The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-17 00:00:00

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Mall Übe Illiweas(q Xrprue of yesterday.)
Ws have had a conversation with Mr. William
Watt the brother of one of the nafortutuas engineers at pro-
em& debsiied es primers la the dominions of the King of
the Two MGM Ha spent • week with his brother, who is
now ea bans la the ENO& hospital so Naples, sad though
it is admitted that, owing to the exertions of the meting-
ensed, Mr. Barber, and the medial skill sad attain of
Mr. Rothatil, sa Battik medical me a resident i Naples, he
is much improved, yet he appears to be sadly ia
mind and that, in het, his nerv.smatene sad general health
are so snob Mengel that he of erne seeing him re-
stored faith mulei shis et • sad body. He is filited
with hennaed onspiolons, and falls into 000nlonal fits of deep
despendeney, skeifiar, he supposes, to that to which he made
the dieser at self-destruction ; sad nothing will convince
him that, even were be restored to liberty, he is not
a and lost man. Kr.Willtain Watt says
tistdeCalli'llter used to be se atom as • lion, and full of
courage; and la ;roof of it, instances hie conduct on
beard the craw-ship, the Countess of Strathmore, when
that Tomei found/seed off Whitby, according to the narrative
in our column yesterday. Mary was We entser, and •
portion of the Grew were lain off her deck a belly-
boy:' dm, heffgemed tarn pat the very et time.
lie volunteered to be the het oman that ahoold ht ••••••dt
and when be mai a Mom were waiting IM deltas
▪ slier the captain and morel Wan had boadrowastl, he andeavoured, though in vela, to hem
comp Into the heart al his empealcui ; sad 4ust
Nees he left the vend, sad when she was fliattst
waking, he bad the axiom Watt mitts'
fast by the rope whit* was to dm Ma through the
raging waters, to go down below god put Ms watch into
his pocket. Bat the prisons of the despot of Naples have
broken a spirit which no form of danger could steak. Mr.
Watt attributes the wreck of his brother's mind to the early
ninths of his ins t, before be was removed to
&tsrno. He was Naples for five months immured in
• dares so mall he and Park could not pain each
'ether widest difficulty, and into which the light of day was
sanely permitted to meter, and fed on bread, of whet his
brother has brought home a fragment, that he could hardly
and a of hid soup, at which the= of
sTe=engry rose. It was dung this the
peer fellow told hi brother la one of hisdira
that he found his mind Ping Wraligitt:"Z
tilM, Ilk be was dent end amid get no exercise,
he Om& la ambit the "lady by raise
eves the wretched soup, neds"bliviug entirely on breed
ad water. The tardy reeetenienntee of Lord Palmer-
tea's goverment procured bla movel to Salerno, and here
both he amid Park were mob bettor off. It was hare that
the Bev. Mr. Pugh visited then. They wen entered to the
light of day, had assigned to them • threw room, and in
ether miner particulars the rigours of Inearosration were
mask Maid. But relief came too late. Watt's mind was
no leaser sound. He had been subjected to greet privations,
end, It as add, gross not the but of which was
that he was not allowed the slightest communication with
the world =tide. He concluded that he was deserted both
by his friend' and his mushy. In short, he became
thoroughly insane, and hie insanity took the went portals
and apparently the mosait
elie to lese dinetion. Hs had no reed-
Latino of baring attem commit suicide.
Mr. William Watt saw Park at Salerno, sad his so.
count of him is not much more favourable than that relating
to his brother. Park Is liable, from the moat trivial cane,
to fall into nervous tremens, which are sometimes followed
by fits lasting an hour or more, but whether these Sae are
gthptio, or what may
ibe their nature+, he cannot say. At
all events, one thing s clear, that before he became an in-
mate la a Neapolitan prison, though tall, slender, and some-
what feminine in features, yet he always enjoyed excellent
health. Henry Watt is 26 years of age. Park is 22. He
to described as bring light -complexioned, sad very pre-
possessing in appearance.
The trail, it appears, is to proceed without the presence
Mx weeks
et Henry Watt, and it is supposed that it will sill occupy
or even longer.
Mr. Watt describes the court of Salerno as presenting a
singe and ghastly 'reticle. The prisoners, about 300 in
camber, are nearly all young men, and would have been in
the prime of manhood, if sufferies and the dungeon bad not
effectually dons their work. They were pale and ema-
ciated—they all had sunken eyes and prominent cheek
bones—they resembled a crowd of animated corpses rather
than living and breathing human bedew. Then was pre-
sented by them all a uniform expressios el osenelesunoe, as
if a common suffering had affixed on timer shrinking hoes
and pinched features • common invoice. Some ha
remarked to be without shirts, others wen affected with
repabinelooking akin dines; and all wen so loaded
with i that Park had to call for the .orator
of . Berber to obviate • visitation from this form of
::By the interference of the Consul he wee
to occupy • position at a short but needful
001 the sad and miserable crowd. Yet in spite of
seaweed humiliation and the obliteration of external dr
any, Mr. Watt thought be could discern here and there •
hoe Hest betokened en intelligence above the rest, and our
rated to his mind that probably some of the diatiguraticses
before him had deso uded to their present lowly plight from
the gentle and educated cleans. Mr. Watt cholera that the
sight he beheld in that court will haunt him to his dying
hoar. Yet, strange to say, neither despondency nor despair
wen marked in the countenances of these unfortunate men.
