The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-20 00:00:00

A POLITICAL PRISONER BEATEN TO DEATH
1 IN NAPLES.

A letter in the Paris Presse says:
" I give you the following from a certain source.
Everybody now knows of the death of the unfor-
tunate Lorenzo, who was butinadoed for having
replied with dignity to the insults of the shirr°
Campagna. It should be known that Lorenzo's
bourreaux were ordered to pause four minutes be-
tween every blow of the stick, and the number of
blows awarded was one hundred! The surgeon in
attendance remonstrated after t..e fiftieth stroke, and
declared that if the punishment was carried further
death must inevitably ensue. But neither the generous
intervention of the surgeon nor the piercing shrieks
of the victim could stay the executioners. The hun-
dred blows were scrupulously administered (the four
minutes' interval being observed throughout), and
after a torture which lasted seven hours the unfor-
tunate man was transported to the prison hospital,
where he very speedily expired."

M. Mans, the notorious director of the secret
police at Naples, has been dismissed from office.
There can bs little doubt that the demand for redress
made by the British government contributed to this
result.

OF MAZZINI TO THE

ITALIANS.

M. Maszini has addressed a proclamation to the
Italian people, calling upon them to rise. The in-
surrection, he maintains, is the easiest thing in the
world to realise, cod to bring to a succeasful issue.
He urges his countrymen, by every argument ima-
ginable, to miss on the present opportunity; if they
do not, they will become the object of contempt to
the world.

The Vienna Fremden Bien asserts that the Rua-
@Mosher* concluded "another armistice with Scharnyl
for the term of six months."

Le Nord publishes a long and laborious letter from
a Frankfort correspondent, to prove that the soldiers
of the Russian army in the Crimea have plenty to eat
and drink. A correspondent of the Vienna Military
Gazette comes to the point at once in the following
fashion :

ODESSA, Sm. 6.

The army of Sebastopol is well supplied. Some
partied tr articles fetch prices almost incredible, thus,
a lemon is worth a silver rouble (3e. 2d.), but meat is,
almost given away, and tobacco is as cheap.

The following remarkable paragraph appears in the
Corriere Italian° of Vienna, a parr often quoted as

mernl-clatial :
The wane to be tallowy' by the Allies la the Crimea
after the takiag et Sebastopol will depend ea tbe attitude
of the states of Central Europe. A more emerged° peaky
os the part of oar asigast, we are firmly persuaded, is the
only else rayablo of aseeleratiag the coach:aim of a pease
so 'Mostly desired by all Europe.

TNE FORZION LEGION. 'rho Labrador as
frigate, which anchored la Aimed. Reads ea the 10th, left
es the isiletriag day for the Crises, baring ea board 400
sea beleediag to the ilith et the lbw mad the Posiin
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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
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Thelbsatitsitiown•Ppablishes instead of a leading
article another letter from its rather famous Vienna
correspondent, and calls attention to the special im-
portance of the communication. And painfully im-
portant indeed the letter would be if we were forced
to accept it as the expression of the opinions of the
Allied Powers. For it cosily amines that Austria
is as much:entitled to take a leading part in settling the
conditions of peace self she had shared with= the perils
of the war; that the Western Powers are still tied
and bound to the miserable four points; and that the
victors of Sebastopol should be too happy to think
that the result of their lavish sacrifice of priceless