The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-15 00:00:00

PREPARATIONS AGAINST AUSTRIA.

The Pattie says, in its latest news :
Despatch's; from Turin announce a series of very import-
ant military measures. It was rumoured that the Sardinian
cabinet, it enter to maintain in the interior of
Italy that union which is so ueceassay, has pro-
Inieed the party of action to be prepared within six
months to attack Venice in case the liberty of that
province shall not have been sooner attained by diplo-
matic means. This rumour, which we only mention under all
reserve, was greatly accredited in Turin. It appears be
result from recent measures that, within six months or
thereabouts, the effective of the Italian army will amonn►
to 250,000 men, and that it will have a magnificent artillery,
both as regards numbers and efficiency. Great reliance is
planed at Turin upon the resources to be derived from
Southern Italy. The soldiers of the army of the King of
Naples will bo distributed among the Piedmont-see regiments,
and in the provisoes of Calabria and the Abruzzi', where
the spirit of the population is very military, there will be
found all the necessary elements for the formation of nen
corps. As to the Italian fleet, it is known that it is the
object of most especial care on the part of the Piedmontese
government, and by the aid of new acquisitions and the
great resources found at Naples, it will become, in the
course of a few months, a very powerful naval force.

PROTEST OF THE NORTHERN POWERS.
The Corriere Mercantile announces the fact of the
protest made by the three Northern Powers against
the acts of the Piedmontese government at Naples,
This protest is made in the form of a circular
to the respective envoys. According to the Gazette
de Parma, the Russian government declares that
on the entry of Piedmontese troops into Nnples, it
will at once break off all relations with the govern-
ment of King Victor Emmanuel, "reserving to itself
the right of adoptinifwhat further measures it may
deem advisable for the protection of the public
right of Europe."

THE FRENCH OCCUPATION IN ITALY.

PARD3, MONDAY.

The Moniteur says :—" The Papal Nuncio being
about to proceed to Rome on leave for several
weeks, and having solicited the honour of pre-
senting his respects to the Emperor before de-
parture, was received in audience yesterday by his
Majesty."
The Moniteur gives a formal denial to the re-
ported existence of a despatch addressed by the
Duke de Graminont to General Lamoriciere an-
nouncing to the latter the immediate assistance
of the French troops, and says :—" The French
ambassador has only sent a despatch to the French
consul at Ancona, containing the assurance that
the invasion of the States of the Church by the
Sardinians was far from being effected with the
authorisation of the government of the Emperor.
On the contrary, this invasion had highly excited
its disapproval. At that time it had not been
decided to increase the effective of the French army
at Rome."
MARSEILLES, MONDAY.

It is stated by Pontifical officers returning from
Italy that General bunoriciere wee expected to
arrive at Rome to-day.

The Monitore TOSC4IIO of October 10 publishes
the following very curious correspondence in the
Italian language, with the French text en regard
Head-quarters, Rome, Oct. 7.
Monsieur le Oonfsloniere—l have the honour to acquaint
you that a column of French Mama, composed of two bat-
talions of the 25th of the hoe, a section of 2 pieces of
artillery, and 20 horsemen, forming en effective of 60 offt-
ears, 1,260 men, and 70 horses, will leave Rome on Onto.