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officer." Now, we do not doubt for a single instant
but that it was personally painful to Mr. TRAILL
to address to Mr. DAVIS, Chief Officer of the Alma,
words such as those—words of strong, and positive,
and explicit condemnation. Next to the pain with
which Mr. DAvis must have listened to them, must
have been no less, certainly, the discomfort (to say
the least of it) with which they were uttered by the
magistrate. But Mr. TRAILL happily looked in
this, more to what was good for the public than
to what was simply agreeable to himself. He
saw the truth distinctly before him, and— as he
ought—refused to shut his eyes to it. Wedo heartily
wish that other men would follow in this way
the resolute example sat to all official inquirers by
the bold, manly, straightonward course taken
throughout this distressing investigation by this
just and worthy magistrate.

L ST NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Renter's office :

PARIS, OCT. 11.

Letters from Madrid report that the Spanish
Consul at Tangiers, had received orders from his
Government to quit his post on the 15th instant,
and on the 18th hostilities would commence, and
the Spanish troops would enter the Moorish terri-
tory, unless the pending dispute is previously ar-
ranged.

The Marquis d'Azeglio, the Sardinian Minister
at the Court of St. James, had arrived in Paris.
It is stated that the Sardinian Minister, on quit-
ting his post at Rome, will place the subjects of
Sardinia resident there under the protection of the
French Embassy.

PARIS, TUESDAY.

The .21Ioniteur of this day contains the following:
" BORDEAUX, Monday, 6.30 p.m.—Their Impe-
rial Majesties have just arrived here. Notwith-
standing the unfavourable state of the weather, the
population of the town and from the country were
enthusiastic in their cheers. The houses were all
entirely decorated with flags, &c. The whole city
is en fete."

MARSEILLES, OCT. 10.

Letters from Rome of the Bth inst. state that the
Pope has left for Castel Gondolfo. His Holiness
gave the Duke de Grammont at audience at that
residence.

The Count de la Minerva, the Sardinian Minister,
is to leave definitively to-morrow.

ZURICH, OCT. 10.

Yesterday the three plenipotentiaries held a con-
ferpnce together, and couriers left for Turin and
Vienna.

It would appear that the conferences will be pro-
longed.
The Duchess of Parma has hired the Hotel Baur
froth the Ist Nov. to the 15th April.

TURIN, OCT. 10.

The official Piedmontese Gazette contains an
article wherein it declares that an execrable crime
has been committed at Parma, which has produced
a feeling of horror throughout the whole country.
It then speaks of the abhorrence such deeds must
awaken in the minds of civilised Christian people,
and how unanimous and deep the feeling of repro-
bation has been on this occasion. In bearing testi-
mony to this feeling we do homage to the moral
sentiments which pervade our countrymen.

THE .111URDER AT PAR MA.

The Piedmontese journals of the Bth, which have
come to hand this mornlng, contain full details of
the murder of Col. Anviti on the sth at Parma.
The Piedmontese Gazette quotes the following
without comment from the Parma Gazette of the
Bth :--

