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~I'Pa/---e.Zi..., '")-4...... • TJ - lpt c. one Lk tot ?~ ■ OW+ ea Sting, Cottiltitution, anti RAWL No. 1,310.—V0L. XS .J ITALIAN BANDITTI. The extent and dari ng` e brigands in various parts of the Continent have been the theme of con stant animadversion, and in one instance the heir presumptive of one of our noble families (the Hon. Brownlow Colyear, only grandson of the present Earl of Portmore) died in consequence of the vio lence used towards him by one of these gangs of desperadoes. A book just published by Mr. Keppel Craven, being a sketch of the southern provinces of Naples, gives the following account of one of these attacks, made even in the face of a garrison : "'flee remains of the Verdurelli baud had presented themselves that morning before the general coo 1111 l ending at Foggia : they formed, in fast, part of the troops I had seen, and were at the moment I passed engaged in a war of words, which soon was waged with more deadly wea pons. It seems that the general, who had received the Intimation of their arrival, gave orders fur them to be inspected the Instant that it took place. After they had dismounted and given a satisfactory account of their late proceedings, they received directions to repair to Lucent, and there await further commands. This mandate they positively refused to obey ; and a long altercation took place between them and an officer sent from the coin mender's house, before which they were ranged, to re monstrate ou the imprudence, not to say teens , ' ity, of dieir behaviour. The general finally commanded the two leaders to repair to his own apartment to speak to them: this they objected to do without their arms, which they declared they would never part frosn; and it is supposed that the language they made use in the course of their argument so exasperated the officer, that he roughly pushed one of thew back, who was using threatening gestures, on which the other fired his musket at him, but having missed his mark, was shot dead by the sentry at the gate. This was the signal for an attack from his com panions, that was immediately answered by • round of musketry from the troops who were drawn out close to them, which killed several, and *mead consternation among the crowds of towns people who had assembled on the spot. Four of the band, who had presence of wised to spring upon their horses, escaped in different directions out of the town, though followed by cavalry, and fired at as they Bed. Auuther portion were made prisoners t but • third division sought security in a cellar, the first place of refuge which offered itself, and which having only one very tow entrance, afforded them a defensible asylum fur some time. The depth and darkness of this receptacle made it difficult to attack them with success, for they killed a soldier, and wounded 1 others, who had ventured too near the aperture. Of this last desperate set, four gave themselves up, and made known the number that remained. In order to bring as speedy a terioination as possible to the dismay and agitation which this event had spread thronghout the city, twu of those who had been last taken were son In to their companions, with their hands tied, to persuade them to surrender, and to inform them, that if they persevered in a resistance, winch from the local stature of their retreat must be unavailing, a straw fire would be lighted at the edifice, as the only means of hastening their compliance or destruction. The inifor- Innate men never returned ; and no answer being gisen, this threat was put into actual execution ? and the aperture blocked up with Stones. Imagination pictures their situ ation as most horrible! but its terrors were eluded by the last resource of despair. Two hours afterwards, the cellar was entered without opposition, and their lifeless bodies, covered with wounds, indicated the death they bad received at each other's hands. " In about five hours some degree of tranquillity was restored to the city ; and it was evident that the leelings of alarm occasioned by the singular event, and even those of aversion and universal reprobation which the excesses of tbe banditti lied excited, now yield to the emotions ut compassion, called forth by so terrific and utetswcly a death. Even the policy which prompted this • pu nishment met with comments and comiti uetions by uo ineeus favourable to those whose duty it was to inflict it. " In the evening the shops were re-opened, and 1 ven tured to send icy letters of recommendatiou to the general somitimidant of the division. mid the intendante, who hulls thew ed tne every attention and civility delimit my stay. But I had with me a document of similar import add J to a very