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A letter from Naples, dated August 18, says :
The same almost inexplicable state of affairs con-
tinues at Naples. A King doubting whether he
should put himself at the head of his army and
fight for his throne, or give up all hope and take to
flight. Then we have a Ministry utterly power-
less, and whose authority is unknown to the army
and navy. Add to this a couple of Piedmontese
steamers with royal troops on board ready to land
in the bay, and all the world expecting Garibaldi
to appear suddenly and proclaim King Victor Em-
manuel. Imagine the muddle and confusion all
these strange events create, the town, I should have
observed, being in a stage of siege—a measure
which was obliged by the attempted conspiracy of
the King's uncle. We must have a crisis before many
days, and I think it will end in the King's flight.
We know Garibaldi is to land, or has landed, an
army corps of some additional 5,000 men, independ-
ent of the Reggio expedition. The accounts from
Calabria still speak of increasing and spreading re-
volutionary movements. Bands of armed then are
collecting and waiting orders from Garibaldi's
agents. It only requires the presence of the famous
patriot and a force to centre round, with a head to
direct; and an army, or a mob, whichever you like,
to rule it, of 200,060 men might be got together. The
revolutionary committee have not been idle. The
returned political exiles have worked hard, and the
King has decidedly utterly failed to gain confidence
by his tardy constitutional promises.
Several naval and military officers have been
called to Naples as suspected of haying corre-•
pondence with Garibaldi. On the other hand, the
King is active in endeavouring to animate loyalty
and devotion amongst the troops. I think his
foreign (Bavarian, as they are called) regiments
will fight ; but, as for the Neapolitan troops, I do
not believe they will stand against Garibaldi's
men. However, this question -sill be answered
within a few days.

PRICE 4D. STAMPED, sn.

towards the children of the second marriage, an

the degradation which her brother suffered when
at home in having to draw the young children in a
perambulator, and that Mr. Kent, in comparing
the younger child with William the elder, was in
the habit of saying that he would make a much
finer man than the other. It was Constance
and her brother William who ran away toge-
ther from their home, the young lady disguised
in male attire, for the purpose of going on
board ship at Bristol, and on that occasion
her ordinary wearing apparel, and the hair which
her brother cut from her head with a knife, were
thrown down and concealed in the same privy in
which the body of the poor child was found. The
Road mystery is one which will probably never be
cleared ep. Our police system is not, perhaps, so
efficient as it might be made ; but, at the same time,
in judging of the conduct of the particular officers
charged with the investigation of this mysterious
affair, it is but right to bear in mind that it was
not until a fortnight after the murder had taken
place that Inspector Whicher was sent down to the
spot by the Home-office, on the application of the
local magistracy, who had been completely baffled
in their inquiries ; that, as a detective officer, his
reputation for activity and intelligoice has been
long established ; and that the Home Secretary—
a man more competent, perhaps, than any other in
England to decide upon the value of evidence—has
expressed the fullest approbation of his conduct.—
Observer. •

The election Of deputies for oar promised Parlia-
ment is put off. All newspapers which have not
paid the 3,000 ducats caution money are suspended.
These facts may look reactionary, but they are not
so. The Ministry, I repeat, are sincere and
honest, and but for the bad reputation of the King
all would go well. As it is, no one cares what they
say or do. We look to Garibaldi's arrival, and con-
sider the King and Government alike provisional.
I now send you further particulars relative to
the departure of his Royal . Highness the Count
d'Aquila from Naples. Prince Luigi, the King's
uncle, the originator of the proposed coup d'etat,
embarked on board a Brazilian corvette the same
night (Monday) the affair was to have taken place.
The following morning, at about nine o'clock, ho
sailed with all his family, carriages, horses, equi-
page, &c., towed by the steamer Vessuvio. The
official joarnal announced his departure by stating
that the prince (the admiral) was en route to
London for affairs of the royal ravy
I cannot exactly say what were his intentions
in endeavouring to get up this coup d'etat ; in fact,
whether it was to do away with the present Go-
vernment and seize the throne. The conspiracy was
planned on a large scale, and would have created a
sanguinary conflict throughout the country.
His satellites were, and still are, armed. The
clay of the conspiracy several cases of arms were
seized at the Custom-house. We are indebted to
the Minister of the Interior, Signor Peilmano, for
the suppression of the revolt and plunder of the city.
He was, oddly enough, formerly a dependent of
Prince Luigi. He lost no time in exposing the
conspiracy and placing the details of the plot before
the King, and further insisting upon the expulsion
of his uncle, the Prince.
It is almost certain that M. Jermain, a French
merchant, who has a shop near the Caffe de
L'Europe, known as a spy, was the person who had
the arms brought from France ; and with him two
other Neapolitan merchants are named, viz., Miccio
and Malagrida. There also seems no doubt that
M. d'Ajon, a Frenchman, was mixed up in the
conspiracy.
M. Farina and some of the new commissaries of
police were implicated in this conspiracy. Count
Gaitano, a major of hussars, was the only military
man whom I can name as one of the Prince's tools,
but there must be many more in the army who are
guilty. General Nunziante certainly sent in his
resignation to avoid being identified with Prince
Luigi's conspiracy. This I heard from his own lips,
but I do not place mach confidence in it ; we are
1 all so liberal now.

The Austrian Government, I hear in official
quarters, will not interfere in Italy, but act on the
defensive in Venetia. Prussia is said to have made
an agreement with Austria to assist at the defence
of Venice, and in return Austria is to help Prussia
if the Rhine provinces are attacked by France. So
say our wise men.