Our rascal was allowed a new coat once every eighteen months, with two pair of drawers and as many shirts, and a penny a-day for pocket-money! These _piccoli omicidii_ at home do not get off so cheap, but stabbing is endemic at Naples. When a queen of Naples brings the Neapolitans a new prince--great joy of course!--all the penal settlements _except_ St Stefano receive _three_ years' mitigation of their sentence; but the crimes that consign to that island are _senza grazia_--the rays of royal bounty do not reach those dark and solitary cells. The St Stefano convicts form a body of three hundred doomed men, incorrigible housebreakers or systematic assassins. The food of all classes of criminals is the same, whatever the offence, and consists of twenty-four ounces of bread, with half-a-pint measure of beans and some oil--a basin of cabbage soup, without meat, for dinner, and meat once in fourteen days: there are eight thousand out-of-doors convicts, many of whom being under sentence for a less space _than two years_, work in their own clothes--which is, of course, a considerable saving to government. Although all the galley-slave establishments are full, no place swarms like Naples with so many meritorious candidates for the _red_ and _yellow_ liveries of the state. ST CARLO, &c. St Carlo is, as the guide-books tell us, "a very fine theatre." What we particularly like, is the absence of all _side-lights round its boxes_. Two hundred burners, arranged in three rows round a small chandelier, give just light enough to set off the fine chastened white and gold, and the one quiet fresco which embellishes the ceiling. A pit of vast size, divided into comfortable sittings, six tiers of boxes, and an orchestra of great space, suited to the extraordinary size of the house, secure a far less adulterated playhouse atmosphere than we are used to; and so exempt from the ordinary inconveniences, that we were able to sit out the _Semiramide_, even with Ronzi di Begnis, now old and out of keeping, for the heroine. Surely _she never_ should have been Semiramis, even in her palmy day! Actors and actresses _will_ not know that words written for them, scenery and dresses adapted for them, and attitudes invented for them, can never _make_ them the personages mentioned in the playbill. On returning home, we stood at our balcony gazing on the lovely face of a true Naples night--a night beyond description!--the whole vault of heaven lighted by one light: a full moon, like a subdued sunshine over earth and water. A world of light, that shone on a world of darkness, tinging the air, gilding the mountain-tops, and making the sea run like melted phosphorus. And what a silence abroad! not the perilous cessation of sound which so often only anticipates the storm; nor the sultry stillness of an exhausting noon; but a mighty and godlike display, as it were, of the first full moon after creation shining on an entranced world! POZZUOLI.