The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-29 00:00:00

THE TWO SICILIES

NAPLES, JAN. 16.
At 4
12th o'clock i,4 the afternoon of Monday, the
and, the King left A.
slfty es 1 for Caserta. So sudden
.
event, that not even the
to nexPectecl was ti:e
p4prtlabrothers knew of ti.,‘Qe Kings. intentions, and
to "inns had been made the
palace for the
Yal din
ner. Accompanied a‘ strong body of
(I'dieiY' his Majesty left the e not by the
Itha'arY route. and instead of takin: the railway,
toal Always been the custom, pursut..,d the nigh
take a carriage and four. Fear seems t01..ne„..,
fire ill Possession of the King's mind. He 17'
by sstlY Bea and fire by land ; he refuses to trh vel
1"v0-,;e11,4), and gas fills him with apprehension.
or since the act of Angesilao Milano, the spit it
plafligeanee seems to have occupied the highest
ti;);" in the land, and instead of acting as a cau-
Rr' 1,:,473-(1 a lesson, that act has rather urged on the
lie,l,r,nrnent in its career of madness Offensive
aetVials have been invented against the English,
tv,t,ll reactiopary police has been carrying (Alt a
I{lloll4 of persecution such as was scarcely ever
aenTh'in before even in Naples. In order to give the'
nloe-ttallee of a justification to these excesses, the
absurd reports have been put about that
tnz44ll had been in Naples, and had had an
eft' -,rview in the Cafe Europa with a British
Teo' er ; that the liberals were contemplating some
eons on the 12th; that mines were in the
the of • preparation beneath the Palace and
4e„,"`eledo, so that in every public office a certain
4rt,Tre,,e of terror was introduced. All these evils
course referable to the bad government,
inspires neither respect nor confidence.,
itioe'l2:ennmenta formerly made by night and in
ntily,;" are now made openly and in greater
.(7:3(''Fs. In a moment, as it were, the. police
li;S-Ived new and violent orders--large patrols of
s,rre4,endartnes surrounded the principal cafes,
to,, the inmates, and led them off bound
llt'eN,--er like thieves to the Vivaria. On arriving
here rigorously examined, and not liberated
110,7.,Ve. next day, some of them then only after
atlyl;','; etgned an obligation not to frequent cafes
Ille;:ore• The arrests still continue, and to use
fitelii°t(ls of many a -Neapolitan, no head of a
IN 137 feels certain of returning to the home
ttniv lie left in the morning. Need I say that an
the ,-1".1 panic has seized upon the people, and to
lan
c-aturai uaiety has succeeded a sadness, which
A„,,,er ne who has known Naples can fail to remark.
svho-*°ngst those who have been arrested are many
We recently liberated, and of these may be

mentioned the name of Giuseppe Avitabile, who
was under trial in the political persecutions of last
summer. Such is the termination of the hopes
credulously built upon the promises of those who
have long been carrying on a system of deception;
but those who know this country have always
.predicted that.nothing honest or good would ever
be initiated by the existing Government of Naples ;
that delays would be made, causes of irritation
continually introduced, and excuses found for
doing nothing.

Amongst other annoyances practised again, may
be counted the tampering with the beard and the
wide-awake. Several cases have occurred lately,
and in order to avoid persecution many have
already begun to make a clean face of it. None of
those follies are, I • believe to be attributed to
Bianchini, who has, it is understood, tendered
his resignation, although his Majesty declined
to accpt it; but rather to Governo, the Prefect of
Police, who is again an instrument in the hands'of
others. People are represented as going to Bian-
chini, the Minister of Police, and interceding for
their friends and yelatives under arrest, and re-
ceiving for an answer that he knows nothing about.
the facts. They have been executed by his subal-
tern, the Prefect, who of course has his orders, and
is guaranteed for hiS insubordination. It is, how-
ever, a tale a hundred times told. There are wheels
within wheels here ; everything is marked by
intrigue and dishonesty. The men mentioned as
the successors of Bianchini were Nunziante and
Ajoss, Intendente of Salerno ; but the change is
not to take place yet. Bianchini's name is still of
use, for he is a gentleman and a man of education.
Considerable apprehension exists in. the city of
an outbreak, though I‘do not myself anticipate
anything of the kind. The apprehension, is, how-
ever, not ill:natural, for never had a civilised people
so ►many provocatives to anger and vengeance.
Good authorities tell me that Naples has been
placed under three different commands, one of
which is that ;of General Lanza—an arrangement
not deemed a wise one in case of any disturbance,
as there would be a difficulty in agreeing upon
unity of action.

BRIGANDAGE IN THESSALY.

SMYRNA, JAN. 17.

