Italy. June 22, 1848

Supplement  
Italy.  
No. 22, June 22, 1848.  
Neue Rheinische Zeitung.

* Bologna, June 4. In the surrounding area in the last two days there was an uprising, during which the national flags were torn down. The Italian papers do not at all make clear the causes of this peasant movement. Bologna is quiet. Mazzini arrived here yesterday. Father Gavazzi preaches in the market place against the republic and, as the *Epoca* of Rome says, “enlightens the people about its true interests.”

Adjutant Captain Cirillo has written from Naples to Count Leopardi that the Neapolitan troops are to cross the Po and that he will shortly deliver the relevant royal decree himself.

Meanwhile the *Epoca* gives the official notice that a regiment of dragoons crossed the Po at Finale on the 3rd. At Francolino likewise a battery of artillery has crossed over.

* Rome, June 8. Yesterday the Carabinieri marched out from here to the Venetian territory amid the jubilation of the people.

* Ferrara, June 7. The Neapolitan division Zola had already marched past yesterday. What haste in such a shameful retreat! Already in Lugo the insubordination was so great that a committee of N.C.O.s formed to regulate the march according to their pleasure. – Rovigo was occupied on the 8th by Lombard National Guards, on the 9th by the Neapolitan battery that had crossed the Po at Francolino, and by Bolognese National Guards and Neapolitan volunteers.

Venice. Durando has, after the capitulation concluded with the Austrians at Vicenza, not only to withdraw his own troops but also the papal garrison of Padua across the Po. He has done this, and the Austrian brigade Lichtenstein will now occupy Padua. F.M.L. Welden bombards Treviso unceasingly with bombs and incendiary rockets. Two deputations have been sent to negotiate with him, but the firing continues without interruption.

† Turin, June 13. The day before yesterday the members of the Milan provisional government came here to negotiate about the manner of the government of Lombardy until the constituent assembly. Today the gentlemen Tecchio of Vicenza, Callegari of Padua, Perazzoli of Treviso and Cervesato of Rovigo arrived here to convey the result of the votes in their provinces for immediate union with Piedmont.

* Genoa, June 12. A courier has just arrived from the Lunigiana to the governor. Several villages of this district wish to join the Upper Italian kingdom without delay and ask for instructions. The Tuscan governor seems not to resist the decidedly pronounced will of the people. (*Corriere Mercantile.*)

Genoa, June 12. Today an enormous mass of people proceeded to the Brignole-Sale palace and loudly demanded that the Jesuit emblem affixed in earlier times be taken down. The inhabitants of the palace hesitated at first, but soon saw themselves obliged hurriedly to remove that marble escutcheon from the people’s sight. The removal took place amid loud applause and the cry: “Down with the enemies of Italy, down with the Jesuits for ever; long live the Chamber of Deputies, which has decreed their perpetual exclusion from the country.”

* According to letters from Friuli the Austrians in Udine have had to remain constantly under arms. Palmanova still holds out, and General Zucchi makes frequent and successful sorties.

× Naples, June 8. Here things still look very bad. Patrols roam the streets, troops and cannon are being dispatched to the Pizzo, and at their head is Nunziante, who was suspended during the free days. All this is carried on with the utmost hypocrisy. Bozzelli, the former fugitive, stands at the head and directs everything; as an old liberal he knows how to make the official paper speak honeyed words, particularly to calm the provinces, which, since the suppression of the liberal papers, get nothing else to read about Naples; thus this paper asserts that the number of the victims of the 15th was only 132! At the same time it speaks of the most holy (*Sacrosanto*) constitutional statute, so holy that on the 15th the soldiers received double pay despite the ministers’ refused signature; but whether the ministers sign or not, what does that matter now? Money is literally squandered on the soldiers. When in better times the ministers granted an extraordinary donation to the poor, the king subscribed 4,000 ducats; now, when the troops came from Sicily, who had to flee leaving their knapsacks behind, a subscription is made for them, and at the head of the list stands the king with 65,000 guilders. – The soldiers and the Lazzaroni are now the protected ones here; the Lazzaroni are completely the masters of the city. A merchant recently had a cargo of coal to unload; he agreed on the work with sixteen of these fellows at a fixed price; but once they had the goods in hand, they demanded four times as much. The owner went to the police, where the commissioner advised him rather to come to terms amicably with the Lazzaroni, since he could not interfere. Merely as a favour he took up the matter, not as an official but as arbitrator, and arranged that the Lazzaroni received about double the agreed price. – A justice of the peace said to an acquaintance of mine: I can well make out the judgment for you, because you are in the right, but to have it executed, that is impossible, for at the present day no laws exist here.