The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-09 00:00:00

of continental tuft-hunters, pays due homage
to their rank, and chronicles their obituary
and births after crowned-head fashion. There do not
exist in any country finer elements to constitute a
house of peers, and the red hats ought to think them-
selves lucky in getting a single bench to themselves,
in conjunction with se really powerful and prepon-
derating a landed aristocracy.
The committee of distinguished statesmen to whom
the Pope has confided the task of drawing up the pro-
ject ot constitutional govet nment, having made their
first report on Saturday, were erdered by his holiness
to meet from day to day, and to make no pause in
their labours.
A dog has been arrested in Modena for wearing
collar exhibiting the Italian tricolor. At Milan they
consume quantities of maccaruni, that being the only
method ot testifying their sympathy with the glorious
doings in the south. Hats of Calabrian fashion
(pointed) are the objects of severe interdiction and
penalty.
On Thursday took place the grand sterple-chase
which annually astonishes the children of Romulus.
The newspapers, not having a word of equiponderant
meaning in their vocabulary, call the affair, very ap-
propriately, La Corsa a Romaicalh. The ground se-
lected was a tract two miles beyond the Milvian
bridge, known to the students of Itoman eld as the
freehold of farmer Cincinnatus. The undulations of
the soil along the 'Titter offer every variety of land-
scape, and in this neighbourhood Claude Lorraine and
Pousain worked out their happiest inspirations. Tents
of every gay colour were thronged with beauty and
life, carriages of all kinds, horses of every grade, and
half the native population of Home, with all its casual
residents, were gathered here. Cieeroacchio, who
combines every trade in his versatile genius, timber
merchant, wine seller, corn factor, charcoal dealer,
coach owner, had the contract for erecting the grand
stand, marking out the course, and superintending
the whole affair. Prince Odesclutkhea horse was the
winner.
Carnival began on Saturday. There was no new
feature, except the fact of Cardinal Altieri (President
of Rome and the Comarca) volunteering to open in
person the annual diversion of the people: he went to
the capital in state, escorted by the flower of the
national guard, and gave the signal to commence pro-
ceedings. That such a dignitary should become
master of the revels recall the days of Queen Bess
and her Chancellor Hatton, when strange antics
took place, and " the seal and maces danced before
him"; but we are all here in such good humour that
there is even in the soberest quarter an exuberant
redundance of animal spirits quite excusable.

MONTE VIDEO.—By the Syiphide, which has
arrived at Ryde, advices have been received from Monte
Video to the 31st, and Buenos Ayres to the 22nd Dec. The
news, however, is unimportant. A vessel called the lade-
pendencia Americana had been captured by the French, in
endeavouring to break through the blockade of Buenos Ayres.
She was condemned and sold at Monte Video. The Custom-
house receipts of Uruguay amount to about 300,000 deli., on
which a dividend of 10 per cent. had been declared.

The HER MANN.—This ocean steamer will leave
New York, for Southampton, on the 20:h inst.
New Yuan.—The packet ship Richard Alsop ar-
rived at Liverpool yesterday, from New York, with 14,0001.
in specie on freight. Her dates were anticipated in the
Express of Monday.