The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-20 00:00:00

Prussia.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MOND&Y

The Royal Mail steamer Europa has arrived here.
Her news has been generally anticipated via

Queenstown.

A fresh violation of the British territory at a
place named Langley was reported from British
Columbia. Much excitement on the subject pre-
vailed at Victoria.

Sterling exchange at New York quiet at 1082- to
08:.

THE _REIGN OF TERROR IN NAPLES.

A collection of despatches, addressed by Mr
Henry Elliot, our Minister at Naples, to Lord John
Russell, was published yesterday These letters
contain many very important facts, bearing upon
the existing outrages, committed under the miser-
able plea of law and authority, which now disgrace
the Government of that country. The despatches
which we subjoin sufficiently set forth the
general character of the official despatches which
the infamous tyrannies, and the acts of personal
violence the agents of the law, in the name of the
King, are in the habit of perpetrating, have called
forth from our accredited Minister at the Court of
Naples :
" MR. ELLIOT TO LORD J. RUSSELL.
(Received March 8.)
" Naples, March 2.
"My Lord,—A short time ago I forwarded to
your lordship a copy of a circular from the Minister
of Police directing the Intendants to arrest, with-
out hesitation, the persons against whom there
might be even simple grounds for suspicion.
" The Government have now shown themselves
determined to go a step further, and yesterday pro-
ceeded to arrest men upon whom no suspicion of
taking part in any conspiracy can fall.
" Of the number of persons arrested I can give
your lordship no accurate information, though I
am told they were numerous in the middle and
lower classes, but among my own friends or ac-
quaintances, and belonging to the highest families,
I can count five who have either been actually ar-
rested or else have found safety in concealment;
these are—the Prince Torella, the Marquis de Bella
(brother to Prince Torella), Prince Camporeale,
Duke Proto, Marquis Vulcano.
" Prince Torella received a letter desiring him to
attend at the Prefecture of Police, which he did,
nothing doubting, and was there told to consider
himself under arrest, and to have his preparations
made for leaving the kingdom the following morn-
ing. He made no resistance, but asked leave to be
allowed to return home to make his preparations,
and to take leave of a very aged mother • but this
indulgence was refused him, nor could he Obtain any
information with regard to the crime imputed to
him.
" The arrest, however, of the Prince, and the
universal conviction that no justification could be
given for it, produced so great an effect upon all
classes that the same night he was set at liberty and
allowed to return home.
" We are now told that it was all a mistake !
" His brother, the Marquis Bella, eluded the pur-
suit of the police, but it has been conveyed to him
that he must leave the country.
" Prince Camporeale likewise succeeded in hid-
ing himself, but he has since been allowed to return
home; and, in his case, like that of Prince Torella,
the order for the arrest is now said to be a mistake.
" Duke Proto and Marquis Vulcan() have been
arrested and ordered into, ezcile, trial or
examination.
" There are likewise two Marquises Monte Rossi,
and the MM. Vacca, De Simone, and two De
Philippe, summarily ordered into exile. Of the
two last-named gentlemen, one is a lawyer, and the
other an employe of the Government, and both
leave behind them families depending entirely upon
them for their means of subsistence, and who will
now be left penniless and dependent upon charity.
" During the afternoon and night of yesterday
the town was patrolled, and the troops kept under
arms, but no sort of disturbance took place, though
the Government affirm that they had positive proof
that there was to be a dangerous demonstration,
and that a seditious handbill had been posted up.
"Whatever evidence may be sufficient to satisfy
the Government of the existence of plots or conspi-
racies, it is certain that the proofs are not such as
would bear the light; but the denunciations of
spies are received as conclusive, and the accused are
summarily ordered into baaishment, untried and

unheard.
I will inform your lordship by the messenger
on Tuesday of the steps I have taken with the
hitherto vain hope of inducing the Government to
pause in a course which, if persisted in, must finally
lead to the destruction of the King and of his
dynasty.--I have, &c.

" HENRY ELLIOT."

" MR. ELLIOT TO LORD J. RUSSELL.
(Received March 13.)
" Naples, March 3.
"My Lord,—l took the earliest opportunity of
seeing M. Carafa to inquire the cause of the arrests
mentioned in my despatch of yesterday's date, and
to ask whether the country was in so imminently
critical a state as to call for such extreme measures,
directed against men who could scarcely be seriously
suspected of conspiracy or treason.
" M. Carafa repeated, as he has so often done
before, that the. Government felt no uneasiness, but
that they had received undoubted information of
the intention of the partisans of annexation to Sar-
dinia of making a demonstration which it would
have been necessary to suppress by force ; and that
to avoid bloodshed, the preventive measures which
I had alluded to had been taken ; and his Excel-
lency triumphantly pointed to the tranquillity with
which the day had passed as conclusive evidencCin
favour of the course adopted.
" I said that, of course, . if the Government had
the proof which he said they possessed of a con-
spiracy to violate the law, they could not be blamed
for arresting the persons implicated ; but I trusted
there were no truth in the report that those persons,
instead of being openly brought to trial, where their
guilt or innocence might be proved in the face of
day, were to be summarily transported or exiled
without trial or examination,
"To my regret, however, M. Carafa replied that
such was the decision of the Government; for that
although they had proof sufficient to satisfy them-
selves of the guilt of the persons arrested, the evi-
dence was not such as would prOcure a conviction
in a court of justice. f
" in plainer words,' I answered, you have re•
solved to accept as conclusive the derninciationa of
spies whom you dare not bring face to face with
the accused, and this, without apparent shame, M.
Carafa frankly admitted to be the state of,the case,
repeating that he was aware they could not procuure
a legal conviction, but that they had no dobt
whatever of ?he guilt of the accused.
" I asked whether he or any one else could be-
lieve that a man like Princa Torella would be a
leader in a seditious but childish demonstration,
and he at once replied that he did not believe it,
and that the Prince's arrest had been an ` error'
which was speedily remedied.
I begged NI. Carafa not to talk of a man in Prince
Torella's position being arrested by mistake, for
that the only error' which was evident was a mis-
calculation of the effect upon the public which had
been produced by the arrest.
" I asked whether Prince Camporeale, who had
concealed himself, was a dangerous character, and
with regard to him I was told that I might convey
to him the assurance that he might return home
without being molested.
" I then said that the Marquis de Bella had beau
told that if he gave himself up he should receive.
passports for the frontier, but that he dared not
put himself in the hands of the police, as innocence
no longer protected a man front punishment in a