The Express. — 1848-08-08 (London, England)

ROME, JULY 27. A feeling of horror spread through the city this morning, on the diffusion of news of last night, to the effect that Don Francis Ximeues, a highly intelligent and respected clergyman, had fallen beneath the blade of an asi4e:sin, in the open square of the Jesuits' chief establishment, at the foot of the capitol. That spacious edifice had just been occupied as barracks by the Roman legionaries, who, after the surrender of Vicenza, were put on parole not to fight Austria for three months ; and the Rev. F. Ximenes had just come out from paying a visit to his two brothers, volunteers in the corps quartered therein. 'l•he murdered priest was, from the first day a free press was given to Rome, a leading writer and editor of our newspapers in the reform interest, and must have, of course, given offence to various parties interested in bygone practices. Political vindictiveness is universally held responsible for this dark deed, as private foes be had none. The whole brotherhood of journalists (comprising a good numbsr of his own order), are determined to mark their sense of this foul act by a solemn dirge and public obsequies. That the splendid range of buildings forming the head•quarters of this much-talked-of society should end in figuring as barrack and canteen for the soldiers of popular opinion is one of the strange vicissitudes in the revolutions of architecture. Always on a grand stale, Jesuit constructions in other great towns are ail, extant, at Munich, Ingoldstadt, Lyons, B:c., ice., in the more congenial occupancy of public libraries, hospitals, or archives ; for Loyola loved to possess large establishments in populous cities, leaving to Bernard the valley, to Benedict the hill-top, to Francis the village. -  Bernardus vanes*, collep+ Benedictus amabat, Oppidu Franciscust, mAgnas Ignatius tubes !  The R,mao Gazette (organ of the court party, not of the Mamiani ministry) puts forth a laudatory article on the troops who occupy this locale, winding up with an intimation of the propriety of their immediate disbanding. Never was there such a mistaken and unheeded suggestion. Their arrival has given strength to Mamiani against the retrograde cardinals, and these troops form part of that civic prtetoriau cohort who will henceforth regulate the temporal business of Rome. if the spiritual functions are to remain uninterfered with, it can only be at the complete relinquishment of worldly meddling on the part of the ecclesiastical body ; for the words of the poet Alfieri are now muttered audibly: Pace al ireti atanau quittL  VW court.  A cabinet council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office The ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Coancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Lord Campbell. Sir John Hobhouse, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and Viscount Morpeth. The council eat two hours. Lord John Russell arrived in town at three o clock yesterday afternoon, from her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of Canada, and also from the governors of the other North American provinces. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-cffice, for the Governors of Ceylon and HongKong.  Lord 1)e Manley, the Hon. Mr. Bowles, &c., left town on Sunday last by the Antwerp Company's stearn.ship Antwerpen. Lady Chetwynd and suite, the Countess of Freno and family, and the Countess Kaenincke arrived in London, this afternoon, by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Triton, from Ostend.