The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1848.

uriewlgut t circular has just been put forth,
the mode and management of the-hustings,
the most remarkable pasuage in the document being
the " strict injunction on the rural districts as well as
towns, that though any other building may be used
for the purpose, on no account is any electoral assem-
bly, or preparatory gathering, or any political meet-
ing whatever, to be held in churches or edifices de-
voted to the worship of Ged."
Now such a notion would never have entered into
the brain of the native population, and for them its
perfect inutility strikes every one here. The only
way in which the clause is Intelligible is on the
ground of the presence in Rome just now of M'Hale
and O'Higgins fresh front their native bogs, and to
them the government is supposed to have meant this
as a gentle hint that their li ish practices are under-
stood here, and that no such doings of the unholy
and pro!ane character of those in which they are the
high priests, changing the house of God into a den of
denunciation or a wit• lollop of sedition, would be for
an instant tolerated in the capital of Christianity.
The ashes of the two n ble patriot brothers, sons of
Admiral Bandicra, who fell under a platoon fire of
King Ferdinand's soldiers, in the premature attempt
to bring about the redemption of their native land,
have been dug up by pious hands from the Calabrian
moorland on which they had been shot, and inhumed
with honour in one of the venerated churches near
Otranto.
"Oh blest are the patriots and lovers who live
The days of thy glory to eta:
But the mar nd best bleaang that heaves as eve.
Is the pride of tem drim for Mee!.
Great excitement and thunders of applause sur-
rounded a number of our young men and civic guard
one day this week. You are long aware that the
Jews can now hold domicile where they like: but
folks bad forgotten that the old ghetto was still die-
tinguishable by its ponderous and half-rotten portals I
of wood, which, though no longer closed at sunset,'
and now mouldering away on their rusty hinges,
reminded some of the disgraceful theory and practice
of former times. "Down well the gates!" cried a
few ardent quits: and in • twinkhog the sturdy
arms of the Roman youths hurled the old lumber from
its supporters, and crash went the worm-eaten memo-
rials of bygone bigotry.
Oa the 28th, Mousignor Morichini, Archbishop of 1
Nisida (in partibirs), who had long been financial
manager here, and was clever in his department, was'
removed, in deference to the supposed incompatibility
of such functions with even the ghost of a mitre,
and the office was conferred on Prince Antonio Sim-
, netti.
A new club has been started, to be composed of
medical doctors, surgeons, and apothecaries exclu-
sively, not that the healing art is not held in due
reverence and regard by the native Romans, for
doctors are admissible to all Roman clubs, but these
educated gentlemen wish for associates with whom
they may discuss scientific subjects with mutual ad-
vantage, and hence they seek each other's society.
The Palinde who attempts a joke when she can, puts
in a claim for the veterinary class of practitioners :
" for surelvthey too do good to their neighbour (al tor
rossioin)." If you can't see the point of this, there
is no use in referring you back to your as in prasenh.
There is a rumour here which may not have
reached your colonial office, viz., that the lonian
Islands are seriously meditating a rejunction with
their old ally, and Suzerain, the republic of Venice.
Panissaries of republican propagandism are undoubtedly
at work, employed, probably, by Russia. The whole
catholic population of Corfu, Cephalonia, &c., is of
Venetian descent or connexion, and the winged lion
of St. Mark is held in high veneration by them, as
well as by the staple population of the Russo-Greek
ritual. Look sharp.
Roman archeologists (who are very diligent) have
just disinterred and given circulation to a curious
proclamation of Count Nugent, who now marches to
trample down the Lombards, but who, in 1814, put
forth on the walls of Parma and Modena, a most
spirit-stirring manifesto to the inhabitants of Upper
Italy, in which ho calls on them to "reject with hor-
ror the yoke of foreign domination (viz. the French),
to rally for freedom, and to recover, by their united
efforts, independent nationality and native govern-
ment."
Cosstaulrie nattone 'Wert ed ludenendents
Such was the language of this Hibernian Dalgetty
when he wanted to cajole the natives in helping to
pull down Napoleon, but with characteristic disregard
of good faith and consistency he now comes down as
a hired bludgeonman to crush the nationality he had
then proclaimed. To him, as a comlattiere, are the
lines of Dante applii d :
E vendutu ad us duet renduto,
Con lot owns, e non chlede pen he.
The gratuitous profanation of the churches of
Mantua, held in most sacred veneration, has roused,
in Rome and Italy, a spirit of intense resentment.
" What! shall the altar round which men of God
ministered the awful rites, and hymns and incense
rem to the throne of the Deity, be desecrated by the
brutality of smoking drunkards and the foul blasphe-
mies of infidel Croats, and the beastly fumes of their
barbarian cookery ?"
Cardinal Oppizzoni, archbishop of Bologna, has
ordered the prayer for the Emperor to be removed
from the ritual throughout the districts on both sides
of the I'o. " lie might save himself the trouble," is
the popular remark, " for the Almighty has long
turned a deaf ear to prnyera of that description."

dard-bearer of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms. Both
officers were preNnted to her Msjesty by their captain, Lord
Foley.

A cabinet council was held on Saturday, at the
Foreign-office. The miaisters present were Lord John
Rowell, the ?ductile of Lansdowne, Sir 0. Orey, Vieoount
Palmerston, Bari Grey, the Chancellor of the Bschequer,
the Earl of Auckland, Sir J. Rebhan*, the Right Hon. H.
L.ibotichere, Lord Campbell, the Marquis of Clastricarde, and
Viscount Morpetb. The cnowil at three hours.

ARRIVAL OP PRINCE FREDERIC WILLIAM OP HERE!,
—Prince Frederic William of Belie, eldest ion of the Land.
grave William of Reese and the Princess Charlotte of Den •
mark, sister of the ln.e King of Denmark, arrived in London
on S sturday Germany, and is staying with the Duke
and Duchess of Cmnlwidge, at Cambridgehome, the prince
being nephew to ha royal highness. The visit of the prince
may be considered of some import at the present mment
from lain royal highness bring heir in perspective of thecrown
of Denmark, his lamer being the heir presumptive to that
throne.