The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-12 00:00:00

STATE OF NAPLES.

NAPLES, DEC. 5.
I have received a list of the names of those who
were amnestied at the last Council of State on
November 27, though up to the morning of the 2d
December no notice of them had been received nt
the offices of the Minister of Grace and Justice ;
whether, therefore, mercy is suspended I cannot
tell. The names of those fully pardoned are :
Landadio, Passaro, Lettieri, Gogliucci, Rodio,
Riccliutti, two brothers Costs, Oliva, Carfora, Leo-
nardo Porta (a long time in concealment and para-
lytic ; he is a literary man), Maningola, Frischillo,
Dorsa, Degennaro (a prisoner in Montefusco),
Viscione, Sannuzzi.
Punishment commuted to exile from the king-
dom. Leanza (nephew of Lieutenant Colonel
Leanza, who was arrested on the 19th of May,

180, and died in prison on the 10th of August,
1854) and Bonelli, a rich landholder of Barletta.
Contrary to what I stated in my last, these are not
all political prisoners, but intermixed with them
are ordinary criminals. The names are not to be
published in Naples where their antecedents are
Well known, but probably they will be made known
abroad, and as political offenders, thus furnishing
argumetats for the defence of this government, to
those who wise to acquire the character of heroes
in the next session of parliament.
I must return to the subject of the pamphlet
which I quoted in my last letter, as the more I con-
sider it, and the more I hear, the greater insight
it appears to furnish into the sentiments of this
Government both towards England and France.
Written by a Frenchman in Naples, and in the pay
Naples, published first in the Armonia of Turin,
reproduced in Naples in its present form, printed
at the office of the Government journal, and circu-
lated by the police, it may be looked upon as a
document of some authority ; and I quote one
other passage expressive of the feeling entertained
in high place towards the Emperor of the French :
You speak of your anxiety for the tranquillity of Italy and
the repose of Europe, and you have an active censorship,
and you authorise the impression at Paris of a maniii'go
emanating from the revolutionary committee to incite the
Peninsula to insurrection, as you have already permitted
the public sale throughout the whole of France of ignoble
caricatures against the Emperors of Russia and of Austria,
and against the Kings of Prussia and of Naples. You
preach a regime of moderation, and yet Fiance is only
governed by the aid of a severe police, and of an adminis-
trative despotism, a similar instancti of which has never been
seen. You require of the government of the Two Bicilies
an amnesty, and you know perfectly well that a generous
pardon is conceded to all who will ask for it. But you,
what do you do with your innumerable political exiles,
among whom are found illustrious generals, who have no
other fault than that of having gloriously shed their blood
to assure and extend the dominion of France over Africa, or
to save society by combatting in Paris the barbarism of
Socialism ? Have you not, under the name of necessity,
shipped off thousands of Frenchmen, withoat trial, to *a
distant land, devoting them to certain death, under a mur-
derous climate, while the 979 persons condemned in Naples
to irons, to exile, or to prison, have been tried by regular
tribunals, which offered all the guarantees which could be
desired.
Whatever may be thought as to the justice of
the remarks, the prudence is very, very doubtful ;
they indicate a strong animus against both France
and her ally, and would lead only to infer that
there is little hope that the Government will make
those concessions which are necessary to conciliate
the foreigner, and to content and tranquillise the
nation.

