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LOND )N. WEDNESDAY:-FEBRUARY 9, 1848

Her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary had better, like
"look around, and
Lord BYROZI at Missolonglii,
choose his ground, and take his rest "—at once. Ills
popularity can never survive the assaults of the Hon.
representative of Youghal. Mr. CHISHOLM
ArSTEY
is
blasting his reputation with the breath not of a petty
slander, but of a stupendous hr peachment. Lord
PALMERSTON is accused of no incidental fraud upon
the State—of no casual dereliction of duty—of no
temporary abatement of loyalty—of no intermittent
withdrawal from a patriotic policy—of no sudden
hallucination of judgment—ot no excusable act of
peculation—of no isolated concession to the
enemies of his country. No. His assailant
deals in charges more heinous in charac-
ter, more gigantic in dimensions, more com-
prehensive in regard both to time, operation, and cir-
cumstance. The Noble Viscount, the Member for
Tiverton, is solemnly, and deliberately, and explicitly
impeached before Parliament as a traitor. His whole
career is declared to have been a series of splendid
atrocities. The betrayal of his native land, the
jeopardising of the constitution, the territorial aug-
mentation of the dominions of the AUTOCRAT, the
imperilling of Europe, and the gradual abandon-
ment of the provinces conducting to Ilindostan, are
described as having been the most
if we
t cherished objects
of his ambition. Sincecourse ared b
to
believe Mr. ANSTBY,
the 1830,pursue
been such as suby-
Lord PALMERSTON has
jects him to the execration of his fellow-citizens,
and renders him amenable to the laws fabricated for
the expiation of the crime of high treason. His
guilt is second only to that of another most execrable
and equally treasonous statesman—that statesman
being none other than the Right -lon. CHARLES
JAMES Fox ! Nay, the Hon. Representative of
Youghal declared it to be his intention " to trace the
/coble Lord stop by step, to enumerate the material
points of his policy, and to establish in every case
a violation on the part of the Noble Lord
of the laws of this country, of the laws of
nations, of the laws of nature, and of the
laws of Gm)! " That is the programme sketched
out yesterday evening by Mr. ANSTEY of his mon-
ster motion in reference to our foreign relations.
His chargps are in no manner partial, or insinuative,
or implicative, or dubious. lie not only declares his
regolntion to probe the existence of a perfidious and
even traitorous motive in several of the acts of the
Noble Visc unt, as Foreign Secretary for England,
but he proclaims his determination to show that the
criminalhy of Lord PALMORSTON is the very vitality of
every and pf those actt—that his whojle policy from

first to last has been (so to speak) literally permeated
with treason. "If I fail," said the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman, in one part of his observations,
"If l fail," said he, "in prosecuting the Noble Lord,
there is no censure, no chastisement which this House
has legally the power to inflict which I shall not most
richly deserve." Mr. ANSTET is quite correct; and
we trust that this, his voluntary declaration, will not
be very :speedily forgotten. He will in that event
have most richly deserved the severest censure and
the heaviest chastisement the House of Commons can
inflict—firstly, because he will have wasted the time
of the public which is just now inexpressibly
valuable; and, secondly, because he will have calum-
niated the name and assailed the reputation
of a distinguished public man—a name and a reputa-
tion which are the property of the people and of
history.
It is by no means difficult to discover the origin
of this flagrant onslaught upon the Foreign Secretary.
The reason is as transparent as the personal hostility
of Mr. URQUHART. Mr. ANSTET is as much the
victim of a monomaniacal rage against Lord PAL.
MERSTON as good, simple Mr. FLubirrEE is afflicted
with what the Right Honourable and Learned Gen-
tleman the Master of the Mint called on
Monday evening—Hebrewphobia. But in the case
of the Member for Youghal there is this
secondary incitement—(an incitement which deprives
us of all commiseration in his madness)—his
diseased anxiety to render himself suddenly con-
spicuous. In striving to achieve for himself a cer-
tain amount of popularity by such an adventure as
the one we have just indicated, Mr. ANSTET has made
a grievous and, we cannot but think, an irreparable
blunder. In struggling to become all at once per-
manently important he will only render himself
momentarily notorious. He is making an unwhole-
some effort to be the object of general admira-
tion, and in so doing he is only ensuring to
himself an universal ridicule. Instead of displaying
his own strength by Lord PALMERSTON'S weakness,
he will reveal his utter insignificance when contrasted
with the virile energies of his opponent. He is
straining the thews of his intellect—in vain—to bend
the colossal bow of an Ulysses—let him beware
that in the midst of his futile exertions he be not
himself felled to the dust by the shaft discharged
from a bow as subtle and as potent as that of Cupid!
Mr. AuxEr should bear this in his recollection, that
as a young and inexperienced Member of the
National Legislature, it ill becomes him to assail a
statesman whose reputation was ripened into celebrity
before his own fingers had done with the delectus and
the lexicon. Already we should hope that the re-
presentative of Youghal has seen the magnitude of
his mistake—from the contemptuous unanimity with
which the Members walked out into the lobby w ben
his speech commenced, and from the ignominious
celerity with which the House was counted out be-
fore its conclusion.

