The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-14 00:00:00

(RECEIVED FEBRUARY 25.)

(Extract.) Turin, Feb. 22, 1862.
I have good ground for believing that brigandage
ie now being organised under the authority of the
ex-Ring of Naples and the patronage of the Court
of Rome for operations on a large and bloody scale
during the ‘PProaching spring.
it is my duty to bring this question under the

No. 4.—SIR I. HUDSON TO EARL RUSSELL.—
(RECEIVED FEB. 25.)

programme which shall lead them to Rome, for

that, if we are to judge by passing events, is th:;
subject which engrosses the public mind in Italy.
If, when these delegates meet, they understand
that brigandage is upon the point of recommencing
its operations, with its basis at Rome, we may, we
must, expect a very serious demonstration.

It is suggested that this meeting be prevented
by authority.

Apart from the faculty of public meetings granted
within certain limits by the constitution it is clear
that were this Government to adopt that course it
would simply exasperate and not meet the neces-
sities and exigencies of the situation ; because, in-
stead of speaking only, these delegates would con-
spire in secret, and this Government might then
find isself constrained to have resort to some of the
machinery of despotic authority which has always
broken down in Italy.

The danger, then, is not in the meeting, but in
the great political fact of the continued cccupation
of Rome by foreign troops, when the necessity for
that occupation has absolutely ceased ; and this
danger will be by so /much the more augmented by
the fact that brigandage, which has cost the lives
of many an • honest conscript and good soldier,
which has widowed some and beggared others,
which is a heavy pull upon the public purse, and
is the more detested because it would be suppressed
if it were not covered by the presence of foreigners,
and concocted and carried on by foreigners, and
composed mainly of the scum of foreign society, is
once more restored, reorganised, and flourishing in
that very city which the entire Italian nation
claims as their common capital.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) JAMES HUDSON.
Inclosure in No. 4.
Proclamation.
(Translation.) Caprera, Feb. 17, 1862.
To the committees for supplies, the whole of the
patriotic associations of Italy.
The meeting of the 9th March next may become
pregnant with excellent results, if all the Liberal
associations of Italy are represented there. I am
therefore of opinion that they should be represented
there.

Convinced as I am that the acts of the meeting
will be worthy of the practical judgment which dis-
tinguishes Italians, and that its conclusions will

respond to the legitimate expectations of the earnest
friends of liberty, and to the wants of our country,
I abstain from giving advice. With the same pro-
gramme which led us to Palermo and to Naples, and
with the high principles of the " plebiscito" of the
21st of October, 1860, the Italian revolution may
have a glorious consummation. Were it not for
private circumstances which prevent me, I should
myself be at Genoa on the 9th of March. In lieu
thereof, I shall await at Caprera a result of which
I may boast as an Italian.

Health and fraternity. (Signed) G. GARIBALDI

No. S.—CONSUL BONHAM TO EARL RUSSELL.—
(RECEIVED MARCH 1.)
Naples, Feb. 25, 1862.
My Lord,—l have the honour to report to your
lordship that accounts having appeared in the papers
stating that a numerous band of brigands or adven-
turers, organised in the Roman territory, had re-
cently appeared in the vicinity of Terracina, render-
the roads near the frontier insecure, and watching
apparently a favourable moment for an incursion
into this territory, I took an opportunity yesterday
of inquiring from Col. Farriola, chief of the staff of
his Excellency General la Marmora, as to the cor-
rectness of the report. Col. Farriola told me it was
true, but that his last accounts reported the band
had gone off in the direction of Frosinone. He
seemed to entertain no doubt that an irruption on
a large scale would shortly be made into this ter-
ritory. He further said the Government had Bour-
bon agents at Marseilles, at Barcelona, and also at
Malta, to embark a certain number of adventurers
for a landing in this country. He added that the
Government were well prepared, that the accounts
from the provinces were very favourable, the gene-
ral state of feeling good, and if those adventurers
did actually venture on landing they would meet
with no support, but come to certain destruction.
I believe this is a true view of the case, and that a
landing now would have,if possible, even less chance
of success than that effected by General Ilea jes in
September last.
The number of Neapolitans enrolled in the army
in North Italy is considerable. Of these many have
now come down with or to join their regiments in
these provinces, and the favourable account they
give of their new service has produced a very good
effect, and tended greatly to remove the prejudice
against North Italy which the ill-disposed were and
are constantly endeavouring to instil into the minds
of the peasantry.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) EDW. WALTER BONHAM.

No. 6.—SIR J. HUDSON TO EARL RUSSELL.—
(RECIVED MARCH 4.)

. Turin, Feb. 28, 1862.
My Lord,—ln reply to the inquiry which, by
your lordship's commands, I have made of Baron
Ricasoli, whether the order of Colonel Fantoni, at
Lucera, to which the Earl of Derby has alluded in
the House of Lords is genuine, I have the honour
to state that Baron Ricasoli informs me that it was
published without the consent of the superior mili-
tary authority, by whom its suppression was imme-
diately ordered. (Signed) JAMES HUDSON.

No. 7. CONSUL BONHAM TO EARL RIISSELL.---(RE,
CEIVED MARCH 13.)
Naples, March 6, 1862.

My Lard,--I have the honour to report to your
lordship that having seen in the Times of the 26th
February, a report of a conversation in the House
of Lords relative to a proclamation issued in these
provinces, Of which I had not previously heard, I
called on General La Marmora to ask some informa-
tion about it. His excellency told me that the first
he heard of it was an inquiry by telegraph from
Turin respecting a proclamation said to have been
issued. by a Gen. Fautoni, there being no general of
that name in the service. He at once proceeded,
however, to investigate the matter, and found that
a Major Fantoni, commanding a battalion, had, in
effect, drawn vp such a proclamation, and had it
Printed in Lucera. Having then submitted it to
theset
aside
general commanding
ithe district, that officer
once at __
disapproved and disavowed it; it was
and not acted upon in any way. Some
person
,a having obtained a copy, sent it, it
would
o the journal Armonia, at Turin, in
which it vast Published. His excellency added
that he had cocain, .
nicated all this by telegraph to
Turin some days ago,
and doubtless your lordship
has been already informed
a. of the circumstance by
lit
I I, however, write
her Majesty's Envoy
a proclamation was
to state to your lordship. thatinth•
published either in the °mei
provinces, until a or any other
tehe Armenia baying attracted atten-
Jt'at now that its
ji:ououbtrinicaaltijonnthines

serious consideration of her Majesty's Government,
because, if brigandage is once more to be organised
and tolerated, it must, from the sheer force of cir-
cumstances, place the Italian Government between
two fires ; the one, the strength which it will infuse
into the ranks of the "party of action," as it is
designated, in other words the Mazzinians; the other,
the necessity which this Government will be under
of maintaining its authority at the risk of civil war;
because we must expect to hear the Mazzinians cry
treason on Ricasoli if he puts the law in force
against Mazzini on a question upon which every
city in Italy has recently pronounced itself.
Brigandage, therefore, if again permitted to make
Rome its head-quarters, may force this Government
to adopt a forward movement, and that movement
may light the flames of discord throughout Europe.

Turin, Feb. 22, 1862.
My Lord,—With reference to my preceding de-
spatch of this date, upon the subject of the reorgani-
sation of brigandage at Rome, I have the honour
to call your lordship's attention to the enclosed
copy and translation of a species of proclamation of
General Garibaldi to the patriotic " associations" of
Italy, by which they are invited to send delegates
to Genoa ; and in which they are reminded of the
programme which led them to Palermo.
This address is simply to decide upon another