The Press. — London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 19, 1853. letter from Lord MAINE:saI:HY has been pub lished, from which it will be seen that his Lordship, when in office. obtained from the " Neapolitan Government an admission 111111 British school. which had hitherto existed, as " they alleged, by connivance and forlteamnee. " should be hemafter publicly authorised and " established under the proteeti .... Of the " British Mission." At the same time Lord MALMEsIII'ItY admits that the King of the Two Sictur.s has indisputable power over the acts and education of his own subjects. Therefore the charge against the Foreign Minister of the late Government resolves itself into this : That the 100/. Mr. HAMILTON received was not adequate compensation for the loss he had sustained. Mr. HAMILTON first stated that his profits were 2001. a year. His school was closed on the lath of 1!432 ; the whole affair was settled on the 16th of December fol lowing—i.e., in less than six months. During that interval a monthly allowance watt, by I,ord MALMEKBURY's orders, paid to him. The sum obtained for him exceeded, according to his first statement, the profits he would have derived from his school in the same space of time had it remained open. After the 10th of December, and the admission extolled by Lord Mst.ms:sarkv from the Despot of NAME)+, there was nothing to prevent Mr. HAMlLTON—unless his private personal attiiirs interposed obsta cles—recommeneing a course of " whistling " whenever he pleased. He talks of debts incurred, and losses sustained, in conse quence of the closing of the school. But that act neither diminished the value of his goods and chattels, nor increased the bill of his butcher —no, nor even deprived him of a present maintenance, for the con siderate kindness of Lord MALMESIIURY pro vided him with a temporary allowance pend ing the dispute. If the school was prosperous, current receipts should have defrayed cur rent expenses; and, if Mr. HAMILTON was in debt, it was because he exceeded his income, and not because his school was closed. But the profits, which he at first stated were 2001., are now, forsooth, 700/.!—" gross receipts" is the ambiguous phrase he uses. I iross re ceipts slay, even in a losing business, be large, and they do not nocessarily imply pro fits. Mr. Brom:rex nowhere tells us how many pupils he had, nor what were his terms. As whistling, indeed, was ineluded in the or dinary course of instruction, we may infer that no charge was made for extras. The presumption is, Mr. HAMILTON owes inure titan he 11111 pay, and is endeavouring to eon- Vert his grievance into a sonny Of profit. We can have no objection to his making " a good thing" of it, provided he keeps within the limits of truth, and abstains from pre ferring false and reckless charges against a statesman from whom, as Foreign Minister of England, Mr. Ilsmii.voN received personal kindness, instant attention to his complaints, and, as we think, reasonable compensation for his wrongs. Our able contemporaries, the Examiner and the Leveler, in commenting on this ease last week, fell into some errors, and made some remarks, to which we will now turn. The Ex aminer assumes dud Mr. Ilmfff.Tos was mo lested by the Neapolitan police because he kept a Protestant school. But from his pamphlet this inference cannot be drawn — indeed, from the pamphlet it may fairly be inferred that the school was a motley com pound of " Turks, Jews, Arabs, ophts, " Greeks, Roman ('atholies, and Protestants." The Leader, whilst it avoids the error of sup posing that the school was exclusively Eng lish and Protestant, says that " the English " Government is concerned, in the fact that a " great wrong has been perpetrated upon an " English subject, who obtains no redress," though Mr. HAM usoN's charge " bears chiefly " against Lord M ALM ESBURY : it then goes on to ask— Is thin Earl of Multneidniry the same statesman whom the young Tory organ calls the Foreign Alinister par rrr.•lJrace. the game of whom that journal lioaateil that hi w4oild have done more for MIS 4 Cutinitighaine than Lord Clarendon. What hwa he dune for !lanailtosi? Itni. in deed, we must nut ask only what Lord Mahnesbuiy, we may ask what any British Minister km dune? To this questiou let Lord ....-MkI.IIESBURY Mtn self reply : - THE PRESS. When I first beard front Sir William of this brutal out • rage committed by the Neapolitan police upon Ms. ,clooolars, and o r t h e b reac h of treaties agallt.t Mr. Hamilton hi►tt.rlt. my first and paramount duty was to 'oblige this Italians State 'officially to wekssowletige that British sltitieets. residing :st Napless powwowed an indefeasi ble right to visit and reosivto one another its their own houses', for all objeetos of social intercourse and of religions and secidar education. 