The obstinacy of the King of NAPLES has forwarded
the cause of constitutional liberty in Italy. By his
refusal to imitate the examples of the PorE, the King
of SARDINIA, and the Grand Duke of TUSCANY, who
wisely placed themselves at the head of the reform
movement from the first, and were thus enabled wisely
and peacefully to prepare the way for a gradual and
safe transition from a despotic to a constitutional form
of government, the King of NAPLES placed himself
in direct antagonism with the spirit of nationality
which is developing itself throughout Italy with a
force, against which, eventually, even the bayonets of
Austria will be of no avail ; and the consequence has
been, as every one of common observation must have
foreseen, that he has been utterly defeated, and forced
to go much further even than those whose examples
he scorned to imitate. He has been forced to
give to his people a constitution, and thus
Naples, which, a month since, was the most
retrograde of the Italian States is now the moat ad-
vanced in the onward march of progress. It is a
curious coincidence that, on the very day, and
almost at the very hour M. GUIZOT was pro-
claiming in the Chamber of Deputies his conviction
that the question of giving constitutions to the
Italian States would not arise fur the next fifty
years, and that therefore it was absurd for the pre-
sent generation to trouble themselves about that
which could only concern their posterity, it is, we
repeat, a singular coincidence that at that very mo-
ment the King of NAPLES should have been in the
act of proclaiming a constitution, and of thus raising
the very question which M. GUIZOT (by whose ad-
vice the King of NAPLES, it is said, has acted in
refusing all reforms) so complacently, imagined he
had succeeded in shelving. The success of the Nea-
politan movement will give rise to very grave compli-
cations in the affairs of Italy; and we trust that
the leaders of the Neapolitan nation will be
enabled to guide it so as to avoid giving
any pretence for foreign interference. It is clear
that they must rely on themselves alone, for the
KING cannot
,be trusted, and will rather be a spy
and a betrayer of their counsels to Austria, an
urger on to deeds of violence by which they may
commit themselves, than, as CHARLES ALBERT is, a
friend and a leader in whom they may repose confi-
dence, or a moderator on whose integrity and good
faith the most implicit reliance may be placed, if
they need advice, they should rather seek it from the
POPE, and from the King of SARDINIA, or from the
Grand Duke of TUSCANY, than from their own
SOVEREIGN. We cannot forget that in 1821 the
then King of NAPLES played precisely the same part
that is being played at this moment by the present
KING, and that he afterwards betrayed the constitu-
tion he had sworn to defend, and, backed by Austrian
troops, persecuted all those who had been instru-
mental in freeing their country. That the same dis-
position exists on the part of the present KING it is
impossible to doubt, and there is still the same secret
article of the treaty of 1815 to authorise Aus-
trian intervention in the affairs of Naples
now as then; but inasmuch as we believe the Austrian
Government is perfectly aware that there are cases in
which "discretion is the better part of valour," we are
not very apprehensive of any immediate attempt on
the part of Prince METTERNICH to put down the
cause of constitutional liberty in Naples. In the first
place, we believe he would find considerable difficulty
in transporting his army to the scene of action. Pius
IX. would most assuredly not imitate the example of
Pius VII., in giving a free passage to the Austrian
troops through the States of the Church, neither
could Austria reckon on the assistance of Sardinia or
Tuscany to keep Lombardy quiet. Not a soldier,
therefore, could Austria spare from Lombardy to as-
sist the King of NAPLES in coercing his subjects.
The withdrawal of any considerable portion of
Austrian troops from the Lombardo-Venetian
kingdom would be the signal for an outbreak, which
would receive moral, at least, if not physical support,
from every Italian state bordering on the Austrian
dominions. Neither can any large force be spared
from any other portion of the Austrian possessions.
Bohemia, Hungary, Gallicia, are only retained in
their allegiance by the presence, in each of them,
of an overwhelming Austrian force, from which not
a single soldier can be spared ; and as Austria has no
money, and has recently been refused a loan, it is
not probable that she will be enabled to levy any
fresh troops for the purpose of aiding the King of
NAPLES.

