The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-03 00:00:00

IT INTELLIGENCE.

4II&SIA.

Letters from St. P;t4Saburg state that the Em-
peror of Russia intends shortly to grant an am-
nesty to all persons implicate) in the recent dis-
turbances among the students.

ITALY.

A Marseilles letter of the let says :—" The
Italian government is, at this moment, endeavour-
ing to charter in our port five or six steamers for
conveying troops. It is now certain that, as soon
as General de la Mariners has a real corps d'armee
at his disposal, the brigands will be vigorously pur-
sued in Calabria, the Abruzzi, and the Baailicate."

I,
The Gametic' del Pupolu of Florence expresses it-
self as follows on the subject of the probable nip-
r tune between England and America :
A conflict appears inevitable between England and North
America. This is a painful event for Italy and for liberty
is general. For Italy, because both these government'
have been friendly to her, and have been among
the first t, acknowledge the new kingdom of Italy;
for liberty, because England and America have
Dever ceased to favour liberal enterprises in Europe.
A rupture between England and America could not but be
hailed with joy by absolutism, and civilisation would suffer
thereby. It would be desirable that the powers beet dis-
posed towards England and America should immediately
interpose their good office., without giving the irascible self-
love of those nations time for over-excitement. It is France
especially who should try her hand at this good work : she
who is commercially connected with both countries, and
would be the first to suffer iu her manufactures from the
ousequences of a rupture between the two nations.

VENICE.

A short time ago the Central Venetian Committee
acquainted Baron Ricasoli with the results of the
electoral operations attempted iu Venetia by
Austria with the view of sending deputies to the
Council of the Empire. Baron Ricaaoli has replied
in the following letter :

The undersigned has the honour to thank the honourable
committee for the communication which has been made to
him on the subject of the electoral operations by which
Austria has endeavoured to secure the nomination
of the Venetian deputies to the Council of the Empire.
The concerted abstention of more than half the electors is
a new and certain proof of the sentiments by which these
generous provinces are animated ; it is a proof of the con-
stancy with which they have been enabled hitherto to repel
all the artifices of a government which does not rest on the
affection of its subjects.

The Veneti►n provinces, although oppressed by name-
rose battalions, unite notwithstanding in protesting cou-
rageously ag►inst foreign violence, and manifest their aspi-
rations for a better fete. The other provinces of Italy
which have placed themselves spontaneously under the rule
of his Majesty, keep in mind this protestation and these
wishes, and join with them their own, in the hope that the
day is not far distant when they shall all be realised.
In the meantime, the undersigned is glad to have this op-
portunity of applauding the patriotic activity displayed by
the honourable committee for the welfare of the common
country, (Signed) RICAIOLL
(a21:1171e8 TELILORLYB.)
TURIN, Doc. 2, EVENING.
The debate on the Roman question continued
to-day in the Chamber of Deputies without any
remarkable incident.

TURING Dec. 3.
The Delia of to-day announces that a decree
will shortly be published ordering the exchange of
the old bonds of the Italian debts against the new
bonds of the consolidated debt.

In consequence of a letter addressed by General
Tarr to the Minister of War, the former, it is said,
tendered his resignation, which was not accepted.

GENOA, Dic. 3.
Garibaldi, on his arrival here yesterday, pro-
ceeded to the office of the Central Italian Commit-
tee, of which he is the president.

He eulogised the work undertaken by the com-
mittee, and urged its vigorous prosecution.
In the evening a grand demonstration was made
in his honour, and an immense crowd of people
assembled before the house in which be was staying.
Garibaldi appeared on the balcony, and made a short
speech, in which he said, " With you it must be
deeds, not words. At the moment of battle I shall
be with you."

Preparations are being made for another demon-
atratMn, which will take place today.

AUSTRLL

P.AOI:I3A, Dne. 3.
The Austrian division, which yesterday entered
the Suttorina, has executed the order to demolish
the batteries on the frontier without firing a aliot.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA ILULS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. a
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Indus, with the heavy portion of the Calcutta and
China mails, passed Hurst Castle at 11.10 a.m.
to-day.

One of the writens of the El Pueblo, Madrid,
has been condemned to 26 months' banishment, 5,00
reale fine, the cost of the prosecution, and the deprivation
of political rights, for having published to that journal a
poetical satire on the Minister of Grace and Jostles.

The most recent letters from New Orleans state
that groat irritation prevails among the populace against
British subjects, because her Majesty's government has not
recognised the Confederate States or forced the blockade;
and it is urgently demanded that a man-d-war be ant to
protect the lives and property of the subjects of the crown.
At this moment there US three British milers lying in gaol
in the city, for no Whose except that they women of colour•
Tbe white men of the vessel to which they belonged were
liberated on the representations of Mr. Mure, bat thee* men
are still detained, although it iv said to be arranged that
they shall be liberated as soon ea there is a manof•war sent
to take them away.

"1 have reason to think," writes the New York
correspondent of the Tines, "that the Trent is not the llitt
English vessel that may be stopped and visited by the
American men-of-war in those waters. A trade in arms
and munitions of war, and in military supplies of various
kinds. between British subjects and the Confederates has
been going on for some time, in violation of her Majesty's
proclamation of neutrality, and in spite of the vigilance of
the United States' cruisers. The government, in order to
prevent this in future, is fitting up steam-vessels in the
port of New York, which are to be despatched on the spe-
cial service of breaking up this trade. The young officers
who are to have the command of these vessels have been
authorised to exercise great latitude in the execution of
their instructions, and have received assurance' in advance
of the support of the government."
. _

The Priuce de Joinville is said to speak of the
traumas,* of the Sas Jacinto with the profoundest regret,
sail evidently regards it as inexcusable, and the Orleanist
primes share the sentiments of their uncle. In the cabinet
there is division, so it is said, of opinion in reference to the
course to be pursued. The President, Mr. Blair, and Mr.
Chase are mid to be in favour of giving the captives up.
Mr. Seward and others are believed to resist this, and to
sustain the capture. " Major•Geseral WClellan,” writes
the special correspondent of the Pont., "is easier in hie
mind now that the law has been laid down for him, but
regular officers of experience in the army sod navy view the
plea in jUstiticatioa, and the cases io point, if any, with great
suspicion. It is to them as if an officer who should seize
Mr. Kossuth in his London villa by order of the Emperor
of Austria were defended by a long legal argument to show
that be was quite right, or as if may other violation of ao-
°opted principles were to be vindicated by law books and the
authority of precedents. 'The only thing that could hive
settled this matter properly,' said au eminent person to me
yesiertlay, • would have been the instant release of Messrs
Slidell and Mums with an ample apology, acid the dismis-
sal of Captain Wilkes. But the government of the United
Stites dared not do so.'"