Sight-No news of any political interest has been reported from
Italy this week, but Borges, the Spaniard who headed the brigands in the Basilicata, has been seized and shot, and the gentry in Southern Italy are forming armed associations in self-defence. It is said that the French Government have promised to assist in suppressing bri- gandage, and in removing Francis II„ but nothing has yet been done.
A. great eruption of Vesuvius commenced on the 8th December, which threatens to destroy the town of Torre del Greco, which has been destroyed twenty-five times. Two new cones suddenly formed about half a mile below the old crater, the mountain shot out columns of black smoke estimated at 10,000 feet in height, and a stream of lava poured towards Torre del Greco. The stream was 28 palms deep. and about half a mile wide, before which the people of the city fled in thousands. We do not understand that the lava has reached
the city yet, but every house has fissures, and the air is filled with fine /black ashes, which, in a few hours, lay 41 feet deep. The erup- tion, by 11th Dec., had diminished in violence, mid the citizens of Turin, and people of Northern Italy generally, are subscribing for the relief of the sufferers.
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