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Isk 46 * Makch ^ . ^ THE R EAPER . 369 . :
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. ~ + VOEJXIO AND HIS COMPANIONS . The distinguished men who for toil long ycairs lmvo languished in the loathsome prisons which' tho King of Naples keeps fox * convicted patriots have ¦ become bur g-ueBts . For loving Italy and representative freedom , thov wove , in 1849 , torn from their friends , loaded with irons , paraded in mockery before an arbitrary tribunal , and on the ovidoncc 1 of forged documents , and perjured spies , found guilty and sentenced to incarceration in chains for fife . A bishop and seven priests are amongst the number who , after prolonged confinement and misery , have reached this land of refuge for the politically destitute ; a striking and significant answer to tho two classes of bigots , one of whom continually assures us that continental liberalism i « synonymous only with irroligian and anarchy , and the other of whom are incessantly trying to pcr-• suado us that fidelity to freedom ia a virtue unknown in Catholic countries , or in those comnumitios that do not belong to tho Anglo-Saxon race . A groat many more of tho Neapolitan clergy wore identified in fueling and conduct , in 184 H , with the reforming party . ' " Some of them wcro butchered
in the tumults provoked by the soldiery of Ferdinand during the first days of reaction ; ant many have since perished in the places of tormen . 1 tt > which that paternal sovereign consig ned them The few survivors of the class of clerical victims are now amongst us { and they will be greetec with a welcome not less cordial and sincere because they adhere , in sorrow and in exile , to theologica tenets from which we as a nation dissent . Of the laymen who compose the majority of tlit band of exiles recently landed at Cork , a fourth we understand , were members of the short-lived parliament , elected in compliance with the Constitution which Ferdinand swore to maintain intaci and unimpaired in the spring of 1848 , Relying upon the public oath of royalty , and the inviolability o 1 person and of speech guaranteed them by law Spavanti and 'his colleagues , in the Chamber oi Deputies , continued to . discharge the duties oi their station for some time after the retrogressive designs of the Court had become apparent , after the press had been illegally terrorised into submitting to resumption of the . censorship , and the national guard had been dissolved . . Instead of deserting their posts precipitately , when danger to their country's newly acquired freedom threatened , or seeking personal ease arid safety beyond the reach of a perfidious Court , when it had become evident that the resumption of despotism was in its hollow heart , these truly brave and nobleminded men remained in Naples , sustained each others fortitude by private fellowship , and daily incurred the ever deepening frown of authority by assembling in the Hall of the Orvieto , set apart for the performance of their senatorial duties . Week after week , and month after month , these men , untrained to parliamentary habits , and uncheered by any open expression of popular sympathy , pursued their steadfast .: course in as ¦ . exemplary a manner as the men who struggled with Charles X in our own Long Parliament . If the issue of the struggle in their case , was different , let no man therefore speak or think lightly of tlieir capacity or constancy . Nor let it be forgotten that the unscrupulous tyrant with whom they had to deal shrunk for a considerable time before their reproachful gaze , and did , not dare to suppress the parliament or to lay violent hands on its members , until the Austrians had reconquered IiOinbardy , until the Sicilians had been abandoned by Lord Palmerston , and the French had besieged Rome . It was then , and only then , that the cup of royal vengeance was suffered to overflow , and that the last forms and semblances of Constitutional Government were trampled in the dust in the kingdom of the two Sicilies . It was then that the veteran Pope—¦ whom Ferdinand had , after Judas-like embraces , dispatched , at the head of a considerable force , to assist in driving the Austrians from Italy , and who but too faithfully sought . ' , obey his instructions—was declai'cd an outlaw and a traitor . It was then that Salicetti , who had been absent on a foreign mission during many months , and whose tendencies towards monarchic institutions were notorious , was driven to desperation by similar injustice , and induced to link his fortunes with those of the republicans of Rome . It was then that Settcmbrini—a man the least amenable to any imputation of dclnogogism , faction , or intrigue—was suddenly seized by the police ,, his house ransacked , his friends refused pornnssion to communicate with him , and ho himself , without any definite charge preferred against him , flung into a noisome gaol . Ho was known to have been the author oi the memorable . remonstrance addressod to the King in January , 1848 , to which were appended the signatures of many thousand citizens , together with the dllta of tho aristocracy and clergy . Through fear , Ferdinand yiel ded to its prayer , and repeatedly professed himself grateful to it ' s promoters for having pointed out to him the wants and wishes of his people . But Settembrini ' u crimo , in thus sotting forth tho truths was not to bo forgiven , and when the tide had turned , ho was marked ' out as one of < the first who should bo desd'oyod , if possible , 1 ) y pi'otraoted mental and physical torture It was then that Alcssnndro lWrio betook himself to tho Cnlnbrinn hills , and there ibll , heroically combatting at the head of a guerilla force against tho mercenaries of re- , notion . His brothor , Cnrlo Poorio , refused to follow his example ho had filled several ofiicos Bueansivoly in the administration , and his punctilious Honpio of political honour , combined , no doubt , with his calm discernment of tho futility of all ¦
