The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1851. refused to degrade itself by selling those to whom it had afforded employment, protection, and citizenship. While the negociations were being protracted, the agitation and excitement of the population was hourly increasing. On the morning of the Ist of July, a soldier who had escaped from the breach told me that when Morisini was taken prisoner he was already dangerously wounded. Though tormented by own ...nand, which, without being dangerous, caused much suffering, I hurried to the Trium %irate, from thence to the mini-try, and thin to the town hall, to ask for a permission to go out of the city. After three hours of fruitless journeys backwards and forwards, I succeeded in obtaining it, and went off to the French camp, without, however, being provided with a safe coa -1 duct. On being arrested at the outposts, I contrived to describe the cause of my anxiety, and the officer, moved by a kindly feeling, allowed me to enter the ramp. I was conducted to one of the camp hospitals, and asked the first surgeon I met after a young Lombard officer who had been wounded in the defence of the breach. I received for LITERATURE. , The operations of the Piedmoutese army having, Ida lett*il nulled singly forward to reconnoitre ; 1 t h e L om b ar d at the same =t he was surrounded and attacked so ended with the battle of Novara, --- suddenly as to render all aid hopeless. lie defended him- The Indian Volunteers and Lonsiyard Rifts Brigade. By legion had no alternative but to surrender to the self for a few minutes with his sword ' and then with Evict° Des onto. Isongraan. Austrians or proceed to !tome . It is well known pbtob, anim sting Lis men by his ' eatures uritil, struck bya It is meet that a Dandolo, a deacentlant of the that they took the latter course. Th•-y were in no - ball in the stomach, and at the same time receiving a thrust ffeat Doge,should celebrate the glorious heroism and wise enamoured with the republic of which Maezini from a bayonet, he fell,and the enemy pressed forwards. This &Notion of his patriot countrymen. The fact that was the head; but they were anxious to nerve Italy little band of riflemen, after a desperate resistance, attacked from behind, at the thinks, surrounded, decimated, at lust the moat glorious historical Italian names, for under the only flag which then was raised for her threw down their arms. Four of them had, however, pre instance, the Nlanamq, Morisinis, a nd Dandolos, independence. W ith these feelings, on the 20th of . Nippily contrived to take up the fallen Morisini, who was perpetually re-appear in the annals of the late war April, I universally beloved by hie men, and, having placed him on ! answers most completely the assertions of the reac- THE LEGION ENTEns RoNS. a litter, and availing themselves of the general confusion, tionists in this country, who would fainlpersuadc us On the morning of the tith of April ws mule our entry made their way towards Villa Spada. But this was already that the late Italian movement was exotic in its into the city. The streets were thronged with a countless surrounded, and they consequently fell in with the French, character. No sooner had the standard of Italian w crowd, es w t who awaited approach and greeted us with the w re la i i it to z i t it u e ;i ij n orr itt a a dkstigge t L e Gui,g t r e e e f n " " Prisoners," on e e m ts y le independence been reared on the walls of Milan than Our battalion brought with it a reputation for bravery some i ruse, rushed forward with their bay „ smelting Ilome, Naples, Tuscany, Sardinia, Romagna, and the and morality—a reputation which had bens contiimed by One of the soldiers who had carried Morisini relates that, Lombarilo-Venetian provinces sent out combatants— persons preceding Ui from Porto d'Anao and Albano, and , finding themselves again surrounded, and their lives threat- generime youths of noble birth, with minds tam- who were enthusiasti Ni p their praises of the military bear- ened, rendered ferocious by the combat, they laid down the pored by many studies—men of mature age, dis- i an tig d a o n f d t r o nsw . ervi l u e undh a un n e ti:i t ce uf o o f u o r rd ,tu eT di i e n n o . ur officers, t t e te tr r, u a p a po d n u e t n te u mpted and to tt e t u at t theirt en way throu t gh t t a he t r h a e nks ou o r f tinguished in science and the arts—labourers To the varied and somewh y at a ff ectedly loud eyelet's lad was seen to rise, and stand erect , st r ang e on e hi o s bloody couch, p and brave mechanics flew to arms, exulting in which saluted us on every side, our men, accustomed to grasping the sword which had lain at his side. He eon- 1 their cause, which had been blessed (but hypocriti- maintain the reserve and self-command befitting soldiers, tinned to defend his already ebbing life, until, struck a se. eally) by a pontiff, revered as the liberator of Italy. made no answer—a circumstance whh somewhat cooled cond time in the body, he fell once more. Moved by the 1 The revolution of Milan, the brave defence of Ni- ! o r t u r underof a p=l at e i o m n h who had erer h y th u ert pu o rt se t ez t t y lu u t f s e i o g n h r t e o y f e r h n i ze t h o e tt o te u i r:nti ut , ali t d d su n ch th m e i t s r f e u n rt e r e e t s, the t tench the cenaa, Treviso, Brescia, Bologna, Venice, and Rome making a profession of their political creed. f'revionsly to The accounts given of ti., death t were many and various. were due to volunteers, to men unused to military our hieing lodged in the quarters assigned to us, General I could only gather with certainty that he continued to lice habits. Wanting alike discipline and competent Avezzams reviewed our battalion. He thought proper to for thirty hours, resigned, praying, speaking of his family, 1 leaders, and therefore without determined plans, d!..iMiSA WS with an oration ending with rien fa fiepabfieo ! and forcing tears from the bystanders, who crowded round, The soldiers remained silent and motionless at the word. gazing on him with silent wonder. On the morning of the they carried on the only war possible to theM, a " Present arms! Viva Fltalia!" shouted Manaus, per- Ist of July he expired calmly, and without suffering. war of barricades and guerillas, and, elevated and ceiling the general's einharraaantent. " Viva!" was the Here let me pause for a moment, while I dwell on the sustained by tho enthusiasm which a generous scuts- u nanimous reply; and the soldien broke up their lines and memory of this incomparable youth, admired, respected, tient inspires, they raised the people of Italy to the retired to quarters. and tenderly loved by all who knew him, and whose cruel level of their ancient virtues. rite myriads of Aus- The first impression which most of us experienced on fate had left an incomparable void in so many hearts. Not r e ien w c as e i t l h a lt re of rid u e n i til u n s abLe t melancholy . Our yet eighteen years of age his attractive,his angelic good tenon soldiers who, planted at the Inds of every catering !tom e ness had rendered him the model and the wonder of the 'street and alley, now hold Italy, are an eloquent tea- the fir,t spar of dissolution in a government or• in a whole hattalioa. Though he was the moat youthful of us timony to the native valour displayed in the unhappy city, and in Rome we recognised with grief the very same all, we almost looked on him as our mentor, and were used struggle of Ifiari-D. In spite of ages spent in de- aspect which Milan had presented during the latter few to sail him our guardian angel. So great was the unsullied wonting the intellect and breaking the spirits of mouths of its liberty . We seemed to obszv e e t te vert sa ir me punt e r of his tet zi e n h du tt e e t, and the unswerving rect i tude rt of his Italians. both Pope and Emperor are brought to con- overweening regard t rivial persons sought, with o aa cr erg L e in e s a tir an am t l a tf, e g locre.The tt re ma ir w as the raa e le a super- tal j eTe a n its ' fess before the world that Lombardy, Venice, and abundance of standards, of cockades, of badgm of party, maintain unoomtaminated in those who were his friends ! Runic yet produce men, and not the much-desired the same clanking of swords along the public streets ; and It was indeed a touching sight to behold him under the herd of tax-paying image-worshipping brutes. those various and varied uniforms of officers, not one match- enemy's lire, erect wherever dangers were the thickest, and l'he history of the last war abounds with lessons as ing with the other, hut all seeming fitter for the embellish• whilst his lips moved in low-breathed and submissive meet of the stage than for military service; those epaulets, prayers, commanding his soldiers with