The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-21 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1867.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

ITALY.

(REUTEIN 17.1100.11111.)
FRANCE.

FARM SErr. 20, ECENING.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRENPONDINT)
FLORENCE, Sm. 17.

It is expected that within a few days from this date

The official and semi-official papers of this all the preliminaries forestalling the allotment for
evening still refrain from noticing Count Bismarek's sale of the ecclesiastical property will have been
recent circular. The other journals comment uren terminated throughout the various provinces of
it in very animated terms, and consider it to be an
act of provocation to France. and that the financial operation looked
y;
forward to with so much anxiety will then be
accomplished with efficiency and despatch. In
the city of Florence alone, " twenty funds" of
" immovable property " are put up for sale ; but
the day on which the property is to be disposed of
is not yet settled.
The news of Garibaldi's sudden departure from
Geneva, and the abruptness with which he took
leave of the "Peace Congress," has been the sub-
ject of much and various comment. The interpre-
AUSTRI A. tation moat generally given to this event is the
wiENNA, sem 20, impending movement on Rome, portended by
The Austrian delegates of the Austro-Hungariana rush of red-shirted volunteers. from various
Conference have drawn up the following proposi-Iparts of Italy to the Pontifical frontiers.
lions, in reply to those submitted by tho govern-ITroops of the line and cavalry have just been
went, with the object of effecting a financial sent to guard the Roman frontier, and a detach-
arrangement between Hungary and Austria. They I went of Rifles, preViously at Siena, has bad orders
propose that the revenue resulting from the
to move. towards the same point. The Corriere di
customs should be applied for the benefit of I
both halves of the empire ; that the go-. Emilia, gives det tile concerning the preparations
vernment proposition that Austria shall con- which are being made by the "red-shirted" party, in
tribute a quota of 70 and Hungary of 30 per' contemplation of an attack on the Papal territory.
cent, towards the payment of the interest on the Symptoms of agitation have prevailed through
public debt should be accepted for ten year : Umbria. There, as well as throughout the Romagna
that the proposal of the government that a capital
and the Marches of Ancona (the same paper tells
of the public debt represented by interest to the
amount of 25,000,000 florins, shall be placed to the us), " fifty francs and a revolver" have been con-
sole charge of Austria, should also be accepted ; signed and distributed to those youths who are
and that the amount required to carry, out. the considered as the most hardy and daring amongst
operation of the conversion of the public debt of
the young men who have a mind to meddle in
Austria into one single debt should be „
risk affair.
added to that portion of the debt of which this"the
'sky" affair. The Romans with'
Hungary is to bear a part. The Austrian delegates Eternal City itself are at this moment utterly
further recommend that the unification of the unprepared for sustaining the revolutionary cur-
public debt shall be as complete as possible, and rent which is about to make its way towards their
that its redemption shall be effected with the least territory. Without aid from within, success in
posaible expense, without, however,
injuring the rights of the creditors oinf thaneystwateay. such an enterprise as the one looked forward to
The delegates inlay ask that at the end of the would be utterly impossible. Moreover, the
year a commission composed of Hungarian and Italian liberal government is determined to nip
Austrian delegates shall assemble, in order to any attempt in its bud which is likely to disturb
ascertain and make known the exact amount of the the international tranquillity, and break the terms
public debt. of its convention with France.
The New Free Press says :—" We have received
from an authentic source a memoir setting forth Public health continues to be excellent at
the negotiations which have lately taken piece in Florence ; Leghorn, on the contrary, is decimated
Livadia between Fuad Pacha and the Emperor of by the cholera, and stricken by all the evils of
Russia, by whom the cession of Candle to Greece
re_ misery, incident on the stagnation of commercial
was urgently demanded. This demand being
Even retail trade is l as all
jeered by Fuad Pacha, the Emperor intimated enter rise. Para Yeed,
that the question could only be decided by force of the more wealthy portion of the population have
arms. Subsequently the Russian ambassador at fled the city, and but few of the shops are open,
Constantinople proposed to the Porte an alliance whilst scarcely any business is done. Even at
between Turkey and Russia. He at the same time' Leghorn (a part of " civilised Tuscany ") the
proposed, instead of the cession of Candies, an in- !
"'""'tta " poison bottle," is believed in, but
dependent political administration for the island, i or
none have gone so far as to insult individuals, or
and neutrality on the part of Turkey in any Euro-
pean complication which may occur ; demanding destroy property.
also that Eastern questions relating either to Elsewhere, however, and more especially in the
Candies, Servia, or Bulgaria should be settled with
Neapolitan provinces, tumults and barbarities so
Russia direct without the intervention of any otheri
power. This proposal was also declined by the , frequently before alluded to, and which have their
Sublime Porte. ! origin in the dread of poison, are on the in-
crease. At Amalfi, and in the provinces of Avel-
lino and Potenza, serious tumults have broken out.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN. SEPT. 20. EVENING,

