The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-26 00:00:00

ITALY.

TURIN, MAY 19.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the
19th, M. Talmo addressed interpellations to the mi-
nistry to clear up the following. points : 1. If the
government was arranging, or wished to arrange, a
concordat with Rome ? 2. If a league was lx•ing
concluded with the other Italian states ? 3. Why
the marriage bill had not been presented ? 4. Why
31. Siccarth had retired from the cabinet ? 5. Why the
two vacant posts in the cabinet were not filled ?
fi. If the convention concluded with Austria in MI
would be denounced? together with several other
questions. The Minister of Foreign Affairs
said that, as regarded the state of nego-
tiations with Rome, he begged the Chamber
to excuse him from disclosing more than that the
government was inspired with the best intentions to
produce harmony between the spiritual and tem-
poral powers, but would never sacrifice in order to
obtain this end the duties of citii.ens or ministers.
As to the second question, he could distinctly state
that the rumour of the leave was entirely false.
31. Siecardi had retired from the cabinet on account of
the weak state aids health. The Linty concluded with
Austria in P 431 had been denounced. He trusted tiro
chamber would be satisfied with these explanations.
ROME, May 11.
The recent conflicts between French soldiers and
Romans have suggested to the French general the
necessity of takne• some additional precautions for
ensuring his own safety, and that of the army under
his carnmand. It is remarkable that, in the follow-
ing proclamation, announcing the general's intentions
to the inhabitants of Rome, no mention whatever iv
made of the Papal authorities, nor of the established
' government of the country:
Serious and repeated attempts hare been committed
against French soldiers, whose good conduct and discipline
are generally recognised and pm-tainted. This audacity on
the part of men of disonler is owing to the moderation
shown until this day, which sirnalises the generosity of
France. t'inee this generosity is not understood, it must
g.re plare to a just severity. Consequently, the general
comumnding the division of occupation in holy, fixes th,
f alowing dispositions for the city of Rome and thu
Cumarea :

All permissions to carry arms are suppressed. All fire-
arms, white-arms, and poignard knives are to be depoi.itsd
at the Etat Mojav dr la place between this and the 117th of
May. After which delay domiciliary visits will take place;
every inhabitant retaining arils in his powession will be
arrested, and brought before a court-martial, to be judged
according to the usual laws, and besidi s the sentence there
passed upon him he will be tined fifteen wadi for each wea-
pon found in his house. The proprietors of houses will be
responsible ler weapons seised in teem.
In the course of Sunday, the licit May, a great number
of individuals were observed in the city, mid particularly un
the Corso, carrying sticks of such dimensions as to lead to
the inference that they coutained hiddei weapons. Such a
kind of threat can no longer be suffered. Men carrying
the above-describe.l sticks will be arrested by patrols, which
will be ordered for that purpose, and accompanied by agents
of police. They will he detained in prison until
they have paid the above-mentioned fine (fifteen
wadi). Sticks of a suspicious form are to be
deposited at the Flat Major de la pleas. The fines will be
paid to the paymaster of the division for the use of the mili-
tary hospitals. The commandant de la place, the Prefect
of Pollee, and the Provost of the army, are charged with tho
evecution of the present oiler, towards which the General
rimm•Sti the comer's-nee of all the ntlici Vs and subalterns
of the army, isle., by eausin7, the French uniform to bo
respected, still estreine a right and fulfil a duty.—The
General commanding the division. A. OLMEAV.
At the head-quarters, Rome, May 12. ima.
What principally alarms the General, and the
ecclesiastical government, is the unanimity of senti-
ment with which any demonstration of hostile feeling
is adopted by the people, a fact which dues
not much tend to confirm Ouditiots veracious
assertions concerning the attachment of the Romans
towards their sovereign and despotic regime.
The anti-smoking demonstintion has reached
such a pitch that not a cigar is to be seen in the
streets or e4y:'s, save in the mouths of some stray
foreigner or French soldier, and even in the Truste-
ed°, where it is to the interest of the people to keep
up the consumption of tobacco, as many of the women
arc employed by Torlonia in the 'imputation of cigars,
the men have cheerfully thrown away their weeds
and pipes as soon as they understood what was
meant by the sacrifice. The abirri have already
begun to bully people for not smoking, and several
young men, who were hitherto known as smokers
and whose faces were familiar MI the Corso, have been
grossly insulted by the agents of police for leaving off
the practice. The pecuniary loss to the monopolist,
Prince Torlonia, must be enormous, but it appears
that he will receive compensation from the govern-
ment by being allowed to tuise the prim of salt ono
bajoeco per pound, he being the monopolist of that
most necessary article of consumption also.
Now that the Ecclesiastical Titles Roil is again to
be brought before the Rouses of Parliament, it can-
not fail to be interesting to vour readeN to be mado
acquainted with some remarkable expressions of the
Pope hinfitelf upon the subject, MS manifested on a
recent occasion.

