The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-28 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TurvADAT, Fee. 27.

Tu. Logo Cowie&Lwa took kW ssat OS tin woolsack at
6 o'clock.

THE NEAPOLITAN PROCLAMATION.
The Taal el DERBY, pursuant to *mem made an inquiry
Y to a poclamation which had remedy appeared in the
Keep Una papers. He feared it MO nut passible hi dont,
the autlimineity of the prodematien, however incredible
it
appose. It hol Leen issowl by the comitaudin4
e'teer of a dierkt, in oholiemei to orders teeeiVotl
fr-.•.i the prefect, and it directed every nthabiteet to with-
draw from the neighboserhool, the roads and cattle to
be de.troyed. mud every person fulled with provision.
ore than one day's .Conguolptlot, to be shot so •
beaten& The proclauothas was to come IMO operation
two days after it. date, and to he strictly curried out. The
noble earl commuted severely so this act of a government
sleeted by nemwent 'mirage, amt dainties to be the delive-
rers of anatios which they treated in this way. Nothing
was more ...Jennied t.. alienate the people of Italy tram the
government of Turin than such • proceeding. He wished to
know whether her Majesty's government had received nay
*minnows, of this cireunistrinee from our minister at Turin.
end if not whetter they hail called on him to imolai° why
he bad neglected to do en ; zed whether any renionstnince
was to be made on the subject to the Italian governmeut.
Earl RUSSELL said -In rising to answer the treble
earl 1 will brat address myself to the character of the
eatification or proclamation which he has brought under
your lordship.' notice. I entirely agree with all that the
noble earl has said of the character of that proclamation.
(Hear, hear.) I think nothing can be more cruel or more
Lethermis than totems such o proclamation, inv,dv, tog the in-
n. cent with the guilty, mot spreading des elation over r large
district of country, interfering with the pursuits of Sider
tr., and making the goverment a terror to all peressu
(ilear. bear.) I alvvuld add, also, that I think each a pro
imitation would be most isupohtie. (Hoar, bear.) MN is
not the mama in which a country ....us be pacified. This
is not the manner in which the inhabitaets of any district
ono be retweciled, it it be necessary, to the rule of the peers-
mut which has been placed over them Bat with regard
to the authestieity of this docunieut 1 must say I have so
evidence. Is the lint phew, it would seem that oo person
would vesture to publish in a newspaper, certainly at
Turia, whatever the politica of that newspaper might be, a
document of this 'attire which ma not gesusne, casting
ctson the character of the government which ruins at Turin
tri imputation which would be roost colamttous. The
modem per in question is the drowses. It is a newspaper well
know° for its strung political and ecclesiastical opposition to
they...mutest of King Victor Emmanuel. But perhaps yoga
lonlahire will allow me hi inmates a cosvereatioo I awe
b." with the late Count Carom, which bears spin the sub-
ject. I stated to Count Cavour that Ede opponents said that
they were neder great direlvaal. e, for while the libmsl
newspapers which were guilty of Mel were always acquitted
by the tribunal before which they were tried, those which
&feuded the came of the injured institution' of the country
ae it was called, which was the cause of despotism and bar-
bent; me he .bond sill it, when hmught before the tribunal
were always canericted. I said to rain, " I think that is a
charge which is made apart you by those who are your
political enemies." Count Cavour nod, "It is perfectly
trim th..t twerepapen on the one side are generally acquitted,
and certainly when the no...papery on the other side are
brought before the intim:4l they have been generally
punished. Bet this inference," he cad, " bas struck as so
mull that I have given an order that no government proem
entice should be isslitaited against those newspapers ; they
▪ say in safety what they plum, they easy libel mess
much as they like ; I bane determined that they shall net
Le prosecuted for anything they may say." (Hsu, hum)
This may perhaps account, is some degree, fee the ismn
which this newspaper gives itself, end I have hoed thee
there have been instanced in which documents base been
riblielied in this newspaper which afterwards bamboos
found tot to be genume. (Hear, hear.) I trust this may be
er of the instances is which documents sot genuine and
red have tees published in that newspaper ; and I am fur-
ther embalmed la this ley to abases of testimony on the one
side, sad shot I have and w Wise papers es the other. In
the lest plow this peseisaratios, which wee published on the
Ifith Feimrsery, at TIME, has set bees wand by our
mining, at Tens be say steisner. see has it bees noticed
by her liajsity's mese' at Naples. Although it hod
been sappered So be published M a Neapolitan
newspaper, and ie that era it would have manually conic
solar t • eieervence. (Hear, hear.) In the mot place,
whitener* was au evidesce to prove the genuinenees of the
doestrest, Imbed hiss told that it bum a striking resem-
Lrece a p,eelaaatius published is 1810 by the then
government of Naples. (Hear, bear.) This, I confer,
gives se peat some to doubt the genuineness of the dom.
nest I shesid be awl, certainly, for the rake of the Ita-
lian peimental, and I may add, as the noble bid km said,
for the sake of hunareity, if the preelemation should move
not to le genuine, nod that no orb eradicates Lad been
tamed by an ounce .f the King of Italy. There have been,
sodomise, is other Maumee peat seventies practised against
those who are brigand., aid who are disturbing the south-
era peewee of Italy. 1 meat state that I believe the pre.
east muddies of the guveronsest of the King of Italy is the
