The Sun. — 1846-04-10 (London, England)

MAYOR  A SSASSIN ATION 01 A. BY A YOUNG WOMAN. COURT OF ASSIZES OF CORSICA, MAnctr 23. The following trial reveals a curious state ofall'airs in the island of Corsica, where for the last :ix years a species of civil war has raged, in which one party has succeeded in exterminating the other, killing successively all the males of two families,' without the civil power having been able energetically to correct such a state of disorder. The fathers and brothers Eeing all slain, the murderers have with impunity threatened to viola'e the women, to cut off their breasts, and afterwards to put them to death ; even the females have been obliged to arm themselves in thf it own defence. The folovving is a short narrative of the events which had led to this state of things  • The commute of Santa Lucia di Tailano, in the island of Corsica, had fur many years been divided into two factions ; on the one side n ere the Quilichinis and the Polls, on the ether the Giaconsonis and Santa Lucias. Numbers having fallen on both sides by the dagger and musket, the two parties became weary of she mutual slaughter, and in 1834 a peace was patched up; for *ix years they refrained from hostilities. In 1840 two marriages were contracted by Pierre Poll and Jaxques Quilichini, which excited a feeling of enmity in the Santa Lucias, who had wished to marry thes7e young men into their own family, and they conceived and executed the frightful pr. ject of assa,sinnting Poll and Quilichini on the day of their marriage. These two horrible crime=, committed in open r:;-;y, with no provocation, were the signal for the breaking out or the second war. The assassins lied to Sardinia, but were puesucd and arrested ; two of the m, the Abi ea Santa' Lucia and Giulice Giacomeni were brought to trial. The priest was found guilty, and condemned to ten years' imprisonment ; tle other was acquitted. On the new; of the c4.denanstion of the pi-list, his relatives commenced a aeries of climes almost unparalleled for barbarity and persevering cruelty. One individcd, who had given evidence against the Abl 4 Santa Lucia, was seized by these bandits in the fields ; they betintriiim to a tree, put out his eyes. cut out•his torn.;ue, stela i d him n carious parts of the body, and left him in this state,.exclaming, " That was the Corsican way of treating false witnesses." No fever than SIX other persons who hnd given evidence, perished beneath the kniie of the weas. sins, or pierced by the shot from their guns. Pre;elaMations were affixed to the r ails of the cilurch o: Sane re, prohibiting, under pain of death, the least help t:ing given to the families of the enemies to these bandits.  The mains of the opposing factions had thus been all sacrific(d to the vengeance of the Santa Lucia party, with the exception of one, a surgeon at Ajaccio. also was, a few months ago, shot by Santa Lucia, at the door of his own house. he assassir, in making his escape, was stopped by a Custom-house officer. but Santa Lucia drawing a dagger from his breast. stat,hed him to the heart,'seized the officer's double-burelecl carbine and cartouchc-box, and made off to the mountains in safoty. Reports were then spread, that the men being all dead, the bandits were about to immolate the women, and under the impression caused by these rumours, on the 20th of November last, Marie Quilicbini, the sister of one of the victims, while going to the spring for water, met the Mayor of. the commune, who was  gesture towards stopped the girl, and made an insulting. by alleged to be the protector of the Santa Lucia,.. Ire of rthis revenge. act fsohhreer then do rwme smus murder enrdashofhter brother, she drew a pistol r m him dead on the spot. l her appearance at the bar of ,oto the above Court. The circumstances attending the crime having been proied in evidence, she was, after a short deliberation, found guilty of murder, without premeditation, but with provocation, and under extenuating circumstances. The Court condemned MarieFrancois Quilicbini to five years' imprisonment, and the costs of the trial, limiting the duration of imprisonment in default to one year.