The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-24 00:00:00

ITALY.

A correspondent writes from Ancona under date
of the Bth inst. u follows :

" The Austrians are continuing the works I spoke
of in my last letter, and adding stables to the hospi-
tal. The last Lloyd's steamer from Trieste brought
as 50 pioneers, who are to be employed on the new
city rampart. This work, which was delayed for a
long time by the government and the municipality,
could not be commenced sooner, because the design
of the Roman engineer was not approved of at
Verona by the central board of officers, who, pro-
ceeding upon strategical reasons, have formed
another plan.
" A frightful crime has lately excited the
whole town. A respectable merchant, M. Morichi,
has been assassinated in the street, as he was re-
turning home from the theatre with his wife and
daughters. M. Morichi was universally respected,
and nothing can explain the cause of the misfortune
that has just befallen him, for he was not connected
with any sects, and his political opinions, though
liberal, were very moderate.
A few days later a fresh homicide disturbed
again the public safety, although its importance was
less grave, as it happened in consequence of a quar-
rel. Nevertheless, both these murders have created
deep indignation everywhere, and an address, signed
by several hundred persons of good standing in so-
ciety, has just been presented to the chief magistrate,
that he may communicate their sentiments to the
government. They beg him to ask for a larger
police force, so as to prevent the repetition of such
crimes against life and put an end to the constant
robberies taking place. Such a state of things, the
address goes on to say, appears incredible in a city
which, without reckoning the native police, has a
garrison of 3,500 foreign soldiers, who serve to prop
the throne of the sovereign, but who are of no use
for tbs safety of his subjects, the latter feeling only
the moral and economical weight of the former.
"Thirteen individuals belonging to the working
classes have been arrested, in consequence of these
recent events. They have been conveyed to Fermo,
where they will be tried with the political prisoner',
whose cases have been under investigation since the
month of November last.

" It appears that a project is on foot for presenting
to King Victor Emmanuel an address which will ex-
press the joy that is felt on hearing of the marriage
of his daughter with Prince Napoleon, the sympathy
felt in his happiness as a father, the hopes conceived
for the future weal of Italy in seeing the two sove-
reign families united, and the confidence inspired by
the generous words his Majesty uttered on the 10th
of January."
A correspondent, writing on the Bth from
Florence, says :
" The students, as I told you in one of my letters,
sent a deputation to the Sardinian Minister to com-
pliment him on the speech delivered by King
Victor Emmanuel at the opening of the Chambers.
One of the students who formed part of the deputa-
tion happening to be a native of Romagna, and not
of Tuscany, has been expelled from the states of the
Grand I)uke. The Nuncio is said to have interfered
in the young man's favour ; but if so, his good
offices have failed.

" Another student, a Sicilian, who was not one of
the deputation, but who had given utterance to some
strong opinions in the Piedmontese and Italian
sense, has also been sent oat of Tuscany. Unhap-
pily, in a fit of despair, he had no sooner crossed
the frontier than he committed suicide."

—A
correspondent writes on the 7th from Venice :
" Messrs. Lomberdini and Fambri are now lodged
in the prison of the Island of St. George. A mili-
tary commission is about to condemn, I do not
say to try them. They have been accused of inciting
others to desert, and of having been the accomplices
of those who escape from the conscription.
" In travelling from Venice to Verona the other day
I remarked along the whole line an extraordinary
movement of officers and non-commissioned officers
belonging to the cavalry. I 'was told they were
proceeding to Ferrara.
" I have now lying before me a letter from Trieste,
where commerce, it says, is dead. The Austrians
are making formidable preparations for the defence
of the harbour."

The Americans resident in Paris gave a ball on
Tuesday night to honour the anniversery of the birth of
General Washington. It took 11 toe in the magni-
ficent dining-room of the Hotel du Louvre; the
h moors were done by the I.7n'te I State. Minister
and the Coosa% waisted by a committee of American
gentlemen. A reception at the Tuileries on the sauna
night prevented persons from coming early; bat still
the atteed.nee, though sot so crowded so on the last
weal a, was very fdr. The facade of the hotel
on the Rue de Rivoli side was lightei up with
gee, and the step, testing to the hall were adorned
with Solvers. At the upper end of the ball-mom was the <S-
teads for the orchestra, with the portrait. of Washingios and
Lafayette, and the American flag eneir. ling them overhead.
At the opposite or entrance end was a marble beet of the
champion of Americas independence, with an appropriate
hweription show, and on tech side were the full.length
pert,ait. of the Emperor and Empress. The hell was
brilliantly lighted uo. Of tSe lavitallens sent to p mom
not otares of the linit-d States, twentpous were for the
family of General Lef gets. Dancing began at 11l o'clock,
mid was kept up to a lets lever.
The late Madame Lafarge had written for
Recital a shams, entitled flue Raw Perdue, fa which she
swirly describes her own rimation. This work, read and
received with applause little dent of seclantation in a lite.
eery drawinvnvont, Is t t be ployel, they my, on one of the
mar o of to Boulevards.