The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

ITALY.

TURIN, Jut. 15.
The Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio died this morn-
ing at five o'clock.

The election st Soretins has resulted in the
return of Count Arrivabene to the Italian par-
liament.

SWITZERLAND.

BERNE. JAN. 13.

The voting upon the revision of the Federal cfm-
stitution proceeded yesterday. Up to the present
six cantons may be considered favourable to the
revision, nine as rejecting it, and six undecided.

REPORTED SUICIDE OF ADMIRAL
PAREJA.
PARIS, J. 15, Emil Na.

According to letters received here from Madrid
intelligence bad reached that city asserting that
Admiral Pareja, commander of the Spanish squa-
dron off the Chili= coast, had committed suicide.

DEATH OF THE MARQUIS MASSIMO

D'AZZGLIO.

In the letter of our Florence correspondent,
dated the 12th inst., published this day, a brief announce-
ment is made of the serious Wows of the Marquis Massimo
d'Azeglio. A telegram from Turin states that the distin.
guished Italian died yesterday morning, at 5 o'clock. The
following is a sketch of his career :—" Marquis Massimo
Taperelli d'Azeglio, born in Turin, in 1800, is the descendant
of an ancient Piedmontese family. From his infancy he was
of • proud and fiery spirit. At the age of 14 he showed
the door to his first roaster, an ecclesiastic, for venturing
to treat him harshly. For this he was excommunicated,
and it was a long time before he could make his peace with
his family and the church. He devoted himself with great
ardour to music and painting at a very early age, and in the
latter branch of the arta specimens of his pencil are to be
seen in the galleries of the Louvre and of Turin. In obe.
dience to his father he entered the military service as officer
in the Piedmonts*, cavalry ; but his heart was in the arts,
and an illness, induced by severe study, caused him to leave
the army. He studied in Rome for eight years as au artist.
He returned to Turin in 1829. The year following he went
t• Milan, where painting was in a flourishing state, and here
he became acquainted with Maozoni, and married his
I daughter. It was under the influence of BILIOZ3Li
I that Azeglio devoted limself to literature, and pro.
I duced his story of Ettore Fieramosca' (1833), • work in.
spired by the purest patriotism, and which was hailed in
Italy with great enthusiasm. A second novel, • iiccolo di
Lappi ' (1841), bad an equal succeia. From this time M.
d'Azeglio was regarded as one of the first representatives of
Italian nationality ; and, deserting his favourite studies, he
became an active propagandist of the political views which
led to the revolution of 1843, but never was a member of
any conspiracy. When the insurrections of Rimini and the
Romagna broke out, he published his celebrated work,
' The Last Events in the Romagna,' wherein, while blaming
I the insursection, he attacked the government of the Pope,
and demonstrated the necessity of a national policy. After
the revolution of 1848, he supported measures relating to
the freedom of the press, the reform of the papacy, eman-
cipation of the Jews, &c. Under Victor Emmanuel H. he
was named President of the Council of Ministers, 11th of
May, 1849. In 135'2, he was replaced by his rival Cavour,
and has since taken no active part in politica."

JUSTICE IN JAMAICA. When the Rev. Mr.
Roach was arrested, and the news was conveyed to a
daughter of his, the young woman, who is an educated and
respectable female, imprudently gave vent to her feelings
and gave utterance to language that was very improper in
such times. Alin Roach was then in Kingston, where
' martial law did not exist ; she was taken into custody and
conveyed to the camp where martial law did exist, her
clothes were turned ap, thus exposing the person of a young
and virtuous female in the presence of 4.ldiers, and she was
dogged on her bare mem—Lyons' Shipping and Com-
mercial Newspaper, Montego Bay, Dec. 22.
GRIM CAL'ItC II TOLERANCE. —Another disagree-
able incident has been added to the many which have
lately oentributed to embitter the relation' between the
laity and clergy of the Greek communion. The journal
Anatole; in a recent number, in reviewiog the state of
society at the prmeot time, observed that young men would
du better for their mental condition by mending their
morals than by kissing images and bowing to crucifixes in the
churches. The Patriarch and part of the clergy considered
this 'esteem as implying insult to the observances of their
faith, and denounced the article accordingly to Fad
Pasha as a bench of the kw of the prams. The Greed
'Vizier, it appears, did net see where the breach was, and
dismissed the complaint. Upoa this, the conducton of the
Anatole were solemnly excommunicated in most, if not all,
of the Greek churches on Sunday last, and the people were
warned not to read its articles. A patriarchal circular to
Ithe same effect was published yesterday in the clerical
journals—Lcrang Herald, Jan. 3.