The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-23 00:00:00

Brigandage in Italy.

(From the Correspondent of the Timm)
The withdrawal of a portion of the French troops
from the Roman States, and the necessary concen-
tration of the remainder within narrower limits,
will testify the ability of the Papal Government to
maintain order in the rural districts, and to prevent
any increase of brigandage.
There is great reason to apprehend, however,
that in the first instance the means of the Papal
Government will be inadequate to meet the neces-
sities of the case, and that brigandage will greatly
increase in the Roman States, and it may be feared

also in other parts of Italy, from the facilities
which the brigands will have of transferring their
operations from one part of the country to another.
British travellers in Italy will do well to bear this
in mind, and avoid, as far as possible, visiting dis-
tricts where brigandage is known to prevail. They
should remember that, however anxious the Italian
and Papal Governments may be, for their own
sakes, to put down the outrages of which many die-
tricts are the scene, the difficulties which those Go-

vernments have to contend with in doing so are very
great. The lawless character of the inhabitants in
secluded parts of Italy, the sympathy or apprehen-
sions of the peasantry, and the difficulty in pur-
suing malefactors through the mountain fastnesses,
all combine to render the suppression of brigandage
a work of great difficulty ; and that difficulty is
not a little enhanced by the natural anxiety of
the relatives and friends of persons captured
by brigands to redeem them from captivity
by paying whatever ransom may be demanded.
There can be no question, however, that the system
of ransom operates as a premium to brigandage ; and
it can scarcely be a matter of surprise that the Italian
Government, seeking, as a matter of State policy, to
eradicate the evil, discountenances and even prohi-
bits by law any payments on that account.
It is difficult for foreign Governments to interfere
with the discretion of the Italian Government in this
respect, nor can the latter be held responsible for
mischances that may happen to the subjects of fo-
reign powers voluntarily resorting to its dominions
for any purposes whatever.
Such foreigners must take their chance with the
natives of the country, and cannot claim the inter-
ference of their Governments to place them in a
better position than native subjects.
The British Parliament would not listen to a
claim for compensation made by a foreign Govern-
ment in behalf of one of its subjects who might have
been robbed on the highway, or whose house might
have been broken into and plundered by burglars,
and England cannot claim for British subjects in a
foreign country what the British Parliament would
deny to the subjects of a foreign country in Eng-
land.
Bearing these considerations in mind, therefore,
it is to be hoped that Englishmen visiting Italy will,
for the present at least, be very careful not to ex:
pose themselves heedlessly to capture by brigands.
The Italian Government in particular are known to
be making the greatest efforts to suppress brigand-
age, and it cannot be doubted that the Papal Go-
vernment will do the same ; but in the meanwhile
and until these efforts have led to a better state of
things than now exist in parts of Italy, it is impossi
ble for travellers in that country to be too cautious.

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