The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-01 00:00:00

the ministers were not spared in this production, and
opinions were expressed of persons and things in a
way as little reepectful to the Queen as flattering to
the government. It appears, adds the Biro, that
copies of this letter were sent from France to divers pro-
gresistas. I havenot," says our Madrid correspondent,
been able to meet with a copy of this document, but
I hear that it is a most scandalous composition, and
very insulting to the Queen." The Expectador im-
putes its dissemination to a rooted French design to
outrage the Queen as much as possible, and pave the
way for the accession of the Montpensiers. The
Faro attributes the scandalous issue of the negotia-
tions with the Pardo to a premeditated design on the
part of the minister who conducted them to bring
about the same result
A communication from Bayonne states that one of
the aides-de-camp of Narvaez arrived in that town on
the 25th, having missed his chief, who had departed
for Madrid the day before. He was quite surprised
to find that a general rising had not taken place in
the Basque provinces, in favour of whom he did not
say.

We have received the journals from several parts of
Italy, but none of more recent dates than those of the
admen we have already given. Nevertheless, these
papers will be found interesting, as indicating the
spirit which prevails in Italy, and the tolerance which
is shown towards its expression by the censorship.
The A/I),J, Florencejournal, has the following :
If war were to easue, which appears to us impossible, to
40,000 or 50,000 Austrians Pius IX. might oppose more than
400,000 men, animated by religion and liberty, the two most
powerful affections that create martyrs and heroes. The
question would not be here of putting down a band of in-
surgents, as in 1831, but civic troops and organised militia,
with cannons, arms, in fine, all the moral and mate-
rial means of which a constituted government can dis-
pose. If the destiny of arms should declare itself
(as is probable) in favour of right and numbers, what would
be the future of Austria in Italy ? And if England and
France (as is probable) were ta give, as they have solemnly
promised, through Palmerston and Guizot, their moral sup-
port to the pontiff, what doubt would remain of the event ?
The Austrian intervention in itself has not the semblance of
right, nor the most distant probability of success. Such an
intervention is a mere bugbear to frighten children: It
' would be (we may say with Talleyrand) worse than a cried
—an error. Austria unites a number of troops in her Italian
provinces, reinforces Comachio, and doubles the garrison of
Ferrara; but these provisions, if we are not mistaken, indicate
more the defensive than the oflensive, and we do ad
' believe they can issue in manifest aggression whilst good ac-
cord continues between the pontiff and his subjects. We
should consider it offending the good sense of the statesmen
of Austria to believe them capable of thus blindly rushing
into a war, of which the beginning may, but the end cannot
be foreseen, of which the consequences cannot possibly be
calculated. The firing of one cannon in Italy would set
Europe in flames, and Europe desires peace ; it would com-
promise the state quo which the European governments de-
sire at all costs to maintain ; it would accelerate events
which the prudence of Austria will take every pains to
retard.
The Italia, a journal published at Pisa, says:
Our thoughts are fixed on Ferrara! There, where yet
resound the echoes of the songs of Ludovico and Torquato,
a stranger force has trampled upon sacred international
rights, has despised the protests of the most august sove-
reignty on earth, and insidiously provoked a pacific popula-
tion. The Italian heart beats more quickly, the Italian
blood flows more violently in our veins, but the love of coun-
try imposes an heroic imperturbability. Those who desire us
evil would be satisfied in seeing us impelled to infatuate acts
of violence. These are the days of solemn preparation.
United in the name of God and of Italy, let all, governing
and governed, people and militia noble and plebeian, be
prepared to suffer everything, ani spare nothing to defend
our sacred rights, to prove ourselves worthy the affection
of which new testimonies are given us every day by sister
nations.

The Roman Advertiser has the following :
FERRARA, Au°. Is.—The instruction given to the AU-
trian guard is, that the Ferrarese should be required not to
walk at less than 40 paces distant from each sentinel: at the
four gates of the city no one is admitted to enter at night,
without submitting to a personal examination made in the
midst of four soldiers with fusils levelled. It seems that the
military desire to provoke the citizens in order to have a pre-
text for acts of violence, which may not be distant unless the
pontific rights are protected.
The Nuremberg Chronicle of the 26th, under the
date of Rome, 17th instant, says that immediately on
the arrival of the news of the occupation of Ferrara,
and the protest of Cardinal Ciacchi, the Austrian am-
bassador had an audience of the Pope. The ambas-
sador of France was received by his Holiness imme-
diately afterwards, and soon after a courier left the
French embassy for Paris.
The Union Mono rehigue of Monday says :
The following intelligence reaches us from a certain source.
The English cabinet has just sent an order to the lonian
Islands to prepare an expedition for Italy. Two regiments
will be immediatel7 conveyed to Ancona. Lord Palmer,.
ton has given notice of this resolution to the cabinet of
Vienna. The real motives of this resolution are these
Lord Palmerston became acquainted with an understanding
between France and Austria; he knew that the cabinet of
Vienna had assured itself of the perfect neutrality of the
cabinet of the Tuileries on the Italian question at the mo-
ment at which England pressed Austria to make common
cause with her in a protest against the marriage of the Duke
de Montpensier. By this bold proceeding, which obliges
Austria to stop, Lord Palmerston effects two objects at the
same time—that of making Austria abandon the policy of
temporisation with respect to Spain, and of obliging France
to make a demonstration. Louis-Philippe and M. Gnizot
have returned to Paris to occupy themselves with this grave
affair. The council is to assemble to-day. England hu not
waited for events; she has foreseen them; she acts. The
following words have been said in a lofty region, " It is now
evident that Lord Palmerston labours for war : he is an evil
genius who will put Europe in flames."

