The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-12 00:00:00

RUMOURED ATTACK ON THE KING OF

NAPLES.

The Palia e Popolo of the Gth inst. contains an an-
nouncement printed in large characters, but at the same
time given under great reserve, that au attempt had
been made upon the life of the King of Nap:es. A
gun had been fired at the King,'who was so seriously
wounded in the leg that the surgeons had thought
it necessary to amputate the limb.
We have not been able to find any confirmation of
this rumour. A correspondent, however, writing
from Marseilles on the Bth, states that Naples letters
report several separate collisions between the people
and soldiers of the Swiss regiments in the Neapolitan
service. Many Swiss, it is said, have been killed.
The police have made numerous arrests.
The Official Gazette of Milan published, on the sth
inst., the sentence pronounced by court-martial, on
the 28th ult., against seven-and-twenty individuals
for high treason. The sentence having been revised
by Radetsky, Carlo Montanari, a noble, Tito Speri,
and Bartolo Grnzioli, were left for execution. Giu-
seppe Finzi, Luigi I'astro, Augusto Donatelli, and
Luigi Semenza, are to be imprisoned for life. The
penalty of death, pronounced against the majority of
the other prisoners, has been commuted into sixteen
years' imprisonment in irons as regards Alberto Ca.
valletto and Domenico Fernelli, on account of their
irreproachable morals, sincere confessions, and re-
pentance ; with regard to Antonio Lazzati, in
consideration of the improvement in his later
political conduct ; with regard to Ferdinando Boeio,
because his revelations supplied the clue to ulterior
investigations; with regard to Imero Lannechi and
Domenico Gasconi, on account of the sincere repent-
ance el both, and the honourable character of the
latter ; with regard to Giovanni Malaman and Carlo
Morelli, in consideration of the little part which they
took in the plot. With regard to others smaller
, punishments have been enforced on various con-
; siderations.

EXPULSION OF A BRITISH OFFICER FROM
TUSCANY.

A letter, dated Florence, 2nd, in the Porli»terato,
states that Mr. George Cranford, brother of a mem-
ber of the British parliament, and an officer in the
'service of Queen victoria, arrived there a few days
ago from the lonian Islands, where his regiment is
in garrison. No sooner had he arrived than the
police ordered him forthwith to quit the country.
He inquired what was the motive of that arbitrary
injunction, said that he should not depart, and ap-
plied to the representative of England, who de-

mantled the revocation of the order, and titled the
came of that odiously exceptional measure. The
Mit.ister of Foreign Affairs replied that the Tosesa
government had been informed by its consul at
Corfu that Mr. Crauturd was repairing to Florence
for the propose of organiimig in Tuts fly a com-
mittee of revolutionary propaganda. Cranfttrd
II protested that this was an infamous ; bat
nei:la r his declarations nor the intcif, I ‘tice of tho
English representative could obtain for him an hour's
delay.

AUSTRALIA.
ARRIVAL FROMkELBOUILNE.

PLYMOUTH, Fionay l:vtwin.

The Francis Ifenty, bound for London, one litM-
dml days from Melbourne and eight weeks from
the Cape, passed up the Channel to-day. She is
sthl to have more than eighty thousand ounces of
go!d on board. She brought over sixty passengrre,
tweaty of whom landed hero by a
She
I,tat, which
also brought her mails on shore. She w s four days
at the Cape.
' The Australian, having had her engines refitted,
sailed yesterday for the Cane and Australia.

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