The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-09 00:00:00

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—Oer Boris eorreepondent,
writing yesterday, mays:
Yesterday it was aseertel that Rome kid been ec-
copiiii by the French cn the 3rd inetan'. Later
inteiligerce (to the 4th irstaut) is contained in the
following dispatch publi.hed in the Muuiteur, and
dated Nlir-eilles, July 7 :

An aide-do-camp of General Oudinot states that
Garribaldi left 'tome on the morning of the 3rd, with
5,000 or 6,000 men, in the diteciou of Terracing. Tile
first division of the expeditionary corps had started
in pursuit of him on the 4th.
It forma certain that the capitulation of Rome was
the consequence of a sanguinary combat which toik
place in the Transtevere quarter. It is even raid
that the invading force were compelled to use almost
aueerhuman efforts before they could obtain three
portions wttich rendered the longer defence of Rome
impossible. Our Roman correspondent informs us
that the French attacked on the nights of the
26th and 27th of June, without success.
From other sources we find that in an attack on the
Janiculam, on the 30th, the fighting lasted twelve
hearth On the 29th, the whole of the day had been
spent in battering the gates of St. Paolo and St.
Pancras o, with to less than twenty-five heavy I
cannon. Whilst there operations were progressing
before the Eternal City a party of French cavalry
destroyed at Tivoli a powder magazine, from which the
Roman republicans obtained their direct supply of
ammunition. A second attempt to burn the bridge
of St. Paolo by tire-ships was thwarted by the .ictivity
of the besiegers. Iteinfoicimentshed up to this time
being constantly arriving. Six thousand mini
who bad landed at Civita Vecchia on the
28 h alt., made their way to the walls of
Rome on the following day. This concentrati in of
force before the beleaguered city, in conjunction with
the fact that still further military fovea are leaving
the French territory for the scene of opetation in
Italy, leads to the supposition that it has been deter-
mined to occupy the towns in the legations which are
to be abandoned by the Mistrial... It is certain that.
M. d'ltarcourt had made another journey to the ramp
of Oudinot, the obiect of which was said to be certain
arrangements proposed by Cardinal Antonelli and the
Grand Duke Leopold for the occupation of Central
Italy. It is further ascertained that the French
army is extending its line of operations, and
has not only garrisoned Palo and Castel
de Guido, but has occupied Viterbo, and in-
tends to occupy Aquapcnclente, Reitti, and Spoleto.
The French general, Nlorris (as will be seen by our
correspondent's letter), continued his marauding
excursions in the country around the besieged city.
A fact worthy of notice, as regards the restoration of
the Pope, reaches us from Bologna. It is that M
B dioi, the legate of his holiness in that city, has pre-
scribed the Statue°, a moderate constitutional journal
of Florence. This will tend to show the Austrian
bias that is expected to aid the restoration of the
Pope.
Our correspondent writes cs follows :
ROME, Jour 27.
The French depredations continue. Their numerous
cavalry gives them an advantage in being able to
seed detachments to all the principal roads, and in-
tercept the car's coming into the city. This morning
the y carried off 150 carts, chiefly
.laden with wine.
It is ih,i4 that the French commissary-general pays
the sold ere at a very low rate for oxe^, corn, wine,
and whatever other booty they can lay their fraternal
hands on in the Campagna, charging his own
government with the full value. The worthy
contractor is thus realising an enormous for-
tune, whilst the soldiers are too happy to
be paid for robbirg. The sufferers are the
Romani, whose "liberty and order" are each a
scene f anxiety to their " protectors." Arno+ gat other
things borne off by the freebooters yesterday was the
stock of frozen snow, of which there is a large deposit
es the Alban-hill, ant which comes almost daily to
Rome during the summer. The consequence is, that
the wounded are deprived of its cooling virtues in the
hospitele and the habitues of the ref's must mat.ago
to get over this evening w ithout theiracenstomid ked
matanelle or granite. People ought certainly hot to
complain of the loss of ices in a besieged city, but to
prohibit the entry of that which is almost more im-
portant than medicine in the hospitals during this
sultry weather, is a dastardly trait in the French com-
mander, especially as many of hie own soldiers see
charitably brought into the city to be cured of their
wounds.