different character from either of these distinguished personages. " On My leasing Benevento, one of its most respectable lishabitants, fearing I might encounter the Findarelli troop on their way to head-quarters, gore WC u letter of introduc lieu to one of them, which lie assured use would be the means or securing me (coin all such danger as the existing uncertalins or their prqjects and moveioeuts might render possible, duet probable. The person to whoa it was addressed lied been employed on is form of the writer, and retiiiiied a friendly and even respeettal feeling towards his former master, sa huh had Sheet. Itself On Win rill toCCaLlene since they hail parted. Curiosity led use to inquire st holier this pet bull was sououg the MU VIVOIS of the dreedful eutustroplie of the niurniog; mid having sent to the prison N here they were confined fur Os purpose of iisceriaiiiins; the fact, I ens eft:leered In the affirmative, mid COOdUCtril, as I imagined, to the cell which coun t ies / 1 the obje c t of my inqou res. It SCCIIII• Ohl thee substance of my Mt 1411:0 havin,f been conveyed fluor 111OUlll to Moth, had undergone a mates int change in its purport; And before I NUS statute of the misondristunding, I touted myself to a low Mailed rimia, lit the bnrk of tau puislic prison, and stunting; opposite to several caked Audis. exposed on some straw. Otte of these was puiuted out to me as the individual whom 1 sought. " The indtctioN of o sadden and violent deatb on a reborn cad active frame is ter bum producing thane ennui which I MONDAY, MAY 7, 1891• the repealed attacks of disease, or the gradual decay of the vital powers, leave impressed in characters so awful or offen sive on the human countenance I the setting rays of the same sun which had cast its morning radiance on beings moving in the full energy of existence, how shone on their littler but not inexpressive features. The turmoil of psssions which had &Anatol the last nrcadful moments of their exist ence was visibly though variously depicted in every face ; nor could the expression be inisulken : the sullen brow, strongly contracted over the glaring eyeball, the pallid lip curled to a sardonic smile, each bespoke the final agonies of of desperate b y, ineffertusil revenge, or the struggles of expiring crime. The colour of the bin nut extinct, end nought but the attitude was that of death. They had been stripped of every article save the reliquaries which the lower classes in Italy sear mond their necks, and which now rested on the ghastly *steads that difigured their bitches, some of which were ulso blackened by smoke. None of these men were above the age or 40, while most of them were CODBltierthiv youis2er." THE LATE MASSACRE AT MANILLA. Don Mariano Fernandes de Foignores, Brigadier of the National Armies, Political Chief and Captain General, ad interim, of the Phillippine Islands, has addressed a Manifesto to the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, and in particular to those of the district of Fonda, from which we extract the follow ing passages:— " A general frenzy was every where spread, which inspired your hearts with hatred and thirst of vengeance, and made you trample under foot sinews both human and divine. You have cruelly massacred peaceable and defenceless men. You have com mitted robberies and iniquities which humanity deplores, and which your children will bewail. In the excess of rage with which the wicked inspired you? you have sacrificed your honour and your fortune. become traitors and enemies to your country, you have stripped it of its honour and its glory. And what was the motive or the pretext for a tumult as dreadful as unforseen ? The foreigners you say, poison the waters of the rivers and the wells, the food, the air which you breathe ! To accomplish this horrible design they purchase, you add, serpents and other venomous reptiles, winch they preserve with a cruel care and refined precautions ! " I want terms sufficiently strong to express to you all the horror and affliction with which you have ftlled my soul; yet, as I am ardently desirous of undeceiving you, I hasten to com municate to you the result of the prone verbal, drawn up by M. Lilentiate Don Jose Maria Jugo, who has been appointed to examine the pretended poison which has led you astray, and his served the malevolent as a pretext to seduce you. The weigi► trate, after every possible inquiry, has made me the following declaration : " Most illustrious Sir !