The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-03 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

(BY ELYCTRIC TELEGILtYII.)
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
The steamer Etna from New York, on the 22nd,
has arrived. The news generally is anticipated.

The following is an extract from a private letter
written by a Venetian :
Since I wrote to you I have received a letter from my
family containing such details of the vexations and despotic
acts which the Austrians, now that they have nothing to fear
from without, commit on the unfortunate and &delimiter
pripie of Venice, that I cannot refrain from connanalcatiag
then to you. Yon will warmly be able to credit it, but the
pros was scarcely signed before special tribunals were
formed in Venice, composed of the men the ban disposed to-
wards Amnia, and comegnently moat inimical to all
civil and moral progress; and that , the president of
this tribunal la no other than the :wretch who, in
1853, dragged my best friend, Colonel Car', to
the gibbet, his only crime being that he loved
his native land too well. Military despotism has reached
such a paint, that every worthy man curses It. Ima-
gine that besides the cost of the war, besides the epee-
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mono contributions exacted from the whole Venetian popula-
tion, the different families of each of the cities which have
shown liberal, or rather Italian tendencies, have been is
with en extraordinary and arbitrary ten by the general
In command of the city—he probably appropriating the said
money. In the city of Padua, which contains about 50,000
inhabitants, 40 families have been thus arbitrarily taxed.
My family, on its own account, bee been forced to disburse
ten thousand franca (4001.) at a six days' notice. All this
because, en the announcement of the inauspicious peace.

in a moment of grief and fury, the inhabitants ton down the
Austrian colours, trampled them under foot, and burned
them. The popular fury was eo greet that the troops, fearing
an ugly affair, withdrew into their barracks, and the commis-
dozer of police thought it as well, in less than two hour, to
publish that "The conditions of the peace were not all known
as yet, and that probably Venioe would share the fate of her
Lombard sister." (tic) But new that the peace Is made,
now that all pension has naturally been socascled by calm,
Austria institutes special tribunals, whose object is to con-
demn ell those who daring the war showed themselves boo-
dle to the paternal regime. See what are the malts of a
war undertaken for the liberation of Italy. See in what
fashion Austria MAU the promise of a general amnesty.
If England doss not intend to defend variously the interests
of Italy In the approaching congram, this poor country will
be driven to desperation, and every respectable Italian will
rather die vain hand, defending what he holds most mend
on earth, than remain a 000 l rprotator of such infamy.
Meanwhile, knowing all the interest you take in the Italian
came, which is really the cause of civilization and progress,
while I write to you on the fate of my unhappy country, I
beg you to publish by means of your daily papers the ac-
companying address, hoping, when translated into English,
it will find favour in the eyes of the public u a real and sin-

cere expreasion of • people who deaerve the attentke of
other stione, by showing they know how to shed their own
blood in a cause they hold dear end matted.