The Press.
London, England, 1856-10-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, SAT URDAY, OCTOBEIL 11, 1856.

POSTSCRIPT.

THE NEAPOLITAN QUESTION.
No further movement in this affair has yet been
made. The Paris correspondent of tho Times
(second edition) writess:—

The latest advices from Naples as yet announce no
change or modification in his Majesty's determination
To the first steps taken by the Western powers the King
responded by the opening of the present criminal proceed-
ings. To the ultimatum, if ultimatum be intended, the
same amiable Sovereign will probably reply by the exe.lii-
tion of the sentence on snob of the prisoners as have been
convicted. A note is still spoken of on the part of the
French Government, but it is hardly believed that the
fleet will be despatched at the same time to enforce its
demands. Indeed, there seems to be nothing yet decided
respecting the fleet, though it is probable that the ambas-
sadors will be recalled.

The political trials mentioned above are concluded,
and sentence delivered :—Mignona has been con.
demned to banishment for life, Mauro Dangelis for
twelve years, and the priest Decicco for two years.
The monk Roggero and another have been set at
liberty.

By intelligence from Vienna, Oct. 6, we learn that
the prevalent impression in higher political circles is
that General Martini's mission to Naples will
not be attended with any great success. The Oester-
reichische Zeitung, which is supposed to acquire a
part of its information at an official source, contains
the following
Many of the foreign papers state that the Austrian
Government has sent a squndmn from Pola to share in
the demonstration against Naples, but the news is pre.
mature. " Until now no vessel but the war steamer, the
Elizabeth, has received orders to proceed to the Bay of
Naples."

A private letter from Bucharest, of the 20th of
September, asserts that Prince Alexander Ghika,
the Kaimakan of Wallachia, has not only reorga•
nixed the Cabinet and made great changes in the
political administration of the province, but he ha
entirely broken up the supreme and second courts of
justice.
The occupation of Galatz by the Austrians is
denied by the Journal de Constantinople, but to
some extent authenticated by intelligence received in
Paris from Bucharest.

intelligence from Madrid, Oct. Bth, announces the
appointment by royal decree of M. Tessera as
Spanish Ambassador at Washington.
Preparltions were commencing for sending to
Africa next spring a considerable amount of naval
and military forces.

The screw steamer Canadian arrived at Liverpool
yesterday morning with the mails from Quebec and
Montreal of the 211th ultimo. The athices contain
no news of interest.. Commercial affairs are quiet.

Mrs. a Beckett, widow of the late gifted magis-
trate, has been considerately and liberally granted
by the noble Premier a pension of 1001. per annum.
Lord Palmerston's liberality has been further shown
in the gift of 1001. towards the maintenance of Mr.
Angus Beach.

THE Pt Es

THE "FREMONT" FOREIGN Policy.

A vERY important public meeting was held at New
York on the 25th ult. Upwards of 25,000 persons
were estimated as present. Housetops and windows
were crowded. Mr. Banks, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, a "Republican," and sup-
porter of Colonel Fremont, was the speaker. Mr.
Banks, in opening his speech, claimed the con-
fidence of the mercantile community for the Re-
publicans a 3 true Conservatives, and then referredlto
the policy of annexation :

Look at another question—look at the mean and
scandalous policy declared in the Ostend Conference
—that policy re-affirmed, blindly and darkly, in the
Cincinnati platform—which is to the extent and goes
at least in the direction that it is right for a people,
if they want a territory, to steal it, if they cannot get
it in any other or better way. We are against that
policy—not that we are against the acquisition of
territory that has taken place in times past, which
was necessary to the national defence, and which has
contributed to that prosperity to which allusion has
been made heretofore, but I allude to those islands
which our southern brethren speak of as our islands
of the Southern Seas. We want nothing of them so
long as they remain in the hands of nations at peace
with us.

They add to our interests as they arc. If the
Sandwich Islands, or the islands of the South Sea,
excepting alone the Island of Cuba, were possessed
by the people of the United States, they would be
held either by the consent of other nations, or else
we should hold them only as tenants at will, and we
should be dependent on the support of other nations.
Otherwise, you would have to send your steam marine
for their protection, and at any moment of difficulty
or doubt in reference to the relations existing between
them and other points of the confederacy, you
would be always obliged to maintain a naval power
in those islands such as this country has never con-
templated, and which could not exist without danger
to our institutions.

What we want is not to steal territory from other
nations. We have at present as much territory as
we want. But we have the right, and it is the duty
of our people, to cultivate amicable relations with
the people of those islands and with the people of
the other portions of the South American continent.
From these amicable relations may spring other evi-
dences of that commercial prosperity which has
placed your city before all the cities of the American
continent.

We have tried it with Canada—we have tried it
with the British possessions, and certainly no human
experiment has ever proved more grand and success-
ful than the Reciprocity Treaty between the United
States and Canada passed in the years 1852-3.
Now, we propose, if our people of the North should
conceive and inaugurate a policy of their own, to
substitute this doctrine of reciprocal treaties, with
the nations of the Western world at least,:in place of
that doctrine of theft of territory which has made
the name of America and of American Government a
scandal throughout the nations of the earth. We
might extend the same system of reciprocity to
Japan and the other nations of the Eastern hemi-
sphere, whenever they shall choose to change their
national policy. We might thus recuperate and
revivify the honour once attendant on the American
flag, and on the American Government.

Mr. Banks then referred to the monopoly hitherto
enjoyed by the Southern States in the Govern-
ment :

For seventy-five years past the Government of
this country has been in the hands of Southern
statesmen, who have directed its policy. The North
has been busy in the mechanical arts, in agriculture,
and in mining, and has given less attention to the
affairs of the Government than it otherwise might
have done—certainly less than it ought to have done.
On the contrary, the South, having no literature of
its own, having no science of its own, having no
mechanical and manufacturing industry of its own,
having but little or no commerce of its own, having
no inventive power or genius of its own, having, in
short, none of the elements of power that distinguish
our civilisation, has turned its attention chiefly, so
far as its leading men are concerned, to the govern-
ment o' the country. Now, we of the North propose
to divide this little matter with them. In some
places they call it treason to talk of this, bat I think,
after the election of November shall have passed,
they will be willing to concede that it is patriotism
and not treason. We propose to divide the manage-
ment, control, and responsibility of this Government
with the ten millions of the South.

He alluded to the rumoured separation of the
Southern States :

What will the South do after the election of
the so-called northern and sectional candidate?
What will those who aro despoiled of ►heir offices of

SATURDAY,

trait and emolument in the army and navri
and in the civil department of the Government,
do ? I will tell you. They will look abroai's
to see where and what they are. They will
recognise the truth of the statement tlitt
I have made to you—that they have no
literature, no science, little or no commerce, little
or no manufacturing and mechanical industry;
and that even their agricultural industry is falling off.
Let me recite to you a single fact. Out of 2,0;0
patents issued from the Bureau of Invention at
Washington for the last year, less than 1:,5 were
issued to men living in the 15 Southern States, and
of that 125 doubtless many were to stray Yankees
sojourning there. I hear a great deal said
at Washington about the value and importance
of the cotton crop; but I remember that it was a
neighbouring congressional district of mine that
gave birth to the humble man who invented the
cotton gin which has given the cotton crop all AS
value.