The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-30 00:00:00

(Stamped, Id. [TWOPENCE.

eat that till people of Morita thilvarrie ere see* a
radial ram I The reason is very obainue4--because
they have berm the most persecuted. They have at
all times been at ilaigers drawn with the Luenini,
and many a bloody battle have I known fought
1 between them, and several political trials have been
the consequence ; and so a paternal government
has perserwted ,them with one of those modern
priestly inquisitors of whom the curl of St. Matteo
was a worthy representative. But pews to them
all ; they are out of pozitri out the city ; and
from all such enemiesg deliver us.
Poerio's house is' in
~ lited to our next
station, and we go in. to iiihra visit. Ile was
residing in the house of Midas e. Pandola, whose
husband died from the stifeiriap which he endured
whilst concealing Liamell ,twos the police, and
whose sou last year was exited. Almost everyone
of the many persons assembled to greet, him had a
' history of Ins own—a history of suffering and pri-
vation. There Was a tall popolano, who had been
his fellow-prisoner ; and the Duke of —, who bad
been, his compagnon ds roopispiand of exile when he
I went to England is the apring of 1859 ; end next
rine sat Felice Eirro, who hold me the following
hieing_ d his life :—" This ,4y is too full of joy
for me—it quite unmans toir—L-I can scatody speak
to you. The persecutions of the Bourbons were
not merely mei, they were disgusting Listen
to .ray story, and .1 as but one of vast numbers
wrierbillle ledheed, as much or worse.
My father died in exile, one of my uncles was Sent
to the Pont* Maddalena, two others were burned in
a villa iu the country by the officers of a despotic '
for
government ; for myself I was deprived in 1820,
exiled, recalled, and presented with a small govern-
' mint office, sufficient to prevent me from starving ;
I again deprived in 1844 since when I have been
living iu want and ere best I can. This day com-
pensates me for all I have suffered—it is nothing
in comparison with the bright prospect which
is now dawning upon us. We were yet
speaking, when Poerio entered the room, and all
t rouged to meet him. So affecting a scene I never
before witnessed. Pirro, threw himself on Poerio's
neck, and wept like a child. "Calm yourself, taro
olio," aMd the Baron, but the reminiscences of the
peat were too stroug for him, and so he left the room ;
one lifter the other they all embraced and kissed the
guardian minister and friend of Ferdinand 11. and
the (Mamma prisoner of Montasarehio, and hurried
inquiries were made, and tearful allusions to the
5. After a cordial greeting from the man who
formed the subject of so many of my letters,
left with the crowd, and prepared the way for the
many Others who were coming up in rapid succes-
sion to see the friend of former times. Scarcely
had we left the house when another obstacle to fur-
ther progress presented itself. There is a great
~aroved assembled just opposite the gates of the
Jesuits' church, and against the beautiful monu-
=mut erected to the Madonna is a platform, mow
occupied, by a prescber, dressed in canonicals hich
would astonish an English altdience. Ashe mounted
his pulpit he took off a black wide-awake and feathers,
disoovering a profusion of black hair, which hung
about his shoulders---a black beard and moustache
were mitten of course. Imagine a red Garibaldi
jteket, gli cavalier boots and spurs, a sword, and
patois stuck in his belt, a whip in his hand, and a
burnous thrown over his shoulders, and you have
the Sicilian Priest Padre Sautaleone. He is perish-
ing about the revolution, and love to Garibaldi, and
Victor Emmanuel, and to Maria Sautiminia,
and he rewinds them that liberty and religion are
not incompatible with one another and then he
winds up with "Viva Garibaldi," "Viva Vittorio
Emmanuelli," " Viva Maria intimidate," which
last senteuce is re-echoed especially by the women
among the crowd.
The polling stations of San Lorena° and of the
quarters of Peudino and the Porto lay
next in our route, but t do net know
that they present any varieties to what I
have thready named. Flags and evergreens
formed the staple of the ornaments, and the Na-
tional Guard had each a dahlia in his casket
barrel. The voters went up a long and handsome
hall to give their votes, and a vast amount of moral
courage would have been uteded by any one who
intended to give a "No." The quarter of S. Giu-
seppe, or that of the municipality, I next visited ;
and bare Poerie gave a plumper for Vitterio Es-
manuele, whose policy he has supported from the
beginning. "Si or No ?" shouted the reterniug
officer, when the baron affected a little doubt, to
the amusement of the bystanders, and then took
his "Si."

