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relations would be rendered more permanent and secure by
the adoption of a policy which would be more in harmony
with the spirit of the age, and would place the King's
thronq on a solid foundation by promoting the happiness
and encouraging the loyally of his people.
You wilt add that her Majesty's government look with
the utmost anxiety to the answer which may be returned
to the communication which, in conjunction with your
French colleague, you are now instructed to make to the
Neapolitan Minister for Foreign Affairs.

You will read and give a capy of this despatch to the
Neapolitan Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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I am, &e.,

(Signed)

CLARENDON.

The following extract from a despatch from Lord
Clarendon to the Admiralty, dated October 10, thus
explains the object of a naval demonstration :

lam now to signify to your lordships her Majesty's
pleasure that a British naval force should bo held in
readiness at Malta for the protection of British interests
in the Neapolitan dominions, in case those interests should
suffer prejudice after the withdrawal of her Majesty's
mission from Naples.
The commander of' that force should be directed to
despatch a steam vessel from time to to time, se as to keep
up a frequent communication with her Maj3sty's consuls
at Naples, and the principal consular stations in the island of
Sicily ; and if any circumstances should arise which call for
the active interposition of her Majesty's naval forces for the
protection of British interests, the earliest possible notice
thereof is to be conveyed to her Majesty's government
through Marseilles ; and the commander of the squadron
will hold his ships in readiness to carry out, without loss
of time, any instructions which may be sent to him by
your lordships, but without such instructions he will not
appear with the line of battle ships off the coasts of the
Neapolitan dominions.
Her Majesty's government have reason to believe that
corresponding arrangements will be made by the French
government; and I have only to add that the commanders
of her Majesty's ships, either collectively or separately,
will endeavour to act in entire concert with the comman-
ders of Freneli. vessels er.gaged on the same service, and
.will look after French interests «rally with thos^ of her
Majestyl subjects, in the accidental absence of a French
ship of war.
On the same date Earl Clarendon sent the
following despatch to Mr. Petre :

N 3. 27.

THE EARL OF CLAREND MT TO MR. PETRE.

Foreign Office, Oct. 10, 1856.

Sir,—lt is with much regret that her Majesty's govern-
ment have arrived at the conviction that the Neapolitan
government do not intend to modify the system which
prevai!s throughout the dominions of the King of the Two
Sicilies, and which formed the subject of my despatch of the
19th of last to Sir William Temple.
The advice contained in that despatch was offered in a
friendly spirit, and in terms that could give no offence to
the Neapolitan government.

Her Majesty's government fe't themselves justified in
offering that advice, upon contideration of general interest,
and with a sincere desire to establish befween Enzland and
Naples relations of greater cordiality than Close which for
acme time past have existed.

The reply of the Neapolitan government was neither
courteous nor satisfactory, and proved that the motives and
intentions of her Majesty's go,vernment had been completely
misanderstood ; bur, as the painful impression which it
created was not unknown to the Neapolitan government, we
had hoped that our abstinence from again pressing our ad-
vice upon the Neapolitan government might have induced
that government, spontaneously, to adopt measures in ac-
cordance with the principles upon which the communication
of her Majesty's government had been founded. Her Ma-
jesty's government would.have greedy preferred that such
a course of proceeding should have been pursued,
for they have no wish needlessly to interfere
in the affairs of Naples, and a sense of duty alone impelled
them to suggest certain changes and improvements in the
internal policy of that government. They accordingly
waited in silence for several week, in the hope that more
prudent counsels might have prevailed at Naples ; but their
expectations have been disappointed. A tardy apology for
the first reply of the Neapolitan government has, indeed,
been received, not apparently suggested by a sense of pro-
priety-6h the part of the Neapolitan government, but called
forth by reports received from Vienna and Paris. This
apology, however, is just as unsatisfactory as to the main
objects in view as was the despatch of M. C trafa to Prince
Carini of the 30th of June, and her Majesty's government,
therefore, in conjunction with the government of the Em-
peror of the French, are of opinion that diplomatic rela.
tions can no longer be maintained with a government
which rejects all friendly warning, and is determined to
persevere in a course which is condemned by all civilised
nations.

