The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-14 00:00:00

MORE AUSTRIAN OUTRAGES IN ITALY.

Fresh particulars are reaching us as to the atro-
cious system of wholesale arrest now going on in
Lombardy. Public attention in this country ought
to be roused to the subject—nothing so horrible or
so disastrous as these arrests having occurred in
Austrian Italy for a long time.
A letter, dated Milan, July 3, states that it has
been ascertained that the body of Signor Pezzotti,
who was found strangled in a Milanese dungeon
immediately after his arrest, was instantly cut open,
with a view to get possession of some papers which
he had swallowed at the moment of his arrest. It
is said, too, that the tale of his having strangled him-
self is a mere invention to conceal the fact that he
was assassinated. However incredible this may
appear, the remembrance of the firm and calm nature
of poor Pezzotti makes it still more difficult to be-
lieve that he committed suicide.

Arrests continue at Brescia, Pavia, Cremona. At
Cremona one Antonio Binds, &landed proprietor, has
been arrested along with others. To those arrested at
Mantua has to be added the name of Count
Arrivabene.

At Venice many deplorable arrests have been
made—Seargellini, Canal, Zambelli, Ferracini, and
others. Here, as at Mantua, the arrests have been
made in succession, this being an old trick of the
Austrian police, to induce the imprisoned to believe
that they have been denounced by their previously
arrested companions, and so to spread abroad
through the liberal part of soeiety the suspicion of
mutual treachery.
Altogether at 111antua the arrests hitherto known
exceed ono hundred; at Venice there have been is
all eighteen ; in the other towns the numbers are
proportionate. It is impossible to describe what a
misfortune to Lombardy is this fresh rouia of the
polies among the most intelligent and honourable of
her young men. Austria seems determined not to
leave one thinking man free in her Italian domi-
nions.

What effects these atrocities are producing on the
Italians themselves may be inferred from the
following extract from the letter of a cor-
respondent of the Piedmontese paper the
Italia e Popolo, writing from Mantua, on July 1, and
complaining of the silence and indifference of the
ministerial papers of Piedmont on the subject of
cruelties so horrible. "Do you, at least," mays the
correspondent to the editor of the Italia e Papal°,
" see that these things are spoken of by those who
seek the real welfare of Italy. Tell how they tear
fathers from children, children from parents, hus-
bands from wives,—tell how they throw honest men
into prison,—how they insult them by binding them
in transport vans, refusing the request of their fami-
lies to be allowed to convey them in other vehicles at
their own expense,—tell how they manacle them
during the journey, and order those to be bound
still tighter who implore to have the irons a
little loosened, and how they refuse every possible
alleviation to their sufferings in prison. Tell how
they treat those as condemned who are yet under
trial, chaining them with one hand and one foot to-
gether, and obliging them thus to remain huddled
up on the ground in the most painful position. Tell
how they threaten the rat, and often use it
for vengeance alone, or to extract confession.
Besides these physical tortures, they easel' the
moral man with continual threats of death, as in the
case of the hero Giovanni Orioli, and with irony,
acorn, and insult. They abuse the holiest feelings,
telling parents who implore mercy for their unhappy
children, that the only means of saving them is to
persuade them to betray their accomplices, and eon-
feu their crimes, and even when there are no accom-
plices and no crimes.
" I write to you under tho impression of the
.grief
caused by the fresh arrests made in our provinces,
by which wo have lost (imprisoned or fled) upwards
of a hundred of our best citizens."

ROYAL COLLEGE OP StIEGEONB.—Tho following
gentlemen, hawing undergone the necesrary eintninations,
were admitted members of the college on the 12th inst.:—
Messrs. Wil!iam Clarence Matthews, Manchester; Henry
Lowndes, Liverpool ; Theodore Grant Crest, Australia ;
Thomas Thomson, Brunswick-place, lit gent spark ; Wil-
liam Henry Man, Plymouth; Francis, hfarchant Laidmen,
Exeter; William Field Belli°, Great Yarmouth; Joseph
Hissed, Hampstead ; Thomas Anderson, Choilton-upon-
Medlock : Edward Atkinson, Little Woodhouse, York-
shire ; and Itichard Itatclide, Loudon.