The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-22 00:00:00

TURKEY.

MARSEILLES, SUNDAY.
The Tagus has arrived from Constantinople. We
have news to the 11th. The Austrian Internuncio
has presented to the Sultan the Order of St. Ste-
phen, in diamonds. Austria notifies officially that
she will occupy the Principalities until the difficul-
ties of Turkey with Russia shall be completely ar-
ranged. Mehemet Pacha is to command the corps
of observation stationed at Monastir to watch the
Montenegrins. The attempted revolt of the Bal-
-I,l)ans has been repressed. Saleh Pacha has been
acquitted, but severely admonished. The corporal
hay been found guilty of the murder of the young
girl, and condemned to death ; and the domestic
intendant of the Pacha sentenced to the galleys.
A rumour is current that the Cabinet of Vienna is
thinking of augmenting its army of occupation in
the Principalities by 20,000 men.

ITALY.
POLITICAL TRIALS IN NAPLES.

NAPLES, SEPT. 15.

This morning the political trial of Mignonna and
company will be renewed. A hasty and unex-
pected bearing was given on Saturday the 6th, but
only two witnesses were examined, just to com-
plete the case for the defence, before the Attorney-
General proceeds to make his requisitceia. Though
the session of the 6th, therefore, was simply formal,
still some evidence was elicited of a most damn-
ing character, showing what a system of ab-
solutism is pursued here, and how slight
the regard paid to the much-boasted laws
of the country One of the accused, Signor
Mauro, had called in his defence Captain Acuti,
comandaute of the Bagni of Procida in 1855. This
witness deposed that in political affairs Mauro bad
been quiet, and had not the power to join any
criminal association, because he had been separated
from the others in consequence of his want of reli-
gion. Many questions were put to Acuti by others
of the accused regarding their conduct, which were
answered in a similar manner, when at length the
president asked him if it were true that he bad
ordered a great number of blows to be inflicted in
one day on the penal convicts of Procida. This ques-
tion was suggested by an observation made by
Mauro on one of the previous days of trial, to the
effect that certain letters attributed to De Angelis

could not have been sent out of the
quence of the excessive tqe 13-4gni, in conse.
rity exercisbd by the
comarv!ante, who In one day ordered thousands
of blows to
inflicted without sufficient reason.
The warms Aciiti, with little prudence towards
his employers, permitted it to transpire that, having
several thins found the "Forzatti " without their
irons, he reported the fact to the Director-General
of the Bagni, with a proposition that instead of pro•
ceeding againstthe prisoners in a regular way, which
would. cost the state a large sum—a sum which they
rOuld never repay by reason of their poverty—the
more economical remedy of flogging them should be
adopted. The witness further stated that the Directo-
r presented the report to his Majesty, and
that his Majesty had deigned to order that fifty blows
should be given on such occasions—that, in execu-
tion of sovereign orders, he had caused 50 blows
to be inflicted on each of 56 Forrati whom he
had found in one day without their irons (that is,
2,800 in all). The president, who saw clearly the
damaging character of such evidence, wished to
enter in his notes that the blows had been given
by superior orders; the comandante, however,
more stupid than honest, still persisted—" No, his
Majesty gave me the order." Thus we see that
every step which is taken in this iniquitous trial
serves only to compromise more and more the cha-
racter and conduct of the Government of the two
Sicilies.

Monday Itivening.—The Attorney-General has
suspended the conclusion of his speech until to-
morrow, saying that it will be necessary to
re-examine Captain Acuti, who has given evi-
dence contrary to fact, and utterly false. The
50 stripes to each political prisoner were ordered,
not by the King, says the Attorney-General, but
by the Minister in the name of the King. If this
is intended to be a defence of his Majesty, it is at
the expense of his authority, which is supposed to
ba exercised by the Ministers without the royal
permission. Take all the incidents of this extraor-
dinary trial, and what do they say of the system
which is fostered by Austria and permitted by
England and France ?