A royal decree has been issued crdering that the
treasure left by the Elector of Hesse should be
applied exclusively for the benefit of Electoral
Hesse.

It is stated that the palace of Kid will be fitted
up as a residence for the Kim• of Prussia.
Most of the Schleswig-Holstein notables leave
to-dad•.

BARON VON BEUST.

DROIDIDT, SEPT. 20.
lAt Tolye, in the province of Potence, a meet de-
Baron Von Boust and the Austrian Charge
with his plorable tragedy has lately been enacted. After
d'Affaires, Herr Von Pfuaterschmied,
wife, dined yesterday at the royal table at the the cholera had broken out in the place, a rumour
Castle of Pillnitz. Baron Von Beust was received somehow got abroad accusing a man named Antonio
by the Crown Prince of Saxony to-day, and by Savellino as the cause of promulgating the disease.
Prince George yesterday. An armed and furious band of individuals intent
on vengeance marched to the unfortunate man's
house, which they broke into, when during their
search (on the scent after poison, which they
supposed to be hidden somewhere out of sight)
they by mishap placed their hands on a pot of
paste, which Savellino had prepared for the de-
struction of rats. " Here is the poison ! We
have it ! We have found it! There cannot any longer
be a doubt of it !" yelled frantically the human fiend
who had just then caught sight of the paste-
pot. Some portion of its contents was in an
I instant given to a dog, who naturally soon after
died from the effects of the poison. This was
the signal for the immediate massacre of three un-
fortunate creatures—Sabellino, and two of his
companions, chance visitors who happened to be
with him at the time, who, as well as himself,
were forthwith fiercely butchered by the crowd,
the latter as the supposed accomplices to the "Poi-
soning Infamy" of which Sabellino was accused.
The few carabineers stationed within the town
were unable to make head against the maddened
and indignant crowd, who, after this fearful deed
had been enacted, declared their intention of
ruliag by mob law " for a week." During the
confusion and agitation incident upon such an
event troops arrived from Potence. But the city
gates had been closed, and the angry populace
were preparing to fire through the loop-holes in
the wall on the troops when a spirited young
officer (Captain Juelfi, of the Royal Carabineers),
espying a bye-road into the town, rode in at
full gallop and brought himself up aline right on
the rear of the mob. Taken thus suddenly by
• surprise, admiration at this single man's bravery
burst at once from the crowd, who cheered him,
uttering the cry of " Viva Vittorio Emanuele !"
and afterwards dispersed, thus making an end to
the tumult. The next day several officers of justice
came over from Potence, and made 39 arrests
amongst the principal and most daringof the rioters.
At Leone, in the province of Asellino, the people,
under the supposition that a certain fountain
had been poisoned, tumultuously insisted on a
public analysis of its waters. At Messina the
cholera continues to afflict the population. Most
lof the higher official authorities in the city have
fallen victims to the disease. Baron Natoli, whose
life has long been in jeopardy from the same cause,
is at length out of danger.
The troops stationed at Messina have received
public thanks (on report of their admirable conduct)
in an order of the day lately published, signed
by General Medici, commander-in-chief of the
troops in Sicily. In addition to this honourable
public encomium, the Marquis Rudini publishes a
letter (on his departure from his high post as
Prefect of Palermo), addressed likewise to Gene-
ral Medici, the purport of which is to express his
admiration and eulogistic praise on the manner in
which the royal troops have behaved through-
out every district of the island of Sicily, in their
care of the sick and infirm—for the bravery,
courage, energy, and the charitable abnegation of
every selfish feeling which has distinguished the
performance of their duty in whatsoever depart-
ment that duty ran. A medal of honour has lately
been instituted for rewarding such individuals,
male or female, as have distinguished themselves
in the care of cholera patients. A call has lately
been made by the government on the services of
such young medical practitioners as are

