The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-25 00:00:00

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OERIOIIIS STATE OF AFFAIRS IN ITALY*

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROME, MAT 20.
The report gains ground daily of a withdrawal of the

French troops from Civita Vecchia after the elections,
especially if the Italian Cabinet should be constituted on
a solid basis. M. de Malaret, the French Ambassador at
Florence, has received orders to impress on Menabrea that
if he retain the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the troops
will be recalled ; but that if the more democratic party
succeed in placing one of their supporters in that depart-
ment, France will retain her liberty of action, and keep her
hold on Civita Vecchia as a guarantee for the neutrality
of the Papal States. In the army circles here this is con-
sidered as conclusive, and everyone is preparing for
autumnal events.

Letters from an excellent source in Florence speak of
the Milan discoveries as a mere comedy—a tub thrown to
the whale—in order to cover a far more widely-spread
organisation, that of the " Reduci," the new name given
to the Party of Action. The " Reduci " are now spread in
every part of Italy, anfl are far more numerous than before
Meutana. They have affiliated all the dangerous classes,
and have, moreover, found means to do much
in the highest ranks. Generals, field officers, civil
emp/(y4s, and soldiers are among their members,
the hope of conciliftting the "rising idea" being the principal
motive for thus engaging in the ranks of the society.
Garibaldi is the nominal president, but the supreme
direction is carried on by Alazzini, whose expulsion from
Ticino will not prevent his working, as he is living in a
village about ten miles from Lugano, and in daily
communication with his agents. Ricciotti Garibaldi
is in Trieste, where Prince Napoleon met him last
Saturday and had a long interview with him.
lie is understood to be organising an insurrection
in the Trentino and Italian Tyrol. Menotti is at
Cattanzaro, and Canzio at Naples ; and General Fabrizi
was, on Sunday, at Florence, presiding over a secret
tribunal of the "Reduei," to judge a spy named Sillorani.
The Chamber of the Reduci constitutes a second Parliament,
and sits: four times a week with a speaker and an order of the
day. It holds courts of justice, with advocate, jury, and
public prosecutor, and this under the very eyes of the
Italian Government.

Letters from Naples announce that a great demon-
stration against the Government took place on
Saturday. Menotti Garibaldi, who is the guest of
the Deputy Nicotera, announced his intention of
visiting the Teatro Nuovo, and the police ordered that on
no account should any party emblems be worn or the
"Hymn" played. About the middle of the performance
Menotti and his wife (Italia Bedeschini) entered Nicotera's
box, where several persons connected with the Republican
press, and Callicchio, the chief of the Cammorra had already
arrived. The audience became uproarious, and cries of
" Viva Garibaldi !" " Viva l'ltalia Republicana !" drowned
the music. The " Hymn " was of course demanded and
refused, and at length the audience became so violent that
M. Courtial, the inspector of police, was obliged to
sanction it.

Mazzini has addressed a letter to the Unita d'ltalia,
which has caused the confiscation of the journal. He says,
after denying all complicity in the present plots and agita-
tions, that " as truly as God exists, Italy shall shortly be
a republic." He has asked' for an asylum in Spain, and
General Prim at once replied that Spain would always
be open to such an illustrious exile.

A very great deficit in the Papal army will shortly
occur by the expiration of service of above 1,000 men of
the Legion of Antibes, who will return home, and an
augmentation of Zouaves will probably supply this need.
It has been resolved to appeal to the different
countries for extended action, and offerings both of
men and money. Prussia and Holland, both Protes-
tant Powers, have sanctioned the enrolment of as many
of their subjects as choose to join the Pontifical army,
and Confraternities of Peter's Pence are being established
throughout Germany.
The King of Naples, with the Queen and the Princess
Theresa, leave Rome immediately after Corpus Christi,
for Zurich and St. Gall, and thence go to Munich and
Vienna.

The Pope assisted on Whit Sunday at High Mass
in the Sextine, which was sung by Cardinal di Pietri,
Bishop of Albano.—Cardinal Hanlik, Archbishop of
Lagrabria (Hauidvania), died on the 11th, thus causing
another vacancy in the Sacred College. He was past 90.
—The Pope received Lord Clarence Paget last week, and
also Lord Archibald Campbell in private audience.
General Dumont has made a most severe report to the
Minister of Marine in Paris regarding the crew of the
Abbatteucci, who, as it appears from the depositionsof the
survivors, got on board the Norwegian brig, and refused a
refuge to their perishing comrades and passengers. One
of the French soldiers of the Civita Vecchia garrison is
still in hospital at Liverno from the wounds he received
from the Garibaldian mob on landing, when the unfortu-
nate survivors were stoned by the Livernese, the police
looking approvingly on until forced by the foreign consuls
to interfere. It is difficult to believe that such a piece of
brutal inhutnanity could take place in the nineteenth
century. - - - _ .

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1 he Scottish college, restored and partly rebuilt by the
present rector. Dr. Grant, is near its completion. It will
be a beautiful building, aad admirably adapted to col-
leziate purposes.