The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-11 00:00:00

TIIE INSURRECTION IN MILAN.

Fresh letters relative to the insurrection state that
on Saturday numerous arrests were made at Milan.
On Sunday great agitation prevailed, and riots took
place. At one point the Austrian troops were at-
tacked by 400 insurgents.
A despatch from Berne, dated yesterday, further
confirms the news of the insurrection, and its total
suppression, as well as its premeditated character.
Arrests and domiciliary visits were the order of the
day at Milan. There is great agitation at I'isa,
Lucca, and elsewhere.

At Turin the Sardinian ministry met together in
haste, in consequence of a communication from the
Austrian con:.ul, in order to deliberate on the aspect
of affairs in Lombardy.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPIIIIBB.

SlU,—However unprepared the rest of Europe
may now appear for revolution, if the insurrection be vic-
torious at Milan, it will immediately spread like wildfire
throughout Italy, and not only Hungary and Germany, but
perhaps France itself cannot avoid following the generous
example. If the patriotic movement of the Milanese be
' drowned in blood, it will at least be the noblest of pro-
testations against an unparalleled aggression. At all events
it is highly important fur us that the occasion should be
' Improved to awaken in our behalf the attention sod sym-
pathy of the English people.
This very day, the 9th of February, is the anniversary of
the proclamation of the republic •t Rome in 1819, an act of
which the writer of this very letter made the original pro-
position to the Constituent Assembly. And a strange coin-
cidence it is that on the 9th of February, 1649 (new style,
or 110th of January, 16411, old style), the English republic
began by the decapitation of Charles I. ; and also on the
9th of February, 1659 (30th of January, 16fifi, old style),
the deposition of James It. was pronounced by the English
Convention. Whether this curious coincidence is to be
regarded as presidential or casual, as most coincidences are,
you will at any rate admit the existence of a real connexion,
if not of cause and origin, at least of interest and aim, be-
tween the English liberty end the, political and religious
liberty of liome and Italy.--Yours, &c.,
Feb. 9. FILEPANTI.

REPRESENTATION OF WEST WORCESTERSIIIRE.
WWWNSTRIL, THPat+DAy.---Viscount Elmley is now a can.
didate ter the western division of this county, caused by
Vie death of the late Earl Beauchamp and the accession to
the peerage of his father, the present earl. The requisition
agreed to at a meeting of conservatives held here, as re-
cently reported in this paper, having received the signatures
of some 1,400 electors, has been presented to his lordship,
who has accepted it, and his address to the electors was
published to-day. As to his po!itical principles be says :
" I am aware teat I cannot lay claim to political experi-
ence. but I trust that my father's example and my own best
endeavours may enable me (if elected) to discharge the im-
portant duties of a member of parliament to your satisfaction.
I am a firm supporter of our institutions in church and
state, and sincerely attached to those protestant principles
to which I believe this country is mainly indebted for her
present greatness and prosperity. As a conservative 1 shall
extend my most cordial support to any measures of real re-
form which may seem to me calculated to increase the eta-
cicncy of our institutions ; but, at the same time, rcserve to
myself the right of opposing any hasty or ill considered
chant' in the tunlamentil principles of the constitution."
The noble candidate also promises M attend to the local in-
terests of the county, if elected. There is as yet no other
candidate in the field, and it is thought the writ may be
Wiwi to-night or to-morrow.

FRANCE

PARIS, THCRPDAY AFTP.!INOON.
A dee, of the Emperor, dated yesterday, nom!.
Ito Die.:e de Bellow to the diguity of

