The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Amounts from Madrid of the 24th say that the
QlB6Oll bad completely recovered, and had received
her ministers and several of the high dignitaries of
the state on the occasion of the file of the Queen-
Mother; hut a reception for kissing bands, which we.
to have taken place, had been vet off. The ministers,
the Duke and Duchess de Montpenster, Don Fran-
cisco de Paula, and the eminent functionaries of the
government paid their respects to Queen Christina.
Letters from Manilla state that the small-pox con-
tinued to exercise great ravages.

MADZID. JULY 24.—Three per COWL, 33 3 16; after
Bolas, 331 1.16 pub ; 34 paper. Fair per Cane:LOU sash.
Five per Cents., 12 13-16 ; after Boles, 12 13 16 cas►, 12/
paper. Coupon.. 7i Paper. Purim 31. Back of Bt.
Ferdinand, 66 sash. Exchange on London, 60.40.

ITALY.
NAPLES.
Our Naples correspondent, in his letter of the 22nd,
states that the Austrian government has addressed
advice to the cabinet of Naples, in a moderate and
liberal tone, urging the King not to abuse his power
by retrograde policy. The King left on the 20th for
Outs.
The French, English, Austrian, Prussian, and Nea-
politan commissioners will leave Naples in a few days
for Messina, to inquire into the Bntish claims. The
state trials were still suspended.
Neapolitan Fives, 894. Exchange on London, 582.
There was a rumour on the RMITS9 of change of
ministry in a constitutional sense.
ROMAN STATES.
The Concordia of Turin quotes a letter from Flo-
rence of the 20th, stating that the strangest rumours
are current about the bond of Il Passatore, who still
infests both the Tuscan and Papal Romagna, not-
withstanding the exertions of the Austrian troops.
Engagements are said to have taken place with his
men in the vicinity of Cortons, in which the Aus.
trims were worsted. They also say that Il Passatore
has two pieces of cannon, that he has divided his
band into three bodies, giving each a commander, and
that he is well provided with arms and money.
ROME JULY 16.

The British claims for indemnification; in various
parts of Daly, have so occupied the attention of the
government and of the public lately, that your readers
will certainly be interested in the following account
of an affair pending between the British consul at
Ancona and his excellency' Prince Bobwanenberg.
During the dominion of the republicans in Ancona,
an imperative order was emanated by the governor,
obliging the principal inhabitants to lay in a stock of
wheat, according to a stipulated scale, foe nay sudden
•tit arse. This order, which was

