The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-16 00:00:00

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE

KING OF NAPLES.

The following letter, dated Naples, Dee. 9, appears
in the second edition of the Times :

When I wrote you yesterday I little thought at that
momeat a ease was enaertiag on the Campo Marro
whisk all good mos must regret and condemn. The
ceremony of benediction had jut concluded, and the
troops were defiling before his Mejeety previous to their
leaving the ground, when the 4th division of the Erd bat-
talion el Chamours wu puling, a soldier called Agesilao
Milano, of Ban Benedetto, in the province of Coseasa,
darted oat of the ranks, u if, In the mistime
of some, to present • petition. He this mode
a thrust' with his bayonet at his Majesty, who
backed his horse, and the bayonet, grazing the
side of the King, struck against the pistol bolster,
sad was beat. The man slipped and fell to the ground.
At that moment Captain Latour, of the Hussars, riding
up, nearly eruhed the man, whilst another suntans,
riding oat of the ranks, collared him. The King said,
" Omit" him to the genders..;' and he was
taken elf the ground in • cab, accompanied by gen.
dust's. Pumas who were very near obsenod that
hie Majesty turned deadly pale, and pared hie
baud secretly over the spot which was or night
have been Meshed, and then beckoned to his soft, the Duke
of Calabria, who was immediately behind him, and who,
like the Bing, was oft horseback. I soy the Him
beckoned to hien end ordered him not to move.
He the. waived his hand to her Mejsety in saluta-
tion and safterenes of hie safety. I. fact his
Majesty displayed the most wonderful mossofro4d.
and thus prevented the occurrence of greet misfor-
tunes. The ay of "iii, fat," so dreadful In a Neapolitan
mob, had begun to be retied. Some of the carriage' nut
the King were beginning to sous, and in • moment ill
would have bee. disorder, and people flying back to the
capital would have created immense consternation and dis•
turbances that sae fears to contemplate. But a cordon of
soldiers was drawn around, no one was permitted to leave,
cad as his Majesty ordered the oeremony fo oentinne.
things resumed their original tranquil appears's".
Oa his Majoety retuning to the palace the foreign ministers
sad °Moen of state called at the pilau to present their
congntulatiou. Later In the day the King, the Queen,
and all the royal family took their usual airing in the Riviera
di Chia's, receiving strong marks of sympathy. I. the
events", General Nunsiante, Prefect of Pollee, sad Lieut.-
' General Luca, Inspector of the Brigades, were coiled upon
to interrogate the man, who demanded paper, saying
that he would write his deposition. It was as follows:

.. Far aia yean I aberisi a hatred against Ferdinand II•

I Wong to the elan of insurgents in &Orbs in the year
1848. It wu say intention to have purged the earth et this
monster. I have not the slightest intention of revealing the
saner of say brethren who conspire like me to rid the world
of this tyrant; bat the rowasion Will 00111111 when their daggers
will .ve■ge all."

The prO-els verbal was eoneladed at 11 o'clock at night,
sad wee taken to his Majesty by Oenerals Cotraillano,
Leese, and Nuniante, together with Count Ludolf and the
prefect of pollee.

The mit-martial is to be hold at 11 o'clock this seem
fag, end dashiki's the prisoner will be heated [A
dupetah, eastosseing the execatioa, appeared in yesterday's
Sop nu] bang*/ being the panishmeat aniseed to regiaidos
by the Nospolitaa law. Agesilso is twenty-4z yam and
four =oaths of age, is a handsome-looking man, end has

been In the anti six months. During this UMe he bus
ercamoniestea with no one—not even with the orderly sol-
dier who, seseediag to military custom, has bees appointed
to yawls over Um. Indeed he has bun regarded rather as
a devotes.
MI Is perfectly tramp& Backings 545.

THE 'UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
itAGNItIO numaaara.)
(nom ocia OWN CORMITONDIIINT.)

LIVERPOOL, TozaDAT.

The (Sty of Washington, screw steamer, Captain
Wylie, arrived in the Mersey this morning. She
left Philadelphia on the 4th inst., and has made a
remarkably fair passage. The published reports in
the New York papers of the 3rd, of the minim
Secretaries of State at Washington, are very lengthy
documents.

The news from New York is one day later than
that brought by the Niagara, and two days later from
Philadelphia.

Comme:oial affairs in botb cities were without
alteration.

THE STEAME RAZOFF.

(BY n.wru• Tau()wan.)

SOUTHAMPTON,ToisoAv.

The @teener Asa, whisk was seen going up the Chasing
in a @inking state, bas arrived here. The Madrid
steamer, which wee east out is search of her, mat her cfr
Portlend, and accompanied her to Southampton. The Azar
left Southampton on theist isst.,bound for theMauritiu.She

was deeply Wee and met with terrific weather. Bhe reached
as far as this Bey of Bitcsy when she was obliged to ream.
The hatahwep were battened down for forty-eight hours, al
acoonat of the fury of the storms. The crew were with•
oat (cod daring that Una. 81ta was pooped by a sea
which carried away bee wheel, sad did most serious
damage ; • boatsw►bs see of the engineers, strait fire-
men, sad a boy bays lass seriesali Injured.

It has been regested that the late diegraorial rob-
beries of jewellery, Re" perpetrated in Paris by tome " Spa-
nish damn," were 01.011.9 d by persons belonging to the
troupe at the Haymarket. "Haab an assertiou, writes
Genera Peres *ma, " I beg to state is utterly without
foundation or truth, laasmok as the offenders thiamine
sad those esmaseted wit► these are sot, and never hams
boa, mimed by or knows to me."
The following marriages are about to take place at
Paris de Reemust, son of the ex-minister, with the
daughter of U.Oibiel, a person of great wealth; Bum
Reargued, Goa of the goterel, with Mlle. du TAM, greed-
daughter ea genera of the Bret @tapirs; and Liestenot-
Colossi Abbatemi, eos of the Mialster of Justice, with
Mdlle. Rey de Forestal, daughter of the Director of the
*Afternoon Railway.