The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-04 00:00:00

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The kam to the
27_ —_ of the
hfsrt national importance. .in the Gazette
ea do s6th and 27th, the effect. of which would ap-
jeer I* had to a complete fiscal reform. The
ONO alibis decree's are :—l. A large reduction of
AO ee tobacco preparatory to a complete &hell.
dal of that monopoly. 2. The establishment of
hook esporities for the punctual payment of the inte•
reit of public debt. 3. The oak of the remainder
of the property• of the secular clergy ; and, 4, the
sale of the municipal property. If any proof were de-
sired to demonstrate to whata depth ofpublic contempt
the government has fallen, a more striking one could
not be given than the fact that the promulgation of
these most important financial measures bad not the
effect of raising the funds by the smallest fraction of
a centime. The Threes closed at 26, exactly the same
as the preceding days.
The journals contain no other news of much public
importance. Private letters (proceeding from the
moderado party) say that Colonel Gurrea,the aide-de-
camp of Espartero, and the bearer of the letter of the
ex-regent, had a private audience of the Queen, at
which her Majesty listened with coldness to an ad-
dress which he spoke, which was scarcely concluded
when she rose with vivacity and withdrew without
uttering a single word in answer. These letters re-
sles:irtit the progress'sta party to be so divided that
ero would find it difficult to exert any useful
• uence over it.

A large mass of journals and correspondence has
arrived from Italy. Letters from Rome to the 24th
ult., are received. The Prince of Canino was put
under arrest in that city on the 23rd. The prince had
arrived in Rome a few days previously from Venice,
having been conductedto the pontifical frontier by an
escort :Austrian Dragoons. His present arrest has
bee by a charge-arising out Of the proceed
ingNrehed 7th and Bth Sept, which we have already
reported. Advices received in Rome from Naples re-
port that the royal troops had been•worsted by the
insurgents at Campo-Basso, in Calabria, where 200
were killed or wounded. Cardinal Serra-Cassano,
Archbishop of Capua, had arrived in Rome from
Naples on a mission to the Pope, the object of
which was reported to be to induce his holiness to
issue an apostolic letter enjoining obedience to
the government on the population of the kingdom of
the Two Sicilies. It was said that the pontiff replied
that he would comply with this demand on the con-
dition
that the King of Naples should previously
grant a general amnesty, and adopt the same system
of reforms as had been resolved on in the states of the
church.
A correspondent of the .Vmaohore, writing from
Rome on the 23rd, says that the greatest anxiety
prevailed there in consequence of the anpouncement
of the wish of Cardinal Ferretti to retire from the
ministry. Although Cardinal Amat, Legate of Bo-
logna, had, it was said, been offered the post of secre-
tary of state, the friends of progress were not alto-
gether without hopes of persuading Cardinal Ferretti
to remain in office. A ministerial crisis at Rome at
the present moment was regarded as a most critical ,
event. The utmost tranquillity, however, prevailed
in the capital and the provinces.
A treaty of commerce favourable to the coasting
trade was in negotiation with Naples. A similar ar-
rangement had been already made with Tuscany and
Sardinia.
His Holiness had signified his intention of abolish-
ing capital punishment for various classes of crimes
for which it is now inflicted.
Accounts from Naples to the 24th say, that the at-
tention of the government is distracted between the
brigands and the insurgents. Negotiations with the
former are conducted in the manner usual between
hostile armies. Truces) and armistices are agreed on,
and personal conferences have even taken place be-
tween the royalist general and the leaders of the
brigands, each pledging themselves to the safety of
the other. With the insurgents the conflict is one of
mutual extermination, no quarter being given nor
exchange of prisoners allowed by the royalists, and
consequeotly none by the insurgents.
Accounts from Sicily say that Syracuse, Catena,
and Melazzo, were in the hands of the insurgents,
including the fortress or citadel of the last city. The
army had suffered great losses, which were avenged
by the execution of twenty persons per day
charged with insurrection or suspected of disaffection.
A royal ordonnance published at Naples ordered that
all vessels of commerce, including steamers, must hold
'hemselves ready at the disposition of the government