Naples, therefore, has it now in her power, by
prudence and firmness to work out her own rege-
neration, and to take a leading part in working out
the regeneration of the whole Italian nation.

The cause of the
..m..
people is completely triumphant
at Naples. The Ministerh e managemeut of the police
Minister
of Police, CARRELLO, has
been dismissed, and
transferred to the for the Home Depart-
ment. BOZZELLI, who asa Councillor of State
under MURAT, and to whom
constitution
entrusted the
. The KING
care of drawing up the new
is very popular, and has treaumuution
people, explaining to them the natureY addressed the
of the consti-
tution he proposes to grant.
The civil war still continues in Sicily. The
inha-
bitants of Palermo have attacked the forts and driven
the troops from them with great slaughter, so that
at present Palermo and its fortifications are com.
pletely in the hands of the insurgents. The troops
have retired some miles from Palermo into the inte-
rior, under the conditions of an armistice entered
into with the insurgents. Messina and several other
Lnow
shave followed the example of Palermo, and are
in open revolt.
The Rum has offered to hold the Seuionl of the

Chambers alternately at Palermo and at Naples, but
to this the insurgents have refused to accede, de-
manding a separate constitution for Sicily.

Letters from Turin of the 3d Feb. state that nu-
merous arrests are daily made in Milan and through-
out Lombardy, and that several of the persons
arrested have been transferred to Laybach. There
were great rejoicings at Turin on the receipt of the
intelligence that the King of NAPLES had granted
his people a constitution. The King of SARDINIA
is about to raise two Polish regiments, and has offered
the command of one of them to the son of Prince
CZARTORYSKI.

The Lega, of Genoa, publishes the following pro-
clamation from the Italians to the Neapolitans :

" Neapolitan brethren,—We cannot restrain our
joy ; it pours out of our hearts ! Let us give a close
embrace, brothers—ltaly shall infallibly exist. She
exists already from this day. Brothers, each tear and
each drop of blood you have shed has fallen on our
hearts, and given us deadly pangs ! This i, the first
day, after so man y centuries, that we may fairly
declare ourselves to be,. from the Alps to the Etna,
the children and the citizens of a great and single
nation! No 1 no a hundred thousand foreign
swords can no longer prevent this shout gushing forth
from our hearts from re-echoing simultaneously, on
the shores of the Po, of the Minscio, and of the
Bachiglione. Hurrah then, for Italy, and let us
embrace !

