The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-17 00:00:00

ITALY.

SARDINIA.—Our correspondent writes:
"TURIN, Aram 11
" The newts I seat you yesterday has been eon-
firmed in all its particulars by the acoonatiy letters,
and newspapers brought thence today. Genoa is
in the hands of the Piedmont...) troops. The
endear*, renewed for another tare days, had bees'
(allowed by the uneonditiosal surrender of the town,
though on the nederstandlec that there would be a ,
general amnesty, from which only Ge.neral Ares-
sans, David Menhir. Pettigrki, Cossets** Bets,
and eight other chiefs of the insessesties, were en.
eluded, as well as all snob military um is the nisei
service of Piedmont as had tap" 14 pet in the
rebellion.
To-day immease parcels of tiiiirawigipses bou
Genoa and the south of Italy, as well
Reele.ind Wu" Iwo arrived, after ea
of @reseal Ipys. From private letters I
kart perused, as wall as from what you will bath
seen is the pepersbefon tithe letter reashosz=
may be certain that, now that Pietism:l hal
given up the cause of Italian independsece (at leapt
for the present), r &her Florence, Rotas, tor even
Venice, will hold out keg."
NAPLES.—We give the following latest intelli-
gence in a letter from our own correspondeat
" N APLIS, Aran. 6.
"As I am uncertain when the next steamer leaves,
I send you by the land post of this tinning such news
as has be= received in Naples from Messina by the
French steamer, which came In yesterday afierneoe,
and started soon after. What I have already told
you is in a great measure eoalrmed.
"A letter from Messina, of the 2nd inst., says : On
Wednesday, 28th alt., all the troops were called ea,
oven from the advanced posts, to aasiet at a review on
Thersday, 29th. The numbers amounted to 16,000
or 16,000 oe, 'acted's( the uterine., and, when ex-
tended, they reached from the meet southern point of
the Marina to two miles beyond the Faro road. On Sa-
turday, five or ides stamen went sixth with troops to
occupy the resod they had ahandoeed two days be-
fore, near Meissen ; and in the even. 3 of the same
(31st alt.), Filaegieri and his embarked on
board a steamer and went month. Yesterday morning
(Sunday, the let inst.), before we were out of oar beds,
the whole town was evacuated. There has been
much skirmishing, I think, and some villages burnt,
as Ali, though nothing is certain. Then is a cry
of treachery at Catania; if so, blood will be
spored and the royal troops will enter without dill-
catty; if not, the struggle will be most deadly. Forty
or fifty have been arrested within a few hours, and
taken tet he eitsdel ; the consequenee in that there iisach
a panic in Messina, that you might hear a pin fall ;
no
one dares open his lips—all walk separately. A
constituent monarchy is all that is demred, bat no
arrests, no gagging, no despotism. Many are in great
fear of an outbreak here in Morena, and are comae-
quently leaving for the Calabria.; both foreigner and
natives are many of them packing up.
" Another letter says that 11,000 men had parsed
under thewriter's window, with twenty beam cannon,
ammunition, and provision mules, &c. Of these one-
half had gone as it were in the direction of Palermo,
the others south, as to Catania; this was supposed to
be only a run, as finally the Ems went in the direc-
tion of Ottani& From other seeress I learn that
mach more resistance bad been met with than was ex-
expected. The steamers and the land forces (royalist)
are co-operating with each other evidently. By land,
as far as I an make out, the king's troops had reached
the Marina Fiumi di Nisi, where the Sicilians made •
stand. Here there is an ancient castle, called Nisi, or
Dionisio ; and the place where the village
stands was most strongly fortified at one
time. En rage to Poi= di Nisi, the Neapolitans
had burnt the village of Ali. The steamers, if my
conception of the matter is correct, had proceeded
mare south, and bad destroyed the fort of St Menke,
as also a tower at Taormina, a shell having been
thrown into a powder magazine. On the same nee-
skit • 36-pounder had been fired by the Sicilians into
the Stromboli, carrying away the chimney or mast,
and by the concysion throwing down the General
Filangieri. The Stromboli had been sent back to
Messina, to be repaired. The 4th regiment Neapo-
litans had suffered much, as also a body of lancers.
The colonel*, the latter has arrived in Naples, it is said
to demand reinforcements. One of the steamers pur-
chased in England by the Sicilians has certainly ar-
rived in Palermo, and some my two ; we shall shortly
hear, therefore, of some dashing work between the
two navies, if so they can be called. It is very clear
that the royalists have hitherto gained no ground, and
from this one single fact—not a bulletin has as yet
been published; had there been any the slightest sue-
ewe we should have had gasconadieg enough.
"The Priem Regent is expected every. hoar ; on her
arrival she leaves Immediately to provision the Ven-
geance. at Leghorn, and the whole fleet will, with the
exception of the Howe, take its leave. Directly
after executing her mission at Leghorn, the Prince
Regent returns here, and relieves the Howe, which
joins the rest of the fleet. The French fleet also leaves
for Toalon it is expected. A Spanieh frigate leftAi x:
this afternoon for the south. Y.:change on
582. _ _

--"A letter from a Neapolitan Aker at Messina to
another at Naples, speaks of having satiated his lost
at Merlins, and now going to gratify it in Catania.
"More Neapolitan troops leave immediately for
Messina; the numbers I cannot tell precisely. For
several days a most active correspond we bas been
carried on between Mr. Temple, our admiral, and
the government. Our city now presents a most di-
smiss. aspect. According to custom on this day (Holy
Thursday), all carriages are prohibited, and the streets
are full of pedestrians, ea raids to visit the sepulchres
and the several churches."