The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-20 00:00:00

THE TWO BICILIES.

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NAPLES, MAT 11.
I vary much regret to have sent you such imper-
krl, details of the ruffianly attack on Mr. Blandford,
vim' death I announced. to you at the close or my
int letter. Like all others here, I have, however,
bon compelled to remain in great uncertai.uty, as
igrinig his illness he has been unable to snake any
=ion. His friends at intervals gathered some
and those I now give you. Mr. Blandford
had arrived from Rome en the Friday, the 24th alt.
pa the evening of Wednesday, the 29th, it being
moonlight, he left his hotel, Lee Les Britanniques,
so s quarter past 11 p.m., to take a stroll down the
Metes di Chiaja. He seems to have kept on the
mss apposite the houses, which is solitary, and par-
tially overshadowed by trees, as it adjoins the pr-
ams of the Villa Reale. He had arrived just
orate the Church of St. Giuseppe, when
he was overtaken by a man who, having'
rolhint, knocked off hie own cap, es if
e preconoerted signal, and then endeavoured
be seise Blandford by the throat. Mr. Bland-
good instantly drew back, and struck the man
severely in the face with his cane, which compelled
his assailant to retreat, but alma at the same
incesent he received from one of two ruffians who
ware closely following him a blow on his head from
some blunt instrument, either a stick or the back of
a bat, which prostrated him, and it is believed
that they then jumped upon him or kicked him,
easing severe internal injury in the abdomen. As it
wee moonlight he was enabled to perceive that there
were three men, and that the one who first attacked
him was a short man, and wore a jacket and a
peaked cap. His consciousness was momentarily
lost but his cries and his straggles alarmed
the villains, and they failed m carrying
ar anything but his hat and hie stick, and
must then have fled. After a short time Mr. Bland-
ford, though very weak from loss of blood, reeled
across the street towards a cafe, at the door of which
a knot of men were standing, not one of whom,
however, would move to assist him. It was with
great difficulty that he proceeded as far as the house
of Mrs. Corby, an En woman long resident in
Naples, when he was placed in a carnage and con-
veyed to his hotel. Mr. Roskilly was immediately
called in, and Dr. Bishop and a Neapolitan surgeon,
with him, have been unremitting in their
attention to the last. From the consequence of the
wound in the head he very nearly recovered ;
bat from the injuries he received in the abdo-
men he could obtain no relief, and on Sunday,
it was found that violent inflam-
mable had set in, which terminated he life on
Thareday, the 7th. It is difficult to exaggerate the
sentiment of grief end indignation which this
holy
event has created amongst Engliah re-
ad visitors. Under any circumstances, it
mat have awakened a deep sensation, the more so
that it has happened in a city. where spies, if not a
respectable police, ere ommprestot, and where
weeds, if not property and person, are well looked
after. The only way which was open to Mr. Bland-
ford's countrymen of expressing their feelings
vise adopterE On Friday, the Bth inert., his
mains were removed to the English Cemetery,
maser they will be left till sent to England for
The funeral cortege cons ated of from
between twenty and thirty carriages; and upwards of
tasty persons, amongst whom were several ladies,
aseembled on the occasion. As Mr. Blandford was
personally unknown to the majority of those who
attended, the demonstration was not one of private
friendship so much as of the respect and re-
=Englishmen for a countryman dying in a
land under such painful circumstances ; but
Sipe who knew him speak of his great private
math, of his amiable and gentlemanly qualities, and
el the Christian resignation which he displayed
throughout his last moments. These are term,
however, rather of private interest, and will be bet-
ter left for private friendship to detail. Mr. Bland-
fed was only 24 years of age, had been attached
to the medical staff at Malta during the war in the
Crimea, and was connected with a family
.who
reside near Ilehester. lam reluctant to mingle
with these sad details anything approaching
to bitterness, and though, therefore, my opinion of
police administration, as often expressed, is not
changed one tittle' yet still in the actual circum-
stances everything has been done that the authori-
ties could do. Mr. Barber, our acting consul, her
entered very warmly into the case, and was with
Signor Blandini, the director of police, as late as
11 o'clock on Friday night. His object was to ascer-
tain what the authorities had done, and what they
intended to do. The strongest desire was manifested
to comply with the wishes of Mr. Barber, and to
bring the criminals to justice. Upwards of forty
persons have been arrested on suspicion as being
capable of such an act of brutality, and the case has
been put under the care of the celebrated or infamous
De Spagnuolis, who has the reputation of being
the best discoverer of truth in the kingdom.
It is reported that a clue has already been found
which will lead to the discovery of the villains.