I shall complete my round by running down to
the polling-booth of the Chlaja, where few priests
had been and fewer monks, but where many of
the wives of the men who were out fishing had
brought up the votes of their husbands. I dare
say they were the most important members of the
household ; and why should they not act for their
lords, who were out trawling 1 The logic was not,
however, admitted by. the officers and so the ladies
retired, baled iu their wishes. ft was nearly time
to rest and refresh oneself after a day's continued
excitement, and I war ou my way home when another
crowd stopped the way. Hungmian cavalry and
Garibablim, and National Guar& are ou duty out-
side the Hotel d'Angleterre, in the Riviera di Chi-
mp', and a large crowd is thronging onwards anxious
to catch a glimpse of the hero of the national wor-
ship. He bad come in from Caserta to visit some
of the hospitals, and perhaps to give • alight im-
pulse to the public sentiment by his pretence,
though this would not, of course, be acknowledged.
Many people wine presented, and, as usual, all
lost their hearts, for there is an inexpressible
sweetness and gentleness in the manner of Gari-
baldi As fur myself, sin greatly indebted for
privarges which I asked of him, and which he must
promptly accorded. The crowd moved not for
three hours, but hung about the hotel, till he
left again for Caserta, and AS he drove through it,
and was followed by a vast number 'of persons in
carriages cod on foot, shouting out their accustomed
acclamations, it was evident that lie bad lost none
of his popularity with the Neapolitans.
Ocr. 22.

During tho whole of this day the
votinghas been
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going on, and the same somas have been witnessed
as yesterday. From the neighbouring vil-
lages the urns have been brought in under
seal, and I am told that the voting has been
" brillantissimo." Only two men in one commune
voted a " No," mid a returning officer, who had
I jest come in from the country, but they were
treated with the greatest contempt. On looking
,back on the events of the last two days, were I
asked my opinion of them, I should say that the de-
monstration has been grand, but that it is a liberal
and not a national demonstration ; indeed, from
circumstances, it oould not be national, if there
were many who desired to give a " No," and yet
dared not do so. It would have required mueh
more moral courage than the Neapolitans possess to
1 run counter to the will of the many, and incur in-
sult, and probably danger. Every man's vote was
given with the utmost publicity and on an ele-
vated spot, so that not a movement could escape
the eye of the lynx-eyed multitude, who were
fully prepared to be down on all opposi-
tion to the national will. Assuming, however,
that this was the best mode of arriving at the na-
tional wishes, which I by no means admit, every-
thing was conducted must consistently and with
she utmost apparent fairness.
Oct. 23.
As yet we have only the approximate numbers
of voters in some quarters, and they are as
follow :

Quarter Stella
Quarter Monte Calvario... 12,000 .
Quarter S. Giuseppe
Quarter S. Lorenzo 5,000
Quarter Persdino ....... 21,000
No report troth the other quarters as yet
telegraph has brought the reports from 90

