tali.—The Italian Parliament was prorogued on the 14th instant, and
will not sit again till November. It has passed a law mak; g the naval conscription more strict, and a great number of railway bills. The most important are those for the Adriatic line, from Bologna to Rimini' Ancona, the Tronto frontier, and across the Apen- nines to Naples; the Central line, from Florence to Perugia, and down the valley. of Umbria to Rome, with a variety of cross and branch roads. Another important line has been granted from Turin, across the Appennines to Savona, and another diagonal line across the Lombard plain, from Brescia to Pavia, by Cremona. The Roths- childs, it is reported, have tendered for a large portion ofithe great loan of twenty millions, one half of which has been reserved for Ita- lians, and the whole of which will, it is officially stated, be at once taken up. M. Ponza di Martino has resigned the lieutenancy of Naples, being displeased with the powers conceded to Cialdine who is now lieutenant to the King, as is General della Rovere in Sicily. He has issued a proclamation, calling on all the loyal to resist the brigands, and intends hunting them by small detached parties into a single pro- vince where they can be attacked in mass. The reports of the state of the country are still most unfavourable, and it is alleged that the efforts of the Government to suppress the "Gamoristi" only in- crease the evil. The Gamoristi are an association of criminals in Naples who levy black mail on the honest, and are banded together to assist each other to escape punishment. They are about two thousand five hundred in number. Why not arrest them ex masse, and send them to Palentaria ? Ten thousand fresh troops have arrived in Naples, but a couple of Indian officers, trained to deal with men of the Neapolitan stamp, would probably be more useful.
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