southern provisoes is pet te a very hard trial. There is
tot existing. se the noble limed would mem to im-
ply, soy aril war is Italy, and those who are
found commettiag murder and robbery are fated gesemilly
is pollee of 10 or 20 pincer, that number being rarely ex-
ceeded, though they may sometimes older 40 or 50
together. They come into this eosrLry they
these woods, they are attacked by the r troops=
King of Italy, and they by leek whirs they are dispersed by
the regular troops, sod the isometry is fur the moistest free
iron than. They sly heck iato the temitoeies of the Pomo.
At the fruitier of those territories the Italian troops Ere
stopped, these own are disarmed. they are given up to am
govern meet of the Pope, and though committing murders
surd robberies, them flies are loft (no to go woero they
pleme, sad they tetttns aa brigauds, mid will do wapiti mid
stein. There is not of coarse ritual to he coastal from
the Popish government of friendship hi the Elms of Italy,
I sit it is not the comma course of voltamt between neigh-
boom, Of a course teuding to the preeervation of Va.,.
There are not men who are carrying Ue a civil mar ; they
MI Mrs who, many of them, in the time of Francis the
Second, committed their robberies and canners, taking the
name .4 carhomn, or ally other name to Covet their designs ;
and now sod then I dare say they may take the
ems of servants of the dimmed King of Italy. These
disturbances have glen groat anxiety to the government of
Turiu. I have just received • cemmuuication, statism that
Baron Rh:molt loot declared that during the winter mouths
bewailing bail diminished, iu consequence of the scarcity of
food and shelter, but it seas likely that as sprig( was eel-
vaiscin4 these disorder. would be renewed. I must say, how-
ever, that issuing such pmclansations =that whizli has been
quoted u sot the beet way to support the KirWs authority ;
but, on the other baud, it is frigotful to see that the rause
of the exiled sovereign cannot he ...rained except by email
litre... of brigands, maintained is the hope that their pre-
sence may serve as an iugumeut to show that the govern-
ment of the King incapable of educing the country to
order. But in spite of all these obstacles, 1 have the
greatest confidence that the government of the King of
Italy will justify the selection of the people. I have stated
here, as elsewhere. my admiration of the midis atti-
tude of the Donau people, of winch, when corn-
gored with that of ether people* in a state
of revolution, they have no reu os to he ashamed.
The ...Ratty ham, in my opinion, shown itself worthy of the
liberty which it seeks ; and I trust that before long their
kelependeoce will be recognised by all the powers of
Europe. (Hew.)
Earl of DERBY mid that the noble earl had made a
very eluetuent and impaeaioned speech, but MI had not
answered his question. What he (Lord tinily) Wanted to
know eat, whether the noble earl hail received any Padua.
ties reveetiug this supposed proclanotioo foot) Sir Jams
Hudson. The noble earl might have telegraphed and
obtained iuformatiou since Tuesday last. What he winked
to know was, whether the noble earl had sent, or meaut to
mod. to Sir J. Hudeue, for information ; and to ask him
whether he Lad made they repreeeutrtions to the goveru-
mein of Turin. Also, supposing the document to turn out
genuine, he wished to know whether it was the inteution of
her Mejert)'s governmeut to make any represeutatiote to
the mein of Turin.
hail RI:BBELL had already stakd that he hut received
no diformatton from Mir James iludem respecting the itieu-
rient. He had also stated his ruinous for suspecting its
trimmest-1o; and the first slung to he olotie was to awertoin
dit woe genuine. He haul telegrophed to Turas, and had
not as yet received an answer. Shout.' the 'hemmed turn
out to he genuine, he should make such e.ermunteationa se
be theught lit to the government of the King of Italy ; brat
Van rare was quite different from that of the fleet,
and if he inentimed the matter at all it would lie iii tenor
tf perfmt friendship to the Italian government.
Tbe Earl of MALMESBCRY said that if the noble can
found the document to he geneine, mil that his meets in
Torn. had !mole no repremetationa reepecting it, the noble
earl should state to M. sputa losi opinion of their conduct.
lisp much exaggenition was there .to loth sides in Italy, that
it was inipasible to gat at the truth named/ad albeit* in
that country unless (runt the faithful reports of our own
agents.
The Duke of ARGYLL hoped that the house would mit
leap to the conelusiou that the proclamation was genuine.
He Lad on the previous evening met mu NAIAD gentleman,
who had just arrived from Turin. lie asked this geutleman
about the proclamation, and in. answer was that he had
Lead .4 such a proclanotioa appearing in the newspapers,
but that on inquiry lie hail found it to he a forgery—a there
recheuffie, in fact, slightly altered, of a proclamation 41
Burst's, se 1810, when he was engaged is putting down
the brigands. He (the Duke of Argyll) should regret very
much the publican°n of this pruclantetim if it should turn
out to he genuine.
The NMI of DERBY thought that the sold* duke should
have omuntutiested his information L.. the noble earl.
LAW OF LUNACY.

The LORD CHANCELLOR. in calling the attention of
the house to the law of lunacy, referred to the late in-
quiry Mtn the Wiadham ease, nail pmpoed that in future,
to avoid the .:paver now incurred, the period over which
the ievesaigatioa should extend should be limited to two
yeare, and that the writ should be directed to a judge
at Wiretsaiseter, who was to proceed in the matter as
is ordinary wee. He also Ito give the judge sod
1: r 4 ioaver to call the %linedmastic before tbatu at any
e
instead
of at the sad of as and to limit the