The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-02 00:00:00

ITALY.

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THE MABBA•CARRARA AFFAIR.
VIM OVZ 111.2C1A1,

TURIN, JULY 29.
My brief despatch of the 27th, relative to the
events at Mams.Carrara, was posted at the usual
hour-9 a.m. About 2 p.m. I learned that the
Minister of the Interior, upon whom the main weight
of affairs rests in the absence of Count Cavour at
Lego Meggiore, had declared that the whole affair
was trifling, and Immeoiately sent you a telegraphic
message to that effect. I had been making prepara-
tions to start for the frontier ; bat I thought, after this
ministerial declaration, there would be nothing to re-
port, and changed my resolution. It now appears that
on the night between the 26th and 26th ot July some
sixty young men, without arms, led by a person
whom some call Manzi and others Ratti, ite-
ambled on the frontier, near Parmignola. On the
ampeersoce of a small detachment of gensdarmee,
Raid cried out, "Respect legality and the constits-
don." No collision appears to have takes place on
Piedmont's@ territory. There were several small
gatherings on the Modenese territory, and among
them some individuals were armed. The general
Lion remained perfectly quiet. We are still in
ce as to what may have taken place at Maw,.
*thing hos transpired as to the professed objects of
the rioters, or insurgents, or whatever we are to
"all them. One of the Modena parties cut the wire
of the electric telegraph, and took possession of the
strong-box of the Modenese Douse', containing
about 2,000 zwanzigers. The Piedmontess side ot
the frontier is guarded by a strong force, and the
government has taken the requisite precautions for
the maintenance of order. Twenty-one persons
returning from the Ducal territory hive been
arrested. The latest intelligence from Carrara inti-
mates that four hundred and fifty Modenese troops are
expected there from Reggio. The young men had
been given to understand by their leader that they
would find a strong body of Tuscans assembled on the
Madminne side of the frontier, but none appeared. If
the name of the leader be indeed Manzi, it is remark.
able that an individual of the same name in 1863
instigated a number of young men at Milan to come
into collision with the Austrian troops, and was then
generally understood to have acted as a provocativo
agent of the Austrian police.
Rumours had been in circulation for a short time
before this echaufuuree that there was to be a the
lieoestration at Genoa on the 27th. The day, how"
l ever, passed over in perfect tranquillity. In the
morning the following proclamation was publishedin
the Italia e Popolo :
Italian Broth. rs,—The peoples and the goverment',
yielding to the ountip .tance of truth, companionate our
sufferings and acknowledge cur rights. European opinion
le moved end sgitites in our tavola. Awa I.ke thrill runs
through the oppressed from one end et Italy to the other.
Disquieted, impatient spirits feel a presentiment of a new
life for our common country. But European opinion can
only profit those who rise and do battl,. Peoples and
and only tee 'guise jai(' secomplu. A signal and a
'tsunami are required for the agitated multitudes. Oar
insurrection is the signal that all the world is waiting tor.
oar standard the signal for iion,bat. It Is the standard of
Italy—, f the notion, free and ursine, which, atirr aktory,
will be the arbiter of Its own fete. Hawing long endured,
te common with oar bret..rea, every kind of suffer •
log, we rise new to fight and conquer in the
sexed name of oar sountry. Fair years of
conspiracy sod saartlrlote, nobly borne,
the victory. From the heights of the Apennines we raise
the cry of battle, the cry of national lit. for Italy, the cry
of war against Austria and Ol foreign and domestic tynus-
miss which instinct our future. Let all men of 'mirage
respond ananimsusly, without delay, and boldly, and Italy
via live. Tics ITALIANS Or ids LIJNIGULPSA.
Conant, July, ISM.
I can find no resemblance to Mazzqii in this pro-
deaden, though some will have it that it is from his
pan.