The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-06 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Arousv 31.
The news circulating in Madrid is without any
inte►est. Rumours concerning the ministerial crisis,
of the most extraordinary kind, still obtain. The
organisation of the struggle in the municipal elections
occupies those who have the courage to be active in
this dreadfully hot weather—for the heat, which
bid somewhat diminished, has returned with re-
doubled force.

Don Fulgencio Novarro, a celebrated stockbroker,
generally employed by Narvsex when he had any
dirty wo k to do, has been taken into custody on an
extensive charge of forging army supply bills, an
accusation in which several military men are uid to
ba implicated.

Manaus Sooner 31.—Three per Cents., 261 Recount ; Four per
Cents., tic Flee per Cent., 111. Coupons, G. . Bank of St. For&
rad, 76. Eacisauge au Loudon, 50.60.

ITALY.

VENICE.—On the 28th inst. the Austrians took
possession of the city of Venice. This occupation
inspires the following refiectiors, made by a corres-
pondent of the Journal des Debats. The letter is
dated the 28th ult.:
The Austria= hove on this very day taken definitive pos,
melon of Venice. The conduct of the conquerors has been
generally calm and moderate, and such as it ought to be, in
order not to provoke any fresh explosion of the bitter resent-
ments which still keep rankling in the hearts of the van•
quished. In s,iite of the new combination, by the aid of
which she Austrian srtillery was abie fur more than twenty
days to pour an incessant shower of bothred-hot and cold
balls, which reaching the enormous range of 5,600 metres,
rendered three-fourths of the city uninhabitable, the Vena-
tion population has comprehended that it ought, for a time
at least, to sueprese such just hatreds, that it was necessary
to yield to overwhelming force, that cries or murmurs of dis-
approbation were in certain situations sidiculons marks of
vengeance and that since the combat had ceased assa•rina.
Hon was 'but the vengeance of cowards. The occupa-
tion hes therefore, taken place without disturbance, and
tM Ausirlan troop only met on their pumas' that 'leant and
veld reception which might be expected from the people of
Venice. This resistance of 17 swathe, free from all those
oolitic .1 crimes which add the evils of civil war to those of
invasion and of conquest, will be recorded in history to the
honour of the Vene'isn revolution. The commander of the
French squadron, Captain Helves., has not disappointed the
confidence reposed in him by the unfortunate Venetians. He
came forward Immediately to assist those unfortunates, who
were wworthy of e impasston and of sympathy ; he received
on beard, and carried to C ofu, the leading chiefs of the
dying republic. Before the entrance of the Austrians, he
s nt away by the Pluton about 40 persons, who were the most
deeply compromised, amongst whcm were the president of
the republic, Ilarsin and his family ; all those who had taken
put in the government during the 18 months as ministers or
otherwiiie, Generals Pere, Ullce, Armsndy, de Colange,
; and merchant vinsi4s were chartered to carry the re-
mainder General Gewskosraki bra been appointed civil and
military governor of Venice.
The Venice Casette of the 26th appears headed, for
the first time after the revolution, with the imperial
arms. It contains a decree of Major-General Dierkes,
commandant of the city. of Venice, dated the 27th,
permitting the entrance into the city of nrovieions of
all sorts, free of duty, for a fortnight. The Gazette of
the 29th contains a decree of the 27th from General
Gorzkowski, military end civil governor of Venice,'
abolishing the personal tax, and diminishing the price
of salt.. By another decree, the free port of Venice is
limited provisionally to the island of S. Giorgio Mag-
giore, and the navigatit nof Venice limited to four
canals, until the custom-houses Lave been re-estab-
lished. A third decree declares null and void all the
acts of the revolutionsry government, and dissolves
the government offices, the esmtral magistrates, and
the general direction of the police.
NAPLES.—The Petrie pnbli?hes a letter from
Naples cf the 24th ult., of which the following is an
extract : "The presence of the Pope at Nsplts will
add fresh octal to the generally magnificer. fete of
St. Jun uarius, which takes place on the 19th Sep-
tember. Foreigners are already arriving in great
i numbers to be present al the different solemnities.
The authorities are woo Egid with remprd to pas-
ports. The Er alone are well 'emir as is it
known that tcvy meddle but little wit:.