The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-04 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LETTER OF THE PRINCE PRIMATE OF
HUNGARY TO THE COMITATB.
The following is the letter of the Prince Primate
of Hungary to the comitata :

Honourable Comitate ! Estimable Patriots I To oos-
tribute to the happiness of our dear country, to secure its
prosperity, such has ever bees the chid aim of
my life. Therefore, I desire notating more strongly
than to see reestablished the edvantager of the conetitu-

tional existence enjoyed by our fathers and by us during •
series of years under crowned princes. The Almighty, who
rules times and epochs, who destroys empires and founds them
anew, has blessed my efforts, and thus it happens that his
Majesty, following his former inclinations, accedes to the
desires of the nation, and has restored to the country its
constitutional existence. In virtue of the supreme reso.
lution, the comitata were organised ; provinces violently
separated from the territory of the country have been
restored to it; the language of the public decrees and
of education is the Hungarian language; and with satisfac-
tion we learn that the Diet and the government of our
august sovereign are to be expected as indubitable facts.
We now possess the germ of the constitutional life ; the
good intentions and the promise of our lord and sovereign
are the guarantee that we shall also witness the fructifics-
800 of the germ.
I bless the Almighty, who has permitted me to see the
morning of the day of the resurrection of my country, and
has enabled me to exclaim with the nation, "The country has
risen from the dead ! let us return thanks to the Almighty."
But I experience very grave anxiety in learning that the
construction of the new edifice ia not in some points con-
ducted with that prudence, that patience, which
the importance and difficulty inherent to the matter
require, and which are the necessary conditions of a
happy solution. Dear patriots I—Your ardent love for the
safety of the country tranquillises me, and makes me hope
that you will not badly construe it if one of your brothers
who has reached the evening of life, and, anxious on the
subject of his country's prosperity, addresses to you some
words of counsel.

For so great a work as the regulation of our country's
affaira, great preparations are necessary, in order that all
may be executed with fitting circumspection, and that the
edifies which we desire to see arise, magnificent and im-
pregnable, may be placed upon a sure and solid basis. It
is especially in the execution of a work of such grandeur
and of such extensive bearings, that precipitation ought
to be avoided. We should shun all premature steps—
act' contrary to the written decree; steps which, besides being
an obstacle to the development of affairs, produce, instead
of order, the anarchy which God wishes to spare the
country so often tried, and provoke measures of order on
the part of the authorities. If, with • manly perse-
verance, we have suffered, our eyes turned to the
Most High, only nourishing in our Warts a wish
to see the sovereign tender us hie hand in sign
of reconciliation as he bas now tendered it, let us at
least have some months of patience until our affairs receive
from the Diet • solution in • permanent form, with the co-
operation of all, and so not alienate • sovereign animated
by the purest sentiments, and who approaches us with the
olive branch in his hand.

The country finds itself now, as it has done at many other
periods, in a situation of difficulty. Dear friends of the
country ! permit me in my sincerity to tell you that your
patriotism will be of very slight value, if just at this
moment you withdraw the aid material to the prince
and the country ; if just at this moment you refuse
the psyment of taxes, the necessity for which, moreover, is
so pressing in our own interest. I hope that you will
understand me if, by virtue of my position in the country,
sad following the example of my ancestors, I now intercede
between the sovereign and the nation. May these words,
full of confidence, testify my high esteem for you, my fra-
ternal love, ►nd the hopes which I entertain of your patriot-
ism.

lay the blessing of Cod descend upon the prince and
upon the botuatry.
JEAN SLITOWSKT, Cardinal and Prince Primate
of Hungary.
Gnat, Jan. 16, 1861.

Baron Vay, Chanoellor of Hungary, has ad-
dressed a letter to the Cardinal Primate relative
to the late imperial protest against the proceedings
of the comitata. The Chancellor says that if these
proceedings ooutinue, the meeting of the Diet must
be indefinitely postponed. Meanwhile he pledges
himself for the sincerity of his sovereign. "No
one," he says, " can have had better opportunities
than I have of satisfying himself how sincere and
earnest is his Majesty's wish to adhere to the path
of legality, and to fulfil the legitimate wishes of
the nation ; my position gives me facilities for
perceiving each day more and more the hopes
which the high qualities of our sovereign authorise
the country to cherish."

ITALY.

GAETA.