I received yesterday the following letter from
Vole, which I translate literally from the Greek :
" According to your, wishes I give you some
information of how things are going on in Thessaly.
The Wallach shepherds me
.now allowed by the
governor of Thessaly, Housum Paella, to bear arms
and go in pursuit of the brigands, who are absolutely
eating us up. The chief of the banditti, Mitro
Klimake, and one of his eempanions, who for a
long time roved about Thrace, and whom the
government found it a very difficult matter to lay
hold of, were strangled eight days ago by the
Wallach shepherds, near- a spot called Clima, in
the following manner. The shepherds during the
day gathered together many clubs of wood, as
though for fires,.and scattered them about the fold,
where they
.sat waiting for the robbers. Shortly
after nightfall the banditti came to the fold to
cook their supper and to rest. The shepherds
were four ; two of them, covered with their
espotes, feigned sleep, whilst the othor'tcvo began
chatting with the robbers near.. the fire. After
a little while two of the - shepherds, still talking,
with perfect sang froid, rose, and began walking
carelesSly about, when the preconCerted signal
being given, they each seized .a club, and irnocked
Mitro and his companion on the head. The Shep-
herds wire we:e affecting sleep, then sprang up
and strangled the two robbers • immediately, while
the other two went in pursuit of a third •robber, a
notorious character named Page, who however, got
off. Four days since the Wallach shepherds met
again with another band, that of Kastana and •
Kodona, composed of eight persons, attacked
them, and killed Kastana, his two brothers, and
three others, and sent Kodona to Larissa to be put
in chains. - The prudence and vigilance of Housum
Pacha are
.very praiseworthy. Only a few weeks
ago he went himself into Aibanie, near where a
band of batween 30 and 40 brigands bad been
ravaging the country for many years ; this band
he succeeded in breaking up, and capturing the
leaders whoM he -sent to prison at Jannina. On his
return to Vole he saw that the only means of
destroying these Palikars was to let the Wallach
shepherds loose at - them, and it is by their
assistance that the recent captures have. been
effected.. Housum Pacha is at Almiro, making
inquiries about another band supposed to number
some forty strong. This band was first discovered
by a Wallach shepherd, who gave information to
to the Muddir of Almiro. The Muddir took the
Dervin Agha and about 50 Albanese, Christians,
and Turks, and proceeding to the spot indicated
found the robbers tending; their goats. Oa observ-
ing them the bandits speedily ranged themselves
in -two parallel lines; and levelled their guns at
their invaders; away ran all the Albanese at the
first symptoms of resistance, but the Muddir and
the rest of his band rushed on the robbers.
Unhappily the robbers were more numerous and
better armed than their assailants, so that the
Muddies party was routed, himself severely
wounded, and two Christians killed, besides some
Turks. The robbers got off, leaving no traces of
having suffered at all in the encounter. It appears
that the robbers have an understanding with the
Albanese, which would account for their decamping
as above; at all events -the Muddir is of that
opinion, for he has arrested their Derven Agha end
put him in irons. This is all well enough, and we
shall feel the benefit by and bye; but the robber
hordes are numerous and active, and their influence
-over the country people is so strong that it will be
long before even Housum Pasha will be able to
make his laws good."

SPAIN.

MADRID, MONDAY.

The Queen has entered on a state of convales•
cence. The Gazette publishes a decree ordering
that the general election of deputies shall com-
mence on the 25th of March.

The Novedades announces that M. Miguel Ors y
Garcia,- a gentleman well known for his - liberal
opinions, has been arrested at Madrid. The cause
is unknown. M. Ors y Garcia .being ill in bed, a
sentry is placed in his room to maintain the arrest:

THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

MARSEILLES, TUESDAY.

The mails from India and China arrived by the
Valetta at noon, and will be despatched for London
at 10 this evenlYng.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INDIA AND CHINA.---The
P. and 0. Steam Navigation Company has avowed the
intention of running steamers between Bombay and Hpng
Kong, with branch steamers to Shinghai, in correspondence
with the departures of the 20th of the month from
Southampton outwards, and of 9 h of the month from
Calcutta homewards. This extra service will commence
with the steamer leaving Southampton on the 20th March:

NICETIES OF FRENCH LAW.—Rather a curious trial has
just takes place in the Paris law courts. It appears that on
the Bth of March, 1856, as the servants of the Cirque
NE poleon were cleaning the chandelier suspended over the
circus of that theatre, the chain supporting it broke, and
the chandelier fill into the arena. A rider of the establish-
ment, a M. Baucher, who was standing:near, was much
irjured. Thereupon M. Dejean, manager of the Cirque
Napoleon, brought his action against M. Dufour, who had
supplied the chandelier, and laid his damages at 10,000 f
M. Dufour, upon hearing this. brought his action against a
M. Piot, as having supplied him the crank by which the
chandelier was moved up and down, and to the faibira of
which the accident was attributable. In the midst of this
cross legal firing, it was scarcely to be expected that the shots
should not take an unexpected turn. The tribunal, after
listening attentively to the whole case, decided that the
accident had arisen from the alteration made to the machi-
nery of the chandelier by the manager himself. Messrs.
Piot and Dufour thus got clear out of the matter, and M.
Dejean is forced to pay costs, and has the broken chandelier
on his hands,