There are more of the obscure accounts from Italy, all
tending to the one inference, that the cause of alarm is unremoved, and that the uneasiness increases. A London journal, not adverse to the arbitrary Governments of the Continent, ventures to assert, "that all the accounts which have reached us and our contemporaries, principally from the Augsburg Gazette and Paris journals, are ex- aggerated, and that the whole will turn out a well-concerted scheme of brigandage." And under this assertion, a paragraph from the Augsburg Gazette is quoted, giving, by way of Rome, and dated the 25th August, "official accounts from Bologna," which "announce that the disturbances in that town have been finally quelled." We last week quoted Cardinal SrratoLa's notification to a similar . effect on the 26th: on that very day, he placed the town, or part of it, in military occupation, or a "state of siege " ; and political disturbances still continued on the 2d instant. We venture to as- sert nothing; but Government proclamations that bear internal evidence of lying—movements of troops in the Papal States, Aus- trian Italy, and Tuscany—arrests at Bologna, Rome, and Naples—. and the elaborate further fortification of Verona—these are inci- dents which prove that something more than "brigandage" exists, or else that brigandage has attained a most unprecedented power, even for Italy.
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