The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-26 00:00:00

EXTRACTS FROM THE TURIN PAPERS

OF JUNE 22.

NAPLES, Juno now add to the communication
of the 14th. One of the prisoners was accused of send-
ing a seditious letter from the prison and the galleys
where he was confined, and gave the following defence,
which was not disputed by XL Nicoletti, the govern-
ment prosecutor. One day the governor of the prison of
Procida was completely drunk, and they put into his band
the letters which the prisoners were allowed to send to
their relations. According to the government orders all
such letters should be stamped by the governor, but he
was so drunk he forgot to obey the order. In leaving
the outer gate these letters had to be inspected by an-
other prison authority, and the officer of the prison
guard, seeing that this packet of letters was not
stamped, sent them back to the governor, who by
this time being a little more sober, and forgetting
what he had neglected when drunk, ordered the
72 writers of the letters to be brought before him, and it
took five hours to administer 100 strokes of the cudgel to
these 72 prisoners. When this unadorned fact was
stated the audience in court groaned, and the judges
themselves appeared overpowered with the recital. One
of the witnesses, a monk, stated that the commissary of
police had required him to swear against the prisoners,
and because he said nothing, threatened to beat him,
stripped him naked, and kept him eleven days in prison,
The rev, father, chief of the Order of St. Augustin, was
brought as evidence against the priest Ruggiero, but he
declared that Ruggiero bad always behaved well, and
had never mixed with political matters. Another wit-
ness, Father Luigi di Tiepa, took the opportunity while
in the witness box of easing his conscience by retracting
entirely the declarations he had made against the priest
Ruggiero, which be bad formerly made, frightened by
the dreadful threats of the police if he did not accuse
Ruggiero.

Another prisoner was accused of sending a seditious
letter to his brother at Genoa, but his defenders brought
forward the Neapolitan consul's letter from Genoa at-
testing that the prisoner had no brother at Genoa. It
came out on this trial that there are still in the prison of
Procida 300 political prisoners.
Private letter from Parma, of Juno 19—" You cannot
imagine in what a fury the Austrian Count de Crenne-
villa is. He has already spoken of packing his baggage,
and has told the duchess he will abandon her to her fate,
and in order to make her believe he is in earnest, has
already sold some of his horses. . . . The govern-
ment of the duchess has lost all sort of prestige and
moral force among her people. Every one, even the
members of the government, are now conscious of her
absolute weakness."

FLORENCE, June 19.—The Tuscans take every oppor-
tunity of showing respect to the ambassador of Pied-
mont, ai they still place their future reliance on that
country, winch has acted so well with the sword and at
the Conferences.

A LUCKY ANGLEII.—On Wednesday Mr. 3. C. Wil-
cocks, of this city, had more than the average of anglers'
luck, while fishing in the river Exe, above the Railway
Bridge. Mr. Wileocks, while baiting with a dace,
hooked, as he imagined, a pike, which he succeeded in
landing, when it was discovered that in the throat of
the pike, which weighed Zilb., was a trout 18oz. in
weight. The peculiarity was that the trout would tap-
pear to have hooked the bait, and then to have been
seized by the voracious pike, who, rather than lose his
trout, permitted Mr. Wileocks to land him without hav-
ing been himself hooked. The trout, when extracted
from the jaws of his natural enemy, was quite perfect,
and afforded our friend with the road and line a liberal
repast, which he doubtless enjoyed. What will our
friends, who claim for the jack a disregard of the flavour
of trout, nay to this significant fact ?—Exeter Gazette. 1