The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

TO TNT IWITOR OF THI =FITTS.

Stz,—We Lae MI a defiant meet, the grapes
ea entire failsre,lesie tai, mrevammes, provisions dm,
and the people without mailapasat ; political state of the
Neatly gloomy and tessiolffsil. sad • government Meat
either energy or new ; se pen may fancy what a plum{
prospect we have for the winter. I will give you a bor
anecdotes of our paternal aim pushing that they are all
facts, which I tan myself wash he. On the 13th Do.
camber, 1861, in the evening a party of the keepers at
Pompei (a low set) were drinking in • tavern near the
street of the tombs, one of these, • man of very bad chit-
rater and notoriously • spy, got exceedingly drunk. About
sine at night, he left the place, intending to go home, tie
seat day his wife sent to inquire for him. He was nowhere
to be found. Day after day passed, and still no tidings.
At last, in the afternoon of Christmas eve, when the millers
had opened the aluiusgstes to let the water pass, an un-
fortunate mai, of the name of Domenico Scarps, observed
• dead body jammed between the lower part of the slobs
and the bed of the mill-dem. Notice was immediately
given to the manager of the planless, and by him to the
judge, who came down. An inqasst was held and method
evidence heard. It wan declared, list, that it was the
missing keeper; secondly, that the cause of his death had
been apoplexy. The judge made his report accordingly.
Meanwhile the whole affair had been told to the kis&
but giving quite a different Ironies : that a mass swims g
steadied to hie majesty, and who had at different them bens
eminestly surviseable in giving useful informatics, hut
been waylaid, murdered, and thrown into the dam, by
parties unknown, bat doubtless belonging to the liberals;
that the judge had been suborned, the opinion of the
medical men false, and the witnesses perjured. An seder
was sent by the king himself to rehear and reopen the in-
quest, appointing a new judge extruallaary ; the meillesl
men were imprisoned, and the foveae judge (Ouistial) sent
to • atiesselste village in • distant province, as • punish.
mat. A new process was opened, every mimes tokenising
and unjust ; intimidation and torture ; 32 parsons intpritsasi
for upwards of a year on stupid's, sad were treated with
such severity that two died is sensequesse, wee Ise
hie eight, and another thew at Ids limbs ; nothing, hew.
ever, meld be discovered. There was nothing to dieseenr,
the real !scabies that the man, in going home, died hem
the sleet of • et, increased by the effect of his smosnire
drunkenness. He had had gawks peerlessly. The sent
morning he was found dead by one of the country peeple.
who, to prevent suffering any annoyance, throw Ida late
the dam; the current of the water carried him down to the
liaises, when be remained unit the millers went to Ist off
tie yew, as I have already stated. What has been the
malt ? The judge who gowned rightly is still in Apish
whereas the ether, who was the caws of the deaths et Sew
individuals, of misery, and the author of the torture awl
bereavement to thirty others, illegally keeping them in
prima, in order to second the views of • political party, has
been nude judge of the Supreme Criminal Court of Nelda,
I hare not here exaggerated • fact, nor written • Oft
which Ido not myself know. I and you my name.
Yours, tc., A READER IN ITALY.
N spies, Oct. 72.