The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-24 00:00:00

ITALY.

TURIN, SATTMDAT.
General Schmidt has been allowed to leave for
Switzerland, on giving his word never to bear arms
against Italy again. He was accompanied to the
frontier by an officer of gendarmerie.
M. Depretis has withdrawn the resignation ten-
dered to Garibaldi, and has returned to Sicily.
Eight hundred Swiss, made prisoners at Perugia,
of which number forty-one are officers, have arrived
at Genoa. They will be lodged in Fort Specula.
The Pattie publishes the following account of
the battle before Ancona :
General lamoriciere, who commanded the first corps, was
joined at Recent& on the morning of the 17th by General
rmocboi. He decided that on the morrow he would
attack the Piedmontess lines, which intercepted hie
note, and throw himself and army into Anemia. The
attack was made on the morning of the 114th, when a
terrible combat ensiled. The two armies showed equal
courage, and both sides suffered considerable lass. The
Pieihnontese lines were formidably placed, and the Pouti-
ficel troops could not force them. Three times they at-
tacked
the position and three times they were driven back.
On the third attack General Piroodan was hit in two or
three places, and carried away dying. General Lemon-
mere, at the head of a small column, succeeded in travers-
ing the enemy's army, gained the mountains, and entered
Ancona. General Pimodau died of his wounds in the night
between the 18th and 19th inst. The town of Anomie, de-
spite the courage of General Lamoriciere and his little
army, being invested by land and sea, is inevitably lost. It
is said that the Sardinian army, which has just obtained a
decided advantage, intends, with& view to sparing the citi-
yens of Ancona, to keep up a strict blockade, and oblige the
garrison to surrender.
A communication from Ancona of the 15th, end
consequently three days before the investment. of '1
that place, says :
There are now only 3,600 Pontifical troops in this place,
most of them Austrians. Provisions are not very abundant
any more than is ammunition. A council of war has been
held to devise means for procuring supplies. On the side
of the sea Ancona is well fortified, works having been
thrown up in expectation of a visit from Garibaldi's men.
On the land side the fortifications are not so strong, as the
works have been carried on with deplorable dilatoriness.
The Jewish synagogue has been demolished, and no-
thing built in its place. About a month ago, one battery
was commenced, but it is not yet finished. The ground is
now being dug out to form a conduit for water, but the
indolence of the workmen is really extraordinary. The
people murmur at the expenses which are entailed on them ;
complain of the cessation of their commerce, and dread that
the presence of the foreign troops will bring misfortunes es
them. They wish to see an end put to all this, and look
forwent to being in a short time under the government of
Piedmont. They look with great indifference on the
wounded and those who return from the field of battle.
A postscript to the letter adds :
The following despatch was this morning posted up on all
the walls and the public edifices at Ancona To Colonel
de (lady, at Ancoms.—General de Goy on is to arrive et Rome
on the 17th with 25,000 men and 48 penes of artillery.
Official. Have this good WWI posted up in your town.
Tolentino, 14th." All the people in ADOODS press round to
read this placard ; delight is depicted on the countenances
of the poor soldiers, who feared that they should fall.
They know by this time that the news on which
they relied was a desperate invention of the Papal
government.
A Turin letter of September 21, in the Prase,
says :
It Is ramoured that Lareoriciere will surrender Ancona.
Defence appears impossible. His own friends calculate
that he can only have 7,000 men in the place, and, in point
of fact, he can scarcelyhave mere than t,OOO.