The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-15 00:00:00

as The month begs. by torchlight. Scores of
Wasting firebrands traversed the CANON and from all I
the tweeters of the town that long avenue wee the
module of the perdition towards the place of rendez-
vase—the large "1"21! del PoPoka TrooPs of Dra-
go•oss °r aid the procession with brass bands then
ewe the fourteen standards of the fourteen Wards
into which Rome is divided, followed by crowds of
aearetriens. The colours f the Ferretti family (orange
:art white) were conspicuous among the flags. The
moil* regiment of Speranza came next, and
then the civic troops in immense force, with I
their artillery, 'sappers end miners, with semi :
heard, and apron, six large guns, from
the animal of St. Angelo, and the whole body of Papal
inabilities. For an hour the march kept on, and the
dierethoguing mass had then filled the whole square ,
end iy h, ighbourhood, which blazed with the light of
stbourand torches. 'To the capitol,' then, was the
my; and terry !totem in the Corso being lit un, back I
rolled the tide of population to that immemorial spot.
All the boatels were ranged round the equestrian
game of Marcus Aurelius, and, amid solemn silence
sad intense cold, all beads being uncovered, the de-
rree convoking the Constituent Assembliy was read.
Then up rose the Abbate Rembalch, and said:
Roman people! Your fathers, from this hill, origi-
nated civilization amid barbarous Europe, and you
hare o begin the work again this year of eur Lord,
to renvue Italy from eerie intriguers and brute! des-
pots: and I, as a clergymen' (sarerdote di Christo),
cali on you from the capitol to vindicate your inde-
pendoice end your right to self-government—prin-
ciples *hose root is in the gospel.' I confess I
thought this rev' reed orator's speech as indecorous an
ezhibition as any repeal decimation from reverend
lips it hes been my lot to r ruse.
Tile great act of calling this assembly into ex-
istence ben g the only aim and end of the Supreme
Junta, the whole three have resigned their functions,
and the ministry alone remains in office. I should
have told you the' Clemente Genfalonier fief Ancona
was marred to the tz Queen 'of Etruria,' Elias
Bonaparte Baccioeehi, and is tte wealthiest man in
the legation..
From that quarter the intelligen:e is not very
bright. The.. who speculated on a row resulting
from the withdrawal of the sovereign are likely to be
gratified in B tlogua. But the towns of Furli, Fen are,
Perugia. Ancona, Foligoo,Tolentino, Ilecemts,'ferni,
Pesaro, linoia, mid all the suburban towns of Rome
are custom me. (vita Vecchia has always been re-
publican, and hence the repugnance of the Pope top
Owe. There was a rumour yesterday that Cardinal
Alfieri had arrived witn conciliatory purpose. God
grain ! Alt Wei' long nuncio at Vienna, is a man of
tact, and knows the world, besides being a genuine
Gobi. man of the hest sort, and held in deep reverence
by all closers.
There are two rumours in town just now. One
that Mi r *M, a clerk in our Treasury, has just levanted
with 100.0011 dollars. The other, that • son of
Joachim Murat is about to dethrone Um King of
Naples with the aid of the Sicilians.

