The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-03 00:00:00

CLERKEN WELL.

THE LATE STRANGE APPLICATION BY AN ITALIAN
PRIEST AT THE THAMES COURT.—This morning, upon
Mr. Tyrwhitt taking his seat, a foreigner, who stated
that he had been brought over to this country to act as
a priest in the Foreign Legion, applied for his advice and
assistance under the following circumstances :
He stated that upon his arrival in this country, he
took lodgings at an Italian public-house, at the corner
of Kirby-street, Hatton-garden. After staying there for
a few days he went down to Dover, leaving a box con-
taining six sovereigns and other property in the care of
the landlord. When he arrived at the quarters of the
Foreign Legion, he foui,d that his services in the
capacity of a prie,t were not required. He then returned
to bis former lodgings, when he discovered that his box
had been taken out of his room, broken open, and the
six sovereigns it contained abstracted from it. He had
applied to the landlord, but could obtain no redress.
Sergeant Gunn, 8 G, stated that this was not the first
application he had made to this court when he had been
referred to the police. He (the sergeant) had been to
the landlord, who said there was no truth whatever in
the applicant's statement ; and in this he concurred, for
the landlord was a highly respectable man ; and in proof
of this the landlord stated that when he left he went
away in debt to the extent of 61. He might mention
that the applicant had been to the Thames Police-
court, and stated that he had been robbed at a Ger-
man lodging-house under similar circumstances, when
the magistrates gave him 21. ; but upon inquiry by the
police the facts were precisely the same as related in
this. The landlord would attend voluntary to-morrow
if his honour wished it. It appeared that the applicant
wanted to extort money.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would hear the case when the
landlord attended, and the parties then left the court.

THE CONDUCT OE THE NEAPOLITAN
AUTHORITIES.

The Government of the Two Sicilies has to apologise
for two deliberate offences towards France and England.
On the occasion of the fete Napoleon, a Franck frigate
saluted the port of Messina, but the salute was not re-
turned. Such is a national insult. The captain of the
vessel immediately telegraphed the fact to Paris, and I
presume a correspondence is now taking place on the
subject.
The second offence is a deliberate insult offered to a
member of her Majesty's Legation at Naples, who has
been gratuitously insulted by M. Mazza, the Minister,
or rather Director of Police, in the form of abusive
language directed towards the gentleman in question.
Lord Clarendon I presume is in possession of a despatch
on this subject. His lordship will probably remember
that the archives of the Foreign-office contain many
unredressed offences of the police practised on British
subjects, and it is a positive necessity this time
that the Neapolitan Government should be made
to apologise openly and through the medium of the
official journal for a❑ offence directed against a servant
of the British Crown, and therefore against the Sove-
reignty of England. Such a proceeding is necessary for
the honour of the country, and the support and weight
of her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court
of Naples. It is not enough that Sir W. Temple should
receive a despatch assuring his Excellency "of the
friendly feeling entertained by the Government of the
Two Sicilies towards that of her Britannic Majesty,"
&c., &c. The insult was public—the atonement should
be the same. The affair is of a nature to justify Lord
Clarendon in demanding the dismissal of M. Mazza,
which would be doing a good turn to the King himself.
M. Walewski is no doubt alive to the necessity of re-
pairing the insult offered to France. It is urgently ne-
cessary that our Ambassadors should co-operate and
support each other on all questions, however minute,
throughout the world. In the present instance, too, no
doubt the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Paris will dis-
cover, in these insults to the Allies, a meaning beyond
the stupid affairs themselves, which, but for the excep-
tional condition of our foreign relations at the yresent
moment, might be treated with contempt. Under exist-
ing circumstances, however, such acts demand special
consideration and prompt redress.—Paris Correspondent
of the Morning Post.