The Express. — London, England, 1859-08-18 00:00:00

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The prerogative of mercy is at all times the noblest attribute of sovereign autho rity upon earth, for it is in the exercise of mercy that human power approaches nearest to the Divine, not in the exercise of a spurious " justice," which Is often nothing better than the right of the strongest. To decimate your enemies by proscription, to Main them disappear through the trap-doors of a eannet and übiquitous police, to snatch them from their' families and firesides, from the desk, the field, the market-place, the street, the coffee-horse, and plunge them bodily, without so much as a warning or a threat, much lea a written accusation, into the hold of a convict-ship, and thence into a deadly swamp under the consuming rays of the torrid zone—all these "measures of public safety," se : they are celled in the abominable jargon of crowned revolution/eta, are the vulgareet weapons from the ersoary of tyrants ; and though it may intimidate and reposes opinion for a while, terrorism has never yet succeeded in establishing a Government, nor has a dynasty based on violence ever taken root among civilised men. The Emperor of the FRENCH how, we dart say, deeply pondered these truths in moments when a man is alone with his memory and hi conscience, and has waited anxiously for an op portunity of satisfying at once his better feelings sad his better judgment. A fall and complete am nesty signifies of course an unconditional one, clogged with no exceptions, categories, or de grees. It has seemed to the EMPEROR a fitting and favourable occasion for an Act of Grace, that it should follow the perform. Inc. of such an act of strength u the Italian cam. paign, and the triumphant return of his legions to the capital. The stains of civil bloodshed ilia we more the swords of Magenta ,and &Melee: CS the Boulevards and in the Faubourg, the Army and the People have mingled their acclamations and their tears of welcome, as friends, countrymen, and brothers in the great family of France. At such a time as this a great shadow may well flit scrum the mind of the En reeoa—the shadow of his own past life ; and it ie barely poseible that a tosehiag pas sage, written not so many years ago by a political prisoner, on the miseries of exile, may have gathered to his lips with all the poignancy of eelfreproach. At any rate, without presuming to fathom the in scrutable, we are at liberty to suppose that at length the ruler of the French is beginning to perceive that the edifice of his Empire, however materially strong, is morally incomplete. Orden are, therefore, to be transmitted to Cayenne, to Lambesea and to the many other unknown depositories of political victims, to let as many as survive go free. Many, no doubt, have languished and died ; many will return home as stranger, and aliens, pre maturely aged, broken in &pints, destitute of hope or purpose, indiffenut to the renewal of a wasted life. We, in England, are happily incapable of con ceiving the refined tortures of proscription ; we receive on oar 'Loren, with impartial negligence, men of violence and men of honour; the waifs of faction and the strays of tyranny ; we lump together the patriot, the anarchist, sod the spy, as "refugees," and shrink from the stainless pride which is content to drag out a bare existence in miserable garrets and in sordid streets. Yet, if we cons pare any of these victims of revolutionary tempest' with the men whom they leave behind in the high places of power and wealth, surely such poverty as If %NEE knew is not ridiculous. We need not be surprised, however, if the Imperial amnesty should be disregarded by some to whom banishmest le as bitter and honour as dear as to the meanest or the Helmet- Epicurean critics, who have • tine nose for ba►eness, will probably sneer at those determined martyrs who decline to take ad vantage of even an unconditional amnesty. For our own part we are free to say that we think an as conditional amnesty may be accepted by the proudest and most susceptible without shrinking; bat we do not the less understand that to men who have suffered wrong for the right, the very name of "amnesty" may sound tike insult. To accept an amnesty seems to them like a confession of wrong, or at least an abdication of right ; it seems almost an act ef acquiescence. This is not our own