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fighting since they dashed on Manassas, they also
claim to have captured waggon trains of supplies
and ammunition, arms and camp equipage suffi-
cient to supply their whole army now on Bull Run
for many days.
They admit all this was not accomplished with-
out a fearful sacrifice of life ; and though the loss
in the battle of Saturday is stated to have been not
more than 400 killed and 250 wounded, they
acknowledge a total loss in all the fighting of 10,000
killed and wounded.

The Canadian news is unimportant. A great
meeting had been held in Montreal in aid of the
distressed operatives in L,ncashire, and a sum of
8,000 dollars was subscribed in a few minutes.

The comoaercial news has been entirely antici-
pated via Newfoundland.

BRIDGE.

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afternoon I was attacked by three strong Viedmentese
columns, with artillery and cavalry. My politiOn was not
tenable, being at the end of a valley. I was thus- obliged
to fight while retreating, in order to take up a
more favourable position about 800 metres to the right,
where I awaited with firmness the approach of the enemy,
I was forced to abandon the valises of my officers, and the
property of my column, believing that the Piedmentese
would have had it more at heart to come ar.td attack me
with a force three times superior to mine, than to go and
Pillage a rich convent occupied by some invalid monks;
but on the contrary, after an ineffectual cannonade, these
gentlemen began to pillage and burn that magnificent edi.
flee. Among the papers found in the pillage was the letter
sent no by 111. Caracciolo, of which I have just spoken.
Judge of ty surprise on seeing it appear in this process. It
was pretendet2 that this letter was found at Frisa, not at the
moment of the perquisitten, where even the most trifling
papers
were seized, put nearly three days afterwards. This.
letter, translated into Ihz.lian by order of the officers of jus-
tice, was read in public Audience. I was overwhelmed
with surprise
by this proceeding. The commencement
was correct, and like that of the original; but the second
moiety was falsified, and increased by the addition of seven
or eight lines which were not to be found in the original,
so that a paper, very inoffensive in itself, had teen iveta-
morphosed into one of a criminal nature. I prot,tel
against this false proceeding, and supported by the vice
consul, who was present at all the sittings, I insist on a
rectification.' Nevertheless, the Hon. M. Clausi, in his
requisitoire, made use of this false translation, thus making
it appear that M. Caracciolo had directed a band during my
sojourn in Naples, and received my orders from that city.
In fine, the verdict condemning us to ten years of hard
labour and thee years of surveillance, with a fine of 200 f.,
was announced in the prisons of San Francesco and Santa
Maria Apparente by the superior employes of the police
three hours after the decision of the jury.
I do not wish to close this letter without acquainting
you with an unfortunate incident in the process. Among
the accused was a young man, M. de Angelis, aged between
17 and 18, who had been arrested 20 months previously.
This De Angelis was scarcely 16 when ho was arrested.
He was accused of conspiracy, and the public accuser an-
nounced at the same time the innocence of his supposed
accomplices, who had been. liberated a year previously. It
was observed by the defender of the accused, M.
Bag, that
it would be impossible• to' condemn his client as a conspi-
rator, for the law stated that there could be no conspireoP
unless two or more persons agreed to act together, and that
M. de Angelis stood alone in the accusation ; adding that
the innocence of his co-accused had been acknowledged,
and as they had been set at liberty he should also be. M.
Clausi, having no reply to make to this, accused the unfor-
tunate De Angelis of having gone to Gaeta to search for
miiitary weapons during the siege of that fortress ; and in
answer to the observation of M. Bas, that there was no
case against the young man, the Procurator-Generale said
that Heaven, Neptune, and tempests, the enemies of the
Bourbons, had been let loose against their fratricidal arms.
My letter is rather long, but I wished to inform you of
the nature of the justice administered in the new and beau-
tiful kingdom of Italy. Certainly, I did not think the
cowardice of man could go to such lengths: In fine, we
are in Italy, in the year of grace, 1862, and all is possible
here—even impossibility,—Yours faithfully,
Count THEODOIIE DE CHRISTEN.

