The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-18 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The following telegraphic despatch is dated—
" Vienna, Aptil 11th.—Count Revel has this day
handed in the protest of Piedmont against the contis-
cations in Lombardy, and departed ou leave."
The Nuremberg Courier, the last able and influen-
tial opposition newspaper in Bavaria, and with one
exception the oldest newspaper in Germany, has been
destroyed by the government. All the weapons of
' the police arsenal—confiscation, expulsion of editors,
exclusion from the post-office, withdrawal of official
advertisements—have been plied against it ' • yet the
editor has never been judicially- condemned. Sixty
times since last Christmas it has been seized by the
police, the last confiscation coinciding with the last
issue. . . .

The Austrian flotilla, which has recently visited
the islands of the Archipelago, has returned to take
up its position iu the port of Cattaro, in front of
Montenegro.
Later. from Vienna and Berne favour the belief
that Austria is inclined to recede from the position of
hostility towards Switzerland which ehe has per-
mitted herself to occupy for the last two months.

SPAIN.

tIADRIT),Apatt 15.

The Cabinet is formed. The following are its
members :—War, General Lersundi, who is also Pre-
sident of the Cabinet ; Foreign Affairs, M. Aylon ;
Justice (provisionally), M. Collentes; Home•office,
M. Egana ; Finance, M. Bermudez de Castra ; Ma-
rine, M. Antonio Dovel.

An express letter from Madrid, of the 12th, states
that the Queen had given 18 hours to General Ler-
sundi to term a new cabinet, but does not mention
the resumption of the sittings of the Cottes, an-
nounced in the telegraphic despatch of the 12th pub-
lished by the Petrie.

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.
TIAIIN, Arlin, IG.
The official journal to-day publishes a memoran-
dum from the Sardinian government relative to its
difference with Austria on the subject of the
decree of sequestiaticn. This memorandum re-
fates the arguments of Count Buol Schauenstein
and demonstrates that the decree of which Piedmont
complains is a violation of existing treaties between
Austria and Sardinia. The memorandum concludes
in these words:

It is a grave attack, in regard to which we appeal to the
better informed conicienee of the cabinet of Vienna, and in
regard to which we also invoke the good offices of the sove-
reigns, oar allies end friends.
A funeral service was celebrated on the 13th in the

Cathedral of Turin, in commemoration of the Pied-
monteec who fell in the battle of Novara. Several
ministers, senators, and deputies, were present at the
ceremony.
The Pieilmontese Gazette states from Bologna that
three persons, named Conti, Zaal, and Borghi, were
executed there on the 9th, as convicted of premedi-
tated homicide from party spirit.

SOME, Arum 6.
The perseverance with which foreign journals, and
especially French ones, have asserted as a positive
fact that the Pope will very soon repair to Paris,
and that the steam line-of-battle-ship Napoleon is
being prepared to receive and convey to Marseilles
the august head of the church, may, perhaps, serve
to arouse the northern public to an anxious expecta-
tion of such an unwonted event. Here, however, the
ease is different, and the- Romans, thoroughly ac-
quainted with the nature and policy of their govern-
ment, laugh at the positive tone of the Parisian press
on this subject, a tone which has, I understand, given
not a little annoyance to the Cardinal Secretary of
State, who has ever been one of the most determined
opposers to:his Holiness making such a dangerous ex-
cursion. Indeed, his Eminence, a few days ago, as-
sured a diplomatist here that there was not a word of
truth in the accounts so industriously spread of the
propositions and conditions made and assented to by
the French and Papal governments, and that there
was not the slightest probability that his Holiness
would leave his own dominions at present.
A glance at the state of affairs in the Papal court
will convince your readers of the extreme danger
which would menace the existing regime in Rome, if
the Pope were to abandon the Vatican and be
entirely subjected to French influence, even for a
few weeks. It has been for some time evident that
the master mind, the real ruling power in the Papal
government, is Cardinal Antonelli' who governs
under the influence and suggestions of the courts of
Austria and Russia, the traditional enemies of
France, and especially of the Napoleonic dynasty,
thereby rendering French interests subservient, with
the Holy See, to those of the northern powers. It
would, therefore, be clearly the aim of the French
government, if his Holiness went to France, to sug-
gest to him such changes in his ministry as might
give an ascendancy to French influence at Rome,
to the prejudice of Austria and Russia, which
could only be effected by the downfall of Cardinal
Antonelh, nor is there much doubt that the suscepti-
bility of Pio Nunn to new influences and arguments
would lay him very open to the wishes of Napo-
leon 111. in this respect, if he were to be deprived for
a few weeks of his usual advisers. Cardinal Antos
nelli, as Secretary of State and real ruler of the
Roman States, could hardly leave the scat of govern-
ment to another, nor, on the contrary, could he trim*
any one else to supply his place immediately about
the Pope's person. His Eminence would be in the
I difficult position described by Dante when requested
by the Florentine republic to go as ambassador to
Pope ltoniface VIII. He understood (as subsequent
events proved) that there was as much danger iu
going as in staying, and his embarrassment gave rise
to his celebrated exclamation, "Se vo chi MA, se sto
chi va ?" To avoid a repetition of this dilemma, his
Eminence, backed by the ecclesiastical authority of
the Sacred College and the political weight of the
northern powers, energetically opposes the journey
in tan.

The British consul's mediation ha 4 been effectually
cmplo3cl I Itely in ancrlicr way, in bc'ialf of IleitiA
travellers in the Homan Stated. Our protestant
countrymen generally have a laudablo custom of
making room in their portmanteaus for u Bible and