MALTA, Ana. 22.
Some movements have taken place since I wrote
last amongst the men of war. Immediately after the arrival
of the P. and 0. C. steamer Sultan, which made a beautiful
run of a little more than four days from Gibraltar, the
Locust steamer started for Athens, with important despatches
for Sir Edmund Lyons. She did not even wait, as usual,
for the arrival of the overland mail. The Sultan brought
our collector of land revenue, Sir Vincent Casolani, who left
here on 6th June last, by order, as rumoured, of the Colo-
nial-office, to give explanations of certain affairs connected
with the appointment of Bishop Sant as coadjutor to Bishop
Careen". He has returned a wiser, if net a better, man,
for he declares that had he never seen London he never
would have believed one-half that can be said of it.
The Sultan started on the 14th for Constantinople.
On the 15th the French steam-corvette Le Titan
arrived from Athens and Napoli di Romania. She
left again for Toulon on the 17th. The Ariel
sailed on the 15th for Alexandria with twenty-three
=gen. The Volcano sailed also on the same day for the
Islands and Patras. On the 16th the Ripon arrived
from Alexandria with forty passengers; she left the same
evening for Gibraltar. H.M. st. Ardent left at noon, on
16th, with overland mails, rid Marseilles. On the 17th, the
French steam frigate Magellan left for Tunis, taking with
her the French consul at Malta, M. Poujade. H.M. steamer
Hecla left also for Tanis on the 18th, with despatches for
Sir Thomas Rude, and as some say, to watch the actions of
the French steamer Magellan, The French strew steamer
Piogouin has refitted here, and proceeded on the 20th to
Tripoli. French intrigue is evidently at work on the Barbary
shore. French steamers are constantly running between
Tunis and Toulon, and Tripoli and Tunis. A merchant
steamer, the Scotia, commenced running between Malta and
Tunis on the 21st. She will make three trips per month.
This will be very advantageous for the commerce of the
Island. The account I gave you of the strange pro-
ceedings of the health office in Sicily, placing goods
from Malta in quarantine, and giving pratique to
the ship, crew, and passengers, have occasioned the issue of
the following notice from the company's agent in Malta
" The measures lately taken by the health officer of
the kingdom of the Two Sicilia are so rigorous, that
the bales shipped in Malta, although in free pratique,
are placed in quarantine ; tke administration has taken a
resolution not to receive any kind of goods until more
moderate measures, and such as are consentaneous to the
spirit of commerce, are adopted by the chief magistrate of
public health.
Can absurdity go further than this ? It is virtually a
prohibition of trade, committed it is said, to prevent the im-
portation of arms and ammunition? Surely, the Custom-
houee officers can distinguish between a bale of cotton and a
ease of muskets. It is done at the suggestion of France to
benefit her trade, for whilst Malta is now de facto,
shut out from Sicily, vessels from Marseilles will
enter and supply what is required. If it be net imme-
diately put an end to, the Malta trade is ruined.
H.M.S. Hetla returned from Tunis on the evening of the
20th. She only remained there three hours, just sufficient
time to deliver her despatches, and receive a letter from Sir
Thomas Reads. A French line-of-battle ship and three
steamon were lying there. M. Poujade, the French consul
here, who went to Tunis in the Magellan steam-frigate, was
to have returned in the Hecla, but did not. By the Neapo-
Ilitan steamer, on the 22nd, there are account' from Calabria.
The rebellion increaser. The principal force consists of a
thou.-- ' have been sent from
men, yr,. -s
i.lnes to attack them. In two or three en,gagem:...-."1":4-
diem had been worsted. It is said that the judge who con-
demned the brothers Bendier& to death has loeen killed. A
party in Naples presented a petition to the King upon
wants of the country : it was immediately rejected. The
nobility in Sicily have protested in the name of the people,
demanding the fulfilment of the promise made to them in
1815 by Ferdinand, to restore to them the ancient constitu-
tion of 1812, with ameliorations.

FRANCE: SUICIDE IN FARIE,-011 Satoxdsty
morning, says an evenieg journal, Count Alfred de Montes-
quieu, officer of the legion of honour, the husband of a rich
American lady, and the father of seven or eight children,
was found dead in his bed-room at the hotel Montesquieu,
in the Rae Monsieur, from a stab by a poniard iu the heart.
The often of justice immediately commenced an investiga-
tion, which ended in a conviction that the count had com-
mitted suicide. The deceased, who was about 43 yeas* of