the coolness of a se practical as they are solemn. Austria, the Pope, and thrown us it were by chance on the shoulders of individuate, teran captain. But alas ! he is henceforth numbered with King Ferilinantl are taking advantage of these, for whose very faces seemed to declare their unfitness to wear the dead; yet shall his name and memory long survive in they feel that " the end is not yet. " Mil it a r y histories them ; whilst in addition to these things, the applause' of the sorepanul hearts not only of his parents, his sisters, his of Itadetsky's campa igns have been printed by tens an unwarlike population , echoing from the windows and relatigyeilind friends, but of all who had, but to know him, of thuustiab in Vienna, where the Italians are from the coffee-houses, seemed to us to indicate but too to p him a model of angelic gentleness, of courage, rather regarded as dangerous animals to be shot at, clearly that we had arrived only in time to be present at the of t i 'll t e t nt,.ii t zd o f n t virtue . last scene of some absurd comedy. Accustomed for some *di .re breac h es having been taken, the than us human beings, each, by the very constitu- time past to judge of they matters with the eye of regular • firing became general at all points. tion of his being, requiring a free development of all troupe , all this array of warriors in glittering helmets, with FINAL itersca, DEATu or NANARA AND DISPERSION OF his intellectual and active, and, therefore. of his NH- duuble-barrelled guns and with belts armed with daggers, Tug LLOIoN. tical, faculties. On the other hand, brave, enlight- reconciled on but little to the scanty numbers of real well ened, and initriotic men of all shades of opinion, dri l l n led soldiers. The day dawned, a n d with it the courage of our men the evening, when fatigued by our long match, we revived; mustering their forces, they attempted with their have deserilad the course of the struggle from the gladly answered to our names, in hopes of taking some re- usual daring to repel the advancing enemy, who were break national point of view. Ono of these is Signor pose, the drums beat all of a sudden to arm., and the whole ing in on all sides ; but all order wits at an end, and each ma. meat *welled han d French funks. Our riflemen collected at Dandolo, nn open-hearted, honest soldier, eminently city was in movement to resist the approach of the French. Whoever could h ave se,,lves free from prepidice and conceit, and as candid in hail a glimpse of , Rome that night V soots Sa tli u e r v e i ll u i e ' ards " a a n r il b l i o c i t r i g ' t h e tre P' air a k ted or tl ils ea o l f From others use lie is self-denying and patriotic. v t r h o , sld not . have an r d ec w ogn i r s e ed oi the i e n itz a :r . R . h he bud see n in change mead sow at vile .give a n, and ell rushed forwards wit t ra - From e a rly intimacy and habits of friendship he was th e . o m pinrc:n ag s'vhieh ha e d depressed so j us m o g n our first arrivar but impetus of courage, whilst the French were driven hack as a brother to the great Lucio Nlauara, the leader In all the streets in the neighbourhood of Porta Angelica at all points by this desperate effort of their already van • were b ivouacke d sma ll b ut a d mira bl e quishelloppouents. Meanwhile the enemy's coupon roared of he celebrated column of that name , the fi rst and Cavalle gg ieri, without intermission; our ruined battens without artil to march after the five days of Milan, and regiments of the line, two magnificent battalions of can- without for they were lying dead in heaps round their to bleed and din on the walls of Roine. Infuser., with four or five parks of field artillery; two regi ments of cavalry were stationed at Piazza Novena • name- Pieces) could not return the tire ; and the ground was This chie f our author accompanied through rota bodies of volunteers kept watch on the walls : 'and the strewed with our soldiers, for the most part mortally all his dangers. and for about a year acted as whole of the National Guard were all in perfect order at wounded. Villa Spada was surrounded; we shut ourselves lti:I udjiitant and military secretary. Above all, their respective quarters. Then, as might be expected , the into the house, barricading the doors, and defending our he was his inseparable companion in the reverses fantastic costumes were e ste u l i u u i r n!hi i i: t vasta u ti i o t u an n d er d r f ng ath a ; lost eight of, and every one who solves from the windows. The cannon balls fell thickly, sed h cLc fr ol n o d urs th g e raspel v in his d h7d n the t weaplt: which led him to the tomb; and therefore he has wore l he nat t i o on i t m he rro is ugl t t h h e e V iit l a c t L te m = Elie means of viewing in their true light the per- great aq w u u are of St. Peter's, m e . nehan e ted with t the night windows. It is maddening to tight within the limits of a plexing changes of events in which Mumma and his aid with finding ourselves in the midst of soldiers, a• nd of a house, when a cannon ball may rebound from every wall, and where, if not thus struck, you may be crushed under OuLtiraides were no lamentably entangled and ruined. confiding and resolute population. We then saw that Leming to Italians the duty of rendering the Inn - Ruins was capable of offering is noble resistance, 3 ,4 we the shattered masonry ; where tho air, impregnated with smoke and gunpowder, brings the groans of the wounded hanked Heaven that, in the midet of the shame and cais sons on organisation and political action which this • w b- b we more distinctly on thanked Heaven that , in the midst of the shame and eala- smoke and gunpowder, brings the groans of t e wounded sons on 'ii'g:mtmisution muusl pslitmeal action which this mities uf Italy a field had Ist• i bpenidthe ear, and where the feet slip alongthe -ople uml adeeting narrative contains, let us salter - -.,. show Clint' ' our hard h a df atee m b een . un m e rited . IL I biolltly pavement, while the whole fabric reels and littera .... ■ ' - the redoublin g - - answer—he is dead ... He was my third, my last remaining friend, the one for whose safety I trembled the most; and, whilst his death was not only most distressing to me person ally, it was an irreparable calamity to his family, of whom he was the idol and the only son. 1 thought of his mother, and of' his relations ; I thought of myself left alone in the world —nor could I even weep, surrounded as I was by crowds of soldiers who stared at me with a sort of hostile curoisity. I entreated that his body at least might be given rue, in order that I might convey it to his family. The surgeon replied that it had been already removed to a burial-ground at two miles' distance. At my urgent request, he Sent off instantly to countermand the interment. Meanwhile I was obliged to wait, and, while devoured by heart-rending an guish, was forced to dispute about politics with the officers, who showed themselves completely in the dark as to all that concerned us, asking me why we had not seceded to the terms offered by Lesseps, and what we had done after the victory which bad been obtained over us by the Neapolitan army. More than an hour had already passed in this way when a captain adjutant-major came in ; he was excessively surprised at seeing an enemy's officer without a safe con duct in the camp. lie ordered the officers who had received me to be arrested, and sent me instantly back beyond the line of outposts without listening to a word of explanation. I was compelled to return to the city, and be the bearer of melancholy tidings to our anxious friends. I wrote to the head officer of the French staff, asking to be allowed to enter the camp in order to remove the body of my deceased friend. I received the order to do so on the morning of the tad. While on my way I fell in with Manara's funeral peewee-sit:ou. It was a sight which struck me to the very heart; the two battalions of 900 men, now reduced to 400, marches! in front, without officers, owl, spiritless, and hag gard. I saw passing before me ten or twelve soldiers, the lost remnant of my brother's company, without a captain— without even a lieutenant; all my friends had died in the hospitals, or were prisoners. A Roman military band fol ' lowed the soldiers; then the bier, covered with a blood stained tunic; then a hundred wounded soldiers, who hail dragged themselves painfully front their bed.; to pay a last tribute of respect to their poor colonel. The aspect of the vanquished city, which, before admitting it. conqurors, presided mournfully at the obsequies of one of its noblest des fenders—the thought of that gallant young man who had fallen on the very last day of the defence, at the age of twenty-four years, leaving behind him three infant children, and all