The Sun. — 1862-03-18 (London, England)

THE NEAPOLITAN PROCLAMATION.  The Marquis of NOILMANBY rose to move an address for copies or extracts of any despatches from Sir James Hudson, her Majesty's Minister at Turin, relating to Government prosecutions of the press during the last twc years ; also copies or extracts of any despatches from Sir James Hudson, or from Mr. Bonham, her Majesty's Consul at Naples, reporting the issue of certain proclamations or orders from Generals Cialdini and Vorelli, from Commandants Galateri, Narbone, De Vergili, Faieno, and others, whereby the population of vi rious portions of the Neapolitan territory were last year subjected to arbitrary military execution without any form of process and without any previous declaration of a state of siege ; and also copies er extracts of any despatches from Sir J. Hudson, calling the attention of her Majesty's Government to statements of fact as to the condition of Southern  Italy made by Neapolitan deputies in the Parliament of Turin, and reported in the official records of that assembly. The noble lord said he must refer to the statement made by the noble earl when he (the Marquis of Normanby) a few evenings ago was compelled to postpone his motion. The noble earl on that occasion did not feel inclined to accept entirely that which he had stated with respect to the proclamation, and had implied that the document had been fabricated in the Italian newspaper in which it first appeared. That statement of the noble lord had not been withdrawn, although it had been in some measure destroyed, and he considered that had the document appeared in an English newspaper, the noble earl he felt satisfied would not have made such a charge. The Italian newspaper in question was a most respectable one, and not at all likely to act as the noble earl had supposed. The noble earl had on other occasions stated that the King of Piedmont had never instituted prosecutions against Conservative journals, but had allowed them every liberty to state their opinion without the slightest importance, but from information that had come into his possession he found that the King or his Government had instituted no less than six press prosecutions, the punishment inflicted in each case being fine or imprisonment. He must also object to another statement of the noble earl, in which he said there was no civil war in Naples, but that it was confined entirely to the Papal frontier. Now the papers that were continually arriving in this country from Italy plainly showed that that was not the case. News had even arrived that very morning of the taking forcible possession of a town, while the national guard of which remained passive. The result of the policy pursued in Parma, Modena, Tuscany, Bologna, and the Neapolitan provinces had been famine and military murder, the taxes had been increased, desertion was frequent, and discontent universal. Italy would, he believed, be yet independent and prosperous, but that would not take place until the impostures of the last three years had been exposed. Earl RUSSELL said he was sorry to trouble their lordships again on this sulject of the proclamation issued by Fantoni, but the statements made by his noble friend required some further explanation. The noble marquis had taken a course not very convenient, of referring to reports made of a speech delivered by him (the noble earl) in that house, and of criticising those statements. With regard to that debate, it arose, as his noble friend stated, out of a question from the noble earl opposite (Derby), acting as deputy for the noble marquis, whose inquiry was not confined to the genuine character of the proclamation, but who spoke in terms of indignation of the Government for sanctioning the proclamation. His noble friend had said that his (Earl Russell's) motives in his reply were twofold. The Marquis of