§ MR. NEWDEGATEsaid, he wished to express his thanks to the noble Lord at the head of the Government for the explanation he had given with respect to the position of affairs in Italy. The fact was, he (Mr. Newdegate) believed, that Italy was at the present moment the victim of disturbances created by the Jesuit party in Rome, and that the state of things in that country was only a parallel to that which they had attempted to produce in this, and in every country where they had lost power. A most remarkable document was in existence, showing what was the spirit by which they were animated at Naples. In the year 1854, if he remembered the date correctly, a difference arose between the Minister of the late King of Naples and the Provincial of the Jesuits. The Minister conceived that the Jesuits were maintaining their power over that Sovereign in an offensive manner, and he called the Provincial of the Order to account for that assumption of power. In the apology which that ecclesiastic then made he stated that he and the whole body with which he was connected were devoted to the system of absolute monarchy; he offered to produce the signature of every Jesuit in Naples to attest the fact that they were bound by their constitution to promote that system of government; and he tendered to the King the allegiance of the Order, because that Sovereign governed Naples and Sicily upon the system of absolutism. When, therefore, it was pretended in that House, or elsewhere, that these disturbances in Sicily and in Naples were created for the purpose of restoring liberty to those countries in any form, he (Mr. Newdegate) begged to state the fact he had referred to as a proof that the instigators of those movements which had been denounced by all Europe were men who were firmly devoted to the promotion of absolute government, and that if they should unhappily succeed in overturning the present state of things in Italy, 1867 it must be for the purpose of re-establishing a despotism as grinding as that from which the Italians had just escaped. Recent events in Mexico showed that that party were as much attached to absolute power in the hands of a President as in those of a King, and that they could use it with not less frightful cruelty. The first exertions of Garibaldi had been directed against the domination of the creature of the priests in Mexico, Santa Anna, and at this moment, when this party had lost power, the most grievous outrages were committed against British subjects, as well as against the natives in that country. When, therefore, the advocates of the Jesuit party represented them as the friends of toleration and of freedom he trusted that no one would be so blind as not to see that this was a mere pretence, and that the re-establishment of despotism could be the only result of the triumph of a party which had already been guilty of every enormity that could outrage humanity. Such was the history of that Order, and he sincerely hoped that the future liberties of Italy would be established and guarded by stringent measures which were absolutely necessary in order to free the country from these political marauders before it could enjoy either peace or freedom.