The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-11 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1861

TFIE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
No. CI 'X XIX., will he published on Friday nett.
murrain.
I church Expansion and latunical Rerlaion.
2. Japan and the Jacneae.
The Victoria .
4 Political Ballads o England and Scotland.
I Wean Telegraphy
c Autobiegnuphy of Dr. A. Carlyle.
Motley's History of the United Netherlands.
h Forbes and Tyndall on the Alpe and their Waders.
A. The Kingdom of Italy.
10. Naval Orpaliation.
London Longman and Co. Edinburgh :A. and C. Black.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CCXVII.,
.111 be published NY.XT WM.
______

0011YMITS:
1. Canada.
2. Welsh Literaturr.
3. Iron
4. Motley's lulled Netherlands.
A. Italy.
6. Dap of Romance and thelary.
7. Oz 'sl Essays and Insley&
& Flamm and the Intone-Tax.
Jobs Many, Albemarle-street.

O. A. SALA'S NSW NOVA,
THE SEVEN SONS d MAMMON
commences In theJANCAAY NUMI3IOI,

London Magadan for town and Country deaden,
Condiattcd by Orden Araent BALA, Authored WBllaut
Floprth," Twice Sound the nook," de.
Mee One M.Mus. Monthly.
(Mice of •• Temple Bar,- Itt, Eleet.nreet, Landon.

ICITIULY O&WINAL TALL
1 INDIAN 80011 T.
By GwerAirs Anusq Author d ..11.• Pains newt:" to.
Doe THIE WELCOME GC T, No. W. 2t, Mad/.
Looker looloios lad Wrlidi, dB, PatorooMoroow.

PRINCE b lel, yes& Ow, les Si, witittlso,
TH*I WA.M.: in CANADA aad
tin BMW STATD4.
By N. A. ofs,
The •• Timor $
pad Woa
est.
Itradbary sad Wow 11, Besveris-arest, Ylset-street.
-

This day rile is., frolsoop Biro, fancy boards,
OUT WITH GARIBALDI.
Comprising a tall and antiantle account of Garibaldi,
from his landing at Palermo to kb rettrennot to Capron. By
W. H. Boom sa Ina* Garibaldi= Volunteer.
Lona.: Ward and Irak 1311,, lkatatrosi.

TRIAL Or THE PIK. AT TIM ROYAL NINT.
M day Is published. price &L
A LETTER to the Rt. Hon. W. H. GLADSTONE,
Chasuellar d ihe Radiation.
ou the TRIAL at the PLR, la bar MAJEIfTYIS lIINT.
IIJ J. H. WAIIIIIMON, Gold.mlth.
MONK Willa& 11, loyal Izehaaga

Now
A. LIST of thrrIMITAL NEW and
(11010: BOOR in circulation at WINE RELBCY
LIBRA RY. Also, pall& sad postage tons, a U. -Warping
Copies of Torrid Works withdrawn train clrculatkokaid oflcrad
at errant reduced prices for cash.
Charles Edward Mad* Now Oxford:treat London ; Cross.
street, Mamba** ; sad Nawitirseß

ITALY.

mon ore owe coanesioneersd
NAPLES, JAN. 5.
The thirst for office continues to be insatiable,
and I fear compels many sweeping and oppressive
changes. Thus, I have heard of men who have
served for 36 years, who have taken no part in poli-
ties, being removed from office without any previ-
ous notice, and thrown on a pension amounting to
half their salary, which has been one pound ster-
ling a month. Political reasons, as also the best
interests of the seniors, will render many changes
necessary, bet they should be effected with great
caution, toe not cal ere those newly appointed
entirely snacquaieted with the routine of office,
but those ejected range themselves on the side of
the maleontints, already aserisatly numerous.
At last government seam to be acting with more
vigour in the babe demonstrations
which are to pleas inererylpert of the country.
Troops have best ant to Reggie, Comas, Avel-
lino, and other parts, and not a moment before
they were needed. A partial of the press ideas
to pooh-pooh these demonstrations ; it is true they
are always tut down, but they cannot be constantly
recurring ',About increasing irritation, and to a
certain degree inviting and encouraging the malcon-
tents. On New Year's day, or about that
time, there seams to have been a perfect
invasion SAL. the amantry by the friends
of Francis 11. in the form of disbanded sol-
diers, and ,the hangers-on of the court, some
from Gaeta, others from Rome, which seems to be
the centred conspiracy. On the night of the 2nd
instant *meal edicers of the old Bourbon army
were sensation the accusation of being engaged
in reactionary intrigues. That great personage
too, the Barter of tne Royal Palace, once on a
time made rep of taithers and scarlet cloth, has
also been anented, sod letters found on him which
show that he was is communication with the
conspirator. Besides these, great numbers of other
persons, se I have already informed you, were ar-
rested. Ido not think that auiretereLent these facts
should awaken grave a ion, but, the
keep the National G ,to whom much
praise is due, ever on the alert, and must
prove dangerous if continued. I need not say that
the continsence depends much on the position
which the French have assumed at Gaeta, and so
long es they remain there the malcontents will
donee au immense moral support from their pre-
sence, and will intrigue with greater hopes of suc-
cess. At what object of ambition are the French
aiming by such unjustifiable means I
I see the report revived of the probability of
Farini being superseded by the Prince Carignano.
It is an arrangement which has long been talked
of ; still the entire value of it consists only in a
"name" and we require something more at pre-
sent. If the Prince Ja accompanied by a good ad-
tabu, all well.

