The Sun. — 1864-08-16 (London, England)

ATTACK ON A NEW ZEALAND NEWSPAPER OFFICE BY THE CREW OF A MAN-OF-WAR.--. The following episode of the war in New Zealand is given by the _Melbourne Argus, The " Auckland New Zealander had, in an article published on the Ist of June, referring to the death of Capt. Hamilton, of the Esk, stated :—' It is feared that this brave officer was cruelly deserted by his men, who were seized with a panic and fled back to our position, after being gallantly led as the forlorn hope in the attack. It is true it was a critical moment, but if the men had displayed half the courage and daring of their officers a very different result would have to be chronicled respecting this unfortunate encounter.' This offended the seamen of the Esk, who in numbers 60 strong, came down to the office, and commenced proceedings which portended pulling the building—a wooden one—down. One of these men cried out, ' We have the authority of our ()Ricers for what we are doing.' Magistrates interfered to prevent violence, the police were called, and Commodore Sir William Wiseman appealed to, but in vain. The police were unable to cope with 'the rioters, and the commodore corroborated the assertion that the officers connived at the riot by not interfering. Temporising was resorted to ; and, on the promise that an extraordinary edition should issue, retracting the previous statement, the seamen retired. The extraordinary edition came out with a ridiculous denial of the charge against th 3 Naval Brigade, and attributing the panic which caused the sudden retreat to a mistake of the 68th Regiment, This, it was also mentioned, was the substance of the statement made by the rioting seamen, and it was signed ' John P. Beckett, Quartermaster."' On Thursday night last a murder was committed in a house in the Avenue Lamotte-piquet, on the person of a young woman of loose character named Eugenie Elie, aged 25. A dragoon who called at her lodgings on Friday morning found her lying dead on the floor of her round her neck as to have forced a great drawn nom jacket twisted into a cord so, tightly with a calico night quantity of blood from her nostrils. As the unfortunate woman's money and jewellery were found safe in her drawers, robbery could hardly have been the motive for the crime, unless, indeed, the murderer had become alarmed, and had not time to search for plunder. An investigation has been ordered by the police authorities. fßrnenlltibnufonhi ebrypnaarmenet,s,anhdonnsine,e ysheaerswoafa The Fascio Romano states that as a young girl, Annetta shot at and dangerously wounded by some person uuknown., sitting The act is attibuted to private vengeance. The .Nazione of Florence states that General Fanti's state of health causes considerable uneasiness. Be is suffering from a disease of the heart complicated with a pulmonary congestion occasioning great difficulty of breathing. A letter from Pietragalla (Neapolitan provinces) rel,.tes the following instance of the unexampled barbarity of the brigands :—A man named Francesco Zotte, who had often served as a volunteer agelust the brigands, was surprised by them a few days ago, immediately boand hand and foot, and beaten nearly to death with bludgeons. After the infliction of this torture, he was shot dead with revolvers ; his body was then saturated with spirits of wine and cut on a pile of wood, which wcs set lire to ; and on the folowing morning the country people found his remains carbonised,