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, Smrr. 19, EVININO.

The Grand Duke Nicolai has been appointed com-
mander-in-chief of the St. Petersburg military
district.

Finance Minister Reutern has re-entered upon
his duties.

The Bourse Gazette has received a warning from
the government respecting several financial articles
lately published in that paper.

ST. PETERSBURG. Stre. 20.
The Grand Duke Wladimir has loft Livadia for
St. Petersburg.
The annual fair at Niahni Nowgorod has cloned
unfavourably.
A commission has been appointed by the Minister
of Justice to examine the question of the abolition
of imprisonment for debt.

MADRID, Szrr. 20.

willing to undertake the arduous duties of
attending on cholera patients in the Sicilian
provinces. Four young doctors have vo-
lunteered their services (two amongst them
are of Greek origin). Their stipend is to be
at the rate of 16/. sterling per month. They have
been engaged until the month of October. Two
days ago the new and splendid gallery, to which
the name of " Vittorio Emanuele " has been ap-
plied, and the foundation of which was laid in
March, 1865, by the King himself, was opened to
the public, under the auspices of his Majesty and
several of the higher dignitaries of the realm. A
speech was read on the occasion, both by the
syndic and the representative of the English
Society (City of Milan Improvements Company,
Limited), itself located in London, whose capital
and intelligent directive impulse have produced
such excellent results. This gallery, unique in its
way, both in regard to its dimensions and
beauty, is considered to be a marvel of de-
corative art. It contains statues, paintings, stuc-
coes, marble, and mosaics, in what might be
considered a bewildering profusion, were tho
whole arrangement of the building and decora-
tion not presided over by the soundest taste.
Above 2,000 gas jets give this beautiful build-
ing its brilliancy at night ; no less than
ninety-two large, airy, and handsome shops are
contained within its centre. To these are an-
nexed vast subterraneous vaults for purposes of
stowage. These magazines or stores are accessible
by circularly shaped iron-built stairs. The vaults
are about four metres in height. The pavement is
formed from a fusion of metallic lava, manufactured
in the well-known Frage fabric. Great rejoicings
took place at Milan on the opening of the gallery,
and the city was decorated with flags and banners as
fora public fete. Yesterday, favoured by splendid
weather, the grand prize was run for at the Caacinc,
and won by St. Joseph, the Marquis Constabili
horse. The sum awarded was 12,000 f. The third
race was won by the King's horse, Tilly's Friend.
The prize, however, destined to the winner of that
course was, by a previous arrangement (suggested
by his Majesty), awarded to the "second best"
courser. It therefore fell to the share of the
Marquis Sciamanna, whose horse, Done Again,
was the winner of the race.

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THE TYROL.

(FROM ♦ COMLICSPONDIINT.)

LOTZLN, Szrr. 14.

