The Express. — 1852-07-14 (London, England)

MORE AUSTRIAN OUTRAGES IN ITALY.  Fresh particulars are reaching us as to the atrocious system of wholesale arrest now going on in Lombardy. Public attention in this country ought to be roused to the subject—nothing so horrible or so disastrous as these arrests having occurred in Austrian Italy for a long time. A letter, dated Milan, July 3, states that it has been ascertained that the body of Signor Pezzotti, who was found strangled in a Milanese dungeon immediately after his arrest, was instantly cut open, with a view to get possession of some papers which he had swallowed at the moment of his arrest. It is said, too, that the tale of his having strangled himself is a mere invention to conceal the fact that he was assassinated. However incredible this may appear, the remembrance of the firm and calm nature of poor Pezzotti makes it still more difficult to believe that he committed suicide.  Arrests continue at Brescia, Pavia, Cremona. At Cremona one Antonio Binds, &landed proprietor, has been arrested along with others. To those arrested at Mantua has to be added the name of Count Arrivabene.  At Venice many deplorable arrests have been made—Seargellini, Canal, Zambelli, Ferracini, and others. Here, as at Mantua, the arrests have been made in succession, this being an old trick of the Austrian police, to induce the imprisoned to believe that they have been denounced by their previously arrested companions, and so to spread abroad through the liberal part of soeiety the suspicion of mutual treachery. Altogether at 111antua the arrests hitherto known exceed ono hundred; at Venice there have been is all eighteen ; in the other towns the numbers are proportionate. It is impossible to describe what a misfortune to Lombardy is this fresh rouia of the polies among the most intelligent and honourable of her young men. Austria seems determined not to leave one thinking man free in her Italian dominions.  What effects these atrocities are producing on the Italians themselves may be inferred from the following extract from the letter of a correspondent of the Piedmontese paper the Italia e Popolo, writing from Mantua, on July 1, and complaining of the silence and indifference of the ministerial papers of Piedmont on the subject of cruelties so horrible. "Do you, at least," mays the correspondent to the editor of the Italia e Papal°, " see that these things are spoken of by those who seek the real welfare of Italy. Tell how they tear fathers from children, children from parents, husbands from wives,—tell how they throw honest men into prison,—how they insult them by binding them in transport vans, refusing the request of their families to be allowed to convey them in other vehicles at their own expense,—tell how they manacle them during the journey, and order those to be bound still tighter who implore to have the irons a little loosened, and how they refuse every possible alleviation to their sufferings in prison. Tell how they treat those as condemned who are yet under trial, chaining them with one hand and one foot together, and obliging them thus to remain huddled up on the ground in the most painful position. Tell how they threaten the rat, and often use it for vengeance alone, or to extract confession. Besides these physical tortures, they easel' the moral man with continual threats of death, as in the case of the hero Giovanni Orioli, and with irony, acorn, and insult. They abuse the holiest feelings, telling parents who implore mercy for their unhappy children, that the only means of saving them is to persuade them to betray their accomplices, and eonfeu their crimes, and even when there are no accomplices and no crimes. " I write to you under tho impression of the .grief caused by the fresh arrests made in our provinces, by which wo have lost (imprisoned or fled) upwards of a hundred of our best citizens."  ROYAL COLLEGE OP StIEGEONB.—Tho following gentlemen, hawing undergone the necesrary eintninations, were admitted members of the college on the 12th inst.:— Messrs. Wil!iam Clarence Matthews, Manchester; Henry Lowndes, Liverpool ; Theodore Grant Crest, Australia ; Thomas Thomson, Brunswick-place, lit gent spark ; William Henry Man, Plymouth; Francis, hfarchant Laidmen, Exeter; William Field Belli°, Great Yarmouth; Joseph Hissed, Hampstead ; Thomas Anderson, Choilton-uponMedlock : Edward Atkinson, Little Woodhouse, Yorkshire ; and Itichard Itatclide, Loudon.