rl r from General St. Priest shows the utter'
u:tblesie -sof semi-official statements in such jour-
th, Pays and I'atrie. When it was thought
earedient •o give a less serious cromplexien to the
swots of ;unday than teas at first intended, theta
D
pers •cal the story of a plot as an invention of
pref.., .nal propagators of " false news," a de-
etit,„twa a act to comprise all writers in the Mik-
an:cot t mss. and all foreign correspondents. It
upon the testimony of General de St.
• ,n the warrant, which he carefully read,
,441 accused of " a plot against the safety of
the „ a!,- The Pairie moreover pretended that
the e. serer -ley of police having a search warrant,
.11 • 'it tit to arrest M. de St. l'riest upon his
uea.!
r,,i .ability. This statement, which I re-
jeered las .nlay as wholly incredible, is now proved '
to he It is eguslly untrue that General de St.
Print tur usely personated his son, although it does
,art appear that, owing to carelessness,
which, or scriuus a matter, cannot be too severely
• etatiot. the general was arrested by Marake.
The lathe. suit the son—and here is a fourth leis-
stearin, Patrie—did not live in the same
kr;.4e. to the present time the government
▪ Lai_ not thought it worth white to publish
rya unto .tithe individuals deprived of their liberty
pm vague suspicion and undefined charges. The
n, however, gives the following list of
Isertnn • "respondents of foreign journals still in
elitedy nt 1 about to be tried. They are MM. do
coatlogie, Tanski. Pags-Duport, Nirmaitre, La
Farm u,.'ard, Videmessant, Etienne, Hartmann,
Curets t 'retard, Vn
crgtuaud,
Iwenfeltd, and Pel-
,
kyle. I have already mentioned most of these
Ear." to t uu. Those now it, wto The are M. Char-
ts% a wife r in the rstalette, MM. Gerard, Etienne,
sod Vervitoul. gentlemen, employed in editing M.
e,rvespondence. These arrests excite much
„vrise, is cause the unvarying ministerial colour of
the cirri spondence is well known. The charge
against 11,111, however, is that they have written in a
kaa,at tone to foreign journals. M. Chatard
was fermi t.r known as a republican writer, hut he
ja nor. I htlieve, ono of the secretor ies of the South-
ern HMIs ay. The Patrie's list cannot, however, in-
els,le all the prisoners 3et in custody. M. Moncelet,
s writer in the Coiststntinnxel, was among those
oersted or Sunday: and I know that he had not
Int nicest d last night. lam told, though I cannot
state the tact with certainty, that several others are
OP la SUZY. It is ill be observed that the Patric,
wily prefesers to give the names of the " foreign cor-
ffspundeors," and, therefore, it is consistent with the
itconen, that persons nut answering that descrip-
tor: raav gill be in confinement.
The house of Baron de Plauhol, a well-known
torsional contributor to the Gazette de France, was
Embed en Sunday morning. Among his volumi-
ins pope's only seven or eight manuscripts, of old
data attme.ed the attention of the police. The coin-
enemy thought them unimportant, and therefore
did not execute the discretionary warrant fur Baron
de Pitcher, arrest, of which ho was the bearer.