A meeting of some importance has just broken
up at Innsbruck. It was a Conference of the
Catholic Verein, in which the priests and high-
flying laity of Southern Germany, Austria, the
Tyrol, and Northern Italy united, under the
presidency, strange to record, of a Prussian
catholic layman. rho greater part of the subjects
discussed were of course questions of religion,
dogma, papal pretensions, and the necessity of
union amongst catholics. But the real object of
the assemblage was, it is confidently believed, of
eminently political. It is to combine tho catholics of
Southern Germany, of the Austrian States, and of
Italy, against the further extension of protestant
and Prussian power in Germany. You will not
find this object plainly avowed in the speeches
made ; nor, perhaps, were all the persons who took
part in the Conference aware of what was really
meant. But there is, I am assured, no doubt
whatever that the movers of the meeting aimed at
checking, if possible, the progress of Prussia and
prolestantism in Germany, by uniting its catholic
population in support of Austria, and in defence of
the prolonged existence of the kingdom of Bavaria.
They desire to convert a purely political into an
essentially religious and ecclesiastical question, re-
gardless of re-exciting in Germany those terrible
passions and hatreds which devastated it during
the thirty years war, and arrested its progress from
the Peace of Westphalia, until the House of Bran-
denburg began to rehabilitate their territories, and
to set an example which to this hour the House of
Hapsburg has not had the sense to follow. The
priestly party in Bavaria, Austria, tho Tyrol. mean
mischief ; of that be quite assured ; and of their
intention this Conference of Innsbruck is the first
step.
How far this object is fomented or promoted
from Vienna must, of course, be matter of suspi-
cion only. But it was a crafty suggestion to place
in the president's chair a Prussian lay catholic.
The choice has not, however, deceived or misled
any one who looks beneath the surface.
The Conference lasted for several days, and ended
aton the 13th of September by a banquet the Hotel
d'Autriche, at which no fewer than 200 members
of the Verein were present, and in the evening by
the performance of Haydn's "Creation" in the
riding-school of the capital of the Tyrol, which was
crowded to excess. The speeches at the banquet
were short and incisive ; the toasts were received
by salvoes of guns and bursts of music.
The priests tilled Innsbruck for several days,
coming from all parts at low rates of railway fares,
and largely increased in numbers by the line just
opened across the Brenner Pass. The holy men
were, generally speaking, tall, brawny, athletic,
red-faced, greasy looking, with long black coats ill
brushed, and tall fluffy hats of huge dimensions.
They looked frank, hearty, good sort of fellows,
glad to see each other, chatty and familiar, but
to all appearance of very little cultivation or learn-
ing ; just the sort of men to have and exercise
great influence over a peasantry inclined from tra-
dition to bo influenced by priests.

The pressure at the railitay station next morn-
ing, Friday, the 13th, was enormous, for the trains
to Salzburg and Botzen start almost about the
same time ; and foremost in the pushing, rushing,
storming of the ticket windows were these un-
fragrant, unshaved priests. Coal-heavers could
nut have pressed forward more vigorously, but
with good humour; and all their efforts were a
waste of time and endurance, for, of course, the
trains waited until every applicant was supplied
with tickets _

Then, en route to Botzen, nothing could be more
uneasy than the holy men : out of the carriages
they rushed at every station, buying fruit, bread,
and edibles ; swallowing hastily beakers of
coarse wine, and pouring into rooms in the stations
like an invading army ; gradually, however, we
dropped them, and off they went trudging up the
mountains to their various cures of souls, there, no
doubt, to repeat i❑ a coarser and ruder form
such of the lessons they learnt at Innsbruck as they
comprehended and carried home.
The line across the Brenner Pass, some GO miles
long, is a very creditable piece of work. It is
solidly and substantially though in parts appa-
rently roughly made, and has been laid out with
consummate skill. The contractors were German,
the prices of English contractors, who were first
applied to, being far too high to be accepted, and
the line has up to its present point been very
cheaply made. The curves are of course numerous,
and some of them very awkward, but the trains are
most carefully driven, the engines are of great
strength, and have a driving-wheel well adapted
to their work. Despite some formidable looking
precipices, danger there is none. At present the
line is a single one ; but the traffic is already so
encouraging that another line of rail will be at once
laid down. The amount of goods carried is already
very large indeed, and the depOta are full of com-
modities waiting their turn. In short the line of
railway across the Brenner Pass will, it may be re-