The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-01 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Russian Inralid of St. Petersburg of the
21st says:—"Austria, notwithstanding the forces
of which she still dispose', ought to think seriously
of peace. She invaded Piedmont, and hoped to
crush her before the arrival of the French ; but she
hu not succeeded, and has had to fall back to the
Mincio. She hoped to have oilier, and the allies
have made default. She is, however, still endea-
vouring to obtain the support of Germany and
Prussia. As to us, for the sake of humanity, we
sincerely desire that she may not succeed, because
in acquiring powerful allies sho might at the same
time array against her still more powerful enemies.
In that cue Europe would be inundated with blood,
and for nothing else than to preserve Lombardy to
Austria, though that province can never more belong
to her morally.

DESERTIONS FROM THE AUSTRIAN
ARMY.

Voss's Gazette of Berlin quotes a letter from
Vienna of the 25tla tilt, which saya:—" It Is now known
to be a po.itive fact that not only part of the Italian regi-
ment Sigismund went over to the tummy as the 24th, or elm
grounded arms, refusing to lire on their countrymen, but
that the Italian regiment+ Wemhard and Aleman have also
shown that diniplioe rennet always neutralise national feel-
ing. A number of deserters from these regiments have been
dai'y Iwoueht in here, and it le certain that many of them,
anb-offieste included, have been shot. The passage of the
troops coming from the some of war peeetnted • envious
spsetiale. First careen party of wee in chains ; this, • da-
-1 Mehemet without arm•, ureter a Oxon.; escort; and, Wily,
the troop who reassinel faithful. Many attempts at deter-
ties had taken place dating their march back from Italy."

The Paris Mositeur of yesterday publishes the
following pararraph :—" Two detachments eeot from the
depots of their respective corps hiring joined the army of
Italy wi bout being pr 'aided with the articles; and utensils
required fur the campaign, the Minister of Wer has ptintsbed
the superior of who organised the departure of these
troops with 16 days' avant, end her published a censure on
the peers' °facers, who did rot properly superintend the
imeatlca of his riterelod orlem."

The Bishop of Oporto, D.A., Bernardo Da
Pogaega•hfonis, has lately Issue' a letter to his clergy con-
demning " the pagan practices and profane excesses" which
hare been " lotraduced and preserved in the functions of
divine worship." Among other shier he observes upon
the "theatrical a•td saorilegnue represoutstiou." wherein
men of crime and women of bed lives assume the char►ctas
of St. John the Baptist, Si Nary Magdalene, At. Joseph,
and the Holy Virgin, nod even the divine person of Jena
Christ. He tells them " living pictures." In order to
remedy the evil, be commends that in future these " living
pictures" shall be confined to the personification of angale,
and that only by children under ten years of age. Priests
shall be suspends], and I Taken eicommunicat.d, whn per-
mit, or perform In, thaw religious dr►mas wherein the
gamed owed plrsoneree shall be brought upon the stage.

Later accounts from Perugia confirm the state-
ment that nine women and children were victims to the
Papal soldiers in different house*, end that the cruelties were
aggravated by the horr we of beetatinumeas. An American
gentleman, Mr. R. N. Perkins, of Boston, who wired
at Perugia from Rome on the 15th, with hits wife sad
three other ladies, bad a very norm, escape from the
hands of the brutal soldiery, who burst into the lintel
do Prance, where be wan stoyiog, shot the moe'er of
the hetet and the waiter, and would most probably have
murdered the travelers el* t, had they not ha n conceded
by the mother of the unfortunate host-keeper in a dark
reeve, leading by a secret door oat of one of their bedrooms.
Is this euffoontiog hiding plus they all mustard for fur-
teen home, and whoa they at last ventured out they found
!hot the whole hotel had been gutted, furniture and prop, rty
destroyed or carried t,ff, and that Mr. Perkinn's luggage,
reatslsiag mammy and valuable effect, of many kinds to the
eseennt of 3,000 dollar., had Umiak' become the prey of
three freeboolers in uniform. The United States minister
in Reese, Mr. Sto ktoo, bee received an elect account of
the occurrence from the auffsrms, and is making energetio
repessentaioss W tho government in order to obtain a suit-
able reparation.

The Archbishop of Vienna hu prohibited in that
efty the peafiromeee of a play called The Monk awl the
Soldier, ea the ground that ft ishaproper Jar say aeolealee-
fel coftutue to be uhabittd is the stage.