The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-20 00:00:00

BLUE BOOK ON NAPLES.

The " Correspondence respecting the Affairs of
Naples," laid lut night before parliament, commences in
June, 1859, the date Lord John Re ell's return to the
Foreign-office, ands curried down to the 19th of the present
month. The careful and detailed despatches of Mr. Elliot
disclose a system of perverse and conscious misgo-
vernment almost surpassing belief, when affirmed of a
European state. We extract the following letters :

LORD J. RUIN/IL TO RR. RLLIOT.

(Extract.) Foreign-office, Jan. 16, 1881
It may be se well to explain still further to Prince
Satriano, and through him to the king, the policy of the
British jrzrunment.
Your e to his excellency on this subject is en-
tirely approved by her Majesty's government. We wish
well to the Neapolitan dynasty. We have no desire to
interfere with the internal government of Naples and
Sicily.. Bat we cannot blind ourselves to some obvious
truths. It is evident that the commonest ruler of justice
am not observed by thg King of Naples towards his sub-
jects ; that the exasperation caused by oppression is the
parent of plots, araissination, conspiracies, and insurrec.
'on.; that her Majesty's agents and consuls, while they
religiously abstain from taking a pert in such plots, have
had convincing evidence of their existence.
Should such mespinietes endanger the throne of his Sici-
lian Majesty, her Majesty's government can only lament the
',Lindner which aftbete his council. But her Majesty's
government will neither accept any part of their respon-
sibility, nor undertake to ward off the consequences of •
mbgovernment which Ire scantely a parallel in Europe.
The reforms necessary inquire no elaborate machinery or
profound meditation. Let the Neapolitan government
arrest no man without bringing him to trial face to face with
his accusers. Let them subject no man to injurious metric.
tires without proof of some crime or offence whist public
onler ; let the law, as it stands, be equally applied to all.
With these simple but broad changes. • beginning would be
made ; popular institution. might follow ; time for delibe-
ration would be gained, and the vvernment might even
obtain • reputation for juries and honesty. But the course
at present can only lead to destruction.
You to Prince &Arian, is the sense of this
dispatch sarareo to IL thiraia, if he should raise the ques-
tion with you.

KLLIOT TO LORD JOHN arigert.L
Marc .
h 3, IMO.

Ify Lord,—l took the earliest opportunity of seeing IL
Chiefs to *sire the cause of the arrest. mentioned to ray
dampish of yesterday's date, and to ask whether the
ermatry was ia so eminently critical a date as to call for
each extreme measure*, directed against nice who could
scarcely be serioaaly suspected of conspiracy or treason.
N, (.Tama repeated, as he lass so then done before, that
the government felt no tureaainess, but that they had re-
ceived undoubted information of the intention of the par-
tisane of annexation to Serchnia of making a demonstmtios
which it would have been nectvou7 to suppress by force
and that to avoid bloodshed, the preventive measures white
I had snorted to had been takeis ; and his Excellency
triumphantly pointed to the tranquillity with which the
day had pawed se coaclueive evidence in favour of the
course adopted.
I said, that of course if the government bad the proof
which he said they parried, of a oolopiracy to violate the
law, they woad Dales blamed for arresting the persons an.
plicsted ; but I trusted there was no truth in the report
that Show pennies, instead of being openly brought to trial,
where their guilt or innocence might be pnveal in the face
of day, were to be awanurily transported or exiled without
trial or fizaastmeles.
roTespesp•L brawrer, N. Carats replied that such was
the mof the government ; far that although they bad
seacisat to satisfy thesneslvos of the guilt of the