The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-07 00:00:00

ROMAN STATES.

Our Roman correspondent states, in his letter of
the 28th, that the government, viewing with alarm
the fierceness with which the French and the Romans
pelted each other with missiles, which passed for
sugar-plums during the first days of the carnival, in-
tended to prohibit the " moccoletti" on the last day.
A French sergeant had been stabbed and flung out
of window. Prince del Drago had been created
senator. A republican demonstration had taken
place at Tcrni, in consequence of which that town
was occupied by the Austrians. The brigands con-
tinued their raids.

LANDING IN LIVERPOOL OF HUNGARIAN

REF CGEES.

OnWedneloday, at 1 o'clock, the Sardinian brig Arpin,
Captain flartholetto (whose arrival in the Mersey, with
Hungarian refugees, we announced in that day's Express),
entered the Queen's Dock, Liverpool. The Arpia is from Con-
stantinople direct, and the expenses of the vessel thence to
this port will be defrayed by the Ottoman treasury, it having
been arranged with the authorities of Liverpool that the
whole of the refugees, who are 262 in number, should find
a hospitable reception there, and be provided with the
111(.0.114 of joining their brethren in the United States at us
early a period as possible. So great was the interest at-
tached to the arrival of this band of brave hut
unfortunate men that as early as ten o'clock considerable
numbers were attracted to the shores of the Mersey eager
to obtain a sight of these emigrant refugees ; and when, at
the hour above named, the Arpia entered the dock there
was a general expression of mingled welcome and sympathy
among the many hundreds assembled. The sleek of the
vessel was covered with the refugees in their various cos-
tunics, some wearing the square red cap of llungary,
others the undress Italian blouses, and others the significant
Polish fez. Among them are men of distinction, as regards
both rank in their respective countries and position in the
army of which they form a remnant. Some line
intelligent men, some mere striplings, whom the
beholder would scarcely deem old enough to have
been soldier', far less to have undergone the
perils of an internecine war, and eighteen months
captivity in a strange land. Although the vessel is but a
small brig, there has been no loss of life on the voyage,
and comparatively little sickness. The refugees speak in
high terms of the attentions they have received both from
the Turkish authorities during their captivity and from
the commander of the vessel during her voyage from Con-
stantinople to Liverpool. Orders had been given by the
authorities here that no person except the customs officers
and those who will have the future charge of the emi-
grants should be permitted to go on board the
Arpia until their diwmbarcation. Owing, however,
to the courtesy of Mr. Sabel!, of the emigrants'
home in Moortields, to whom is confided the rare
of these men until their passage can be secured
to the United States, our reporter was enabled to
authenticate many interesting particulars in connexion with
the arrival of these very poor but unfortunate claimants
upon English help and sympathy. It may be recollected
that whim, in August 1849, the brave Kossuth retired from
the command of the Hungarians, he took measures to secure
a retreat into Turkey of the l'olish and Italian legions, who
would otherwise have expiated their crime of revolt, like
so many others, either on the scaffold or by endless slavery
in Siberia. The Russian government having demanded
the delivery of its subjects who had sought refuge in Tur-
key, and the Sultan having, at the suggestion and by the
advice of the English minister, refused to comply, negotia-
tions were for some months carried on between those
two powers, during which it was feared that the
refugees would eventually be sacrificed. However,
an arrangement was eventually come to, by which
the Poles were to be confined in Koniatt, and
the other refugees to be permitted to quit Turkey for the
United States. Upon the arrival in New York of one por-
tion, whither tie present men are about to proceed to join
them, General Taylor, while sympathising with them in
their struggle for constitutional freedom, and in the cala-
mities which had befallen their unhappy land, offered them,
in the name of the citizens of the United States, protection
and a second " home. " A public ball is already determined
on at Liverpool, to aid in the raisingof a fund for their emi-
gration, and a subscription will be announced in the course
of the present week for the same laudable purpose. Many
men of the highest local influence and commercial standing
have interested themselves on behalf of the re-
fugees, and, judging by the preparations which
we witnessed at the Emigrant's Home, in Moor-
fields, under the direction of Mr. Sebell, we cannot doubt
that these poor fellows will have just cause to be grateful
for English hospitality. Some hours' delay took place in
the passing at the Custom-house, each man having in his
possession a few ounces of tobacco, which, insignificant
enough in detail, amounted in the aggregate to more than
2 cwt., which the collector and authentic& hail no power to
pass. At a quarter past four, however, they were received
at their temporary home, where an excellent and substan-
tial dinner had been prepared for them. Among the offi-
cers are General Szeredy, the leader of the Vienna Zringi
Legion, Major Wallinski, Capt. Zsabitzky, Lieut. Sipes,
&c. Not one man was absent, on the last being called,
from indisposition, speaking volumes for the attention be-
stowed on them during the voyage.

OPPOSITION TO TUE HOUSE AND INCOME TAX.—
Yesterday evening, a numerous and influential meeting of
the inhabitant ratepayers of the parish of St. James,
ClerkenweU, in pursuance of a requisition to the church-
wardens, wss held in the vestry-room of the church, "to
take into almideration the propriety of petitioning par-
liament against any tax on houses, in lieu of the tax on
windows; also against any new tax, in the prosperous
financial state of the country. Also to consider and deter-
mine upon the propriety of opposing a renewal of the
income-tax." Resolutions in accordance with the object of
the meeting were passed unanimously, and a petition to the
House of Commons against those taxes was adopted.