The member for Finsbury called on Mr. James Stansfeld on
Monday night to explain the extraordinary statement cff the Procureur Imperial, in the recent trial of the four conspirators said to have conspired against the Emperor's life, that Mr. Stansfeld was mixed up with the matter. Greco was to write, said the Procureur Imperial, to Mr. Flower, 35 Thurloe Square, Brompton. " I searched the London Directory, at page 670 I found what I was looking for, and it was not without sadness that I recognized the name of a member of Parliament of England, who already had been, in 1857, appointed to be the banker of the Tebaldi conspi- racy against the Emperor's life." This pleasing pensiveness of the Procureur Imperial ought to be relieved by the conversation of Monday night. He will see, indeed, that Mr. James Stansfeld, M.P. for Halifax, does not deny that he resides at 35 Thurloe Square, nor that he is a friend of Mazzini, but if he trusts him he will be soothed by seeing a most peremptory denial to the complicity either of himself or of any of his friends—including M. Mazzini —in the alleged conspiracy to assassinate, as well as in the former conspiracy with sthich the Procureur Imperial associated hi; name. His disavowal unfortunately and unnecessarily diverged into an animated eulogium upon M. Mazzini, who, noble-minded and honourable as he doubtless is, is, no doubt, mischief-maker general to Europe and very far from popular in the House of Commons. Mr. Stansfeld's panegyric brought up Mr. Hennessy, who ingeniously suggested that M. Mazzini, though he might not wish to assassi- nate the Emperor, might wish to keep him in constant terror of
assassination—the meaner crime of the two. We admire Mr. Stansfeld for his courageous and generous friendship, but hope that if he is to share in the Government of England he will eschew M. Mazzinfs wild and rather egoistic political ideas. As to the conspiracy, perhaps Greco may have got it up mainly to implicate Mazzini.
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