The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-25 00:00:00

of the men gave him to lie on, night after night,

We have 'Mown the walls of the forts doviU with
gun-powder.
Our total lops is five killed and ten wounded.
The walls of the forts were of the finest granite I
ever saw, eighteen to twenty feet high, and six to

twelve feet thick, and mounting 16 guns in all.
There was one gun twenty-four feet long and ten
inch ly,re—l suppose the largest in the world.
We look back now surprised at our own foolhar-
diness in attacking foitA that in proper hands would
have blown the ships out of the water.

ATTEMPTED ESCAPE. OF ROM-AN POLI-
TICAL PRTSONSBS.-FATAL CONFLICT
WITIL THE SOLDIERY.

(From a Correspondent of the Daily Naos.)
ROME, MARcH 19.

The most exciting piece of intelligence that has
presented itself since my last letter is an attempt
on the part of the prisoners confined in the Castle
of Palliana, chiefly for political offences, to escape,
vi, et arnais, from that place of durance vile. The
attempt took place about 4 o'clock in the afternoon
of Saturday last, and various accounts of the occur-
rdnce were in circulation in the cafes and saloons
of Rome on the following day, but the official nar-
ration appeared .on Monday evening with more
exact details.

It appears that the prisoners had chosen the hour
allotted .to taking exercise in the court as most
propitious for their attempt. Instead of returning
into their respective places of confinement, some
of them succeeded in forcing the doors leading to
the piazza d'armi, whilst others broke through the
ceiling of the prison wards
.and got upon the roof
of the barracks and infirmary. The first detach-
ment, -making use of the tools with which they are
allowed to work at cerfa;n hours, broke open the
door of the head gaoler's room, to get the keys
from him. Thoso on the roof of the barracks un-
tiled the roof to gain admission int) the building,
and seize the soldiers' arms, whilst the other pri-
soners who bad got on the roof of the infirmary
endeavoured to keep the troops from ent;Ting the
barracks by pelting them with tiles. Some of the
rioters finally forced the door of the greit tower
of the fortress, whence they molested the soldiers
with showers of stones and bricks. In this state of

things, having in vain summoned the prison(); s to
return to their places of confinement, the com-
manders of the garrison of chweurs and of the
brigade of gendarmes gave their men orders to fire,
when, brickbats being no match for muskets, the
mutineers had to submit, with the loss of four of
their number killed and five wounded. One of the
sOldiers and a keeper were wounded also. The
official report does not give the names of the killed,
but merely states that they were persons who had
been condemned for wounding or robbing, "through
party spirit," the damning clause which enhances
threefold the beinowness of every crime in this
country whenever connected in any way with poli-
ties]. motives. -

The prisoners in the Castle of Palliano are all
considered as political offenderP, and amount in
number to several hundreds, confined in separate
cells, each containing twelve individuals, who are
only allowed to see the inmates 9f other cells dur-
ing the hour allotted to exercise. The plan of
operations appears to have been concocted during
these occasional meetings.

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