The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-23 00:00:00

ITALY.

THE TWO TWO BICILIEB.

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NAPLErs, SIMI It
As time mimes away, and stragglers come up
from the provinces, the details of title recent leant-
able affair at Semi become woe:what clearer the.
they were before. I may venture, therm re, to
dwell somewhat moor fall, *lan I have for come
time dose on the information which I receive, as the
probability is, that it is not all manufactured in
Naples. Persons who I believe are worthy of con-
fidence have arrived from the scene of the late
tragedy, and give me the following report : That
an attempt was aboe.t to be made, it is pretty well
ascertained, was known to the authorities some days
before it took pie ie. There was a communication
an the subject m'.dc by the King to the Intimidate
of Salerno, Signor Anima. Still it wee th
wise to let it take its course, and crush it alter ftEad
been made. The resistance which was made by the
population to the insurgents on their landing ha
been cited as a proof of the attachment of the people
to the reigning family. The inference is a wrong
me—the resistance was occasioned by acts of violence
offered to the wroamaetrb some of the Presidiarli
prisoners who had escaped from Poore, and by.the
tees which were • of " Viva la Republica of
which there is a whoelsome dread throughout' the
kingdom. Add to this, that as soon as ever the landing
was known, reports were spread about by authority
that the affair was nothing but the attempt of
alarm, who came to dishonour their families and rob
them. The report gained ready credence, and re-
sistance was the consequence, not from love of the
" adored sovereign," but from fear of a band of ma-
rauders. lam informed that the gendarmes and the
soldiers committed great excesses, robbing in the
different country places through which theyymmed,
and taking vengeance on some who they sal were
hostile to the government. The keeper of a coffee-
shop in the commune of Pedals is thus said
to have been murdered by four
without the slightest provocation. =heit
it, that a strong sentiment has been awakened in
thine districts against the earned farce, who proved
themselves to be the thieves and aseemins against
whom cautions ought to have been issued. Indeed,
thew appears to have been a most unnecessary
sacrifice of life, only to be accounted for as having
been dictated by ferocity, vindictiveness, and i
It is only fair to add, *however, that many of the
military express their open disgust and horror at the
acts which were perpetrated by their companions,
It seems that the affair was not put down all at once,
and that straggling bands continued to wander about
the country.
One of these bands, consisting of 12 persons, only
a few days since presented itself to Signor Mirabelli
Centarione, the lntendente of Prineipato Ulteriore.
About 70 prisoners are said to have arrived
at Salerno by sea. Amongst them is the
Baron Nicotera, a Calabrese, who is wounded
in the arm. A number of prisoner', about 117 in
all, have belie brought to baleen by land, under
guard of the Tth battalion of Rifles, commanded by
Ohio. Amongst them are seven foreigners' who
awaken much sympathy by their extreme youth and
Interesting appearance. It is said also that aOM
amounting to 13,000 ducats has been found. Ahem@
all the individuals of the first expedites are ileds
having been killed, as I have already stated, widow*
any necess:ty, as they were overwhelmed by nankin
and incapacitated from resisting. If lam to believe
my informants, orders were given to kill all the pri-
soners, and the massacre did not come until counter
orders from Gaeta. A person ia town nays he saw
six wounded persons killed by some of the cattle
drivers of the country who had ranged theme:lsm
amongst the King's Minas. They despatched their
victims with the iron-shod poles with which they
goad their cattle.
Another horrid incident is added, that as it was
found impossige to remove all the wounded, many'
were burnt together with the dead bodies, and that
the number amounted to two hundred. I must state
however that a letter from an officer after the first
t to a friend in Naples says that his
would go forward and could not be re-
strained, that they carried everything before
them, and that a hundred bodies were then lying on
the field, which ho was occupied in burying. Many
more, however, than a hundred were killed and
wounded ; and there is nothing inconsistent with
this letter in the positive assurance of my informant,
especial) y when the barbarities which have been
practised in this kingdom are called to mind.
On the day after the arrival of tho Cagliari is
port I nudentand that Count Gropello, Sardinian
e d'Affsires. applied for permission for his
consul to see the subjects of his government, but the
request was refused, his excellency
.being informed
that the whole business was in the hands
of the judicial authorities. The British acting
consul, Mr. Barber, made a similar applies-
Son, with of course a similar result, though he was
permitted to send our countrymen, two English
engineers, articles of dress, and was informed that
they might write to their friend'. The proves rerbal
of the whole affair is now being drawn up, the ini-
tiative being taken at Gaeta. Here the lotto-
dente and the Procurcur-General have been sum-
moned three times : the latter left Gaeta on the
9th, and the lntendente was sent for again on the
10th ; on the 13th he was in Naples, and in close
communication with the several ministerial offices.
Everything, however, is directed by the King, and
ministers arc said to be kept in entire ignorance of
the royal deliberations. The Baron Isicotra, who
is wounded in the arm, is examined daily before the
Intendente and the Proem:cur-General. He was a

refugee, but, fund by the misrepresentations
of that unhappy handful of men who in
Naples represent the Nlassini party, be em-
barked in that daring and rash attempt, and together
with others rushed on certain death. Though the
process is said to be purely judicial, two commissions
have been formed for assisting the investigations.
The first is composed of Signors Carafe, Murena,
Bianchini. Braico, and Picenna, directors respec-
tively of Foreign Affairs, Finance, Police, War, and
Marine. Certain papers and the post letters from
Genoa to Cagliari were consigned by them to
Count Gropello. The atticr commission es:maids of
Signor Versate, Chief of Department in the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs; Signor Pignatelli, Giudice In-
struttore ; and San Sevenno, inspector of the Custom-
house. On Tuesday, the 14th, they went on board the
Cagliari, to examine the cargo and other contents of
the Teasel. There is property on board belonging
to au lonian (a British subject), and Lord Normanby
has requested the consular agent at Naples to make
a demand for the said property. In the captain's
cabin a paper has been found in which the names of
many of the principal insurgents arc entered,
Pisacene as commander-in-chief, and others iu dif-
ferent ranks.
Five per Cents., 109 i. Exchange on London, frl7.

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