" Neapolitan brethren,—None of us will remain
below the grandeur of the future destinies of our
country I"
Our readers will, by this little Fketch, form an
idea of the enthusiasm which prevails beyond the
Alps.
The Spener Gazette of the 4th mentions a report
from Milan that General RADETSRI had become pos-
sessed of a paper signed by a great number of persons,
in which they declare their determination to throw off
the yoke of the Austrian Government, and that,
having summoned some of the parties before him,
they stated that they had signed the engagement in a
moment of intoxication. It is added that the name
of the Hereditary Duke of PARMA is amongst the
signatures, and that on this account the Austrian
Government does not proceed with so much rigour as
would otherwise be the case.
The Patria of Florence announces that LEOPOLD
11., Imperial Prince of Austria and Grand Duke of
Tuscany, has just published, under date of 31st Jan.,
1848, a mote proprio, in which he orders a Bill to be
prepared for the reform of the present law on the
press, and another for the reform of the Council of
State, the latter of which is to be in harmony with
the changes recently introduced into the municipal
system. In the mute proprio are the following ex-
pressions :—" Tuscans, let us, if possible, draw still
closer the bands which exist between us. Let that
confidence lead us to tranquilly complete reforms, and
to exclude those tumultuous manifestations which
compromise the tranquillity of the country, and, by
leading to disorders, perhaps endanger the destinies
of the country."

The Madrid papers of the 2d instant contain no
news of any kind. The Bolsa was closed.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The debate on the paragraph of the Address relating
to the Reform banquets was adjourned over from
Monday, after speeches from M. DUVERGIER DE
HAURANNE, M. MARIE, M. ROULAND, M. CREMIEUX,
and M. D'HsussortvuLs. It appears that on Satur-
day there were apprehensions of a considerable split
in the Ministerial majority on the subject of this
paragraph. Several of the usual supporters of the
Minister assembled together, and resolved to with-
draw their support from the Ministry unless some
pledge was given that a measure of electoral reform
should be introduced in the course of the ensuing
session. M. DUCHATEL seemed inclined to accede
to their wishes, but M. GUIZOT sternly refused to give
way, and from the tenour of the leading article in
the Journal des Ddbats, it is evident that the Ministry
has determined to make a stand against all reform.
M. DUCHATEL will, it is said, in the course of the
debate, announce the intention of the Government to
prohibit all Reform banquets for the future.
The discussion on the paragraph of the Address re-
lating to the Reform banquets was resumed yester-
day in the Chamber of Deputies by M. LEON DE
MALLEVILLE, who vehemently denounced the con-
duct of the Government as illegal in attempting to
suppress the Reform banquets. M. DUCHATEL, the
Minister of the Interior, rose to reply to him, and
was still speaking when the post left.

The Moniteur publishes a report to the KING from
the Minister of Marine, informing his Majesty that
the Minister has received the details of the loss of
the steam frigate, Panama, and that the officers and
crew all behaved admirably in the calamity which
had visited them. The Minister notices, in particu-
lar, the exertions made by a foreman named TURCAN,
and one of the men in charge of the engine, named
ALA, and recommends them both as worthy of re-
ceiving the cross of the Legion of Honour. The report
is followed by a royal ordonnance complying with the
recommendation of the Minister.

COURS AUTUENTIQUE, PARIS, FEB. B.—French
Five per Cents., 117 f. 10c. 15c. 20c. 10c. ; Ditto,
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Ditto, Four per
Cents., 99f. 50c. ; Ditto, Three per Cents., 74f. 55c.
60c. 55c. 60c. 55c. 50c. ; New Loan, —; Bank of
France, 3,185 f.; Treasury Bonds, 4 4 ; Obligations
of the City, 1,345 f. ; Neapolitan, 96f.; Roman, 95i ;
Belgian Five per Cents., 1840, 99f. ; Ditto, Five per
Cents., 1842, 98if. ; Ditto, Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 92f. Exchange on London—one month,
money, 25f. 40c.; three months, money, 25f. 25c.

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