Cialdini has partly suppressed the Bourbonist movement in Southern Italy.
His plan, it appears, is to call out the old Gari- baldian officers, and urn them to summon the peasantry to resist the brigands, or Bounists. This plan has succeeded, at least in the Basilicata and the Calabrias, and the rebels have been driven to- wards the sea-coast and Apulia. The disorders, however, are not yet at an end, and will not be while the Roman Government supplies money and arms to keep up the intestine war. There is no present prospect of French troops being withdrawn, though the journals of Paris still urge that Mgr. de Merode's strange outburst expressed the ecclesiastical feeling, and that repressed hatred of this kind warrants the Emperor in withdrawing an irksome and expensive protection. The news from Italy generally is slight, but the loan has been taken, and the King and his Cabinet are steadily applying the money to- wards the creation of a powerful army:
