The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-23 00:00:00

tiaaal Immo of the pries of bread; a single loaf

costs the wages of a day's labour—which in Spain.
your readers should bow, cannot be recktmed at
more than timpani, or a shilling.
At Guiptutooa, the heat is still extensive; the orop
of maize is almost irretrievably lost.
The provincial militia is now being organised
throughout the country. This must not be con-
founded with the National Guard or communal civics
keen.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

The French minister at the court of Sardinia, M.
le Duo de Orammoot, wee invited to the banquet
given by the Italian veterans of Napoleon's grand.
armee at Turin, on the 15th of August, and he replied
to the invitation, saying: —'• I used not express to
you the feelings of sympathy with which I have
received your communication. After having
most worthily served the Empire, the noble remnant
of these valiant legions have always, and every-
where, continued to exhibit a fair pattern of the
same virtues and the same great qualities which
made them illustrious on the field of battle. France,
which has counted them among her own children,
preserves the remembrance of these brave warriors;
and the Minister of Napoleon 111., who is proud to
have this opportunity of consecrating such a remem-
brance, now salutes them as brothers, in the name of
the Emperor and of his fellow-countrymen."
The tracing out of the new fortifloations of Ales-
marls, it appears, from a letter of the 19th, written
at that place, has already been completed. The new
works will consist of the reconstruction of the
enceinte, which the Anetrians destroyed after the
treaty of 1815. On the morning of the 19th, a bat-
talion of sappers commenced the execution of these
works, to the left of the gate of Marengo. All the
infantry troops, and the garrison of Alessandrie, will
assist in turn, successive bettalia being detached every
day foe that service. (We refer to the brief sketch
of the history and position of the fortress of Ales.
sandria, which will be found below.)
The Union. of last Monday, after acknowledging
the suggestion which appeared in the Daily News
and Express a fortnight ago, that a subscription
should be started in England to augment the fund
which the Italians are voluntarily contributing for
the armament of Alessandria, goes on to say :

Whilst we think the geglish for this anelieststion of
their sympathy with Piedmont sad with Italy, we bog the
Delp N.les to make brown, with each coneseate as it may
think di, ore monstrous tact. There is a certain marquis at
Tarn, by birth an laliea, 'Lombard by hie origin, a native
subject of the Jima of Sardinia, aid tin editor of • joursal
called the Araroisia, which °oaten& for Antrian Morsels,
as it were with • draws sword ; and there Mao sort of abuse
or calamity with which that paper does set treat the Italian
•elgraets and the liberals cf this coaster, or well sa the
unhappy people who green in Italy fiesta** foreign yoke.
In the onetime, it esasot fled eulogies 'sough to maks
tor applsodieg sad glorifyisig the crime which are com-
mitted by Antrim. Ooall‘cations, floggings, hangings, and
'bootlegs, sad all ether acts of inhuman ity, dad la the
Amnon, °widened by this Marquis, a bold psnegyriett
es, upon Ito other hand, the patriotic impala to faralat
Atenendria with a hundred pieces of manna, which has
east with a townie sow eves is Ittglead, t. raviltd by him
with equal vehemence; and yet this ntsiquia, the editor of
tbe Atinonfo, whose same le Carlo Emanuele Bingo,
'prise. fit= a Lombard family, which was forced to alai.
grate to Piedmont in order to take refuge from t►e
thastriase.

Some remuks were made in a letter from Turin by
our Italian commirioser, about the end of July,
upon the anti-natioasl conduct of the eirmosits,
(which is the organ of the Jesuits sod ultramontane
priesthood) as a strange ezosption to the other
journal, of Tarim; and he seems to have then anti-
cipated the observations to which the Unions would
now direct our attention.