The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-24 00:00:00

SPAIN.

We hive letters from our Mdtdrid correspondent to
January 17. The authorisation to levy taxes had
been further discussed in the Chamber of Deputies,
but no vote had been come to.

MADRID. JAN. 17.—Thrta per Centa., 29 paper. TOW per
Cent... 12 paper. Five per Centex, 124 paper. Coupons, 74 paper.
Bank of M. FerlllllJ4 W. Exchange on London, 20.23.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—Our correspondent writes :
ROME, JAN. 14.

The minister of finance has just announced the im-
portant tact that the government is ready to pay the
dividends due for the second half of the year 1819,
taking the precaution, however, of dividing the ear-
telle, or shares, into series, according to their progres-
sive numbers, and appointing successive days for
their presentation, so that the payment will occupy a
period extending from the 16th of the present month
to the 29th of May, besides& further delay of a month
for the convenience of such fundholders as may have
neglected applying in their proper turn. The above
regulation only applies to the nominal eartelle—
those layable to the bearer may be presented at,
any period subsequent to the 16:h current. At
the last exchange on Friday, 11th current, the
Roman Consols were at 981 ; but, as the minister's
notification had not then made its appearance,
we may expect to see some variation in the money
market this week. It is needless to say that the pay-
ment* will be made in paper, of which we have still
a redundant currency, and of which we have very
little prospect of getting rid in the present unsatis-
factory state of the country. The Pope's return,
which alone could induce capitslists to pour a little
silver into the exhausted Roman treasury, appears as
far as ever from being realised, for although Cardinal
Ugoliei arrived punctually in this cite according to
the information which, in • previons letter, I men-
tioned having received, and announced the owning of
his holiness to be imminent, new delays have been
since suggested and new obstacles raised to such a
step. The approaching season of Carnival, with its
unavoidable license and wild rrernment, has been
considered as an unfitting, and possibly even dan-
gerous time for the re-establishment of the papal
court in the capital, so that the more sober term of
Lent is asserted by every one (but, entre-nous, be-
lieved by no one) to be the epoch really fired upon
for that important event. The real motives for delay
are probably two—the difficulty of effectiong a loan,
and the reluctance of the French to allow of a mixed
garrison in Rome. With respect to the first point
the obstacles have been already sufficiently enlirged
upon in my proceeding letters; it therefore only re-
mains for me to state that the confidence of money
lenders has not been increased by the protest of the
ex-triumvirate (the republican one, I mean) which,
front its strong hold in Switzerland, has disavowed
all intention of recognising a loan contracted with the
Papal government, affirming that the republican
regime, proceeding from the vote of the majority of
the people cannot be considered to be legally at an
ead, since it was only overthrown by the armed in-
tervention of foreign power. I presume you are
aware that one of the triumviri, Armellini, has re-
signed his share in the supreme dignity, real or,
Imaginary as it may appear, and that the two re-
maining members have elected Montecchi in his
read. With respect to the second difficulty, that of
the: mixed garrison, it is at generally expected that
the French will have to knock under, as they have in
every other question hitherto, in spite of the com-
mander-in-chiefs bluster and indignation.
Dr. Achilli has undergone a third examination by'
the fiscal inquisitor, Dr. Ilambozzi. wid, as far as I I
can learn the result of such • strictly private tranese-
action, the questions put to him chi. fly turn on fri-
volous points, or upon subjects long since cleared up
and now generally known, Dr. Achilli is kindly
treated by the officials who surround him in the Castle
of St. Angelo, and, al though the place of his confinement
is still a solitary chamber, and be is debarred from all
personal intercourse with his friends, he is now
allowed to al'eviate the tedium of his imprisonment
by taking daily exercise upon the Castle-terrace.
Thia circumstar ce, and the comparatively unimport-
ant grounds of accusation brought against him in the
course of his examinations, induce his friends and
those interested in his fate, to hoes that the eccle-
siastical government intends to yield in fact, although
not in appearance, to the vigorous remonstrances
which have been made in Pane as well as here in
favour of Dr. Acbilli.