to 40

Otiose in the provinces when order and tranquillity
have been preserved. Of course the " had it,
and I do not think it worth-slide-to mak• an ana-
lysis of the nanibera. TbsOffiend Jew* of ' last
night publishes an important dome and sue which
was needed much. You will be astonished to hear
that in this country, where monastic institutions
abound, the superior of a convent or a monastery
has the right of protesting againat 'the qpeniug of
any window in a house within a certain distance
which could by any possibility commands view of
their sacred precincts. The consequent* was that
many a charming view was spoilt by an order to
build up a window or put up a greet pine of sheet
iron, and I have often spoken with persons who
' were desperate at this monastic hypocrisy, and in-
tervention. A decree therefore last night abrogates
the Per gmatica of 12th Nov. 1573, the law of 21st
June, 1325, and the decree of Jan. 15,1831, by which
it was forbidden to open windows in *helium which
could overlook monasteries, 'es, and
hospices for women, over houiei med for stu-
dents or noviciates, and every other establishment
belonging to a pions oorporation.
The English sick in the hospitals in Naples are
doing well. Their names Ido not report, as they
will probably be all out in a few days, with one
exception. They are well attended to, and are com-
fortable. Dr. Ripari Las sent me from Caserta the
following list of wounded English iu Santa Maria :
Wallace Winch, corporal • idfred Mac
Carthy. Alfred Bates, Charles WllsOn, Theodore
Hunter, George Prosser, and George Clark, privates.
They are well attended to, and have the best medi-
cal assistance.

Her Britannic Majesty's liner the °racy, Captain
Elliott, came in on Sunday from Malta ; a lar4e
French steamer came in at the same time. The
French admiral has not returned, but his anchorage
is kept for him.
A report was in circulation about the town that
Caput' bad already surrendered, but on inquiry
from the Dictator I ascertained that it was false,
and was in time to countermand a despatch which
I had already sent ou the authority of a despatch
from the Sardinian Consul to Count Cavour.

OCIr. 25.
• When my Tuesday's letter left, the whole city
was in a state of mad excitement, in consequence of
• report that Capita had been taken. It seems to
have been founded on • despatch from the Sardinian
consul to Count Cavour, and so implicit was the
belief ta it that, notwithstanding official contra-
diction of it commuuicated through your corre-
spondent, the walls were placarded with the false
intelligence, and in the evening the city was illu-
' urinated. At the very time that the Dictator was
said to have entered Capua, he came on a visit of
charity to the College of the Jesuits. Every
thing that muds that extraordinary man must be
of interest, and I will, therefore, give you the de-
tails of what I saw and heard. On arriving at the
gates of the hospital to make my rounds; I found a
large crowd assembled, and guards plead to keep
them off. "This gentleman may entet : he is an
Englishman," was the observation mae to the
sentinel ; " besides he is well known." All the
lower part of the building was deserted, and every
one seemed to have run to the great centre of
attraction, where Garibaldi was, in one of the long
corridors ined with beds, now occupied by the sick
and wounded. With Madame Mario, Major
Franklin, and one or two of his staff, he was
making hie rounds, and I had the satisfaction of
again speaking and shaking hands with him, and of
receiviug the acknoeledgments of the Dictator for
what England and the British press had done for
Italy. Not, however, to spin out this letter to an
unnatural length, 1 may my that Garibaldi
visited every bed, had • kind word for each,
and did as mush as the doctors pro-
bably to effect a cure. I was particularly struck
with his manner—nothing overstrained in it—no
attempt at effect—he wont from one patient
to another hike a kind old nurse, and affec-
tionate father ; gentle in his movements, soft
in his tones, sad sometimes stooping down
with his ear close to the mouth of those who were
very ill to catch their feeble whisper. The whole
stone was very touching, and showed the secret by
which Garibaldi secures the affections of all who
follow him. A contradiction by the Dictator of
the report that Capita had been taken sent me
flying to the telegraph office, where I found all the
wires half mad but though in time to suspend my
own despatch, I was unable to alter the convictions
of the people, who believed, and shouted, and illu-
minated all the night long.
I am happy to inform you that on an
application being made to Garibaldi for per-
mission to the English to build a church,
not only was that penalisation granted, but
• piece of ground forming part of the royal
property accorded as a gift. Such is the
decnuon of the Dictator, immolated in the most
flattering terms to the English as yeti of course,
it has to pass through some legal format Up to the
present inentent, as you know, no protestant
worship has been permitted, except in houses be-
longing to the foreign missions or consuls ; a police-
man has been stationed at the church door ou Sun-
day, an occasional spy or reporter inside, whilst
soldiers have always been en guardlit the entrance
of the cemetery when funerals took place to guard
against that violence which the intolerance of a
Chrirlian government, par excellence, encouraged.
All this is now happily over.

