The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-30 00:00:00

ROME.

On the morning of the 20th inst. a great demon-
stration took place at the University of Rome. In
consequence of previous disturbances Cardinal
Alfieri had expelled 17, and suspended 10, of the
students. On the 20th the students mustered in
the court-yard of the university, shouting, " Long
live Victor Emmanuel King of Italy !" Their
demonstration had to be put down by a body of
gendarmes. They also circulated a great many
copies of a protest, in which they say, "As
catholic we venerate the Pope, but we hold in
horror his shameful government, whose injustice
and cruelty we have too long suffered."

The Turin newspapers report the arrest of Signor
Alberto Mario at Ferrara, and the protest of his wife, Ma-
dame Mario, formerly Miss Jessie White. The mamas of
this incident, as far as I (correspondent of the Pima) have
been able to ascertain, are the following :—A certain num-
ber of political exiles from the Venetian provinces bad as-
sembled at Ferrara, and the government had positive inform-
ation that some of these refugees, lured on by the Austrisa
authorities, and anxious to provoke an outbreak of hostilities
at any price, were plotting an expedition Sams the Po; a
resolution was therefore taken to remove from that frontier
city all the emigrants established there. Signor Mario, who,
as a Venetian exile, had received notice to quit, infested on
his right to reside in say part of the Italian kingdom he
preferred, and protested he would not move from the spot
unities he woe drives away by the cambineers or gendarmes,
whereupon the authorities ordered him to be arrested.

The Lutheran church in Prussia keeps every
year twdast and thanksgiving days, one in the spring and
the other in the autumn. That for the former season took
place at Berlin on the 23rd. AU public amusements were
interdicted, the Bourse and government offices closed, and
some of the journals appeared.

The Patric directs attention to the protest of M.
Coulmann, Vies-President of the Society for encouraging
Primary Instruction among the protestant' of France,
against the extraordinary declaration of If. Outset, the
president of that body, in favour of the temporal power of
the Pope. "The language of K. Guisot," says Galirsani,
" produced the greatest astonishment among the persons
present at the meeting, and that feeling has since extended
with great rapidity among all the member' of the protes-
tant persuasion in France."
A few days since tenders were received for the
supply of 40 locomotives for the Russian railways. There
were numerous offers from English and Preach saitatifee.
turers, but the contract, its said, is given to Coekerill and
Co., of Liege, who presented the lowest tender, 63,000 fr. the
engine. A manufacturer at La Villette, near Paris, has ob-
tained a contract for the supply of 500 waggons for the
railway from Alicante to Seville. Another Paris manufac-
turer has obtained a contract for the supply of 1,200 tons
of iron for the same company.

The Emperor of Morocco has sent the King of
Portugal a present of four beautiful Arabian horses. The
animals were delivered to the Portuguese Cassel is Tangiers
by Muley El Abbas, Caliph, and brother of the Emperor,
the Moorish ceremonial observed on such occasions being
fully carried out.
The Gotha Gazette has the following communiepri:
" Count Stolberg having written from Berlin to the
eommander of the regiment in garrison here to ask him
if the officers would contribute to the subscription which
is being made in Germany for the purpose of presenting a
shield of honour to King Francis IL, H.R.H. the Duke
of Coburg Goths., seeing in such a subscription • political
demonstration, has forbidden the dames at Coburg Gotha
to take say part in it whatever."
Loss or • Fait:CH Irl•IILNG 811•CIL —DOVILR,
MONDAT.—At $ a.m. the French fishing smack Alin was
run down off the South Foreland by a Hamburg vessel.
Part of the crow, six in number, were picked up, and azo
safely lodged at the Sailors' Home. It is not known what
has become of the remaining portion of those who were on
baud. The men now at the Henn will be forwarded to
Calais' by the marl packet.
&lemmas Dastm.—There was a curious circum-
stance connected with theatre of John Ham, burnt to death
at Dedham, by his clothes retching fire from his pipe, and
who we learn was the brother of !Er. Ham, carpenter. of
Moultham. 'At the inquest a gentleman, residing at
Dedliam,stated to the sooner that many years ago he bad a
dream of Ham's death by an event similar to that which
has actually occurred ; and that, knowing the man, he bad
felt it his duty to relate it to him, and caution him as to
his mode of life, which be bad frequently done • and that be
only recen
d. tly again reminded him of his dr:tem.—Es=
Mereil

j Or A VOLUNTEER POE LEAVING THE
RARER wrntovr PLIUTIAMMIC—Sonte little feeling has been
excited among the members of the Colchester Volunteer
Corm by the dismissal of private 8. B. Liesimore, the
charge against him being, that on the 10th inst.. while
month ing from Naytand, he left the ranks of his compiny
I without permission, and did not rejoin the ranks, " not-
, withstanding that the corps was thee on duty and had
sot been dismissed from attendance." Mr. Lissimore
has forwarded • letter to a contemporary, in which he
admit, the irregularity of the act, but urges in as-
tenuatiou that the practice of leaving the mike
without permission on a return march, when •
volunteer was paring his own house, has been constantly
practised and winked at from the first. He adds—"Of
course 1 cannot submit to such an arbitrary and unjust
sentence without endeavouring to dud some court of appeal
is which my are may be fairly beard. But pending this,
I feel it duo to my personal character as a civilian in my
native town to appeal to the public at large, by placing the
circumstances of the case in contrast with the decidon of •
else court, in which I am not permitted the hearing neces-
sary to a just conclusion, and by the laws of the lead
accorded to the miaasst or most outrageous criminal."—
&au Herald.

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Tits QUaliteS COLLEOR, BIRMINGHAM.—A meet-
ing of the finance committee was held on Wednesday last,
Mr. J. B. Payn in the chair. A report from Mr. John
Buckling was read, stating that all the college creditors
tinder 5/. bad been raid in full, that the first instalment
had been paid to all the creditors above that sum, and who
are to be paid also in full, and that the agreement bad been
signed and enrolled. Mr. Sands Cox reported that be had
had the gratification to mauve in the kindest terms, in
answer to an appest now in coons of circulation, from the
&riot Harroehy, trit. ; from klatVeneral Whylock.
25/. • from Wingfield Digby, 251. It is confidently
believed that the fineness committee, from the attention
they are now giving to the finniseial position of the college,
will with the generous aid and assistance of ,the friends of
education, very soon &pia place the college on a healthy
footing. and that exams of expenditure over income for the
future will be avoided.
THI KENTIMI PLANTATION/.—During the past
week the weather generally has been colder than that of the
previous week or two, with frosty night., and keen winds
from this north and north•east. This has greatly checked
the growth of the bine, which in many grounds looks sickly mid weak, and although it is yet too early to express any decided opinion as to the future prospects of the growers,
the provost aspect of the grounds is far from promising.—
Soma Eastern Gawk.