The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-07 00:00:00

ofthese4)por Neapolitans---for Many a -year; and
:Whose- wealth represents the teariPand the blood
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of their; victims. Yet, great as has been the
prcivocazt4on, there were certain liinits set to the
eieesseS of the Neapolitans; they were
not characterised by that bloodthirstiness
which marked the Sicilians. Many of the
police were were taken and bound, and carried
to the Grand Guard, and there given up to the
military. I have not heard of one case. of theft ;
many portable objects of value were taken to the
commanding officer: of the grand guard, and a
Lazzarone, who had several Watches he had found
in a police-office belonging to Morbillo, threw them
into the fire which was consuming the police papers,
and cried, out " No, no one shall say that I stole
them." As for the gamins from eight years and
upwards, they worked away at breaking up the
stocks of guns and other useless objects. A con_
siderable quantity of powder was found, and in one
case a large quantity, which had been thrown
into the fire, made a terrible explosion. After
the work of destruction various parties, composed
of artisans and Lazzaroni, paraded the streets,
carrying guns, sword-sticks, daggers, and pistols,
most of them the spoils of the police. Just under
my window they fired a shot at one of the Lazza-
roni of this very loyal quarter—not loyal as
being my residence exactly—though without
wounding him. As they went though the
streets they contented themselves with uttering
cries against the police, saying—" What do you
shut your shops for? We shall not rob; we only
wanted to drive off the sbirri." So great, how-
ever, was the fear which prevailed, and so great
the uncertainty as to what these parties might
serve as the nucleus of, that the, city was wisely
put in state of siege before Monday. All the
streets and squares were filled with. cavalry,
infantry, and artillery ; cannon were placed inside
the railings all round the Royal Palace, and so
the constitutional Sovereign began the new poli-
tical era.

The first diplomatic difficulty—that terrible
moment, where' decision must be assumed, and
where delay is no longer possible, which arises
in every knotty question—is come at last, with
tke fact of the nomination of ambassadors
on the part of Garibaldi to' represent the
Provisional Government of Sicily which the
great Captain has established in that country,
without the smallest reference either to
the past domination of Naples, or the future
annexation of Piedmont. The probable reception
of these gentlemen by England and France gives
rise to much speculation. The knotty point must
either be unloosed or cut, and both Governments
are placed in an awkward position either with
regard to their acceptance of the rights of Gari-
baldi, or to that of the prior claims of the envoy
from the King of the Two Sicilies, who still
holds in both countries the .shme. high state and
reverence he has been hitherto accustomed to
maintain. This march of action on the part of
Garibaldi, without the smallest notice or atten-
tion paid to the measures taken by the King of
Naples in the matter of granting a constitution
or seeking an alliance with Sardinia, gives
rise to the deepest conviction of some widely-
spread plod an the part of the Dictator, from
which no extend/ Mitt hits. now power to
turn. him. The_ indifference manifested at
Naples:—concerning the Constitute =is consi-.
dered the worst sign of all. The bon 'mat of the
Prince de Syracuse is repeated with much.gusto.
"Itis,.lfear, too late," said .a diplomate to the
Prince, as he walked up the Strada Toledo, where
some boys were bhwling the printed copy of the
Constitution at a reduced price without meeting
with a single customer ; "1 fear you must fall, do
what you will." "Aye, to be sure," returned the
Prince, "We art well aware of that, only we shall
fall now from the first floor instead of the second:"
The discovery of the tVid letters signed by Poerio,
which have been for sonic time hawking about,
under covet of this very " Constitiition," has
given rise to great unettaiftess, as the old revolu-
tionary tendency is visible in the address to the
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people, which has been distributed in great num-
'Ben 'amongst the lower classes of Naples. ...
I,Ve pnbliskfurther. details respecting the fear-
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.mnrder which •ifkie pbrpetrated at Frome a
few days ago. Despite the exertions of the
police,. the mystery attending this deed of dark-
ness remains unsolved. .The Government have
offered a reward: for:_.the apprehension of the
murderer. •-•

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A conversazi*,in.coviettion with-the Drink-
ing Fountain „Association has been keld at St.
James's Hall. .; it was stated that four hundred
fountains were required, in London to meet the
wants ofllie- population, and that one hundred
had been erected, or were in course of erection.