to be used as transports.
The government uses its power not only to stop the
circulation of intelligence, but makes its Journal the
vehicle for the circulation of falsehoods calculated to
intimidate the population. Thus it published that
Romeo, the well-known chief of the insurgents, had
been shot. The person executed was a nephew of the
chief.
The insurgents of Calabria assume the name of
reformists, and have raised the Guelpliic flag, a red cross
on a white field. Their cockade is the Italian tri-
o color, green, white, and red. In all places they
reduce the price of salt, and increase that of tobaxo.
Letters from Modena say that an invasion by the
troops of Austria was hourly expftted. The barrier
of the duchy erected on the bridge of the Po at Brea.
cello had been removed to facilitate their . On
the 12th, the most impudent attempts h been made
to provoke a general explosion, so as to afford a pre-
text for an incursion of the Austrians. The carbimers
overran the town, entering the shops, insulting the
people, and wounded several passengers in the streets.
The provincial council of Bologna have voted a sum
equivelent to 1,300/. to aid in arming the national
guard of that province. Advice, from Verona say that
troops, including cavalry and infantry, amountiv tin
16,000, had arrived in that city to reinforce the Lola-
bardo-Venetian army.
-The Augsburg Gazette, under the date of Rome,
Sept. 13, says that " a hymn had been composed to
celebrate the success of the insurgents in Sicily, and
was to have been sung publicly in the gardens of the
Villa Borghese, and that a crisis was athsnd, for that
the old pontifical volunteers had refused to oomply
with the order of the government to give up their
arms, and that in the province of Ascali the cea.l
turbos had assumed a menacing attitude." We have,'
as above stated, direct advices from Rome twelve days
later than this, which are altogether silent on such
events. There is little doubt that they are ground-
less
fabrications of Austrian agents.
A Piedmontese ship of war bad sailed for Civita
Vecchia, with orders to lie at anchor there, subject to
the orders of the Sardinian minister at Rome.
Letters from various parts of the Lombardo-Vene-
tian tartan speak of movements of large bodies of
troops towards the frontiers.
Since wirg the above we have received the
Nowa/404 a Marseilles paper, whisk contains the
following letter from Naples, dated so recently as the
26th ult.:
▪ la ay letter of the 23rd I informed you that the insurrec-
tisa was erestantly making progress, but at present I can
WRITS yea that in Puglia, particiduly, it has a vary serious
aspe ct. At Messina the government arrested M. Grano,
one of the mast respectable pawns of the city by his birth
and talents. At Malan° M. Pinks one of the richest men
of the country, has also been arested. Persons who
live in the neighbourhood of the Chateau of St.
Flak assert that for some days past they hays heard
fasillmies, which leads to a supposition that executions
base taken place in that fortress. General Statella, who has
the Musinand of the troops sent to Calabria, has just repre-
mafied to the King that in all the places through which he
hand the people very devoted to -his Majesty,
bat legligled against. ths abuses of the authorities, and
the gendarmerie. lie has denounced M. Sal-
ami. gas Ai the principal officers of that force, as having been
gulag Oran cruelty. This officer has been impended, and
ie tale bansia to trial. The King, by a telegraphic des.
pink has suopesded the execution of several persons who
la him kb filo hands of the royal troops, and revoked the
lesitniss efesero.martisl. The King is constantly en-
reastagggsnoes with the Minister Pietracatella, and it
thee the object of them is the promulgation of
aseftil reforms.

The Gazzettt di Firenze publishes a decree of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany, dated 24th ult., ordering the
immediate armament of the civic guard, and naming
the officers destined to command it.

Advices have arrived from various parts of the Me-
diterranean by the Levant mail, with lettere from our
torreeporidents of the dates, Athens, 20th, and Con-
stantinople, 17th ult. The funeral of M. Coletti was
conducted with the utmost pomp in the presence of
50,000 people. The journals say that the whole po-
pulation of Attica came to Athens to witness the so-
lemnity. A royal ordonnanoe prescribed a national
mourning of five days. The news previously received
of the appointment of General Teavellas, Minister of
War, to the office of President of the Council, are con-
firmed. M. Glarakis, Minister of Public Instruction,
holds the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. Thus itappears
that no new name had been as yet introduced into