The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-11 00:00:00

THE STA'L'E OF NAPLES.

ISt;APLES, APRIL 2.
It is not often that Lord Palmerston is " sold,"
but he has been sold, nay, more, knocked down this
week. The event took place at the sale of the late
Sir William Temple's effects, where a splendid en-
graving of his Lordship was bought by a gentleman
of Modena, established in Naples, for the small
sum of 15 ducats. The frathe was worth more than
18 ducats, so that the Prime Minister went cheap.

There are tens of thousands in Naples and Italy
who would have rejoiced to have the likenesg of a
man by whose na►rne they swear, bdt the Neapoli-
tans were afraid to bid; even such an incident as
this would have been noted. The terror which
his name inflicts here may be judged from the fact
that a circular has been going the round of the
judges in the provinces, warning them that an
emissary of Palmerston is in the country. The
signs by which he may be recognised are given,
and orders are issued not to molest him, but, to
watch Well all with whom he has any contact.

Every Englishman must feel that no higher com
pliment could be paid to his lordship than to be
feared and hated by the Neapolitan Government.
How different the fate which awaits my Lord
Derby here ! It is felt that he has sympathies
with this Government. His speech of the 17th of
March, translated into French, is now on my
table ; 20,000 copies of it, I am told, have been
printed, and they are being distributed right and
left. The moral effect of this be very
bad. The Government 'uses this unhappy
speech as a silent approbation of its policy,
and severely will the Liberals suffer for the
newly acquired strength which arbitrary power has
received from Lord Derby. The reports of an ad-
justment of the difficulties between this Govern-
ment and those of the allies have died away again,
though it is said that since the first failure other
propositions have been made. The agent of whom
I spoke about ten days since was, I have reason
to suspect, a gentleman some time since resident
in Sicily, but who, having sold his property,
has retired into Germany. The telegraphic
despatch which was to be sent on his arrival to the
Minister for Foreign Affairs has arrived, and is
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to the effect that at Paris he had been well received
and listened to. Much caution will be required in

treating with a government like this, which is an
adept in all the arts of deception, and which has
already shown that no promises can bind it
Again, great caution will be needed lest any
arrangement, so called, may leave matters in a
worse position than they were in before. For nearly
a year the Liberal party has been waiting in suspense
to see what France and England would do. If it
should be seen that they have betrayed the hopes of
the Neapolitans be assured that the same course of
agitation and conspiracy will be entered on. The
Neapolitans have been kept down but never sub
dued, as their frequent revolutions attest. There
is great talk of fitting out several other vessels in
addition to those already commissioned, and
devoting them to changing the garrisons of the
two parts of the kingdom. It is a fancy of my own
that in this way the government may attempt
to conceal the check which its plan of transporta-
tion has received, and endeavour to give
the idea that from the the first its little
armament had auite a different object. From
the first the Argentine expedition has been
highly unpopular among all classes, and, in spite of
what some foreign journals may assert, but few
political prisoners have accepted the offers made
My information may be depended on. The change
of the garrison, which has not taken place for
several years, is said in military circles to be
decided upon, as the " garrison at Naples is be-
coming too insolent." It is added that the Royal
Guard now on duty in Caserta will some to Naples,
and that the Swiss, with the Artillery, will go to
Caserta. The soldiers have now nearly completed
their " spiritual exercises," and I have it from
undoubted authority that efforts have been made
to give a political direction to the enquiries of the
confessors, many officers having given the names
of various soldiers whom they suspected. By the
same authority I am informed that several priests
refused to be made the tools of the government.
Major Granetta, of the 3rd battalion of Rifles, to
which Milano belonged, has been sent under
arrest to the Castle.
A. Council of War has been for some time investi-
gating the causes of the explosion of the Carlo
Tat ), and it has just now come to the conclusion
that it knows nothing at all about them. Notwith
standing, the officers attached to the vessel have by
superior orders been all degraded to the fourth
class, which is equivalent to a dismissal from the
service. The legal mode of procedure would have
been to try them by court martial; but law has no
force in the country where arbitrary power directs
and controls everything.
His Majesty came into Naples on Monday after-
noon to visit his aunt the Princess of Salerno.
It is the first visit he has paid to the capital since
the beginning of January. The King, who, I
understand, did not choose to come by the railway,
was accompanied by some of the royal princes in
two open carriages, and escorted by a picket of
cavalry. His Majesty left almost immediately on
his return to Caserta. The following placard,
which I translate and send, has been put into ray
hands. I give it as a portion of the history of the
times, without adopting the sentiments. It is said
to come from Palermo, and you can conceive how
violent, however concealed, must be the spirit which
adopts such a mode of expression :
To THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF NAPLES.—LONG LIVE

ITALIAN UNITY.
" Brothers !—Our tyrant, with a ferocity without coin
parison,:ever oppresses us more heavily. He declares a
war of extermination against us. He slays us, our wives
our children, our friends, in the midst of tortures. No
longer is it a lust of power which moves him, but a thirst
for blood—offspring of a vile vindictiveness. Neapolitans ,
for extreme evils we must adopt extreme remedies. Of
what use is moderation? Ferdinand H. is crime personi-
fied. All that belongs to him is corrupt. The tree must
fall with the branches. Every law grants us the right of
legitimate defence. Repel, then, the sword with the
sword, the dagger with the dagger—life for life. Thus
only can we be safe. Brothers, begin ; we will follow
you; let us continue the work initiated by the magnani-
mous but too unfortunate Milano and Bentivenga. God
will assist us, or if we fall we shall not die unrevenged.
Noble Neapolitans, if our oppressor makes a show of
changing his system do not believe him ; he is a perjured
traitor ; our misfortunes will know no end during his life.
Pardon his young wolves, yes ; but him, or the perfidious
Austrian, never. Not thoughts of blood, brothers, but
desperation inspires these sentiments- Let the infamy of
them fall upon the monster who drives a people to such
excesses. Up, then I Let us give a hand to the work,
and thus let us teach kings to remember that they are
men, and to the people to finish for ever with their tyrants.
Long live Italian unity.
THE PEOPLE OF CITY OF PALERMO.

However much a calmly judging person may
regret the strength of expression employed in this
placard and the principles insinuated, the spirit
which prompted them is no less a tact—it exists I