Masonic Adventure.

at the end of the third day , arrived safely at their destination without experiencing any further adventures . This town was the one in which the sister of Arthur Grimwood lived , and Charles , on the following morning , proceeded to her residence . As he wended on his way , memory ( that blessing or curse , as our lives have been well or ill-spent ) again rivetted him to the scenes of his

childhood . Once again he saw before him the early home of Ms infancy , and heard the merry voices of his young friend Arthur and his sister Ellen , his little Avife , as he was then wont to call her , and recalled to mind the plans for the future which , in the happy trustfulness of childhoodthey had then made . All then was coleur de rose ;

, how changed now . How Avell he remembered the first great grief , when Arthur was sent to a distant school ; and how he had endeavoured , and that with some success , to soothe and comfort Ellen . Next came the pang occasioned by the departure of Ellen and her famil y from their old home . As these recollections crowded

over him , he began to wonder if Ellen would remember Mm ; if the promise of beauty given in her early years was fulfilled ; then the remembrance of Arthur wounded and a prisoner , perhaps dead , came across him . Absorbed in these thoughts , he pursued his way utterly abstracted from what was passing around him , when he

was aroused by a loud shout , and at the same time received a violent shock which rendered him senseless . ( To be continued !)

Memoirs Of The Freemasons Of Naples.

MEMOIRS OF THE FREEMASONS OF NAPLES .

( Continued from p . 42 . ) Francis I . succeeded his father on the throne of the Two Sicilies in January , 1325 , and many Neapolitans cherished the hope that greater freedom might be alloAved them by the neAv sovereign than they had before enjoyed . But there Avere many who feared that greater

calamities were in store for them , arguing that Francis Avas even weaker minded than his father . The society called the White Pilgrims , to Avhich we before alluded , increased and spread ; they corresponded with other societies in Syracuse and Catania , where the feeling of * irritation against the Government prevailed

even more strongly than on the Continent . The political intrigues of this society haA'ing been detected by the ¦ police , many of their number yvero tried , and condemned to fines and imprisonment by , a military commission in

1826 . The following year , JN iccolo Tutonti , Minister oi Police , ordered a list of suspected persons to be made in every province , and members of all secret and political societies ; hut , as the number on the list exceeded a hundred thousand , he abstained from further proceedings , only issuing a royal edict , commanding the gendarmes to consider themselves sentinels in every laceand that

p , their indictment of any person for political offences should be accepted and implicitly believed in a court of justice . * Though the society of the Carbonari had been suppressed as far as possible by the Government , yet in 1828 many of its former members still continued to

, spread their opinions , and a few daring spirits in "Maples and the neighbouring provinces of Salerno and Avellino formed the nucleus of a conspiracy to raise a cry for the French Constitution ; the leaders were three brothers of the name of Capezzoli , landed proprietors at Monte

Forte , and at Bosco , a village in the district of Vallo , in the Prineipato Citra . They had fought on the liberal side in 1820 , and had been hunted by the agents of Government for six years , but escaping pursuit among the mountains ; they had gained many followers from a love of adventure , as well as from a vulgar admiration of the marvellous . In 1827 their and good

, courage fortune again saA ed them from the soldiers and gendarmes , but this attempt at insurrection failed , because the people , though exasperated by persecution and oppressive taxes , placed no confidence in such leaders . In 1828 , hoAvever , De Luca , a patriotic curate in the village of Bosco , jjreached from the pulpit against the perjury , treachery , at the

and bad faith of those in power , and ^ conclusion of his sermon , asked how long the country was to be disgraced by the presence of a foreign soldiery , or how long the people ' s patience was to be abused , since they had the power ( were they so disposed ) to regain their lost liberties . * This again roused the energies of the

Carbonari , who Avere now a professedly political society , the flame of rebellion was quickly kindled , and broke out first at Salerno . The Capezzoli headed the revolt , and went about proclaiming the Constitution . The insurgents surprised the little fort of Palmiero , and burnt and pillaged the only town that resisted their progress . This deed of violence appeared to have satisfied the vengeance of the people , for the Capezzoli had neither the influence to control them nor the skill to

keep their ardour alive . The King , though assured the worst was over , sent Del Carretto , the Inspector-General of the gendarmes , to the spot , with a considerable detachment of his troops , with orders to use the utmost vigour in putting down the rebellion . Del Carretto had himself been a Carbonari and a leader of insurrectionists ; this same mannow eager to propitiate the Governmenturged

, , upon the King the dangers of this revolutionary spirit , and obtained permission to crush the insurrection with all the apparatus of war . He came to the little town of Bosco accompanied by six thousand soldiers and a train of artillery . At the sight of such a military force the people , believing they were betrayed , fled . The town

was deserted Avhen Del Carretto arrived , but planting his artillery against the place , he shortly levelled it with the ground . Men , women , and children , the innocent and the guilty , were thus left destitute and homeless , Avhile the conquerer raised a column on the spot to commemorate his deed . Many

persons were seized and executed , and Del Carretto , assured all of pardon , who would yield themselves prisoners ; three hundred surrendered , and were rewarded with chains . Twenty-two ( among whom were De Luca and other priests ) were first put to the torture and then executed at Salernoand their heads stuck upon the hi gh

, road ; fnfteen were sent to the galleys for life ; fortythree condemned to minor punishments ; while , as a reward for his conduct in this affair , Del Carretto was created a marquis , and raised to the rank of fieldmarshal .

In the early part of 1830 , died Luigi de Medici ; he had remained loyal to his sovereign to the last , and had exerted himself as much as possible , while minister , to suppress the Carbonari and all secret political societies , and had continually reminded his old friends and Masonic brethren of the danger in these troublesome times of again introducing "Freemasonry into Naples . He was one of the finest supporters of the Order—he lived as a good Mason should , an honest and virtuous life . An