NAPLES, Jan. 4
la the millet of the i certainty wind' limier over our
Omni 'epee' there upper,* to he no great doubt es to the
line of policy intended to be panned by the N. 'polices
'Rieke', both in its a vernal em to its internal relations. The
bill comettuente will r. 4 only not be sympathised in ;it
will Le trosten. The minimerial joarual thus eminent
itself : " The missien of ord r which the goverment
thus happily tullille d is ext. nded not only to the kingdom ;
it has held en.. mill le.ide iu its bane:. the of
It ly.
Fn m every sae Angevin is turned to it, aid it will cone-
semi he the Wes which hove been conceived of it. . . . We
will t.k. lose ailment that the question hen becomes mi re
emnplinted, and that the Ooliststlseate may encounter a great
damp r in the wit.' andmitabided action of our g. vernment."
Thus N .ple. met'LW to have thron down the gauntlet
to the lea of Rel bat the very time,w too, that it has yet to
subject . ou.sideratile portion of its states, and is mitering
on a anneals the solutioe of which is not quite so easy as
some may imagine Undoubtedly the ministry, led by
amhitious views of power, or dimpled by their military pre-
puce die, have conceived ex iggereted epinions of their
streinthi end Weems, en.l thiek to thmate hi the rest of
Italy. A milt era journal of this morning, esoothine down '
the military, as la•it.l, points to the time when, undo r their
neer. aod with Ferdinand for their head, they may tyke
l'im X ink t., Rome—the when does not appear to he
very char as yet. The King is still at Gaet .;
he seems indisposed to allow the Pantie out of hie
sight for a day. On the 31st a deputation from
the Grand Court of Accounts ease from Naples
to pay weir nonce to his Mohnen, and the president, in
their name, thus addressed him: "Moat bland Father,—
Devout eons of the catholic chef. Is, Whitten of the 'wimple
• their august and rtligion Paten's's, the magietrates of
the Great Court of Accuunta fulfil the duty of layieg at the
feet of your Hennes, a pontiff and severeigji. of a great
and Ye... Anted name, the homage of their promuun reverence,
aid respectful admiration. :he whole mill. ge, intent
as they ere or. the penormance of their duties, invoke in
their hehal the help of divine grace, and implore at the
same tire- tram your Holiness the apnetolie el hem-diction
as a valuable means of obtaining at." To which the Pontiff
repliea : '• The mere beholdihg the r sample of your meet
eeigi m sovereign repeated by the magistrates of this
kingdom, in dem .nstratios of respect asel devotion
Menne the vicar of Christ, in this his present con-
dition, promis s to the kingdom peace, prosperity, and all
that eau le, hoped of gad in this world. impossible is it
tint a chain of illustrious examples should be without effect
cm the great sejority. And now that we And ourselves in
the octave of the birth of the Gad of Peace, I have a hope,
Ira more, 1 have confides, that in a short time we shall
rim stein to a state of prosperity so much the greater, in
peopor•ion as the disasters he which during the petislni year
we have been menaced have b en more n Mous. All which we
tepee' through the protection of our most holy Virgin, rend of
the sande Peter and Paul." The holy father the n condescended
to eater into familiar csvereation with the differeet mem-
bers of the deputation for more than half an hour. Filangieri
left, es I told you, for Messina, and 1 have been told is ex-
pected to return in a few day.. This doer. not look wa like.
General &Weill hoe left for Vienna by way of Trieste.
The covititueate they oar hem been proclaimed at Palermo.
Manure the arrivals here are the whole of the Barshese
family from Gaeta, end Gen. Zombi from Genoa, where he
narrowly escaped with his life. The general is gone to Gaits,
when, an doubt, he will be received with open HALL
All the reports regarding Sicily that have been circulating
within the lest few -days, I have nears to believe are Ulm ,•
it appear*, however, that the Palerraitans hane strengthened
their outposts, and sent cannon and troops in the direction of
Mes-ma. The Neapolitans h..ms done the same: lam el
opinina that the adjustment of Sicilian difficulties will
del end or and go hand in hand with the adjustment of
Italian affe.re generaly, so that for the present, Spite of
warlike appestat:ea, nothing precipitate will be done. M.
Rsrcouet and 14 Pieguiredo, the ens the minister of Brazil,
and the other of France at the Holy Ilea, arrived hem yes-
terday from Gaeta.
I mentioned in nay last that the Tekrajo and hide•
pendente had bees suspend. d, and I suppose I may add sop- ,
premed, as they have net since made their appearance.
Thee', together with th- Uniow and the Liken, now '
sake four journals that have nen subjected to the rigours
of, not the law, but the ministry. Whill journals which
take the side of the opposition are thus prosecut. d and pm-
'ended for articles, on the ground of their leailing to anar-
chy and sedition, other journals on the ministerial side are
permitted to indulge in language which, in the present state
of military feeling, might reasons.Uy be expected to produce
the utmoit excesses and outrages against the liberals.
The government pare Ms this morning a long article de-
fending its policy as regards the press, and ea also regards its
measuies of police. It amens that the liberty whisk they
have checked is merely the liberty of making Widows de-
monstrations against all legal power, and as to the asuman
that the lower dames wen suffered te total* their ens,
it maintain, that the disarming has been genera and
in penis', but that of late i• has been permitted to respect-
able citizens to wear defensive weapons.
The Rodney left this morning for Melte with a splendid
north wind in favour, and the Terrible left yesterday.
Five per Cents , 82; Exchanges as Losdaa. 589.

HOLLAND.—Tin HAGUE, JAN. 13.—The user
ant And sealed chambers of*, States metral are unmated,
by royal iecree, for Tuesday, the 13th aOt
February.

!Me gourt.
WINDSOR, StrleDAY.—Prince Albert, attended by
Hr. G. B Amon, Major-General Bowles, and Capt. the
Hon. A. Gordon, left the Castle at • quarter-put nine
o'clock yesterday morning for the Slough station, travelled
by a special train to the Paddington termini',
and pro-
ceeded m Somerset House, where his Royal Highness pre-
sided at • meeting of the Special Comminsioners for the
Kasagement of the Affairs of the Dusky of Cornwall. The
Prises returned by the same rent* to Windsor, arriving at
the Castle at 10 minutes past 2 o'clock p.m.
Prince Lowenstein, the Duke of Norfolk, and the
Ladies Mary end Adelisa Fitsalas Howard, took their do-
pe:tare from the Coyle yesterday.
This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert. the
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the Domestic
Household, ettewled Divine Service is the Pima* Chapel
of the Castle. The Han. and Rev. C. L. Houten', offi-
ciated.

The Duke or Cambridge visited•be British Museum
on Saturday. Hie Royal Highness visited the Duchess of
Gloucester at Glonemter-how.
Sir John Pelly had an interview with Earl Grey
on Smarties Sir Robert Gardiner bad also an interview
with the sot le earl at the Colonial.offtm.
A deputation, coo •isting of Mr. Hums, M.P., Sir
Pear Lam*, Mr. W. Williams, and Mr. JAW* had an
hum*, with Si. George Grey, ea Saturday, at tie Home-

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