The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-11 00:00:00

ITALIAN JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.

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ROME, JAN. 31.
A tragical specimen of Italian jealousy took place
In the beginning of this week et the Pope's favourite sum-
mit residence, the owns famous but now deserted Kw-coast
town of Porto d'Ansio. The women of that and the neigh-

bouring town of Nettuno arc celebrated for their beauty,
but the charms of a young girl, the daughter of • fisherman
of Porto d'Anzio, have for some time pest entitled
her to • pre-eminent rank even in that land of
beauties. A young man belonging to a noble
family of Orvieto, whilst casually sojourning in Porto
D'Anzio, became enamoured of the fisherman'. daughter to
ouch a degree Ils to overlook all differences of rank, and to
with fora union with the object of his passion; but his
parents put a stop to his matrimonial intentions by suddenly
summoning him back to Orvieto, and keeping him there in
expectation of some mote suitable project. The young
girl, thus unwillingly abandoned by her lover, woo soon
after courted by one of her own tows:emcee, quite •
youth, and eon of the municipal eecretary, who pro-
fessed the moat ardent attachment to her, and offered
to marry her, although totally unprepared to meet the
expenses of the matrimonial state. Whilst these unsatis-
factory propositions were pending, the Orvietan lover sent
a letter, stating that by the decease of his parent* he had
become muter of hie own actions, and he should lose no
time in rehiring to Porto D'Anzio, to fulfil his promise of
marrying the fisherman's daughter. This piece of intel-
ligence was favourably received by the old man and
the young girl, and their expectations were realised
toward' the end of last week by seeing the amorous count
'wive from Rome, laden with presents for his intended bride.
The necessary preliminaries having been summarily arranged,
the impatient lovers were united in the holy bonds of ma-
trimony on Sunday morning law, the bride being fashionably
attired in the wedding dress and bonnet brought by her hus-
band for the occaaion. It would be supere ous to hint at the
rage and disappointment of the discarded suitor. Ile passed
his morning In smoking and playing at billiards, hardly re-
plying to the sarcastic remarks of his friends, who expatiated
upon the beauty of the bride, and the becomingnew of her
new drew. In the afternoon, however, he was
roused by wing the bridegroom and bride, with
her father and little brother, set out for Nettuno,
a neighbouring town about two miles distant, in a
earrettiho, or chaise. He immediately left the billiard
table, and went home for hie double-barrelled fowling piece,
telling his mother that he was going to shoot • hate, whoa•
heart and liver he intended to have for supper that very
evening. Thus armed, he proceeded towards Nahum., and
waited for his victims at • turn of the road between the tat-
teria and the Villa Doris. The bridal party meanwhile,
returning gaily from a visit to Nettuno and the
church of San Rocco, came in eight of the wane-
eh, standing with his gun in the middle of the road.
The bride woe abed with a panic, and exclaimed, " Oh,
Dio I Thee le Paoluccio I" But her husband had re-
assured her, and told her there was nothing to be alarmed
at, u a proof of which he stopped his horse on reaching hie
rival, and said to him, " Geed evening, Paolo ; where ars
you going ?" to which the other replied, "Do you not seer
I am going to shoot a hare," presenting at the same time hie
piece at the bride. Ms shrieked out, " Spare our lives,
Paolo I" Her husband threw his arms round her, but Paolo
sternly replied, "It is too late :" and, firing immediately,
shot the bride through the heart with a bullet,
and broke her husband's arm with three slugs.
with which the first barrel of his gun was loaded. Seeing
that his rival was not killed, Paolo fired his other barrel
without effect, and was proceeding coolly to reload, when the
count urged his hone into a gallop, and made at once for
Porto d'Anzio. The murderer, • youth not 18 yews old,
then struck into the forest, and made the teat of his way to
the outlaws' asylum, at Campo Morto, • hut estate helms-
ins to the chapter of St. Peter, and situated in such a peed-
ferons region of the Csmpagna, that it has always been con-
sidered se • sanctuary for murderers and robbers, who have
remained time out of mind unmolested within its precincts,
and employed as labourers for want of more honest work-
men. Paoluocio, having the additional advantage of being
godson of the srehrtest of Campo Morto, doubtleas thought
himself quite Ws In this retreat ; but the government has
lately found that the bandit tenants of the sanctuary are
too much on the Increase, or the malaria fever not sufficiently
*dive in thinning that ranks, se that the police authorities are
not so sernpoloes la obmsving the traditional immunities of
the plan. The emend of the Dean and Chapter of St.
Peter's having been previously obtained, • detachment of
sbirrier out free Hese yesterday morning to make an inroad
into the antra-bested puller of Campo Moro in search
of the youtlthd 15111411114,, who so ruthlessly carried to their
extremes the *dirt parlous of enters and vendetta.