the bright hopes which seemed still in reserve fur him, accompanied to the tomb by his fellow soldiers who had lost in him their last stay—the wouuded men—the flowers strewed along the whole length of the road—the pressure of public calamities added to the weight of private sorrow, filled up the measure of my grief, and lacerating a spirit already weighed down by suffering almost deprived me of reason. The sad procession entered the church of San Lorenzo, in Lucius, where sumptuous funeral rites were celebrated, and Padre Urea Bassi (who was afterwards shot by the Austrians with re volting additional marks of obloquy and cruelty) pronounced a funeral oration over the body. It w as one of those scenes which leave their impression on a whole life, and cannot be recalled without a thrill of horror. Not yet recovered from this sock, I had to return to the camp. At the outposts they bandaged my eyes, and then made me walk under the scorching rays of the sun for tittereru of two hours. When they stopped, I opened my eyes on a newly made grave—hlorisini was already buried. I bad to be present at the diahumation, to follow with my eye each stroke of the spade, which seemed to re-echo on my heart, and then to see that angelic countenance, begrimed with blood and earth, lifted out of the grave and carried befuro me on a bier into the city. Oh ! this was the lest, the most tremendous refinement of suffering to which I had been reserved ; in enduring this I seemed to have fulfilled my task to the uttermost—and in the delirium of my anguish cursing my very existence, I asked what remained for me to do here below. While these events were occurring, the uncertainty and confusion of the city had become still greater, many of the populace (popolani) circulated through the streets in large demanding with sinister vociferatious that the war should be continued. The greater part, however, of the inhabitants were preparing in disdainful silence to bow their males once more beneath the old yoke. But not a barricade was demolished, nut a watch-house of the national guard was deserted, note magistrate abandoned his post. Deputations to and fro from the camp followed each other in rapid succession. Still nothing was concluded. At last, as if by some sudden decision, the gates of the city were flung wide open, the troops were consigned to their quar ters, and a message was 'sent by the Assembly to that army which had at first presented itself as a liberator, announc ing that, yielding to force. Rome resisted no longer, and that the French might accomplish their ill-augured man date. That same morning Garibaldi, having mustered his troupe and volunteers in the great square of St. Peter's, in vited ail to follow him who did not choose to lay down their arms, declaring that his intention was to throw himself into the mountainous districts, where, however, lie could promise nothing, except hunger, thirst, perils, and fighting. Four thousand men answered, to this call, and to the amaze ment of the more prudent, who could not conceive what Garibaldi could hope to accomplish with a handful of dis pirited soldiers against four armless, he marched out at the St. John of Lateran Gate, and took the road towards Tivoli. The end of this adventurous expedition is but to well known, mad unfurtuuatelv it dues not from the only dreary episode of a most melancholy history. On the and of July, at lour o'clock in the afternoon, the French army made its entry into the conquered city. All the Streets were deserted, es cry door and gateway was closed, a death-like silence reigned everywhere. On arriving opposite to the Piazza del Popish), the French regiments, who had perhaps expected to he greeted by the acclama tions and festive welcomes of Al people restored to liberty, suddenly drew up, petrified by the aspect of the city, which seemed so threatening iu its sullen silence. Orders were given to put the caps on the nipples of the firelocluy and 12,000 men, preceded by a powerful vanguard, marched into Rome with quickened puce and fixed bayonets. At the some moment, the constitution of the Roman republic aas proclaimed with pomp at the Capitol, in presence of the whole Assembly and a vast concourse of the popula tion. But the Assembly which made a show of Spartan pride in rejecting all proposals of accommodation, and who, in imitation of the senators of ancient times, resolved to await in their chairs the decision of their fallen country's destinies, would have done better bad they not forgotten what they owed to that country's defenders, who were left to the mercy of the conqueror. No measures what ever had been taken to secure their safety. Some regard was especially due to the survivors of the Lombard legion, against whom every part of Italy was now closed, and who began anxiously to enquire what fate ;was reserved for them. Mtwara, who had constantly protected their rights , with unwearying energy, was no more; others, on whom this noble duty DOW devolved, had either little influence, or were too much engrossed in scouring their personal in terests to think of contending for others. sing. tg nui— admire in u few extracted passages the nobler, if sometimes mcluncholc, aspects which the Italian cumpoigit presents, here is a picture of ♦ 711 I 1.1 I ef It is a fin. sight on Sunday to see the mar celebrated on' the hittht st summit of the 1111 l tintain, under the open sky, and unpict within sight of the rnCtily. Two firs plated so us to lean :I. gigantic trona a table, a drum, two candltsdieks, onto rut. our :duty. The boundless sky above, the valley with its winding riser beneath, the distant lake, the two villages at our fret, the soldiers seatfrred in grup , on tin dtt livity, the distant riflemen arranged u sewn. s, the gunners round their pieces, the solemn silence, and, state all, the ideas wnich crowded on the mind in see ing that handful of min (of whom many, perhaps, might never s. p tomorrow's light), at three milts distance from the enemy, joining reverently in the celebration a. the sa crifice of peace, in the presence of nature and of the Creator, all coitspired to produce in each heart :t gentle and pro found ...notion, "'fanning it with the desire and the multi - unknown might The whole weight of Signor Dandolo's testimony was needed to make us believe that a French officer could practice the following DIANOWVILE.i Or WAS. But I have yet to relate events and misfortunes of a more porional nature. In orderto take up the thread of my sad narrative, I must refer to what has already been in part described. A short time after our arrival at the gate, my brother and I were seated near each other striring a piece of bread, when he received an order to go out with his company. Ile started up with a bound, squeezed my hand, and, drawing his sword, was in an instant at the head of his men. After passing through the barrier they turned to the left by a narrow path across some vineyards, and, with out losing time even to fire a shot, marched in good order up to the flat terrace surrounding the Villa Corsini. The shower of balls fell thicker every moment. At each step the company was lessened in number by those who wen struck down ; while the remainder, silently closing their ranks, continued the com bat, e- 1 7 my under ts. shucks of the cannonade. The defence hadalroady lasted two hours. Manua passed continually frost one room to another, seeking to reanimate the cum , batants by his presence and words. I followed him, dis tracted by anxiety, having had no news from a ball 'rebounding from the wall wounded my right arm. Perdiu! exclaimed 31anara, who was standing at my side, "Are you always the one to be struck? Am Ito take no thing away front Runic ? " A few minutes afterwards he was standing at an open window, looking through his telescope at some of the enemy who were iu the act of planting a cannon when a shot from a carabine passed through his body. "I am a dead man," he said, falling; " I commend my children to you." surgeon hastened to his assistance. I looked inquir ingly into his countenance, and seeing hint turn pale, lout all hope. Ho was laid on a hand-barrow, and, taking advantage of a momentary pause in the firing, we passed through a broken-down window, into the open country. Mantra, letting his hand fall into mine, kept saying to me, Du not abandon me • stay with me;' and I followed him soldier was ts-- tics s•frneveiber In ...-..10W11 &Mews mad lodger . until • - unequal --oat, eneOuraged r s. iy r - --- ---.