view, but we respect it. We, looking coldly and impartially ea, cannot but bear witness to the undisputed existence of the Imperial Government in France for the last eight years, in the full possession of all the attributes of sovereign power. To recognise it, to deal with it, and to respect it, appears to us no more than natural and necessary, when we consider that for the last seventy years governments in France have been so many successive phases of the Revolution, more or leas transitory and provisional. Wecannot expect French men who have sacrificed their all to the cause of law and liberty to regard the status quo by which they stiffer with the 'unanimity of foreign observers, and if there be lowing the proscribed who are now invited to return home a few men of severer temper to whom a land of liberty is a second country, let us be slow to misinterpret • Ptoicisen so rare in these latter days. Besides, the terms of the amnesty, broad and liberal as they ap pear, suggest a sinister though unexpressed condition which is not likely to escape its objects. When we are reminded of "those who have been the object " of any measure taken for public security," we arc equally reminded cf the measures of public safety which, so far as we are aware, have not been re pealed. The exiles who return to France of their own accord will therefore be placing themselves within the grasp of measures which are not laws. but simply the tentacles of arbitrary power. The repeal of all such extra legal and revolutionary measures would have filled op a deplorable hiatus in this otherwise commendable and satisfactory decree. THE "young Grand Dshis rusagan • has mired in Paris, and has bas. net ealy psaissely assayed by the Earaloa, bat retrieval to sonata is Paris to await events. Ws mno mama Meow Fiala as behalf al the Timm maple et the °Toon Grand Daka• losing resolved as soutoonely by the Earliest ss the repramestatim of the national Government as a resent occasion ; but we are at a lieu to asdentand what is meant by the events which the yonag men is invited to await. The only •meta which can possibly concern him have al ready taken place. The telegram received at the Foreign-office yes- 1 twday, and which we were enabled to publish in our late edition, leaves so further doubt of the will I of the people of Tawny with regard to their future destinies go a State. The National Assembly elected according to the law of 1848—the law which the Grand Duke LEOPOLD himself had promulgated, and which, therefore, having rapid to its author and to its date, may be fairly assumed to be neither too democratic in its franchisee nor (to meet Mr. DISRAELI'S objections) too Whig in its limitations —the National Assembly, we say, representing fairly and faithfully the property and intelligence, the rural se well at (or even more than) the OWE population of the State (as the stat'itin which we publish in another part of our paper sufficiently prove), has declared by an unanimous vot, " that " the dynesty of LORRAINE can be neither recalled " so, accepted to reign in Tuscany ;" and a resolu tion has been brought forward by seven of the most distinguished Deputies, to the effect " that the " Assembly declare, it to be the firm will of Tuscany " to form a strong part of the kingdom of Italy, under " the constitutional sceptre of VICTOR EMMANUEL: Ragland can have no objection to the of a powerful and united kingdom in Northern Italy; or to the fusion of the States of Central Italy with the constitutional kingdom of Sardinia and Lombardy. For England hes no other policy in Italy than the policy which recommends itself to the feel ings, and interests, and wishes of the Italian people. In Modena we learn that Signor FAancl has opened the National Assembly, and in the act of laying down a dictatorship most bravely and purely exercised, made an appeal to Europe, to which we are persuaded England, at least, will not be deaf. " We are ready," said this nobleminded Italian statesman, " to give to the civilised world all the " guarantees of order and peace, conditionally that " liberty is assured to us, and that Italy shall belong "to Me Italians." This we know im the mile and supreme desire of the citizens of Parma and of the Legation.. It is the express desire of the present Government of England and of the English people. England has nothing to conceal, nothing to disavow ; no intrigues to hide, no designs to mask. If there be any opposition, secret or avowed, on the part of any European Power to the national will of the Italian people, emaredly it will set proceed from England. file Cam 011BOR/fl. Aram. 17. Her Majesty, accompanied by PrinetAliVed, Prince Ara.; sad Primo= HANSA% dm* to 117.16 yesienlay shersike. The Methioeste of By eel Major-Getteral the lice. C. Om were in stemdeace. Tide marsiag the kid of the aide Brigade played a eeh+e• goo of nub iro the Tensor, It bang the birthday of the Dears of Ism. The Dadra of Kent took a drive in as open carriage yasarrisy. