The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-30 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

The Teheran Gazette publishes the following let,.
ten. The first is to the charge d'Affaires of France :
Teheran, Dee. 17.

Mcnteiour—fieving teemed that you have handed in to
the Persian government the names of the English subjects
residing in Pere* and that I em Included amongst them, I
have to declare to yon that I do not need the protection of
any government. lam the subject of his Majesty New
Eddie Shah, end I have to request you, should you not ob-
ject, to write to Mr. Money to the effect that I protest
spina my name bring set down on the mid UM.
FERTILD Mesa.

The following was the reply of M. do Gobineau:

Prince—You inform me that it wee by mistake you have
been inscribed on the list banded to me by Mr. Stemma ;
you declare that you admit no other protection than that of
your government, and you request mo to make your declara-
tion known to Mr. Murry. I will willingly do so, and I
efface your name from the list.—Accept,

De Gosmuv.

This lut letter was immediately handed by Prince
Ferhad Mina to tho Persian Minister of Foreign
Affair.

THE TWO SICILIES.

Authentic accounts from the Two Sicilies, re-
ceived by telegraph to-day, state that the condition
of that kingdom is truly alarming. The prisons in
Naples arc so full, that no more people can be
crammed into them.

The news from Sicily is most distressing. At Ca-
tania all the shops are shut, and only the military
and the police are to be seen in the streets. At Mes-
sina, on the 21st and 22nd, several prisoners were
embarked in chains, to be taken for safe custody
to a rocky island in the neighbourhood. A general
insurrection was apprehended.

PIEDMONT.

THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION.

The sitting of the 26th of the Chamber of Depu-
ties of Turin was, like several preceding ones, en-
tirely taken up by the discussion on the articles of
the Public Instruction Bill, of which nine only, out
of the eighty-four of which it consists, have as yet
been voted, in consequence of the activity of the op-
position in constantly moving amendments and ad-
journments. On Art. 9 being read, which provides
that there is to be ao change as regards ecclesiastical
education in the episcopal seminaries, and that
episcopal schools in which secondary instruction is
imparted shall continue to be govenied according
to the exiting laws, until the promulgation of the
new ones now in contemplation, M. rescatore moved
an amendment extending the article to ecclesiastical
schools not episcopal. This amendment was carried
after a warm discussion. On Art. 10 being moved,
which provides that children not belonging to the
Boman catholic faith shall receive religious instrue-
dna from their nearest relations or persons ap-
pointed by them,
id. Bora* moved that the Roman catholic religionists*
longer taught in the government schools. Ito centsmiel
that the Ronan catholic religion was incompatible with
political liberty, and argued that the oath taken by socia-
-1 Malice was in direct opposition to the constitution, which
proclaimed toleration. The hon. deputy read a decree of
inosonit IV., pronouncing an anathema against heretics,
with Ike coeducation of thcir property, end ► decision of
tram 111., to the effect that killing a heretic was not
awirder. He reminded the house that Gregory XVI.
ward Lamannais to be admonished for his doctrine
of free worship, as being damnable and contrary
to the church. When the Piedniontese government,
he said, allowed the Waldenses to build their church, the
priests and bishops protested, and the Pope wrote encyclical
later. Why should the Slate teach the Boman catholic
religion, when there were 22,000 priests to do so, or one for
every 125 inhabitants, while in France, Belgium, and
Austria there was only one for every 600 f In short, let the
Church manage its own liminess, and let the State do the
same. Count Revel, a member of the eatremo right, vehe-
mently protested against such doctrines, in whirls, he said,
the religion of the majority was held up to scorn. M. Bo-
mile replied that he had not uttered a single word of acorn,
and the discussion might have grown warmer, had not the
usual hour of adjournment arrived.

A letter from Berne, in the Nuremburg Corre-
spondent, says :—" A telegraphic despatch has been
received by the Federal Council from our ambas-
sador extraordinary in Paris, which announces that
the Conference relative to the Neufchatel question
will be held in Paris. At first a German town had
been proposed, but was opposed by Switzerland, who
asked that, if possible, Paris should be selected, and
after it London. It thus is evident that the wishes
of Switzerland on the point have been realised."