The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-09 00:00:00

N°. 22,451.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, 3 UNE 9, 1864.

MR. JEAFFRESON'S NEW NOVEL.
Noyeady at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
N ° T DE AP y E T
By J. C. JEAFFRESON,

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No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's
"FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing avaried selection
of landed and house properties now in the market, from
the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the
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OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em-
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veniences.

Letter of a Citizen of the Two Sicilies to
the English Parliament.

Author of "Live it Down," &C.
" Mr. Jeaffreson's present novel is in every respect satis-
factory. I has a well-contrived, well-built up p‘ot ;it is
carefully written, and has a -olidity and force that impress
the reader with a sen.,e of the real ty of the Ivory. We h.ve
read it through with interest, and can recommend it to our
readers. It is a healthy, pleasant book."— Atbenxum.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

My Lords and Gentlemen,—At the moment when
just i General Garibaldi has Naples, May, 1864.
ngenuously announced
in public that he could never have succeeded in
his expedition to Marsala without the aid and con-
currenceman who has the most contributed towards the
de
s t r u ct of i
on Sourof o u
r country;nat
o notional
at the moment when the
a l
autonomy receives from
free England such an enthusiastic reception; at the
moment when the ministers of Great Britain, vying
with the aristocracy and the people, have not
enough caresses for the fugitive hermit of Caprera,
may it be permitted to a son of the Two Sicilies to
raise his voice in the midst of your festivities to
describe to you, without partiality but also without
reticence, into what an abyss of sorrow his unfor-
tunate
country
words may is to-day Plunged. God grant that
reach the heart of the
illustrious English Parliament, and may lead to
some alleviation of the sufferings of Naples and
these truthful
Palermo.

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " ST. OLAVE'S."
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
JAN I T A'S CRO S S.
By the Author of "St. Olave's."
"There Is real cleverness in ‘..Tanita's Cross.' The charac-
ters are distinctive and life-like."—Saturday Review.
" A very char ning work, delightful to read, and deserving
to be remembered."—Sun.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

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and then only the usual moderate commission.
Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London.

It is far from my intention, my lords and gentle.
men, to pretend to place before your eyes a series of
political arguments confined within the limits of
theories and hypothesis ; there is no question here
either of our lost independence, or of our noble
fallen King, or of our devasted finances, or of sixty
thousand prisoners decimated by typhus, or of our
en 'and _villages, or of
our
twenty-Eight -etihgohutsapnldunbdreertehdr"-etnowbhnost
or massacred in
heroically unequal combats. It is
in the name of
humanity alone that I have the honour to address
you, in the name of rights which
are held the most
sacrei by every people, in the name of justice, im-
pudently trampled under foot, and it is within the
bounds of facts—of facts, alas! too true and too
kind enough to
fhoolrloriwblme—e tfhorataln binegstaonft.you to be

What clamours of indignation, my lords and gen-
tlemen, did not the revelations contained in the
"Examination" of the Right Hon, Mr. Gladstone,
and in some other pamphlets
characterised
excited not very
by a deplorable levity and an evident party spirit
The heart of England arose in favour of those
loagapgholet
thousands of tortured beings pining at the bottom
of noisome dungeons, and the come du silence went
the round of astounded and indignant Europe.
Even at the present time there are, without doubt,
many people convinced of the existence of this
dreadful instrument of torture; they would be very
much astonished, then, at being told that it is in
vain that the regenerators of Italy, who were
nevertheless the authors of this calumny, and of so
many others against the Bourbon dynasty, have
sought to discover, I do not say the instrument of
torture, but even a single person who had been
tortured.
My lords and gentlemen, if formerly the heart
of liboral England could find such passionate ex-
pression for prisons of fantasy, for imaginary tor-
tures, and for martyrs who existed only on the
paper of the revolution, what will not be its legiti-
mate indignation to-day in presence of tortures
which recall the darkest ages of humanity, in pre-
sence of martyrs whose identity it is too easy to
establish ?

I leave to others the care of relating the doleful
history of the Piedmontese conscription in the Two
Sicilies, and to describe the annual spectacle of
those thousands of young refractory conscripts
passing manacled through our studs, of their
families imprisoned until the return of the fugitive
conscripts, of our towns blockaded at night by the
Piedmontese troops, after the mariner of recruiting
Cossacks.

I could dwell at length on the privations and
brataltics to which our young prisoners are syEte-
matically subjected ; but 1 have promised not to
stray from the region of facts—and, moreover, they
will speak more eloquently than I.

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