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trecae . ;, is Dowaing-strset. The abetters present were V‘weant Palmitate°, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir G. Comma Law's, Lord John Rumen, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Elgin, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, and the Right lion. C. P. Villiers. A depotaCen of erehitaota had an intereew with Vivoorst Pahoerston yes. rda7. The depotabon was introdsoad by Mr. Tile red Mr. Cou'agban; and ceneloltd ad Mr, C. &ZIT, Mr. Beaks Mr. Brodriek, Mr. T. Doll, Mr. MMus, Mr. Cockerel', Proirraor Donaldson, Mr. Pelham, Mr. Yowler, Mr. T. Amos Mr. KM, Mr. Limo, Mr. Law, Mr. Marbair, Mr. Kee. Mr. Seam, Mr. Sydnay Smirks, Mr. Th and Mr. Wililka =ition of in the subject of new tha publics inaU tntkote, with!a St. George's pariah, to the poor, had an h ornier. with Sir G. C. Loolo, at Mr How-oftlee, yesterday. TM dopotatiou eonsistod of Mr. John Locke, M.P. for Souttiweik ; Mr. DaaMl Bird sad Mr. Charism Ilanadors (obarthwarderia); Messrs. Thomas Host, Iwo Him Clark, sad Jaime 5. Beadle (overman); sad Mr. John Day, Mirk to the b ord. Captain Fitzgerald had an ietsairiew with the Deb et Neweertle yeeerdsy. Mr. Smith, Bpreker at the Legialethe el Canada also hed am laterview with hie Orr" et the alike. Despiiebas were raielved at the Co Initial-Ohre yeetertlay tram the Govemee 44 Ur West leak Isleads, Stems Leone, and lieligelead. The Sher!hums Journal says His imperial Highness Priori Laden Bonaparte, ewers to the Emperor' Of the Frisch, visited Dorchester an Friday. The prises bee Wee ka *MC Urns espied on a literary week oa tbe ethaeksy and languages of the Western rams, sad oe Friday hat 'mg ast.v. I by rail, be celled epos the Rev. William Hamra in Boutb-street. The usu. genthrean eecompanici the pstsci in • carriage Ire= the Antelope Hotel to Weraosth sod Port land, coavereing re rouge on philosophical topics Otivily. They vbitt I the Breektratee rod Clies 4 l Beech, end pe e-Ailed about half way up the bill at Tortland is order to e the isthmus of pebbles which unites the rock of Portland to the emit of Dorset. After dining ►t the Breakwater Meal Kr. Barnes sad the pines returned se Dorchester; the Later departed by the Great Western Railway for Devonshire end Cornwall." Viscount and Viscountess Sydney have left Lon don, for their meat. Fro/011U, in koLt, where they aro n ostrils/ coospoliy. We ( Worcester Chroxicle) regret to hear that Mr Treads Ruffed, tormarly member of parliament for the. city, rad &al. man of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Raftway Company, is now an inmate of • lunatic .glom at Batton Coldfleid. We (Bath Clireptick) have heard with extreme regret that the Riget Rev. Bishop Cur is tow lying. mine), ill, at hie realises* le L.eadowe•creecent. Thi •••••ucement well be received •bb utafeignad sorrow by nta Gellow-citizens, tunonpt whoa there vitae • feallog of =Leonel esteem Lc the vesarsble rector of Bath. Yesterday the patrons of the Leeds parish church filled up the vacancy In the Cramp of Leeds oceadoned by the recent elevation of the Very Rev. Dr. Hook to the &rower, of Chichester. There IPIn thirty-eight candidates for the vicarage, r •id the Bev. hues Allay, 8.D., Senior Fellow of Bt. John'. College, Cambridge, was appointed. Mr. Atb.y Y understood to be a high churchman, but not of extreme vim.. TIIE BISHOP or Oxroito.—The R.v. M. A. Itert, rector of Bt. Peter's, Tivertoo, has refused to allow the Bishop of Oxford the use of his pulpit, to the great aunnyance of churchmen of that right rev. prelate's school. —Bherloorris Awful. BIRTHDAY OF THE DUCHESti or KENT.