The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-25 00:00:00

THE EAST.

MARSEILLES, It PSDAY
The Cydnus has arrived with news from Constan-
tinople of the 16th.
Sir H. Bulwer had left the Turkish capital for
Giurgevo, in the Danubian Principalities.
The fleet of Admiral Lyons was still in the Bos-
phorus. Great damage had been caused by tem-
pests in the Black Sea. Eleven veasela from Ajaccio
alone have been wrecked near Varna.

The 350 Poles, Hungarians, and Hustian deserters,
carried to the coasts of Circassia by the Kangaroo,
were received on their disembarkation by a great
number of the notable chiefs.

The Jou►nal de Co:ulantinoplc states that a civil
war has commenced between the north-west and the
south-west populations of Persia, and that the troops
destined for Affghaniatan had mutinied. The rebels
of Kurdistan hold the governor of the province, who
is the Shah's uncle, in captivity, and the irregular
cavalry were committing acts of brigandage.

SICILY.

The Post publishes the following despatch in a
third edition :

"PALERMO, MARCH 15.

"The state of things here is very bad. The King
of Naples has ordered political prisoners to be
tortured with an instrument invented by the Com-
missary Baiona.
"People are hiding themselves in the mountains.
" The island is agitated."

ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF ROMAN POLI-
TICAL PRISONERS.-FATAL CONFLICT
WITH THE SOLDIERY.

(ram( oca OW?

ROME, MAUCH 19.

The most exciting piece of intelligence that has
presented itself since my last letter is an attempt on
the part of the prisoners confined in the Castle of
PaMemo, chiefly for political offences, to escape, ri
et arras, from that place of durance vile. The
attempt took place about four o'clock in the after-
noon of Saturday last, and carious accounts of the
occurrence were in circulation in the cafes and
saloons of Itome on the following day, but the offi-
cial narration appeared on Monday evening with
, more exact details. .

It appears that the prisoners had chosen the hour
allotted to taking exercise in the court as most pro-
pitious for their attempt. Instead of returning
into their respective places of confinement, some
of them succeeded in forcing the doors lead-
ing to the piazza d'arnii, whilst others broke
through the ceiling of the risen wards
and got upon Unroof of the barracks and infirmary.
The first detachment, making use of the tools with
which they are allowed to work at certain hours,
broke open the door of the head gaoler's room, to
get the keys from him. Those on the roof of the
barracks nailed the roof to gain admission into the
building, and seize the soldiers' arms, whilst the
other prisoners who had got on the roof of the in-
firmary endeavoured to keep the troops from entering
the barracks by pelting them with tiles. Some of
the rioters finally forced the door of the great tower
of the fortress, whence they molested the soldiers
with showers of stones and bricks. In this
state of things, having in vain summoned
the prisoners to return to their places of con-
finement, the commanders of the garrison of
chasseors and of the brigade of gendarmes
gave their men orders to fire, when, brick-
bats being no match for muskets, the mutineers
had to submit, with the loss of four of their number
killed and five wounded. One of the soldiers and •
keeper were wounded also. The official report does
not give the names of the killed, but merely states
that they were persons who had been condemned foe
wounding or robbing, " through party spirit," the
damning clause which enhances threefold the
heinousness of every crime in this country whenever
connected in any way with political motives.
The prisoners in the Castle of Fenian° are all con-
sidered as political offenders, and amount in number
to several hundreds, confined in separate cells, each
containing twelve individuals, who are only allowed
to see the inmates of other cells during the hour
allotted to exercise. The plan of operations appears
to have been concocted during these occasional
meetings.