The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-10 00:00:00

IMI'ORTANT FROM ITALY

DECLARATION OF WAR BY THE
POPE AGAINST AUSTRIA.

The following appeared, exclusively, in the Daily I
News of this morning :
" We have received a despatch, dated Paris, Tuesday
(yesterday) morning. It states that on the 2nd May,
the Pope, after much resistance, had yielded to the de-
mand of the people. The ministry remained in office
with the exception of Antonelli, who, in the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, will be replaced by Mammiane.
The ministry has teceived full powers to decide ail
questions of temporal government, including a decla-
ration of war against Austria, the Pope having en-
tared into a formal engagement to sanction its acts.
The Austrian ambassador at Rome bad been ordered
to withdraw.
"A motu proprio was to be published announcing the
resolution come to by the Pope, with a view to calm-
ing tho public irritation."

Since the above was in type• our regular despatches
have arrived, from which we extract the following :
From Civita Vecchia, under date May 4, we
learn from Rome that the Tuscan and Sardi-
nian ministers have protested against the course
adopted by the Pope. The General Duke de Itignano
has intimated to the Pope that he cannot reckon on
the civic guard. Several cardinals have attempted to
fly, but were conducted back to their palaces, which
were placed under surveillance. The Official Gazate
of the 2nd contains the decision of l'ius IX., already
given. It seems that Mainintand was mainly instru-
mental in persuading the Pope to his present course of
policy, that above stated. All the correspondence of
the Cardinals which had been seized was read from the
, Capitol to the people. Itlammiani harangued the
crowd from the balcony of the Casino do Commerce.
lie energetically cried, " No more priests in the public
employ ! Let us declare immediate war against
Austria! Let Pius IX. be at the head of .1111 govern-
ment. Let us each day publish an official bulletin
of the operations of the army. Let us appeal to all
to take arms, in order to drive the barbarians from
Italy." Several arrests have been made. A+ we
have stated above, the ministry will remain in office,
with the exception of Cardinal Antonelli, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, who will be succeeded by
Mammiani. The ministry has promised to use its
whole energies towards the expulsion of the Austrians,
whose minister at Rome has been ordered to wit Ildtaw.
The latest accounts received from Civita Vecchia,
announce that the cardinals, who find they cannot
leave Rome, are assembled at Monte Cavallo. Mam-
miani was not named, after all, though the people
were loudly in his favour ; they were induced, how-
ever, to rest satisfied with the concessions they had
obtained, to avoid the necessity of naming a pro-
visional government.
A letter from Ancona, of the 28th of April, says :
Ancona has been entirely mined, and a conspsacy has been
detected, by which it was intended, on the day of the
arrival of the Neapolitan troops, to blow up the city with
its 10,000 ix habitants. The Austrian naval forces of Polo were
then to have seized on the centre of the p mtifical states.
The conspirators were Italians, Caetrggioni, Selvialli,
Laudini, Chiesa, sad Vignini.

IRELAND.
(By the Eteefrio Telegraph Conepatty's &press.)

The soiree at Wa terford, on Sunday evening, was
attended by 700 persons, who were addressed by
Messrs. Meagher and Duffy. Perfect harmony pre-
vailed, and not the slightest infraction of the peace
occurred.

SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND, St. GEORGE'S.
—Yesterday a general court of the governor!, donors and
subscribers to this valuable institution, which was first este.
blished in 1709, was held at the London Tavern, Dishopeutate-
street, for the purpose of electing eight male and four female
pup:ls on the foundation. T. W. Mellor, E.g., in the chair.
—Tito chairman stated that, in addition to lo omits elected
on recently as the Pith ;lowmberlast, one had be n admitted
by order of the committee pursuant to the 22nd byelaw of
the society ; and thst the committee were anxious to remind
the public that the object of the institution waa not merely
the teaching of the blind a trade by which they might he
enabled to obtain, either wholly or in part, their future
subsistence, but especially to train them in habits of mo-
rality, and instil into their minds those principles of religion
which would render them good and useful members of
society. The whole of the pupils on the foundation are now
taught to read by means of printing in raised or embossed
letters, according to the plan of Mr. Alston of Glasgow, who
had completed the whole of the Bible, which was placed in
the hands of the pupils and in general use in the school. He
then declared the poll open, and the election then pro-
ceeded, and continued till 3 o'clock, when the poll was
closed, and after a scrutiny of the votes for each candidate,
the number of applicants being 51, the following 12 candi-
dates were declared by the chairman duly elected, vis.,—
Males : J. Goodall, 1. Hayward, J. Lewenden, J. Griffin,
W. Jones, F. 11,. Howard, W. D. Williams, and H. G.
Heeles ; females: 11. Smith, A. Cull, H. Parker, and E.
Jones. A. vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman,
and the court broke up.