The Americans are evidently not going to give any repara-
tion for the lynching of Italians at New Orleans. Meetings are being held all over the Union to suppOrt the Government in its refusal, upon the ground that the men lynched did not deserve to live. The Grand Jury which is investigating the charge against the principal persons accused, is taking evi- dence as to the repeated murders committed by the Mafia, and the murder of the Chief of Police by the Society's orders, and will, it is believed, refuse to find a true bill, on the ground of the criminality of the victims. As they were tried for the murder and acquitted, that is under international law no ground at all ; but the difficulty of further action remains insuperable. The Italian Government can withdraw its Embassy, and warn its subjects not to emigrate to the Union ; but then, that is. precisely what Americans wish. If they could, they would prohibit all immigration except that of English, Scotch, and Germans, and before long they will do it, too, as a historian prophesied in our columns they would do, twenty-five years. ago.
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