---- ---•- - - with a bleeding heart. My duty as • all Mai be accomplished. Oh, who mould then tan fore- brother, who, foremost of all, by his impassioned w w ord; and cam hest ; the must painful office of a Mend was all that magnanimous example, showed at what value life should be sees that a year afterwards we should be called to leave our remained fur me to do. After many windings and turnings held when exposed to danger in a noble cause. All of a lam hopes, our choicest blood, at Rome, only to see our we reached the ambulance of ha. Maria della hula, where that, were i t su dd en a French company emerged from one side of the country fallback into a condition so wretched,l a a hundred of the most Nevsrely wounded had been already palace, headed b• an Piker, who I f • II • not for the • sperience gained, see might almost look back ) he l inal e d nen*y signaplaced, it being impossible tu have them conveyed to a with his sword , a nd , . w h en 34 advance a little nea rer , on the past with regret, and might even wish to return to called out in Italian, " siamo ;mica' o w e are friend s. " greater distance. The moment we arrived, Manure desired Mar ("rime state and condition, which, although it had beenme to send for his Milanese friend, Dr. Agostino Be In My brother ordered his men , who had opened a vigorous so lone to, very tree patriot the object of indignant inipre-the meanw h ile all the sus vans wens preparing to do what fire at sight of the ene my , to cease fi •g. All of us had cation, 'wear. ), t to be surpassed in misery and hopelessness then . such faith in the honour and kindly feeling f n the they could fur him; but he continued eaying " Let me die by that which ha. sat •d it.in peace; do nut move me." lac consequence of having been • h Freuch army, that it was at once believed that t hi s officer The following pasargc describes an affray w i t h ____, • - h i s - assured by the medical men that he had but a few hours to peeresses. coming over to us to turning arm .' against a far superior body of Austrians near Breocia : tis. When, howeser, be had got within thirty paces, he live, I bent down to his ear, and said, "Think of your Tile CUMULI OF Lisee - ro. halted fur a moment, and a tremendous discharge laid a Lord and Saviour." " Oh, I think of him, and much, "he But we had hardly mad arms when our ears were third of our company un the ground. My brother was shot replied. I then beckoced to a Capucine monk to come Wens' by a distant tiring it' musketry, and at the same through the chest ; young Lieutenant Mancini wu near, who, after having received the signs of the dying time see kunit that a Luse body of the enemy from lie- wounded in the thigh ; and two soldiers, who hastened to man'i contrition, imparted to hint absolution. Manua amuse. had fallen upon our troops on the lulls close to sultan' him, fell in their turn; while another ball gassed then wished to be supported by the Viaticum, and I aux- Leman, '1 he' drum. heat to ann., and, without having had through Mancini's arm; Lieutenant Silva WWI struck in iewsly endeavoured to prepare Wm as well as I could for t i me 1., taw s other fusel or rest, we marched on towards the hand ; Lieutenant Colombo had a ball which went in his great change. A feeling of soothing consolation penes Den n oino, where the long wished-fur encounter awaited US. at his mouth and passed out through his cheek. The stir- tested my mind in seeing the truly Christian spirit in which The 006.1 Mom L 0041,0 rises by a winding ascent, and 'iron, drew back terror-struck. Morisini alone remained my most beloved and suffering friend encountered death. then de. ides into two branches, one of which leads to Silo, near his dying friend, serving as a mark fur the bullets of ' A ter having purtakeu of the sacrament, he did not speak the unser to Deo:nano ; it embraces in its 1111111C11.0 wind- the enemy, which, however, passed Win without injury. for a considerable time. His first words were to commend logs the click of smiling hills which elope down to the After a momentary pause, the firing 0%41 vigorously ye- his sous again to my care. " Bring them up," said he, "in lake. Arrived at the crews roads, the column divided, one newest on our side, and two soldiers rushing forward took the love of religion, and of their country." He begged me half taking the direction of Sae the other of Desenzano ; their expiring captain in their arms, his lips still moving in to carry his remains into Lombardy, together with those of and a few minutes afterwards we perceived, 111010110,1 on prayer. lie IBIS hardly raised from the ground ere his my brother. Perceiving that I wept, he said, " Does it the 1,4, round a low dwelling-honer, a battalion of Tyro- tr im h a d returned to (s o d . indeed oain you so much that I die?" and, seeing that my errs chaaatura with a lung line of infantry formed in their At length the awful 30th of June arrived, when suffocating sobs prevented my replying, he added, in an rear. Char skirmishers, under cover of the brushwood, had • i moa t be taken, under tone, but with the holiest expreseson of resignation, already commenced tiring. We quitted the road and hur- the cty zu • "It grieves me also. . . . ." Ile called to his side the Mel across the fields, in order to reach the point of action me VERTU OF EMILIO MORISINO. soldier who had been one of his orderlies, and begged his more quickly; but nom that disorder which is inevitable On the evening of the 21th of June, after some hours of pardon if he had sometimes vexed him, "se I' areca akanc in soluuteer troupe, it happened, as usual, that the more repose passed in the Corsini , our battalion was oolte s figto impozzire." He then asked again if there were timid, nut keeping pate with the others, broke the order of formed and returned to the St. palace , erazio gate. The rain no news of Morisini,.expressiog a desire to have him near the colossal; at the head of which remained only the fell in torrents. The soldiers, drawn up in the open air, him. I knew already from vague reports that he was a nest eourugeous of the different companies and corps, awaited further orders. Atter sonic time, two companies prisoner, nod had consoled myself on this amount, ',thee followed by a strong rear-guard of the more prudent, who, were told to remain as a reserve at Villa Spada, and a sag him to be out of danger; but, aware how much Maness though Sl,O in disorder, possessed, at least, the advantage third went to occupy the breach in bastion No. N. Op- was attached to him, Iliad not ventured to tell him this, of moving with becoming gravity. pressed by the deepest melancholy, I accompanied my poor fearing that the intelligence might re-awaken hi. anxiety. We mouutest a little eminence, which row at a distance friend Morisini Emilio Morisini to his post in the breach . she A abort time before he died lie took off a ring which he about OM paces in front of the enemy, and, though too night closed in dark and tempestuous ; our feet sank in the valued greatly, placed it himself on my finger, sod then, muds scattered to rush forward resolutely to the assault, , ground which had been lately turned up by the spades of drawing me close to him, said, " I will embrace your bro. o p e n,' a bred, tires which did 'not fail to do some execution the workmen; and our lauthorns flickered so as to prevent ther in your stead." Saluteris rico fsatello per le, n' i rerof a i m ing the compact hies of the Austrians ; our hire was our sseing the lurniuous arches traced by the bombe, or to When Domini arrived, Mauna was scarcely able to viguniuniy returnee', and it was not lung before many of avoid them as they fell. The soldiers, obliged every mo- speak; only, on feeling himself moved in order to have his our Well fell to the ground. A battery of rockets, which merit to fling themselves with their faces in the mud to wounds dressed, he raised himself up a little, and clasping t h e Austrians played off upon us, without causing 118 great escape the explosion of these projectiles, advanced slowly, a his hands, exclaimed, " Oh, Bertani, let me die quickly! I hoe, slid not fail, from their novelty, to create a certain prey to the must disheartening terror; whilst many, taking suffer too much." This was the only complaint that ever P ocono. By GEORGIE MEREDITu. John W. Parker. trepidation; but this actuation gave place to merriment edentate of the darkness, and of the confusion of the escaped from his lips. In the convulsions of his last agony, when we perceived the harmless slowness of then: ill- march, dropped off and returned ;so that on arriving at when lie began to cling, in that last death struggle, to those , - • If M 111 edi h Dir . er t had written a volume of the directed projectiles , the breach there were not men su ffi cient to relieve the senti - who stood round him, I grew faint, and was removed to a ordinary verse that flows copiously front the modern Foremost of all, animating the rest by his gestures, stood has. It now blew a hurricane ; we were drenched with distance, lest my loud sobs should increase the sufferings