—The 73rd enniversary el the birthday of the Duchess of Kent was celebrated with croup marks of moicleg yesterday at Wieder* and the vicitiry. There was a rural Me u the grounds of Mr. C. echoltißeld, M.P. At the dinner, witiolt I,ook pied at 1 o'clock, the choir was taken by Mr. W. Van- AIWA, M.P., with Mt. Hope, M.P., is his left, when after the toads to the Queen and the Priem Cowart, the health of her royal Miasma was enthusiamomlly drink. At Wiedeor the balls of the Chapel Royal of Bt. Georgo's and St. Juha's church net forth many peals throughout the day. Al noon a royal gelato was tired la the Lots( Walk, Royal salutes were oleo Arad at 1 , rem Belvklme, and the Adelaide frigate on V Water, and in the seen/an a banquet took plea• at the Castle Hotel. CRTeTAL PALACE—ONE SHILLING WT.—WED .. R.DA T. AVOU6T 17. —Ad ulOsiota oti pored.; 6,066 ; ditto, by mica traits, 2,397: total visitors, 8,463. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST . 18, 1859. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ?RAN L. THE AMNESTY. 7114 ifimiteur of this morning publishes the fol lowing : "Ail warnings which have been given to the newsmen in France and the colonies are to be considered as non•'-sned. " The Minister of the Interior, in concert with his colleague the Ministers for Foreign Affeee, Algiers, and the Colonies, has ordered the necessary measures to be taken to =sure the immediate execution of the fell and entire amnesty granted by the Emperor. " Their Imperial Majesties left yesterday for St. Bauveur, where they will sojourn till the ith of Sep. tember, when they proceed to Biarritz. " 922 soldiers, sentenced for Tarim Cdl3llollll, have either been pardoned, or have had the term of their imprisonment commuted." TUSCANY. FLORENCE, AversT le. The proposition of Signor Qimoei, concerning the incompatibility of the dynasty of Lcmaize to govern in Tuscany, has been agreed to unanimously with 188 votes, amidst the vociferous plaudits of the public. The degrades Prince Stroszi, Marquis Manzi, Counts Della Oherardeses, Franchesi, Piocolomini, Bonham, and M. Ademi, have proposed the follow ing resolution, which met with unanimous support, namely : " That the Assembly dechires it to be the firm will of Tuscany to form a strong part of the King dom of Italy under the constitutional sceptre of Kin Victor Emmanuel." The following telegram was received at the Foreign Office yesterday afternoon, and appeared in our late edition. It is from Mr. Corbett, her Ma jag'', Charge d'Affaires at Florence : "FLORENCE, Ave). 18. "The Assembly declared to-day, by an unanimous vote, that the dynuty of Lorraine could be neither recalled nor accepted to reign in Tucany." SARDINIA. TURIN, Aroma 17. The Bing arrived here this evening, and was welcomed with great cheers by a large crowd which was sisembled at the railway station. The National Guard and the Piedmontess troops were drawn up in line along the presage of his Majesty. General Ulloa has sent in his resignation, which has been accepted. It is rumoured that General Fend has accepted the post of commander-in-chief of the army of Central Italy. A collision has taken place on the line to Genoa, whereby six persons have been killed. THE DUCHIES. MODENA, AMIDST 18. After a solemn service had been performed at the cathedral, at which all the bodies of the state were present, Signor Parini opened the National Assembly in the grand* wile of the Palace amidst enthusiastic plaudits. After having spoken a few eloquent words on the history of Modena during the present century, on that of the Sardinian government, that of the different provinces, and on the last dictatorship, he deposed the powers given him as Dictator in the bands of the Deputies. He urged them to express freely, and with that calmness which is the result of good rights, their wishes foe the definite settlement of the conatitution of the country, and in addressing himself to Europe, he said : " We are ready to give to the civilised world all the guarantees of order and peace, condi tionallj that liberty is assured to us, and that Italy shall belong to the Italians." The assembly voted also an address of thanks to Napoleon 111. At the close of the assembly the Modeneee troops fired a salute from the ramparts of the town. THE CONFERENCE. BERNE, Aoccrt 17. It ts asserted that the Austrian plenipotentiaries decline to confer direct with the Piedmontw pleni potentiary, who protests spinet Lombardy being charged with any portion of the Austrian debt. TURKEY. AUG UST 17. Advice; have been received from Constantinopl