THE SIEGE OF GAETA.

(FROM 0011 SPICIAL COMASPOIDLTL)
NOLA DI GAETA, JAN. 4.

An order of the day of General Cialdini has sud-
denly stopped all direct communication between
this village and Naples. Though this measure may
seem a rather despotic one to Englishmen, yet it
was rendered necessary by the fact that agents of
Francis IL came now and then to gather informa-
tion as to what the Piedmontese were doing and
when they had got it they contrived toget to Gaeta
by means of some French or Spanish steamer.
This fact having been ascertained by the Piedmon-
teen Commander-in-Chief, he wisely thought fit
to throw up a sort of Chinese wall between
the metre of his military operations said the other
parts of the kingdom. So strictly is this order
carried out, that three days ago Mr. Arthur Russell,
on his arrival here from Rome, was arrested, together
with his travelling companions, Mr. Cartwright, and
the Prussian Consul-General at Rome. Mr.
Russell, however, being the bearer of a letter of
introduction to General Cialdini, matter' were soon
set right as far as he was concerned. Sir James
Hudson, who had given the letter, having, however,
omitted to mention the names of the other two
gentlemen, they were not allowed to inspect our
works, and went to Naples greatly disappointed.
You will infer from the strict orders thus issued
by Cialdini that we are drawing nearer to the com-
pletion of the siege operations. And such is indeed
the case. I cannot, of course, mention the names of
the places where our numerous batteries are ;
but I may tell you without indiscretion that
they are very near to the walls of the doomed
city. The Sardinian frigate Charles Albert, and
the steamer Count Cavour, have just brought
here the siege materiel which was wanting,
so that both Cavalli's guns and howitzers
of the largest size are now to be mounted
on the different batteries, which are nearly
finished. It is generally reported to-day that the
French fleet has at last received orders to leave us
alone. I give this news as I beard it, without
however vouching for its correctness. Louis
Napoleon has so often deceived our expectations
that it is a very difficult teak indeed to know what
his intentions really are. That in spite of the
shower of shells the Piedmontese have already
thrown into Gaeta, Francis 11. still intends to hold
out, may be inferred from numerous facts which
have come to my knowledge. Some letters were
seized by the Sardinian police in which a high
personage of the court of Francis 11. told
his correspondents to be ready for a general
rising. This worthy gentleman openly said that all
depended upon resisting till next February, when
Austria will declare war against Piedmont and re-
store the disposeemal princes to their do-
minions. Another fact which leads me to believe
that resistance d routes/ice has been decided
lupon at Gaeta is, that Senor Bermudez de Castro,
the Spanish Minister at the court of Francis IL, has
'sent orders to Naples to pay the rent of the apart-
ments lie occupies in the Palazzo Craven for six
months to come. The young Queen, who,
by-the-bye, during the last boinbaidnieut
has shown great courage, has not as yet
left Gaeta, but, on the contrary, has sent orders
to her milliner at Naples to send her a new set of
riding dresses, a costume of which she is very fond.
This morning I had au opportunity of talking with
a Neapolitan officer, and he told me that the young
wife of Francis 11. is always to be seen in the place
of greatest danger. During the bombardment
of the 24th and 23th of December, two officers of
her household were killed in the very room iu which
she was sitting, by the explosion of a shell. Al-
though the danger was unusinent, the Bavarian
Amazon did not stir from her chair and gave
orders for the removal of the deed bodies in the
coolest pea/Able manner. The Spanish minister
bed also a narrow escape, for as he was lying in
bed he received the rather unpleasant visit of a
round shut, which smashed the washing-stand op-
posite.

THE SHANNON.—SOUTHAMPTON, THEE/MAY.-
11w Treat has again left here to tow in the mail packet
Shannon, which arrived at Plymouth on Monday. They
are both expected here to-morrow. The commanders of
tbe two ships have been onlenal to come in round the east
cod of the Isle of Wight, in order to avoid any possible
accident in passing through ,the narrow passage of the
Si..ed

—A ] HoutiwAv's Orfrialerr AND
PILL.S.—BIWICIIITIS, ASTHMA, SIIOI:VILS.Q BRUM PAL/RA-
'U.N.—Now Is unfortunately the mason for the prerelease of
these complaints, and their serious nature is borne out by tie
weekly bins of mortality. Early and proper treatment ahould
he adopted without hesitation or delay neither need arise If
Holloway'. remedies be at hand ilia Ointment may he safely
and arDantageonaly rubbed on the back and chest. every night
and inorninz, precisely as watt la robbed upon meet to preserve
It. It penetrates internally, and appeaser pulmonary excite-
ment. gills should be taken Ist the some time, as
the, act with char" on the circulation, riamis, and abeorl•mta,
and materially !NW in renlering the cum general and par
samseat.