the official rejoicings were to be seen on the walls of Milan.  The persons who put these up were not caught, but in the course of the day a crowd, consisting of all classes, made what the official report called ‘a scandalous and anti-politic demonstration,’ raising revolutionary cries, and even saying uncomplimentary things of His Majesty, and worse still, of the Austrian soldiers.  During this ‘shameful scene,’ of which the above is the Austrian and hence the most highly-coloured description, the military arrested at hazard some of the crowd, who, by a ‘superior order,’ were condemned to the following pains and penalties:—­

     1.  Angelo Negroni, of Padua, aged thirty, proprietor, forty
      strokes;

     2.  Carlo Bossi, watchmaker, aged twenty-two, forty strokes;

     3.  Paolo Lodi, of Monza, student, aged twenty-one, thirty strokes;

     4.  Giovanni Mazzuchetti, Milanese, barrister, aged twenty-four,
     thirty strokes;

     5.  Bonnetti, Milanese, lithographer, aged thirty-one, fifty
     strokes;

     6.  Moretti, Milanese, domestic servant, aged twenty-six, fifty
     strokes;

     7.  Cesana, artist, aged thirty-two, forty strokes;

     8.  Scotti, shopkeeper, of Monza, fifty strokes;

     9.  Vigorelli, Milanese, proprietor, fifty strokes;

     10.  Garavaglia, of Novara, aged thirty-nine, thirty strokes;

     11.  Giuseppe Tandea, Milanese, aged forty, twenty-five strokes;

     12.  Rossi, Milanese, student, thirty strokes;

     13.  Carabelli, workman, forty strokes;

     14.  Giuseppe Berlusconi, fifty strokes;

     15.  Ferrandi, bookseller, thirty strokes;

     16.  Ernestina Galli, of Cremona, operatic singer, aged twenty,
     forty strokes;

     17.  Maria Conti, of Florence, operatic singer, aged eighteen,
     thirty strokes.

There were other sentences of imprisonment in irons and on bread and water, but the roll of the bastinado, extracted from the official Gazzetta di Milano may be left to speak for all the rest, and to tell, with a laconicism more eloquent than the finest rhetoric, what the Austrian yoke in Italy really meant.

A few days after, the military commandant sent the Milanese Municipality a bill for thirty-nine florins, the cost of rods broken or worn-out, and of ice used to prevent gangrene, in the punishment administered to the persons arrested on the 18th of August.  Sixty strokes with the Austrian stick were generally enough to prove fatal.  Women were flogged half-naked, together with the men, and in the presence of the Austrian officers, who came to see the spectacle.