New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-08
NAPLES.
Correspondence OF The London Times.

NAPLES, June lS
IT was after midnight or near o'clock in tue morn
ing Of the 18th inst, that telegraphed the following
DEGREES: 81.
~. The remainder of their punishment is RENTED
to those condemned TO irons secusion, elegston aud
Imprisonment for POLITICAL offences committed IN tue
years 1913 and lSi9
80 From this tine forward every obstacle is re-
moved to the obtaining by the a'iendibih of pass
ports and learned degrees or TO their flung public
offices.
"3. Those condemned for common crimes TO irons
r,leraiOn and seclusiOn, 80 correctional Imprisonment
or exile. have diminuton Of three years, &c.
a Al pledged articles of dress or cloth, or OF the
common netals up TO the 18th of June, snail be re-
deeiyed the expense of the Treasury and restored TO
the owners.
step they are but like everything else in Naples, in-
sufficient and ungIacions. The Neapohtans all eX'
claim that they are a deceit and an insult How many
will be liberated by the &C ion OF the hrst decree
cannot say but exceps all those in the same cate.
CORY who had the very doubtful mercy OF perpetual
exile forced upon them IN January last fOerlo am
bis companions though included ameng the list oi po-
hiical offenders Of 1913 aud 1919, are excluded from
the action of this Decree which says those are not
contemplated who are mentioned in the DEGREES OF 9th
of December 1858, and 18th of March, 1897 AMI
they were the chiefs The present decree, therefore
embraces only the least promnen offenders, who nave
already suffered eleven years OF lmprisonneht anu
have perhaps but q short time aiming to complete
their punishment. There are excluded, also, all tnose
condemned during the reacionary interval IRON Ioio
to ISIS, when llegality and cruelty begat crime.
Decree III. declares that during eleven years Tue
afiendi5h-that is TO say almost all who could read OF
wIe in the kingdom-hsve been deprived oi the PRIV
ilege of travelling Of obtaining learned degrees OF Q,
serving in any public Office. These men are rehe'eI
from sucl pains and penalties; but how by roya
decree which appears TO consecrate what was ae vo
vious eg gaty and virtually admits the power OF Tue
police There is no law which could SANCTION tms
irestment of the atead5I. They were class Ges'ed
by the arbitrary power Of the police and royal decree
while relieves thousands of indivduais OF such P1ns
and penalties seems almost to consecTate thS Pp"et
which inflicted them and leaves II free to renes Is
eyeres on future occasions Having described these
DEGREES let me point out what has not bee1 GONE
Those shut up 10 prison Tor two years and hai WIKI
ON, n, ss We. have had relief. Read this petition
preseuted 70 Mr. Elliot two days since;
The undersigned, political prisoners in the PRISON
Of santa Maria Appaieute, in their own az wen as 10
tbe names of others detained, who are unable 10 sign
because n solitary confinement, inform yoar Excel
lency that for more than two years ana a haI 'ney
have been imprisoned and in the first months Oh tnen
detention derived of al assistance from the ialeS
without knowing the cause of their arbitrary a.Eesi'
II having come to their knowledge that yoar hheel-
lency has been sent special mssioh 10 Naples, on
occasion Of the happy succession to the throne OF h'