The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-25 00:00:00

closed, and business suspended. The Austrians drew
op before a small body of pontifical volunteers,
Which occupied the Palace do Lt Ragione, and
threatened to take the post by assault. The few
soldiers in the place retired from it in good order,
and proceeded to the palace of the cardinal legate.
Reinforcements were constantly arriving in the
citadeL The frontier bristled with troops. The
guard of the palace of the legate was confided to the
pontifical volunteers, and that of the prisons to the
civic guard. The papal troops were driven from
every other post, and the Austrian soldiers took
their place.
The 'Milano, a Bolognese journal, in publishing
the protest of the cardinal legate, says that too much
praise cannot be given to the people of Ferrara for
the exemplary prudence and forbearance they have
displayed under such provocation, waiting with con-
fidence, like the rest of the people of the papal states,
the orders of Pius IX. "We are all united," says
that journal, "to the sovereign pontiff and his
government. The will of Pius IX. is the will of
Ood !"

The publication of the protest of Cardinal Ciacchi
at Rome, with the approbation given to it by the
Pope, produced in that city the utmost exasperation.
The protest was immediately printed, and sold in tens
of thousands by hawkers through the streets. In a
supplement, publiabed on the oocasion by the
Cotemporaneo, that journal says, "We need not
praise this document. It needs no comment. The
iatalligsees of Ow fellew-citisans will
' thirptafrirdthoomellklln we can toildarto
the praise which all Rome gives to Cardinal Ciacchi,
who has known how, by an act of firmness and dig-
nity, to defend the inviolable rights of the sovereign
and the pontifical states. Glory to the legate ! Glory
to the Secretary of State who identifies himself so
well with the prince ! Immortal glory to Pine IX.,
to whom the state will owe its independence !"
So long as it was possible, with any pretension to
decency, to affect to disbelieve the reported proceed-
ings of Austria in the north of Italy, the journal
of Louia Philippe and M. Guizot did so, first rejecting
the reports as absolute fictions ; next treating
them as monstrous exaggerations, and finally
declaring that it was necessary to wait for
their confirmation. Now that the confirmation
has arrived, the Debate writes a sermon addressed to
the Italian liberals, exhorting them to be quiet and
submissive ; and to the other powers of Europe,
urging the expediency of leaving the dispute to be
settled ri tamable between government and govern-
ment. The writers of the Journal des Debate must
form a curious estimate of the understanding of their
readers.

The Nuremberg correspondent of the 19th gives a
letter from Rome dated the 10th, in which it is
affirmed that on the Bth two individuals were arrested,
who acknowledged that before leaving Fabriano they
had been confessed and absolved, and that they had
started for Rome, supplied with twenty smug each, to
assassinate Cicerouechio and a high functionary of
state. We have received the Roman journals to the
14th, which make no allusion to such a circumstance.
The same journal gives, ander the same date, that
the judge of Cosenza, in Calabria, on whom the popu-
, lace desired to take vengeance for having condemned
Ito death the brothers Bandiers, was tied upon an ass,
and, after being thus driven round the town, was
flayed afire!