ITALY.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 281, 31 October 1867, Page 3

ITALY.

The cholera still lingers in Rome, and it is of the true Asiatic type. There can be no doubt, also, of its having broken out at Palestrina, Genezzano, .Olevano, with violence. In Tivoli, and other places, it has made its appearance. The wonder is that, being in Rome, it did not assume a more* dangerous character during the time when there were such enormous crowds collected. From Sicily we.reaeive most distressing news. The Syndic of Naples has received from the Syndic of Riposto, in the province of Messina, a telegram, saying, " The doctors fearing ah invasion of the cholera have all fled, and one is required at any price whatever." The Syndic of Rossano, in the province of Cosenza, in Calabria, by another telegram, asks for becchini (people to bury the dead). One medical man only was found willing to leave for Riposto, asking as his salary lOOf. a ay . J%'&%&%$ lm * n these southern fa^l :**> %££«**sz afterwards refused to i^'lrßmlear of being assassinated, and as beinsf deprived of the protection of the authorities. Four becchini have left with the promise of 12f 75c. a day;. | In Catania, which may. be said to be depopulated, the cholera rages, and 500 persons a day are attacked. There, as in other places, docters and druggists have fled— not so much from fear of the disease as from fear of being rmirdered by an ignorant and brutalised population, who see poison in the very remedies adopted for their relief. The Prefect of Catania, Signor Fasciotti, has been among those attacked. In Catania another danger is menaced, as the poorer classes have shown a disposition to revolt and sack the houses of the wealthy. Few, if any, of the municipal authorities of the provinces of Catania, Caltanisetta, Caltagerone, and Messina, have done their duty in these distressing -circumstances, when assassination and cholera threatened them. The consequence has been that the government has deprived many syndics of office. The cholera prevails very extensivly in Southern Italy, and in some of the islands. Itis prevailing at Leghorn virulently. Cardinal Altieri' died of cholera, at Rome early in the present month.