Italy. 3 September 1848.
Supplement.
Italy.
In Massa and Carrara disturbances had broken out, but were already suppressed on the 23rd inst., after the ministers' statement in response to an interpellation. In Leghorn, on the 23rd, the well-known Father Gavazzi, whom the government had expelled on account of his democratic-social speeches, arrived on a ship coming from Genoa. The government forbade him to land. Thereupon the people went in masses to the harbour and fetched him from the ship amid endless jubilation. He is proceeding to Bologna. The Roman government has charged the notorious Bini, who is regarded as a secret adherent of the Jesuits and as a spy of Austria, with the formation of the two new regiments. Among the people there is but one voice of indignation about this. Austria has declared that it regards the offer of Franco-English mediation as a new guarantee for the preservation of peace, but that for the time being it cannot make use of it, since it is already negotiating directly with Charles Albert on the peace. Only if no result be achieved by this path would it permit the mediation. In Venice a cordon of armed boats has been formed to prevent all communication with the enemy on the mainland. The new Tuscan Ministry of Capponi has developed its programme before the deputies. Its deeds will, of course, develop quite differently.
* Naples, 14 August. One of the Calabrian insurgents, Zagarella, fled on board a shallop belonging to the French frigate Psyche. The soldiers of Ferdinand stopped the shallop as it lay at anchor and brought out the fugitive by force, despite the French flag. The sailors were unarmed and too few in number to offer resistance. This act of violence took place upon the express command of General Nicoletti in Reggio. When the