The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-01 00:00:00

ITALY .

Letters from Turin state that the reopening of the
Sardinian parliament is delayed by the emigrant
difficulty, the gusernment desiring to arrange the
sequestration dispute with Austria before exposing
itself to discussion.

' The Marquis de Panipara has been replaced in the
intendance of the civil list of Piedmont by M. de
Martini, in consequence of his having written uncoa-
stitutional articles in the Turin journal the Pistria.
Mr. James Hudson, British minister plenipoten-
tiary to the court of Florence, arrived at Genoa on
the 25th from Turin.

POLITICAL ARRESTS IN NAPLES AND
SICILY.
NAPLES, MAIICII 18.
Tho state of southern Italy at the present moment
is far more alarming than at any other period since
the reaction. During the last few days some
hundreds of persons have been arrested ; the students
have been ordered to quit the city of Naples within
a fow hours, and others are obliged to present
themselves
,before the police every morning.
Some of the most eminent lawyers of Naples are
amongst those arrested. The same events are taking
p!ace in the provinces, where persons are dying of
hunger. Indeed, the distress throughout the country
is something unparalleled.
The police in Naples commit daily the most irri•
tating acts of cruelty and injustice. The govern-
ment, supported by 100,000 bayonets, trembles at the
form of a hater the fashion of a beard. The police prowl
about on the look-out for the round broad-brimmed

hate, known in England, I believe, as the
They snatch them off the heads of the
wearers and tear them to pieces. The hatters' shops II
have been rifled, and their property confiscated. " I
offered," said a hatter to me the other day, "to
fashion my hats to any form which the government
might think proper to legalise; but nothing would
do; they took away my property, and I have no re-
dress." History must solemnly record a new war
this year—the battles of the " wide-awakes." The
beards, too, are equally alarming to the government.
A little hair on the chin will cause a man to be
dragged into a barber's shop by a sworded policeman,
and then shaved according to the orders of this official.
I have seen two or three gentlemen thus treated.
Others, who have resisted, are in prison. Neapoli-
tans are now treated by the government like French
dogs—shaved according to whim. The chief agents
employed to carry out this irritating folly are a man
of the name of the name of Campagnia and a certain
Duke Morbillo, each known for " attachment to the
cause of order." " Why all this?" is the question I
hear in everyone's mouth. There is no idea of a
revolution. The Neapolitans are perfectly aware
that they must suffer until the whole of Europe rises
to shake off the reactionary governments. It would
appear that the authorities fancy by intimidation to
make the people contented with dishonest and illegal
government.
It is generally understood here that Austria has
suggested this mode of frightening the people. The
police say that Mszaini's friends are unusually active
just now, but nothing has been discovered. The fact
is, guilty governments, like guilty minds, are subject
to ugly visions. The prisons are now so crowded
that it has been found necessary to remove some of
the old occupants to the islands, to make room for the
new victims. His Majesty has retired to Caserta, to
avoid, it is said, the public ceremonies of the Holy
Week.

Accounts from Sicily are very distressing. Arrests
continue throughout the island. More than three
hundred have been taken up in Palermo, including
some persons of title and distinction. It is said a
conspiracy was discovered a few days since to kill
the Lord Lieutenant, Prinoe Satriano. Many priests
are amongst the accused of this plot. But despotic
governments now are so much in the habit of invent-
ing conspiracies and distributing revolutionary papers
for the purposes of imprisoning their dupes, that it
is difficult to believe in any official reports of this
sort. The whole island is again throw into excite-
ment. No one is safe. There, too, the beard-and-
hat war goes on. Ths Sicilians have met the beard
11 difficulty by shaving all hair from their faces, which
it
.a_ppsars is equally offensive to the government.
These events are a pretty clear illustration that
the boasted " strong government of the Two Sicilies"
is only strong in cruelty and folly. The so-called
Swiss corps are rapidly augmenting. Every day
brings some thirty scamps to Naples, picked up by
the Neapolitan recruiting officers on the Swiss
frontier. Orders are given to Deed as many as can
be bought, which indicates little reliance on the Nea-
politan troops.
Yon will see it has been stated that Mazzini lately
visited Naples in a British war steamer. I believe
there is no truth whatever in the assertion. It
suitsthe government here to say because we
do not countenance a system of rule which
has destroyed all respect for monarchy in Italy,
that we encourage revolution. The moat ab-
surd reports are circulated accordingly. Just now,
too, the presence of Lord Palmerston and Mr. Glad-
stone in the British cabinet, keeps the government
here in • state of alarm. Not to countenance
iniquity with some men is a great crime.