A ArmeserraTen PIS/TN.—The following strange
story appears in an American There is now no use
is esecolieg the fort that. Albert W. Hicks, who was osten-
sibly executed for piracy on Baena... Island on the 19th of
last July, la still living, though in • diagerous state, but
Imlay to mover the bill use of his faculties sed limbs. The
sight of his left eye argon, and his left leg continues para-
lysed ; but, apart from these Wades, he would appear to
have suffseed nothing, and his resident,. at his sister's house
in Poughkeepsie has proved every way beneficial. It will
be remembered that much comment was excited by the
utterly fowler minter in which Hicks conducted himself
previous to his execution. He laughed et the idea
of the =lbws, and wan only =aloes, as be repeatedly
said, to have " things conducted according to agreement."
In this agreameut it is now believed that &prominent federal
tither had a part, and it is on record, in the daily papers,
that he was present at the execution, wearing his deputy
members badge, although no hoer in the marshal's force.
It was also remarked at the thee that Hicks was °ale pulled
up a distance of two std a half feet—utterly insufficient to
brisk his neck—and that he was only allowed to remain
thirteen admits banging. He was then out down, nod
moboueeed dead, letter which his body was immediately
handed over to the ore of Des. Y. T. Bell and Henry
D. O'Reilly, of Brooklyn. Them gentlemse am respon-
sible for his rasurrooties, and the electro.ehemical bath,
lomat= by Professor Vergues, was the immediate
instrument. The body of the pirate was wrapped in
warm blankota, and menewed at ewe to the house of Dr.
O'Reilly, in Brooklyn, where Drs. O'Reilly arid Mellery, of
this city, were in attendance. The pulse was found to be
wholly quiet, but after various expatiates= the medical men
came to the ocoolusion that it was only aOW of suspended
animaties. The body was therefore at once placed in the
eleetreolimakel bath, and while subjected to the charges
of the battery, and the edition of the acids, Dr. Crane
assamoaaMl a aeries of experimeate for the inflation of the
langs. In the course of about two hours these were partially
suoaeseful, the pirate losinning to sto faint indications of
lopintion ; and theme abseethe Signs ethiated the medical
ewer ie attendance to redembied guirticem. A cautery was
applied to the right feet, and reedvedmowerib an immediate
contraction of the leg; the same eamselsome was repeated
' under the right ear, 'Width ore at to injure the jugular
vein, and the bead ut owe Ogrisamesd to rill in • manner
indiastiog outs feather. Veep alewly, but steadily, Albert
W. Rieke ragaisol outlet:lmm= though for several days
usable to speak, his thrust being too severely injured. It
wee the. found that his left eye—the side on which the
noose hid bees—bad lot all power of sight, and that his
left arm end We lag were utterly waived. In this con-
Mimi he waa conveyed to Pougbkeemie, where his sister,
Xii
s. llietrea, lives ; end under her roof he is now sheltered,
=llllhe Wards ef the family do not desire to give too
~ Malthety =the feat.
000gehilitstitrWICI, AID PIIMEITH RAIL-
WAT.-71. • towards this new railway has far
ausedsd the =potation of its originators, and bids
bag= he ear* eampligion Sham our last announcement
I af *ooof., upwards of so,ooot has been added, nakiig a
*Mai of sserV fO,OOOl. subscribed, independently of the
Oeckanneutit wad Workington Railway Company and other
parties. --Tre/Ilsontioad awelte.

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