The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-31 00:00:00

all the cupidity which was fostered in its hear

Moreover there were no regulations to maintain dis-
cipline and give the soldier the esprit de corps be-
coming his noble mission, his importance, and
dignity ; he had no love for his country ; he was
only required to be submissive to the King, who,
to gain his goodwill, did not spare even the most
ignoble flatteries.
" They were 100,000, well supplied with arms
and money, possessors of formidable fortresses and
unbounded military resources ; and yet they did not
fight, they continually retreated before a handful of
heroes who had the courage to advance against them;
regiments, and even a complete corps d'armee, sub-
mitted to be taken prisoners. It was concluded that
men who did fight would never make soldiers worthy
of the name, and especially Italian soldiers ; they
were accorpingly offered the opportunity of return-
ing to their homes, and were disbanded ; but,
accustomed to a life of idleness and dissipation in
barracks and unused to labour, they revived with
equal ferocity, but with greater cowardice, the
traditions of Hammone and Mona—they became
brigands. If, in their atrocious enterprises, they
sometimes displayed the Bourbon banner, it was
merely from habit, and not from affection. They
dishonoured themselves by not defending their
flag, and now they dishonour their flag by making
it an emblem of murder and rapine.
"It was thus that was formed the Neapolitan
brigandage, and at the present moment the de-
throned King of Naples is its champion, and
Naples the apparent object. The dispossessed king
resides in Rome at the Quirinal, and he there coins
the false money with which the Neapolitan brigands
are freely supplied. The offerings extorted from the
Catholics throughout the different countries of Eu-
rope, in the name of St. Peter, are employed to
enrol these brigands in every part of Europe. They
go to Rome to inscribe their names publicly, to re-
ceive the word of order, and the blessings which
make these ignorant and superstitious men hasten
with greater alacrity to commence their career of
murder and pillage. From Rome they obtain the
immense quantities of arms and ammunition which
they require.
" On the Roman and Neapolitan frontiers there
are depots, places of rendezvous and refuge, where
they reassemble, and whence they return with
renewed ardour to their rapine. The perquisi-
tions and arrests made within the last few days
by the French troops leave no doubt on this sub-
ject. The hostile attitude assumed, and the lan-
guage used on these solemn occasions by a
' part of the clergy, the arms, powder, and pro-
clamations found in certain convents, the priests
and monks taken in the ranks of the brigands, in
the execution of their enterprises, prove beyond all
doubt whence and in whose name all these instiga-
tions proceed. And as there are here no religious
interests to defend, and even if there were, it would
not be with such arms, nor such means, that their
defence could be tolerated, it is evident that the
connivance and complicity of the Roman Court
with the Nepolitan brigandage, are founded on the
solidarity of temporal interests, and that the object
now is to keep the Southern provinces in a state of
revolt, and to prevent the establishment of a regular
Government, capable of repairing so great evils
both recent and of long standing, in order that the
sovereignty of the Pope may not be deprived of its
last support in Italy.
" We trust that this will furnish a new and
powerful argument to demonstrate that the ttrapo•
ral power is condemned not only by the irresistible
that it has logic of the national unity, but also
be-
come incompatible with civilisation and humanity.
" Were it even to be admitted that the Neapo-
litan brigandage is of a character essentially poli-
tical, the consequences to be drawn would still
be contrary to those which our enemies would
fain infer. In the first place, no argument can
be drawn from its duration ; it must not be for.
gotten that it is impossible for us to surround
the brigands on all sides as would be requisite to
effect their complete destruction, since when
beaten and dispersed on the Neapolitan territory,
ttey find a convenient asylum in the 49unu

States, which lie close at hand, and there they form
again ; and then, strengthened -oy fresh succours,
return to their work of devastation.

" What provinces, towns, or villages have risen
to join these new liberators ? Will it be said that
the Government distrusts the populations and re-
presses their sentiments by terror ? Look at the
press of Naples; it may rather be accused of license
than of abstaining from commenting as it pleases on
public affairs. The Government has armed the
country in the national guard ; the Government has
appealed to the country for volunteers.

