The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-13 00:00:00

AUSTRIAN BARBARITIES.

The Turin correspondent of the Suele states that
• deals: in batter, who goes twice a week from
Irma to Veroelli, was making the joarney a few days
ago with some companions, when the party saw a
number of horsemen approaching at full gallop.
With the tramp of the horses were mingled cries of
distress, bursts of laughter, and load hurrahs. For
a moment they did not know what to think of it,
and, getting afraid, were abut to tarn back. But
they had no time to do this, for the lialoals were up
with them in a few seconds, and u they passed
killed one of them with a pistol-shot, for the mere
sake, as it would seem, of a practical joke. These
mange* had seized about a score of young women,
who were struggling to get loose from their drunken
captors. Some of these poor creatures were tied to
the saddles, others were gagged—their dress and
hair in great disorder. They were conveyed in this
plight to the railway station, a deserted building
now ; and God knows what took place within.
Like the Mayor of Vercelli, the deputy-mayor of
Santis has been arrested der having been shame-
fully ill-treated beforehand. The following are the
facts, ea they are stated in the same letter from
which we have taken the pueceding story :

The Au►trian ousnunder required him (the deputy-mayor)
either to withdraw the water from the rice-lields, or Interfere
with the local authorities to provost the inundations. The
deputy replied, that it was imporible for him to comply with
their command i• either are, as all that he could do would
be to forward them to the Mayor of Cunha. What he
promised wu accepted. The deputy sent off an empress mar
wager, who some hours later hrougat back the answer that
they could not draw off the water, nor prevent lb. flooding of
the rice grounds, tering that by the nature of the works tbe
weer all cum from Ivrea. Orders were immediately Issued
fee the arrest of tho deputy on the charge of hawing dis-
obeyed the commands. He was corned off, caned, buffUed,
and conducted to Veroelli to be tried by court-martial.

Arrests, we learn, are made on a largesoale. The
Aus:rians chiefly seize rich young men and the sons of
good families, whom they send off to Bohemia as host-
ages, until the Sardinian Government shall think
proper to expel the tree corps and the Lombard eini- '
grants. As for those Piedmontese whose poverty
permits their being left free, they are incorporated'
with the ranks of the Austrian army. They am
watched, and on having arms pat into their hands,
are compelled to swear on pain of instant death to
fight against their fellow-countrymen and not criticise
anything that happens. Their oaths are taken on a
wooden wage of the Saviour. This fact is vouched
for by &person now in Chimer:), who occupies a high
positron at the camp of San Salvador, near the person
of King Victor Emmanuel. Every moment brings a
fresh requisition; every Austrian chief demands
something different from the rest. It is one constant
pillar by means of armed force, and the soldiers of
Lombardy map the benefit of it.
Oa the subject of General Gyulai proclamation
the Cowartitutionnet says :
We do sot guarantee the perfect exactitude of the tat
which he. been transmitted to as. Bat the enactments of
the Austrian Pend Code are In perfect acoord with the spirit
of this dommenr. As to the mods of execution, It is known
that Austria, when she applim a rigorous low, is accustomed
to curled ileesectimmats, emu those which are the most Dm-
°mien. Of what are not cepable Mom who whip women in
public places ? What must not be expected &moths geniis-
meat which cow:lomat to ea infamous penalty the illustrious
Count Bathysai, the glory of Hammy, the martyr of the
purest and most uptight patriothm f