The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-04 00:00:00

NAPLES.

NAPI.IO3, Kasai 31 (vi* Mmumnimi).
The rumours eoncernirkg an approaching minis-
terial modification have ceased.
The propaganda in favour of annexation to Sar-
dini► is becoming more daring.
Copies of Mr. RI hot's despatches are widely dis-
tributed.

About thirty prisoners, among whom was
Signor Gatti, have pissed through the street
Toledo' and have been transported to the island of
Capri, to which they are banished.
A Capuchin monk has been prosecuted at the
criminal court for his preaching, which had been
denounced as being of a seditious character.

VEENNA, TUZSDAT.
The Oesterniehische Zeitung states from a reliable
source that the Neapolitan army will not enter the
States of the Church.

THE ANNEXATION OF SAVOY.
VIENNA, TOLIMA; Aran 3.
It is asserted that the three northern courts have
agreed to occupy themselves with the demands of
Switzerland simply in the usual diplomatic way,
because the great powers, by assembling in a con-
to consider the claims of Switzerland, would
tacitly and implicitly ognire the legality of the
annexation of Savoy to France. Therefore they
intend to abstain from taking part in a congress or
conference the object of which would be the settle-
ment of the question of the annexation.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, TUESDAY.
The Budget will be published shortly.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aram 2.
Kiamel Bey will leave to-morrow for Galatz, to
receive the Duke of Brabant.

THE UNITED STATES.
THE HOSTILITIES AT VERA CRUZ.

SOUTHAMPTON, WIDIIIIIDAY.

The American mail steamer Vanderbilt, Capt.
P. E Lefevre, has arrived off Cowes. She left New York
in the afternoon of the 24th March. She brings ninety-
( our passengers and 280,000 dollars in specie for France.
The Etna arrived out on the morning of the 24th March.
Advice. from Canada are to the 13th March.
Johnson, murderer of the captain and crew of the oyster
sloop E. A. Johnson, bad arrived at Providence.
At Porto Rico stock' of sugar were rapidly accumulating.
Sugars, 4c. to 4jc. Exchange on the United States are dull.
The bombardment of Vera Cruz was renewed by Miramon
on the 13th, but with little effect On the succeeding day
a flag of truce was sent to Juarez, which resulted in suspen•
sion of hostilities and preliminary steps to an armistice.
From all accounts received, Miramon had lamentably failed
upon the stronghold of the liberals.

General Garza had resumed the governorship of the city
of Tampico.
A Washington despatch says that Spain will be called
upon for respecting the fitting out at Havanna
of the steamers recently, captured by the Gulf squadron,
and that if the [explanations are unsatisfactory the neu-
trality laws with Spain will be suspended.
Nothing important bad transpired in commune

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SARDINIA.

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TURIN, MARCH 31.
We are ex.oollinnunieated. After lung hesitation
and perAgidlr the Pope has at length published
the excommunication, which is general, mentions
no names, and is without interdict. You possibly are
aware that we had already incurred this penal visi-
tation for having abolished the ecclesiastical court,
and that during the last seven years a good many
have died or been born as before, that we had fortune
on our side both in the Crimean war and in that. of
independence against Austria, so that these thunders
of the Vatican are as harmless as a rattle, while
the benedictions from the same quarter would seem
to be injurious, seeing what has happened to Aus-
tria since she made her concordat with Rome. For
these reasons you may easily conceive that, in spite
of the excominuuication and the Pope's protest to
boot, we sleep pretty well and eat with our usual
appetite.
I spoke about the political elections in my last,
and all I have at present to add is that this parlia-
ment
may be truly called the parliament of
Italy, seeing that every part of the Penin-
subs will be represented in it, even the part
still enslaved. We have in proof of this the
political economist Busacca, a Sicilian, and the
historian Giuseppe La Fanna, also a Sicilian. Of
Neapolitans we shall have Carlo Poerio, Bonghi,
the philosopher, Francesco Carrano, the author of
a beautiful work called " The Siege of Venice,"
and moreover a comrade of Garibaldi's in the late
war, in which he was a staff officer in the Cacciatori
dell; Alpi. He has written an animated and truth-
ful narrative of the combats fought brhis valiant
band, and it will very shortly see the ht. Then
there will be also among the Neapolitan eputies the
economist Scialoia and the advocate Mancini, a man
of great eloquence and extensive practice. He is also a
professor of international law at the University of
Turin. All these able men are of course exiles.
Among the deputies and senators there will also be
Venetaans and Lombards from that part of Loin-
beady which, after so many imperial promises, and
Prince Napoleon's topographical studies, was never-
theless left in Austria's hands. One of the mem-
Avis last alluded to is a Mantuan, the Count
Giovanni Arrivabene, who, having been banished in
1822, resided at Brussels for more than thirty years,
after staying for a short time in London and Paris.
He has been recently created a senator, and, although
an old man, left Brussels to come here and take
his seat in this Italian parliament, which has been
the dream of his youth and the hope of his whole
life.

In the midst of all this national joy we are
troubled and annoyed by the news we receive of
the vexations to which the inhabitants of Nice are
exposed through the machinations of the French.
A visitor there writes me word that he is shocked
at what he sees going on. He tells me the French
consul, Fillet, is violating every international
duty and every law of good breeding. English-
men and Russians are already on the wing,
and prefer paying up their house-rent to staying
out the full term for which they have taken lodg-
ings. Many Italians are also leaving, who meant
to lave spent the spring there, and several citizens
are abandoning their houses. Sympathising with
these voluntary fugitives, the municipality of Turin
has offered citizenship to all such citizens of Nice as
shall desire to transfer there their domicile.

Turin is crowded witliforeign
from other provinces, who have come here to wit-
ness the opening of parliament. Large arrivals
of fresh guests are expected to-night and to-mor-
row, and the difficulty will be how to accommodate
such a host. One of the visitors is M. Pietri, the
chief of the Parisian police. He has paid a visit to
Count Cavour, to express his regret for what has
taken place at Nice, as if the agents of the French
government were not principally to blame for it all.