I regret to say that the obtinate resistance to
advice, and the refusal to admit any changes in
the Government, have produced their necessary
consequences in Sicily. I have not later news
than that which I have already communicated to
you, but fuller news of the same date I have re•
ceived. Everything tended to show that it was a
guerilla warfare which was entered upon, for
reports have been unable to fix upon any one place
as the site of the disturbance—many being menu
tioned. The plan seems to be to take possession
of the money of the Communes, leaving a receipt
for the amount. I shall now give you such reports
as have been brought to me :—" By the steamer of
Sunday," says one, "it is known that the colonna
bobile of the 7th battalion of Chasseurs, and half
a squadron of cavalry are now at Villaprati, Nkiths
out having been able to effect any operation. The
armed bands increase and run through the Come
munes without shedding blood, and distributing
tricoloured cokades.
The police of Palermo have made numerous
arrests of persons of all ranks During the night
patrols of troops, of gendarmes, and of police
agentS traverse the suburbs, questioning all whom
they meet. The city is tranquil ; the theatres are
open and frequented." "On the 28th November
800 soldiers were sent from Palermo by sea ; the
Chasseurs had previously been sent by land " "At
Palermo some discontent had been created by the
refusal on the part of the Bank to receive some
silver, and a proprietor called Bencivenga and a
distinguished advocate called Da Marco had left
Palermo and gone to Mem)jussa, about 2,) miles
distant, where they began a movement." The Baron
Aceto, of whom I spoke in my last, is well
known in Palermo for his passion for English
horses and carriages. He was amnestied, I believe,
two or three months since, and is a proof in his
own person of the truth of what I have always
stated, that an amnesty without justice is fraught
with danger; the amnestied will become nuclei of
revolution unless the necessary . changes and
ref )rms are introduced. I now quote letters from
military men, or from members of their families :
—" All the families of the officers have left or are
leaving. I am thinking of doing the same, and
shall leave for Naples, with my father, by tho first
steamer." A military man writes, " Now that I
am writing to you the first battalion of the 9th
Chasseurs is leaving, and the first battalion of
the line for Palermo. The Bth Regiment has left
Girgenti, and perhaps also the 13th of the line.
The fleet is about to leave. From some other
point I will write to you." The fact appears to be,
that certain emigrants have disembarked in Sicily,
and have formed guerilla bands. A report circu-
lates that some English vessels of war are off
Sicily, and that the Sannita, Neapolitan Govern-
ment steamer, was to havo left on Tuesday morn-
ing for Palermo, but was put off. Ido not, how-
ever, place any confidence in the report, and with
regard to the Sicilian movement I do not venture
to say anything more than what is contained in the
reports and extracts I have given you above.
His Majesty is still in Naples, which is perfectly
tranquil. The streets, however, are infested with
gendarmes and agents of police. The same system
continues to be persevered in which I have had
occasion to praise several times, under the mild
rule of Comendatore Bianchini, but from all I can
gather, his influence extends but little beyond the
capital, and the usual excesses are committed in
the provinces.
Since beginning my letter, I have heard that, with
the exception of Porta, Marinjola, Frischillo, Dorsa,
and Degennaro, the prisoners ordered for release
have been given up by the military power, and are
passed into the hands of .the Prefect of Police.
The Royal rescripts ordering their release ,were
received in the Grand Criminal Court on Wednesday
morning ; the preamble in each case is, " Accord-
ing to the demand made by Signor —, His
Majesty accords," &c. There is, therefore, nothing
voluntary about the pardons—they must be de-
manded. There must be an understood admission
of guilt, and with this stain upon them they are
liable at any time to be molested by the police.
The Government steamers in port have orders to
hold themselves in readiness at two hours' notice,
and are all coaled and provisioned. Of the pamphlet
which I have quoted above, and the history of which
I have give you I believe to be perfectly true,
4,000 copies have been printed. The French
steamer, due last Sunday, from Marseilles, has not
yet arrived (December 5), having been compelled
to put into Nice, in consequence of some damage
to the machinery. We are therefore without news
or letters from the north for upwards of a week.
The weather has been most tempestuous, though
I cannot help saying that the Neapolitan boats
enjoy hero a higher reputation than the French
boats for machinery and speed.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, DEC. g.

As this is the Festival of the Immaculate Con-
ception, and yesterday was Sunday, all non-official
Austrian politicians are fated to be kept during
eight and-forty hours in total ignorance of what is
passing in the world.
It has long been rumoured in the city that many
Roman Catholics intend to join the Protestant
Church, but no perfectly reliable information
could be obtained on the subject until now. The
applications made to the superintendents of the
Augsburg and Helvetic (Lutheran and Calvinist)
Confessions for information and for religious in-
struction are so numerous, " that they literally do
not know which way to turn." The intense
disgust caused by the new marriage laws is the
principal reason why so many persons desire to
secede from the Roman Church- Some days ago,
when mention was made of the insecure state of

the high roads in Hungary, it was suggested that
the two regiments of gensdarmes now quartered in
Styria, the Tyrol, and Austria Proper, might do
good service if sent to the other side of the Leytha
—the river which forms the frontier between Lower
Austria and Hungary ; but a person who is excel-
lent authority on such matters informs me that
the regiments in question would be of little or no
service " as gensdarmes' in Hungary, as the men
do not understand the language of the country.
The statesman who will represent the Porte in
the Commission for settling the affairs of the Das
nubian Principalities, is Achtnet Vefik Pasha, who
is universally acknowledged to be one of the most
talented men in Turkey. " Achmet Vefik's charac-
ter," says a per Son who resided in Constantinople,
"is as pure as driven snow, but the man is stern
and unbending, and consequently, a favourite
neither in the Seraglio nor in the hotel of the
British Embassy." Both Turks and Greeks have
frequently assured me that Achmet Vefilt Pasha
is almost the only strictly honest statesman in
Turkey.
It was the Persian Minister, Ferule Khan, who
gave the news of the fall of Herat, to M. de Thou-
venel, but its correctness is some what doubted at
Constantinople.

SPAIN.

The Madrid papers of the 6th do not contain a
line of political intelligence.
The Bishops of Cadiz and Majorca had addressed
the Queen, thanking her for having done so much
towards reestablishing harmony and concord be-
tween Spain and the Head of the Catholic Church
at Rome.
The Clamor 13 ablice asserts that the amount
appropriated by the present Government since
their advent to power as " extraordinary credit
funds" is as much as 225,732,622 reals. The Epoca
thinks this total an exaggeration of the truth, as
the addition to the army cannot have cost the sum
set down for it, viz., 160,000,000, though it will do
so this next year if a force of 140,000 men is to be
maintained as lately decreed,