The Sun. — 1861-05-04 (London, England)

DISTU.RBANCES IN NAPLES.  The Official Gazette of the Kingdom, a Turin ournal of the 30th ult., gives the following account  of the late disturbances on the Neapolitan terri :orl .  "Among the ringleaders and exciters of reactionary movements are fanatical priests, chiefs of the ex-Urban Guard, and persons recently arrived from Rome, but the bands are only recruited by Bourbonian deserters. The National Guard has  everywhere shown itself animated by the best feelings, and the mess of the people in general has itself taken part in the defence of public order. In the Ulterior Principality an unworthy monk placed himself at the head of the reactionists ; his accom  Alice was a cure of Volturera. Both of them excited to outbreak by preaching in the Church against the King and the National Government. The Governor of the province arrived with a certain number of troops and National Guards. In a first conflict the brigands, 100 in number, were defeated, almost the whole of them being either killed, wounded, or taken prisoners. The same cure then changed his tone, and harangued the people in favour of the King of Italy and of the Statuto. Attempts at brigandage have also taken place at Sorbo, but they were immediately repressed by the Naticnal Guards of Candida and Betlizza. The leader in the affair was a certain spy of the Bourbonian police who, with others, was arrested. In the Citerior Principality three brothers, who had escaped from the prisons of Salerno, had recruited among the ex-Bourbonian soldiers a band of about 50 individuals, who entered the territory of Laviano, where they were attacked and dispersed by the troops and National Guards. In the communes of Taviano and Racale, several disbanded Bourbonian soldiers raised cries of ' Long live Francis !" Down with Emmanuel !' and tore down the national arms. The Mayor of Taviano, who endeavoured to arrest them, was killed by a stab from a stiletto. The Judge of Casareno, who came to the place with a certain number of National Guards, found the outbreak quelled, but he caused searches to be made, and the authors of the murder are believed to be among the persons arrested. In the province of Terra de Bari all attempts at outrage have been prevented by the arrest of some individuals who, by means of false reports, endeavoured to excite reaction. The provinces of Terra de Labore, Benevento, and Moliso, are now tranquil. In the three Abruzzi nothing has taken place since the affair of Introdacqua. Only a single act of brigandage is mentioned as having taken place in the Three Calabrias, and that was committed at Tiriolo, in the Ulterior 11, where a diligence was attacked, and a forced contribution imposed on some individuals. The great criminal courts of the provinces are now engaged in preparing for the trial of the different prisoners. We have already rectified statements which the telegraph had brought from Naples, and shown the true state of those disturbances, which have be n much exaggerated. All the facts above-mentioned took place from the 6th to the 20th ult., and all of them have been isolated acts of brigandage committed by ex-Bourbonian soldiers ; and, in most cases, they are ordinary crimes, with which politics have nothing to do."