" The country has amply responded to this ap-
peal. Alnady have several battalions been orga-
nised and mobalised, and national guards and mo-
balised guards, townspeople and peasants hasten to
encounter the brigands, and often expose their lives.
At the present moment differences of opinion are
disappearing, the various sections of the liberal
party rally round the Government so that neither
the regular nor loca► forces have experienced. r
single defeat. For more than a year, in the midst
of so much uncertainty, anxiety, and change, in
the full exercise of a new and unrestricted liberty,
Naples, that great city of 500,000 inhabitants, has
not raised a single cry of disunion, has not per-.
milted the extension and realisation of a single one
of the thousand Bourbonist conspiracies which are
continually springing up to disappear immediately.
I think that, from the whole of these facts,
it will be evident to you, sir, that the Neapolitan
brigandage has no political character; that tin-
European reaction established and countenance
at Rome foments and supports it in the name of
the dynastic interests of Divine right, in the name
of the temporal power of the Pope, taking an abu-
sive advantage of the presence and protection of the
French arms placed there to guarantee more elevatfid
and more spiritual interests, that the Neapolitan
populations are not hostile to national unity, nor
unworthy of liberty, as some persons would have it:
believed. We must not forget that these victims of
a corrupting system of government supplied heroes
and martyrs in 1799, and that they were quite pre-
pared, at the moment of the new regeneration, 'to
taketheir position beside their other brethren of Italy.
" What the civilisation and the humane senti-
ments of the present age cannot tolerate is, that
schemes of subjugation should be prepared at the
seat and centre of Catholicity, not only with the
connivance, but with the countenance, of the Mini-
sters of him who represents on earth the God of:
meekness and peace. Truly religious minds a-re
indignant at the abuse made of sacred things for
end altogether temporal; weak consciences are'
seriously alarmed to see the discordance arising
between the precepts of the Gospel and the acts of
him who ought to interpret and teach them. Rome,
by advancing in the path in which she has now
entered, compromises her religious without pro-
, moting her worldly interests. Every upright mind.
is already profoundly convinced, ann this universal.
conviction will greatly facilitate the task of Vile
Italian Government, which it cannot decline, and
which is that of restoring to Italy, and also to the
Church, her liberty and dignity,—Accept, &c.,

" RICASOLI."

SALE OF ADDISCOMBE AND HAILEYBURY.--yes,
terday the sale of these well-known military and eAvii
insti-
tutions which produced so many distinguislaed men in the
service of the old East India Company, took place at the
Auction Mart, by the Bank of EnglaneA, under the hammer
of Messrs. Norton, Hogart, and Ttist, the auctioneers. It
was stated that the property COD sisted of 90 acres, with the
well-known residence of Lord Liverpool at Addiscombe, and
its College, and 70 acres at Haileybury, with the barracks
and other appurtenances. After considerable bidding both
properties were declared to be bought by the British Lana
Company, Addiscombe being sold for £33,600, and Hailey-
bury for £15,200. It is understood that both estates
be cimverted into freehold land allotments.
PURCHASE BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AT
ROME.—The .ifoniteur announces, in the following terms,
an acquisition made by the Emperor of the Ft ench, already
made known from other sources :—" The Emperor has
just purchased out of his privy purse the portion of the
Mont Palatine which is comprised under the name of the
Farnese Gardens, and which belonged to the King of
Naples. This portion of the celebrated hills is by far the
most considerable. There only remains, in addition to the
part bought by the Emperor, the ancient villa on the
south, where excavations have been so extensively made,
and in which there is now a convent of French nuns, and
on the east a convent of Franciscans. The ground pur-
chased by his Majesty is not less than IS acres in extent,
it includes the famous ruins of the Palace of the Caesars,
two entir. storeys of which have been covered with rubbish
since the time of the invasion of the barbarians, and must
contain statues, paintings, and inscriptions of the highest
interest. It is from this soil, which has been scarcely
touched up to the present time, that several masterpieces of
antique art have been procured. It was also on this domain
that were recently found the original walls of the ancient
enclosure of Rome, that which surrounded the Palatine
when it alone supported the original city at the very time
of its founder. M. Pietro Rosa, auther of the large arc o-
logical and topographical map of Latium, has been ap-
pointed Conservator of the Palace of the Cat ars, and is at
the same time to be director of the excavations, which will
commence in November next."

