From Italy we have a report of the progress of
the disgraceful trials a la Jeffreys at Naples ; a report which throws consider- able light upon the character of these proceedings. Among those who have been brought forward, both as accused and as witnes- ses, have been Augustine monks, who have been impelled by re- ligious indignation at the insults to their order, into a genuine outspe,aking by an earnestness of manner that made even the Judge pause. It seems that while members of the Augustine body have been falsely accused of fomenting sedition, others have been threatened, and even persecuted, in order to make them sus- tain such evidence as was dictated to them. Another ecclesiastic has convinced even the King that his agents are instigated by false and malignant motives. The Bishop of a district not named was required by the Government to make a report upon the disturbed state of his district. He rushed to the feet of the- King, and showed that there was no disturbance whatever in his district ; the whole charge being the invention vof Cioffi, one of the police-agents. The King was shocked at hearing the vener- able prelate ; and, with a pious impulse, hereditary in the blood, besought the good man's blessing ;—but he declined to dismiss Cioffi, who is a " useful " man..
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