of press, ho might hare been disnussed with a few Pannone, directing, as well as he could from the top of the rain; and the darkness became almost impervious. The the dying man. When I r e covered m y s enses, I returned words; but as the case stands more courtesy is due hill, the irregular oscillations of that long line of our rise- I poor riflemen, burial to their knees in mud, struck down to his bedside; he was already motionless and cold; his to hint, and he is worth earning. is a friendly 1 • li• men. I stood beside him with the standard, which, serving !by the Inqueat and fatal descent of the bombs, took the heart still beat blow'''. Little by little the warmth of life , as a mark for the lire of the enemy, was in a short time perilous places assigned to them in silent discouragement. ceased entirely, and the soul of that young hero tied to ' contains ms, man • steps removed from vo ume poc , y torn ill various ohm:es by their shot 'Those who were near It was a sight which one could hardly bear to witness. heaven, to rejoin the friends who had fallen before him and medioeV e y. ; in truth his Daphne will probably . be use rri. 4 out to me to lower it, in order not to odd to the Gild forgive those who were the cause of so useless a with him! .. . For fifteen months we had shared each imprea on many poetic minds as a conception rich d ung , r o f our position; hut thinking it a shame that the slaughter . and doubly do they need that pardon, inasmuch other's dangers, joys, and hopes: there had been no eon- in imagery, gracefully versified, and presenting on the tricolor of Italy should bow before :the black and yellow as they were already convinced of the impossibility of all cealments, no jealousies between us. Drawn together by whole a picture of istoral passion that may rank high banner of Austria, I held it erect, and as high as possible. ulterior defence, which conviction was hacked by the use- natural sympathy of character, that sympathy had been i the t . B t then throe hootthe •I n poe tic w or ld. u roug to ume Dr o oped aruuud our standard were many officers who, i aeration of the most intrepid and intelligent military men. soon changed into a brotherly ffective& I lost more than owins *o the contunun of our ranks, Misting themselves , Yet, against their own conscience, and the remonstrances of a friend in losing Illanara. Oh ! what did 1 not suffer in so many careless and trivial jrassages mar the good witinmt soldiers to command, had caught up their muskets ! others, they obstinately continued the defenes, and fur the pressing to my heart those cold remains, so beautiful still performances that the reader hurries through his and miiintained the firing, together with half a company of sake only of being enabled to say, "We did not yield"— in their paleness: one thought alone seemed then to sus- labour of perusal in no very excellent temper. Con rill, muter the gallant Roza. Suddenly the light wing, I " mini non cedentnio"—they did not shrink from adding use- Min me. Morisini at least, us we all believel, was safe! tititmil it occurs to him that the author has rushed hololl by Colonel kamiensky, rushed resolutely forward lessly to the number of %tenon. The multitude, neverthe- Meanwhile the lighting was fiercely continued: our men, into prin t , an d at last i t i s not un li kely t h at h e as k s upon the enemy. Thou intrepid Poles, grown grey in war, . less, are ready to clap their hands, and to proclaim as the headed by Omibideli, charged for the last time with the and in deep-rooted animosity against tho Austrians, threw ' most glorious name in all Duly him who sat quietly aloof bayonet, and drove the I reach back behind the second himself whether or nutt h e tcould li • h . poe ate seen his themse lvi n upon them. hand to hand... With reach impetuosity,' from danger, and, provided with a safe conduct. ran at the line. This final eff set exhausted all the remaining force proof sheets. This is painful when the excellence of that many 1 yrialene were actually killed with the knife. ; worst no greater risk than that of returning to his aecus- ,of our poor soldiers. A report began to prevail of the some of the matter is fairly taken into consideration Astounded by such a vigorous assault, they precipitately , tamed and most easy exile ; while the names of those gene- ! municipal authorities having sent to the camp to capitulate, _psinful that the determination no longer to waste uhanduned the height and be to retire. A shout roma spirits who sacrificed their lives to their duty . are and the tiring gradually ceased. Night drew on, silente his sweetness on the desert air, should have so se of joy arise from our lines, the drums beat the charge, either already forgotten, or will soon be buried in oblivion! ' and gloomy. Abnoet all our posts were abandoned; th . ou and we all rushed pell-mell forward in pursuit. But at At about 11 o'clock, my duty calling me to the side of numbers a our dead and wounded were fearfully great; ri sly marred the honey of M Meredith ' s this moment, on the road to Salo, we caught sight of a Manant, I left Morisini, after fervently embracing him, and yet the courage of the survivors was still admirable ; but Here and there, too, are strained images that, by . strong column of infantry, preceded by about 300 dragoons. entreating him, if possible, to preserve a lifo which was so it was easy to f oresee that Rome was lost with the loss of suggesting the weariness of effort alter effect, jar Thew were the 1.400 men who had set out to occupy Saha precious to his family and his friends. The cannonade con- that day's battle. The French occupied all the bastions terribly upon the ear, and go far to obliterate all and who had limn recalled in Mate to strengthen the tinued incessantly during the whole of the night, mid from and the Vascello, and had pushed forward as fax as S. previous sensations of pleasure. To talk about Audi ..in ranks. The sight stopped us at once ; the result , time to time there were discharges of musketry at the out- Pietro in Montorio. s t ar t h eo f d ear th dkl illumini of the battle could no longer be doubted. Our volunteers posts. Who shall, however, say, that the 30th of June, though ," te ary ng a nation's ef," gri bad already marched 15 miles, were still fasting, and, after l At two in the morning the enemy broke in upon our line, ending' so fatally for us, had been inglorious for Italian lis to utter absurdity—the more glaring by being thee. hours' fighting, hail acatcely streogth left to load their and, favoured by the darkness of the night, and the ineffi- arm; although too many precious lives had been sacrificed iin direct contrast with a prelude expressive of intense fire:edam. ' deny of the guard at several of the outposts, forced their in that fruitless combat. The three days which preceded I earnestness. Nor is Mr. Meredith altogether pat- After half an hour's firing, Manua commanded the in - way to the different breaches in the city walls. Roused by the entry of the French into Rome offered the melancholy , k , ss of• affectations in metre, which stern criticism treat to bas e beaten, and it w high time; the enemy's rifles the frightful uproar of this unexpected assault, in the spectacle usually presented by a city on tats eve of surren- I were penetrating through the brushwood, and rapidly our , twinkling of an eye we were all on our feet; the cry of der. On the I st of Juiy the Constituent Assembly decreed cannot pardon • but, accepting the dictum of Prime rounding us ; • few minutes more, and all was over with alarm was given, and the drums beat to arms ; the night that the defences which had become impossible should be Albert , that the work of the literary and art judge us. In fact, scarcely had we began slowly to draw back-' was pitch dark, the sky being still stormy ; whilst the dies relinquished. The Triumvirate resigned ; another govern- should be undertaken in kindliness of spirit—in op wariln, than all the heights which we had occupied were charge. at musketry, mingles' with the shouts of the ap- meat was chosen in its stead. The ministry sent in their p osition to certain criticism that conceals a rotten swanning with Tyrolese. I was the lost on the hill with preaching enemy, increased the general confusion and do- - resignation and the munieipality undertook to negotiate judgment under strong and malignant epithets,— thatd ; and it depended lost on the turn of a hair may. I saw Garibaldi spring forward with his drawn with the enemy. The Assembly continu alone,is sittings with acce itin kindling the • ' of the RS proper incentive lay temerity hail not mat the leas of the ensign, which sword, shouting a popular hymn. A few courageous fel- out interruption, declaring that force should diasolve 1..1 . q had