The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-26 00:00:00

THE TWO BICILLES.

(YROX OM OWN

NAPLES, JoLt 19.

There are so many elements of dieouragement in
existence in this country that I regard the possibility
of its righting itself almost as an idle dream. Many
years of corruption in the various branches of the
administration which were the rewards of a party,
and many years of pupilage, or, to coin a term, of
infantsge under the absolute despotism of Ferdi-
nand ll.,'have so degraded and enfeebled the nation
that it is almost incapable of an effort.. To how low
a state the country is reduced may be inferred from
the fact that Filangieri is looked upon as the only
man who is equal to the present emergency. And
in fact he is the only person who has any communi-
cation with the King, that is of the legal advieers
of the King, for I know that there are
some of the ministers who have merely
seen hie Majesty to kiss hands on their
appointment, and have then withdrawn into the
purlieus of their offices. It is objected to Filangieri
that he does nothing. Yet, to tell the truth, Ido
not see how in the present moment he is to do any-
thing; there is so much internal agitation, the fruits
of the blessed government of the late King,that every
effort is needed to maintain public order. A govern-
meet which is on the defensive can do nothing. At
the beginning of the reign, I believe, much might
have been done to conciliate the public mind and to
allay agitation, but the golden opportunity has been
lost. Filangieri was installed in power by the battle
of Magenta; but once in power, everything has been
done to thwart him. The CatiLirilla are too strong
for him, and until he has ousted Govern, the Prefect
of Police, and such men as Nunziante, Sengerino,
Agostino, and other., from surrounding the person of
the King, he will not have the power,even scarcely the
will, to do anything.. At present, I repeat, he is en-
gaged in maintaining public order, which he is IT.
solved upon doing, though equally resolved on
avoiding the character of a re-actionist. The
Swim are a great difficulty for him, for though many
have leg the country, and the " Vesnrino" and the
" Mongibello" have been taken up by the government
to carry off other,, those who remain are always the
source of disquietude. Their discipline is broken,
their prestige is gone, and they know it ; hence they
can no longer be depended upon, and may at any
moment give rise to great difficulties and even
popular movement.. Those who remain are thus
distributed—the let Regiment is in Palermo ; those
who remain of the 2nd and 3rd Regiments have best
sent to Nocers, on the road to Salerno • the 4th are
in the Barracks of Sr. Polito, and will not leave
them, though the government had desired to send
them out of the city; the Swiss, who were in St.
Elmo, are in the barrack" of Meddsline, on the road to
Portici. All places of public trust are taken out of
their hands, so that distrusted and degraded u they
evidently are, their service must be now odious to
them, and the probability is that they will be as
anxious to lease as the government will be to send
them off. The article in the official journal which
speaks of the emote and applies harsh terms to the
revolters has awakened a very bad spirit amongst the
Swiss, inasmuch as the motives of the emeute are
concealed. There is a general expectation and a
general wish that the Federal Council will send a
commissary to inquire into all the circumstances of
the ease, and such an investigation is due both to its
own honour and to that of the Swiss authorities in
Naples, whether civil or military.
It is remarkable how any report of nominee
amongst these troops is responded to by that large
class of royalist. called the Ls zzaroni,whoare panting
for a pillage. I believe, however, that ample wasp
sates are taken for the repression of all disorder.
Cannon ere sometimes in the streets, and night
patrols are sent out as a system, and if a pillage were
attempted there is no resson to doubt that Filen-
gieri would put it down with as much promptitude
as he did the emente of the Swiss.
As I expected and prophesied, some of the Sicilians
who were amnestied by a decree of last month, have
refused to return, at least those who are in Pied-
mont; and, moreover, they have signed their names
to a document stating that so long as the actual
system continues, which offers no guarantees, they
will absent themselves from their country. How out
they return while arrests are the order of the day P
Far the first time since 1848 a journal has beim ,
sold in the street., but by order and in the interest'
of the government. Half a sheet of note or letter
paper is called L'Annunziatore; a Political, Scien-
tific, Literary, Artistic, and Comic /cereal. It
contains two articles—one being the Peace Despatch
from Paris; the other the Decree of the 18th of
June, permitting the return of the exiled Sicilians.
A notice at the end says, L'Annunziatore will re-
appear when it thinks proper.
The official journal for two or three evenings last
week unmixed long articles on the funereal cere-
monies offered to the remains of the immortal King
Ferdinand 11. _ _

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The programme of the public entry of hie Majesty
into Naples has been drawn up and presented to the
Bing for his approval. It will take place, I believe,
some time next week.