The southern press., 1851-09-06
The Condition Of ItaIy.

tne eve OF Voieht anu .saDSulhar revolullon.
Almost every foreign newspaper that we read
every one which dares to intimate its opinions
lis full of forebodings as to some great trouble
at hand. Ever the conservative papers OF
London and Paris do not suppress their fears
and the silent military preparations of Austria
show that the government are not unaware OF
what is in the wind American travellers re-
Gently returned from Europe, with whom we
have conyersed, bring with them the same con-
victon.
This vague but almost universal feelings has,
doubtless, grown out of the discoveries which
have been recently made Of the systematic and
protracted cruelties practised by the different
despolisms of Italy. Men are instinctively
persuaded that such outrages must provoke re-
action and revenge. Yet the daily reports show
that these inhumanities, unrestrained by the
fearful indignation awakened by MIR. Glad
stones exposures, are continued in more
severe and brutal spirit than ever. "A letter in
the London Ne,cs, written at Naples, confirms
Mr.. Gladstone thus:
"The prisons are full Of persons not yet tried ;
their number amounts to twenty thousand,
without including those who have been arrest
ed, but shortly after liberated In this num-
ber there are about ten Thousand imprisoned
by measures of police (miSure di poH.iaD be-
cause some book or print was found II their
house which aroused the suspicion OF the au-
tn critics. Signor Corrasio, an old man of sew
enty five, was sent to prison for having written
some extracts from Tacitus in his memorandum
book, and IL certain Signor Cisto was impris.
oned for having bad in his possession 'GnIzots
Democratic en- France In Lecce, Signora
Arpa was arrested because she would not tell
where her husband, wealthy bArrister, sus
r., n E,l H.l I,N
pies, a widow, Donna Maria Ricci! Devernois,
was doomed to six months Imprisonment for
having visited her son, priest, who had es
capped from gaol. and was to leave his country
forever on board of an English steamer. In the
provinces the houses of the liberals are sacked
ard destroyed by the rabble, instigated by the
authorities; and in Salerno, General Palma had
had tlogged more than twenty persons publicly
in the market place, in order that they should
confess where they had concealed their arms
In the councils Of the cabinet the plan was dis
cussed to establish an extraordinary commission
under the name Of Giunta di Stato with the
power to pass sentences without the judicial
forms" .'"
That such atrocities should awaken Il pro.
found feeling of Indignation, is natural, and We
are glad to see that the English journals, which
are conservative in character, and which express
themselves commonly with great caution, put
no restraints upon their words when discoursing
Of Italian denominations. The London Ne,cs, for
instance, which is semi liberal in its turn, but
which is yet supposed to represent most infu.
entail part of the present whig ministry, speaks
in such vehement language as this, of the dongs
of the Roman court:
"The Pope has allied himself not merely to-
despotsm principle, but to cruelty and tyranny
in practice. There he is, the bosom friend of
Ferdinand, the PEE jured and the brutal; himself
the great Sanfedist of Italy blessing the san
culinary hordes of Croats by which Austria for
a little while longer keeps down the fallen lib
critics and the growing intelligence of that Pen
insula; plotting against the constitutional free
dom which Piedmont is consolidating as an ex-
ample for all Italians; willing to sell the politi-
cal influence of his church in France to the
highest bidder against human progress; inter-
changing comp ments with the very Car whom
his predecessor summoned to meet him in the
courts of heaven for his rnt erial cruelties to
wome"; driving thought, intelligence, learning,
and science away from the temples Of religion
teaching and imbuing, "a Mr.. Gladstone has
shown, the mind of youthful purity and limo.
cence With principles demoniaca and views anti.
social; and attempting in the name of that Re-
deemer who above all things declared his king
dom not to be of this world to disturb the ran
guilty, it not TO tear to pieces the integrity of
this empire.
"a popedom so allied, so acting; thus asso-
ciated thus dependent, cannot last. 1t were to
disbeieve in the goodness aud mercy of Al
mighty God to his creatures to suppose it could
IL trumphs for n while: but day of retribu.
ton and punishment must be approaching
England has but TO let loose the democracy Of
Europe Ito give rein to that demogogy whichis
eager for the fray to withdraw her moral resist
ance to those calainities which are impending
over the continent; and Italy would itself settle
for ever the popedom. Popery, Romanism, the
faith, the church Of Rome, might and probably
would be left. But that subtle, faithless, re.
lentless, celibate court of priests, which is the
hugest fraud as well as the most remorseless
cruelty ever practised on mankind, would be
swept away, with all its congenial organizations,
by those who have felt its heavy, icy, clammy
hand most. ..... =.
"Human endurance has limits they have
long been passed in Italy. A chaos of com
munism would be preferable to the destruction
Of humanity now in progress in that unhappy
land. It's rulers and oppressors have taught
the world their own worthessness, and the
Pope Pic Mono has blessed them for their ty-
rannv. Both must go together, the popedom
and Italian despotism are 10 the same boat, it is
ready to sink with their weight. Lord palmers.
ton, in sending around Europe Mr. Gladstone's
phamphlets, has warned the world of the ap.
preaching storm; has intimated the policy of
England when the swelling waters of the del
uge shall arise has notified that, though we
may pick up drowning prince here and there,
il would from motives Of humanity, and not
from wish to restore himto power No, tEey
nave neglected all opportunities, thrown away
the means of safety cut off all retreat, sown the
whirlwind, and must reap the storm: and, as
there is God in Heaven, Italy will rise again
free from popedom."
Such paragraphs in the radical prints Of Eng
land in the Leader, the Despa,ch. &c, would
only prove the convictions of the writer Of them
bat as the leading articles of the DaRy .Nems.
whose relations to Lord Palmerston are more
than suspected, they possess the highest sicnifi.
canoe. AS the extract we'll remarks, England
alone stands between the dynasties Of Europe
and the wild democracies, ard il she once with.
draws her hand, there will come such food as