They talked and sometimes nailed. Death to them had
sassed to be • terror. They were sheep arrived within the
precincts of the shambles. Moray of them, Mr. Watt tells
Ceti will not wait for the execution of the judicial sentence;
diaries and death are busy amongst them.
We have wri'ton the foregoing steatite:it In the presence
end at the dictation of Mr. Watt, and before publishing it we
have read it over to him, with the request that he should
wren any error into which we might fall, and thus authen-
ticates Lt.

A Vlel7 70 A REFORMATORY SIIIP.—At twelve
efeleek on a fine rummer's day you go down to the river
side, where you may mat with two boys gong on board the
tiny-host. They are dressed in thick blue cloth clothes,
mil the word .. Attar" is marked on their woollen shirts.
Ten slop ea board the boat, and proceed to your destination,
Nat large vessel lying in the river, which, as you near Reek
r board
you see more distinctly ; sod at length you step on
the staunch old Attar. That ship fiught a good
fight in the Pan Indies, and gathered laurels in the last
great naval war. But the fight that it is fighting now is far
finer than either of them. Then it defended our honour
abroad ; new it is retrieving our honour at home ; and the
Akber in the Moyne, the home and school of 120 buis who
ere being brought up as honest English sailors, is a for
settler sight than when she chani the French frigate Cu-
mmins, or captured the Semillentes. Let us notice, as we
step ea hoard the little boat that bears as, that there is no
nueter, so' superintendent or guide, watching the move-
ments et the six lads who have brought us, or the two
who have been over to Liverpool to buy bread, and
have been entrusted with the sum of 41. for that par-
=By the time that en get on the gangway of the ship,
mei= shortly appears, and we are taken over the
ship which is cleaner by far than any of the merchant ships
In the river ; it in, in fact, conducted as a model man-of-war,
sad the lads an taught the whole arts of navigation, ruled
by naval discipline. They know the name and we of every
rope in the slip, mach more than many lads ea board mer-
chant ship. are acquainted with. Five hours an devoted so
study. Hanging to the side of a vessel is a slate, "the
trustworthy slate," thole lads who went to buy the bread
have their names inaeribed thereon ; and it also manna fallj
one-half the mews of the boys on bond. The time of their
May there Is that a yew and a belA when situations are
=lse them ea bond other ships. Thirty-five of the
et been trandirred to other vessels d ng the year.
The beldam* en board the Akbar ie, se near as possible,
Net et eny nee heat ship. Of them boys who have been
iletearge4 Awe the commencement, there have been .
lanemilly imported, 13 ; fairly, 2 dssartsd !heir ships, 2 ;
wasted so • solar, I ; mere heard of, 17 : 35.—From An
Address se Isterniis Criiiiv sad leformetory Schools. By
Mr. Merge Maly.
"IT'LL NO' BRING NM GOT."—The Gbuogow and
Idiabargis pepsin describe the disappointment in those
levee resulting from the inabOlty to me the eclipse &shaving
hem very great, and very widely felt. The EihnbiergA ir-
ons, says that considerable indignation seemed to be enter-
tained by various persona at the inefficiency of the coloured
and smoked glasses with which they had provided them-
, selves. They bed got them in order the better to see the
I eclipse ; and finding that under the gloomy circumstances of
' the case such contrivances did not aid their visual powers
materially, some of the lees rationl seemed inclined to Wet
they had been taken in. One venerable =edemas, the
centre of a circle of =nips and bairns, was observed with a
let of mooted glass applied to his eye, evidently looking with
all Ida might. Having contemplated the heavens very
groggily for some momenta by aid of this magic invention,
le at length removed it from before his streaming optic, en-
daunt, more in sorrow them anger, t• Ah, it'll no' bring
Wm Oct.
EXTRAOIDMART SCENE AT A FuliuAL.—On
Pa .dry afternoon, es en nedemaker and his -
_' ware
in removing the coMn of a wee= wile MI Mei at
rri rloodmithe-yerd, Scammt-abstek the
homing pave way, and ten perm= fell tbrWreira ths
lar below. The whole party wen inaly covered
wcelith dust, broken timber, and rubbish, and wen, with some
diMealty, extricated. The house had been form dampest
condemned by the district surveyor.
New NlAGftefaAT/-9.—Peter Wood, ER., M.D ,
Chairman of the Southport Improvement Commiseioners,
sad the Rev. W. Wannop, Incumbent of Bormosigli, have
been added to the commission of the peace for the samaty
of Lanewner.—Mattelliat.r. Osserdien.