The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-30 00:00:00

LOMBARDY.

The visit of the Austrian Minister of the Interior,
Baron yen Bach, to Milan, was attended with some
remarkable incidents. The respectable part of the
Italian inhabitants of Lombardy abstained, almost
without exception, from waiting upon him end offer-
ing him any compliment. He might thus
infer the kind of reception which would be
given to Ms Imperial muter, in tt the Lombardo-Vene-
tian kingdom," since, according to the Constilutionnel,
to ascertain that was one object for which the minis-
ter was sent there. Baron von Bach, besides going
to confer with Marshal Radetsky at Moose, went to
inspect the college of Lombard youth at Longona.
One of the scholars had been previously tutored to
learn by rote a long eulogistic speech in the French
language, (since the Baron was obliged, himself, to
apologise at Milan for his ignorance of Italian,
and it is not very easy, as yet, to oom-
pel the Italian boys to speak German,)
and it was intended that the speech should be recited
by this lad, in honour of the Austrian minister. But
when a rehearsal of it took place, before the superiors
of the college, they were horrified to hear the little
fellow interpolate in their set phrases of adulation a
few honest words of patriotism, which were
not at all suited to the Baron's ears polite.
The boy wee punished, and, es there was
not time to instruct another boy in the
hypocritical psrformanee, the speech was not deli-
vered at all. A little girl, at the young ladies' hied-
tutioo of San Filippo, behaved more boldly still. She
too had been compelled against her will to recite a
complimentary address to the representative of her
country's oppressor. The baron, after the ceremony,
went up to the poor child, thanked her, and pressed
her by the hand. Her feminine spirit was roused ;
she abruptly hastened sway, and washed her hands,
to cleanse them from his touch.

SPAIN.

CllOll A lIPICI/iL

MADRID, AyOyes 28.

The Marquis de Talsnernige, the only member of
the Constitsent Cortes who spoke against the resolu-
tion of censure passed upon the O'Donnell Cabinet
at the last sitting of the Cortes, on the 14th of
July, his just received the appointment of a Gentle-
, man Orem of the Chambers, and the Queen has
presented him with a golden key of the richest
workmanship, and ornamented with diamonds. This
farmer, which the reactionary party have long
solicited on behalf of the Marquis, had been held
back by the cabinet, so long u it was thought de-
sirable to keep terms with the moderate Progress-
ista. This appointment of Tabuerniga is a new proof
of the determination of O'Donnell and Rios Roma
to go on boldly in the course of reaction. Hence,
tea, the government shows itself still more savers than
formerly upon the press. The Discwasiono has been
seized for two days faowing ; the Lion Espanol
war prohibited yesterday, and the other jouraela
refrain from publishing leading articles. O'Donnell
and Roses thus keep us still in the state of siege, until
the convocation of the new Cortes, which is announced
for December next. They will cause the provisional
election of the municipalities to be continued, until
that time, in conformity with the law which was
voted by the Constituent Cortes. It is said that there
has been some discussion in the Cabinet upon this
matter; some wishing to apply the law of 1847,
and others that of 1837, whilst there are others again
who propose not to proceed to elections of any kind,
but to have the ajettstanzientoo nominated directly by
the mown.

TM food question does not now propent so mush
difisulty. The fa fa the pia of corn is paoraL
Msautiess, it certain provinces, the wusioipatitias are

taking mamma to overcome the dramas of the
holden of grain' and in Old Castile, at Valladolid,
whom them are the richest dialers and large stocks
of *ors, the munielpality, is order to form them to
sell, osmoses that it will buy up, at 62 reels the
%wags, all ascent which say be offered is the mar.
kat. This Immure had not, at the date of the blast
sews, produced the results which were expected.

The most serious question now is the deplorable
situation of the treasury. In the provinces the go-
vernment has been obliged to grant delays to the
proprietors who could not pay their taxes. At Ca.
awes the distress is so general that the governor ham
published a decree to suspend, until the let of April,
the payment of the arrears of their contributions due
from the agriculturists.

The Basque provinces are in a state of agitation
which promises to give nnmerous recruits to the
Carlist faction. The principal journal in Biscay
informs us Wiley that the national assemblies,
(which comprise nearly all the inhabitants),
the provincial deputies, and the juntas, have
protested against the application of the law of the lit
of May (the law for the Vsamortisation of ecclesias-
tical property) to the BsNue provinces. "This law,
observes the journal I have named, " violates our
ifueros, and it is to ba hopcd that the government

will not penist in applying it." Resistance
in that nee is threatened, even going so far as a
separation from the kingdom. Public opinion in
Biscay must have been manifested very strongly in
the same direction, before thin journal could venture
to publish such an article. The affair in extremely
merlons.