—By your official letter of the 13th inst. you required me to transmit you the proses verbal drawn up by the physicians and myself, relative to the phials and other articles which have been delivered to me for the purpose of proving the poisoning of the waters and aliments, to which the mexpuienced vulgar give credit, and to which they attribute the cause of the mortality which took place on the 6th inst. I will gin you an account of them that you may be able to acquaint the public with the result of my inquiries. In order to prove the existence of the crime, the Indians have brought me some insects and reptiles of different kinds, among which is a serpent of the common size, of the species called domestic (vaseros.)— This serpent was in a state of dissection. They brought also some shell-fish (coquillages), preserved,in glass pines, tilled with spirits of wine; a phial containing two grains of muriatic barite; about half a grain of guinquina ; and a tin box, about a Tara in length, a Tan in breadth, and six fingers deep, containing in. sects already in a corrupted state. Lastly, in the house of a woman, whom they accused of serving the French in Le execu tion of the poisoning, there was found some black ipowder, wrapped in China paper. Every man endowed with a lesson • able share of good sense, will comprehend without the aid of ply • sicians, that the insects or coquillages, dissected or preserved in spirits of wine, can only contribute to enrich cabinets of natural history. Theihysicians have merely added that the insects in a state of corruption, found in the tin box, could have on influence whatever on the contagion. The muriatic barite, according to the same physicians, was a compomal of mineral waters instead of being a poison, it is employed as an efficacious remedy in many disorders. The quioquina (or Peruvian bark) is the remedy to which we have all had recourse against the contagion. 'a ' The physicians have also declared that 'hi, black powder, found in the house of the woman shove mentioned, 114 S 110 tiling poisonous in it; that it is probable either a kind of mineral ethiopia, or a carbonic substance of the vegetable kingdom, which serves for various purposes in medicine. After this explanation, your lordship may see that the poisoning imputed to the French' is but an absurd tale, purposely invented to mislead the vulgar. There Is, nevertheless, no doubt but that die pretended poisoning had its origin is the ignorance of the Indians; but it is no loss certain that wretches, abusing their ignorance, induced them to commit the robberies and murders on the disasttous days of the 9th and 10th inst. An incontestable proof of this truth is, that after the events of the first day, when those who thought themselves *lured by the French must have satiated their revenge, they proceeded on the day following, to plunder the house. and nisgaaines of the Chinese, pretending that one or more Chinese bad been aerestod who were concerned in the poisoning, a circumstance which had not been hinted at before. Such are the explanations restiltMg from the paves verbal Of my inquiries; I will only add a word to convince the ignorait public that the accusation of poisoning reposed on nos reasonable hails: it is, that among the three paper books brought me by the Putnam, and were doubtless taken limn the house of the French naturalist, I found one conutining drawings of the birds, fish, and shells of our islands ; which ought to prove to the most ignorant and the most supernitious, that the collection of insects and animals made by the French. had no other object thau the promotion of the seance of natural history. •• • Done at St. Croix, 13t h Oct. Into. (Sighed) " 1M:031(111-E JOsE ANA .1t:GO.• 'rho manifesto °ow:Ludes in energetic teems, as follows— Unhappy pt. - plc of Binondo! y4a It - ht.sc t;em bee boon the the ,hatrt of tht. moat 11,3stible ;re6e:l; - , sad gho hoe one-ael Pales 94J. yourselves with enwelmehaa sad WA mks know Ms the wink universe the hatosussa ef ryepi habliblegailli p m a m = a up to the law the eiders of . the revolt...6w of God end ram Public justice. the sheasesar at do amiss stained. end its Was,/ outraged. all dowse dede adieus beads. —Let au asasidaseelea whet,/,/ whist the s this is the way mesas to trips out the list et loamy Isiah has Jam boa east on the Philippines and their amdettunste inhebisols." NEW AMERICAN FRIGATE. EXTRACT OF • TTTTT 1 FROM A GENTLICRLAN ntentALTs• moan. DATED ROY. Alp, " In my lest I promised to gin you some acannit oldie new frigate budding at Boma% which 14y. lately died. I can now, therefore, describe gbh the secrecy of a mood Wpm - tor. There is nothing very usnmelleble es kmiae. eneeprie tbr Prodigious and unwieldy IdeltiOd Ire dilse and mites and mho ranks among the first class of AllaiNSM Gip se, whit ace egndt to British 64 gun ships. The makemais whisk ie new hooped and el t uped with iron, is of remeelmble antege. l"ll S has attached to it the principal weight ads ddiardee