The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

ITALY.

TURIN, Oct. 13.—8 y a notification, signed by
Cavalie e de Winderkhern, Commandant of the
Modenese Dragoons, and dated Carrara, Oct. 6,
1857, Martial law has been once more proclaimed
in the city and commune of Carrara, of the cause
of which the Messaggiere di Modena of the 9th
instant gives the following account. According to
that journal, the Duke of Mode na had raised
the state of siege in the Carrara district last
December because he thought that Vie punish.
ment inflicted on not a few disturbers of public
order had been sufficient to repress the auda
city of those wicked people who infest the
city and commune of Carrara, but the con-
fidence, cherished by this most clement Prince
had been far from realised, for after a fe v m,onths
asiaults wounds, and mur iers were lint on'y reiom
menced, but had been so frequently perpetrated as
to give good cause for alarm to the peaceable inha-
bitants and to induce the Government, however
unwillingly, to provide anew, by exceptional mea-
sures, against this rising evil.
Things had arrived at this state on the occasion
of the departure of a great part of the garrison of
Carrara for the autumnal manoeuvres at Reggio,
when some evil-dispo
persons summoned courage
enough to insult some soldiers in the theatre on the
evening of the 27th of the last month, and at the
same time to express their contempt for the whole
honourable class of which they formed a
part.
These provocations excited a confusion, in which a
soldier and several civilians were slightly w mimed,
but the fact was not devoid of an appearance of pre-
meditation, since one of those arrested threw away
a dagger with which he was armed when taken
prisoner by thepolice. The moderation of the troops
in this instance was probably mistaken for weakness,
for in the afternoon of the next day (the 28th) a
fresh deed of extraord•nary atrocity was committed.
Three individuals belonging to the reserve of the
army, that is to say—Serjeant Ribolini and privates
Zeni and Rocchi—were on the high road of Grag-
nani, near Carrara, and not far from their own
houses, quiet and unarmed, when they were sud-
denly attacked with stones and daggers by seven
young men known to belong to the city or neigh-
bourhood. The two first named were killed out-
right, but Rocchi survived two days, and identi-
fied one of the assaFsins, wh had been arrested
by the police. Five others of the gang have since
been captured by the Sardinian police, and their
extradition demanded by the Modenese Govern-
ment, in virtue of existing conventions, and the 1
seventh, although well known, is still at large.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —(This Day.)

WESTMINSTER.

GROSS OUTRAGE IN TOTHILL FIELDS PRISON,,Emma
Turner, a girl about 20 years old, was brought up on a
warrant from Tothill-fields Prison, Westminster, in
which she bad been t•offering a term of imprisonment
for disorderly conduct, charged with the following gross
out rage :
Mr. Joseph Samuel Levies, a member of the College
of Surgeon., stated that he was the medical officer at
preeent, doing duty for the gentleman who now holds
that appointment at the Prison. It was his duty to
s as
informed wer e
t ha
inspect the whole of the prisoners and to attend to all
u
was unwell, he went
to the prisoner's cell, and itroired how she
was, when she flew at him, 'truck him a vio-
lent blow on the side of the head, tore his
can with her nails, and kicked him. On tho 24
theo prisoner t the
21st
of Septdinber, on
beingh
of October she again struck him on the face, and a day
or two afterwards she emptied the filthy content of a
cell-vest/A over the lower part of his dress. Complainant
appealed to the visiting justices of the prison, but they
refused to interfere, cn tt,e ground that he was not the
regularly appointed and paid medical ()facer of the prison.
Prisoner's conduct during the last week had been very
g,,od, and as she really appeared to be extremely sorry
for her conduct, he did not wish to press th 5 charge with
severity, but he had felt it an iniperseive duty to seek the
protection of the law.
Mr. Paynter remarked at some length upon the extra-
ordinary and unprovoked character of the case, the num-
ber of cutragea which bad recently taken place in this
prison, and the evident want of proper discipline. B.
committed defendant for 14 dave.