emergency that might _
issued previous to the arrival of the Austrian besieging
army, was obeyed, although reluctantly, by the greater
part of the inhabitants, and amongst the last who
complied with it were a certain number of mer-
chants, including three English houses, repre-
senting in the aggregate five hundred quarters
of wheat, which were ordered from the port of
Civita Nuova. On the 24th of May, however, the
Austrians approached the walls of Ancona, when the
said merchants gladly availed themselves of the op-
portunity to despatch an agent to counter-order the
wheat, which, fortunately, had not yet reached the
port of Acoons, bat was shipped and on the way, and
saciently close to the comet (about 16 miles to the
south) to be communicated with, when the vessel was
ordered to anchor at Umana, and sell the cargo there
sad elsewhere. Accordingly, on the 26th May, the
vessel anchored at Umans, where the captain sold
60 quarters of wheat, after which he purposed re-
turning with the remainder to the original port from
whence he came. On the 6th June the Austrians
captured this vessel and cargo, declaring it to be a fair
prize notwithstanding it was under the protection of
a port which had returned to its legitimate allegiance
towards the Pope. Subsequently, however, the vessel
was released, as well as 6,000 lbs. of our which
were on board, but the wheat was retained; a pro-
ceeding the more remarkable, as the flour and ship
would certainly have been a fair prize also, if the
wheat was: and the conduct of the Austrians is the
more unjustifiable, as they, daring the resistance
offered by Aocons, had the benefit of this supply less
in the town, owing to the unwillingness and conso
quent dilatoriness of the merchants in bringing it in.
The sufferers soon after drew up a petition, setting
forth the circumstances of the case, and requested Mr.
Moore, the British consul at Ancona, to present it to
General Count Strassoldo, military governor of the
town, but that general replied that he could not ea-
tertain the question, as the event happened during the
command of General Count Wimpffen then absent,
and Mr. Moore therefore brought the affair before the
notice of his Excellency Prince Schwartz-nberg,
through the medium of Viscount Ponsonhy, British
ambassador at Vienna, to whom he forwarded the
necessary documents on the sth August, 1849. The
petitioners, amongst whom, besides the representatives
of English commercial houses, there are several Aus-
trian subjects, declared their readiness to abide by
the arbitration of any impartial commission that might
be appointed to investigate the merits of the question.
Lord Ponsonby, on the 10th of August, sent a note
• to Prince Schwartzenberg, enclosing Mr. Moore's
despatch and the petition of the merchants. The
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aid.
was meshed through the medium of Sir Jams juges de pais. The twelve justices of _ _. peace at examination of the Case occupied the Prince upwards
Beams. By his reprenentatiocs he provoked the Pans had received this morning nearly 60,000 ap- of ten months, as it was not before the 22nd of June
attack on the Berthing; by his councils he decided peals. of the presest year, that hie Excellency forwarded a
the mode in which the attack was made; he actually The Mt:nitwir publisber the account of the " Calms reply to the plenipotentiary, Mr. Arthur Ma.
espied in sad directed the attack. Whatever judg- des DepOts it Consignations" for the second quarter of gems, in which he expressed his surprise
matt may be passed on the character of that opera- IMO. The surplus of receipts which was, on the 31st that Mr. Moore should have thought proper
lion, Sir Jaen. is principally responsible for it. It is of March, 261.617,209 f. in on the 30th of June to address to the Imperial court, and back
In vain for the Thews to attempt to get him out of the 264,280,037 f. This augmentation, amounting to rather by his intercession, a request signed almost ex-
:neaps, and lay the blame upon others. more than 121 millions, derives four millions from elusively by individuals who could in no way be an-
n. 600 !)yaks and Malays who were kited in the voluntary deposits, one million from judicial ounsign- sidered as enjoying the protection of the British (sen-
sitise were killed by the sailors in the boats. The meets, and the rest from the deposits of the savings nude at Anemia, instead of forwarding a separate
equal ce ceder number " lost in the jungle" were banks. The Caisee has invested four millions in the demind, signed only by ths throe individuals claiming
destroyed" by Sir Jaen Binoxa's native forces. purchase of government stock. to be considered as British subject., and treating ex-
The gazebos flotilla was returning, not from a pirsti- Th. permission which bad been given to the Pououir elusively of the losses they had suffered by being de-
cal expedition in one sense of the phrase : tic had, for sale in the streets, which had two days ago been prived of their shire of the cargo of tt.e Rumen yes-
writs. Commander FAIIQUIIAII, " attacked Palo and granted after a suspension of several days, has been Gel, Andromache, se4sed in the port of Umana by the
Mato, and been bastes off with some loss." It was a again withdrawn. imperial troops, as being destined to furnish provisions
diaeomflted expedition retreating from a native war. Abd-el-Bader is about to be removed from the to the insurgent .wholtalian then defended Ancona.
It doss not appear that they offered the slight-it re- chateau of Amboise to the chateau of Moeda. Thie aspiration of the demd, the prince oontended,
Matinee to the crnibined Sarawak and British forces ; Ciussididre is about to quit Loudon and try his would have been the more easy and natural, as each
and if they had, Commander FAZQVILAH states in his fortune to California,
where he is to found aback to of the parties signing the peition had engaged to fur-
report that " the Dyaks being almost devoid of the- correspond with his commercial house in the British
which
the intergent. with a stated quantity of corn, of
: rms cannot stand against a wellersied force, eapitsl. which the English merchants, Messrs. Morellet and
their wespoas being the 'unpile°, with p&soned The new legitimist organ, Henri IV., is coming Pulini, were to provide 25 m ggie. a piece, and Mr.
arrows, spear., &c., and a short sword having a forward spin. It is to Preach fusion of the two Zammit 12, and that, oonsequently, they could only

elaiia each a proportion as their share oat of the
cargoes of two ships laden with provisions for Moons,
cal of which succeeded in entering the port in spite
of the blockade, and the other, the Andromache, fill
into the hands of the Ana'riani.

ifotwithstLainiTtiarT objection the prism stated
that instructions had been forwarded to the -

der-in-chief' of the in ftaT to
communicate the detai of the seizure of the
Andromache to the Foreign-offioe at Vienna,
and that the result of the inquiry had base, first,
that the vessel wee beyond all doubt laden with
corn and flour, destined as provisions for the fortress
of Ancona, at a period when it was invested by the
imperial forces, and that consequently, according to
customary international right in time of war, the said
troops were justified in confiscating such provisions,
without examining by whom or for whom till were
to be furnished to the inexrgents. Secondly, that,
according to the deposition. of Messrs. )let,
Zunmit, and Pulini, of which a proas verbal had
been drawn up by the Papal tribunal at Ancona, it
appeared that Mr. Moreikt was of Genoese origin, and
that Signer Pulini came from Mootokno, in the
states of the church, whilst M. Zammit, who called
himself a Maltese, was more probably a native of
Ancona. Thirdly, that the above named nerehents
confessed that they had only signed the petition at
the instigation of a broker named Betelli, and that
Signor Pulini had gone so far u to declare that he
had signed the document without knowing its
'mikado.

Prince fichwanenberg then expressed his surprise
that Mr. Moon should have stated that the above.
named British subjects were forced by the revolu-
tionary government of Ancona to furnish provisions to
the insurgents, when he had, at the same time, British
1 ships of war stationed in the port expressly to defend
the inteesste of his countrymen ; and that, cones-
quently, it was difficult to explain why he shouldhave
allowed the revolutionary government to exercise mea-
sures of coestraint towards British subjects, without
making use of the means placed at his disposition to
protect them The upshot of all these arguments was,
as may easily be imagined, that the Prince declined
giving any further attention to the claims advanced.