The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-12 00:00:00

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LONDOIf, TUESDAY, MAY 12.

Tea friends of the Neapolitan Elm:meows in the
two Houses of Parliament would do well to pay a
little more attention to appearances. There is
something in the imprisonment of Mr. Signor,
and there is something in the persecution of the
poor brigands, out of which a plausible case against
the Italian Government may be made. But an
observer need not have the statesmanship of Mr.
BIIITINCIC uor the sagacity of Lord NORMLNBY
to diacover the absurdity of bringing the exist-
ence of Bonanow conspiracy in Naples as a charge
against the Italian Government on one night in
the House of Commons, and appealing on behalf
of a conspirator the very next night in the HOW,
of Lords. This is bad management. The public
memory is very indulgent, and in a week or ten
days we should all have heard of the hardships of
Mr. Blum, with sympathy, without remembering
the speeches which demonstrated the ex'itence of
political evils in Naples that require to be attacked
by the Government in courts of justice and
elsewhere.

Now, what is this case of Mr. "tumor I A
young Englishman of respectable family, but not
too well endowed with mother-wit, goes abroad for
his health, and in time finds himself at Naples.
There accident, or taste, or intrigue, brings him
into communication with a knot of discontented
people of the country. Re hears and believes their
story, becomes their partisan, and enters into
their schemes. It is not an uncommon occurrence.

It happened under the BorileoNs, and it happens
under the constitutional rule of VII.TOR EMICANURL.
Those who thought the government of FZR-
DINAND the fair image and likeness of the
Divine authority on earth thought the participa-
tion of foreigners in schemes for itz overthrow
very wicked, and those who believe the repre-
sentative system of government which has super-
seded it to be a tyranny may think conspired': -
against it very lendable. But both parties, it might
have been supposed, would agree in acknowledging
that under either government treasonable conspi-
racy is as grave an offence as any one can commit,
and one which any government would be justifird
in visiting with the severest penalties of the law.
It is in the depths of his conscience and the ap-
proval of his fellows that • man who believes him-
self bound to conspire must be content to seek
satisfaction. And it is not for • foreigner
who chooses to embrace a cause with which
be has no connexion but that of sympathy,
to complain when he shares its reverses. What
Mr. Bisaor did is exceedingly clear. Being in
Naples fairly in the hands of the BOUB.BON faction
be entered into their conspiracy for restoring the
deposed Krim, and even consented to write a
letter to Prince TORRLLI, whose attitude was con-
sidered to afford them some hope, asking him to
join their plot. For these acts Mr. BISHOP was
brought to justice, and the jury, after • nrost
impartial trial, found him guilty both of empires,
and of the attempt to induce others to conapirs.
Lord NORMANDY, who has undea taken his defence,
says that having incurred the hostility of the K"ig
of 'rat; he is entitled to every possiole protec-
tion and sympathy from the Qurzw's Government.
But evidently this is not ground that one este-
blished Government can take up against another.
Lord Han/Amur also thinks Mr. Limor
has been condemned for • " trifling charge,"
and has expressed the emphatic opinion that
" if our Government, after all their brag about
" the Italian cause, cannot obtain Mr. BISHOP'S
" release, the less they say about their influence
" the better." The Earl of CAILNAIMON, however,

speaking under the responsibilities of an opning
career, expressed the opinion that Mr. Bisuor's
conduct was wholly unjustifiable, and his trial
impartial, and that he has no claim except on the
ground of humanity.
Let us now see what the course of the English
Government has been. Mr. Rumor, having been
convicted, was sentenced to ten years' imp_ison-
ment with forced labour, the penalty preeribed by
the criminal code for the crime of conspiracy.
On bearing of this sentence the QUERN'S Govern-
ment, by the medium of Sir JAY=
Harem, requested an immediate pardon,
on the ground that Mr. BISHOP was a simple
person, the victim of others, and that in his
infirm state of health a sentence of ten years to
the galleys would prove a sentence of death. A fort-
night afterwards the Italian Government replied
that the penalty of labour was remitted, and that
the prisoner should be treated with OM, possible
leniency. Renewed attempts were made to ob-
tain Mr. BISHOP'S enlargement, but the Italian
Government stood upon the necessity of dealing
firmly with conspiracy, and the prisoner was trans-
ferred to a fortress of the Apennines. The
QUEEN'S Government again made representations
to that of Vicroa EMMANUEL, and Mr. BISHOP