THE STRIKE OF CARTERS AT MANCHESTER.----'
The strike of carters, lorrymen, and porters in the employ
of the London and North-Western and Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Companies at Manchester is already at
an end. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company sent out
their traffic managers and assistants on Thursday to scour
the country round for men to fill up the places of those on
strike, and these parties worked so energetically that they
had brought together between 200 and 300 new men yester-
day morning, and the presence of these had the effect of
inducing the turnouts to resume work at once. The London
and North-Western, acting in a similar manner, have also
put an end to the strike for the present.
THE STRIKE IN THE IRON TRADE.—The strike ill
the iron trade in the north still continues, and 7,000 men
are reported to be off work in one concern alone—the Con-
sett and Derwent Ironworks. At Consett the reduction
proposed is in the case of puddlers 6d. per ton, and in the
case of rollers 10 per cent. In Wales the, rate of wages is
considerably below the northern district, and in Scotland
the workmen have accepted the redaction propese I. So
the conduct of the men is very bad, and it is further ag-
gravated in connection with the Consett Ironworks, as the
creditors of the Northumberland and Durham District
Bank are pressing the shareholders of the ironworks, who
were shareholders in the banking company, for a large pay-
ment due in October, which payment they are unable to
meet, and there is a prospect that those immense works
will be closed. A local paper says the baneful effects of the
strike are being already felt in the Consett district, not only
by the workmen, but by the tradesmen and provision deal-
ers. The system of trading is by fortnightly credits, and
if the strike continues for only a few weeks a considerable
portion of the traders will be brought to the verge of bank-
ruptcy. Several shopkeepers whose average fortnightly
receipts amount from £l2O to £l5O have had them reduced
one-half. On an average 12 truck loads of provisions careo
to the place. Last Saturday there was only one.
THE WILTSHIRE MURDER.—John Stockles Wog
yesterday morning brought before a bench of magistrates
at Everleigh, charged with fhe wilful murder of Ann Hill,
wife of the head gamekeeper to Mr. Moak. After a length-
ened inquiry, in the course of which the suspicious enter
tained against him received the strongest confirmation, he
was committed for trial to the assizes.

SHOCKING MURDER—BIRMINGHAM, Fridel•
A frightful tragedy was enacted yesterday evening at
Small-heath, near this town. The victim was a young
woman who possessed considerable personal attractions,
named Elizabeth Brookes, and the murderer was her master
and intended huSband, John Grayson Farquhar. He is a
man of independent means, aged 38, and is a widower.
He resided in the Grange -road, near Birmingham, and
the deceased girl lived with him nominally as housekeeper,
but in reality a more intimate relationship existed between
Were about to be
them,
fond married.andf he of a jealous dispe"
been passionately
sition, he occasionally quarrellfrd with her on account of
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to have
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her presumed familiarity with other men. On Thursday
he drew £5O from the bank for the purpose of buying some
articles for the wedding, and shortly after his return home
from town, where he had been shopping, in a fit of jea-
lousy he took up an old flint pistol and shot Miss Brookeo
in the left breast. She fell down and instantly expired, the
charge having entered her heart. A daughter of Farquhar
was in the room, and witnessed the deed. Farquhar was
arrested at his own house, and on his way to the station
told tho crowd who followed him that he " did it through
jealousy." He was brought up at the police.court this
morning, and remanded until after the inquest, which we°
held last night, The jury, after an absence of twentl
minutes, returned a verdict of wilful murder. The prisoner,
on hearing the verdict, buried his face in his hands And cried
bitterly, exclaiming, " Oh, my pour Betty I" as he was re'
moved in custody.
A FACT NOT GENERALLY KNOWN.—Under this
heading the Falkirk Herald says :—" The father of Sir J.
Outrain was the founder of the Butterley Iron-works, 320/1,
the largest ironworks in England. He was a man of great
ability, energetic, self-reliant, of fertile and ready resource;
so much so that his opinion was deferred to by many of the
most eminent engineers of the day, such as Sir John Roane
and Thomas Telford. He was the first, in connection With
these works, to lay down an iron way, and it i,s to this oil*"
cumstance, and from his name, that we kAave the ter°
'tramway.'"