The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-06 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) ET WOPENC E.

NAPLES.

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NAPLES. JULT 23.
Dreadful consternation has prevailed in Naples
during the lest tew days, in consequence of an acci-
dent involving considerable loss ot life. In the Castel
Nuovo there is a portion of it devoted to the malting
of percussion caps. There is, of course, much explo-
sive matter lying about, and whilst they were packing
a quantity the other day fur use in Sicily, through
thenegligenoe of workmen, the whole ignited, and
the entire building was blown up even to the roof.
The alarm was for the moment indescribable. Some
feared an earthquake, for all the houses in the neigh-
bourhood were shaken, and the window* in the
royal palace broken; others, as the military, con•
calved that another revolution, the bugbear of the
ruling party, had broken out, and all fled to arms.
" Rii,ful," the old popular cry of alarm, was raised
in every direction; and amidst shouts and screams
, ovarian/oiled everywhere bat to balsam& When it
was possible to enter the floor where the accident
took place the spectacle presented was most awful.—
the blackened and mangled bodies of the sufferers
lay scattered about, nor was it possible to ascertain
the number in full. Two hundred were said to have
been buried beneath the ruins. This may be pro-
bably an exaggerated statement, but a number of car-
riages were occupied during the whole day in taking
off the wounded to the hospital., and the
search was still continued for thaw who were
under the debris. The anxiety and lamenta-
tions of those who rushed to the Castel Nuovo
to ascertain the fate of relatives were, I am told,
heart-rending. Every one, in and about the castle,
ran away with whatever portable article they could
lay hold of. Outside, the streets were covered with
percussion-caps—medical men were there in great
numbers, ready to offer their assistance, and soldiers
were on guard, who acted, it is said, with the usual
brutality towards the mob. I am only surprised
that the accident was not of a more alarm-
ing character. Only imagine that many thou-
sands of tons of English powder, purchased
for the Sicilians in 1848, were in the magazines of the
castle, enough to have blown up half the kingdom—
whilst in the same wing of the building where the
aocid~nt took place, the fireworks used on occasion of
royal fetes are made, and a quantity of combustible
matter therefore was contained in it. The event is
kept as much a secret as possible, and no one is
allowed to speak of it. Had the royal family been
here nothing less than a grand conspiracy would have
been fabricated on the strength of it ; as it is, there
are doubtful shakings of the head and strange
rumours. The King came to Naples on the following
day to examine into the state of the case and give
relief. Naples has been resounding ever since with
the fireworks which were saved out of the wreck
and sold.

Whilst on painful subjects I may mention a very
ugly story in circulation about a depute between a
oert..in 1). Lorenzo and a waterman ; the Waterman
laid his complaint before the Commissary of Police,
and the affair terminated by Lorenzo's receiving 100
"legnati" stripes, and being condemned to the galleys
for six years. From this punishment, however, a
reprieve came from the highest quarters, as he died
in two days after. I have heard it from several cre-
dible authorities.

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provided for when passing through the United Stott•
to Lino& or Mexico.

A commercial letter in the New York Journal of
Commerce says:
The (lemma for goods for the interior has materially
fallen off since the sailing of the steamers on the 16th, ant
the jibbeire generally are complaining of dullness. 8611
there is a fair inquiry for particular descriptions of mer-
chandise is first band,. The flour market shows more firm-
ness. Good to choice domestic—the great bulk at 6 dole. 500.
to 7 dol.. All cereals are represented as looking s sty fine,
and promising an abundant h . In money matte»
there continues much stringency, and banking farilitiee are
out of the question. This slow process of country collections
has become the almost sell' resource of the mercantile cos-
malty.
Writing from Brownsville, a correspondent states,
that on July 10, the Mexican revolutionists were full
of hopes of ultimate success. General WoU had
marched to Reynoes, in order to take the command of
the government troops stationed there; but, after
catering Camargo,2,soo men of the federal army were
pushing forward rapidly to meet him at the former
town, and would endeavour to take him prisoner. The
insurgents were well supplid with money, and deter-
mined to overthrow Santa Anna, Carvajal, with 27
other filibusteree, was discharged by the federal court
at Brownsville, the judge having ordered the indict-
ment to be quashed, as being illegal. The weather
was very fine, and the river navigation excellent.
General Vidaurj, General-in-Chief oldie liberating
army, has issued a decree, which we publish, de-
nouncing the penalty of death against Santa Anna,
his executive officials, general officers and secretaries,
should he or any of them fall into the hands of the
revolutionists.