The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-24 00:00:00

ITALY.

" Our letters from Turin and Paris," say the
Nerd, " speak simultaneously of the proceeding
of a part of the Italian clergy, in opposition to the
new state of thingt; it is even affirmed that the
disturbances which have been already mentioned,
and which have led to five provinces of the king-
dom of Naples being put into a state of siege, are
the work of that party who could only find a small
sum to assist the defenders of Gaeta, but who
no longer want money when the object is to
organise and pay brigands, in the hope of thus
operating a diversion. In the meantime
General Fanti bravely attacks the difficulties
accumulated by the provisional Government,
and which will render the reorganisation of
the Southern army a most difficult matter.
As to the Government of the Lieutenant-General,
it finds itself in presence of impossibilities, but
which must nevertheless be overcome ; the treasury,
for instance, is empty, and all the sources of
revenue stopped, particularly in Sicily, where all
duties have been suppressed and the land tax re-
duced. Our correspondent at Turin, in order to
give us an idea of the pro-dictatorial administra-
tion, informs us that the 30,000 volunteers of
Garibaldi, who are in want of everything, and
whose officers only receive 2f. a day, have cost
much more than the Royal Government would
have paid for an army of 100,000 men. It is just
to observe also that the number of functionaries
and of pensions and subsidies is incalculable; the
whole budget, as has been before stated, would
not suffice for them."

The following is an extract from a Naples letter
of the 19th, in the Debats!--" The Treasury is
positively empty. Hitherto they have made shift
to struggle on by issuing Treasury bonds and
other securities, as well as appropriating the sums
deposited in the Bank of private individuals. In
short, paper has been issued very freely. M.
Scialoja, with whom the King's lieutenant is well
satisfied, has stopped this ruinous emission of as-
signats, and taken rational means to provide fresh
resources ; but he has a hard battle to fight against
routine, and a still harder one against smuggling.
After recovering their liberty, the Neapolitans seem
inclined to regard that occupation as one of the
rights of man. The smugglers had made an alliance
offensive and defensive with the camorristi, a kind
of civil brigands, who haunt gaming-houses, or act
as wardkeepers in the prisons and convict establish-
ments, to whom the inhabitants pay a kind of black
mail, as an-insurance against assassination. The
police had taken these worthies from the prisons to
assist them in hunting down thieves. But the cantor-
risti, far from having reformed, worked for two
masters ; they shared tha plunder of the thieves,
and received pay from the police. The canzorristi
and the smugglers had formed an alliance for carry-
ing on an extensive business without the interference
of the Customs officers. M. Scialoja was determined
to break up this association, and called in the aid of
the carbineers. A conflict consequently occurred the
other night at the Mercati and in the Porto quarter,
and blood was shed. M. Farini has given orders for
arresting the cantorristi(3oo in n umber) and keeping
a strict watch over smugglers. These honest fellows
did not confine themselves to smuggling, they also
received the money of his Majesty of Gaeta, and
often shouted for Francis 11. A priest of San Gio-
vanni a Reduccio invented a more ingenious cry.
Followed by a crowd of lazzaroni and women, in the
Borgo-San-Antonio, he paraded the streets, shout-
ing, Long live Victor Emmanuel, who has published
tee decree restoring the throne to Francis 11. !' and, so
saying, he tore up:a tricoloured flag, and hoikted a
white one with the Bourbon arms. The National
Guard did not like the joke, and the Piedmontese
carbineers liked it still less. So they at once
arrested some forty of the Women, With 48 many

Austria, it is asserted, will not take the offen-
sive, but she expects to be attacked in the spring,
and she feels the struggle will be a terrible cne.
The Italians, more numerous and better organised
than in 1848, will have a fleet superior to hers,
and, moreover, they count upon a powerful diver-
sion in Hungary. These facts will render the
chances of the war more equal, and may, by shift-
ing the scene of action, to a certain extent weaken
the advantages offered by the fortresses of the
Quadrilateral.