The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-26 00:00:00

PEE COUNT OP PALM

The vicar of Twickenham has received front the
Owlet de Paris the following reply to the address presented
to him on Wednesday. His royal Isighoem his ales west the
vicar BW. to distribute smug the poor of the parish :
" York Hones, Twickenhens, August 25, 1864.
" bsg lea to mem to the inembers of the eon.
mates of which you are chairman, and to all those who
have taken part in the demonetration of yesterday, the ex-
perks of our gratification for the kind reception nu to
my wife and myself by the inhabitants of Twickenham. I
thank you for the hearty welcome contained in yeti/adobe's.
As I told you, we see in it an auspicious beginning for oar
new life, whose first happy days shall ever be emaciated
with this place. It
is, indeed, a* new easeciatios for ay
family. Three times in this meter, bee it found, during
sails, an hospitable retreat in Twickenham, and the grateful
memory of it has lived through its venom fortunes. I Mill
remember that, wheu a boy, my grandfather used to point
out to me among the groves of Twickenham the former abode
of his ,neater ,years ; that place is again occupied by one of
us. Yon have alluded to the Duke d'Aumale in terms which,
1 dismay, he fully deserves, and which I regret only be has
not been able to hem; for to him, rather than to me, ought
to have been addressed yesterday's demonstration. What et
hest I can do is to tell you how highly all my family
elite the feelings which have pprtoompted it, and to ad
in my tans, to all my new aeigkbona the good wishes whir&
they have expressed to me yesterday.—Believe me, air,
very truly yours, _ _

" MUM Pwiumm Mizzen.
" The Rev. G. 8. Mader, vicar of Twickenham."

THE QUILLOTINE AT ROHE.

The correspondent of the if anti*, Post at Rome,
writing on the 20th, says :—" On Wednesday morning •
scaffold was erected en the usual open space opposite the
Temple of Vesta, for the decapitation of two murderers and
robbers, cos an ex-brigand sad the other so ex-Pool died
soldier. It bad been expected that the Castelfidardo roads"
oe the breast of the Ldter would hare sufficed is redeem
him from the extreme penalty of the law ; but the
crime he committed, the murder and robbery of •
woman with whore husband be had become se-
zioested in prison, was too attack= to justify say
of lenity. As to the brigned, although only 22
years of age, he bad perpetrated manifold homicide in the
Abbruzsi, his native province, before seeking the hospitable
refuge of his Holiness's dominions. The quiet life of a
vine 'shower on the Monte Mario, alter his exploit. in
the reactionary bands of the frontier, was too monotonous
net to require relief in some deed of blood, mid he was
accordingly brought up on three sangnivary orients com-
bining coldblooded cruelty with the rapacity of plunder.
Like other brigands, he had nig subrigtua, for although his
real name was Domenico Antonio Martini, he was 'Nasally
known as Gofocofo, alias Petrone. Oath* scaffold be dia.
played se. much indifferences to his eau life as he had pre-
viously shows with regard to the lives of his victims. Re
, =misted the steps firmly. decliried bei.ng blindfolded, sod
submitted his head fearlessly to the fatal axe. The soldier,
in spite of his medal, showed less courage. Me wee
dragged, half fainting, to the spot by tiaras of the exsea.
tieeer's sesistaints, and expiated his crimes in • paroxysm
of terror. It is enstomary at Rome for the heeds of
guillotined criminals to be placed on spikes at the corners
of the scaffold. This ceremony was performed oa the
present mission, and gave rise to a very serious disturbaace
among the spectators, the foremost of wham bestir through
the cordon of Pontifical troops drawn aroand the scaffold
to gem more freely on the truncated gore-dripping heads.
Whilst so engaged, them lowers of horrible sights were
seised with a sudden panic on nein the brigand's head,
not firmly planted on the spike, drop off and roll at their
feet. There was • mum qui pent which was rendered the
more alarming and dangerous tress ties fact that the troops,
having re-formed their line, charged upon the mob with
fixed bayonets to drive them from before the scaffold. A
number of people were thrown down, wounded, or trampled
on io this 'Mier, and it is even asserted that OW or two lives
were loot in the crush."