The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-14 00:00:00

an event of which the Romans appreciate the full im-
portance. Piedmont can now count on its own army
of 140,000; being backed by a united force of
160,000 from the rest of the confederacy ; and let old
Field-Marshal Radetzki draw his sabre if he likes, a
blade which he tells us has bad 63 years seasoning
(the veteran is 80 years old). In the Alba of
Florence I find the following French epitaph ready
made for the octogenarian warrior :
ci Fit Itadetzki. compaitnen de Mark,
Fulda N defetocur du tab.
II ...ow aft mmee, feillards, ebbno
Globe 1 reitC•e de sobtante-eirui ana !

This evening, to judge from the preparations I see '
in every street there will be a monster illumination
,
of this capital, such as to dazzle the optics of the few
remaining obseurantists among us. lklidlions of
paper lamps have been ordered, each consisting of
three transparent colours—greenwhite,and red—such
being the Italian tri-colour. The residence of the
Neapolitan ambassador, which you know is the great
palazzo Farnese, is to outshine all. This structure,
forming the side of a large square, is the model from
which your Reform Club is built, only that in dimen-
sions it covers a space equal to that occupied by the
Athenieum, Travellers, and Reform put together,
and has a proportionate elevation. It was taken bo-
dill. out of that noble stone quarry the Colosseum,
and, strange to say, is scarcely missed out of that Cy-
clopian structure. I will not promise that there will
be uo riotous behaviour this evening, for the people
are quite intoxicated with triumph. The following
dithyrambic lines appeared in the Cutemporanco this
morning, a journal of uniform sobriety :
11 wk. sina.. A:dine:lo in Apron, There's a spur flat nn Italy n hoof,
E locos.vin ncl Anne, "Ili, Toil the news to each auto.crut nor.
E to mesno neltlanco alio pon.one.
Cite Nano 11 Im:di oWU ...nu„ French trimmer and Austrian
aranti. Mule.
itnna min vattcne Ic4n Anil hone biped that will not to
Cie eh OR 1.1e•le ,latent., 1., teas. roma&
Vattenc ltdin mia rattenc ' Masi with Joe .air Peninsula foils
Viva chi proloi in PA KOLA I That
heciser h hoed to Just now in her
L'i the land fr,nnitAlttltv4y.haken
'lark- to him nh...c wit": first cried

The great coach owner, Ranucci, has placarded the
town to the effect that his carriages are offered gratis
to all Neapolitan refugees and exiles who wish to re-
visit their regenerated native land.
But you will have earlier news concerning Naples
than I can give, as the steamers from that harbour
distance our land mail. The only
.remarkable occur-
rence of domestic intelligence here is a meeting of the
Itoman lawyers, the occasion of which, and the pro-
ceedings of the learned paternity, were they not
gravely reported in the Bila,oid newspaper, would
be taken for a translated page of i'mach. It appears
that the greatest alarm is felt by the bar, and its
ministering angels the attorneys, at the decrease and
almost total stoppage of litigation among the Romans
since the accession of Pio Nono ; and the meeting was
held to consider how best to remedy this must alarm-
ing (to them) symptom of a disorganisrd social
system!

MALTA FEB. 6.
An advocste named Schembri was tried in the criminal
court, on the 26th, for a libel on Judge Bruno, in the Porto-
foglio Maltese, and condemned to three hours' imprisonment,
or a tine of 55.: This prosecution has cost the government
501., and the attendance of three judges to try it. The Nor-
wegian corvette Nordstjernen left, on the 26th, for the west-
ward, as did also some 40 vessels that have been lying here,
wind and weather bound, for a month. The French steamer
direct front Marseilles to Alexandria came in early this
morning. The Egyptus, trom Alexandria, due on the 24th,
has only just artist& The mail for Marseilles will cline
at 4 p.m.