The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-22 00:00:00

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the Bourbons was not created by them ; 'but, it was'
ready made to their hands, and they Itay talr .
it up and given it a character. Whatever 4Tvntet..
at first, it is now political, and is widely extended.
I take up the official journal for last Saturday
evening only, and I find an official circular order-
ing the immediate organisation of corps francs in
not one or two, but in all the provinces. Then
I find notices of encounters, slight if you like, and.
always to the advantge of the National troops, in
the provinces of Terra di Lavoro, the Abruzzi, Bari,
Foggia, the Capitanata, Otranto, and the two
Calabrias, a tolerably wide surface to be agitated.
Then as to their political character, though they
rob and assassinate, they wear the likenesses
of the ex-Queen and King, sing Te Dawns, and
shout " Viva Francesco !" What other evidence can

be desired to prove either the extent or the charac-
ter of the counter-revolution, for so it is, though I
have not the slightest faith in the possibility of its
success ? Well, then, money circulates freely
among these bands, and money coming from Rome;
arms and uniforms are occasionally sequestrated. in
great abundance, and, notwithstanding, the agita-
tion is still called a small affair, and nothing but
brigandage. "I have nothing but a cold," said
an invalid to a once eminent medical man int En-
gland. " And what could you have worse ?" was
the answer. And so it is with brigandage, its moral
are worse almost than its material effects. Hitherto
Calabria has been represented to me by the authori-
ties as being quiet, but the truth is out now, and I
find that there, as elsewhere, the same panic and
disturbances exist. _ _

In the city we hear continually of little and largo
robberies; of attempts to enrol men for the service
of Francis IL ; of mad efforts to produce disorder,
and of the circulation of addresses from the Bour-
bonists to the National Guard and others.
It was not the Exmouth but the Neptune, Capt.
Hornby, which came in last Saturday morning.
The fact is she did not anchor, but remained a little
out, and the impression was that it was the Ex•
mouth, which was expected back. She went over to
Castellamare, where she is now lying, and will con-
tinue there so long as the family of Admiral Sir
Thomas Martin, who came with her, remain. The
Doris, Sir Leopold M'Clintock, left Naples on Sun-
day afternoon for Castellamare, and on Monday
afternoon steamed out with the Admiral for Mes-
sina, whence the Liffey will take them on to Malta.
The Doris makes a short cruise and then returns to
Naples. The Exmouth is expected hourly.
In the Times of the 6th inst. Mr. Hind speaks
of an illumination of the heavens on the night of
the 30th, when the comet was first observed. I W 0,5
walking with a friend a little way in the country, at
10 o'clock on that evening, and observed to him
several times the remarkable light which was cast
upon the earth. It might have been compared to
that which would have been produced by the moon
in a mist. It was so striking that in several in-
stances a light appeared to have been reflected upon
the walls from some neighbouring house, and, in
noting it to my friend, I was surprised to find I had
been deceived.

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