The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-06 00:00:00

ROME.

A letter from Rome, in the Journal de Bruxelles,
says :
The Pope is said to have the intention of sending the
ha* and sword, blessed each year, an is the custom, before
the Christmas mar, to the Emperor of Menne. His
Hellas. is also likely to present the Emotess Charlotte
with a golds. rape in February.
A letter from Rome, of the Slat ult., in the
Debate, says :
I am assured positively that the National Committee,
after long disenesices, hes decided that the Roma people
should take part in the amusements of the carnival.
Yea mar, perhaps, think it strange that serious men should
deliberate on ao futile a matter, but that is owing to
your not taking Into full amount the importance which is
here attaohed to the carnival. It it is not only en amuse.
meet which affords delight to the Romeo people, bet It le
aka a mamma gaining money. Many poor people find in It
• temporary alleviation of their misery, and a eamber of
private families reckon on it ea the means of letting their
apartineate, their Woollies, and their windows. If that were
sot the cam do yon think that the Popes would have
always authorised these profane amusements and disorderly
rejoicings, which often degenerate into greet limetiouesees?
The carnival, I do not hesitate to say, is at Brune quite as
institution. The morillae which the Romans have imposed
on themselves by renouncing it for several years is not a
killing one, and the committee, desiring ant to make any
opposition to the government, has done well to mesh-
WM it.

STATE OF THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
The following letters from Corfu and Zante are
from the Malta journals

Oaf a, Doe. 19.

Re have mined bad mews from &eta Political parties
are being raaged against each ether, and, instead of 411.31111•
deg differences in a peacetsl meaner, are having recourse to
the knits. Disturbances have ocounred, and several young
thee have been wounded. Most of the old employes have
been changed. Disturtheses took place at the Peet-offthe
last Tuesday ; two rhinos hair* bees appointed uthetante
in the Part-ofithe, and it being a busy day, with five steamers
in port, Mr. °etagere, the director, could not get on with hi
two new amistaate. The public became impatient at the ins-
enteritis and delay, sad threaterad to smash the pod-ollas
doors and wiadows, bat Mr. Odom% came out and calmed
them. When the people outside cheered him and lowed the
new assistants he begea to cry. Order wee restored by the
Regent, who arrived with the municipality, and ordered the
old miasma; to be reinstated until instructions an re-
ceived from Athens. The most amusing put of the affair
was that all letters appearing for one nerve—thrh es Bel-
Mordo, and others, were given, without reference to
the initials, to the first applicants with those surnames.

Merchants who hare finks! to ooneiderable amanita ere
walking about as if nothing bad happened. Rents sad
other profits are net forthcoming, and mortgages are plen-
tiful and ransoms. A Greek officer shot himself in his room
hit evening ; he wee unsound in mind. A grand military
funeral party attended his remains to the cemetery. Our
clergymen has not yet attired, but we expect b• will be
here before the 31st of December.

Zeno, D.C. 17.

Bore we are in • state of perfect •earthy. Homicides
and &MOW are almost of daily occurrence. A few days
ago au armada, in • public part of the town, and in open
day, stabbed with • stiletto, from motives of private re-
venge, an unfortunate &pilot sailor, killing him on the
spot, and afterwards triumphantly paraded the streets
with the mardecoes weapon in his baud. Subsequently
another horrid spectacle wee exhibited to public pie.
Two political satagonistio parties, armed with pistols
•ad keine, mat at mid-day in one of the most freqaented
streets, and in a deadly 000flict which ensued three of the
combatants were mortally wounded. In the attack one of
the men had his left hand severed with • blow of a
yatagh•n, and the bleeding limb wee carried in procession
through the streets. The greatest alarm prevailed
during the rest of the day lest the oondict should be re-
newed. The mutilated man, covered, besidse, with bullet-
wounds and stabs, and who, it appears, did not belong
to the local government party, gave himself up is the after-
noon to the executive polies, and while getting into a
carriage, in the presence of • number of constables and •
large crowd of people, for the panicles of being taken off
to prime, another fellow came forward and fired a pistol at
him, wounding him in the thigh. The same shot struck a
oonstable and an unlucky goldsmith who happened to be
passing at the time. Neither the local government nor
the executive polio. have taken any steps to make any
arrests, as they use these miscreants to serve their own
ends. Every day lamas not belonging to the government
party, and even well-to-do people, are assaulted and
treated, and no oee can tell how matters will end. This is
a lameatable state of affairs, consequent on the law of
British protection, but I can enure you that the facts here
related are in no way exaggerated. No remedy can be ex-
' peeled from the present Greek govinomenti which appears
' to be totally paralysed.

(azurzies ?MORAN& )
FRANCE.
THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL.
PARIS, JAL 8.
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The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The
last portion of the Pope's Encyclical letter will
be published throughout the empire in the
ordinary form. This portion is received without
any approbation, in consequence of the clauses,
formulae, and expressions it contains, and which
are or might be contrary to the law of the
empire as well as to the liberties, franchise, and
maxims of the Gallic church."