The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-25 00:00:00

TRIAL OF BOURBONIC CONSPIRATORS.

The Naples correspondent of the Post writes on
the 19th :

Yesterday morning the Arise Court of Naples offered an
interesting spectacle in the trial of Count Frederick del
Christen, lit. Cenatiempo, Signors Caracciulo, Nolli, de
Luca, Tortora, De Angelis, Rceber, Menghini, and the old
woman, or rather old witch, Santa Beretta, for conspiracy
&pallet the state, with a view to the restoration of the
Bourbonic dynasty. De Christen's name will be familiar to
your readers as an officer in the Neapolitan army, and one
of the most fervent and adventurous upholders of Francis
IL's cause since the capture of Gaeta. The prelate Cone-
tiempo was in continual correspondence with the ex-King
and his agents in Rome, and the other prisoners were
secretaries, messengers, recruiting officers, and indirect
agents of the principal conspirators, who were in the
habit of meeting in • villa at Pausilippo, hired for the
purpose by Monaignore Canatiempo. The result of the
first day's proceedings showed clearly the exiatence of the
conspiracy, and the discovery of the correspondence and
plans of the conspirators in the villa, with the list of 1,190
armed men, and 1,250 unarmed, 600 custom-house soldiers,
and 100 others of different corps, already enrolled, and
ready to march ou Naples from the general rendezvous at
Capodichino. In the course of the trial, an incidental revela-
tion caused great sensation and some disturbance in the
court. This was the declaration of the prisoner Nolli, who
asserted that he had rendered important service to the
state in the discovery of a plot formed in France, in 1857,
to overthrow the Bourbonic dynasty in Naples, and to sub-
stitute that of Lusien Murat.

It appears now to be beyond a doubt that at that period
the Muratnts were hard at work, and that the
late Kiog Ferdinand 11. was fully aware of their schemes.

(B.ZUTER°B TELCORAIIB.)

FRANCE.

PARIS. JULY 25.

The Mondeur of this morning publishes a decree
levying supplementary dues on certain chemicals
of Belgian and English origin. These dues are
to be paid independently of the customs duties
stipulated by the treaties of commerce.
The articles and the dues to be levied upon them
are as follows :—Caustic soda 14 francs, bicar-
bonate and silicate of soda 7 francs, hydrate of
soda 3 francs 50c., albuminate of soda 7 francs,
hyposulphate of soda 3 francs, chrystallised acetate
of soda 3 francs.

Another decree orders that until the let January,
1863, the abovementioned articles of French origin
will on exportation have the benefit of drawbacks
fixed at the same sum as the duties imposed on
similar Belgian and English products.

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, Jnir 24.
The Portuguese loan of 125 millions baa been
!ally covered.

MONTENEGRO.
PARIS, JULT 25.
The Paris papers of to-day publish the following
telegram :
" Ragusa, July 24.
" The Turks lost about 3,000 men in the battles
of Friday and Saturday last.
"Omer Pacha is fortifying the line of Bjelopau-
lovitch, as the base of his operations.
"On the 21st inht. the Turks attacked Sajaratz,
where the Montenegrins made a vigorous resist-
ance."

A Turin letter say's :—" Touching the thieves of
Bologna, lam grieved to have to tell you the sad fate of
that able and gallant Magenta, the prefect, to whose energy
and vigilance that town was indebted for the rapid and
thorough extirpation of those malefactors, who for a season
threatened to renew the exploits by which they distin-
guished themselves in the palmiest pontifical times. M.
Magenta was travelling to Switzerland with • view to re-
emit his health by • few draughts of fresh alpine air, when
on the descent of the St. Gotham his poetchaise was upset,
sad he was killed by the fall. He was thought to be
slightly hurt, because he was stunned, and apparently free
from pain ; but, on being conveyed to A.ndermatt, he died
after a few hours' easy, because latent, struggle. His un-
happy wife, who, after receiving • by no means alarming
telegram, instantly set out for the spot, only arrived at
Aadermatt to Mad her husband laid out for burial."
A Cologne letter says :—" The bad weather of
she first fortnight in July had led to fears for the harvest,
and in all German markets an upward movement in prices
bad been manifested. The present fine weather has, how-
ever, caused a reaction in prices. The rye barred Is
already in progress io the south of Germany, and such of
the grain as has been offered in our market is dry and of
excellent quality. According to advises from all parts of
Germany and Hungary, there will he • good crop of all
kinds of grain, and a great abundance of potatoes."
BIRTH OP A HIPPOPOTAMUS.—A hippopotamus
was born a few days hack at the Zoological Gardens of
Amsterdam. Hopes were at first entertained of bringiog
it up, as for some hours after its birth it was playing
about, the dam at the same time watching its
movements, and treating it with the greatest care.
The male, however, which was separated from
the female by • partition, became greatly agi-
tated and mad* every effort to reach the young
one ; the mother in the meantime driving back the cub each
time that in playing it approached too near the partition
dividing them from the male. In the evening of the
following day the male became furious, refused to Mire
any food, and made violent efforts to climb the hoarding,
seven feet high. The anxiety of the mother now her
came intense, and each time that the young one
rose she drove it with such force to the farther
side of the enclosure, that, with the hope of easing its life,
it was removed. The male and female then became quiet,
and fed as usual. New milk was given to the young one,
but it died on the following day. It is to be regretted that
there efficacious means bad not been adopted to separate the
male from the female, as had it been possible to leave the
young one with the latter, its life would probably have
bow preserved.—Oalignati.