The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-10 00:00:00

MESSAGES RECEIVED FEOM NEWFOUND-

LAND.

Tho following message by been received, tbis
day, by the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company

" VALENTIA, TVZSDAY, 6 A.M.

" Newfoundland has commenced the use and
adjustment of their special instruments for speaking.
" Last night, at 11.15 p.m., we received coil cur-
rents from them at the tate of forty per minute
perfectly. They are now setl;ng usual letters
for adjustment of instruments, and we have re-
ceived from them the words, ' Repeat, please,' and
Please seta slower for present,' spelt in full. They
have also sent the signe's for repeat frequently,
proving that the receiving instruments aro not yet
adjusted with sufficient accuracy for them to get
d4stinctly.
"I forward by this post tho slip of signals first
transmitted and received across the Atlantic by the
Company's i,stroments,

" The speed at which the letters come up seers
faster than those at Keyham, and currents are
apparently as strong."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(71011 OUR OWN 0011EBTONDI1T.)
PARTS, MONDAY EVENING.
The following telegram reached Peril late tb's
afternoon :

"BaEsr, Aco. 9, 1.20 rad.

" The imperial squadron has arrived in sight of
Brest. All the population is on the quays or the
ramparts, waiting the Emperot's arrival in the har-
bour. The weather is magnificent."
It is rumoured to-day that the Emperor has ac-
cepted an invitation from the Queen to pay her a
visit at Osborne towavds the end of the summer.

During his stay at Cherbourg, the Emperor gave
orders that the barracks and land fortifications
should be completed with all speed. If an extraor-
dinary credit should be necessary, the Corps Legi•
latif will be asked for one.

The Emperor has given orders for two grand pie-
'
tures for the Gallery of Versailles, one representing
his interview with Queen Victoria, and the o•her
the immersion of the new basin at Cherbourg.
Seven hundred and sixty iron bedsteads, with
pillows and bedding complete, which were brought
to Cherbourg by the railway company to lodge their
guests in the " camp," will be sold by auction on the
spot on Tuesday and the following days this week.
The special correspondent of the Sled., M. E.
Texier, writing from Cherbourg on Ang. 7, says
that the railway service is so completely disorganised
in consequence of the multiplicity of trains, that
letters from Paris sre not delivered till two or three
days after their date. He also doubts the possibility
of the company conveying to Paris at once the
60,000 persons who proposed to leave Cherbourg on
Sunday night, and thinks that many of them AM
not arrive here before Tuesday morning.
Count Walewski returned from Cherbourg tbls
morning and at 2 o'clock the fourteenth meeting of
the Paris Conference was held at the Ministry for.
Foreign Affairs. The fifteenth, and, as some say,
the lest meeting, so far as regards the final settle-
ment of the question of the Principalities, will
doubtless take place in the course of the week.
The upward tendency of the Bourse hes assumed
more decided proportions to-day. The Rye rose
20e. botk for cash and account, closing at 68fr. 76c.,
and 68fr. 80e. Mobilier, which has for a long
while been nearly stationary, rose 16fr. 25a. The
Lyons and Southern Railways, rose 10fr. each.
Orleans, Western and Northern, 7fr. 50c. each, and
Eastern, Mr.

I'rinoe Napoleon hu written the following letter
to the Syndical Chamber of Algiers, in answer to
an address :

I thank you for the sentiments you swim both in your
own name and that of Algerian oommeros. To commit
Algeria into a new France by civilisation, educatice, end
prosperity, to draw rimer the ties which twits the metro-
polis to its principal colony, to assure to Algeria in pro-
portion to its necessities and development the benefits of
conantercial freedom—such will be the aim of my omitting
efforts; and I thank you for having expreseed *Mee ao
completely in accordance with the object of my solloltuda.
I have already alluded to the jealousy excited in
France by the news that the order of Malta is about
to be revived. It is now said that a meeting, at
which several influential ecclesiastics will attend, is
to be held this week at the mansion of a wealthy
inhabitant of the Faubourg St. Germain, to consider
what means can be taken to associate Fence with
the revival and prevent the order from falling
altogether ander Austrian influence.
On the occasion of the Emperor's fdte there will
be a grand review on Saturday, August 14, in the
Champ do Mare, by Marshal Magnus, of the Iva-
perial Guard and the army of Paris.

