The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-04 00:00:00

(Stamped, id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

ITALY.

OWN OUR SPECIAL coaessierrenrr.)
CAPITA, DEC. 29.
On Thursday morning, the King, after having
been present at the ball given by the National
Guard, left Naples for Ancona by land. Previously
to his departure, his Majesty did not hesitate to
tell Duke San Donato, the chief of the staff of the
National Guard, that helves not altogether satisfied
with the state of these provinces. " I am the
more anxious to get back to Turin," added Victor
Emmanuel, " that I may coder my ministers to
take into serious consideration the actual condition
of the newly-annexed provinces, and to propose
some remedy or other for the prosiest difficulties."
You see that the anomalous position is which the
government of thew provinces elands is felt in the
hlozeitgilarters no leas than the humblest.
Mola di Gaeta, whither' shall return to-
morrow, I hear that another instance of French
insolence has just occurred. The day before yes
terday ene of the war steamers belonging to the
fleet of the magnanimous ally of Sardinia entered,
the. porta Gaeta laden with rovisious of all kinds,
awlkought to the besieged 40 bullocks. These
provisions had been bought in the market of
Naples, tlus making the case worse • for it is a
thing unresorded in history for a neutral power to
volunteer tobeounie the purveyor of an army under
the very eyes and in the very country of the nation
with which that army war. This is, indeed,
a strange interpretation or-the pinaMbis of new
intervention nod neutrality. When this fact was
reported to Victor Emmanuel, he immediately tele-
graphed to his imperial eara-us-law, telling him that
the humiliation they imposed upon him was tee
great to brendund with resignation.
Victor Emmanuel, who yesterday morning passed
through this city en his way to Ancona, was enthu-
siastically received by the population. The day
previous to his departure from Naples his Majesty
held a levee, which was well attended by the Nea-
politan nobility. Duke and Duchess Sant Arpino
and the representatives of the Colonna, D'Atri, and
Maddaloni families were of the number. But the
great event of the day was the presence at court of
the old Duke Davalos, the descendant of the
Marquis del Vasto. lie was the Grand Chamber-
lain of Francis 11., and as he was thought a codino,
nobody expected to see him there. Some of his
friends having made some observations on the fact,
the old duke answered, " Universal suffrage has
decided. lam an Italian, and I accept as my
sovereign the King; elected by the majority of my
fellow-citizens.

We have not yet seen the last of the British
Volunteers, but it is expected that ere many days
elapse the remaining portion will have left. They
still remain at Salerno, with the exception of the
colonel brigadier and some of his staff, who are
obliged to remain in Naples to make the necessary
arrangements with the authorities. These latter
are very slow in their movements, or the men
might now all have been near home ; but the
Italians of the south are not men of action, and in
their love of dilatoriness they forget that they are
causing a heavy expense to the government in pay
and rations.

Christmas-day was kept up well by the men at
Salerno ; the colonel and officers gave them an
English Christmas dinner, and those in hospital at
Naples who were sufficiently well dined together in
one of the corridors, the walls being decked with
evergreens and inscriptions. A sad accident oc-
curred in the hospital on Wednesday. A Neapo-
litan friend of the assistant-surgeon and invalid
officers came in just as they bad finished dinner,
and produced a revolver which had been offered
him for sale, on which he desired their opinion.
IHe was seated at the table with the assistant-
surgeon, and Cadet Bontems was standing by his
side, with another officer, Captain Edenborougli,
who had called to visit his sick acquaintance. The
pistol was first handed to Bontems, who after
examining it handed it back, giving his opinion
that it was not a good one. It was then passed to
the assistant-surgeon. It was scarcely in his hands
before it exploded, and Cadet Bontems fell dead,
the ball passing through his heart. The authorities
at once instituted an inquiry, a sort of inquest,
and have found it was purely an accident. Yester-
day morning the funeral took place. One of the
battalions of the National Guard sent its band and
several companies, and a Lancer regiment its band.
The colonel and several of the officers attended.
The streets through which the procession passed
were thronged with people. The men who have
been in hospital are mostly doing very well, and are
looking forward to the change of air in England.
There seems to be only one really serious case—a
man named Campbell, who is suffering under en-
largemeat of the heart. •

CANADA.

THE EXTRADITION CASE-

The Toronto Mote contains thefollowing—:—Yenutrirl
and
The prisoner is a stontly.built man, of middle height,
of • deep yellow compiexion, with a hdl develop.
meat of fveryrild, and • 011inillMiCO in which mildness and
intelligence are strongly marked. Look at him se close as
you will, you fail to find indications of the stem
determination which would lead • man to turn
' upon his tracks and slay his rutbliss punnet
la the very moment of ameault. One could nog
help thinking that if this man did such • thing, it
was not from natural love of violence or blood, but becalm
he was tilled at the moment with the thirst for freedom
which has in all ages inspired deeds of heroic courage. Th.,
prisoner looked around the court upon the faces of the
crowd' but, apparently thinking that their sympathy could
not avail him, he turned his gaze upon in Judges, and
listened with manifest intelligence to their decisions, a deep
sigh arty now and again Leaving up his hood chest.
It was an anxious moment an the Chief .1 untie, produced
lie paps* and hem. n ter read. The life or death of a human
Tieing buss co a thread ;the liberties of hundreds of free.
man depended ups. the opinion dlthree fallible men. Wm
thin poor fellow, alter he lad by desperate adventure achieved
his !Marty sad enjoyed with his wife the sweets of home for
sewn man to be sent back to pertain slavery, if not
death' Wass the Undyed& of fugitives in this province
who have committed' what the laws of the slave states de-
la:Mesas felonies, inn= egtheir escape, to be henceforth
at thr mercy el the