Is en the first to emerge from the gates of Milan, and lows premed on behind him ; while others, as if petrified by it. In the meanwhile it deereed that the Triumvirate had ' critic, it is just to pass over these affectations with wh e so.oeitour bad been maintained snealfted ins so essay, a panic terror, stood rivetted to the spot, expecting to be merited the thanks of the country, bestowed the rights of the simple utterance of a warning —with the simple perils Scarcely had I time to shoulder it, and to hamy st ; instantly surrealldstil and cut to pieces. In a few minutes Roman citizenship on all who ha borne arms in defense of record of the fact that they are affectations. tag speed d own tee declivity, followed by a Mat and does ; the French had overthrown every obstacle, and had ad- the republic, and authorised the Minister of Finance to Mr. Meredith has a strong poetic insight mg discharge, whisk soma to pat wimp to my feet. I minced as far as the log barricade at the gate, a few paces provide for the most necessitoue. While thew things were y, and for the t doubtedl o tis he should rece ive ll timt An it a at Lomat% ud own solemn in some measure distant from Villa Spada. At this eight, our corps, regain. going on, however, the populace were restless and tiumaltu reorganised, we permed ORE Marsh rapidly. sod reached , lag 00 14 12 11 1 , o Pcied their fire; the barricade was alter- ow: they fortified afresh many parts of the city, and even acknowledgment .pulalie appreciation ; but be. Gamed° the some evening, after eighteen man of &Sinai . Rawly mat and regained amidst shouts, blows,. the roar of erected barricades, and attempted to organise troops. would do well to spend long hours over his volume exhausted with haw bat prase of having proved to the l cameos, the Inwstinge bombs, and the crashing of roofs The most strange and appalling reports too, circulated 'in the labour gf correction and reconstruction. His Austrians, who ha se, Dot ammo& tO mrt lll4 plir tßitalk 'ma ekella s the air itself being filled with such a deafezing through the city : there was uncertain sews Prom the camp, garden is wotth the trouble of weeding. In con that we did sot, eves in Glom days of diosouralloomell, uproar as can !candy be conceived by tine wildest Mumma- and • freak attack was apprehended. General Owlinot cluaion, we commend ' public attention to his poem shrink from an manatee ; nay, fr om going in quest of one ties. Morkiiites post was one of the first to be surrounded. demanded the surrender of all the Frenchmen who had __,, . ~ when not forced upon us. No sooner did the shouts of the enemy reach his ear, than fought against their countrymen; the:Roman government owed Daphne," and to one or two of his songs, for the richness of their imagery, and that fervour of youthful enthusiasm which lx trays the beardless bard. GARDENERS' OPERATIONS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. Prom the C ;Mentes Chrootkle. PLANT DEPARTMENT. Now is a good time to sow seed of Chinese primroses for 1 winter and spring flowering. Old plants may have the soil partially removed, and be then repotted in a compost of loam, a little well-decayed cow manure, and leaf-mould, with a portion of sand. fly placing them iu a cold frame in • a shady situation, and keeping them close for a time, they will be useful for furnishing a supply of flowers during the early part of winter. Some seed of the Ilunica elegant should now be sown both for furnishing the conservatory next year, and for plants to turn out into beds in the flower garden • or for any of the various decorative purposes, for' which this fine plant is 30 well adapted. Seedling einem rias, for autumn and winter flowering, should be potted MS they require it in light rich soil, containing about one-fourth of loam. The plaids obtained by dividing the old ours of approved sorts should be stimulated into vigorous growth, to produce floe specimens for late flowering, by typentiner them progressively, no soon as the roots reach the sides of the pots. It will, however, be advisable to retain a portion of the plants in small pots, for flowering during autumn and early winter. The Cypripedium insignia is an admirable winter plant when well flowered. The plants should now be placed in a cold frame, where they should have plenty of air, and be moderately supplied with water, and by the mouth of November they will be showing their flowers in great abundance. This treat ment suits them much better than keeping them in a warm house during summer. All tea-scented and China roses intended for flowering in winter should now 1 hare a shift, using rich loamy soil, and stopping them fre quently during the remainder of the season, to make them bushy. By the occasional use of liquid manure, and by placing them in a pit or green-house in November, they will continue in flower all the winter. Let the soil of per fietual carnations be renewed, that they may make a vigorous growth, and flower strongly dining the winter. Pipings of these uud of the various kinds of pinks should be put in as curly as possible, that strong plants may be ob taMed by the end of the season. Panties of choice kinds, and double wallflowers, should now be struck. PLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. Perhaps no plants ars• more generally useful than the hardier kinds of caseation', picotees, and cloves; their beauty and fragrance not only recommending them to a prominent place in flower beds, but also rendering them in valuable for glasses or bouquets. If pipings of them are taken nit about this season, trey sometimes strike as freely as pinks; but the operation will be more certain to succeed if the band-lights arc set on a slight hot-bed, or the pots plunged in a Ironic where there is a gentle bottom heat. Points that require special attention arc—that the cuttings be taken not later, on any account, than the expanding of the first flower, and that they be carefully shaded from every ray of sunshine. The most certain method of propagating then is by layers ; but it is equally int portaat that this operation be performed early, as the plants rout sooner, aud thereby become better esta blished before winter • but in all cases it will be found the most satisfactory node of proceeding, to defer the trans planting of carnations raised from layers till the spring fol owing ; as, if transplanted in autumn, they are liable to be thrown out of the ground by frost. Where the locality is unfavourable, it sometimes becomes necessary to remove the young plants to a frame during wiutcr. Late-sown annuals, intended for autumn flowering should be thinned out or transplanted before they crowd one another, anti become too weak to support themselves, choosing moist weather for the operation. Timely tying, staking, and regulating of all plants is of much importance, both as regards the effect produced, and the time occupied in doing so. FLORISTS' FLOWERS. Seedling Itanuneulutea will now require taking up; gene rally speaking, they are so very smali the first season, that without great care many may he lost. Perhaps the better way is to get a flue wire sei re, in which composts and roots together may be put; this may then be placed under a pump, and a stream of water allowed to pass through ; by this means the soil will be washed away, leaving the root in the sieve • these may then be spread out, and gradually dried in a shady place.. The bulbs on the main beds will, require attention, inasmuch as they are seldom ready to be taken up all at once. Some of the grass will become yellow before the other; these should be lifted directly, for if al lowed to remain and showery weather sets in, they will im mediately make a second growth, to the serious and often irreparable injury of the rout. Tulips.