attempts at partial resistance , and . the evil that was likely to ensue from furnishing new pretexts for oppressive violence to those in power , caused him not only to abstain himself from all ^ eonspiracies and plots , but led him to dissuade others from entering into them . Disdaining flight , though often warned of his danger , he deemed it his duty to remain at Naples , where by his example he felt that he could be of . most use in ¦ cheering the spirits of his desponding friends , and , as far as in him lay * , shaming the court and its advisers into moderation . But all sense of shame had perished ; and lie , against whom there was not hi fact the shadow of a legal ground of accusation , and whose papers when searched afforded not a scrap of evidence whereon to hang a charge , was tried and Condemned as a traitor upon the testimony of informers , and on documentary proofs so clumsily forged that even the procurator-general was compelled to abandon them in open court . It is honourable to the people of the United Kingdom that they should have needed no time to consider how such men ought to be received . They are greeted with the welcome of a nation— - a nation which has long since heard of their misfortunes and their miseries , and which , being ; itself secure and free , mourns over the lot of others who still lie in darkness and in the shadow of political death . As we do not possess any permanent organisation amongst us for showing national hospitality to those who may stand in need of it , we -elm only resort to such improvised expedients as time and circumstances permit . Men of all classes and opihibns , however , seem resolved ^ to provide , during the stay of the Neapolitan exilesam ongst us , whatever can contribute to their comfort ^ arid . ease . In doing so , we ohlv , pei * fbrm a duty to ourselves ; for assuredly in this , ' as in so many other conditions , . ' , " ¦ it is more blessed to give than to receive . " ;
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THE BATTLE OF THE BILL . The impending struggle in the House ^ of Gomraons on the Government Reform Bill is awaited . with more curiosity than care by the public at large . There is no prevailing belief that the battle will be a decisive one . Whether'the bill be a good or a had one , it is on all hands felt that its passing , would iiot settle the question , ' even for the next seven years . Both sides have ,- indeed , been for some time convinced that the electoi'al half of the question will have to be dealt with first , and the re-distributive half of it in a subsequent session-Reflecting people do not , therefore , trouble their heads , just now , about tlie siuallness and defects of the territorial map appended to the scheme . They understand cleai-ly that no Minister , however powerful or popular , could , in the absence of pi-essurc from withoiit , persuade Parliament , as now constituted , to adopt any comprehensive or ¦ general change in the allocation of seats . The shortcomings , therefore , of the Derbyite measure in this respect ? will not essentially mar its chances of progress ; while its abstinence from interference , witli numerous local imCL individual interests will enhance them . materially . But it is not on tin ' s point that the battle will have to be fought . It is because , with regard to the suffrage in townSj the bill tails not only short of former Whig biddings , and actual popular expectations , but , what is of still more importance , of that which the least democratic section of politicians can liopo will be received as oven a temporary settlement , that opposition so varied and formidable seems gathering against tho second reading . liven the exclusively Whig . ¦ Cnbino . t , to which L ord Grey belonged , proposed ' in 1852 to go as far us a 51 . franchise in boroughs , though that consistently captious nobleman now thinks fit to object to any ¦ lowering , of tho franchise at all , unions th . o concession be . clogged or balanced by sonic eontnvnnco for increasing the power of the Government , in thu House of Coinmouu . Lord ( Jroy was not a member pf the Coalition , which , in 1304 , proposed iiO / . franchise , but Mr . Gladstone and Mr . JLowo hold office then , and yot wo arc told thut these right honourable ftcntlouifii meditate saying content to a measure which dour * not go ovan thnt far . And last of all , tho cubimt exclusively formed ot Carlton Club Cimscrvatives \ n \ n boon unable to hold together in eoiiHoquonoo of'tlio t'Oiwiotion , on tho part of two of its prominent member ^ that no plan ou ^ ht to be propounded which did not extend nuiturhilly tho miflrngcin towns . Supposing , then ,
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We this day present . . "¦ No , 1 of-aseries of articles , reviewing . the - question of Mutual Assurance bogieties in all its bearings , and porntr ing out the best mode of obtaining relief from the dangerous situation in which the Assurers in Mutual Offices are so unexpectedly placed by the Yice Chancellor Kindersley ' s Order relating to the call in a mutual company winding up iix his Court . N . B . Preparations are making to pursue the subject of BANKING in all its branches , grounded on the same indisputable reports arid statements as those adopted , with so much success , in the Analysis already issued . ' ¦ _ ' . - . . ; .
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. ' ' ' W There is nothing- bo revolutionary , becauso there is nothing ' so unnatural ami convulsive , as the strain to ki'pp things fixed when all flio world-Is by tho very " law of Its creittlon In oternal progress . —Da . Aunold ,
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SATURDAY , MARCH 19 , 1859 .
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OFFICE , NO . , CATHERINE-STREET , STRAND , W . C ., The commodious premises formerly occupied by the Morning J ^ erald .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 19, 1859, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2286/page/17/
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