The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-13 00:00:00

THE POLITICAL TRIALS.

NAPLES, Oct. 6.—On Thursday morning, the
Coiled assembled, and after some unimportant busi-
ness in conclusion of the defence the judges retired
to their council-chamber about 11 o'clock. The
Procureur-General and the advocates withdrew,
and the Court was closed until the decision of the
Judges should be made known. In close consulta-
tion they remained until half-past 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, when the doors were again thrown open,
and the court presented the same aspect as it did
in the morning. A general anxiety pervaded the
assembly to know the result of judicial consul-
tation, and according to the usual forms an
usher rose and read the written sentence of the
judges, as follows :—" A paria non constare della
cospirazione." "By an equality of votes the con-
spiracy is not proved." There is an expression of
surprise on every face, as though the usher could
not have been understood. Each one looked at the
other as if he would have asked whether he had
been mistaken. The Attorney General was pale, and
evidently mortified ; the prisoners and judges were
alone unmoved. " COnstare del projetto di cospi-
razione," proceeds the usher—that i 3, a projected
conspiracy has been proved ; and sentence according
i 7 the law was pronounced of perpetual exile from
the kingdom on Miornona ; and on the three others,
w ha also had been 0.171 j edged worthy of death by the
Attofney-General—Ventre, Mauro, and De Angelis
—l2 years in irons. The reason of the difference
in the panishment was, that these latter were
already political prisoners condemned to 25 yearn,
to which 12 .more were added—it was virtually a
sentence of "irons for life." The priest Chico, for
having known and not revealed the conspiracy,
was condemned to two years' imprisonment. The
Padre Ruggiero, the Augustiue monk, to one
year's imprisonment ; and as regards the remain-
five—A.vitabile, Mortati, Palmieri, Do Rosa,
;tipriest, and Donna Antoinetta Pace, the ver-
dict of the judges was " Non consta," that is
to say, the charge of even projected conspiracy
was not proved against them—the evidence was
iesufficient ; not that they were cleared and
thoroughly acquitted, which would have been
declared by a verdict of " Consta
The liberty which these five, therefore,
will enjoy will be provisional, under the sur-
veillance of the police. As soon as the reading of
the sentence had concluded the great crowd who
were present, and who had recovered from their
surprise, were overcome with joy, and expressed
their feelings by clapping of hands, and shouting
" Viva it Fresidente " Viva la Giustizia della
Gran Corte Criminale !" This was gall and worm-
wood to the public accuser, who but a few days
before had demanded punishment of death for four,
and, irritated by the unusual joy, he ordered that
those who applauded should be marked, and two
individuals were arrested. So terminated the trial
91; Mignoua and his associates. They were wrested,
tc,gether with many others, on the 27th of
July,
1835, they were put upon their trial ou the 9th of
J une, 1856, and the trial was brought to a conclu-
sion on October 2, 1856.

DIE SOUND DUES.—HAIIBURG, Oct. 11. A,. de-
snat,th from Copenhagen, just placarded at the
Douro, confirms the news of this morning, that
all the difficulties concerning the Sound tolls are
definitively arranged, in consequence of the accord
between Fenmark and England.

The King of Greece, the Grand Duke and Duchegt
of Hesse, the Prince Leopold of Bavaria, and the
Princeßoyal Louis, arrived in Augsburg on the 7th,
and all paid their respects to the Empress Dowager
Russia, who left the same day for Ulw.
The session of the Chamber of Deputies of the
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg was opened on the 7th
inst. by the Lieutenant of the King-Grand-Duke,
Prince Henry of ihe Netherlands. The Prince, in
his address, describNed the state of the country as
satisfactory,and their alludedto the measures which
would be submitted to the Chamber for adoption
by the King. They irlclude a partial revision of
the constitution granted in 1848, which, in the
words of the Prince, "is no longer in harmony
with the imperious and inevitable exactions of the
statutes of the Germanic Confederation," and the
approval of the concordat which is about to bo
concluded. _ _

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A correspondence from Berlin contradicts the re-
port of Prussia's intention to separate from the
Zollverein.

A Madrid journal states that O'Donnell has re-
turned the visit which Narvaez paid him on his
recent arrival in the capital.
Letters from Bucharest of the 23d affirm that in
spite of a thousand intrigues,
.French influence is
augmenting in the Principalities.
The Milan Gazette states that the Emperor and
Empress of Austria will not arrive in that city
until the early part of January.

The rumours of the speedy assembling of the
Congress in Paris, although repeated with confi-
dence by almost all the Continental papers, are
believed in Paris to be mere Vienna inventions.
We read in the Epoca :—" It is reported in the
political circles of Madrid that the Duke of Victory
is preparing a manifesto relative to the last events,
which he intends to publish the moment the state
of siege is raisel

The Darmstadt Gazette announces the return
from Moscow of the Princes Louis and Alexander
of Hesse Darmstadt. Prince Frederick William
of Hesse-Cmsel has likewise returned from Russia.
A letter from Vienna, in the Post Ampt Gazette
of Frankfort, says :—" We learn that a commis-
sion has been established at St. Petersbnrg to draw
up a map of Bessarabia. The maps which exist in
Russia, even those of Poland, are very imp,erfect,
and this explains the difficulties which have arisen
as to the tracing of the new Bessarabian frontier."
Marshal the Duke de Malakhoff has arrived in
Paris from Puy.
The Oesterreichische Zeitung, the non-official
organ of 13a:con Bruck, lately informed the public
the war steamer Elisabetto had gone to the Bay of
Naples, but we now learn that on the sth the vessel
In question brought the Archduke Ferdinand
Maximilian to Trieste.
The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa of the Bth an-
nounces that the dispute between the Courts of
Sardinia and Tuscany has been settled ; M. Bal-
dasseroni, foe Tuscan Minister, having in an offi-
cial note expressed his regret at the expulsion of
the Genoese tourists from Florence.