ITALY.
THE CONDEMNED PATRIOTS IN NAPLES.

(Fame elm owe oozassrotanurr.)
NAPLES, Acores. 8.
My last letter contained a report of some of the
latest proceedings in connexion with the Salerno
political trials. Other details have since then been
furnished to me, which will possess much interest
for a great number of your readers. In the after-
noon of the 26th an order arrived by telegraph that
on the next morning Nicotera and his companions
were to leave for the Vicaria in Naples, en route to
their final destination. Thus, no time was given
the prisoners to send for their friends for a last
terview, or to procure such articles as were necere
se-y for the alleviation of their sufferings. On the
morning of the 27th the sixteen prisoners who had re.
ceived a commutation of punishment were sent for to
hear the decree read in presence of the Grand Court.
Accompanied by a company of rifles and gendarmes,
bound two and two together, they were taken to the
courts, and remained so bound, a fact which was
contrary to law. The President immediately sent
for Niootera, who was unbound and led into the
private Council Chamber, accompanied by three
gendarmes and an officer. On his ...rival the Pre-
sident addressed him as follows—and I give the whole
conversation, as highly characteristic of the indi-
viduals, and illustrative of the state of things :-.
" Signor Nicotera, I think you must be pleased with
the justice and impartiality with which you have
been tried, and grateful for the sovereign cle.
meney, at which we all rejoice." Niootera
replied that they had not acted as judges, but "as
vile hirelings of the government, confirming what.
ever has been ordered to you from Naples. to give
a semblance of mercy, the King has compelled you to
condemn seven to death, when strict legality would
have obliged you to condemn only myself." The
President interrupted him by saying that Berea had
been condemned to death, to render the chances of
mercy the greater. " Yes," replied Niootera, "you
were compelled to sign sentences of death for seven,
in order that the world might be deceived by a
hypocritical clemency ; but the time not fax
tent when you will answer for it before the tribunal
of the people, and tremble and turn pale before them,
as you did when you signed the sentence, from
the reproofs of your own consciences. We were not
frightened when the axe hung over our heads, and
wo despise alike the Ergastolo end our chides. We
have fulfilled a sacred duty, and listened to the cry
of humanity and justice. We therefore can support
with intrepidity all those Buffetings which tyranny
well knows how to inflict, in the firm hope of the
triumph of that liberty to which wo now ere surf-
ficed." " Signor Barone," said the President, " I
am old, with one foot in the grave. 1 know net
what to reply, nor do I wish to enter into any d4i.
cussion, fruitless both for yourself and me. It is my
duty, as President, to exhort you to be grateful to
the King, who has commuted your punishment, and
I had called you, therefore, to beg you that if you
will not yourself cry Viva it Re,' after the reading
of the decree, you will at least persuade your com-
pauions to do so." Nicotera, who was greatly
agitated, replied : " Signor President, I address you
now as Dominic° Delia' not as President, for insult
a character you area hireling and a slave of the
government. To Dominic° Delia, then, I say,
that I cannot and ought not to comply with
youe insinuations, and that I would never degrade
myself so far as to ask my companions to do so.
Like me they have faced every kind of brutality,
and death itself; and they would have in the same
manner confronted the scaffold as they will bear their
chairs and the Ergestolo. I repeat, we cannot do as
you insinuate. Were we to cry, Viva it Re!' the
echo would be ' Death to liberty r Reserve for
yourself such infamy, and leave to us the dig-
nity of silence." At these words the President,
not knowing what next to say, ordered Rico
term to be taken out, and to be bound
to his companions. In another quarter of an hour
the judges assembled, and the prisoners were
brought in bound. The chancellor of the court read
the decree in presence of the judges and the Atter-
ney-Genersl, who were all on foot, and the prisoners
were then sent back. I must not omit, however, to
point out the open violation of the law, which says
