The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-17 00:00:00

A YOUNG ARTIST TAKEN BY BRIGANDS.

Mr. W. B. Oliver, a young artist who, for the
last two or three years, has been pursuing the study of his
art in Italian scomery, has sent the following letter to his
friends. The letter bears the postmark. " Albano, 7 Gin,"
sod was written from NOM!, where he had bees staying
eay few weeks, and from which place he started on the
30th of ligy last, fora sketching exonnion:
" lam whiz:: this in bed and in pal
s. and so weak as
as hardly to be able k, hold my pen, and I will tell you as
shortly as possible what LSI agape& that ben laid me as
low. I lift Nemi the other day for one of the villages among
the mountains, either Oen, or Oepra or Villein, or
somewhere by the borders of the Papal Sates, at the back
of the bills where no ono goss. I got a sort of farmer
for a guide who wet going some round on mules with MT
knapsack. I left the rest in the environs, is no is
earriir
any kind can anyhow get upthe paths,
nod often there
not soy path at all. It was Tuesday emus;, we were going
along a dreadfully luau path round the edge of • hill, and
I got tired of the everlasting jog of my mule, and so got
off and started to go over the top of the hill to see the
suout on these wild mountains, and join my man oe
the other side. I got up to the top, and was walk-
log over to see the pathos the other side, when I was spied
out by some of the bleolignard brigands who infest tau
places. I did sot see them until two fellows came behind
me, and one seised my right arm and tried to send me
back ; but I snood firm, though it was a shock, and at the
suns moment I bit the other fellow with my left hand.
and sent him back, and then I got out my pistol, and I
fired it ioto the shoulder of the first while we got hold of
each other ; in fact I had nearly dose for him, but another
fellow earns up at the intionall after aed stabbed me, and
then I don't quite moolleot bow it all was, for we all three
struggled with sea other, ea the one I had mot back with my
left arm came up, and it was knives and unifies, but I know
I fired again and bit, it seems, ono In the hand, and fell, and
we rolled over the rocks together, for 1 had been bleeding a
great deal. and dislocated my shoulder in rolling o
Iver the
stoma, and was • good deal braised ; but I believe should
have beaten them, for we were sll three down, but there were
three guns levelled at my head, and a movement would bare
wouldy life, so I gave in
theyough now I don't think they
have killed ins if could help it, awns ming
• stranger without bampqm their idea was to take me and
gets ransom, which is what they nearly always do now.
Then they all earned me, all over blood and in great pal.
thouh I did not know at the time in the least where
au g
wounded ; than we got up • sort of hole in the rooks.
and an old woman, • filthy old beast, began to pull me
about to do no my wounds, but I was in snob an awful
pinion that I sent her over, and caught up s knife lying
on the ground. and made • desperate stab at the lint
fellow who had come up to me, but I had lost each •
lot of blood that the exertion aide me loos consolati-
on's, bat I came bank again after • bit, and I let them bind
me up, but my dionlder gave me the worst paia. I felt it
was dislocated (it is set sow sad is going on pretty well.)
However, I supping I was so exhausted that after • time I
fell asleep on the cloaks and things on a sort of mattress
they put for me, and did not wake till next morning, and
then I suffered horribly from the cuts on my shoulder, and
the head man came op and we bad a talk, in which I told
him what a blackguard he was, &a. ; and he. on his part.
just summed it all up that, if within 24 hours I did not gat
210 wadi (about 521.) I should be shot. I told him the im-
pouibility, bat it was of no 929 ; be raid there was every
possibility of messengers and amusement. There wee
not • soul in Rome I knew, as all have gone away
now. So there was nothing to do but to seed to the
farmer who brought me on the way (and who, by-ta.bye,
bolted directly be heard the shots and row). I told him
how he might to have known that my baggage was worth
more then the money, and I swore by the Madonna I would
pay him ; and so he sent about to collect it, but he could
only get about 200 wadi. It did 00i come until the
morning after the eat day, and the beggars said they would
not take it ; but after a bit they said they would let me
go if I would bud over the 2C) wadi and leave • !wane
for the rest. I think they thought I should die, and be
worth nothing. I was glad enough to seed this proposal, and
waited anxiously for the answer ; end at last it came, saying
that • man ad consented to be my hostile for 20 solidi,
and I got back yesterday. I'm writing about sod send-
ing for the other 121., bat I don't at all know whom to send
to, as if I write to anybody who is anything in aabority
they will certainly sand some soldiers, and the moment there
is au alarm the first thing my blackguards will do will be to
shoot the sun, who is there in my steed, unless I sash beck
myself. I must get it somehow, but io the insaatiree I beg
you, for God's sake, not to lose a moment, lot to send me
601 in circular notes. or somehow, bat as quickly as possible,
as lamin • dreadful state of anxiety. lam better and out
of danger, but my anxiety makes me wome, end I suffer •
great deal.

" Address thus : —Grosso°, petr Nemi, grad Potitifici.
"Sind the mosey addressed here, where I hare got bast
gals."
The :stoney was ■speedily seat him.

Folmar; Orrice, Jun 13.—Tbe Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. W. H. F. Gurley as Coated at
Quebec for tN United States of iniericia.—Oareffe.
ALARMING ACCIDZSTS ON THZ NORTH EMITZIJI
Rattway.—An =Meat of an alarming nature occurred 012
the Bernard Cuffs brooch of the Stockton and Darlington
a Moo of the North Boaters Railway on Wednesday seen-
iog. The goods train, which leaves Panrith for the meet at
a quarter past t in the at Memo*, had !insetted to it four
bone-bons occupied, and four trucks of cattle. Between
Pieces-bridge and Darlington the axle of • mineral waggon,
the thitel from the engine, broke off aloes by the nave.
The broken ante dragged aloes and tare up the rails,
until the continued strain caused the couplings
which attached it to two trucks and guard's van, between
it and the Kislev, to give way. After the break-Is' of
the axle, the metal-waggon mad the trucks behind it wets
dragged along with • slight inclination to one side,
and on the breakage of the coupling they ran off the line,
and were tilted oompletely over. The engine was stopped
after having gun. • abort distaste, horsed where the and-
dent occurred. Several of the cattle were killed. On
Thursday morning an accident occurred sear Coxbro, on
the Hartlepool branch of the Nirth Eastern Railway.
At Reline Bank, whisk is at • very high gradient. a set
of laden coal waggons were being drawn up by means of
• wire rope attached to a studios snipe. When the
waggon had ascended some distance, engine No. 125,
which belonged to the train. was in the act of following,
when the rope broke, and of course reversed their locomo-
tion. The aegioemati shut off the steam, and as the coal
waggons were soft* at • fearful peas, he. with the
ireman, sprang off ta. obese, and bad scarcely done so be-
fore the runaway train ma Into the ionise. selling on the
and the train and engine went away at an alarmieg
steam,ra speed. At Fervpblll fretwork& them were seismal
lime waggons os the line standing ready for abiretiee
siding, and the runaway teals dashed tete these The ea
gas wee also shattered sod brakes, mid threonteuta of the
waggons and the waggoes themselves belonging to both
trains were smashed up mid scattered In Innumerable hag-
meats upon the Roe. completely stopping all traffic. The
number of "reggaes and tracks damaged is &boat forty.