Among the many English visitors to Rome during
the holy week was Lieut.-Colonel Curtis, Cll., an
officer recently returned front India, where he served
for many years on the staff, and had opportunities of
rendering some service to Monsignor Corti, Roman
Catholic Bishop of Agra, successor of the well-
known Dr. Borghi, now Bishop of Cortomt, and
head of the Indian Roman catholic mission. The
colonel's kindness to the Indian bishop was men-
tioned in letters which Monsignor Carli wrote to the
cardinals at Rome, intimating also that Colonel
Curtis was about to leave India, and would probably
visit the Holy City on his way to England.
At the close of the holy week an invitation to a
private audience with his Holiness was formally
sent to Colonel Curtis, a most unusual proceeding at
any time, but especially so in the present year. when
audiences of any kina are granted with difficulty
and never unsought; indeed, numberless appll-.
Lotions have recently been refused. The hour
for the interview specified in the major domo's letter
was 7 P.m., at which time Colonel Curtis presented
himself at the Vatican, and in a few minutes was
ushered into the presence of Plo Nono. The inter-
view was entirely private, his Holiness and the
Colonel being the sole occupants of the apartment.
The Pope received his guest most graciously and
simply, the ceremony of kissing the papal slipper be-
ing entirely dispensed with, intimating that he had
sent fur him to thank hint in person for kindnesses
uhewn to the Indian mission, about which, and India
generally, he asked many questions. Ills Holiness
then began, doubtless to his visitor's great astonish-
ment, to speak fully and unreservedly about
his differences with England, justifying what
he had done, earnestly disclaiming any inten-
tion of offending the English sovereign or nation
and expressing his anxious hope (his precise words
were Spero sineeramenle) that the shadows (le onsbre)
which interposed between the two governments
might speedily be dissipated. Colonel Curtis left tho
Vaticanimpressed with admiration of his Holiness's
urbane manner and unaffectedly dignified demeanor.
A few days afterwards his Holiness sent the colonel
a very beautiful silver medallion, executed by M.
Girometti, bearing on one side an admirable likeness
of I'io Nono, and on the other a representation of tho
two colossal statues of St. Peter and St. Paul, placed
in front of St. Peter's Church at the commencement
of the present pontificate. The medallion was en-
closed in a red morocco case, bearing the Pupal arms
impressed on it in gold. Considering that Colonel
Curtis is of the protestant church, and was known to
be so by the Pope, his reception and its consequenco
cannot but be considered remarkable, reflecting credit
on the feelings of his Holiness, and the gratitude he
showed for kindness extended to his clergy in far
and foreign lauds.

