The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-11 00:00:00

ITALY.

A letter from Turin of the 7th says :—" At the
opening of the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
to-day, M. Ratazzi announced that M. Conforti
had been officially appointed to the post of Minister
of Justice, and that consequently the Ministry was
complete. This announcement was received with
unanimous marks of approbation. M. Conforti was
this morning duly installed in his department.
You have doubtless heard that the King has signed
the various decrees relative to the Neapolitan judi-
cial authorities. The appointments are 1,500 in
number, and as many decrees are required. No
general dismissal has taken place, only ten or
twelve persons having been removed from office,
but a radical reform has been effected among the
officials who, organised and distributed as they
had formerly been, might be, and really were,
dangerous for the administration of justice,
whilst being now intermingled and brought more
together they will be useful to the State. Front
the moment that the principle of unity is ad-
mitted, the judges of Naples cannot remain exclu-
sively Neapolitan, those of Piedmont solely Pied•
montese, and those of Tuscany only Tuscans. Such
artificial barriers can no longer be allowed to exist,
as they constantly call to mind a past which has
been for ever repudiated. The Marquis Pallavicino-
Trivulzio has been appointed Prefect of Palermo,
in the room of M. Torelli, who will exercise the
same functions at Pisa. The Marquis belongs to
the highest nobility of Lombardy; he is decorated
with the Grand Collar of the Annunciado, and is
Vice-President of the Senate. He filled the post of
Garibaldi's pro-Dictator at Naples with the greatest
patriotism and devotedness. His nomination has
produced the best effect on the continent of Italy,
and will not be received with less satisfaction in
Sicily."

The Italie of Turin states that a band of 150
brigands, who had just entered the Neapolitan ter-
ritory, well armed and equipped, from the Papal
States, were met a few days ago by a party of 20
soldiers, who succeeded in keeping them at bay until
they could get reinforcements, when the brigands
were driven over the frontier with considerable loss.
A letter from Potenza in the Paw of Naples
announces the arrest of six Capuchin monks of the
convent of Tramontola, convicted of furnishing
arms and provisions to the brigands. The fact was
proved in the following manner. An officer of the
troops quartered in the neighbourhood went to
the convent under the disguise of a brigand
and entered into conversation with the monks,
complaining that he had often sent to them for
provisions and ammunition, but that they had
never complied with his request. The monks re-
plied that this must have been owing to the number
of spies about, who may have prevented them from
sending out the requisite supplies; upon which the
officer begged of them to keep some in readiness, as
he would soon return with some men and carts to
carry them away. He did return accordingly with
fifteen men disguised like himself, and, after re-
ceiving the supplies, arrestej the monks. A large
quantity of arms and ammunition was found ill the

convent, together with a mass of treasonable corre-
spondence.

The Monitore of Bologna states that on the sth
the police of that town searched the houses of Mon-
signor Canzio, the Capitular Vicar, and of several
parish priests. The consequence was that not only
a number of copies of a Latin circular, which the
Government knew to have been addressed to the
priests of the diocese, who were therein exhorted to
induce soldiers to desert from the Italian army, was
found in Mgr. Canzio's possession, but also the
Papal bull in which the Pope authorised the com-
pilation of that circular. A Neapolitan friar was
arrested on the same day while in the act of pro-
posing desertion to several soldiers.