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London, England, 1863-12-05 00:00:00

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NAPLES, Nov. 21, Trt, r)
Let me tell you a little anecdote by which you will' ti-4a
mate the amount of Neapolitan sympathy for anythit ig
which is Piedmontese, when it is not prepared.beforehan 1
by administrative prudence. On the 30th October Prinoo
llumber, his brother, and his uncle, went to the Floren-
tine
Theatre. On their arrival the orchestra played tho
Royal anthem, and a little sensation was elicited, Between
the first and second acts the audience turbulently demanded.
Garibaldi's; hymn, which is forbidden; the orchestra imme-
diately played some other air, hoping to avert the storm.
All in vain ; hisses, shouts, vociferations, . and the coarsest
expressions drowned their music, and were found irrepres-
sible. The Princes thought it prudent to withdraw them-
selves, and then only did the tempest of exclamations cease
to rage.

Here, no day passes without some encounter, gcverally
on political grounds, which results in mauv wound 01 and
some killed. The Pungolo of the 9d inst., an utter Ilinis-
eri a I journal,
informs us that, in conformity with A.q. 5
of the Pica law, several persons have been mit:ark:A, in
oraer to be sent to the islands in the gulf. In the naum
of this Pica law
t
persons are exiled from the capital,.
though it i:. situated in a province which does not come
under the provisions of this exceptional statute, but what
matters? The Piedniontt:se Government does not stop at
such trifiec !Ir. Layard and Mr. Cowper will find out,
nevertheless, that here all is best in this best of all possible

worlds.
In the provinces the arrests aro even more ntunerous
than before, especially among the Bourbonists, but it is
only fair to add that all are taken alike, the Bourbonists,
Garibaldians, and Mazzinists. Colour no longer counts. It
is no longer a question of political opinions, but of private
usage, interest, and antipathies.
Ia the Casano Mute and Benevento districts 30 persons
have lately been arrested on a charge of connivance with
the brigands. Others, warned in time, have escaped, and
have joined the band of the Pietragallesi.
From Catanzaro, we hear that a residence in the pro-
vince, even in the principal towns, has become impossible.
If one has the goad luck to escape the brigands, it is only
to fall into the grip at...the Government, Monaco has found
Imitators and supporters. The bands of Strataca, of Dome-
nico, of Sacchetiello, of Palma, of Parfundi, are
much
talked of, as well as several others, who have not yet had
time to become famous. The province of Terra D' Otranto
is one of the 13 which are of right in a state of siege, but
until last week few arrests were made there. Sixty-four
persons were arrested at one time in the .three little tow
of Castellamtta, Martina, and Gallipoli-50 of the most not-'
able inhabitants of the country were put in prison. Brigan-
dage and arrests march side by side in Foggia, Lucerne.
A vellino, and even the Terrra di Lavore, where for the few
past
he
months little had been heard of pillage and reaction.
triumph Pielmontese triumph all along the line, and their
increases the hatred excited by everything Pied-
montese. In the Basilicata, and especially in Malfii, the
xe of the authorities know really no bounds, thanks
to the humanity of M. Mere, the Minister of Police. At
Venosa, M. Guglielmi, the Chief of the Police, had deter-
mined to ruin
a man
he was
rich, named Ruggieri, but his adversary
was not as powerful as
and the second quail-
cation is indispensable to the attainment of justice here.
M. Ruggieri cleared himself, and from being accused het
became accuser. The counsel of war condemned the public.
functionary, Guglielimi, to what
do you think ? At the
most, to dismissal from his
post
forl
three
Not at all, but to the
galleys for life! Nevertheless,years, the life and
property of the citizens had been confidedto such hands,
conferred on
s the 17th
and all the others are about as:worthy, From
ed
Sept, to the 26th Oct., in virtue of the power
the Government on the law of brigandage they haveo fe r
formed
several corps in the Neapolitan provinces, to be sent el
pursuit of the brigands. Many new bands are in process of
formation, especially in the Basilicata. A correspondent
writes to me frem Gallipoli, in the province of Leece :
" Here, as throughout the whole of the provinces, secret
lists are made of the inspected persons. in pursuance of
the Pica law, familiarly known here as the "Act for tho
negation of all liberty." Party spirit, family discords, per-
sonal vengeance, anonymous denunciations—these are the
order of the day, so that arrests are multiplied all along the
line. One town offers a melancholy spectacle, indeed. From
every point came groups of people, led in under guards of
gen.sd'armes, arzested. under the Pica law—that is, accused
of being suspected. Everywhere the prisons are full to
overflowing. In that of Ruffen° several prisoners narrowly
escaped suffocation, owing to the immense numbers of per-
sons crowded together having utterly vitiated the sir. A
little longer perseverance in this plan, and the Piedmon-
teso will have imprisoned every honest man in the two

