Stalii.—The Italian Premier, immediately the vote of the Italian Parliament
for a loan of twenty millions had been recorded, addressed a circular to the diplomatists of Italy. After alluding to the proof which the vote affords of the public confidence in the Ministry, and the security the unity of the national debt will give to credit, he proceeds to explain the uses to which the money will be devoted. HIS first object is to develop internal prosperity, and with regard to ex- ternal affairs, the King's Government cannot lose sight of the under- taking which with so much perseverance has been conducted almost to the desired end. "But in employing all our efforts to make national. independence a fact entirely accomplished, confiding in the justice and sympathies of Europe, we will never excite crises which may disturb the general peace and place in danger the interests of the Italian cause. That policy, I doubt not, will obtain the assent of all
friendly Powers, and render them favourable to the accomplishment of our destinies."
The reports from Naples are still very bad. The " brigands " are in full activity., and appear to include a considerable section of the peasantry, and to take every day a more open political character. Their plan of action is to collect and attack a village, commit exces- sive outrages, such, for instance, as burning eighty Liberals alive, kill all the respectable people they can, and then retreat before the soldiery. They are seldom caught, and the gentry, who might defend them- selves, are badly armed. General Cialdini, who has taken charge of his lieutenancy, is endeavouring to remedy this by calling out and arming all the National Guard. His arrangements are not, how- ever, completed, and meantime the discontent of the people is so serious that if a second national vote were taken it would not be for Victor Emmanuel. The Government is accused of neglecting the Southern Provinces, and of useless leniency. The agitations extend through the Terra di Lavoro, thq Abruzzi, the two Calabrias, the Capitanata, Otranto, and Foggio.
Cardinal Antonelli has protested against the loan of twenty mil- lions, which the Pontifical States will not recognize, and the Pope, in an allocution, regrets that so many sees in the Roman States should be left vacant. It is he who leaves them so.
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