THE GAOL OF NEWGATE.-CRIME IN
THE METROPOLIS.

The Rev. John Davis, the ordinary of the Gaol of
Navigate, has just presented to the Lord Mayor and Court of
Aldermen his report for the yeas ISM upon the condition of
the prison and the state of crime in the metropolis, and
the following extracts from that report will, no doubt, be
read with interne at the present moment, when the subject
of the best means of dealing with the criminal portion of
the mulattos% eseitas so much public attention.
Yr.-Davis commences his report by expressing his satis-
faction that the corporation of the City of London have taken
up the question of improving the interior of the gaol, so es to
prevent old offenders tom corrupting and depreving the
minds of leas experienced criminals, and to protect youth
overtaken by some sudden temptation from the pollution
and defilement of prison residence. Upon the subject of the
ticket-of-leave system, the Ordinary says :—" In the present
year many ticket-of-leave wien have appeared amellif has
, Thine pm. te open court to have been at liberty on tickets
• alarm from tads
fitted conduct in prison, have had
their names transmitted to government. The calculations
made public are based on these returns, end it is attempted to
be shown by each means what the proportion is between the
liberated convicts who reform and theft who fall again into
crime. I greatly doubt the accuracy of such returnees indicating
what the facts of the case are. On one occasion during
the past year, when we bail forty-eight men in Neergate
under acuteness of transportation or penal Fer vitas.
the governor took the trouble to inquire, from numerous
among the police, from conservations among the prisoners
themselves, from the officers who arc constantly with them,
and various other sourced of information, how many out of
I the eight and forty might bo ticket-of-leave men, mid he had
. ressionabk proof that somewhere about twenty were so. Not
more than one-third of this number could be reported to the
government under the present regulations. Beyond the
number that thus escape detection we mast add three who
by their dexterity avoid conviction, either by keeping in the
background or changing the scene of their operations.
The Birmingham men are unknown in London, and the
thieves of the metropolis are not recognised at Manchester,
Leeds, Edinburgh, or Dublin. I still think, however, that
under proper limitations, the ticket-of-leave system should be
penevffed in, and continue in force. It act. well upon
many first offenders, such as letter-carriers in the Piot-office,
task or merchant clerks, young men who under the strong
inhume dawn pension fall into vices, then into crimes, and
get transported, or subject to penal servitude. It is a rare
eircumnance for each ',croons when liberated after three or
four years imprisonment, to fall again into crime; they return
yin to aociety, once more become useful in those duties, and
whin their real circumstances are unknown, they prosper and
are as well off as ever. By extending mercy to these young
men, and taking off a portion of their heavy sentences, no
harm is done to any one. The prison are relieved, society is
uninjured, and reel contritionfor great offences is encouraged.
To this extent I earnestly hope the system may be continued.
There is every public meson why it should be, and the good
done is immense. But from my experience among criminals,
I think the instances very rare in which a thorough
and entire alteration takes place in criminals by habit.
Many get tired of a life of imprisonment; its long tedium
wearies them, and the privation from drink, tobacco, and
women are felt severely by there. But habits of crime,
with their enterprise great plunder, and, in too many ones,
impunity, ate very difficult to eradicate. After lung periods
of apparent change, and promise from years of good conduct,
sudden relapses are frequent. As a general rule the ticket-
of-leave system faila with men of habitual crime, and should
never be applied to them except in rare instances of exemplary
conduct. There is nothing so much dreaded by habitual
thieves are perpetual imprisonment, and to lessen such a sen-
tence there is nothing they would not have recourse to." With
regard to this clam of offenders the Ordinary says :—" What
I think would apply to these eases would be to
sentence habitual thieve, to perpetual imprisonment.
Something must be devised which the., unprin-
cipled men dread. Ilarahneas will not answer, and
ingenuity therefore must be taxed to devise what will so
operate upon the general mass of habitual thieve* as to
diminish to the lowest extent possible conduct so detrimental
to the beat interests of society. With practised habitual
thieves, the punishment they most dread next to death is
that of perpetual imprisonment, and it is my opinion that
if it was once known that habitual crime would inevitably
meet that punishment the number of habitual criminanwould
be wonderfully diminished."

EUPTIRATIS VALLEY RAILWAY.—His Excellency
M. Mnsuroa, the Torkioh Ambassador, having received the
Finnan of the Sultan, granting the concession for the
Euphrates Valley Railway, Major-General Cheeney and Mr.
Andrew had an interview yesterday with his Excellency with
reference thereto.

MNTELLIGENCE.
THIS DAY.

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY
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