The Neapolitan brigands arrested on a French packet in the-
port of Genoa have been given up to the French demand, the Italian Law Commission advising that the steamer on which they were apprehended—the Aunis—was entitled to the- immunities of a man-of-war under the treaties affecting the French Messageries Imperiales. The Italian Government has done rightly in acting strictly on the law, but France will cover herself with infamy if she does not again surrender. these wretches under her criminal extradition treaties with Italy. These are no political refugees, but common ruffians. One of them, Cipriano la Gala, was sentenced in 1859 to twenty years' hard labour, broke out of prison, organized a. band of marauders, and began a career of which :this is said. to be a specimen act :—" Having seized three unfortunate people, and cut off the ears of one, he sent them to his family, with the request that they would ransom him for 2,000 ducats, which, not receiving, he killed him." If France protects such scoundrels as political refugees, she will not long retain the gratitude of Italy or the respect of Europe._
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