The Nord, of to-day, contains a letter from Paris
in which the following statement is made :—" The
French corvette the Solon, now at Messina,
touched at Mola di Gaeta, in order to deliver a
letter from the Emperor Napoleon to Francis 11.
The reply to the letter has arrived at Paris.
Francis 11. replies to the Emperor Napoleon that
he is determined to defend the place until the last
extremity, and to bury himself, if need be, under
the ruins of the fortress. So the bombardment
will continue. But probably it will be carried
on but feebly, the Piedmontese being half inclined
to content themselves with bloelewling the place by
sea and land."

MUM'S

ROME, FEB. 3.

According to advices from Gaeta to yesterday's
date, the siege continues without any remarkable
incident on either side. The place replies but
moderately to the fire of the besiegers.

TURIN, SUNDAY MOBMG.

The Opinion says :—" Count Brassier de St.
Simon will to-day present to his Majesty the cre-
dentials confirming nis appointment as ambassador
of the King of Prussia at Turin."

TURIN, SUNDAY EVENING.
General Room, in his report, announces that con-
fidence and tranquillity are returning throughout
the whole frontier of the Abruzzi.

The town of Sors has presented an address to
General Sonnaz expressive of gratitude for his
exertions to restore tranquillity.

The peasants compel the demoralised reactionary
bands to surrender to the Sardinians.
ROME, Jax. 29 (via Marseilles).

A despatch from official quarters states that
Schiavone, one of the chiefs of the reactionary
bands in the Abruzzi, has surrendered.
Fighting continuos to take place, and a spirit of
revenge is displayed on both sides.
Villages are set on fire, and Sardinian officers
have been cut to pieces.
Sardinia has claimed the restoration of the sol-
diers who were made prisoners by the Papal
Zouaves, and has arrested the Bishop of Sabine as
a hostage.
BERNE. Fris. 3.

The Federal Council kiwi been officially informed
that the Italian elections even in the Two Sicilies
have been favourable to the ministry.

VENETIA.

BERLIN, Buz DA

General Lamarmors has repeatedly declared that
Sardinia has no intention of attacking Venetia.
Re has made no other political declarations.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY MOILIONO.

The Monifeer publishes an imperial decree regu-
lating the sittings of the Senate and the Corps
Legislatif.

The projects of the addresses of the Senate and
the Corps Legieletif will be drawn up by commis-
sions, composed of the presidents and one member
from each committee.

Both addreeese will be voted paragraph by pa.
ragraph.

Any amendment to the addresses will only be dis-
cussed when signed by five members.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Mosnar.
Numbers of the Hungarian soldiers on furlough
who had been ordered to return have already
arrived at their quarters.

The semi-official Donau Zeitung gives a denial to
the news published by some German journals, that
a treaty relating to the Danubian Principalities had
been concluded between Russia and Austria,

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, FEB. 2.
The Danish Diet has been closed.

The King, in his reply to the President's speech,
said:

" Should they come near us my people will de-
fend themselves if I call upon them to do so."
The semi-official Berlingake Mende, in publish-
in,gthis speech, makes the following remarks :
Should German troops enter Holstein without
being called upon to do so by our Sovereign, and
oontrary to his wish, a violation of territory would
then take place, and the Federal Diet would in fact
have declared war against Denmark. War, at the
present moment, would be inconvenient for Ger-
many, and is consequently convenient for Denmark.
A state of armed peace exhausts the strength of a
country and weakens popular enthusiasm, without
which a small people cannot make war. By a
blockade we can now damage the commerce
of Germany and ruin the Prussian ports for a
long period. The conflict must, therefore, now
terminate either by war or by negotiation."

INDIA.
CALCUTTA, JAN. 11.
The Viceroy refuses to communicate to tho Indian
Council the papers concerning the Mysore grant.
News has been reqeivedliere that the lauding of
the American ambsAsadors had been repulsed at
Japan.
India is quiet, but indiscretion is shown by the
inoome tax officials.

dead. Capt. Simpson, of the 2nd Light Cavalry, is

SPECIE FOR INDIA AND CHINA.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nernst
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Indus, sailing to-day for Alexandria, takes out in
specie—gold coin, 18,0001. ; bar silver, 76,7861. ;
and dollars, 20,647/.

SPECIE FOR THE CAPE.
SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.
The Union Company's screw steamer Celt, sail.
ing to-day for the Cape of Good Hope, takes out
is specie--sovereigns, 3,0001.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Renter's office from the Peninsular and Orien-
tal Steam Navigation Company :
HOMEWARD, BOMBAY, AND MAURITIUS