—As the foliage de cays, let these also be taken up and stored away fur dry ing; let the place be shady. We recollect u number id valuable sorts being put into a glazed triune to dry; the consequence was that they were all destroyed. assuming a disease, which made theta impenetrable to the thumb nail. Aurieulas, polyanthuses, dahlias, do., as last week. HAILDT FRUIT GARDEN. Pears and apples against walls and espaliers should now be gone over for the purpose of destroying the caterpillars, which may be found preying upon the fruit. The opera tion is a tedious one, but in the ease of choice kinds of hardy fruit, it is one that we deem indispensable. Cherry trees are very liable to be infested with black fly, fur which the most certain remedy is diluted tobacco water or soap suds; but where there is fruit neither of these can be applied, and clean water from the garden engine or syringe mist be per severingly used instead. Over-luxuriant growths in young fruit trees should now he stopped, and all shoots intended for filling up should be trained before they become too strong, and while they can readily be brought into their proper places, as the work can then be executed in half the time, suit will look much better. Trees planted last opting should now be watered, and the ground over the roots of wall trees may be forked up lightly. KITCHEN HARDEN. As every available means should be adopted for stimu lating the various crops lists a vigorous growth, let due use be made of the liquid manure, if this valuable auxiliary can conveniently be obtained. This is the best time of year to make use at it, by applying it to all plants which are culti vated for the sake of their roots, stems, or leaves, the object being to induce a luxuriant growth, and to prevent or re tard the production of flowers or seeds. Make every pro vision for autumn and winter, by planting good breadths of Brussels sprouts, cabbage, savoys, broccoli, and other winter vegetables, taking care that the ground be previously well manured. Let there be no idle ground in this de partment ; but, as the quarters arc gradually cleared of their summer occupants, let them be succeeded by something else. Celery planting should also be completed with the least possible delay. Sow chicory, endive, parsley, Ameri can cress, &c., for winter ; and lamb lettuce or corn salad fur late autumn use. Kidne3•-beans, peas, and other crops with weak collars, should be earthed up before they are blown aside. A supply of watercress fur the autumn and winter may be easily obtained by planting some strong young tops, about 4 inch( s loug, in a line at the foot of a north wall. The cuttings should be of pieces which are protruding roots from the joints. Tho watercress will grow freely in such a situation ; and in many places where there arc no artificial beds, au I where natural ones arcs consider able distance off, these will be found very useful. Sup ply the young plants with plenty of water until they are rooted. THE MILITARY OUTRAGES IN SCOTLAND.--On Wednesday 14 soldiers of the 33rd Regiment, who were captured during the disgraceful affray which took place on Tuesday °riming intim streets of Edinburgh, and an ac count of which appeared in the Express of yesterday, ' were brought up in custody at the Edinburgh police- , office. Several of them appeared without their jackets, some with bandaged arms, and most of them with plastered faces. Mr. Linton, after reading the indictment, craved the sitting magistrate to remit all the prisoners to a higher court—a course which the aggravated nature of the case amply justified. The magistrate, in remitting them to a higher court for further disposal, observed that the course he took the day previous in regard to this matter, by summarily sentencing the men to sixty days' imprison ment, was taken from an anxious desire on his part to al lay any irritation that might bare occurred between the and the military by a full investigation being made into the circumstance% of the riot. Ile much regretted that the course he then took had not had the effect he intended it to have ; and from what had taken place the night before, and the very deplorable eight he now saw before him, he was under the nece,sity of allowing the ease to go to a higher court—Major Johnstone, who attended I with the Adjutant, was proceeding to address the migia trate, when he was interrupted by a loud noise at the en trance of the court, occasioned by about thirty of the sol diers endeavouring to ga n admittance. As the police ap peared to have some difficulty in restraining them, the Adju tant proceeded to the dour, and succeeded in restoring order. Major Johnstone then stated that he regretted exceedingly to find so many of his men in custody ; at the same time, he was anxious that every inquiry Should be made into the circumstances, and he bad very little doubt . that they would be able to prove that the soldiers were not the aggressors on the occasion. Bailie Dick had no doubt that the officers must feel very much grieved at the occur rence, but every investigation would be made consistent with justice and propriety. Major Johnstone expressed a hope! that bail would be accepted. Mr. Linton explained that as the case had now gone beyond the jurisdiction of the court, the application must be made to another quarter—The prisoners were then removed from the bar, and shortly after conveyed its the prison van to the Calton prison. —Courant. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN WORCESTER. —On Saturday night last John Waters, a man who plies as a boatman in Worcester, made a murderous attack upon a woman named Mary Ann Burk, who liar been living with him for several months. Having quarrelled with her he inflicted a serious wound upon her neck with a knife, and subsequently stabbed himself in the throat in two pleura An inquiry into the circumstances took place at the police station on Monday before two of the sit) magistrates, who re ' mended the prisoner Waters for a wear in consequence of his being too ill to undergo an examination. The woman • Burk is recovering from the effeeta of her wounds, and is considered out of danger. It appears that the prisoner i; Water' bad been heard to say several times in the course of Saturday that he would murder the woman, and was seen ' to dampen his knife (a poeket one), which was found covered I with blood on the floor of the room. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 24.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Edward Ryan as Consul at , Quebec for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.—Gaufte. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. TO THE EDITOR OP THE ESPRE49. SIC.,—It is becoming hourly of more importance that the British public should perceive that the agitation which is now taking place in " the Australia'," on the sub ject of transportation, is beyond all mistake of a very serious character. Ile great meeting held at Melbourne on the Ist February last, to inaugurate the Anti-Transportation , League, was followed by another meeting, held on the 11th of that month, at Geelong, the second town in the I'ort Philip colony, at which upwards of a thousand persons as sembled, when it was unanimously declared that the total cessation of transportation to the Australian colonies was essential to their honour, happiness, and prosperity. On the Bth of the same month a meeting was held at Adelaide, at which many of the principal colonists took an active part, load resolutions were carried denouncing the continuance of transportation to Van Diemen's Land, which was but an indirect means of pouring criminals into the province of South Australia itself. The Governor of Van Diemen's Land, enamoured as he is of transportation, has endeavoured to show that that island will bear a favourable comparison with the other Australian colonies in the statistics of crime, and the idea was adopted with alacrity by Earl Grey. It should now seem that the Governor was not far wrong, os there is uo doubt an equalising process going on in this respect throughout the colonies. At the Adelaide meeting, Mr. Elder, one of the speakirs, observed, that " ship after ship was bringing the dregs of Van Diemen's Land to our shores. Turn to the criminal assises, and notice there that the crimes of the deepest order were perpe trated by enfranchised or conditionally pardoned convicts. So master or mistress could be certain whether their see rant was not a convicted felon." And whereas the noble secretary for the colonies always produces "sensation" in the House of Lords when lie refers to the 70,080 convicts who would be in this country 1k ere they not in New South Wales, the colonists very naturally propose for counter con sideration, whether they should be content with a system which, in the next twenty years, will transmit to their shores 80,000 additional criminals, convicted of murderous assaults, burglaries, and all the other heinous offences to which the punislunent of transportation is now restricted. At all the anti-transportation meetings in the tour colo nies, the great hit of the leading speakers is the breach of faith committed by the government in sending convicts to Van InelnCfl'S Land after the pledges to the contrary given in 1817. Great hopes have been lately entertained that after our unavailing effort+ to carry on a cheap and self-supporting system of transportation, the people of Van Diemen .s Lead would be brought to submission by offers of a liberal appli cation of convict labour in effecting various public improve ments. Some proposals accordingly appear to have been made to the inhabitants of Hobart Town for the construc tion of additional wharf accommodation at that port ; but we find that at a meeting of merchants held there on tho 3rd February the project