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

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THE STATE OP NAPLEg..
The Memorial Mplontatique publishe#446l4,_
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NAPLES, N0v..1 "
Let me tell you a little anecdote by which you wg
ping
mate the amount of Neapolitan sympathy for anyt in
which is Piedmontese, when it is not prepared beforeh and
by administrative prudence. On the 30th October Prit re°
Humber, his brother, and his uncle, went to the Florar. -
tine Theatre. On their arrival the orchestra played the
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, vcciferations, 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, generally
on political grounds, which results in many wounded and.
some killed. The Fungolo of the 2cl inst ,at utter Minis-
terial journal, informs us that, in conforMitv with Att. 5
of the Pica law, several persona hove been emearked,
crier to be sent to the islands in the gulf-. In the name
of this Pica law persons aro exiled from the capital,
though it is situated in a province which does not come
under the provisions of this exceptional statute, but what
matters? The Piedmontese Government does not stop at
such trifles, Mr. 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 are even more numerous
than before, especially among the Bourbonists, but it is
only fair to add that all are taken alike, the Bourbonists,
Garibaldians, and Mazziaists. Colour no longer counts. It
is no longer a question of political opinions, but of privato
usage, interest, and antipathies.
In the Camino Muto and Benevento districts 30 persona
have lately been arrested on a charge of connivance with
the brigands. Others, wanted 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 good luck to escape the brigands, it is only
to fall into the grip of the Government, Monaco has found.
imitators and supporters. The bands of Stritana, 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'Otrante
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 towns,
of Castellanqtta, 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,
Avellino, and even the Terrra di Lavore, where for the few
past months little had been heard of pillage and reaction.
The Piedmontese triumph all along the line, and their
triumph increases the hatred excited by everything Pied-
montese. In the Basilicata, and especially in Malfli, the
excesses of the authorities know really no bounds, thanks
to the humanity of M. Solera, the Minister of Police. At
Venosa, M. Guglielrai, the Chief of the Police, had deter-
mined to ruin a man named Ruggieri, but his adversary
was not as powerful as ho was rich, and the second 4uali-
cation is indispensable to the wtaintoent of justice here.
M. Ruggieri cleared himself, and from being accused he
became accuser. The counsel of war condemned the public
functionary, Guglielimi, to what do you think ? At tho
most, to dismissal from his post I Not at all, but to the
galleys for life! Nevertheless, for three years, the life and
property of the citizens had been confided to such hands,
and all the others are about as worthy. From the 17th
Sept, to the 26th Oct., in virtue of the powers conferred on
the Government on the law of brigandage they have formed
several corps in the Neapolitan provinces, to be sent in.
pursuit of the brigands. Many new bands are in process of
formation, especially in the Basilicata. A correspondent
writes to me from 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 the
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
gensd'armes, arrested under the Pica law—that is, accused
of being suspected. Everywhere the prisons are full to
overflowing. In that of Ruffano 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-
tese will have imprisoned every honest man in the two
Sicilies."
M. Massari, in his report upon brigandage, exults in tho
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, brit such persons as lout any support or aid to
that resistance. The discussion took place amid great op-
posilion. It was contended that the offences of citizens
should only be referred to their natu7 al jadges. 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 I;riglnds increase in num-
ber every day. In Sicily especially, where formerly the
conscription did not exist, reiraeLories and deserts may be
counted by thousands.
You already know the measures adopted to prevent the
escape of the refractories. The town; are in blockade, no
one, no matter whom, is permitted to go out, even in cases
loiffea.b6ollnutecernteieind,ptiotiefeesteihn
sf
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y, t Nhveayteari,loowr
be burnt, and on a complaint being made to the military
eadu yt
the necessary
sulphur to
of
authorities those implicated were flogged with horsewhips.
The Tcrrenzoto has already published some documents ra-
lative to a conflict of this kind in the town of Favara.
bAt
the commencement, these measures had some suc ess, ut
small. A proclamation by
At Palermo, the results are
nraenwktshoef refractories warned, and they go off to swell the
and
uncom-
monttie
a
bited on the smallest requisition, they do not to ex.-
sneviser aairenfaramcetosryo,
&c. Tf
the
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to
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not;
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to see a man
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en have been found included in the lists attached to the
owfrcial notes relative to the refractories. Such is the accu-
racy
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his son of 20, g2Oicailbianach
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fathers, mothers, relatives, young girls. The deputy
Minervini complained of this to the Minister of "War on
the Ist of August, 1863. " We have (said he) such a
large number of individuals imprisoned and condemned for
resistance to the conscription, that I think it my duty to
implore the Minister to solicit the indulgence
of the King
for
for these unhappy persons,
whoare rotting in the
prisons. " But to these just remonstrances the authorities
answered, " If, by lain—
those means which you stigma-•
tise as unjust and cruel, We cannot obtain any just re-
sults, what would happen if we
in
dulgence?"
(Another showed any
(Another Correspondence.)

ulursoidceasn
by brigands.
ACRI (CAL/an:tut), 20th November, 1863.—What shall
poor country ? It is a prey to disgust,
lnge r live safety.cann
stirot We
outare
of our houses without being laden with arms, like walking
Nevertheless, the Government does not display
any energy; its torpor would lead us to suppose that it is
I
ns destitute of material as of moral force. No expedition is
surrounded
us
arsenals.
yenes ratl
despair.
k, youre.nol
,a,„; f 0
aool
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-
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—new ones start up day by day. It is frightful;
for we Calabrians know too well what brigandage nieansf
here. We are none the less crushed under the burtlien o
alt -
taxes which we have no means of paying. The en, pro
prietors are making next to nothing out of their lsvneunti;
cannot procure labourers, because the timid willnoffto rein-
out of the limits of the towns, and the others go
force the brigand bands.

.-7...----
—(From the
--- -- - cuITS
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE Oft has
Law Times of to-clay).—The
sinELtru°r of the Circuits.
eempleted his scheme for the recootn
be
numerous, and will
It is said that the changes will
nadjacent Circuits. York-
to the Middle Circuit,
sbueilriemaintedd
DurhamtotheNaorretht
oe To andadd:dd
Warwick and North..
with Leeds as an assize town'
ampton the' Norfolk Circuit. Thes©
ampton are to be united crts:
but we trust they will not end
are manifest improver ,
, done for the everburdened Horne
the is net the obvious imnrovcruent adoted,
here. Is nothing ifvergewing courts at Westminster and
I•Vbsf district co-exteLsivc with the Central
in Circuitthe a
Citynd 2 for
of a Nisi
iiliculties would disappear;-
Frrit7 Bitting with it every six. weeks, as the
Criminal
,„C°:Court for the despatch of the. metropolitan.
business
this, other changes are of comparatively small
without s done, all ether a
and cannot be Permammt ; fl. to this we must come
worth, - later.it would be
Metropolitan
sooner cr , for everybody if the scheme
were so complete that there wculd Le no need for further
change for a century to c,anc.'
the professional arrange-
ments necessarily consequ,nt upon these alterations ate not
yet known. It is stria that the counsel at present upon
either of the amalgamated circuits are to be permitted to
attend all or arty of Ilio as.-17,8 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 heads, and possibly
winning the business they had obtained by the process of
living into it. How these difficulties will be met is a pro-
blem of which we have heard no solution.