From the Prison of Santa Maria, Apparente,
Naples, August 23, 1562.
• Monsieur le Redacteur,—The victim of an unjust con-
demnation I raise my voice with those of myriads of unfor-
tunate men whoni the ferocious brutality of the Piedmon-
tese has immured in the prisons of Naples, in crying
shame and uttering anathemas on the men who do not
blush to sell their honour and conscience under the illegal
and infamous exigencies of a tyrannic power.
My acknowledged fidelity to Ring Francis IL placed
me in the lista of the Italian Government, who made it a
crime to have served faithfully to the very last moment my
legitimate Sovereign, never betraying my flag, but com-
batting in the Abruzzi under the orders of the Count de
Christen. For this last crime it was necessary to exact
vengeance by any means; but, as I was under the pro-
, tection of France, they did not shrink from falling back
upon disloyal means, that of implicating mo in the so-
called conspiracy—the conspiracy of Frisa, and, after a
close imprisonment for a year, they dragged me before a
court of assizes, sold to the power of the day.
There was not a single shadow of proof against me, ex-
cept the simple statement of a certain Noli, a paid spy of the
police, who denounced and caused to be arrested about 100
persons upon very grave imputations, every one of whom
was restored to liberty by the criminal court, which at-
tached importance only to what affected . the Count de
Christen and myself. My only guilt was having gone twice
to. Frisa to see one of my friends, the Count de Coatandon,
who had also served in the Abruzzi under Count de Chris-
ten. Not being able to condemn me for that, I was ar-
rested on the charge of the translati m of a letter from the
French addressed by M. de Christen during the campaign
in the Abruzzi, a letter which was taken on Jan. 22, 1861,
with the baggage of the officers of the column at the sack
made by the Piedmontese troops in the convent of Casa-
marl, in the Pontifical States—a convent which was occu-
pied by some invalid monks.
This letter was not found in the first search of Frisa
House, but four days afterwards, the police having made a
second visit thero, pretended to have discovered this letter
in the chamber of M. de Coatandon, of whom, on the first
occasion, they had seized even the clothing and the articles
belonging to his toilet. This letter possessed no interest in
regard to this prosecution, but merely treated of military
affairs; but in order to make it available for this purpose
six or eight lines which were not in the original were added
to the translation, which gave it a certain air of gravity as
if it related to a conspiracy.

Upon our reclamation, supported by the vice-consul of
France, who was present at the discussions, that the ori-
ginal should be produced, and that a translation should be
made publicly, the President could not refuse to have it
done. Notwithstanding this, the Procuratore-Generale, M.
Clausi, made use in his requisttoire of the false translation.
At the commencement of the process threatening letters
were sent to the advocates, and also to the jurors-Lto the
latter, in order to induce them to condemn us ; to the
former, to prevent them from defending us. Nay, more—
agents of the police, under the direction of superior employes
of the Questure—among others Alexander Avitabile daily
invaded the hall and the tribunes with the permission of
the Procuratore Generale, their duty being to hiss and
shout at the accused, and their advocates in order to pre-
vent the defence from being successful, without the Presi-
dent d'Andrea taking the lease step to cause an end to be
put to such scandals. It is needless to mention the conduct
of Cifarello, or that of La Marmora, which are sufficiently
of which M. Alexandre Dumas made
use known.
The
peae itnn
h d his
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wished
report, was paid for by the Government, and
de
Procuratore Generale, who dictated to him
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shed to be said. You may judge of our sur-
wsdoen
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sur-
prise tertA
when we read the report of the first sitting, with the
travestied
ofteactsa canoldlereetisvprsletetse; toThe
M. Dumas,
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pCrhrari.sutegnhanimd
myself
wrote
to rectify these inexactitudes. The following day these
misstatements were still more grave. I then wrote two
other letters ; but he made a verbal reply to rue that the
President had given an order not to make any rectifications,
and it was by such infamous means that the Court was
induced to pronounce upon me a sentence of ten years to
hard labour (travaux forces).
As a soldier's death would have been a less punishment ;
but the vengeance of the judges was not satisfied with
this; it requires more. A gentleman and an officer must
be thrown among the convicts in the galleys—a vengeance
worthy of the men who govern us.
I hope that God will give me strength to bear this trial;
but if I must sink under it I shall die content with having
been the victim of my love for the liberty and independ-
ence of my country and fidelity to my oath.
CH. ACHILLE C.A.II..A.CCIOLO,
Officer in the ex-Army of Naples.

THE LA7E ACCIDEN7 AT NEW LAMBEI II

Yesterday the body of the boy Geo. Henderson,
aged 14, who
was drowned this week, in conse-
quence of the giving way of the suspended scaf-
folding used in constructing the under portion of
the roadway at the west end of the bridge, and
when it will be remembered some 12 men were pre-
cipitated into the river, was found floating on the
\ surface of the river at Hungerford by one of the
Thames lightermen, at about ten o'clock. Nearly
a week had elapsed since the loss of the body, and
as the river in the neighbourhood of the disaster
had been dragged, all hope of recovering it had
been given up, the prevailing impression being
that it had been drifted down with the :current,
and the only assignable reason for its sudden
appearance at present seems to be that the poer bo
must either have fallen headforemost into the river,
and have become imbedded in the mud, or that some,
heavy weight must have fallen with him or upon
him, and so sunk him until the swell of the tide
and the steamers brought the body to the surface,

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