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

THE POLITICAL TRIALS.

NAPLES, Oct. 6.—On Thursday morning, the
Courb 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 parita non constare della
cospirazione." "By an equality of votes tbe 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 is, a projected
conspiracy has been proved ; and sentence according.
to the law was pronounced of perpetual exile from
the liingdom on Mignona; and on the three others,
who also had been adjudged worthy of death by the
Attorney-General—Ventre, Mauro, and De Angelis
—l2 years in irons. The reason of the difference
in the punishment was, that these latter were
already political prisoners condemned to 25 years,
to which 12 more were added—it was virtually a
sentence of " irons for life." The priest Cicco, for
having known and not revealed the conspiracy,
was condemned to two years' imprisonment. The
Padre Ruggiero, the Augustine monk, to one
year'simprisonment ; and as regards the remain-
ing five—Avitabile, Mortati, Palmieri, Do Rosa,
a priest, 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
insufficient ; not that they were cleared and
thoroughly acquitted, which would have been
declared by a verdict of " Consta non."
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 Presidents 1" " Viva la Giustizia della
Gran Corte Criminate !" 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
of Mignona and his associates. They were airested
together with many other's, on the 27th of July,
1855, they were put upon their trial on the 9th of
June, 1856, and the trial was brought to a conclu-
sion on October 2, 1856.

THE SOUND DUES.—HAMBURG, Oct. 11.—A de-
spatch from Copenhagen, just placarded at the
Bourse, confirms the news of this morning, that
all the difficulties concerning the Sound tolls are
definitively arranged, in consequence of the accord
between Denmark and England.

The King of Greece, the Grand Duke and Duchess
of Hesse, the Prince Leopold of Bavaria, and the
Prince Royal Louis, arrived in Augsburg on the 7th,
and all paid their respects to the Empress Dowager
Russia, who left the same day for Ulm.

The Ression 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 the Netherlands. The Prince, in
his address, described the state of the country as
satisfactory, and then alluded to the measures which
would be submitted to the Chamber for adoption
by the King. They include 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 ho
concluded.
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 raised.
The Darmstadt Gazette announces the return
from Moscow of the Princes Louis and Alexander
of Hesse Darmstadt. Prince Frederick William
of Hesse-Cassel has likewise returned from Russia.
A letter from Vienna,the
in Post Ampt Gazette
of Frankfort, says :—‘, Ave
si.
learn that a commis-
sion has been established at Petersburg
bi
which exist drawteos
in up a map of Bessarahia. The maps w
Russia, even those of Poland, are very imperfect,
and this explains the difficuties which have arisen
as to the tracing of the new Bessarafran frontier."
Marshal the nuke
de Mal kh
Paris from Puy,
a off has arrived in
The Oest • • erretchtsche Zeitung, the non-official
organ of Baron 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
Maximilia brought the Archduke Ferdinand
Maximilian to Trieste.
The co •
mere Mercantile of
_Genoa of the Bth an-
nounces that the dispute between the Courts of
Sardinia and Tuscany has been settled • M. Bal-
dasseroni, the Tuscan Minister, h •
offi-
cial note expressed having in an
the Genoese
his regret at the expulsion of
oese tourists from Florence.