The Express. — 1859-02-24 (London, England)

ITALY.  A correspondent writes from Ancona under date of the Bth inst. u follows :  " The Austrians are continuing the works I spoke of in my last letter, and adding stables to the hospital. The last Lloyd's steamer from Trieste brought as 50 pioneers, who are to be employed on the new city rampart. This work, which was delayed for a long time by the government and the municipality, could not be commenced sooner, because the design of the Roman engineer was not approved of at Verona by the central board of officers, who, proceeding upon strategical reasons, have formed another plan. " A frightful crime has lately excited the whole town. A respectable merchant, M. Morichi, has been assassinated in the street, as he was returning home from the theatre with his wife and daughters. M. Morichi was universally respected, and nothing can explain the cause of the misfortune that has just befallen him, for he was not connected with any sects, and his political opinions, though liberal, were very moderate. A few days later a fresh homicide disturbed again the public safety, although its importance was less grave, as it happened in consequence of a quarrel. Nevertheless, both these murders have created deep indignation everywhere, and an address, signed by several hundred persons of good standing in society, has just been presented to the chief magistrate, that he may communicate their sentiments to the government. They beg him to ask for a larger police force, so as to prevent the repetition of such crimes against life and put an end to the constant robberies taking place. Such a state of things, the address goes on to say, appears incredible in a city which, without reckoning the native police, has a garrison of 3,500 foreign soldiers, who serve to prop the throne of the sovereign, but who are of no use for tbs safety of his subjects, the latter feeling only the moral and economical weight of the former. "Thirteen individuals belonging to the working classes have been arrested, in consequence of these recent events. They have been conveyed to Fermo, where they will be tried with the political prisoner', whose cases have been under investigation since the month of November last.  " It appears that a project is on foot for presenting to King Victor Emmanuel an address which will express the joy that is felt on hearing of the marriage of his daughter with Prince Napoleon, the sympathy felt in his happiness as a father, the hopes conceived for the future weal of Italy in seeing the two sovereign families united, and the confidence inspired by the generous words his Majesty uttered on the 10th of January." A correspondent, writing on the Bth from Florence, says : " The students, as I told you in one of my letters, sent a deputation to the Sardinian Minister to compliment him on the speech delivered by King Victor Emmanuel at the opening of the Chambers. One of the students who formed part of the deputation happening to be a native of Romagna, and not of Tuscany, has been expelled from the states of the Grand I)uke. The Nuncio is said to have interfered in the young man's favour ; but if so, his good offices have failed.  " Another student, a Sicilian, who was not one of the deputation, but who had given utterance to some strong opinions in the Piedmontese and Italian sense, has also been sent oat of Tuscany. Unhappily, in a fit of despair, he had no sooner crossed the frontier than he committed suicide."  —A correspondent writes on the 7th from Venice : " Messrs. Lomberdini and Fambri are now lodged in the prison of the Island of St. George. A military commission is about to condemn, I do not say to try them. They have been accused of inciting others to desert, and of having been the accomplices of those who escape from the conscription. " In travelling from Venice to Verona the other day I remarked along the whole line an extraordinary movement of officers and non-commissioned officers belonging to the cavalry. I 'was told they were proceeding to Ferrara. " I have now lying before me a letter from Trieste, where commerce, it says, is dead. The Austrians are making formidable preparations for the defence of the harbour."  The Americans resident in Paris gave a ball on Tuesday night to honour the anniversery of the birth of General Washington. It took 11 toe in the magnificent dining-room of the Hotel du Louvre; the h moors were done by the I.7n'te I State. Minister and the Coosa% waisted by a committee of American gentlemen. A reception at the Tuileries on the sauna night prevented persons from coming early; bat still the atteed.nee, though sot so crowded so on the last weal a, was very fdr. The facade of the hotel on the Rue de Rivoli side was lightei up with gee, and the step, testing to the hall were adorned with Solvers. At the upper end of the ball-mom was the <Steads for the orchestra, with the portrait. of Washingios and Lafayette, and the American flag eneir. ling them overhead. At the opposite or entrance end was a marble beet of the champion of Americas independence, with an appropriate hweription show, and on tech side were the full.length pert,ait. of the Emperor and Empress. The hell was brilliantly lighted uo. Of tSe lavitallens sent to p mom not otares of the linit-d States, twentpous were for the family of General Lef gets. Dancing began at 11l o'clock, mid was kept up to a lets lever. The late Madame Lafarge had written for Recital a shams, entitled flue Raw Perdue, fa which she swirly describes her own rimation. This work, read and received with applause little dent of seclantation in a lite. eery drawinvnvont, Is t t be ployel, they my, on one of the mar o of to Boulevards.