falli.—The Parliamentary business of the week has been somewhat important.
Government has proposed a loan of 20,000,000/., under circumstances which, as the deficit cannot be examined, make it a vote of confidence. The Opposition took up the ground that the finances were hopelessly disorganized, and that such disorder was the fault of the Government. The Minister, in reply, stated the pre- cise deficit, which is :
Naples . . 2800,000 Sicily . . . 880,000 Tuscany . . . . 400,000 Old Provinces . . . 10,800,000 212,880,000
—the old provinces bearing the war expenses. This deficit will, he believes, be made up gradually by the increase in the regular revenue, but it is evident that the Ministry do not consider this the time for financial revision, and are, to a certain extent, living from hand to mouth. The loan was voted by 224 to 14. In the course of the debate on Tuesday, the Premier alluded to the rumours of a conces- sion of territory. "I have heard people talk about 'cessions' (terri- torial). Allow me, gentlemen, to scout with all the disdain of my soul the very word and thought of it. (The Minister spoke with emphasis, and was loudly applauded.) The King's Government, I re- peat it, the King's Government knows not of an inch of Italian land to be given up, not one inch will be given, not one inch must be given. (Loud cheering.) What the King's Government sees is a territory to defend, a territory to recover. It sees Rome; it sees Venice ! To the Eternal City and the Queen of the Adriatic it turns the thoughts, the hopes, and energies of the nation. The Government feels the heavy task that lies before it ; with God's help it will fulfil it. Opportunity, matured by time, will open our way to Venice. In the mean time we think of Rome. (Increased attention. Yes, we will go to Rome. Shall Rome, politically severed from th rest of Italy, continue to be the centre of intrigue and conspiracy, permanent threat to the public order? To go to Rome is for th Italians not merely a right, it is an inexorable necessity. (Bravo ! But how are we to go there ? The King's Government will be ope and precise upon that even more than upon any other subject (Deep silence.) We do not wish to go to Rome by insurrectional movements, unreasonable, rash, mad attempts, which may endanger our former acquisitions, and spoil the national enterprise. We will go to Rome hand in hand with France. Gentlemen, you declared it in the memorable sitting of the 27th of March." He added, according to the telegrams : "We arm not only for the defence of the national territory such as it actually is, but also to complete it—to restore it to its natural and legitimate boundaries." (Cheers.) The only intelligence from Rome refers to the Pope's health, which is stated to be worse or improving according to the hopes and fears of the reporters. It would seem that the Pope is really very ill, though not in immediate danger. The French garrison in the towns on the Italian side of the Papal territory is to be increased, probably to check the egress of the brigands who now invade Italy under Papal protection. The accounts from Naples are exceedingly bad. An organized system of reaction, called by the better class brigandage, has extended throughout the provinces up to the very gates of Naples. Persons of substance are threatened even within the city, and neither life nor property are secure outside the barriers. Ten thousand more troops are to be sent to the South, which will then contain sixty thousand men. Troops, however, cannot suppress disorder of this kind, which can be put down only by a guard of the respectable citi- zens exercising a just but iron severity, and, if necesssary, by dis- arming all who do not pay a certain sum in direct taxes. There is a great want of capacity obvious in the internal administration of Naples, though allowance must be made for exaggeration and the Italian habit of talk. Early in the week a number of galley-slaves escaped from the prisons at Piedigrotta. This place is close to the Villa Reale, the most frequented part of Naples. In another direc- tion, on Tuesday night, a party of fifty armed men came down upon a station called Cancello, on the Nola Railway, not far from Naples, took off all the money they could find, and; after breaking the busts of Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel in a café close at hand, bound and shot the poor fellow who kept the café. Not far from this spot National Guards and regular troops have been out all the week. On the same night arrests were made of recruiting parties in the villages of St. Anastasio, Barra, and Somme, within a few miles of the city. In one word, to quote literally a high military authority., "brigandage" has taken a strong footing in the province of Terra di Lavoro, sup- ported by foreign funds and calculating on the assistance of numerous elements of disorder in Naples itself, where they are by no means deficient. Correspondence, and arms, and money have been found in great abundance within the last few days, and in one place 15,000 dollars.
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