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

NE. EDWIN JAMES, N.P., ON THE PRISON
OP NAPLES.

Mr. E. James Write :—"No dim issued by
Garibaldi after his entry Into Naples predated more un-
mixed joy among all damsel than that which proclaimed,-
'All prisoners for political offences areheseeforth tam' This
bold edict was not merely the wadies impulse of a gee eons
heart, feeling for unfortunate kuramilty, nor the grateful
I polioy of a suooemfol chief towards those who were autism
rag hi his came, but • simple act of justice done to men
accused without •► crime, convicted by perjury, end
aubjected to the horrors of es incarceration which
sons can imagine and few pew can describe. Of
Neapolitan state trials and Neapolitan courts of Justice the
people of England an sot entirely ignorant. • • • •
I clotted the cells at the Prefettura and the dungeons at
Beata Marla Appareate, the Vitoria, the Castles of S.
Zhao. Tweeds, Procida, and the Castel Oro. The mosses
which some of them preons presented have been graphically
described by Lord Llanover, who was of our party. I can
add my testimony to his description, and the three psi-
sons, the Vivaria, Procida, sod Cartel Oro, whirls are
sot described by his pm, am not one jot inferior la honer
and misery to the unhappy inmates than those which
his lordship has so vividly pourtreyed. The ap-
pestats of the dungeon .poke for themselves, sad
I the information we with difficulty obtained of the mode of
treatment of the Inmates may be credited, as we had to
extract the truth from men rather anxious to conceal it
than prompt or eager to colour and exaggerate. In one ill-
, dram at Ischia, they refused to show us the prison of the
Mr=mimeos, and asserted that the gaoler had gone
'Merits of the island with the keys. We de-
clined to have She fortress until we bad seen them, sad is
half as how both authorities and keys appeared.
In ewe dames I. the fortes of lefts, a young
Biala noble passed elms years of his existence,
sad bee nth a small aperture which formed the
wieder, sad into which the slimy from the
waves meselasely dashed, be lad eared in the
weft those weeder--'11049. 18•13. Rep masa debits'
This Mashes espiressiva of his wild despair wss, I tbeettie,
but the history rid thousands who have been Mussed in
Wear ftesessis, sad were equally 'guilty without edam.'
Pusiehmesi, set for guilt, bet from fear, ws the pet*
on white the Bourbon relied, and cm which relied the se-
ourity of his threes. Is what ham this resulted? Ina day
—almost Is es hour, aird without a blow—the deem of them
horrible Butner were thrown opes, and the buildings now
steed but to
_perpetuate Ilse Wade& of a wad sad per.
Adkins reign."

A school-room for the Prince Imperial has just
bees prepared on the pound door of the Palace of the
Tailerier on the aide of the garden. It contain@ a well.
selected library, philosophical and mathematical ibtromeate,
ta. The prime will be fire yenta old on the 16th of
March neat.
On the 6th a funeral ceremony was performed at
Genera to osbbrate the sasmary of 001tai Lou.
Batt/dear, whe wee eh* at Penh el the dab
of October, 11149, and at the thirties livaprien pas**
who were banged on the lame dap at Arad. Covet La
dishes Tahiti. General Klapha, and all the Hungarians es.
aiding * Onieva. together with a autabra of Italians,
Preach, sad cinema of Genera we pawn at the cere-
may.