The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-22 00:00:00

ITALY.

A rumour was current during the peat week about sn
impending change of the Sardinian Ministry, in conse-
quence of the King's compulsory refusal to permit his
amain to become Regent of Central Italy in his Mune.
This report is contradietml on authority. It is said that
the Sardinian Chambers will be summoned to assemble
before the Congress meets. The question of the annexe-
tion of Central Italy to Sardinia, will be fully ,lhenseol,
and numerous addresses from the people of the Duchies
will be protease' in order to give additional weight to the
cauee. The Minister of Marine has ordered that Tussan
and Modenese Marinelli shall be received, without re-
striction as to number, amongst the trews of Sardinian
vessels, and that Sardinian sailors shallembark upon the
vessels of Tuscany and Modena without giving the gua-
rantees usually required before sdling under a forei;zn
flag. "These important regulati ns,"says the Piot.
""trie6":efte. ' have for their object the identifica-
aa Much as possible, of the navies of the Govern-
nienta of Central Italy with those of the Government of
the King."
His Holiness the Pope has consented to Rend a repro-
eentative to the Cotigress. According to &deices from
Romagna the Proei,e,,al Gov, 'lit of Bologna is
abundantly supplied with nioney.
It is positively stated that it is the wish of the King
of Nop sp shes to be represented at the approaching
Congress. Orders have been given to the Neapolitan
Einbassieß to deliver paß.sporta to all Neapolitan exiles
who may demand pernimsion to return to their country.
STATE OF TIIINC/4 IN SICII.T.—The following is an
extract of a letter dated Palermo, Oct. Al :—" The re.
joicings with which we celebrated on the 4th of July
the tiding, of the victory of &define filled the police
with alarm, and front that day we have lived in the
midst of arrests, transimrtations, domiciliary Visits, Mid
severities of every description. Since the end of Sep-
teMber, however, the violence and suspicions of the
Government have become a perfect frenzy. It would be
impossible for me to enumerate the news id all those
who have been imprisoned or persecuted within the last
three weeks, or are at this moment fugitives or in con-
cealment. It seems now an established rule with the
police that, when a suspected penson is sought for or
not forthcoming, his whole family are to be imprisoned,
without reference to age, sex, or state of health. These
arrests are effected with unprecedented brutality. A
little girl of 12 years old, belonging to the Cristina
family, was Seriously wounded by a pistol shut to make
her desist front crying. The wile of Bodalamenti was
dealt with in the 1411110 manner for the same offence, and
now lies in great danger. A poor woman was suckling
her infant when her reels° was suddenly invaded by the
gendarmes, who tore the child from her, and threat-
ened it should die of Ime,zer unless she resealed where
her husband had concealed herself. Ido not stop to
tell you of the cruel tortures inflicted on the prisoners
to make them confess crimes of which they are often
innocent ; nor of the domineering instili nee of the
troops. Everything betrays a desire to ',revoke an in-
surrectionary movement, which, with every conceivcnble
advantage of numbers, antis, and fortisentions, the Nea-
politans think it will prove. easy to suffocate in blood.
The director and commismiries of police, as if in moment-
Riryapprehension of being attacked, no longer shep in
their houses, and large Is-dies of militaty are often en-
camped for nights together in the streets and willaree
flanked by artillery. Indeed, our actual condition his
become so terrible and insepportable that despair will
precipitate us into Poem fearful enterprise. An indica-
tion of this can too surely be traced in recent events.
events which you must observe slid not precede lett N.,
lowed the iniimitous violence of the police. On the
night of the Ilth inst. a handful of tnen ',re-
pented themselves at the village of t'illabate, Rhea four
miles from Palermo, and utileavonred to disarm the
Guards Urbvna, a sort of auxiliary to the police there
stationcsl. After a skirmish, in which gendarmes and
trumps took a share, they succeeded in retiring to the
..... untains, leaving only one of their number tally
w led. Nest day, the 12th, a pnwlainati 111 l appeared
from the Lieutenant-General of the garrison, giving his
own version of this affray as solely attributable to a
gang of thieves and disturbers of public order ; at BM
saute time he intimated to all good citizens that they
must give up the firearms and other weapons which the
Goverionent hail hitherto authorized them to keep.
Olmerve here the contradiction. A favoured few, con-
sidered even by the Goren •nt orderly and respectable
citizens, had enjoyed, by special permission, the privi-
ledge of possessing a fonling-piece or a hunting-knife,
yet now, while informed that public safety is in danger,
they are deprived of ev, ry means of protecting their
persons or property, even in the S. mutest country di,
tracts. The whole island is now agitated by anxiety for
the fate of those brave shdrits who, immdled by the
desire of rescuing their country, have rtedied headlong
into danger. It is rumoured that they are strengthening
themselves in the inountaine and that tmutiibenn are hock-
hug to their stanclard ; but the Government ntaintaiusan
impenetrable silence, and all is no-re conjecture. Memi.
while suspicion, apprehension, hope, and fear are old-
veried ;
Yet, happen what may, it is surely impossible that
Europe will allow sod, a state of things to Continue,
which is a foul blot on the bonded civilizatiou of the
19th century. Men speak of Venice, of It ,of the
Duchies. Are Naples and Sicily less itmortant? Are
our wrongs less flagrant? Are not the 9,000.000 which
form the population of the Two Sicilies occupy the
Attention of the Congress equally with their brethern lit
Northern and Central Italy, or humanity, reason, intelli-
gence to find their houndary at the Truant..? We are
told that the vott . of the people are to horn due weight ;
have not we Sicilians sufficiently expressed oUrs.? Did
we not give a mitlicient tediniony inie earnestness it.
ISIS, in 140, in IS:Si? We cannot believe that Eng-
land, the oath- really free country in ti, weed. s. ill not
after the dreier:dim:A id her Minister., the t Sicily
shall participate in the benefits which the ferthemoieg
con;:reas will ensure for the Italian peninsida. if its
deliberations are to dem; the era of I bile,. revolutions,
the sufferings and the claims of Sicily must no Imaur be
overlooked.