- While we are still under the influence of excitement from
Mr. Gladstone's denunciation -of the system at Naples, Marshal Ra- detzky supplies a conspicuous, harsh, and shocking illustration of the same system at the opposite end of the Italian peninsula. A gentleman has fallen under the hand of the assassin, by decree, it is assumed, of the Republican party ; on which Radetzky issues a proclamation avowing his conviction that it is necessary to con- tend with a secret party banded for the overthrow of all govern- ment. Accordingly, he not only proclaims martial law, but makes every commune answerable for the conduct of the individuals within it. Thus he is carrying out to the extreme his harshest severities, and confessing that he does so in fear of a poviegt enemy.
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rom other -parts we hear complaints of the ne19et with Which the representations of British Ministers, and Consuls are treat4 This week we have the grievance of M. Pinto, ex-employe of the British Consulate at Tangier, who has been xefused permission to land at Civita Vecchia, on account of an alleged informality miss passport. A few weeks ago we had the story of the Aldborough family in Tuscany, for whom the English Mission mold not olatitin the same privileges that were successfully claimed for an American citizen, in a similar scrape, at Vienna. Somehow, our enormous Diplomatic and Consular staffs, with their managing meddler, if they are of any use in preserving the peace of Europe, are of little use in insuring protection to their countrymen. For the complaints alluded to, we dare say there is some foundation. Still it is curious that they should be put forward at this particular moment, in certain organs of the press, with so much vivacity and iteration. Possibly, Lord Palmerston is preparing for some escapade as soon as the doors of Parliament are shut; or he is pretending to prepare something delightfully alarming.
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