, 1876-07-01

oxclaim loudly wish v%irtuous Indignation,
and they can scarcely be blamed. "Can
this, - asks the Osseruotore Romano, be
rightly called q Liberal Government
Does it not rather resemble the horrible
inquisition of the Venetian Republic. Il ls
true the daggers of the brau and the annt-
hilation of the Bridge of Signs are want.
ing, but the one Government, like the
other, aims at %corrupting all and every.
thing And then the O,servatore re-
marks, "But constitutional Government
is only too much surrounded by a pesti-
ferrous miasma, and all the display OF
progress, all the loud promises OF liberty,
equality, and justice, become reduced to
lying words"
Al the very same time when the debate
upon this Black Book was going forward
in the Chamber, other revelations even
more startling were being made IN the
Court Of Assizes, and of such q nature as
most pertinently illustrates the enormous
evils which must necessarily follow
through, and be reflected back again in
their effect upon the system of /" informa-
lions - pursued at the Ministry OF the
Interior. About 80 months ago seven
Observation-Disclosures arrested for
%conspiriDg and seeking to lead others to
c0nspire against the Government. They
were brought to trial and condemned each
to ten years at the galleys. Fortunately
for themselves, the men had some of the
ablest Of the rising advocates Of the day,
CARDINAL, Rosi, and Motto, as their
defenders. Taking occasion of an infor-
mality on the part of the Public Prosecu-
tor, they moved for and obtained a new
trial. 1t was but a repetition of what had
occurred at the first until the Court was
astounded by one of the principal witness
SEES voluntarily declaring that hi9 deposit
ton at the preceding trial was absolute
ly false. On being questioned, he stated
that he was q member OF the secret police,
that he knew nothing whatever of the
accused, that he had sworn as he had
been ordered by his chief, that when tho
men We're condemned to ten years at tho
galIeys his conscience rebukod him and he
determined to make a clean breast of it,
and that If they did not believe him they
could call his companion-aIso one of the
witnesses-and ask him. The companion
was sent for and questioned, st first he
was taken aback, but after a few moments
hesitation he corroborated all the other
had stated. He said further that, born
in an evil condition OF life, and altogether
without education, he had taken to
vicious ways in his youth, had been sent
TO prison, and thence enrolled in the
secret police, that he had desired to
leave it, but that his chief had told
him that he had only to put one more
blackmark against his name to send
him to the galleys. He had, therefore,
been compelled to obey the orders given
him. That very morning his chief had
come to him in his prison, where he was
confined as one of the Internationalists
turned Kings evidence, and told him that
he was to swear so-and,so. The Court
could call the gaolers and satisfy them
selves OF the fact. The gaoIers were sum-
moned, and they admitted that the
delegate of police in question was closeted
with the witness in his cell, but what
passed they did not know, and there the
revelations ended. The jury absolved the
prisoners.
The plan upon which these members OF
the secret police were ordered to act was
this: They were to go to the fountain on
Monte Cavallo, and if they saw q man sit
ting on the railinOs alone thew were tn