum. A resolution
authorising the reduction of the toll on light two-
' horse vehicles from 91. to 6d. was carried. The
Rev. M. Hill, Mr. Prendergast, and Mr. Parnell, were
re-elected direeton, and Thomas Gaskell was unani-
mously elected aa one of the number, in the room
of Mr. Baron deceased. Mr. Porter, agreeable to his no-
tice of motion, moved that the bridge be open free on Sun-
days, but the motion, nut finding a seconder, fell to the
ground. It was then moved and seconded, that the com-
pany express its deep regret at the loss it has sustained in
the death of Mr. Baron. After a vote of thanks tothe chairman
the meeting:adjourned to the first Thursday in November.
THE Lm MURDER AT PLYMOUTH.—In conse-
quence of the confession of Harrington, who is under sen-
tence of transportation for life, and other circumstances,
Inspector Thorn, of the Plymonth detective police, has been
to London, Dublin, and other places, in the hope of being
able to apprehend Timothy Donovan, who appears to have
been the man by whom the fatal blow was struck, but up
to this time he has not been successful. Donovan was in
custody about a fortnight, and was then discharged upm
his own recognizances not to leave the town before the last
county amaze. He left soon after the assize, and the day
before Harrington confessed. Donovan during the period
Harrington was awaiting trial, worked on the various new
buildings in the neiehbourhood as a mason's labourer.
POPULATION HETURN FOR HUDDEROPIELD.—Ac-
cording to the return just completed for the township of
Huddersfield the increase in numbers from 1841 to 18,1,1 is
5,691, or just upon 23 per cent. The increase it:Omens
during the 10 years is 965; and while in 1811 tb:cre were
202 dwellings unoccupied, in 18.51 the number b reduced to
110. The number of houses in the course of erection when
the census was taken in 1841 was 53; le, 1851, 102, or
nearly double that number. While the excess of females
over the male portion of the population in 1841 was but 100,
in 1851 the excess is 388.