The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-27 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID. SIFT. 21

The Ihrri of this evening says :—"A rumour in
current that Baron Tecco, the Italian minister, is
ou the point of breaking oft diplomatic relations
with the Spanish government, and leaving Madrid.
The Moorish envoy has arrived with a suite of
thirty persons."

HUNGARY.
PESTH, Syr. 26.
The custom-house officers having seized some
smuggled tobacco, the informer, a woman, was fu-
riously pursued by the people. The gendarmes and
military who afterwards came up were received with
hisses and derisive cries. The military made use of
their arms, and several people were wounded.

MONTENEGRO.
RAGIJSA, earn. 26.
The Porta has sent fresh instructions to Omer
Pacha, ordering him immediately to recommence
operations against the Montenegrins.
The Porte is about to send a reinforcement of
2,000 men to Omer Paoha.

EXECUTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN
AT ROME.
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A telegram from Florenoe, dated yesterday, says

" A Roman emigrant, named Jacques Castuoci, has pro-
moted himself before the public prosecutor in this city,
and confessed that it was he who caused the death of •
pontifical gendarme on the 29th of Juue last. He said the
object in making this confession was to prevent the execu.
Lion of • man named Locatelli, who had been wrongly con-
victed of the crime. Ibis statement was at once forwarded
to Rome, but unfortunately it arrived there too late. Lo.
catelli had ahaviy been executed."
A letter from Rome, io the Morning Post, dated the
21st, gives as account of the execution that day of the
unfortunate Locatelli. The latter had all along denied
having caused the gendarme's death. He maintained this
point obstiudoly, and " when informed last night that he
was to he executed this morning, he merely replied, ' Very
well ; I die au inoocent man. I request that no one may
be admitted to disturb me.' Nor could any of the priests,
Fusionist monks, or official conforiatort, who exert
themselves on such counsious to induce criminals
to confers and receive the sacrament before sub-
mitting to death, prevail upon Locatelli to accept
of the last consolatory offices of religion. Such is the mis-
fortune of the connexion, in • criminal's mind, between the
ecclesiastical authorities who condemn him and the ecclesi-
astical ministers who extend towards him the image of our
Saviour at the last moment. In order to prevent any pub-
licity, the prisoner was taken from the prison before day-
break to the Conforteria, a small chapel adjoining the place
at execution, under • Wong escort ; and it would appeer
that the authorities apprehended a rescue, to judge by the
military force arouud the scaffold, consisting of • battalion
of French troops, sod nearly the whole of the
disposable poutifiod garrison—that is to say, the
Ist battalion of the line, the German amassers, the Roman
clamours, a squadron of dragoons, another of mounted
gendarmes, and a great posse of police on foot. At half-past
7, half-an-hour's grace having been ineffectually granted for
the prisoner to repent in, he was led to the scaffold, the
rolling of drums drowning his shouts of " Viva ma. I
Viva Vittorio Emanuele !" and similar political rally-
iag cries. Courageous to the last, Locatelli firm:y as-
cended the scaffold steps, whence ho would fain have
spoken to the crowd had he been permitted, resisted
the last efforts to convert him made by • Capuchin
monk on one side, and • Paseionist ou the other, averted
his head f•vm the crucifix, and resigned himself =tinily to
the hands of the veteran headsman, Mastro Titta, who,
assisted by two stout adjutants, was so rapid in his office
that the gasping exclamations of the spectators, " A lotto.'"
seemed rather one of surprise than of horror. Locstelli
was • line man, 37 years of age, with • black
beard, rendered more conspicuous by his white
dress and cap. His social condition was that of a
railway porter, and be figured somewhat disadvan-
tsgeouidy in the Roman police reports. Having got their
fill of horrors, and muttered their curses after the three
executioners, who slunk off with hats slouched over their
eyes, by the temples of Vesta acid Fortuna Virdis, and
across the Ponta Rotto to their official residence on the other
side of the Tiber, the crowds of spectators dispersed quietly,
the troops marched off with drums and trumpets, and the
rustics, who had stopped their ox-curb or buffalo waggons,
to gaze astounded on the unexpected scene of blood, shut
their mouths at last, and, striking their gaols into
their ponderous teams, resumed their road towards the
Porte San Sebastian and the Appian Way. To do Justice
to the humane feelings of the softer sex in Rome, it must
be observed that women, although sufficiently fierce when
passion stirs the enosetral Wood in their veins, are very
rarely to be men amongst the lookers on at such spectacles
as 1 have described. The venguince of the ecclesiastical
government pennies such criminals as refuse to be reooo-
- to the church even after their deaths, for their corpses
are merely corded up in sacking, and thrown by night in
some remote, unconsecrated spot outside the city walls,
with a harrowful of lime over them to ensure • rapid de-
composition."
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(rsox ous owl ooassarosuars)
PARIS. THURSDAY EVENING.

