19 MARCH 1859, Page 2
As we anticipated last week, Poerio and the Neapolitan exiles
have been received in a manner which cannot be mistaken. They find a welcome from all Englishmen, without distinction of party. The first public step was taken by Lord Shaftesbury : he proposed somx'" national expression " of feeling should be con- veyed to ",the honest and heroic men who had so many years endured Buffeting in a just and noble cause." On this sugges- tion mmittee has been formed, with Lord Shaftesbury at its he , at once to give the Neapolitan exiles a welcome, to supply eh as need it with aid, and to speed such as desire it back to "that part of Italy which is free to Italians.