The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-28 00:00:00

BRIGANDS IN THE PAPAL STATES

According to our recent advises from Rome the crime of
brigandage is very rife, but we learn that the government
is making rigorous attempts to repress brigandage on the
road to Naples. Detachments of infantry are now stationed
in huts between Gensano, Velletri, and the Pontine Marshes,
and patrols of gendarmerie keep a sharp look out on all the
hands of peasantry they fall in with. Numerous arrests
have been made, and a circumstance has occurred which
may lead to important revelations. This was the recent
discovery of the body of a brigand tied to a tree in the
forest of La Fajola, with two mortal gunshot wounds. It
was calculated, from the state of the corpse, that the
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one of the band, who, armed with a blunderbuss, was to
have shot the postilion, but, recognising an acquaintance'
in him, failed in his allotted task, and consequently fell a
sacrifice to the vindictive rage of his companions. The
corpse of the brigand was recognised and claimed by his
wife, a woman of Velletri, who stated that on the day pre-
ceding the robbery, he had gone out, saying that he should
be absent for some hours shooting, and requested to have
something ready for him to eat on his return. His wife,
who appears to have been ignorant of the peculiar nature of
the game he was habitually in quest of, not seeing him
come back for two days, became uneasy, and applied to the
police for search to be made after him. By examining the
persons with whom the deceased was in habitual intercourse,
it is hoped that some clue will be afforded for the apprehen-
sion of the surviving members *of the band. A friend of
mine, making an excursion to Velletri last week, was
driven by the identical vetturino, who was assaulted three
weeks ago between Albano and Porto D'Anzio, whilst
conducting a carriage full of monks to the seaside. The
vetturino gave a lively description of the attack, which was
made at the usual solitary part of the forest of Nettuno, by
three brigands with handkerchiefs over their faces like
masks, with holes bat for their eyes. The friars being
almost moneyless (in concordance with their vows of
poverty) and the only other passenger being a poor man
with a bundle of clothes, which was at once confiscated,
the brigands laid their victims face downwards on the road
and proceeded to rifle the driver, but were so indignant at
finding only fifteen pauls about him that they beat him
brutally, and one of the ruffians was about to stab him in
the neck, had the others not prevented him for pity on the
vetturino's wife and four children.

The last accounts state the brigands of Velletri have just
riven a proof of their not having all fallen into the hands of
the gendarmerie, by showing themselves very unexpectedly,
and forming, no doubt, very unwelcome guests amongst a
pic-nic party who were dining in October fashion, in a
vineyard between Gensano and Velletri. Elkington plate
not being in general use as yet in this country, silver forks
and spoons are carried out, even in such excursions as these,
by substantial citizens. In the present instance, they
served as a bait for the brigands, who, with their faces
masked, pounced upon the silver, and left the astounded
ruralisers to conclude their meal with their fingers, a la
Turgue.

SLAVERY IN THE DUTCH COLONIES.—.I letter from the
Hague, of the 22nd, says:—" The commission nominated by
the government to examine the question of the emancipation
of slaves, has just published its second report, which refers
to the Dutch islands in the West Indies, and the establish-
ments on the coast of Guinea. As to the islands, it presents
a scheme of emancipation which is a good deal like that
pz ()posed for Surinam ; and as to the establishments in
Guinea, it advises that emancipation shall not be attempted
in order not to endanger the security of them?!
These narrow minded Clamourers—Professors who repro-
bateby the most respectable part of the Faculty, who do not
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