The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-21 00:00:00

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ITALY.

We find the following interesting particulars of
the banditti warfare in the Neapolitan mountains
in the correspondence of the Temps, dated the
12th :—" Cialdini has been successful in three en-
counters with the reactionists at Sora, Benevento,
and Cancello, near this city. The official despatch
dated from Sora, 9th inst., states that a company
of the 44th of the line, quartered at Isola, killed
four brigands. The rest of the troops killed nine.
The mobilised guard, sent to scour the country, had
seen some twenty men near the top of Monte Sant'-
Angelo. Another despatch, received by the
Nazionale, says that Colonel Lopez, having been
apprised that Chiavone was in communication with
the inhabitants of Sora, drew him to Monte Sant'-
Angelo. The Lieutenant-General of Francis 11.,
being there assailed in front and in flank by Capt.
Bianchi, lost eight men, with his aide-de-camp, and
took refuge in the forest. Capt. Lanzi, when the
despatch was sent off, was endeavouring to turn
the band and attack it behind: In another en-
counter Chiavone lost five men, while the Italians
had only an officer wounded in the arm. A letter,
addressed to the Pungolo, says that firing was heard
at Sora from 3 o'clock in the morning till 7, and
from 10 till 12. The engagement began at a
thickly-wooded spot, called Rico, a mile and a-half
from the town. The writer affirms that some com-
panies of the 44th, ascending the heights of Rocca-
vioa, were to have attacked the Chiavonians (as
they are called) in the rear, and that if those com-
panies had arrived in time, Chiavone's campaign
would have terminated then and there. But, being
delayed by the deepness of the ascent, they arrived
two hours too late. • At the moment I write this,
four brigands have been executed on the Piazza di
Santa Restituta, as examples. Others were left
dead in the field, and the wounded were very nume-
rous. This letter states that the wounded Italian
officer is Captain Falardi, who, in a close encounter
with eight brigands, two of whom he shot with his
revolver, received a slight wound in the foot, not
in the arm as reported. The National Guard pro-
tected the town during the engagement, and the
pupils of the Norman School defended the line of
the Lire for some distance. I now come to the
affair of Benevento, which was rather serious. The
number of insurgents is not easily ascertained, as
there [are so many persons who are Bourbonists
when the brigands approach, and Italians when the
troops arrive. Some fifteen villages were attacked ;
but some of them, Circello and San-Lupo, for in-
stance, defeated the banditti. In the night of the
10th, Colonel Negra marched against Pago, which
he promptly occupied, and shot the Syndic, Luigi
Orlandi, for having taken part with the brigands.
The struggle was severe at Pietracalcina, where
the insurgents numbered 400 at least, 35 of whom
(not 135, as first reported) were left on the field, and
100 others remained prisoners in the hands of the
troops, In the pursuit 15 horses were taken,
together with a quantity of ammunition and arms.
The Italians had only one man killed, and two li
others wounded; a sergeant and a trumpeter were
also missing. The smallness of the loss proves that
the insurgents do not fight well, however formi-
dable they may be against defenceless villages.
Indeed, they seldom make a determined stand
against even a small number of troops. The day
before yesterday, at Pesco, above a hundred of
them fled before a mere handful of soldiers. Yester-
day the Italians were already victorious throughout
the province, the ineurgents flea in all directionm,
committing their usual atrocities in all the villages
through which they passed. I now come to the
affair at Cancello, which more nearly interests us,
as being so close to Naples. You know that the
brigands had collected in considerable numbers
there, and harassed the country all round. Seldom
did a day pass without their firing at the trains
on the railway between Cancello and Nola, but
that was the least of their misdeeds. General
Pinelli accordingly took measures to clear the
country of them. He occupied the heights where
they usually concealed themselves, and soon drove
them out. The first accounts (nearly always
exaggerated) state that the brigands lost 80 killed,
and 240 prisoners and wounded. The result of this
vigorous measure is that the insurgents are now
anxious to surrender. Yesterday a band of 150 men
in the environs of Naples offered to surrender if
assured of impunity. The answer invariably made
to all such offers is—" You will be tried by the
tribunals, and acquitted if guilty of rebellion only,
but condemned if you have made rebellion a pretext
for robbery and murder."

THE POPE AND CAVOUR' 8 CONFESSOR

A letter from Rome of the 13th, in the Gazette
du Midi, a paper noted for its information on cleri-
cal matters, gives the following as the correct
account of what passed between the Pope and Count
Cavour's confessor :

" Father Giacomo, the confessor of the late
Italian Premier, is decidedly suspended from his
ecclesiastical functions at Turin. The following
particulars of what passed during the reverend
father's stay at Rome may be relied on. The
Holy Father, wishing to be informed as to the
administration of the sacraments to Count Cavour,
Father Giacomo was ordered to draw up a full
account of the whole case. He did so, and sent
his statement to Rome; but the Holy Father, not
being satisfied on the matter, directed the Superior-
General of the Franciscans to request Father Gia-
como to come to Rome, or send some ecclesiastic
acquainted with all the particulars to give all the
explanations desired. Father Giacomo decided on
going himself, and on his arrival he had an audi-
ence of the Pope. The Holy Father said to him,
I neither ought nor do I desire to know anything
respecting the Count's confession ; I am only
anxious to know why you administered the sacra-
ments.' Father Giacomo replied that, having
been called to attend Connt Cavour, he heard his
confession, and afterwards carried the sacrament
to him publicly. The Pope remarked that, be-
fore administering the communion, he ought to
have formally required a religious retractation.
The Franciscan explained that Count de
Cavour had declared, in the presence of
several persons, that he had always been Catholic
and wished to die in the bosom of the Church.
This answer did not satisfy the Pope, who then
ordered Father Giacomo to go to Father Panebiance,
Counsellor of the Holy Office. He went and was
there called upon to declare in writing that he
acknowledged having failed in his duty in adminis-
tering the communion to the Count without requir-
ing a retractation. The father refused to sign any
declaration of the kind. The Pope then charged
Father Antonio di Regnano, a learned Franciscan,
to confer with him, and accompany him to the Vati-
can. When introduced a second time into the pre-
sence of his Holiness, Father Giacomo persisted in
refusing to admit that he had done anything wrong.
The Pope became excited, and reproached him with
his conduct. Father Giacomo only replied that be
had acted conscientiously, and so the audience ter-
minated. The Pope saw him a third time at
Convent of St. Benaventura, and being still dis.
satisfied with his answers, suspended him from h
benefice. Suet, is the whole truth of this affair,
which certain journals have greatly exaggerated."

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