The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-04 00:00:00

ITALY.

It will be remembered that aM. Montanari was
one of the last party executed at Mantua. Directly
after the execution (says the Go:eters del Popolo), the
government called upon his surviving brother, Count
Montanari, to pay within 24 hours the sum of 27
thousand lire, the cost of seizing, trying, and hang-
ing his brother, although the government had pre-
viously confiscated the estates of its victim.

The Parlamento of Twin announces that on the
27th ult. the Sardinian corvette San Giovanni, 28
guns, Captain Juccia, arrived at Villafranca, to take
the refugees on board who are to be conveyed to
America. They are 82 in all. The Piedmontese
government gives thorn free board and passage, and
,Ofr. per head on landing.

ROME, Miatcx 24.
Rome is jest now so full of sight-seeing foreigners,
flocked together from all quarters of the world to
witness the Easter ceremonies, that houses cannot be
found sufficient to lodge them, nor carriages sufficient
to convey them through the drenching rain to St.
Peter's and the Vatican. The benediction of to-day
wee a failure, on account of the unpropitious state of
the weather, the vast piazza being comparatively un-
tenanted by spectators, and the troops looking sadly
bedrizzled; but the in-door ceremonies have been
crowded to a frightful excess by ladies in black
chows and veils and gentlemen in dress coats, from
all parts of the globe save Rome, the Romans them-
selves singing " Sic yes non vobis" on the occasion,
and qbtaining with the greatest difficulty tickets of
admission to the reserved seats. The great attraction
today has been the blessing of the oils, the washing
et twelve priests' feet by his Holiness and his subse-
quent serving them at dinner, in imitation of the
humility of Our Lord in performing those offices for
the Apostles. The ifiserere, chanted by the Papal
choir this evening and to-morrow, draws suffocating
weds to the Siztiue Chapel.
The Sacred Consults tribunal has published a list
cl individuals condemned to death and the galleys
chiefly for homicide through party spirit, being a
continuation of the judicial proceedings against the
terrorists of the legations in 1848 and 18111.
The predictions so frequently made in the Roman
correspondence of the Express with respect to,
the effect which the Austrian occupation of Ancona,l
Leghorn, and other ports of the Mediterranean and
Adriatic not within the limits of the imperial domi-
nions would have upon British commerce, have lately
been fully verified by the endeavours of Austria to
exclude us from Turkish ports in the Adriatic ; net
will that exclusive system stop there if not at once
checked by the presence of a strong British fleet.
The idea of a rupture between Austria and Great
Britain fills the government of his Holiness, as well
as that of the King of Naples, with apprehension
lest one of the first modes of annoyance resorted to'
by England should be the capture of Italian ports
on the Adriatic and the arming and rousing of the
populace against the unwelcome imperial garrisons.
populace against the unwelcome imperial gerrisoss.
fo encounter such a storm in the present exasperated
state of Hungary, Lombardy, Tuscany, and the Le-
gations, without reckoning Switzerland, would some-
what try the recently restored military strength of
the empire.
An Engli ;h traveller has given umbrage to the Roman
police, and is in iminent danger of being sent out pf
Rome, without having time to obtain his Holiness's
blessing on Easter Sunday. This is the Rev. George
Nelson, who arrived hero from Corfu, via Ancona,
three days ago, and has from some motive or other
been so unlucky as to arouse the suspicions of the
secret police. The authorities have been courteous
enoughtto report the case to the British Consul, who
will look into it, and not object of course to the ex-
pulsion of any one who may have given just cause
for so unceremonious an act, at the same time that he
will remonstrate against any such measures being
adopted against a British subjet, either from caprice
or calumny.
Rothschild is no in Rome, and his visit is, as
usual, connected with new loan negotiations. Mr
Lyons, the new British Charg6 d'Affaires, has not-
yet arrived.