Sicilies."
M, Massari, in his report upon brigandage, exults in the
fortunate results of the levy of 1862. Nevertheless, the
Chamber was obliged to vote a law for sending to the mili-
tary tribunals not only those who resisted the levy for mili-
tary service, bnt such persons as lent any support or, aid to
that resistance. The discussion took place amid great op-
position, It was contended that the offences of citizens
should only be referred to their natural judges. But all
•was in vain, the law was passed, the law is in action, and
God only knows with what violence it is enforced. Never-
theless, the refractories and the Lrfc,rands increase in num-
ber every day. In Sicily especially, where formerly the
conscription did not exist, refractories and deserts may be
counted by thousands.
You already know the measures adopted to prevent the
escape of the refractories. The towns are in blockade, no
one, no matter whom, is permitted to go out, even in cases
of absolute need, to fetch food, water, or any necessary of
life. In certain places in Sicily they allowed the sulphur to
be burnt, and on a complaint being made to the military
authorities those implicated were flogged with horsewhips.
The Terrenwto has already published some documents re-
lative to a conflict of this kind in the town of Favara. At
the commencement, these measures had some succ
swell
ranks of brigandage.
At Palermo, the results are small. A proclamation by
the military Government obliges the citizens to procure a
certificate of birth, which must always be ready to be exhi-
bited on the smallest requisition, if they do not wish to ex-
pose themselves to imprisonment as refractories; and the
administration is so ignorant of facts that it is not uncom-
mon to see a wan of 30 arrested and called upon to exhibit
his son of 20, a bachelor, because his son is a refractory,
so. The Sicilian journals state that several' names of
women have been found included in the lists atateaccohmedpitioc.
accomplices—
fathers, official notes relative to the refractories. Such is the accu-
racy with which the business is done I InaThweordde,puthve
lister of War on
prison, swarm with refractories and
gmtihrilnes
have (said he) such a
tfi v
lila t het n eelrrssvi, i
noftcomplainedmothers,u
sus t , relatives,B6o3f.th i,
~ j
Nyoungirtoethe
large number of individuals imprisoned and condemned for
tehorsree
irmespislotarnectehetomtihneiscteornstcorispotlijoenit,
tthheatl
indulgencethink it
of
my
h dutySing
intgo
prisons." But to these just remonstrances for these unhappy persons, who aarnecesrothtteina
(Another
Ba 4)
answered, " If, by using
ties as unjust and cruel, guthinorittihese
re-
sults, what would happen
Correspondence.)
sncwelieh you stigma-
ve cannot obtain any just
if we showed any indulgence?"
Amu (CALIE t 20th November, 1863,—What shall
I say to you of our
to despair. No
one poor country ? It is a prey to disgust,
surrounded on all
sides
any longer live in safety. We are
of our houses withoutesbebiny
gblraiEntadws.ithlarVe canlnikot
walking;
rkiong
out
auyn
.).
arsenals,e
erg- -
, its torpor would lead that it '
us to suppose is
as destitute of material as of moral force. No expedition is
undertaken •
en against the brigands; they do not even give
themselves the trouble to try and surprise the enemy by
ambuscades. The band of Pierre Monaco continue to
ravage the country. The wretched families of the persons
whom they have captured have sent 20,000 ducats to ran-
-1 som these unfortunate creatures, but the brigands have re-
fused to take anything less than the sum they at first de-
manded, 50,000 ducats (213,000 francs). This band is not
the only one—now ones start up day by day. It is frightful;
for we Calabrians know too well what brigandage inearll
here. We are none the less crushed under the batten °
taxes which we have no means of paying. The small Pr: ;
prietors are making next to nothing out of their
i:etin'ture
cannot procure labourers, because the timid will no to min.
out of the limits of the towns, and the others go °'
force the brigand bands.

(FrOM the
-fli.-
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CIRTA
chancellor has
Law Times of to-day).—The Loretion
completed his scheme for the reconsbetril of the Circuits.
nutaerous, and will
It is said that the changes will lotitout Circuits. York-
be limited to the Northern and a_u4 to the Middle Circuit,
wskiitrhe
Leeds
ddDs
aurshanamasasriezetoto.b..evi. add I Warwick and North-
n; Norfolk Circuit, Thcse
ampton are to be united
„„ but wo trust they will not end
are manifest imPr"vera—dono for the overburdened Home
here. Is nothing tov
beeitowing courts at Westminster and
Circuit and for the 0
not the obvious improvement adopted,
1 ids
nee d
in the City ?
WhYd'l'strict coextensive with the Central
of
a Nisi Prins
eitting with it every ;
sa weeks, as the
-Criminal Coucr
ourt for the despatch of metropolitan
Metropolitsnb.
this,. 8 done, alt ether difficulties would
diesppear;
business lchanges areof •
other
without
cannot be permanent; f.,r to this must
and ca we come
worth' later. It would be for c b •
sooner cr very Jtly if the scheme
were
complete that then wc IN Lc no need for further
hango so
T
,: vi
for a century to come.c.lw professional arrange-
ments necessnrily consclamt upon these alterations ate not
yet known. It is saift that the counsel at present upon
either of the atruilgamatetl circuits are to be permitted to
attend all or any of the at-,,,izes on both circuits. But this
will be often impracticable and always inconvenient, so
that in practice a choice will soon be made and each circuit
will possess its own. bar. It will be awkward for some of
the leaders to be put to choose between their clients ; it
will be equally awkward for others to find leaders from
other circuits stepping over their heeds, and possibly
winning the business they had obtained by the process of
living into it. How theso aitliculties will be met is a pro-
blem of which we have herd no solution.