§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for Fo- 186 reign Affairs, Whether, when Count Rich-berg, in his Despatch of the 27th day of April, denied that a state of siege existed in Venetia, it is not the case that the ordinary Government in Venetia is at least as severe as any state of siege, and that four men were executed by sentence of Court Martial at Venice or its neighbourhood on the very day on which Count Richberg dated that Despatch?
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLSir, I stated in a despatch the general view which Her Majesty's Government entertain with respect to the Kingdom of Italy; and Count Cavour addressed n despatch to the Marquis d'Azeglio, the Minister at the Court of Her Majesty, and these papers I laid before the House. When they came to be published, Count Richberg addressed a despatch to Count Apponyi in London, which he read to me. I did not think it proper to lay that paper on the table of the House, and I did not think there was anything regarding the Government of Venetia which I ought to lay on the table. With regard to the matter referred to by the lion. Member, no intimation of the kind has been received at the Foreign Office; and of course I cannot give any information respecting a speech made by a Deputy in the Parliament of Turin, on the report of which the hon. Gentleman's question is founded.