metitasy which renders her so formidable. She hes time deem on board. Two are employed in proyeling her in Ugh= and calms, and the third. of sixty horse power is endmied, used for wielding the battering appszetuasttaclied le denied. mast, fcc. This consists first of a aeries of large hen hams clubs, moving perpendicularly on joints arranged elan the centre of the ship, on each side of the mast. and when is attics they are raised alternately, and, like as many bib. but with tremendous and increasing form peon wYssNr skied tint are directed against. They are in qestana. when they are made to descend upon anlzeTm — i's yang, they must best to tees every thing they Mrika—men. i = igni and ar even the dee of the enemy. By sionvertinz a into a horizontal modems deed dant attached to the mast is made to play in that direetien, and as it la and very long, it must make dramliti haves ram the rate. bang armed with lances. and japed bees, adonland le not or tear. In the event of its enseantenn6 a matter standleg pen. its joints yield and au it free. An engine. menerking oemenbleng the ea tapult of the andeme, is constrained an the manna hew. of such anses4 s pewee, that it can threw large asses et two hundrad to the einem of two er limn hundred yards. when the Immo of the atiplee is anpleyed.. It r al e ealculated 411•41 Isitt new, pink and malted An apparatus is insolse linens Ise asating the piNk fire, which is deimeged Gaming on the asselfa med. The di practice of red het and is likewise in prepaseelen. ad whin scattered swig the men must have a pendia slim Al its time, it mast fa slimystl, these are not bolt a deem pin ea dea; ewe t o ono are panestad sidanin. et= warsiarat& tramor maiumis Ihr ' - mid three mem et Wm parts at the ennL The net an sating Zak ens in the inter and middle deck se reening the TM vulnerable pins ass &hotted with *an naegth of timbre. and in suns paw and with oriel The asks an bomb proof. and it it is psi/ neslmemleind, that with die nip of her steam peddles,. ahe is inprepable. ems by Waft To diked aghast tin; 100 wenn kens. and the In Mo e of span. at tan yids. are in medians to be weird thin ly. which weld in two ninon senhilaw the new et UV a down Inge Mean ; and Indies this, me neat dens nam use net capon at the deck she can shower down melted pith end int sand en the benders, and a emensble wheel is pumas! in anapr directin, anon with knees and saws. which barrio pion any panon anion whom it is awed. I have not beard yet what is tole the name of this infernal. but surely. if it is to wee with her description, she is meshy no other than what I mad give her, via.—.. The DeviL" Extract of a letter from Richmond,. Virginia, 20th March:—" General Jackson is on his way to Pensacola, as he is appoiflted Governor of Florida, The three Spanish Commissioners are not yet ap. pointed. There were several persons who have been brought to the President's notice, perhaps not less than twenty ; the applicants for places of all sorts are numerous: an estimate has been made of fifty or sixty members of the Congress who are en the nomination roll. The amount of claims under the Florida treaty has been estimated in the news. papers at forty millions There are eve classes of claims, of which the fitih is claims of the citizens of the United States upon the Spanish Government. Mr. Mead's case comes under this description ; it alone is estimated at half a million for provisions and other articles furnished to the Spauish armies. tie has laid his memorial befare the President, and is in great hopes of having it adjusted. By aceounts'from Genoa we learn, that the sen tences of death, under the new military commission in Piedmont, have already been numemus. Among the condemned arc twelve of the principal members of the late provisional pvernment, who are, hon. ever, out of the reach of the cowardly cruelty of their oppressors. Amongst them is Chevalier Del Ptaso, a man of high and acknowledged 'acquire. nynts, and who presided at the head of the Supreme Court of Justice at Genoa for many years 1)r. Crevclli, the editor of the Soh.://pino Sergiod, is another. As the vessel which conveyed theni to Spain weighed anchor, he observed. " the coupe of constitutional freedom in Itaiv is fur the physically lost, but it is morally gained, - ho arrangements respecting his !illne-ty . TIM excursions will he made in the course and Ll:at a counuil of miLiiKtias will •. on Lilo uclkiion. it wi:l w thva kad‘vr. the King will visit irrlstid tie not iu Juno. is still it dtvers4y of opinions on tht ..} MIN: 01 ,„.--,, 1 • - ,...., IliOttitiii r 4 f '' ' . it `., Lie 4 re .--- ; ..?, , , y . , atoll. I - • ...' 4: Of Irbil •• -, . -, ' hi halt, '. Z l‘liell4Clie 1 1) :ti thy, , `.;:‘ •-+ " • :t. -