The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-21 00:00:00

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GARIE.4LDI IN NAPLES'.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
NAPLES, SEPT. 14.
If there ever was a Muratist party in Naples it
was because the Neapolitans despaired of getting
rid of the Bourbons by any other means ;—better
the " old gentleman " himself than a Bourbon. If
there be ever any chance for the success of a Mu-
ratist party, it will be because of the divisions of
the Liberals, and the efforts of the leaders of the
national movement to obtain impracticable objects.
At present there is not a man who does not pro-
test against swell a solution of the Neapolitan diffi-

culty, and who would'not resist it even with arms.

The bare idea •of substituting French influence or
domination for Austrian is universally scouted with
indignation. This is undoubtedly the present feel-
ing and opinion of the people ; but should discords
arise—should the Republican party make head, as
it does—l will not answer for the consequences. It
is partly from a fear of such dangers—as yet distant,
but by no means improbable—that I have always
maintained the advantage of limiting the objects of
Italian ambition, and of resting contented for the
present with the consolidation of the Southern
Italian kingdom. It seems, however, to be deter-
mined otherwise, and Englishmen can only express
a hope that the final result may be favourable to

liberty. With the profoundest love and veneration
for Garibaldi, I have met with many a thinking
man who shakes his head at the announcement in
the address to the Palermitans that the annexation
is to be proclaimed from the heights of the Quiri-
nal. If it points to an immediate march on Rome,
it appears to me more like the dream of a poet than
the decision of a statesman ; but late events have
set aside all the usual rules of calculation, and all
that we can do is to wait and hope. Meantime,
whatever meets the eye and ear is very inspiring,
and he must be a cold-blooded man who does not
rejoice and sympathise with the Neapolitans
in their newly-acquired liberties. The flags
still wave from the windows as in the first
days of rejoicing, and the streets are marked
by an animation which they have not known
for many a year. In fact, the nation has been
dead and buried for a quarter of a century, and I
can scarcely realise the scenes which mark its re-
surrection. Where one stood watching spies and
policemen in plain dress we see now the feathers
of the Piedmontese riflemen or the red coats of the
Garibaldini. Where once reigned a silence that
chilled, and a suspicious glancing to the right and
left which marked the amount of personal insecu-
rity, men speak out boldly, discuss questions of
high interest, and in the freest way, and chant in

chorus in the public places in a style which would
have filled every vacant prison in the city a few
weeks since. What a moral change must all this
produce in the character of the people !—for it was
the priests and policemen who made them hypo-
crites and untruthful.
General Eber's division came in on Monday

night, and was marched on to Caserta on Tuesday

morning, where it will repose before going to the
frontier. The General is, lam sorry to say, do cvu
with fever, but insists on going on. In fact, ill-
dressed and dirty as most of the troops are, and
many very young, there is a resolution which dis-
tinguishes and unites all; in will they are giants,
and, morally speaking, there never was a finer
army. Great numbers of our countrymen have ar-
rived, noble looking fellows, ready to dare and sac-

rifice everything for the liberties of their country.
Colonel Peard has been appointed to the command
of the English Legion. I mentioned in my last that
_ _ _ _

General Turr's division had been sent to Avriano
and Avelino to put down an meat° fomented by
the priests. They returned yesterday, bringing
with them 100 prisoners, but the ashes still smoul-
der. On Wednesday night the generale was beaten,
and troops and a detachment of the National Guard
were sent off to St. Antonio and Mileto, a few
miles out of the city, to put down a disturbance
headed also by the priests, and yesterday morning
70 prisoners were brought in, consisting principally
of the lower classes, who had been stirred up by
their spiritual advisers. There was a little move-
ment, too, last evening at the Porta Capuana, close
to the Vicaria. Some of the Garibaldians who
were there were surrounded by the populace,
and ordered to cry " Viva Victor Emmanuel.
Viva Garibaldi !" cries which were, of course, re-
sponded to heartily, but in an instant afterwards
cries were raised of" Viva it Re,emorte a Garibaldi,"
and two of the red jackets were killed and four
severely wounded with daggers.
The National
Guard immediately ran to the spot, and arrested 14
persons. I repeat that the position is very dan-
gerous, We have a population
the priests
of the
igntorant and super-
p ie.sts ; and
stitious ; degraded by the long
Bourbons, and demoralised by t.h
a Government be unless the work of consolidation is substituted for
that of conquest
—unless
esta-
blished before Garibaldi marches. north, vve shall
have great disasters in the kingdom as soon as the
Dictator turns his baekDo not . imagine for an
instant that
precautions and apprehensions are
of reactionary feeling ; it is impossi-
the expression
who has for so ble that onemany years under cir-
cumstances which made it dangerous to speak or
write never hesitated to expose the horrors of the
old Government can otherwise than rejoice in the
downfall of the Bourbons, and sympathise with the
people in the enjoyment of their newly-gotten liber-
ties. But I am not blind to the danger of the
situation, and I should bitterly regret any acts of
omission or commission which could check the pro-
gress of liberty. A Government must be established
at once. If my dream of a Southern Kingdom,
with a Prince of the house of Savoy, cannot be rea-
lised, for Heaven's sake let there be immediate an-
nexation under Victor Emmanuel. Government
and order are the first necessities for such a country
as that of the Two Sicilies.

The Official Journal for the 12th and 13th pub-

lishes the following important decree :—" All
Royal property is declared national." " Governors
of Provinces are appointed as substitutes for the
existing Intendents, who are to be the first civil
and administrative authorities of the provinces."
" A college ' for the sons of the people', is esta-
blished, where the children of the poor of the
Two Sicilies will be educated at the expense
of the State. They are to be rewired from the
age of 7 to 10, and instructed, not only in read-
ing, yfritillg, and, arithmetic, but iu a practical,