The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-25 00:00:00

Tlll.' POLITICAL TRIALS IN ITALT.

NAPLES, Spxl7. 1-9•
The political trial of Mignonna has again been
suspended, and the accused are doomed to drag n.ll
their 15th month of imprisonment uncondemnea'
The trial will not be resumed until the begin
ning of the next month, owing to the absence ex
Captain Acuti, the witness who is again to be ex-
amined in consequence of the alleged errors which
he committed ou September 6. On the 6th Sep'
tember he was examined for the defence, but,
amongst other matters, he stated that, when he
first was appointed to his command in Procida, be
found everything in disorder. The servants wera
all venal indulgences might be purchased
almost according to a tariff. Thus, eight
grains for a determinate time would purchase.
permission to take off the irons ; two carlint
a day, better rooms ; something more, better
food : in short, the cutodes seem to have thriven
on the political prisoners. Acuti tried to Pa 4
a stop to these excesses, and wrote to General Pa'
lumbo on the subject, suggesting the lash as a sub-
stitute for the legal punishment for taking ea
irons. Orders were returned to threaten 40 in case
of any beinc, found without chains. The threat
appears to have maintained a better discipline for
a short time, but the old excesses recommenced.
He did not change the custodes as he had been re-
commended, for it would have been of no use--41
would have done the same thing. He wrote again
to General Palumbo, and soon after received 0,
royal order to inflict fifty lashes on every one found
without his irons. In execution of this order be
proceeded to inflict this punishment on 56 prisoners
whom he found unchained. Two thousand eight
hundred lashes at a word In reading the proces
verbal the words inserted by the president were
" superiori ordini," which the witness corrected by
saying, "No, ordini sovrani.' " Little did_he
dream of the damaging tendency of his love of
precision.
The court re-assembled on Monday, the 15th, to
hear the requisitions of the attorney-general, but
instead of proceeding with it he announced his in-
tention to recall Acuti, who, influenced by either
malignity or ignorance, had given calumnious and
false evidence. The ing, he asserted, had not
given the order, but the minister ; and he had done
so by a rescript of the 4th class, which permits the
use of the name of the King in all matters. of rou-
tine, where no novelty is introduced. The Attor-
ney General then read the rescript, which was
signed by Signor Scorza, Minister of Public Works,
ordering 50 lashes to be given to any prisoner
found without his irons. The entire effort of the
Attorney General was to exculpate his Majesty
from having issued the rescript in question, assert-
ing that it was mere formality to use the King's
name, and that the minister was justified by usage
in taking upon himself such a responsibility.

NEWLY-INVENTED FLOUR MILL.—SOme experiments
were made on Monday, the 15th inst., with a newly
invented flour mill, constructed by Mons. Fouchier, in
Lambeth, at the arch No. 159, South-Western Railway.
There were present, by direction of the Admiralty, Cap-
tain W. V. Read, R.N.; Mr. Breaks, R.N., storekeeper
of Deptford Victualling-yard ; Mr. Vaughan, chief engi
neer, Victualling-yard ; Mr. King, master miller, Dept-
ford-yard ; and Messrs. George Thornton Curl, engl•
neer, Hamilton Browne, and others. The results of the
grinding of 100 lbs. weight of wheat were as follows :--
76 per cent. of the best flour, or 83 of all sorts, from
wheat that weighs from 62 to 63 lbs. per bushel. This
gives a considerably greater quantity over the present
plan—the average being 6811)=., and leaving a great re•
siduurn of bran. It will be seen by the statement that
there is about 15 per cent. saved by the new process ;
and, in addition, the flour is turned out perfectly cool,
and consequently a saving is effected by not being
obliged to have recourse to the present mode of cooling
the flour after being discharged from the mill. The
above-named gentlemen, forming the committee for the
Admiralty, expressed themselves fully satisfied with the
results of the experiments.