Mr. Hennessy's attack on Mr. Stansfeld was followed up on
Thursday by Sir H: Stracey, who moved a direct vote of censure, "That the statement of :the Procureur-General deserved the serious consideration of the House "—a motion negatived by 171 to 161. We itave commented on the whole affair in another place ; but we must say here that Lord Palmerston declared that, had he believed the statement, he should have requested Mr. Stansfeld to resign— which was not quite so generous as he would haVe been had the accused been a Cavendish or a Russell—and that Mr. Hennessy's extracts frOm MazzinPs dagger pamphlet are garbled. M. Mazzini did support once the theory of the dagger ; but in that letter to Mania are passages which Mr. Hennessy suppressed, and which materially affect its meaning. M. Mazzini even then, we fear, admired the dagger as an occasional weapon to " initiate insur- rection ;" but he expressly says that Mania had a right " to blame or deplore" most assassinations " as useless, dangerous, and unworthy of a party that is to create a people." He himself " does not ap- prove; he deplores ; but he has not the heart to curse."