AT The

diliril;:tio; of the took place on the 16th in the in
Angartoc, Vienna, and the British machinists had every eh
ninon to be satisfied with their share of them. Gold medals
were allotted to the following English firms :—Massrs. ,3Pv
Barrett, Exall, and Andrew., for locomotives and thrashing ''',„
machines; Mean. Clayton and Shuttleworth, for locum- V'
three and threshing machines ; Means. Garrett. for locomo- th
lives and thrashing machines • Moran Howard, for ploughs to
and harrows ; Messrs Ran;ozn and Sims, who had the 34
largest collection, for locomotives, thrashing machines, _
ploughs, &c.; Mesas. Davy, Brother., for a new kind "
of locomotive; Mr. Hurry Clayton for a brickmaking ei
machine; Mews. Hornsby, for locomotive and thrash- Iti
fog machines. Large silver medals were awarded 33
to Mean. Coleman, Turner, and Co., and Priest h
end Woolnough. Small silver medals were given to
Meyers. Lloyd, Smith, and Ashby, Henan en and Son, and ir
Dray and Co. Messrs. Burgess and Key, Hunt, Lyndon, d
and Wright obtained bronze medals. Great good humour el
prevalla at the distribution of the prizes, and each person ,
who appeared before the Archduke Francis Charles, the '
father of the emperor to receive his medal, was honoured .
with a flourish of trumpets. A sturdy Tyrolese woman, who I
had obtained a prize for a bull, was received with a grand p
lowish and a hearty laugh. The good woman was, however, p
nothing daunted, for she nodded end smiled on the high sad
=Nlthe land with estreme good humour an
in d probably
some (Athens ii la Tyrd is
ierme—that the second
pompon I
THEiVIZIMISACEIJTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT :
Butant.—Yesterday evening_ a grand tonreraloioise of the 3
inambers of this society washed at the hones in Bloomsbury- 3
apquvuaee.. The meeting was purely of a conversational i
charmerer. The different saloons, including the museum, 3
were well stored with objects of Interest and Va/iops .
imientiße instruments, foremost among which was the 3
cat electro-magnet belonging to the institution, one of 3
largest of the kind in existence. Thin excited a great 3
dealttention, not only on amount of its wonderful •
=and the beauty and variety of the experiments per-
with it, but also in consequence of its being sur-
mounted by a very notable plourd—"Take cars of your
watches,'. or something to that effect. This notice excited
considerable merriment, being generally taken In its literal
moue, ea denoting avipecie. of attraction to which watches
are sometime. subject, differing greatly from electro-
=, d for which a few detectives would be the best
.1° 'Butan such was not the cue; for on Inquiry it
Maned out that those belonging to the society had
rur roatee°lebt:dhiftest the
in itorZrgthboot the magnet
urhood, while rnal so
gtttior,
became by induction peounentmageds. Thus the sponge
and steel pivots of watches in its vicinity became peiroa- '
neatly magnetised--a result which would completely destroy
the regularity_of working.
FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEMO:MRS.—Yesterday, at
• Court at Aldermen, which was held for the deimstch of
public Madame, Mr. Alderman Copeland, in presenting the
Yearly return of the impeders of weights and measures, said
lib iney much reseeded to find that the number of convictions
aging the host year was almost equal to that of the pre-
ftyed of . It woes source deep regret to find that the
delinquents were those who supplied the poor—
coal dealers and chandler shopkeeper.. The manner
in the pow were plundered by these persons was truly
ItletfaL We thought that if the court were to adopt the
Xlpublishing the names of persona convicted of the
of giving short weight or measure, the evil of which
Ille peer complained aloud would be checked in a greet inea-
inne, Vast entirely abated. Sir P. Lurie said he perfectly
fie/ is the denvations that had fallen from his friend
min Alilmenan Copeland, and trusted that the magistntes
tibial billet the severest penalties allowed by law in all
°am is which penons were found in pureed= of fah.
leuighte and usessurea.
AT. Cigoltates BENEFIT BUILD/NO SoctaTT.—A
6aielee been prorated to wind up this company. It is
deaw:g stbeburlntStlr Coling P3l
aa 74 t°
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AZT MUMMER Extuntriox.—The returns for
Watley, the drat shilling day, were :—Adiniasiona by season6eioeta,
gidalta, 1,164 ; by payment, 3,236 ; total, 4,399.