You will, therefore, upon the receipt of this despatch.
prepare to quit Naples with the members of the legation,
leaving the archives in-the case of her Majesty's consul.
Similar instructions will be addressed to the French
minister:

But, in order that the interests of British subjects in the
Naapolitan territory niay not be left without adequate pro-
tection; a British squadron will be hel4 in readiness at
Malta, and the commander of that squadron will be directed
to despatch a steam vessel from time to time; to communi-
cate with her Majesty's consuls at Naplos and at the ports
of the island of Sicily, in order to ascertain that British
interests are not prejudiced by the interruption of diplomatic
relations between the two countries.

A French squadron will be held in readiness at Toulon,
the commander of which will receive corresponding instruc-
tions for periodical visits to the ports of Naples and Sicily,
with a view to the protection of French interests.
You will real and give a copy of this despatch to M.
Carafa, and you will quit Naples as soon after as you can
make your arrangements for doing so.
The following, from Mr. Petre, will give some
idea of the details communicated respecting the
sufferings of the prisoners:—

No. 39.

MR. PURR TO THE EARL OF CLARENDJN.-(RECEIVED
NOV. 1.)
Naples, Oct. 27, 1856.

My Lord—l regret unfeignedly in this, one of my last
despatches to your lordship, to have to record the physical
sufferings of Carlo Poerio.
For some time past he had been suffering from a tumour
on the spirt's, arising in a great measure, I believe, from
long confinement, and low unhealthy diet, and aggravated
by tho friction of his chain. An operation was performed
very recently upon him, and he is now, I am told, in a more
satisfactory state of health. But, if my informotion is cor-
rect, and I have no reason to doubt it, however revolting to
humanity the fact, neither before, nor during, nor after, the
operation; was Poario's chain removed.

OUR PERSIAN EXTRAVAGANCE.

(From the Examiner.)

This evening the Earl of Albemarle is to move for an
account of the sum total of expenses of all kinds incurred
in our diplomatic missions to the Court of Persia from the
year 1799 to 1814, the object of his motion being to raise
the question whether onr diplomatic relations with that
Court. now temporarily suspended, should not be discon.
tinued permanently.

His lordship dies good service to the public in raising
this discussion. We defy any rational being to point out
any one advantage which has ever accrued to us from our
costly l!gation at the court of Teheran. For our own part,
we are satisfied that our Persian missions have produced
only strife and mischief. We count them among the worst
of our many diplomatic nuisance 3; and we proceed to give
the reasons that have led us to this conclusion.
For full half a century, we went on making Indian con-
quests, and consolidating our acquisitions, and no one
evrr dreamt of danger to our dominion from Persians or
Affzbans, French or Russians, invading India by land. We
had met on the very field of India itself the most powerful
of our European rivals, and overpowered and expelled
them. S,,award we were protected by our fleets, and by
land every one thought impassable mountains end deserts
a suifisient bulwark against any enemy, Asiatic or Euro-
pean.. But all this was changed on the advent of the
Marquis of Wellesley in 1798, His restless personal am-
bition wanted work, and he made it. Danger to India
from French invasion was the pretext, for his lordship
had on him an inveterate anti-Galilean monomania.
Within 14 months of his arrival he attacked and sub-
dued Tippoo. This prince had sent a paltry mission to
the paltry French colony of the Mauritius, and as at this
time General Bonaparte had landed a French army in
Egypt, and might by some mysterious means or another
find his way to India, it was indispensable that the Sultan
of Mysore should be overthrown, and he was so. The project
of the great Napoleon of invading and conquering Hin-
dustan, worthy of an epic poet, but not of a statesman, was
arrested by a petty fortress on the coast of the Mediter-
ranean, with the help of an English frigate, and this
b6fore he had made the first stage of his march of 2,500
miles!

The fears and ambition of the bustling Governor General
was next turned to the Affghans, and armies were assembled
on our then frontier, to encounter an imaginary danger to
our empire from that ever divided and ever anarchial people.
The able author of the history of the Affgban war justly
calls the threatened invasion of the Affghans at this time an
" old bugbear." The prince who made a show of intending
this inroad was dethroned, and had his eyes put out by his