It is stated that the Tories intend after Easter to
resume the attack upon Mr. Stansfeld. A mass of new statements were made by the Avocat-G eneral during the trial of Marzini on Wednesday, referring not to the Greco affair, but to the connection between Mr. Stansfeld and the attempt of 1857. The assertions amount to this, that the police are in possession of letters from Mrs. Stansfeld which prove that her husband acted in June, 1857, as banker for the Mazzinians ; but the insinuations in the speech imply that he was cognizant of the purpose for which the funds were to be em- ployed, and that he has been continuously implicated in Ilazzini's designs. We do not believe one word of the insinuations, and the assertions all refer to events nearly seven years old ; but the state- ment will furnish the Tories with another brief, and give rise to a very annoying debate. It is just possible that the more moderate members of the Opposition may resent the unfairness of making a Minister's early political escapades matter of grave debate; but the temper of the House before Easter did not promise much judicial impartiality.