" The people of Parma, who, by their late revolu-
tion, had merited the esteem of all Europe for the
admirable order, calmness, and generous sentiments
with which they had ever met those even who had
left nothing undone to torture, oppress, and bru-
talise them, allowed themselves last night to be
fatally carried away by an irrepressible paroxysm
of hatred, suspicion, and vengeance which drove
them involuntarily to commit an not which the pen
rceolly from recording. One Anviti, whose name
excited execration in the hearts of all, a man who
was the incarnation of all that is odious, tyranni-
cal, and shameful in the many persecutions of
the late Bourbon Government, was yesterday
seen and recognised in this city after a mysterious
absence of several months. His appearance at this
moment, undoubtedly connected with traitorous
intrigues and a desire to create disorder, excited a
furious suspicion in the minds of some who, vainly
admonished by some citizens, gave the signal for an
act which led to sudden and deplorable conse-
quences. Blinded with rage, to rush to the place
where he was confined, to break it open, to seize
the unhappy man and to expose him to the insults
of a crowd maddened by passion, was the work
of an instant. A few minutes later he was a
corpse. The rapidity with which the crime was
committed did not allow the Government time
to foresee, or the public force to prevent, or the
majority of the inhabitants to oppose it. There
now remains in us but a painful recollection of
the act—repentance, too late, alas! in those who
committed it—and perhaps a pretext for our
enemies to interpret it and comment on it in a man-
ner prejudicial to us and to all Italy.—This morn•
ing the following proclamation was issued :
Citizens !—Last night your city was saddened by
an event which can never be sufficiently deplored.
A villain appeared among the people whom he had
cruelly offended. The fever of vengeance seized
upon some unhappy men, blinded and maddened
them, and made them dye their hands in blood.
Elad he been the most perverse of men, it was for
the law alone to punish him. While the Govern-
ment is taking measures to uphold the majesty of
the law, it feels that this is the moment for in-
voking the co-operation of all good citizens in the
name of patriotism. You who understand liberty,
tell your fellow-citizens that freedom cannot live
without respect for the laws. You who desire the
redemption of your country, tell them that we
must hope for it by maintaining order and tran-
quillity. Tell them that by avenging the insults
of tyranny through the means used yesterday they
will instead prepare the way for its return, they
will afford it an opportunity of inflicting revenge a
hundredfold upon the people. Tell them that all
Italy weeps over the crime of yesterday—that her
enemies only laugh.
" The Intendant-General, CATALLINI: "
' " Parma, Oct. 6, 1859.
The Opinione of Turin gives a more detailed ac-
count of the occurrence. It says :
" Colonel Count Luigi Anviti, chamberlain to
the late duke, arrived by rail on the afternoon of
the sth at Parma from Bologna. He was recog-
nised at the station by one who, it is said, had
been condemned to the bastinado under the Ducal
Government, and had undergone the punishment
, in the presence of the colonel, who was scoffing at
him all the while. By the aid of some persons
he was taken to the barracks of the carbineers."
(The Italian sentence—fu tratto netts easerma
conveys the idea that he was arrested by these
persons, and taken to the barracks in order
to be given up to the authorities to be dealt with
according to law.) " But no sooner did it become
known that Anviti had been discovered and taken
to the barracks than a crowd assembled, crying :
Death ! death !' The authorities strove in vain to
restrain the multitude ; their words were not lis-
tened to, the force of the carbineers was insufficient.
The people, breaking into the barracks, seized
Anviti, dragged him half dead to the coffee-house
where he used to boast of the bastinado he had in-
flicted and the other barbarities committed by him.
Several influential persons interposed in vain to
deliver him from the mob ,• Colonel Sceismid-Doda,
of the army of Central Italy, did what a man could
do to save him—he braved cries and blows, but did
not succeed in wresting him from the hands of a
ferocious rabble. Anviti's head was cut off in
the coffes•house, then stuck upon a pole, and
placed on the column of the public square. The
troops were drawn up, and were awaiting the
order from the political authority to act—but what
was the latter about ? It was only about 8 p.m.
that the national guard was called under arms, and
hastened to restore order so shamefully disturbed.
Several persons were wounded ; he who held the
head of Anviti did not give it up until he had re-
ceive seven wounds, such was his rage, because he
had been bastinadoed, and in the presence of Anviti
himself. It is said that among those who appeared
most enraged there was a brother of one who had
.been shot on suspicion of having fired a pistol at
Anviti ; whereas it was currently stated at Parma
