The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-28 00:00:00

NAPLES.

MARSEILLES, Dan. 26.
Letters from Naples Sr. to the 22nd. An official a.
report states that the disaster was confined to the ,1
Citerior principality and the province of SimiSeat*. It
All the buildings in Potenta, the cathedral and the
law courts, are in ruins ; twelve villages have nearly ;
disappeared. There are 400 dead at Casten& and IL
300 at Polls. Fresh shocks of an earthquake were is
felt in Naples on the 19th and 20th, but no accident ist
occurred. Sicily has altogether escaped.

SPAIN.

The Debate says that the Carlist party is actively II
intriguieg to procure the abdication of Queen
Isabella. This party have a plan for marrying the s
Infanta to the eldest grandson of Don Carlos, whom
they would have declared king, getting the regency sattq
into their own hands. This scheme for a fusion is ill
completely frustrated by the birth of a Prince of the
Asturian; but the party, nothing daunted, have now r.
adopted a new set of tactics. They care nothing in 111.
reality about the principle of legitimacy, which they
use as a stalking-horse, and would be well content
to accept Alfonso, Prince of the Asturias, as Bing, is.
if they could secure the custody of his person, and it
the direction of pablie affairs daring his long mi. :LI
nority. This intrigue, the Debate asserts, is so
serious, that the Ministers are narrowly watching ar
the progress of it. M. Mon, the Finance Minister, I.
intends, shortly after the meeting of the Cortes on t.
January 10, to bring forward a bill for the Z'
abolition of the system of prohibition which
yet remains, in regard to many articles ss
of primary necessity in the Spanish tariff ra.
He proposes to substitute a scale of import daft.,
which he hopes will be accepted as affording eel- sr
tient protection to native industry. The project
will meet with much opposition, especially in Cala- :-
lonia, where the prohibitionists are extremely le.
bigoted, but if such a measure can possibly be car- I:
ricd, M. Mon is the very man to get it through the
Cortes. It is thought that Bravo Murillo will be is I
the opposition candidate far the presidency of the
Cortes.

THE POLICE COURTS.
THIS DAY.

MANBION-HM:181I.
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AAR Green was charged with drunkenner. •
A Policemen—On Saturday evening, at half-post owes *
o'clock, in King William-street, the defendant was driving IS
two horse* in a von, and there wee a ery to atop him, and I lit
did so end he 'truth MO violently. He was the IMse kr
liquor, end when we palled him from the van, which we :
were obliged to do, be struck me spin end tried to .*nape •
between the horses. eo
The street-keeper said—l saw the defendant driving vlo tN
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and I called out the polioentan to *op him, and he wee •
stopped and acted with great ronghneas. Its well in such a II:
condition as to be altogether unit to drive, and the safety of •
the public was much endangered by him. 111
The driver of an omnibus proved that the defendant had •
knocked down both his borers with the von, and that the 65
demese done amounted to 21. 10a. Ths defendant had been 1.
golloping slat no mistake. •
The defendant end he had been drinking. certainly, In the se
muse of the day, but not to intoxication, and that the is
galloping was entirely upon the part of the omnibus servants. 11
A boy, who had been with the defendant in the Tea, said 6
that the driver of the omnibus was to blame, se he triad to 6
rush along before the van and got entangled fa the se
which once/dosed the accident. The van tad Wet going is
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the rote of no more than sin miles an boar. fff
The Lord Mayor Said the defendant 10e. for the emelt g
term the policemen. sad said that aa to the damp It ill
moat be derided in the County Court. •

TYKE DUKE Or SUTIIERLaND MULCTED IN £2,000.
—We noritentand that an action of &maim, for defarnatice,
woe recnntly Mead in the Court of Serb. by the Rev. Mr.
Mackellsr, of the eetablinhed claret, of Clyne., against his
Grua the Dike of Sutherland, the damages claimed bob(
2,000., end that a decree for that sum has bete obtained, hi.
grace haring failed to enter appeananoa. The ginned of the
action is said to be founded on a letter written by one of the
Ante. agent., containing dolatfiatory statententi regarding
Mr. Illackellar.—Northeen !insists.