N A P l. E s.
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have been in many places, at home and
abroad, but nowhere have seen such an excess
df poor, wreched, ragged people. Shoes, stock
ings, and neckcloths, are worn by few oil the
working people, but the lazzaroni (of which
there arc said to be 30,O0O) are ndecenty I'M
clad. Even as | write, look from the window
and see man quite naked, except with what was
a pair Of thin cotton drawers round his middle.
Shirt he has none--drawers are torn in many
places--his hair maited-his beard unshayen--
his face apparently unwashed for years--his skin
tanned brown as mahogany by exposure to the
sun. This man is Of the middle ase stout and
strong. He is asking aims from door to door.
There, he has caught my eye, and to refuse re-
lief, idle and lazy though The fellow be, is quite
impossible.


| see, too, what reminds me ofwhat olserv-
ed when taking a tour in the south of Ireland,
few wears ago; on our way to Caseta Bai9 and
other show places, children eight or nine years
| old, and wholly naked, have often kept running
alongside Of our carriage for more than quarter
of mile, begging aims. The only way TO get
rid Of them is to cast up few small coins and
they commence a glorious scramble for them,
while your carriage gets ahead of them as they
quarrel and scramble for the spos.


Mendcity fourishes in Naples, and i'll all the
towns and villages near it. know OF no greater
nuisance than this Crowds Of heggars heset
every traveller, and it is impossible 10 resist their
opportunities. II you give to the first crowd, it
encourages others to beset you And then the
wretched creatures are SO very miserable.


The lazzaroni may be seen in sunny days, ly-
ing asleep on the pavement Of the Chaiza, the
finest street in the city. They were once sup
posed to be of different race from the bulk Of
the inhabitants, but are now believed to be merely
the dregs of the population They are more like
the gpsies than any other class, except that they
do not rove from place to place. They are APP
parently only remove from the savages. Of
religion they have no idea beyond the mere cere-
monial which they see i'll the churches, and the
necessity of confession and absoluon. Many of
them are said not to know .their own names.
Fancy man being perpetual anonymous. and
confessing, wedding, fighting, begging-vilhout
a name!- Correspondent Of the ". 7. Star.