The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-10 00:00:00

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.
ROME, SEPT. 30.
The immediate excitement of the conspiracy having
passed away, Rome has now returned to its habitual
state of political dulness, church ceremonies and the
movements of his Holiness being the only occurrences
to attract public attention, and furnish materials for
the grave discussions of the official journal.
Yesterday, being the festival of St. Michael, the
Pope repaired in state to the extensive hospital dedi-
cated to that saint, where ho was received by the
protector and director of the establishment, Cardinal
Testi, and visited the exhibition of manufactures
and works of art produced by the different classes of
pupils now being brought up to professions and
trades. The display was extremely creditable. His
Holiness then stepped upon a balcony, overlooking
the Tiber, and imparted his blessing to the papal
troops drawn up on the quay, and to the papal navy,
consisting of five small steamers, anchored in the
centre of the river, decked out with flags, and firing
their swivels incessantly during the whole ceremony.
The prison department appears to have been the only
one in the establishment which did not obtain the
honour of a visit from his Holiness, but as the pri-
soners are entirely political offenders, it is probable
that the interview would have been equally unpala-
table to both parties.
The accounts of cholera in England have alarmed
the sanitary authorities of his Holiness. A notifica-
tion was published at Civita Vecchia by the Board of
Health, dated on the 25th inst., imposing quarantine
on arrivals from Great Britain, especially mentioning
Liverpool as subject to twelve days for vessels, and
twenty-one days for merchandise, in consequence of
cholera having broken out in the United Kingdom.
This regulation has already come into effect, and will
fall heavily upon the first arrivals, who, of course,
left England before the malady had shown itself.
The British merchant schooner Candidate, of Sal-
cumbe, Capt. Forbes, sailed from Liverpool, on the
22nd August with a mixed cargo, there having been
then no indication of cholera in England. The ves-
sel arrived at Civita Veccia on the 27th Sept., and
was immediately placed under the full rigour of the
decree published on the 25th, whereas she would
have enjoyed tree pratique if she had arrived only one
day prior to that date, and it appears absurd now to
subject her to a long quarantine if the intention of
the decree be merely to prevent the introduction of
the epidemic, which, of course, could not be brought
from England before it had burst out there, the ship
having sailed with a clean bill of health a fortnight
before any cases of cholera had manifested themselves
at Liverpool. These reflections led the British pro-
consular agent here, Mr. Ercole, to endeavour to
obtain an exemption from the quarantine in favour of
the Candidate, and a mitigation of thequarantine itself
for other vessels, by representing the serious commer-
cial inconveniences arising from so protracted a delay.
The sanitary authorities, however, decided that the
Candidate is to observe the quarantine, but that the
term will be reduced in future to ten days, as well
for vessels as merchandise. The merchandise is to
be disembarked at the lazzaretto, which will be a
fresh source of inconvenience, for almost all the locali-
ties of that establishment are occupied with the
stores of the French army, and it will take some time
for the papal authorities to have new buildings
erected.

The new postal convention between the French
and Roman governments comes into force to-morrow
(Ist October), according to which we can in future
prepay or leave unpaid our letters to France and
England. The entire postage of a letter to or from
Great Britain weighing 7i grammes is fired at
26 baiocs (13 pence), which is a reduction of nearly
a third upon that previously paid here on receiving a
letter, without calculating what was previously paid
in England by the sender.

A telegraphic despatch from Turin, dated Sunday,
Oct. 9, announces that the Pontifical government has
prohibited the exportation of wine, and extended
until September, 1854, the exemption from duty, ac-
corded to foreign wines imported into the Roman
States by Civita Vecchia.