The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-04 00:00:00

DISTU.RBANCES IN NAPLES.

The Official Gazette of the Kingdom, a Turin
ournal of the 30th ult., gives the following account

of the late disturbances on the Neapolitan terri-

:orl .

"Among the ringleaders and exciters of reac-
tionary movements are fanatical priests, chiefs of
the ex-Urban Guard, and persons recently arrived
from Rome, but the bands are only recruited by
Bourbonian deserters. The National Guard has

everywhere shown itself animated by the best
feelings, and the mess of the people in general has
itself taken part in the defence of public order. In
the Ulterior Principality an unworthy monk placed
himself at the head of the reactionists ; his accom -

Alice was a cure of Volturera. Both of them ex-
cited to outbreak by preaching in the Church
against the King and the National Government.
The Governor of the province arrived with a cer-
tain number of troops and National Guards. In a
first conflict the brigands, 100 in number, were de-
feated, almost the whole of them being either
killed, wounded, or taken prisoners. The same
cure then changed his tone, and harangued the
people in favour of the King of Italy and of the
Statuto. Attempts at brigandage have also taken
place at Sorbo, but they were immediately re-
pressed by the Naticnal Guards of Candida and
Betlizza. The leader in the affair was a certain
spy of the Bourbonian police who, with others,
was arrested. In the Citerior Principality three
brothers, who had escaped from the prisons of
Salerno, had recruited among the ex-Bourbonian
soldiers a band of about 50 individuals, who
entered the territory of Laviano, where they
were attacked and dispersed by the troops and
National Guards. In the communes of Taviano and
Racale, several disbanded Bourbonian soldiers raised
cries of ' Long live Francis !" Down with Em-
manuel !' and tore down the national arms. The
Mayor of Taviano, who endeavoured to arrest them,
was killed by a stab from a stiletto. The Judge of
Casareno, who came to the place with a certain
number of National Guards, found the outbreak
quelled, but he caused searches to be made, and the
authors of the murder are believed to be among the
persons arrested. In the province of Terra de Bari
all attempts at outrage have been prevented by the
arrest of some individuals who, by means of false
reports, endeavoured to excite reaction. The pro-
vinces of Terra de Labore, Benevento, and Moliso,
are now tranquil. In the three Abruzzi nothing
has taken place since the affair of Introdacqua.
Only a single act of brigandage is mentioned as
having taken place in the Three Calabrias, and that
was committed at Tiriolo, in the Ulterior 11, where
a diligence was attacked, and a forced contribution
imposed on some individuals. The great criminal
courts of the provinces are now engaged in prepar-
ing for the trial of the different prisoners. We
have already rectified statements which the tele-
graph had brought from Naples, and shown the
true state of those disturbances, which have be n
much exaggerated. All the facts above-mentioned
took place from the 6th to the 20th ult., and all of
them have been isolated acts of brigandage com-
mitted by ex-Bourbonian soldiers ; and, in most
cases, they are ordinary crimes, with which politics
have nothing to do."