last ntght, between 10 and 1 1 ticlork, a man was
subbed in the Via Maria de' Fiori, behind the Pa- I
lehri. and a hundred rumours are already
spread al7rocttl concerning the deed. to which a ph-
(3,1,141r is generally given, on account of the dc-
rased hating either lain a shirr,' himself, or having
bad relations to that much detested brotherhood, and
lib., front the circumstance of his having made himself
convictions in smoking contrary to the present practice
of the liberals; but horn the amount I have received ,
from eyewitnesses of the riftlAir, and from persons
*hi were present before the corpse was vet cold, it
appears that grime jealous quarrel about women, the
cause of nine-teuths of the homicide,' in Rome, was
the origin of his murder. The baker. Filonardi, was
standing at the dour of his shop in the Via Condotti,
opptsite the cerner of the Via Maria de' Fiori, enjoy-
ing the cool air of the beautiful moonlight night,
when he suddenly heard cries of distreas, and saw a
clan 'tming towards hint down the Via Mario de
Fi..ri.pursued by two others. The first ran directly into
Lis shop. and fell down on the floor which he deluged
with blnod„ exclaiming with his dying voice, Help,
far the love of God! take me to the hospital of San
Giacomo?' The baker's men attempted to raise him
and support him into the street, bat he again
maggeied fell, and expired. The commissary
of police of the tprirter was -taut on the spot, and from
the accounts of some neighbours, who knew the de-
svased, seemed to infer that he had been detected in
some intrigue, and received from the poignant of a
jealous rival the wound in hi, temple which caused'
his death ; an inference strengthened by the deceased's I,
dehaucicd character, although he was a married man,
and by the fact that he had narrowly escaped violent
death on previous similar occasions, and that his hand
was horribly scarred by a knife which he succeeded
in wresting fonn an aggressor whose fury had been
aroused against him for a similar offence. It is im-
portant to mention these particulars, as no doubt the
whole affair will is: attributed to the violence of re-
publican party spirit.
ROME, MAY 16.
The precautions at present observed both by the
French and ecclesiastical authorities, could nut be
greater if the Romans bad risen up with arms in
their Muds once more to oem throw the chair of St.
Peter, and (hive its triple-crowned occupant again
to the hospitable shores of Gaeta and l'ortici.
The general disarming of the people and the con-
Rtication not only of the few fowling pieces left by
the jealousy of the police, but also of the walking
sticks of the Corso loungers, have not sufficed to
calm the fears of General Getman, whose patrols, in
company with police agents, begin perambulating
the city as soon as it is dark, arresting, searching,
and annoying the praisers by. The uneasiness of the
government at the unanimous resolution of the inha-
bitants not to smoke any longer, is displayed by the
following document, published this morning and
pasted on the walls for the edification of the
public:
NOTlnrATtori.

Giacomo, of the holYli..ma;ChonTli, Cardinal Antony)li,
Dean of St. Agatha, in Suhurra, Pro-secretary of State of
the Holiness of Our lord Pope l'ius IX. The insults
offered to this tasteeable population to prevent it from
using tobacco have called the attention of the government
to the best means of guaranteeing the free excreise of legi-
timate actions, and subjecting a. ...win as poesitile the per-'
Puns guilty of such crimes to their due penalty. Where-
fore according to the order. of his Holiness, we publish the
Milton ing di.positions. Whoever raiders himself guilty of
promotinc, favoring, or executing any act directed to hin-
der the her exertise of lawful action., anti so disturb public':
order, will be subjected to a summary judgment, to carry
out the penalties determined by law. The proceeding. adop-
ted will aim solely at ;establishing the impartial proof of the
truth of the fart. In the term of twenty-four hour. after
the compilation of the proecedings, sentenee will be passed
by the competent tribunal, and put into execution 'mote-
chat. ly. Those who distribute or divulge intelligence,
primed or written, of an alarming nature, or are found in
iom of such printed or written papers, will be sub.
jetted to the same form of trial, and punished by being sent
to the 74111. fur a term of from one to three years, sera
bens ie r penieltics w hen the prints or writings assume the
character or 3 deeper crime. The police is eltar4ell to adopt
all pryventit t. and repressive measures against those who in
any way provoke them, and all the authorities will watch
Vs.,' the full cat. ~tint, of the present dispositions.—Given
at 1:01111., in the Secretary of Stated office, on the Itith May,
U. CAIIIANAL ANTONILLI.