The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-03 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

A letter from View's of the 27th ult., in the Pod
dmpt Gaud*, says: "Prince Pettolls, the Nespoli..
tan ambassador, had a long conference with Grout
Buol yesterday, and afterwards bad a private audi-
ence of the Emperor. We learn that a note is shortly
to be sent to Naples, in which big M.l...sty will be
recommended, conformably to an arrangement en-
tered into at Paris, to effect such reforms as are ren-
dered necessary by circutortancies. A similar note
will be sent to the Papal government. It is said
that these documents will be accumpanied by auto-
graph letters addressed by the Emperor to the King
of Naples and to the Pup."

ITALY.

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MON OUR OWN COI

NAPLES, Aram 28.
It is with se much grief as re.uctance that I send
you another chapter of my Neapolitan Jeremiad.
No fault, however, is it of mine it my theme and
tone are almost always the same. The mode is which
the grievances of Italy have again been passed over
has awakened much indignation and desperation
here; and much mistaken wiil Austria be, or perhaps
her new ally, Louis Napoleon, if they imagine that
the Italians will acquiesce in their imperial decision.
Their revolutionary attempts to secure justice may
fail, but they will be made, end a perpetual source of
irritation will exist. Whether right or wrong, a
most hostile and painful impreasion has been created
here against the Emperor of the French, on
the supposition that he has but ill supported
througu his minister the reps sentations of Cavour.
For full a month the Paris press, which is as com-
pletely under the control of the censor as the Neapo-
litan press, has been permitted to indulge in the
strongest invectives against the present governments
of Italy. Great hopes have been excited. Already
had a brighter future began to dawn upon the
oppressed millions of this country, when their ex-
pectations are doomed again to be disappointed. No
good can come of this, and much is it to be feared
that we have all been exclaiming " Peace, peace !"
when there is no peace. My weekly record of events
shows a state of things in this kingdom which can-
not and ought not to be tolerated.
In the first place, scarcely a man of any rank, cha-
racter, or talent, hu anything to do with the govern-
ment of this country; and be assured that in the
actual state of things no such man will come forward,
when he knows to a certainty that his wise counsels
will be rejected, that any plans of amelioration
which he may attempt to carry out will be un-
dermined, and that low and servile courtiers will be
encouraged to thwart him at every step. The his-
tory of the last eight years is full of such instances.
Bianchini, our present Minister of the Interior and
Police—a man of respectable character and talents—
tor such reasons is using every effort to be relieved
of the burthen of office. Another Minister of the In-
terior, not very long since, received his dismissal
for having tendered sound advice within an hour
almost of the time when his Majesty was expected to
honour him with a visit.
Prince Berrien°, too, has either retired or is laid
aside, and yet his undoubted talents and energy saved
Sicily, and would have resuscitated her. Time after
time did the viceroy urge on the royal consideration
an amnesty, without receiving any answer—
and roads were projected, and bridges were
planned for the rivers, and lighthouses for,
the coasts, and capital found—French capital, it is
tens. but from amongst the partisans of the Due de
Bordeaux; yet nothing has nor will be done. Prince
Satriano has retired from public affaire, and Prince
Castelcicals, his successor, has secured from the Sici-
lians the well merited title of the Fifth Statue, four
st►tues of Bourbons having been erected last year.
The result of this system of discouraging, rejecting,
abjuring, all the talents of the kingdom is, that we
have here the most thorough absolutism—the will of
the sovereign is uncontrolled; and in spite of the ex-
cases of false or weak apologists that were he not so
badly surrounded things would be better, his Ma-
jesty bears the sole responsibility of whatever hap-
pens. Is it possible, therefore, that things should be
better without foreign interveution, or that any fun-
damental ameliorations should be originated in
Naples P No one even dreams of it.

TER MARRIAGE LAW IN BELGIUM.

We read in the Sterols Independance of yesterday:
" • err its oille of the First Division, named Cerette,
having died a few days ego, several of his superion sad a
great number of his eollesguse clubbed together t r procure
him an appropriate funeral service. On Wednesday, at 2
o'clock, the body of the deceased was placed in the church
of the !liaises, in order to receive the last aloes of reli-
gion, a great many persons being precast to witneu the
ceremony. Bet Canto, who bad not been married many
years, had been unable, from unavoidable circumstances, to
proeurs a blessing upon his marriage from the church, end
had been compelled to confine timed( to the matrimonial
mama before the civil authority. Now, the priest who
was to °Salida on Wednesday, taking for his teat,
after the absolution, and contrary to pricedents,
the absence of this religion, marriage, and notwithstanding
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that Caren* had received the sacrament of extreme unc-
tion, did not hesitate to otigm•'ise, in an extremely violent
address, with scasdal and Immorality, the life of • ea .n
whose amps, it was hie ditty to bless ; to represent him
as hiving, by the fast of this want of submission to t►e
laws of the church, a terrible account to setae with bracts, '
and to deck,* his superiors soc snplices is his impi. sod
destined to be partaken in the celestial chastisements.

The drat which this aortae proioced upon the spirit of
the auditory, the energetic sentimmit of rodignation which
arms from all aides, ars indescribable. All the axistsnis
et the ceremony withdraw, protation loudly sanest tble
strange and odious 'gnomic& directed against the mortal
remains of an honourable man. The area upon the no for.
tante widow wan most 'educing, Already much affected
by the loos of her husband, the unhappy woman was to
keenly wounded by the words of the priest of the Minima,
thee the state of her health now recisions the gravest
anxiety.

..11:feet like this is deeply to be deplored. If a priest,
from whet be believes to be sunk:lent rootless, relent to
open the doers of the church to a body, that perhaps may
be an act of intolerance, but it would be as ezercite of
right which we do not deny to the clergy. Bat when the
&reseed bed received the last offices of religion, when his
remiss have been admitted without a raertnur tato the
shush, that an icalesiestn ehoeld lavish outrage and ne-
gate anon the dead, we mast diatribe as a voiitabis NSW
dal, sad ens that cilium be tolerated."

We (Saturday Review) have beard it stated that
when Victor Hoge was living la the Hue de Vaturfrard, a
letter retched him ad' dto the "Pim proud poste de 1
runieure." He immediately enclosed it, neopmed, to La-'
martiae, then lividly is the Rae de l'Usiversite, by whims
it was wit► equal promptitude wad courtesy returned.
It is said that the Russian Midi., of Patio
Affairs hes repaired 4,000 apAtoatioas for passports abroad,
throe-foarths ►ala( far Paris.