Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-30
Life In NapIss-DepiOrsbIe CosdIsson oi

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Life In NapIss-DopIorable Cosdiston of
Anairs.
The correspondent Of the London Times,
under date of June 5, writes as follows from
Naples; il .met I
4 King Bombino asks for counsel and assist
ance The former has been offered and re-
jected with contempti the latter Is now re-
| auested TO defend him against the conse-
quences of his obstinacy and something
worse. If il he granted even in the mildest
form, what will IL support and perpctuatef
| Take n walk with me round the city before
you answer the question. There are four
great forts, all the cannon Of which arc
pointed on the city; the Castle 81. Elmo, the
Castle of the Carmine, that called the Ovo,
and CASTILLO Nuoyo. There are monasteries
and government buildings surmounted by
cannon, and every here and there you see
loop-holed walls, from which the myrmidons
of His Majesty are TO fire upon the lieges. In
the evening you will see pickets of cavalry
in the squares and policemen and spies are
so numerous that you can scarcely venture
20 speak TO a Neapolitan. Our prisons are
full Of condemned or uncondemned persons,
the latter, perhaps, as numerous as the former;
and | can speak of personal acquaintanccs
who are now suffering in the fourth year
without trial or even examination.
Go into any public place, and you would
fancy that u great calamity had fallen on
the people. They whisper together in groups
of two or three. They look over Their
shoulders, and sometimes pull up in SEN
tence, if perchance somebody passes If d
doubtful person he present, they speak by
inuendo or are silent; every man has his
sobriquet, and letter from one friend &c
another would be q study for sphynx. Cal
on friend, and You are asked " chi eW 1
: the answer, "Amici," be recognized, yOu ar,
Immediately admitted otherwise the ques
ton is repeated, and your business asked
, You will not get your Neepoliian friend tc
! return your call. The porter, who is gen
! orally spy, may know him, or some of tht
/ police may be hanging about, and intimacy
! with foreigner is condemnation. Such arr
] some of the pretty lighter dimples on th,
! surface of Neapolitan life. As for the prov
inccs, we know little of them, as all inter
] course with them is practically prohibited
7 In some there are no roads; railroads none
Passports are with difficulty obtained, and
know those whose health requires visit t
= the capital, and who can not come up
Our colleges are comparatively abandoned
! and our learned societies exist but in name
! the spirit of ignorance and superstition
: broods over the country, and the priest ant
the policeman are the sources from whicl
. | this evil spirit emanates. Of wealth, such a
= God gives with his all-bountiful hand ther
] is abundance; of commerce, there is little. Ii
: all the branches of public administration
there is systematic robbery carried on, whcl
: it is difficult to check, because. carried on b.
, the Kings friends and the extraordinar.
! praises occasionally bestowed on an homes
man show the rarity of the article. In shor'
, the most cruel and irritating oppression ex
! lists in Naples, as a necessary consequence G
= the principles which are the religion of tn
Bourbons, and the life of the Neapolitans
, but bare animal existence. Can there be in
: tervention to support such a state of things
You win talk Of changes and promises, an
oatbs; the former may be made, but they wi
: never be carried out, and, as to the latter
U thew are air.