The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-30 00:00:00

CONCERTS,

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOU.NOD'S OPERA,
FAUST,
- First Time in this country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Slobel • . ' ' Mrs. Andersen.
Marguerite ..... .... Miss Russell.
Conductor
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, ls . Hall, 64.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), and W. T. Critchfield.
The AFRICAN OPERA T HOU PE, their first appearance
since 1852, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFORMERS,
who will give the whew. of their inimitable entertainment
every evening.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICM, MAY 30, 1860,

THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.
56—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
59—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.
WIND—N. to N.W.; fresh breeze, with fine weather,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THis DAY.—Morning, 9h. 39m.—Afternoon, 10h. 11m
To-mortßow.-Morning, 10h. 42m.—Afternoon, 11h. 13n1

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THE SUN.

LONDON, IVEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1860,

When in England we talk of " grievances" we
mean something quite different to what the miser-
able victims of HAPSBURG and BOURBON rule
understand by such a word. With us a restricted
or unequally distributed suffrage, or church-rates,
are " grievances," and we clamour to our rulers for
redress. Grievances, ours are, under which we
work on very comfortably for years together ; nay,
we even heard a hearty Liberal M.P. once express
the hope that church-rates would not be abolished;
they were a convenient grievaree for his class, and
it would give some trouble to find up aaother by
which the Liberal candidates could easily offer
something more to Dissenters than Conservatives.

Wholly different from such grievances arc those
of which Mr. HENNESSY would become the patron,
the unwitting one, we are sure. The complaints
of Neapolitans and Sicilians spring from no mere
social or civil inequalities, from nothing that frets
the mind merely. Heaven forbid that we should
represent such kinds of injustice between citizens
as trivial matters, but they are, at least, matters in
which the satisfaction of conflict for the right en-
ables us partially to forget the burden of the wrong.
Not so at Naples. Not only is the representative
constitution illegally suspended—not only an ex-
cellent code of laws set aside,—but this is done that
the scum of society may victimise its better part—
no man can be sure of his property for an hour ;
but even there oppression does not stop ; no one can
be sure that, without a shadow of reason,he may not
be taken from his bed, his parlour, or his business to
the cruel horrors of a Neapolitan prison, and placed
in damp and darkness and the foul air of a close
and narrow felon's cell—and why ?—because the
brutal police see fit. The prisoner knows of no
charge against him ; he is kept for days even with-
out an examination ; when he is interrogated it is
but to worm something, if possible, out of him ; no
charge is made, no defence, therefore, possible, and
he
is remitted to his almost deadly cell for no one
"'Ns- 40w long.
Such treatment as this is the rule, not the excep-

tion, while the business of the police is not to detect
real guilt but to make a show of their activity, and
to gain favour with their superiors, by seizing as
large a number of persons, as possible, pretending
that they arc suspected.• The entire respectable
native population live, indeed, at the mercy of the
police. Spies and informers pervade all places of
public resort, and even every private household. A
servant a sister may be in the pay of the Jesuits

or of constables, and too happy arc these gaol-
feeders if they can but find some expression which

may-be tortured into a plausible ground of suspi-
cion. When that resource is wanting, perjury

and falsehood are dirt-cheap at Naples, and
know no shame if openely convicted. It has
been done for the good of Church, King, Police—
aud perjury and lies in such service are quite. hon-
ourable. Mr. HEN:SE6SY has little reason to be