On Tuesday the police entered a private house in
the Itv d s Carrieres, Montmartre, and surprised in
itoratit. •Wisto eight men and live women met toge-
ther for the purpose of talking politica. An allegori-
cal statute of the republic, some portraits of political
elites, 110111 C pamphlets, and some socialist emblems
were di.to• cored. The police report adds, that arms
and munirolis of war were seized, but this is pro-
tahiy a pompous description of the contents of a
common gun case. The thirteen persons wore ar-
rested, and searches were afterwards made at their
lisusts, where, it is said, further seizures of demago-
gic writings were made. It is thought, however,
that the only substantial charge that can be sup-
ported against them in a court of law is the unau-
thorised attendance of periodical meetings.
The Milan affair, as you may suppose, is much
talked of. The general impression is, that tho inner-
!wine must inevitably be crushed, and the slight
rise in the Three per Cent*. at the Bourse to-day
may be attributed in some degree to that belief. A
copy of it private letter, said to have been received
from Milan, has been handed aboat, from which
it would appear that the movement began
by bodies of young men, armed with poniards,
parading the streets. They placarded proclamations,
killed or disarmed some sentries, and, being joined
by a mob, attacked a fortified barrack in the ceutre of
the city, and killed, disarmed, or drove out 400
Austrian troops. 'lbis letter, which bears the stamp
of considerable exaggeration, is dated "Milan, Feb.
7, twelve o'clock." It breaks off suddenly, the
courier that was to take it being on the point of
darting.
Since writing thus far I find some confirmation of
the private letter in the Zwick Gazette, which states
that about 100 men armed with poniards attacked
the troops and gendarmerie on Sunday last, and that
there bad been about 300 killed. A similar occur-
rence, it says, had taken place at Rimini, but no de-
tails were as yet known. The Bile Gazette states
that similar movements had broken out in several
towns of Lombardy.
The .Issrtablee Nationnk says :
We are able to state that news received in Paris to-day
amounces that the revolt has been completely quelled.
This result was inevitable and easy to foresee. It appears
that this foolish demonstration was not so serious as might
bo 'opposes' from the despatch publ:shed in the Moniteur.
'lbis favourable statement has probably been fur-
nidled to the AsBcitibMe by the Austrian embassy, a
fact not to be lost sight of when estimating the
weight hi which it may be entitled.
The Gazette de France says:
Tie telegraphic despatch, announcing an insurrection in
Milan, is au event of immense importir,ce. Why does the
Muzini luaus, which, since the battle of Novara, and
espetially since than re•establishment of the Pope by the
/reach army, has remained inactive, now attempt to renew
the struggle with the Austrian monarcuy ? What change has
ectutred in the international relation, of Europe ? t ac-
hed, who gives Mauini hospitality without conditions, and
without surveillance, will had it difficult to evade her share
of respens,bility for the new misfortunes with which the
Continent is threatened.
The Bourse to-day has rallied to some extent from
the lassitude of the last few days. The Three per
Cent. Renter advanced 35 cents., at the e'ose being
quoted 70f. 30e., and the Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. recovered yesterday's fall, closing as on
Tuesdav, at 105 f. Bank Stock was again called
2,sooE:and some of the leading railway shares ex-
perienced a nominal improvement. From Amster-
dam the quotations today are thus reported:—
Two-and allalf per Cents., 6-11, ; Threes, 75 11-16 ;
Fours, tes;, At Frankfort the latest rates are as
foi;ows:—Five per Cents., t• 5 ; Four-and-a-Half,
/6;; Fours, 69; Threes, 5l;; Two-and-a-Half, 43.
WEDNUDAT EVENING.
General de St. Priest c
hase replied to the "'atria in
the following letter:
bloateur,-1 have to correct several statements in your
account of my arrest yesterday. My son Charles does not
creepy the same apertm mob me: he lives like me in the
Rue du Moat Timber, but at No. 9, while I reside at N 0.6.
He may here received by post, like many ethers, artizles
hem foreign journals, which dove not seem to me to be any
tome; but be has not made himself an intermediary with
respect to them, which is a very different thing. As to
Imo If, I hove never hod to declare that I was the person
des !min d in the mandate. It was brought to me Wore
Ilyoresk. and shows to me by candlelight, after I had
been aroused from sleep. Under them circumstances, be-
lrr ne that the officers ufily came to reaming my
try, I scarcely eat! my eyes on the document.
srasenly at s later per..,d of the day, and when I was in
,
the thee of the police commissary, that, manning it more
41041Yi I read, "M. de St. Vilest (Charles) is accused
N.compiracy against the security of the state."
yt 'mowing that this grave urination was mad*
emespror articles received from abroad, sad
1!0t kaowing, indeed, what tho words might mean,
." held my peace At the prima of Nan es, and not
rote there, I was t mice asked my age ant pro-
-o.'snt, wh,rh I immediately declared, wi6out the least
t!ftealmen', as the nGtes of the clerk will prove. At four
ecl;iek I was set at liberty, and, instead of "speaking
" you say, "of the politeness shown to me, ' I
_ myself to than for any forbearanc e with wich
h4'"' been treated.k This is the plain troth ofh tbe
Ilettn.—aeteive, ac., GENERAL 1/E Sr. PYILIIT.,