The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-05 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 31st alt. have arrived.
In consequence of the remarks about Gibraltar which
have recently been made in several journals, the
semi-official Correspondancia Autografe states that
the Spanish government has no right to prevent the
English from strengthening the fortifications of that
place, or from extracting stone within its military
zone. The government wu occupying itself with a
reform of the postal treaty with France. The
French schooner Siren. had sank before Cadiz, bat
the crew sad cargo were saved.

ITALY.

TAE TWO TWO BICILLES.

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NAPLES, JOLT IS.
In reporting the royal visit to the " Yesoovado,"
last Sunday, the writer says :—" Whilst their Ma-
jesties were kissing the holy relics, the precious
blood (of Bt. Jannanus) was observed to sink down
and liquify, though the head of the saint was on the
altar, an event perfectly new in the memory of man,
received by all with devout satisfaction, and rightly
regarded as a most happy omen." B 7 such humbug
is it that the priestly party still continue to impose
on the minds of the 'inaltitede, and confirm their
own power.
It is melancholy to think that the new reign
should be inaugurated with melt old women's stories
and mediaeval absurdities. You may easily conceive,
therefore, the difficulties which any enlightened and
powerful-minded minister, such as l believe Filangieri
to be, has to contend with, in his efforts to introduce
a better system.
The Official Journal of the 27th instant has three
circulars of the President of the Council, Prince
Satriano, addressed to several of the directors of
ministerial departments. They embody the decisions
of the Councils of Ministers, and treat of the most
Important subjects. In the first circular, which is
addressed to the Directors of the Interior' of Police,
and of Public Works, he by implication admits the
wretched state of the prisons.
The attention of the officials is celled also to the
erection of new lighthouses on those points of the
coast where they are needed. Again the secretary-
general of every province or a councillor of inten-
dency is to choose qualified men, who are to visit every
commune, and ascertain if the public works have
been executed according to the plans agreed upon,
both in an artistic and administrative sense, in order
to give effect as soon as possible to such as are prac-
ticable.

The Minister of Grace and Justice is ordered to
direct that the substitutes of the provincial attorney-
generals, or judges to be selected for the purpose,
shall visit immediately the capitals of every "circon-
dario," to asoertain exactly how the judges and the
chancellors fulfil the duties of their offices.

There is another crying evil which he is endea-
roofing to remove, for which every foreigner at
least and every person of common decency will
thank him, and that is the present filthy state of the
capital. I do not believe that there is a fouler city
in Europe ; every genes is offended, and it is a great
reflection on former governments that with so large
and vigilant a police (at least in political matters)
they have never even attempted to pat down inde-
cencies which are not practised even by brutes. At
the present moment some of the most interesting
parts of Naples are perfectly unapproachable. Santa
Lucia and the Mole are pest-houses, and a foreigner
on arriving in Naples witnesses such sights as he
would not see amongst savages. Great thanks are
due to Filangieri for attempting to introduce habits
of greater cleanliness. There is one remedy however
which he proposes which is worse than the evil he
would remove, and the directors who are charged
with carrying out the orders of Filangieri will do well
to inquire into the usages of such cities as Paris and
London.

I regret to add that the unfortunate men who have
been confined in the prisons of Santa Maria Apparent.
for upwards of two years have been sent as " relegati "
to the island of Capri. It is mortifying to English-
men to think that their liberation has been made •
great object by Mr. Elliot, who has spared no efforts
in their behalf ; still, from first to last, what has
England extorted 11—deceptive amenities and an
illegal condemnation!
Our fleet has been dropping in one by one ever
since last Monday, when the Marlborough, Admiral
Fanshaw, oame in, towed by the Lapwing. Since
then have arrived the Exmouth, the Conqueror, the
Renown, and the Princess Royal. They will remain
from eight to ten days it is surmised.
I cannot close this letter without adverting again
to the circular letters of Prince Sandwich Amongst
the suggestions for promoting the cleanliness of the
capital was one that the washerwomen should
be no longer permitted to hang out their rags in the
Mergelluia. On the following day, when the King
drove by, that respectable body of individuals sur-
rounded the royal carriage, and presented petitions
against the decision ; the King, however, threw them
back again. On the return of the royal carriage,
the women, with the characteristic perseverance of

their sex, again prevented petitions and threw them
into the royal carriage, and the King was compelled
to retain them. It will raise a laugh, methinks,
that the president of a council occupied with the
etre of the destinies of a kingdom should lame
directions about the drying of clothes.