ITALY.

Otago Witness, Issue 625, 21 November 1863, Page 8

ITALY.

The Ppntificil consul, compromised tat Genoa for"' - intriguing in the interests of the ex- King, (A Naples,' has received his passports for his return to Rome. ", ~ is asserted that France has agreed to surrender - i ithe brigands taken on board .the Aunis to the Italian'" 7 ' Government, but the Nation of' yesterday ev/jhiDg " '*, oontradicts this statement.'" '" '. ' ' •>*-•'> <'*\ ■ At Rionero, on the 7th 1 ,of .September, the brigand."' 11 chiefs, Croqco, Ninco Nanco, Carusa, and Fortora, i r piesenteq themselves to "the, commandment of ihe 1 '- Italian ttoops, v requeßtini» a s,afe conduct for.^/o'tjjier -* ' brigands! who .had promised to give, id xheir'subrais-, ' - I sim to tne Government.* The chiefs left Rionero' for' r I Lagbpesole with cries of "/Viva Victor' Emmanue l!' ' and displaying, the national '.Bag*. .* As a specimen.' of ' how these bandits have lately been" conducting thert«."'\ I selves in. Italy, take' the following case of one Matteop* ' .Perrara.jwho resides ht Migliano, a married mart with! !l ' two children : In 1860 and 1861 he served in the ' ' mobilised National Guard, was ingarrison in,,varipiia " v places, and was employed in pursuit of brigands. ?lii , ; a skirmish with them one of their chie r s was killed," ' and his comrade, a, monster .named Crescenzo .Gravina, 9w(ore to revenge his death. More than 4wb "" ' years 'later; on -the 20th of May, ,1863,'aa Ferosra^ was at wo/k. wjDod-eutting, he was, 'seized ",oy. Gravina; and three other 'bandits, and cimeU off loi" ■ , the mountains, There they tied' him to a'tjree^aud' Gravina 1 , with his poniard, .scooped out his' eyes and- ' cut off his nose an 1 ears. Threq, "months, previously ' - this same Gravina had cut off ihe eyelid* and upper ' lip of an unfortunate native of Paltni. Left atone, fi ," ! Ferrara grouped about in grejat agony, $nd'atUistVw~a4 ! , _ met by a man, who took him tq-hisyiljage, wliejs^liig ]''"'. wife went nearly^out of her seizes whin she beheld V' him., Two days aftowards" he was "sent to Naples.'' ■ and received into.the hospital.where AlexandrelDamas ," ',' saw him, and alludes to him in the following terms ; , " —' As this is one of those atrocities which in F,rano,o " seem incredible, and .which,' nevertheless, it is necesV sary that France should believe, I myself accompanied" the unfortunatq man tp . the. photographer, and • ' ordered 500 photographs of him, which will leave this ' on the Oth September for France arid Ungland. I " reserve the- best, of them to offer'to the Committee of ' ■, Brigandage," , ■ " ' . '**