The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-15 00:00:00

ITALY.

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.•ti NAPLES, ilsecit 9.
In spite of' the mystery which surrounds the
King, it is generally believed that his Majesty's ill-
neselecomes more eerier. The chamber of the
royal invalid is closed with care, and no one enters
it bat the Queen, the Physicians Leone and
Reasaglia, and the ger sailors and quartermasters
of the royal yacht, who act as nurses.
A feeling of intercity continues, sad wary one
sells his Rena,: I am informed on good Le-
thally that eves the royal family esiL At
all rata it is earter that a person named
Morelli, who is employed at the great book, in
the beginning of the week carried the book of
the public debt in which the Beata are eatered to
the• palace, in order that the administrator
of the Bursillo pertioolare of the younger eons of the
King might sign the act of the sale of the Rents
which they had previously bought with the money
of the young princes. The bank is in great mita-
tion, agents being embarrassed by the numerous 11
sales, sad the threats of the polies. TI Ise sewn of
Lord Cowley's mission, however, has produced a
certain amount of sontilemee. Public affairs see in
suspense; everything is at a standstill. The here-
Hilary Prince Is permitted to take no part. The
ministers NINO/1100 and Morena areaetdmitted to
the King. To leeeen his suffering& he is obliged to
have recourse to opiates. The polar exercise the
utmost rigour towards all who speak of his illness.
Two dap ago a gentleman in the cal under the
Peluso Align, in the Toledo, ventured to enprem his
regret at the silence of the offend journals on the
sabieet. On his way out he wee arrested.
Miserable people! Even the solicitudeor the people
for their sovereigns health is construed into a crime.
The restore and preparations for the *terrine fetes
dangle in the winds, faded and weather-beaten, the
babied' Of epigrams and mockery. Arrests opa-
-1 &tautly take pier Carlo Oapeano, a political pri-
soner recently Blurted, has again been arrested.
Yet in the midst of this misery and desolation, with
laws of meta than Drumm severity, the people
are gay, and sing about the shyer morto
lusei—Ousevais How is this I' The feet in, that
public opinion against the government, sad in favour
of the rights of the people, hes made gigantic stride,.
The attitude of Piedmont has elated the people, sad
given the fro aonfidenee in the future. It is at
Wee as at Rork they have resolved to masa in
a state of solemn ealre ; not to dieterb the
of events by petty
.agitations about things rtrz
moment, but to watt and assist the great operations
begun at the head of the peninsula. in Lombardy. The
Austrian princes returned some days since from Bari
by way of Arnie°, where they informed the in-
teadente that there was no probability of the King's
return for some weeks ; that ronettonary, however,
for the public good, thought fit to give oat that he
would return in a week. It is said that the princes
are going to leave the kingdom, having obtained
three millions from the King, and another million
from the Grand Doke of Tuscany, but I cannot vouch
foe the truth of these reports. Yesterday a monk,
in the ardour of sanctity, left for Bad, to intercede
with the Almighty for the King's health.