The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

SARDINIA.-COLONEL TURK,

TURIN, Nov.2i.
I wish to draw your serious attention to the eased
Colonel Turr, recently arrested as a deserter by us
Austrian authorities in Wallachia—under what al,
lonmstances of disgrace and insult tons, all Englasdi
by this time aware. It appears that the British go.
vernment has applied to the Piedmontese policela
the elements of a biography of this unfortunate en;
and it has bees thought proper here, instead of state/
the simple truth, to darken his character, on 04
purity of which he must depend for general sympathy
by the most unfounded calumnies. Most probabs
this mancenvre will be treated with the contempt d
deserves. The police, no doubt, have mistaken di
motives for which we sought for information. ist
yet purified by the constitutional atmosphere it yes
lately breathed, it imagines itself still to be la thi
good old times of despotism and cowardly deal*
tine. We asked for truth, by which to ravage ow
eonduct: it meanly endeavours to supply Is Ina st
excuse for its abandonment.
In reply, then, to the questions formally pat toil..
first, What was the opinion held of Colonel Tarr yin
he lived in this country? second, Why was henna'
land expelled ? the police of Sardinia, by
proper channel," replied categorically
Turr was an Austrian epy. I believe lan as
position to give this statement the most flat and?*
tive denial. I have made the most anxious iodates;
inquiries both of people who knew him here, and/
people from Lombardy, foreign and native, and I fdt
that all agree not only in disbelief of the statement,gt
in indignation. The republican and the revolnunv
parties is Italy are not famous for confidence in the
friends and leaders. They generally err oh the Mt
of suspicion. Every act in a man's public and prints
life is carefully scrutinised. /so one with impunity
can commit an equivocal act, or disappear from the
scene for a moment, without giving the clearest pa
ble explanations. The innocent may be blamed,*
it is impossible that the guilty should escape dens
don—when so many lives and fortunes doped a
the truth being known—for any length of time;
to suppose therefore that Colonel Turr should hen
systematically betrayed hie party ever since 149,
or once in 1853, and yet retain their undiminisrel
oonfideuce, is simply absurd. The accusation is in
heard of for the first time, and is invented for the
nonce. _ _ _

To relate to you all the actions of Colonel Tro
during his residence in Piedmont op to 1853 may
to give the history of the Lombard and Beep&
emigration ; and the time has not yet cows Is
this fully and freely. Suffice it to say, that hem
entrusted on various occasions by the revdrffimegn
well as by the liberal party with important
which necessarily placed him in immix dip
ous secrets, and that no one ever even thig
suspecting him. Whom did he betray P
conspiracy ever failed by his means? Whirs mi
the proofs, direct or presumptive, of his camp
deuce with the Austrian government? Tie saw
meet that was prepared for Febrnery, 1861, al
which was to break out simultaneously et Nia,
Bologna, Verona, Mantua, and Venice, as well all
the Piedmontese frontier, was not oat pedudi
well known to him long previously, baths mem
trusted with a principal part in the entarides. Wit
hint did the Austrians obtain beforehand? Its
movements in the other cities failed, as is always tis
case in conspiracies, " from unforeseen causer—di
is why they are absurd and impolitic—bat in MU
the Austrians were quite taken by surprise. Wald
they have been so if all the ineurrectionuy plats
I had long before been in the bands of one of the
agents P
Colonel Tarr wee to have led a corps of refers
over the frontier. He was arrested is the vary set
by the Piedmontess authorities, who instead of re
lensing him of being a spy, treated him with ale
and contumely as a disturber of the public pea.
They would have been only too glad at that time b
have an excuse for their conduct—which woe UM
bated to a criminal subservience to Austris.
Ta
liberal party, once the friends of Colonel Tarr,*
tively bestirred themselves. There is a story mead
a lady going to throw herself at the feet of Os
to beg for his liberation. Lorenzo Valerie talked d
bringing the question before the Chamber anyone.
Why. did they not then say that Turr, who 'Mudd
this interest, was an Austrian spy! Instead dieted.
they talked of him as au agitator, a duress an,
who would bring the country into trouble; sad
preached eloquently in favour of order. S4lo*
ever, the indignation becoming general, whit 0015
do I' They not only released this Austrian spy,
handed him over to the embrace of the men he IN
said to have betrayed, but supplied him with tool/
to proceed to Malta and take service in the Br
army—a step which has led to his mist sad roc,
and may probably lead to his death.
I do not know whether we are strati moth t°
teoxarmiretaptarae
tthioen
Afomr
ethritnines,ulwth.
enWthoe way
yproa not le sbistii
liberation of Martin Costa under menace of s brosi
side. It may be necessary to be humble with Are
tria, and to sacrifice this miserable man who me
so false an estimate of our power. Let os not, Ito«
ever, take the hint of an ignoble police—let al
defame the man we abandon. The Piedmials!
Government itself is ashamed of having crested i!‘
brutally treated one of the soldiers of liberty, in aset
to curry favour with Gcrmans and Croats. Tlu
why they, or rather their underlings—for I
.111
willing to believe that this is not a minutia ea_
invent this calumny. If we descend to lime.
pliance, and suffer a man who had the protic?:U
our uniform to be seized, manacled, sad barD°o !
perhaps shot, let us leave his friends et day."::,
poor satisfaction of knowing that we us agy
and not ungrateful.

THE MODERN INQUISITION.

The Piemonte of Turin publiehes s kite fro.!
inquisitionßomai a The
to barracko giving1
datpigh, cRr
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he twt the
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Frenchptis present
reNoli sunirattoit,ot luotn:fthet'sbi:niebutis:hlo:4ll2l:rilisfh:
transferred to the interior of the Vaticie, Itkoto••
cleans occupy a part which none but those who hawr!gi
old in the palace can ever find, such is the WANT':
multiplicity of the stain, penises, sad lest MI
don that lead to It. When the inquisiuol
either toDeithol o'"
t or question you, they ...„.dc
alimm of justice nor a warrant; inch 'sumsyeti
are only reserved for those who attempt to
gentleman calls upon you in a quiet way, old
that the Holy office requests the platen of year
Should you happen to expostulate, the quiet Attt
Istely suggests the expediency of bans pular;
•r wit
you reach the outer court of the Vatic**, yos ull•
en
who ernducts you to the tribunal, and Ural Is
mooed as a wits's', it is he who conducts you betli•
in the presence of the inquisitor, you are esile r,;;,-1.
that you will speak the truth ; your answers tome q
put to you are written down is Latin, and, mrs
relented, you must take another oath that you w'
nothing of what you have either seen or heart"

WuEcuB.—A statement published by fie' n
Ossetia, gives the number of vessels wrecked &Sf.
mouth of November, at 263. This number. ovialr,s
cipally to the heavy gales which visited the
will be caw
the first week of November, shows, as
Wrakial
a large increase over the number of vessels
one month during the present year. Thus, is 011._r,,0,
mouth of October, 179 steads were wrecked ; is o'f"'"
90' AA
108; August,lo9% July, 70; June, 83; 347, '
109 ; Mareq, 149; February, 164; and in Jlis•S',4o,
total smother of vessels wrecked during the Irw."
1,688.
VAN DIEM muEN'S LAND EXISTS NO °
Quoit having been graciously pleased to secede 01'
ties from the colony praying that the Moss of Vet 170.
Lead should be changed to that of "Taw.
aim and Nes Zosired Choate.