'When` never eionla be a plest I'm that the Neapolitan times, lit had indisputable power 'roes. 11W 'lets ethleallsoll of it.: own subjeeth. and that beyond a 'ornate expression of my topinioin I esoultl not in• terfcre with them. 1 'lid. therefore, s imuit from the Ni. 3. politan (love nt an official recognition of that right ; and, mole Ihau this. I obliiilletl 1 . 1 . 0111 it that a British sehosol, which hall hitherto eligited, as they stated, 11% OM. nuance and borlsearance. should be hereafter publicly authorised and eatablished under the protection of the ltritkli NI th.ion. %Ir. II lion gave tut. to understand that his u►nutl pl•e•lits trout Ili..t.llesll 111110111111441 to 11N►1. he now puts the•ul sit As it hail been dosed for iieitr4 months. and N. Mr. llainilton had been paid, by my orders, ni4slithly allowsnee pending the dispute, and. further litore. RN I never heard Of his pniperts listing suffered. I 1 . ..11.141..n.il a SIMI Of 11114 1 /. tile• title eU1111N•Ilaalion for his lass, NMI I seeordingly insisted upon its being granted the Neapolitan tioveninient. _ _ _ "There su•e:' says the Leder, •• son►e very " ugly circumstances connected uith this " ease." There are indeed : not the least " " in our orb l i 11l 1, is that journals in the position Of the l:.tvrnti►rer•, the Leader, and the Times should print such stuff as this extract from Mr. llAM►►,To\'s pamphlet, as they be lieved it : At the end of seven or eight months' urgent anti nices. sae application to his Lordship, I was surpriaed to lie vaned one day to his Exeellency the Neapolitan Minister for Foreign Atlkirs, who retpterted me to accept the sum tit p.tieitbs as a present from his Majesty the King. in proof of his royal sympathy and respect t'or me ',emotion). When I mtattsl that in the fats' of toy obligations smell it num was wholly useless. and that I had hoped that Lord Maleneslairy would obtain wherewith to pay the school creilitoni ni full, his excelleney alas Is' laugh irons derately. " Why," said he, " you must Is dreaming ' You think, perhaps, that Malmesbury is likes Mir lord Palmerston, ready to listen to et ery t zslaint, and obtain redress fur every griev twee ! Put, lite( ! he is not quite so Quixotic as that. Why, only look at this letter which we have just received then Prinoe our Ambassador at Loudon--ssie what lw 1111y1 I had a long conversation with Lord Nialmetibury. I did not fail to try to impress* on his mind Ike necessity of his taking every opportunity to prove his sympathy with the low. reigns of Italy and Austria, more especially by dews)* raging the complaints of British traveller*, and other per. SWIM who might consider themselves aggrieved. His Lordship quite agreed with Ule that 1.40111 Pahniastou, iu seeking to protect individuals, had almost ruined the nation. And when I adroitly turned the converse • upon the else of Mr. Hamilton, I had the satisfaction to hear his Lordship say, " You can give bim anything you Ilke, it dews not matter what it is, so long as I salt say that you have given him something."' When his excellency had finished reading this extract. he said emphatically, " And remember, sir, that this is a wind, letter from the Ambassador, and n u t an official one ; and I suppose you know that the truth of any /sub ject or nem intent is always contained in the private cones. ptintlenee." Mr. HAMILTON himself in his pamphlet, admits that Lord MALMEIIHURY suggested that " there must be some mistake of names in the " Sicilian Ambassador's letter." In this first denial there is dignified courtesy, not un mingled with contempt ; in this second there is just indignation expressed in plain English, richly deserved : The ridiculous conversation which you have extracted am having taken pluc•e between Niner Parini and toe la. front Iwgiuniug to end, a groom invention ; and I leave it to the two Neapolitan Ministers and to Mr. Munilto.' to deten AA tt 4' who the author of such trash van la•. The Leader mournfully concludes : 3lr. Hamilton points out that, although the known de parture of Lord Palmerston from office gave a new tune to the Neapolitan police, it had alretuly exenitted an unjust anal lawless oppressi 111 l upon a British subject by the suf. Prance of the 'transit Nlinister who has so long *thorned the Neapolitan Court. Well may hump doubt whether England ever means to act. Well may Russia conceive the idea that England is but a scarecrow whom no sparrow of spirit would tlreital, since subjects of Queen Victoria and subjects of persecution, whom Nay paltry I aovernment may molest, are synonjinotts i4 . 