that Anviti himself had fired the pistol in order to
lay the charge upon that young man. Anviti was
hated because he was one of the worst instru-
ments of the Duke. He was always present at the
torture of the bastinado ; at every stroke he would
scoff at his victim, saying This for Pius IX., this
for Viva l' ! this for Down with Austria,' &c."
The Siecle has a letter from Turin which gives an
account of the deplorable affair at Parma :-
4' Charles 111., the deceased husband of the sister
of the Count de Chanibord, was, as is well-
known, one of the most maniacal tyrants of un •
fortunate Italy. His horrible eccentricities may
be compared to those of Paul I. of Russia. From
his jesuitical education, he entertained the idea
that the best way to govern his people was to
bastinado them on all occasions, without distinc-
tion .of age, sex, or social position. Having
excited public hatred to the utmost, the modern
Heliogabalus was assassinated. But nevertheless
his system of Government was for a time acted
on by his widow, the Duchess Regent, who suc-
ceeded him, and it was Colonel Anviti, a man
without education, though bearing the title of
count, who carried it out. He scrupulously
followed the traditions of his master. He even
took pleasure in witnessing the infamous atrocities
which he ordered to be perpetrated :—nay, more,
he scoffed at his victims. That is for Italy !'
he used to say as the blow fell ' and that for Charler,
Albert, and that for the friends of independence
13nt hastinadoing did not always appear to him a
, sufficient punishment ;
and he is besides accused of
I having caused several persons to be hanged in pri-
son without any form of trial. For some time past,
' he lived in retirement in the neighbourhood of
Piacenza. But on the sth of this month he was
found at Reggio, at which place he had arrived
from the Papal States. He was arrested by order
of the authorities, and placed in custody of two
carhineers to be conveyed to Piacenza. On arriv-
ing at the railway station at Parma, these men re-
solved to make a halt, and took him to the bar-
racks of the carbineers. To reach them they had to
pass through the greater part of the town,. and on
the way the brother of a man named Cantu, who
had been hanged in prison by order of Anviti, and
having himself received the bastinado, recognised
him, and loudly expressed indignation. A crowd
assembled, but the carbineers succeeded in lodging
their prisoner in the guard-houses A number of the
crewd, amounting to about thirty, attacked the
guard-house, in spite of the
doorre was forced open.monstrances of some
respectable persons ; the
and the wretched Anviti. was killed by stabs from
poignards. His dead body was then dragged to
the principal square, and there the head was cut
off, and placed on the
top of a column; after-
wards, horrible to
_relate, the body for the space
ed about the streets. The
of two hours was d
lished so promptly that
ass issination was arceeogmg
preps-ea it. The band which
it was impossible to
dragged about the body body was not numerous, and it
that the national guard did not
is to be regretted
sooner put an end to the dreadful scene. The
news of the affair has caused profound affliction
to the Government of' Turin, which has sent a bat-
talion of riflemen Parma to maintain order ; it
has also requested to
Dictator Farini to take measures
to punish the principal perpetrators of the crime."
On the other hand, the Milan Gazette gives the
f„i g version of the affair :
Col. Anviti had been in the Legations for seve-
ral
months past, and was staying atßimini with
Yesterday, by' the rail-
one of his old colleagues•
was• which goes td 'Pm in, and he arrived at the
t•ridgc of Enza ; the bridge being broken, Anviti
„lighted with the other passengers, to cross the
on foot. Some inhabitants of Parma
i.at ing recognised him, he was. Immediately arrested,
ak en to Parma, and secured in abarrack where there
re only 10 to 12 men, the only force at the disposal
a I OW of 50,000 souls. The people got excited ; in
vain the colonel, who commanded a battalion of the
;an ..-on promised the prisons.- -his life, and de-
dared to the mob that the prisoner was to be
• ict• ‘1 and if proved guilty, executed. The gate
,
of the barracks was soon forced open, the prisoner
seized, massacred with stones and bludgeons,
dragged along the streets, laid down in a coffee-
house, where his head was cut off, and all this
lasted until half-past 9 p.m.—that is, five hours.
At last a patrol of the Pignerol battalion arrived
with fixed bayonets, in order to save from these
orgies the remains of a man who, although a cri•

minal, had been punished in a much more criminal
manner. There are no carbineers at Parma, it is
true ; bat there are many volunteers already or-
ganised, besides a battalion of Piedmontese and
five battalions of the National Guard. Oh, poor
Italy ' why is it written that thine own sons shall
always tear thy bosom ! Now, M. Farini, it is for
you to show the vigour so necessary at this mo-
ment, in order that a noble and generous nation
may not suffer from the madness of a hundred vil-
lains !"