The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-16 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 16.

Is BOMA IL hes no sense of shame, no spark
of human feeling in that craven and cruel heart
which the discipline of priests and priestly panders
has furnished with all the arta of the Father of Lies,
it seems at least he has one faithful servant of his
house not entirely bereft of self-respect, nor
absolutely incapable of vicarious remorse.
There is positively one man in the service of
FILLNCIII of Naples who albeit, we are assured, too
honest or too humane to be employed on the ordi-
nary service of his Court in times of security, is
specially reserved to be • sort of sacramental
agent of royal perjury in extreetia He is sent
for by this religious King as a priest is sent for
by • trembling malefactor on his bed of death, to
administer a sort of extreme diplomatic unction—to
whom do our readers suppose 1 To the Great
European Powers. This is the way of the right
divine. keen do no wrong, still less avow a fault ; but
when in the headlong fury of itscrimes it iaovertaken
by the avenging justice of Heaven, it picks out
some obscure and comparatively untainted agent,
and despatches him, like the scapegoat into the
desert, to propitiate the Powers. Not to his own
subjects does this King of NAPLIDS appeal, or plead,
or promise, but to foreign Courts. It is the
Commendatore Massimo, an unpronounced liberal
of respectably lukewarm temperature, whom in his
dying momenta the blessed FIRDINAND recom-
mended to his hopeful heir as the man for these
supreme emergencies ; the man to make promises
and to sue for conditions which his Sovereign, with
a Papal dispensation in his pocket, may at a
more convenient season break ; the man to oak
civilised Monarchs and constitutional Ministers to
guarantee a kingdom to the torturer, murderer,
and bombarder of thousandsof women and children.
But nations do not unlearn their own history quits
so soon as that injured innocent, Fuse's IL,
late of Sicily, appears to suppose. How can they,
when that history is written in characters of
blood and fire, on the reeking floors of torture
chambers and the smoking walls of cities I If
ten honest men could be found, out of prison, in
Naples to put faith in the word of the pious exe-
cutor of the testament of FIJWINAND IL, we
should say that the kingdom was worthy of its
King. But, excepting the creatures of the
court, the priests, the spice and gaolers, and the
lazzaroni, there is not one of his fellow-country-
men whom the Commendatore Matrix° would

dare to ask to endorse his
not, then, affect to be surprised at the news that this
respectable diplomatist has renounced his minion
to the Court of St. J•isines, and returned incon-
tinently from Fontainebleau to Naples. To say the
truth, we rejoice that the Commendatore MAIITI3O
has in the face of Europe openly declared that the
gen ant of his master was unworthy to met foot
on the shore of England, and unwilling to confront
the steadfast gear of English freedom. In these
days the words of free parliaments are winged
with lightning, and the Neapolitan agent must
have been hit, so to speak, "dying " by those few
but honest and decline words of greeting which
Lord PALMEasToa dung across the sea to him as he
flitted through the French capital. The harm
Mistmvaa, in his place in Parliament, expressed
the thought and purpose of the English people the
other night, and either M. Tuoi%igNal. or the Em-
peror of the Fuscr himself may have been kind
enough to give the C.ANIMENDATIALR a timely hint
that the country to which M. ma MoINTALLWICaT
came once upon a time to take " a bath of life"
was hardly a desirable climate for the complaint
of all emissary from the Court of Naples. For
what, after all, were the proposals which M. M• 11-
us., carried in hot haste to Fontainebleau, and
has already taken back with equal precipitation to
his master? What are the " guarantees" which
at the sound of a clear-voiced trumpet from
Westminster the Neapolitan Envoy has let fall in
a sudden tit of shame I

Wu can-

M. MARTIN° was actually prepared to promise
on tochulf of Fit•NCIS 11.,t0 his subjects on the main-
land, the French Imperial constitution of 1852 l
Yes ; all the " wise and sober liberties"—to adopt
the words of the President of the Senate—of
Imps:111d institutions were to be bestowed
by royal grace on the few Neapolitans who
have eurvi%ed the unrepealed though foresworn
Constitution of 1848. Let our readers iniagine
the present regime in France transplanted to
Naples. In other words, Napoleonism minus the
French people and pima &MBA 11. As it is
aimply impossible that the Neapolitan Envoy
could have the face to ask even the French
Euraaoa for intervention in his favour, we must
presume that the burden of his message to Fon-
tainebleau was the flattering idea of copying the
Second Empire at Naples. M. klaarino could
scarcely imagine that the idea would appear
equally flattering on this side of the Channel. In
London he would probably have been reminded
that the Constitution of 1848, solemnly sworn to
by Faaortrsvtr 11., still exiata of right and in
fact. It may be that that pious monarch, who ,