The Express. — 1848-05-26 (London, England)

LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1848. [THREE PENCE.  oath ; this formality was to have taken plane with explanations on the subject of the statute. The national guard, however, refused to lower the barricades, except on the condition of the abolition of the Chamber of Peers, the surrender of the fortresses, and the removal of the troops from the capital. This being declined, the troops were again ordered out, and the squares of the palace and other places were covered with armed forces, including a great quantity of artillery. At 9 o'clock, the Swiss troops were drawn out around the castle. At half-past 9 there was an apparent movement to retreat, but about 11 o'clock a musket was discharged by accident, when the national geard, believing itself betrayed, commenced firing. The Swiss and the other troops then opened a murderous fire of musketry by battalions, and the artillery commenced a tremendous discharge of grape; the conflict, in fact, became general. At the barricades of Sun Fernando and San Bridgida the national guards sustained a fire of musketry and artillery for three hours without yielding an inch of ground. On the commencement, the lower orders seemed disposed to take the side of the national guard, bat being offered by the King and the troops the privilege of pillage they took the other side. Doors and gates of shops and private houses were soon forced, and an general pillage and massacre commenced to cries of " Viva el Bey !" The signal of attack was given by three guns from the fort, when the red flag was raised.  Unheard of atrocities were perpetrated by the lazzaroni and the troops. They rushed into the private houses, and massacred the inhabitants without distinction of age or sex, flinging the bodies of their victims from the windows. lu one house were shot a father, mother, and four children. Other victims were dragged alive through the streets to be butchered, struck MS they went along, and insulted by the agents of the police and the soldiers, who compelled them to cry " Viva el It, y." When they refused, they were pricked in the face by the points of the baronets. The royal guard murdered two sons of the Marquis Vassatori in Lis own palace : the father went alark mid. The palace was sicked. The emissaries of Del Carttto, and, according to some accounts, Del Caretto himself, were employed in goading on the rabble to these acts of atrocity. Several p, none known to entertain liberal opinions were dragged from their houses and shot. _ . . . .  The massacre continued for eight hours. The hospitals were tilled with wounded. In one Swiss regiment alone there were 200 killed and wounded, of which 30 were officers. Government was proceeding to disarm the national guard. The aspect of the city was deplorable. It seemed to be converted into one vast tomb. The correspondents of the French journals say that the French admiral, 13audin, expressed the greatest indignation at the conduct of the King, and announced that treaties and thu law of nations having been violated by the Neapolitan government, he would give one hour to stop the disorder and guarantee the inviolability of persons and properties ; that otherwise he would bring his fleet frain Castel Mare, and disembark 9,000 men to defend the rights of humanity and nations.  Since the publioatiin of the foregoing in the Daily News, we have received the following from our Naples correspondent. His narrative commenses with the morning of the 15th.