The Neapolitan Government has entered the polemical arena, and has
opposed to the pamphlet of Mr. Gladstone a more bulky pamphlet. On the publio opinion of Europe this brochure does not appear, from what is yet known of its contents, likely to pro- duce much effect. It abounds in corrections of Mr. Gladstone's statements in matters of detail—upon points which the English statesman advanced cautiously and sceptically as only learned from hearsay, or guardedly as known to him only from the obser- vation he could bestow as a transient visitor; but the broad gene- ral features of his charges are rather evaded than confuted. After doing its utmost to suppress Mr. Glarlstone's pamphlet, the Go- vernment of Naples has given its subjects to know, that grave ac- cusations have been advanced against its justice and humanity, by a foreign statesman, whom it is compelled to treat with deference and respect. It leaves enough of its conduct undefended to excite deep enmity in those subject to its sway ; and it informs them that the sympathy even of Conservative politicians has been awak- ened in their behalf in foreign countries. Such a publication would appear more suited to encourage the subjects of Naples to renew or persist in their struggles against oppression, than to re- concile them to the treatment they have experienced at the hands of their rulers.
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