The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-06 00:00:00

THE STATE OF SIEGE IN NAPLES.

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NAPLES, Auourr 31.

Yesterday I was stunned by the terrible news of
the defeat of Aspromoute, told to me at my break-
fast by one of the officials. I could not bear the
idea that Garibaldi should be wounded by Italian
hands, be • prisoner on the very soil which he had
conquered for Victor Emmanuel. I found no com-
fort in the thought that even by his defeat the hero
has opened the gates of Rome to Italy, and in that
respect was happier than Miltiadee, Manlius, and
Columbus ; I felt that the bullet which struck him
in the foot bad rebounded and hit Victor Emmanuel's
crown. How many of my friends may be among
the dead—how many among the wounded I And
the prisoners—are they to be tried ? Are the
wounds of Italy again to be ripped open 1 It was
a bad augury for the fate of my friends that 1 was
at last informed to-day that neither La Marmots
nor the queestor had anything to do with my
arrest, but that I had been arrested upon a direct
telegraphic order from Rattaszi. The minister puts
indeed a medlieval refinement into his terrorism,
and well aware that I am on my return
to Turin, has me imprisoned at Naples,
where the constitution is suspended at the very
moment of my departure. It was the fourth day
of my detention, but I waited still in vain for any
inquest. I did not see either the Queestor or his
secretary ; I am not handed over to the judicial
power, I remain here as a suspected person, who
might be dangerous ;• but I am resolved to make
use of the permission to write letters, by recording
in your paper the various incidents of prison-life
under the rule of Signor Rattazzi, until I am either
set free or transferred to some prison where I shall
not enjoy the same facilities of communication as
here. This alternative is indeed not at all au ex-
aggeration of my excited brain, since about,
eight o'clock in the evening Colonel Carbo.
nelli, who like me has not yet undergone any
inquest, was told by a delegate he was to be
transferred to the dungeon of La Concordia. He
took leave and went. Two hours later, how-
ever, he was again brought back, labouring under
the highest excitement. The prison to which
he bad been conveyed is not destined for
persona awaiting their trial ; it is a penitentiary,
filled with convicted murderers, thieves, and house-
breakers. The colonel was revolted at the idea of
being thrown among such scoundrels, and his pro-
tests were so violent that the police delegate
who had accompanied him returned to the secre-
tary of the Qutestura, Signor Amore, remonstrating
against that unnecessary harshness in the case of •

political prisoner. The secretary shrugged his
shoulders, and said, " Let him be brought back."
So the colonel returned, and upon his reclamation
got at last to-day the promise that he shall be
handed over to the Criminal Court, which will as
certainly find that there is no reasoz for detention
and a trial in the present came as it found the same
in the case of M. Lupoi. That gentleman, who but
lately had been an inmate of our place of deten-
tion, was so kind as to visit me yesterday, offering
me his services. I at once appealed to him for towels,
since the prisoners here are probably not supposed
to wash, and therefore are not provided with
towels. About midnight we got again an accession to
our number. A young man, in 1860 a Garibaldian
lieutenant, was brought into one wing of the Quess-
tura, under suspicion of having given assistance to
Signor Libertini, the member of the Italian 'mint- '
meat, in eluding the police and taking refuge on
board an English frigate. Upon being searched
a copy of Garibaldi's proclamation of Catania was
found upon him, which, under Iss Marmores rule,
suffices for being conveyed to the Qurestura. Another
young man was likewise brought in, he too an ex-
Garibaldi= of 1860, but he is not a political pri-
soner—he had hid himself to evade conscription.
Still, all the prisons being filled to overflowing by
Camorristas, another great haul having been made
to-day, the gentlemen prisoners are installed in the
offices of the police, the police-prison being likewise
crammed with low people. I see across the court-
yard at least a score of them in one middle-sized
room.

Having made some arrangements that steps
should be taken at Turin for my liberation, I wrote
to-day to Alexandre Dumas, requesting him to visit
me. He is editing here a political paper, and I
desired to put him right about some facts in con-
nexion with Garibaldi, which he had misrepre-
sentedl trusting the despatches of the Agenzia
St jars. He at once sent his co-editor to me, ex-
cusing himself for the moment, but he is to come
to-morrow. I intend to apply through him for
permission to visit the Museum and Pompeii, under
the surveillance of the police. Perhaps such an
irregular demand may be granted where every-
thing is irregular and arbitrary.

THE KING AND GARIBALDI.
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TURIN, Sm. 2.

As there are no telegraph stations in the millet
of the sea, none but a journalist 41 in Dumas could
report upon the nature of Garibalcli's wounds and
the state of his health whilst he was a prisoner on
board the Duca di Genova, and yet there was no
lack of news of that kind. Some of it had a very
mischievous effect, and perhaps it was invented for
that purpose. Garibaldi arrived yesterday in the
Gulf of Spezzia, and is still on board the Duca di
Genova, which is anchored off the port, and from
which be has expressed a wish not to be removed
until he has been visited by surgeons with whom be
is acquainted. His son, who is more severely
wounded than himself, is also on board. His
other son, Riociotti, and his daughter, Teresita, are
to arrive at Spezzia to-day to attend him, having
received permission to do so.
Meanwhile you will ask, what will be done with
Garibaldi 7 A ministerial journal, which has been
copied by others, said yesterday that it was decided,
in the oouncil of ministers held that morning, to
constitute the Senate a high court of justice to try
Garibaldi on a charge of high treason, or of rebel-
lion against the safety of the State. But I have
reason to believe that nothing was decided yester-
day, and the Official Gazette says not a word on the
subject, although the ministerial journal added that
the royal decree to the above mentioned effect would
be published to-day. The question is a thorny one
for all, and ministers would incur the danger of
seeing things disclosed on the trial which they °ea-
tainly have weighty reasons for wishing to remain
unknown.
It is said that the King thinks of going incognito
to speak in person with Garibaldi. Ministers are

trying to dissuade bim from doing so. In any case
it is anticipated that as the minims'e of the Princess
Pia is near at band, the Ling will take advantage
of that opportunity to exercise his prerogative of
mercy.

Whilst at this moment a strong government is an
object of general desire, the wish is not lees strong
that it should not remain in the bands of Rattaszi
and Depretis. The present misfortunes are laid
at their door, and their presence in the
ministry is looked upon as involving the danger
of a rupture with England, and as a continual
menace of civil war or of anarchy. There is a
rumour of Lamarmora's being about to enter the
ministry as President of the CounciL It would be
a great mistake. It would damage Lamarmora
without strengthening the ministry, since there
would remain in the latter the two principal
authors of the present difficulties, against whom
public aversion is strongly manifested. It would
be a great lons, too, if Lamarmora were removed
from Naples, now that he knows that region well,
and is esteemed there for his franknesa,activity, and
justice.

There have been arrsgted in Florence saw ser-
vants of the Grand Duke, who had just re'
turned in secret to that city, and who
were among the most frantic brawler in the
demonstration which took place in Via Calmioli
and in front of the Poet-aloe. Among the cries
which were raised there, with a uniformity that
showed they were uttered pursuant to order, was
that of "Death to Pallavicini !" The ignorant

mobs, who repeat what they were taught, show
that they do not even know that the person whom
their teachers mean is the gallant Colonel Palla-
vicini, who commanded the Bersaglieri at A !pro-
monte. At Genoa " Death to Pallavicini !" was
shouted furiously under the windows of the Mar-
chese Pallavicini, a very wealthy old man, who
spends a great deal of his time in church, and never
meddles with politics.