The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—The following, from the
NouseMate of Maneles, of the 9th inst., is the latest
news received from Rome :

The Tancrsde,paucet of toe Malta line, earns to an anchor
yesterday at noon to our roadstead, after bevies/ put in at
Melts Vecchia, which else left on the 6.b. At the moment of
her leaving that port no new official details had reached
the town from bradsgearten. On the 4th, in the afternoon,
our army, wbiev still occupied the positions which it had the.
day before taken tym the enemy, had recommenced the
attack, which was still going on when the Tanerwie left
Clefts Vecchia. There was much determination exhibited

by the enemy, u their retreat would SJOD be no looter pos.
sib's. On our side, °moral Oudinot was still acing with
much consideration for the city, which he could reduce in a
taw ibstants, if he used all the means of war at his disposal.
The positions which ,he occupies, the Monte Paten in we-
eder, re.dcr hint morally master of Rome. The Monte
Plinio had hem provided with three Base of formidable bar-
ricades; but the 26,1 t light infantry, having tamed them by
the heights, carried them with the bayonet. Upwards of
200 primmer' were made at this point. The effort" of the '
attack are principally directed on the Porta del Pdpolo'
were a battery of ai-ge is plead, distant at most MO metres.
About a hundred of our wounded men and a second detach-
ment of prisoners bays arrived at Civita Vecchia. Gariballi
is not at R sme, having been sent to Aeon& by the triumvirs.
B.one interiating :acts may be gleaned from the
following leVers of our correspoodoot, which, though
much earlier in dd.e and containing news anterior to
that already published, will repay perusal:
ROME, MAT St.

This morning the French struck their tents et
Acqua Traverse, on the Florence road, and transported
that camp to the heights of Monte Mario, where they
will enjoy a purer air and a more commanding post-
tion. Why this important eminence ehould have
been left unguarded is as yet a mystery, and the
majority of the Romans believe that they are their
own troops, u they wear red trowsers, lilts the
French.

The Padre Ventura's fantastical idea of combining ,
papal and republican pre.ensions in an " Apostolic
It as Republ.c " has met with universal ridicule, ,
and the Romans Gov that, although the French have
bean cover enough to set up an imperial and royal
republic, they tel quite unequal to fabricating an
apits•olic one.
The French have occupied the church of 84 Paul
beyond the walls, and fortified an eminence in the
Vigna Salvincci; reinforcements are continually ar-
riving, and heavy aq.llary is being brought up from
Cavite Vecchia. They negociate lied advance at the
same time.
Between seven and eight thousand men have been
sent to sucocur Ancona, now closely beseiged by the 1
Austrian., so that, were the French to make a bona
fide attack, they would find the garrison weakened.
Some changes are taking place in the war depart-
ment. d fiend Avezzana is gene to Anomie. The
Roman Legion, one of the best corps in the service, is
to be placed on a footng with the line (a measure
which tas disgured many of the legionaries), and
2,000 Pub a are to be enrolled in the service of the
r •puhlie, with the privilege of cho.sing their own
officers and r turning to their own country in case of
a revolution taking place there.
In the midst of the cares of war the fine arts are
not wholly abandoned, and 10,000 dollars have been
voted fir the the relief of sculptors and painters in
imed of employment. The former will execute the
statues of emit eat Italians, and the latter will make
copies of same master-pieces now dispersed,and badly
seen, in damp and dark churches. The celebrated
architt ct Cotina has presented a report on the da-
mages produced by the French canni n and musket
rioni in the Vatican galleries, library, museum, and
in the church of St. Peter, as well as the meats
adop:ed to prevent, as much as possible, ail injury
from a second attack.
The atrocities committed by the Austrians at Bo-
logna firm a painful contrast with the discipline of
the Frew h army. They artacked Ancona vigorously
on the 28th, both by sea and land, but hitheito the
cannon of the city appears to have had the advan-
tage. The lacsieAirg force is stated to amount to
12,000 men. •

ROME Ann 1.

At BAngna domiciliary visits and acts of
violence hive been adopted by the Austrian and
papal authorities. Foreigners have received orders
to quit the town within three days, and the Gregorian
s stem is being fully re-established in the legations,
under the tender mercies of Marshal Wimpffen and
the sacred auspices of Mom Bedini. An edict of the
latter, dated 26th of May, annuls all the acts of the
government since the flight of the Pope, suspends all
employis, and, in fact, reverses all the operations of
the rate from November last, without hinting at am.
nesty or rs cognising the paper currency, thus una-
voidably cau.tog misery, bankruptcy, and persecution.
The occupation of the legations and all the puts of
the Atriaitc must naturally tend to diminish British
commerce, end increase that of Austria ; and yet the
whole afia'r appears to be a matter of perfect and
unsccountablo indifference to the British govern-
ment.

The Press' says: " We were assured yesterday
that a new de•patoh from Rome announced to toe
'government that our troops had succeeded in entering
Rome, but that the population were defendiog them-
selves energetically, foot to foot, barricade after barri-
cade.
Letters from Anoons, quoted by this piper, state
the; the Austrians bad attempted a landing near the
Porta Trionfi, w ithout success, and that an Austrisn
corvette that had approached too near the battens'
had been an severely damaged that a steamer had been
obliged to take her in tow.