1111'4. If Mr. liamilttin haul heti, an American citizen we need not 'Rustic that point. A moment's thought might have prevented our contemporary from ever entering upon it. Hut we will suggest an emendation of his hypothesis, and furnish at conclusion to it as well. If Naples had been America—England's equal, and able to cope with England—instead of at petty despotism, rotten to its core, be neath whose surface the secret revolutionary fires are as busily bubbling and burning as is the volcanic lava Of its own Vesuvius, then Lyra biALMESBURY ;night Lave taken ilia atand . ,I~_r 675 on England's utmost rights as jealously as he did in the fishery dispute, where American citizens. and not the despicable Neapolitan police. violated treaties. lint, having done enough to maintain our rights, hero Lord NlALmr.seruy stopped ; for, whilst prompt to resist the strong to the strict limits of inter national law. the late noble Foreign Sueretary email never stoop to bully the weak 111.:PU1.SI: "IItISII BRIGADE." ev- M.P. for Dublin, .Ir. Jon,' BayNowa, was one .of the most prominent members amongst the Parliamentary " Brigadiers " who, under the guidance of IlessN. hi:sum and SAIat.EIR. took marching orders from Lord Annuli:Ex and the Puke of NEWCASTLE. Defeatt'ili at 1)111ilill, Mr. Itcvsot.us has attempted to persuade the people of Channel to accept him as a representative. But the very name of a " Brigadier" lons Wasted his pretensions. and he has had to retreat in double quick" time. The feet is still more s ignal. cant, its Tipperary is the headquarters of the Sadleir faction. l i nt neither the joust stock hanks of the Lord of the Treasury, nor the noisy 'otoriety of Mr. Iti:VNOUIS, would avail against the designation of "a Brigadier." Yet the present Cabinet waa in stalled in office by the votes of such persona as ASV IloW spurned by the popular constituencies of Ireland ! 'Though Sir .Ivars t I itAilVla may not, think Sabo we will say that, in this particular instance, the people of t'l onn have shown themselves " Irish of the right sort:. (0.;01161.: ESQ., IF 1111 , 4 'we•u rtitlyd, wish tilt• I of such report.:, dud Mr. 11l lisoN way show( t o r e tir o from the representation of Sunderland, that he would apply at the meeting of Parliament for the Chiltern and that, the of Mundrr• land had already designates! his muecessor. 'l'bis statement, winds bas been invention:4ly adopted by seine of env Conservative contemporaries, is not reconcilable with the fact of the large stake of Itsmssit. and itpwarsly which Mr. Ilt•osos no. torissiesly pisetesses in the Sunderland IMeks, and which renders it little likely that be or hie constitu ents would desire to sever the connection between them. .1t all events, we are authorised to reply to the statement that it is, from beginning to end, a pure fabrication. LORI) NASSAREENE. 1. 4 )11n MtaSAIIEENE, ILO Irish l'oer, without political influence, has published an offensive letter, carping at the Earl of Elot.t%rits, and thanking Gun (!) that the government air Ireland is 11411. 110 W in the hand, of the noble earl, whose *. only recommendation wag a " pers.imal popularit a." aupposu trout this that is the Viceregal system "personal popu. laxity " was a supertl aa element, or that it was of no service in pacifying the discords of Irish soeiety. As sisal as Lord MAss%ItEENK shall have mule up his mind as to whether he is l himgetitan, Repealer, Tory, Whig, Conservative, Radical, or a motley rout lineation of all, he may address the public with better vd st : until theta, taciturnity would he much mom judicious. Whatever :may have heen the SW -14'55 of LA Ira I.lN'fioN iu Ireland, the noble earl need fear no comparison with that discerning Viceroy who amide Lord M thsAltEE`il: a knight of St. Patrick, and at the saute link, coutls nsated the claims of Mr. Ilan' as! I►t►l'Kl'Altl► l'ATlti)ti.lllE. WE have been rettritrde•d that butt week we erro tieiniftly attributed to Commander Si:remit that he huil obtained from sir JANIEM IiIItAUAM a good-service lw•u.ion, having 11,4 11.111.5. the Cktiespiou on the conNt of Chili. It appears that the only man-of-war which Commodore tit:yNot•R haw commanded was the Challesigrr, to which ven.el, stud not to the Il,awpiim, occurri.il the calamity to which we lIh:F.V . EI) ('UIN. V►' isicon‘enience, as our readers are aware we antivipstisl, has arisen am►►ng the public through the operation of the law rendering it penal to deface the eurrent coin of the realm, and subjecting to danger of line or imprisonment even those who may inno cently have cndeuw►nr c d to flags Coill4 so marked and %p►iled. Assuming that n u u•h of this inconvenience has occurred tl►nsugh a misapprehension al the statut.., the Lords of the Treasury have initial the followiog explanation, or rather, we &odd say, con • tradictis ► of its penal provision : :