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London, England, 1859-03-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9.

A eosin freight has just been cast unexpectedly
upon our shores. The American ship David Stuart
hoe landed at Queenstown the Neapolitan State Pri-
soners Poem°, Seertorenuti, Pica, and fifty
other illustrious men. Probably eo much honour
so much patriotism, and so much suffering have not
been crowded into one ship within the memory of
this generation. These noble exiles do not come to
ask us to join their cause, if they have still a asses :
they make no uncomfortable appeals to ear enthu-
siasm. Driven out of their own Gauntry by the
wickedest of living Kings, all they seek is a refuge.
Yet, unless recent unworthy fears have quite deadened
the generous sympathy with which we English
read that thrilling account of the galleys of Nisida
which Mr. GLADSTONE addreeeed to Lord ABERDEEN,
surely these illustrious exiles—ministers of state,
nobles, deputies, ecclesiastical advocates—cannot be
allowed to arrive in London without encountering a
reception which shall amuse them that English
esteem for high political virtue does not depend on
the accidents of prosperity and success.
The chief of this emigration, Baron POERIO—
," the beat and most virtuous of men "—as FERDI-
NAND of Name was wont to describe him, while
prepqring fur him a dungeon and a chain—was Min-
ister of Public Instruction in Naples during the
brief interval of feigned constitutionalism which
that Sovereign psemitted in order to save his
throne. It was the misfortune of Potato that he
believed the public oaths and private professions of
his King. After his resignation, and the fatal
collision of May lb, which he did his best to pre-
vent, he kept his place in the Parliament of the
kingdom until its dissolution, when, refusing to fly,
be was arrested, brought before a packed court, and
with forty others, among whom were many
deputies, accused of conspiring to change the
government of the Two Skillet. Hired witnesses
WKS brought against him, one of whom had
frier years before accused his own father of speaking
against the Government. Having been con-
demned to twenty-four years' imprisonment, he was
loaded with chains, and dragged from prison to
prison, supporting his miseries with unsurpassed
fortitude. Like scores of the most noble, cultivated,
and virtuous men of his country, he was chained in
an underground cell to one of the vilest criminals in
the &ape*, and for only half an hour a week per-
mitted to ascend and look out upon the face of na-
ture. " The ooademnation of these constitutionalists

" for high tressoo," wrote Mr. Outman' to Lord
Aaaaroxsur, " was an outage as flagrant as if in
" England any of oar most prominent and honour-
.l able men Lord ions Rreseu., Lord Lure-
" DOWNI, or yourself—had been committed to
" prison on such a charge."
On the 6th of January, while the rulers of the
Italian peninsula were under the painful impression of
LOUIS NAPOLEON'S New Year's speech, the King of
NAPLES signed a decree ordering the release of
POMO and his companions from the prison of
Montesarohio, and their deportation to Cadiz, on
their way to North America, the destined land of
their exile. Oa the 16th their chains wars taken off
and they left the prison, Poaaio wearing en histo-
rical coat in which his father had suffered imprison-
met, for persecution has been the inheritance of the
family. Their party, recruited with constitutional
patriots from the prison of Najd', which furnished
seven priests and eighteen sivilians, and from
those of Procida and San Stefano, which sup-
plied respectively eighteen and sixteen more,
is that which, just as we were beginning to expect
tidings of its reception I. New York, has now landed
at Queenstown. We are informed that some of its
mat eminent representatives will arrive in London
to-day or to-morrow. But many of them are ex-
tremely ill, and all are mach broken, for thsdiscipline
of a Neapolitan State Prison is carefully adjasted to
shatter the nerves and break the heart. We can
render these eminent mon little material service, but
it is in ear power to extend to them that which is
above all things precious to noble minds—the frank
expremiess of our sympathy, the generous recogni-
tion of their worth.

Se-saceti had the weeder (*seemed by the
accounts we remetly gave of Sir WILLIAM Ale-
-81110110.1 ssw 0111.11110 S subsided, than anodise investor
appears upon the scene, with a pa apparently of
still greater power. This, like its prototype, is I
breech-loader and riled, sad as keg as it is supplied
with ammunition it will °retinas is pour forth a
torrent of shot, shell, or ow, at the rate of one dis-
charge every three seaseds, or 1,200 rands per hoer.
Yet, notwithstanding this anpreeedented rapidity
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al fire, instead et heismiag bided ea an orainari
piece of artillery doom after twenty or thirty
rounds, the sew lan, la sonsequence of the
admission of a evilest of air eyes during the brief
sad eland imperceptible interval between these din
charges, remains comparatively cool. It possesses,
morsover, the great advantage of relieving the men
who work it from those clam/erns explosions to
which they most always be liable in ramming home
the cartridge at • monks-loader—that fertile cases
et so many frightful and too often fatal accidents.
The gun in question is the invention of Mr. WARILY,
of the Royal Engloeere, who has been for some time
past engaged in bringing it to perfection. He has
now succeeded in fitting to it, at the left side of the
chamber, a lever of simple construction, which by ems
movement and almost at the same instant, seises the
cartridge, eats it, applies the priming to the nipple.
hereastically closes the breech, and fires the charge.
In precision it equals any gun that has yet hese
tiled, and It has this peat advantage over Sir Wet.
mat Asusseioaa's, that whines his, being made
of wrought iron, is necessarily very expends's,
WARILY', investisa ma be applied to all sor
existing ordssato of whatever Willow, mad at a ems-
pandiesly trifling east, probably sat mash more
than a fourth of the prim of the amasfaseure of thw
farmer guns. This, sanely, is a very material cow
dilatation in its Isms, at least while the whole el

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