§ MR. H. B. SHERIDANsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Her Majesty's Government have received any information of atrocities, stated by a noble Lord in "another place" to have been committed by General Garibaldi and his associates in the Island of Sicily, since its evacuation by the Neapolitan Troops; and whether it is probable that if such acts have been committed Her Majesty's Government can have remained altogether ignorant of the circumstance?
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLIn answer to the hon. Gentleman I may state that Her Majesty's Government have received information from Palermo and various parts of Sicily that several atrocious murders have been committed by the mob and armed bands on persons employed in the police of the late Government; but there is no account of General Garibaldi having in any way protected or favoured those committing these atrocities. On the contrary, the accounts state that he had done everything to prevent them, by restraining the people from attacks on the instruments of their former misgovernment.