was highly relished, nith the ex ception that the builders and contractors "should pledge themselves not to employ convict labour on the work." We might have hoped that times had changed—that the past had not warned us in vain—and that by the year 1351, a disregard of colonial grievances had ceased to be the here ditary vice of the British government. But more blind and iufatuated than ever must be the administration which can survey all that is now taking place in Australia, and hesi tate fur an instant On the course which a just expediency Points out for adoption. Is it not clearer than ever that the alternative now before the government is the retention of our criminal+ at home, or their transportation to new penal settlements? ti June 23, MI. THE COUNCIL OF TOE INSTITUTION OF MECIIA NICAL EN4I SNEERS have determined to celebrate the period of the Great Exhibition by inviting the principal engineers and machinists of all countries to a banquet at the Free masons'f deem, and it appears that upwards of two hun dred invitations have been sent to distinguished engineers in various parts of the continent, and also to the principal scientific men now in England. Robert Stephenson, M.l'., president of the institution, is to take the chair, and it is expected that this will be a very interesting melting, being the first occasion when the engineers of this country have had an opportunity of meeting in a body the gentle men engaged iu kindred pursuits throughout the world. EXPENSES OF CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS IN SCOT LAN u.—The expenses of criminal prosecutions have, fur tho the last three or four years, formed a frequent subject of distutedon at the annual meetings of the commissioners of supply of the different counties in Scotland. It was in sisted, and with justice, that Scotland should be placed on the saute Muting as England, where all the expenses con nected with the criminal prosecutions have been paid for some time past out of the Consolidated Fund. We are glad now to have it in our power to aanounee that the boon which was granted to Englund by Sir Ilethert Peel, us some compensation to the landowners for the repeal of the corn laws, has been extended to Scotland—the Lords of the Treasury having COltAllitell to defray the expenses of prose cution in summary cases, as they have hitherto dune in cases that were reported to crown counsel and tried before jury. The expenses of such summary prosecutions used to be paid in the different counties by an assessment called the rogue money, which sometimes formed a pretty heavy local tax. No positive instructions have, as yet, reached the Queen's Remembrancer's-offlce on the subject; but what we have stated above may be relied on as having been agreed to by the Lords of the freasury.—Seutsman. PARLIAMENTARY CON V E NTIONA L ITIES.—Whv must an honourable gentleman always "c o ne down" to this house? Why can't he sometimes "come up"—like it 7 horse—or come—or " come in " like a man ? What does he mean by invariably coming down ? Is it indispensable that he should "come dawn" to get into the !louse of „ . Commons—say, for instance, from St: Alban 's ? Or is that house on a lower level thou most other houses ? Why is he always "free to confess It is well known that Britons never never never v ill be slaves; then why can't he soy what he has to say without this superfluous assertion of his freedom? Why must an Irish member always " taunt " the noble lord with this, that, or the other ? Can't be tell him of it civilly, or accuse him of it plainly ? Must he so ruthlessly taunt him? Why dues the honourable member for Groginhole call upon the Secretary of State for the Home Department to " lay his hand upon his In art," and proclaim to the country such and such a thing ? The llomo Secretary is nut iii the habit oflaying his hand upon his heart. When he has anything to proclaim to the country, lie gene rally puts his hands under his coat-tails. Why is lie thus personally and solemnly abjured to lay one of them on the left side of his waistcoat for any honourable member's gra tification ? What makes my honourable friend, the mem ber for Gammunrife, feel so acutely that he is required to "pin his faith" upon the measures of her Majesty's go vernment ? Is he always required to attach it in that par ticular manner only; and are needle and thread, hooks and eyes, buttons, wafers, sealing-wax, paste, bird-lime, gum, and glue, utterly prohibited to him ? Who invested the unfortunate Speaker with all the wealth and poverty of the empire, that he should be told " Sir, when you look around you, and behold your seas swarming with ships of every variety of tonnage and construction—when you behold your Hag waving over the forts of a territory so vast, that the Sun never sets upon it—when you consider that your storehouses are teeming with the valuable products of the earth—and when you reflect that millions of your poor are held in the bonds of pauperism I and ignorance—con you, I ask, reconcile it to yourself— can you, I demand, justify it to your conscience—can you, I inquire, Sir, stifle the voice within you, by these selfish, these time-serving, these ' , hallow, hollow, mockeries of legislation ?" It is really dreadful to have an innocent and worthy gentleman bullied in this manner. Again, why do "1 hold in my hand" all *one of things? Can I never lay them down, or carry them under my arm ? There was a fairy in the Arabian Nights who could hold in her hand a pavilion large enough to shelter the Sultan's army, but she could never have held half the petitions, blue-books, bills, reports, returns, volumes of Mansard, and other miswella ncous papers, that a very ordinary member for a very ordi ' nary place will hold in his hand now-a-days. Then, again, how did it conie to be necessary to the constitution that I should be such a very circuitous and prolix peer am to " take leave to remind you, my lords, of what fell from the noble and learned lord on the opposite side of your lordship' house, who preceded my noble and learned friend on the cross benches when he addressed himself with so much ability to the observations of the right rev. prelate near me, in reference to the measure now brought forward by the noble baron "—when, all this time, I mean, mod only want to say, Lord Brougham ? Is it impossible for my honourable friend the member for Drowsyshire to wander through his few dreary . sentences immediately before the divisiou, without premising that " at this late hour of the night, and in this stage of the debate," &c. ? Because if it be nut impossible why dues he never du it? And why, why, above all, in either house of parliament must the English language be set to music, bad and conventional beyond any parallel on earth. Is parliament included in ' the Common Prayer-book under the denomination of quires and places where they sing ?" And dais, wouldn't it be worth a small grant to make some national arrange meet for instruction in the art by Mr. Mullah ?—Dickens's ! Ilouiekold Worfis. ril S a lltA atidraete N n O z E o P ti ß d ES ,liefse E 7 N di r . . q 7 .7 7 de, t feo h yr e i d om a n fl tpl e yec rtl tab o e o blol n en g O if f nugr F n ri t d h i d y e lodgings at the door of a maiden lady in Govan-street, Glas gow. The applicant, who carried n her arms an infant a requested weight to of eo h m e e r in and o w n w. which she readily accepted. After c c h h a il rg d e a_ncl in a bundle, invitati said be some seated , atth at cd conversation, as s h h e weeine as t na h th e ti e w ir° ;:nc t l iltyh r o a f w s b ea ich ca th pt e a ' n our n ig ow wo u m pe a woman a long voyage, whom she had not seen for a consi derable period; that the child Tas e.its;n t d h sl e eust.enhp f te r i u mim it igohhtth e tre f nr t o.b h p:s e r7b i: tenon; and that she wished to hire smaller apart hiewirriallsgits'es.nrebedrurnfga,,:tanhefecnwheedmildilnef:elells,easlipha:enspt that she should be permitted to lay the baby in the disturbed. The lady of the • the stranger recollected the , she was to draw a quart, and requested as as ad? be allowed to lie in Iv the shipping office - may be imagined, is now in charge fishily, gives notic unnatural mother but, if not claimed account will it 'ho lady of the house complied, upon which recollected that it was the very day on which aw a quarterly allowance from her hnsban d, 1 as tit additional favour that the might lie in tied until oho.* t yore* to office where her mon? it , Vl l - 10, ined, the lady never „la • rge of a tradesman er w i,:; notice through the vol " kother wishes her e aimed within ten d • , it be parted with." • le: '?' I,ro- Itar. Ile a of by MTS. STI3 fol- A.. 1 to vtotli iles it and 1 slack :trial- line, en the liana stately , pet ke run Ancing nil thu , cc e of ma of