Memoirs Of The Freemasons Of Naples.

quently on his lips , and he was more than usually gracious towards the Muratists . Officers and privates appeared equally satisfied , and hypocrisy ancl want of sincerity prevailed on either side . Judging from these external appearances , the Government believed the army faithful , and on the 1 st of July 1820 the camp was raisedand the

regi-, , , ments returned to their former quarters . No sooner hacl they clone so thana generalinsurrectiontookplacethroughout the country . Many ofthe soldiers and almost all the local militias joined them ; and in one great body they marched on toivards the capital . They reached Naples on Sunday , the 9 th of Julyabout mid-day ,

andpro-, , ceeding by Strada Toledo , defiled before the Duke of Calabria , who stood at the window of the Eoyal Palace , and admitted their leader to the honour of an audience ; after which he was granted the favour of kissing the King ' s hand .

The regular troops , headed by General Napolitano , opened the march , and were followed by the mass of provincial militia , walking rapidly without any order , conducted by General G . Pepe ancl a priest of the name of Menichini . This extraordinary man was looked upon with more curiosity than his companion , inasmuch as he had been the principal mover of all the secret springs

which had set tbe revolution in motion , and had thereby brought the anger of the Pope upon himself . The constitution itself , in a palpable shape , made its appearance in the procession , conveyed in a common hackney one-horse chair , called a curriculo . The spectacle displayed by the "bands of provincial militia was

singular in the extreme ; as , though they were all most formidably armed , their weapons varied as much as their accoutrements . A very small proportion of them were clad in military uniform , the majority being habited according to the different costumes of their respective districts , which , at the same time , bore a very warlike aspect ; the cartridge belt , the sandalled legs , the broad stiletto , short musket , and grey peaked bats , so

peculiarly adopted by painters for the representation of banditti , seemed here to realise all the ideas which the inhabitants of the North had formed of such beings ; and the sunburnt complexions and dark bushy hair and whiskers of the wearers greatly contributed to render the resemblance more striking . A strange contrast was exhibited by the more opulent classes of these legions

, who , _ though equally well provided with arms of all descriptions , marched among the ranks of their picturesque companions attired in the full extreme of modern French and English fashions . All bore the Carbonari colours at their breast ; while scarfs of the same , or different medals or emblems , * tied to their

waistcoat , denoted the rank they severally held in the society . Banners with inscriptions in honour of this association were also carried by them . Nearl y the whole of these individuals had been absent from their 3 ion . es nine days , during which they had never slept in a bed , eleven under a roof ; but they all seemed in perfect good

humour and spirits , and appeared amply repaid for all their hardships by the success which had followed them . ( To he continued . )

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The Eev . William Sewell , D . D ., has in the press a work entitled The Christian Vestiges of Creation . The hook may he a " -ood one , hut the title is a hase plagiarism from that of the well-known anonymous work .

Laswarrie.

LASWARRIE .

As IXTTDETT F 0 UX \ D " E 11 OK" FACT . ET A PEOV . G . C . It is not often now-a-days that we hear of Laswarrie ; very few of the jn-esent generation know that there is such a place upon the face of the map ; very many of the

past generation have entirely forgotten its whereabouts ; and yet before its little nullah was once fought one of those hard-won , bloody fights , which have rendered the British name so terrible in the Hindu ' s ears , ancl gained the British soldier his most befitting character for a resolution amounting to bulldog pertinacity . Laswarrie was like Plassy , or ThermopyL-c , to go back to olden times , a spot where pluck vanquished force , and heroes discomfited a host .

, Men ' s minds are now filled with reminiscences of the Crimean struggle ; they tell us , when they talk of war , of how the hordes of Euss fell on the few hundreds of the Eoyal Duke ' s Division , and they relate anecdote after anecdote to prove how gallantl y his warriors met and repelled the onslaught , just as if such deeds as that dark

morning saw hacl hacl no parallel in the days of old , and had found no impress in the pages of preceding history . Men talk now of Louis Napoleon ' s rapid marches , and his vigorous ancl energetic movements ; ancl they worry themselves because the Gallic Emperor , having shown such singularly warlike capacity upon the soil of

Northern Italy , might , perchance , if outward circumstances pressed , or the whim seized him , try similar erratic feats upon the southern shores of England . Ah ! well ! he would require , I take it , some little activity in quantity and quality surpassing what he jiossesses already , to manage any undertaking of that sort to his

own satisfaction . And a pity , surely , is it that , instead of raising all this useless , yet irritating clamour , we will not bide quiet as ive recall to mind that British grenadiers are prompt as he in showing pluck , and that English cavalry are swift as he in marching on to meet an enemy . At leastso was itwhen Lake ' s four

thou-, , sand "handful of heroes" chased through North Deccan the huge flock of " Deccan Invincibles , " and brought them to bay beside the Nullah of Laswarrie . And so will it be again for aye and for ever . Let the screw and the paddle do their work ever so expeditiously , no steam will ever—can ever anticipate the gathering of the

"corps ; " no debarkation could be effected ever so hastily , but that the scarlet and the grey would acknowledge it with a thorough English welcome—ancl a warm one , too !

But enough . On Laswarrie hangs the tale ; and epics and heroics , with all attendant fustian , are as unwelcome noiv ancl here as—as—any friends under certain circumstances from over the water would be any time at Portland or Newhayen .

"Where is Laswarrie ? " brother apprentice , did I hear you say ? When you are perfectly acquainted with the Globe on B ., you will remember it as a little village not far from Delhi or Agra . By-the-bye , whilst on the subject of geography , I heard of a clergyman , the other day , who goes about

preaching for a society who talks of the poor Hottentot on the burning plains of India . Well brother E . A ., Laswarrie is in India ; but not where those poor Hottentots are exactly . There is nothing like saving yourself and yoni- nei ghbours trouble , and taking things in a general sort ; even geography , if it come in the way . But to Laswarrie . Por , brother E . A ., did you ever