The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-13 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.'
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(AT ELACTNIC AND ATTONAL TILSODATE.)
(Imola o oomaisroxmors..)
" SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.

The North Star has arrived with American mails.
She left New York July 31. Amongst her cargo
are gold bars worth 100,000 dollars, for England.
The steamer Persia was met on the 3rd, and the
Argo on the Bth.
The Nicaraguan Minister had reached New York
with the treaty. It had been shaped so as to be as
to the American government. The Ham-

mania steamer has arrived at New York from
Southampton.
.. _ ... . .

The Austria steamer was to uil for England on
the 2nd.

The American government bad received favour-
able news from China.

The Mormons are returning to Salt Lake city.
There is disunion amongst them.
At New York cotton was changed in price.
Sugar active. Flour, wheat, and corn firm.
Freights light.

ITALY.

THE TWO SICILIES.

Mimi ova owir

NAPLES, AUGUST 7.

Italy has been so much indebted to you hitherto
for the advocacy of her cause, that she trust' to your
giving publicity to the following additional details
connected with the prisoners of Salerno. A corrected
list of the destinations of the condemned has been
just handed to me, and runs as follows :—Three to
the Ergastoli ; fifteen to Favignana, on the Sicilian
coast ; fifty-three to Pescara, in the Abruzzi. The
first three were sent to Naples, and two have, I
believe, been despatched to the Ergastolo of San
Stefano. With regard to Nicotera, much anxiety is
felt about him by his friends, for the government
has its exceptional punishments reserved for men of
such a moral calibre es that of which he has proved
himself to be. Thus, Baron Vito Porcare, whose
fate Mr. Gladstone made known to the world,
was confined in a subterranean dungeon called the
Masehio, in the island of Ischia, and nothing more
is now known of his fate. De Longo and Delli
Franci were condemned to imprisonment in the
Castle of Gaeta, and there they yet remain. Nicotera,
toe, it is feared, may be put out of the way in one of
these living graves. With regard to those sent to
Favignana, one of them called Amilcare Buonomo,
a Piedmontese I believe, who was condemned to the
"Presidio," is most unjustly and illegally sent to
Favignana, and in the case of his being the subject
of a foreign government, a strong remonstrance
_ _ _ _ .

ought to be made. Indeed, Favignana, accord-
ing to strict law, ought not to be used as a
place of confinement for persons condemned for
offences committed on the Continent. The adminis-
trations of the two parts of the kingdom being sepa-
rate, Sicily ought not to be saddled, it is contended,
with the expenses of the Continent. On the ground
of humanity, too, it is a place that ought to be closed,
for the so-called Fora dells Favignana (grave of
Favignana) is one of the most horrid places of con-
finement in Europe. It was %toed in 1799, when
ferocities of the most brutal character were com-
mitted, for the criminals spared from death. The
father of Baron Poerio was confined there, but he
was a political offender, and what criminal so bad aa
he ? At a later period this place was closed, but now
fifteen of those lately sentenced at Salerno, including
Lombards, Romans, and Pisdmooteae, have been sent
there. With regard to those condemned to 30 years
in irons, some of them are making efforts to have
their punishment commuted to the higher legal
punishment of the Ergastolo, where irons are not
worn. It is a melancholy fact that such a change
should be considered a • grazia," but with all its
horrors the Ergastolo is preferred to the dragging
a heavy chain for life, for such 30 years must be an-
sidered in the case of most of thus men.

My last advices speak of the advocates Candi,
Tajani, sad La Francesca, as being under arrest is
their houses.

There is an anecdote which has been related to me
which shows the shame which some of the officers on
guard felt et being connected with the massacre of
the insurgents last year. On being treated with
some severity by en officer, a person taunted him
with wearing the medal of Padula (one of the scenes
of the massacre). " I was in Lombardy, not in Pa-
dula," was the reply. Some genadarmes, too,
pointed with scorn at soldiers who wore the medal
of Padula.

Connected with Salerno is the account of ex-
penditure on behalf of the Cagliari, which has just
been presented by the Royal. Marine. In all it
amounts to 21,000 ducats—that is to say, 16,000
ducats for the capture, and 6,000 for the detention.
It is well known that from the first Rubattini pro-
tested against the detention, so that this is an item
for which there cannot be the slightest shadow of
excuse.

Madame Settembrinl, whose husband has been for
many years confined in Santo Stefano, lately went to
Genoa to visit her sae who was not permitted to
come to Naples. Repot; now says that she has been
refused her passports to retarn. A pendant to this
melancholy pietnre is the following description of the
Queen's Fete on the 31st ult., written by the govern.
ment hireling, and sanctioned by the government
censor. " Even had we no other proofs," says the
scribe, "of the fervent joy which was felt by all
who surrounded their Royal Majesties, we might
have inferred it from the enthusiasm which
their royal presence awakens everywhere,
from the courtesy with which they receive
the veneration of their subjects—from the good.
nem with which they receive their petiti
• oils'
and from the large sums which are daily distributed
to all kinds of sufferers ; munificence in which the
August Lady always partioipates with her Royal
Consort, and our adored Monarch, with the same most
exemplary charity with which she sympathises with
him in religious sentiment and every elevated feel-
ing." The proofs of the adoration for the Sovereign,
and of the delightful eonsoiousnees of it, are the pre.
cautions which are everywhere taken to guard the
royal person against presumed danger. The royal
family are now In Ischia, and many instances could
be given of persons of all ranks, and even employes
of the government, who have been Pre-
vented from landing in the ideal during this
summer. Itidiaalous tales coal he told, also, of
visits by the police to the houses arab inhabitants.
If from much instances it be inhirted that Ferdinand
is adored, may God defend the Qom i lagiend
from adoration ! I regret to may diet the Qiisa or
the Tye Sicilia* is ill, and that bee eldest tan h
suffering from a spinal disease.'

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