The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-03 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Turin journal at last announces the amnesty
as decided. The Nationalites makes the following
remarks on the subject :
" The presence of the Princess Clotilde, in 1859
the link of union between France and Italy, as
well as the marriage of the Queen of Portugal,
have furnished the two sisters with an opportunrty
which they eagerly seized on to solicit the merciful
exercise of the Royal prerogative. Italy will cherish
a grateful remembrance of their intervention."
A letter from Lucca, in the Opinzone of Turin,
says:--

"We have a revolution here ; but it is neither

on account of Garibaldi nor of Mazzini: quite the
contrary. It is because the Minister of Public In-
struction has ventured to appoint a Protestant
lady, Mrs. Burbidge, to a professorship in the
Normal school for females at Luca. She had been
teaching for two years in the Normal School at
Bologna, where she was held in the highest esteem.

But Lucca could not brook the idea of allowing
history and geography to be taught by a Pro-
testant. All the priests and fanatics set to work,
and got up such an agitation, that the prefect had
to dispatch a councillor in all haste to Turin to in-
form the minister that he could not answer for the
public peace unless Mrs. Burbidge were removed;
and, to crown all, the Gonfaloniere, M. Sinbaldi,
who is also a deputy, has written to the Minister,
threatening to resign if the obnoxious appointment
be maintained. What will the Minister do P"
A communication from Naples, of the 28th ult.,
in the Debats, says :—" The conscription law will
be carried into execution in November, and the
levy will be 95,000 men. The commissioners ap-
pointed for this operation have all arrived here,
and by the 15th of October will be duly installed
in their posts. This is the first time that the con-
scription will take place under the provisions of
the Italian law. The levy of sailors which is being
everywhere made has just occasioned some slight
disturbance. On the evening of the 24th some
maritime conscripts who had assembled in the
church of Termoli, a small town in the province of
Nlolisa, on the Adriatic, refused to leave, under
pretext that St. Basso, the protector of Termali,
had performed a miracle which dispensed them
from obeying the agents af the conscription. A
tumultuous crowd invaded the church, and the
tocsin was sounded. The bersaglieri were de-
sirous of showing St. Basso that they could in
their turn perform a miracle, so they penetrated
into the church, laid hold of the revolted con-
scripts, and arrested the cure and one of his
assistants. The town was then quickly restored
to its usual tranquillity. On the Ist October the
now Municipal Guard of Naples will enter on its
functions, and the same day the new regulations
of the Urban police will come into operation.
There has been, during the last two years, such
a development given to business in Naples, that
no ablebodied individuals can now be found who
will content themselves with gaining 50f. or 60f.
a month. The city has therefore found great
difficulty in getting together 148 Municipal
Guards out of the 240 who are squired, as
they have only 501. a month. The municipal
administration is also at a loss how to complete
the voluntary enrolment of its Custom-house
Guards, although 601, a mouth are offered.
I have several times oalled your attention to the im-
provement in the condition of the lower classes in
Naples since the Revolution, and every day gives
fresh proofs of the fact. The population of the city
of manual labour has risen,
has increased ;the price
and rents bave also advanced very considerably.
The movement in the port has more than doubled ;
the receipts of the Custom-house, which hrid fallen
off about 85 per cPt., has now almost attair el
what it was before the Revolution, thus showing a

material improvement in the imports: Foreigners
are astonished at all those signs of prosperity, and
the persons who remember Naples at different
periods are surprised to see the animation of the
people either at the fireworks or the gratuitous con-
certs at the villa. They more particularly remark
the bustle of the streets and the increase in hired
carriages, the number of which has been aug-
mented by 600 during the last two years."