A good deal of attention has been bestowed to-
day upon au article in the Dibats on the state of
Europe generally, and in particular upon the rela-
tions of Prussia with France, England, and Italy.
The Debate professes to know that the King of
Prussia is not prepared to recognise the kingdom
of Italy ; and it insinuates that M. de Berustortf,
the Prussian minister, who has just superseded AI.
de Schleinitz, leans rather to the French than the
English alliance, without, however, having made
up his mind. This feeler—which is signed by M.
Caning, the secretary of the Dillats, and, therefore,
emanates front the journal in its corporate capa-
city, and is not an individual production—natu-
rally provokes inquiry on the eve of the King of
Prussia's visit to CompiZ..gue.
The Pays notices " with extreme reserve,
although given by the Opisiow," the important
news that Baron Ricasoli intends to issue a circular
on Italian affairs to the European powers, in which
he will state that unless France evacuates Rome
he will feel constrained to retire from office, and
leave the government of Italy in the hands of the
advanced liberal party.
The Opisios Nationale ought to explain, but does
not, Low it happened that in the face of a telegram
announcing the execution of Locatelli at Rome,
published by itself simultaneously with all the other
papers, it stated on its own authority, as " Inter
news," that the man had been respited by the Pope.
There is no doubt of the death of Lossitelli, and we
learn to-day from Florence that one Castrucci, who
has given himself up as the real author of the
crime for which the Pope's judges sentenced
Locatelli to death, made his confession too late.
A pantgraph which halt gone the round of the
European press, speaking of Meyerbeer as 70 years
of age is erroneous in that respect : the great
composer was born at Berlin on September 25,
1796, and is consequently only 65 years old.
The Bourse, which opened with an uneasy feeling
in consequence of the article in the Debate, and
rumours unfavourable tothe permanent maintenance
of the peace of Europe, became seriously affected
when it was known that the Bank of France had
raised its discount from sto si per cent. There is
now the extraordinary difference of 2 per cent.
between the interest of money paid by the Bank of
France and the Bank of England. Route fell 15e.
for cash, and 20c. for account, closing at 691 r. 10e.
and 69fr. 20c. Mobilior fell 13fr. 75e. The
Orleans Railway fell 6fr. 25c. Northern and
Southern 7fr. 50c. each, Eastern sfr., and Lyons
and Western 3fr. 75c. each.

Father Lacordaire is dangerously ill at Sorrize.
His friends iu Paris expect to hoar of his death
every moment ; the malady is called a " decompo-
sition of the blood." M. de Moutalembort, who
was bis schoolfellow, has boon sent for by tele-
graph to the bedside.
A novel and interesting application of the science
of photography is now in daily use at the famous
Mettray colony, near Tours, which, as you are
aware, is a reformatory for young convicts. Every
urchin brought to this house of correction has
his portrait taken the moment he sets foot in it,
and another is made ou the day of his leaving.
The first portrait represents the rags, dirt, and
misery, the physical and moral degradation, the
prematurely careworn features, the scowling,
cowering, timid, uneasy, and withal ferocious look
of the born thief. The second shows the same
individual transformed by the magic of judicious
discipline, which includes physical comfort and
kind treatment—his dress is now clean and neat,
and his countenance is redolent of health, con-
tentment, self-confidence, benevolence, and energy.
Philosophy had never in any age a grander subject
for contemplation than two such pictures.
The Emperor and Empress on Sunday and
Monday attended bull fights at Bayonne.
" If our information," says the Echo de Visone,
of P6rigneux, "is correct, the Emperor, the Em-
press, awl the Prince Imperial will leave Biarritz
on the 30th instant, will pass the night at Boy-
denim, and will leave the next day for Nrigueux,
wlielice the imperial party will proceed to Bourges,
by the Limoges railway."