The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-19 00:00:00

STATE OF NAPLES.

A letter from Naples, dated Aug. 13, says :
We have seen but little as yet of Cialdini except
in his military character. The following rescript,
however, directed by him to the Secretary-General
of Grace and Justice, shows in what manner he
deals with civil affairs, and is worth translating :
" Journalism has complained lately of an excess
of delay in terminating criminal processes. The
hand of justice punishes the more sharply in

proportion to the celerity with which it acts. More-

over, the accused has the right to demand tha

he interval between the accusation and the sen

enee shall be as short as possible. If he be de-

Glared innocent, who will offer an indemnity for
the wrong which has been inflicted ? I earnestly
beg you, therefore, to ascertain if there is any
ground for the complaint which has been made ;
and it is my intention, in the event of it being
established, to punish severely those who are guilty
of such negligence, which not only offends the laws
of duty imposed on the magistrates, but violates
those also of humanity. To active magistrates
proffer, in my name, words of praise; to those who
have been negligent, censure without pardon. Re-
mind all that the Government of the King has a
right to have functionaries who find motives for
executing their duties, not only in the command of
the law, but yet more in the love of the great
Italian country, for the liberty and redemption of

which no zeal can be too great. I beg you to ascer-
tain from the magistrates of this city the state of
the penal actions which have been instituted, and
in the provinces where you deem it opportune to
send intelligent and active functionaries to verify
such facts immediately. Report to me afterwards
those who from their zeal are worthy of special
consideration, and those who from negligence merit
censure," &c.

It is not often that I can report rescripts or de-
crees in full, but the one I now send you seems to
merit attention from its being a kind of negation of
the former policy of the Government, and from its
presenting a fair view of the energy of Cialdini.
From timidity, or Bourbonism, or, worse than all, a
conciliatory spirit, political and other causes had
been suffered to lie over, and the Duke of Cajanello,
among others, has been lying untried in prison
since April last. A new system is to be adopted
—one marked by promptitude and legality, and I
shall shortly have to report to you some political
causes. You will observe the homage which Cial-
dini pays to journalism;—he despises no influence:,
neglects nothing, and I should be wanting in my
duty if I did not confess that he displays an energy
which, if it had been shown earlier, might have
saved the country from a thousand ills. I trust
that it is not now too late. What a system of
mingled empiricism, incapacity, and neglect has
been hitherto adopted! In the same spirit in which
the rescript is expressed the Attorney-General has
sent a circular to all the Royal judges. I must now
give you some fuller information on facts which I
communicated in my last letter, and first as to the
persons who have been arrested. I have obtained
an official list of them, which is as follows :—Mar-
shal Giovanni Rodriguez, Marshal Fergola, Marshal
Tabacchi, Marshal Ajace di Rivera, Brigadier Ser-
gardi, Brigadier Luvera, Brigadier Antonelli,
Brigadier Dorgemont, Brigadier Palumbo, MaSor
Quantel, Captain Dupuy, Lieutenant-General
Sigrist, Captain Sigrist, First-Lieutenant Sigrist,
General Colucci, General Polizzi, Lieutenant-
Colonel G uills matte, Captain of Artillery di Rivera,
Colonel of Artillery di Rivera. Priests :—Maresca,
vicar ; Mirichino ; Pica, " Penitenziere ;" Parluto,
parish priest ; Taja, "•Economo del Forte Nuovo ;"
Rotondo, parish priest. This last-named person
has been set at liberty on account of old age and
infirmities. ;These persons were arrested on the

7th and Bth inst., and have since been sent off to
Genoa. No overt acts on their part have been dis-
covered, but it is ascertained that they had relations
with the reactionary committee in Posilippo in the

house of Frisi, and had frequent interviews in their
own houses with suspected persons. With regard
to the priests, there are documents to prove that
they had formed a well-combined conspiracy, and
consequently they will be put upon their trial, and
that without delay.
I have already spoke of another plot which was
discovered a few days since in Milano, the details
of which, as in ether cases, I have been compelled
to reserve until I could verify them. Prince Casta-
pieta and a Signor Gubitosi, formerly Chancellor of
the Tribunal, have been arrested on the charge of
providing a certain bandit chief called Rajacco with
funds.t This man, who was greatly favoured by
the
1 late Government, seems to have had communi-
cation with the reactionists of the neighbouring
towns, and, having induced a great number of the
inhabitants of Miano to join them under the pro-
mise of paying them four carlini a day, it was re-
solved to assault and disarm the National Guard,
and afterwards plunder the houses, on the fete of
St. Gaetano, the patron saint of the place. The
cold-blooded barbarities resolved on remind me of a
common proverb with us—" The nearer the church,
the nearer the devil ;" but our conspirators would
shelter themselves under another—" The better the
day, the better the deed." St. Gaetano has, how-
ever, very fortunately, been defrauded of the honours
intended for him ; for the Commissary of Police at
Capodimonte received information in time, and a
small body of the rifles, together with the aid of
the National Guard, succeeded in apprehending the
principal promoters of the movement and putting
them in prison. Now as to the precautions which
have been taken in the city. All those who could
be counted on in a disturbance have been removed
—that is to say, 800, if not 1,000, convicts have
been sent off to Fenestella, and, as I have told you
before, upwards of 100 high prisoners of State,
who will be confined, it is believed, in the for-
tress of Alexandria. These latter were sent off
on Friday night and the former on Saturday
merning, and it seems to he the intention, as I
have already told you, to empiy the prisons of the
rascals whom the Bourbon and the Pope, under
the protection of the Emperor, have employed to
perpetrate so many horrors. The convicts who it
is ascertained were implicated in the conspiracy
were promised their liberty and the plundering
of the city, so that you may well conceive what
barbarities were in reserve for as to-morrow,
the day which had been fixed upon for the
attempt, bud it succeeded. As another mea-
sure of precaution, the guards in the Royal
Palace have been doubled and cannon prOared in
case of necessity, and an especial line of military;