that " every individual shall present himself freed
from every bond before the magistrates or officers of
the ordinary police." This slight though shameless
illegality, however, amidst so many others, must not
awaken surprise ; it was doubtless dictated by fear,
and during the whole procedure the judges mani-
fested an evident anxiety and disquietude. With
regard to Nicotera, his greatest enemy must acknow-
ledge that up to the last he has maintained a sur-
prising firmness and dignity, resulting from a cons
viction that he was engaged in a holy cause whim
endeavouring to promote the liberties of his countay.
This kingdom has many more such men, and wisdom
would conciliate them by justice ere it be too late;
for the day must come when this state of things
will break up. To follow my story :—ln the after-
noon of the 27th the government steamer which was
to carry off many of the prisoners arrived, and the
inhabitants were soon atter surprised at the sound
of chains which were being landed. From the
beach they were taken to the prison in three cute,
whilst another followed with an anvil and three
large hammers. This was done in open day ad
without disguise. It was a new and strange epee-
Mete for all, yet no one would believe that, eon.
trary to law mud the regulations for condemned pri-
soners, the government would put their chains ca
before their arrival in the appointed Ergastolo, sad
offer so sad a sight to the city; yet it was too tree.
The public executioner and his two assistants were
called to iron the condemned; and on their
ing themselves they were chained in the foTn:et.
iag
mode:—The chain which bound them consisted
16 rings, and was 4 mitres (or 13 feet) in length,
and 16 kilogrammes (or 361 b.) in weight ;at esth
extremity was a large ring or semicisele, which was
closed by a large nail 20 centimetres in length, sad
having a diameter of 3 entimetres at one extremity
with the head, and at the other it was fastened men
anvil by a hammer. The right foot of one being this
fastened to the left of another prisoner, they caned
move except by common agreement ; and so they rat
do the necessary offices of life, not even excluding
sleep. This scene of " ironing " lasted from la,
past 8 to half-peat 7 o'clock in the evening, and the
antechamber at the gateway of the prison foe the
time wore the appearance of a blacksmith's shop.
At this inhuman spectacle assisted some of the
officers of the 7th battalion of Rake, the smitten,
general of the Intendenra of Provinces, the KM-
mandante of the prison, and 200 gendarmes besides.
and other police agents drawn up in the court of the
prison. Four companies of Rifles were under arms
in different parts of the city, as thoogh it
were in a state of siege. "In strorg comb
trait with the agents in the scene just described;
said my informant, " was a woman called Poggi, d
Lerici, in the gulf of Genoa, and mother of one of
the prisoners condemned to twenty-five yes Min
irons. Like the mother of Christ, who acoompanled
her Son to the cross, this poor woman has followed
her son month after month—her devotion might
have melted the anvil on which the chsins were
riveted, yet her grief was insulted by the Wes c't
power. Any one who had the heart of a man meet
have been touched at seeing that unhappy Walla
clasping to her bosom the son she was abed
to lose, perhaps for life, and kiting bis
chains, whilst with acute grief she saw that
every blow of the hammer was like a dagger in ha
heart. Daring the whole of this time the primer!
conducted themselves as though they were eniefn
a triumph. After they were chained and manacle"
and further bound together by a long rope Willa
extended through the whole line, they were tab!
between two files of soldiers through the cite', on
the whole length of the Marina, while all the Woo'
bitanta wets horrified and quite panic arakon
by thie barbarous spectacle. I ant told that noto,
the streets, but that the balconies, terraces, tied eves_
the roofs of the houses were crowded with Prona:3
who uttered maledictions against the rarer
and that these murmurs of indignation!
vengeance were continued till 9 a'r2
wheu the vessel sailed away with, r
Here, 89 persons thus chained. As they pr on.
through the streets, dragging their heary'a rekw...loti:
along the pavement, the clanking lon c14_,..
sight of their feet bleeding with mu *me'?; ;rim
still farther awakened public indignation