to the 10th. The Sultan has returned, and on Thursday gave M. de Thouvenel a most gracious reception. Baron de Prokesch-Osten hastened to pay his respects to M. de Thouvenel. The official journal states that amicable relations had been re-established between these two ambassador,. The same journal also states that Sir Henry Bever gave an explanation respecting the British 'squadron having been at Alexandria, namely, that it was there in honour of the contemplated visit of the Sultan. Disturbances have taken place in Candi*, and some gendarmes have been strangled and put to death. The Czar his presented the Sultan with the de coration of the order of St. Andrew, in diamonds, valued at 1,000,000 piastres, in acknowledgment of the reception recently given to the Grand Duke Con stantine. THE OERMANIC CONFEDERATION. The movement in favour ors reform of the federal constitution is making daily program in Germany. Not only do the journals and municipalities de clare themselves favourable to the reform, but even important public bodies do not hesitate to discs= a question which all regard ea of vital Interest. At Munich, for instant*, as hes been mode known by telegraph, twenty-seven members of the Chamber of Deputies supported M.Vcelk in developing the ques tion, and their act met with evident favour, as, on coming to a division, there were eighty-five votes for M. Vcelk's motion, and only eighty-seven against it. At Stuttgar d, Hanover, and several of the southern provinces, similar manifestations have been witnessed, and recent letters from Berlin show the same feeling to exist there. Meetings of the electors in the several districts of the capital are announced, in which the question of federal reform will be discussed, and addresses voted in conformity with the opinions of th e electors. It is said that Prussian statesmen look upon the move ment with disfavour at resent, and have no inten tion to encourage it. fhe government will most likely content itself with endeavouring to give a more liberal tone to the federal poli c y, without pre senting any . proposition ; it will, on the other band, spare no puns to introduce into the legislation and internal administration those principles which make in more prominently with the Prizes Regent. Baron Wiesenhutten, who wee a native of Frank f rt, sad who has been fm many years chamberlain in the court of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, recently died at Stun gardt, and has loft Irree Icgacicr to mimes institutions In hie native city, animg which are mentioned 100,000 florins to the lunatic u.yloni. 10,000 florins to the Pereslond Society, 10,000 donne to the Gustavus Adolphus Society, besides 26,000 11,rine to the Missionary Society of Bale and Berrien, 80,000 florins to the German Evangelical Comma pity of Lyons, and 6,000 florins to the church of St. Lecture in Stattgardt. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. amour oaz owx PARIS, WLDNMDAT EV3IIOO. It turns out that the information which I arm enabled to send you as long ago u Thursday hat, of • general musty being resolved upon, wet entirely correct. Why the decree was not signed till the 16th, instead of being made public before the fetes, lam unable to explain. It is certain that had this great act preceded the entry of the troops, their reception on the Faubourg Bt. Antoine and the eastern boulevards would have been much more enthusiastic than it was. It will now, I believe, be officially hinted that the Emperor purposely delayed the amnesty, in order that the applause which he expected to receive as a conqueror might not be at tributed to his clemency asa sovereign. This, however, cannot, I think, be the tine reason, and at all events it fails to account ,for the non-publication of the amnesty on the morning of the 16th. lam rather inclined to think that there must have been hesita tion on the subject up to the last moment, and that the latest news from Italy, showing the impossibility of cony ingout the pesos of Villafranca in an Austrian sense, has made the Emperor reflect seriously, whether the cowls of events may not compel him to ally himself " frankly with the revolution." The amnesty is es full and complete as possible. It extends certainly to Changarnier and the other generals expelled in 1861, and also to all the members of the National Assembly, and they were very numerous, who were banished at the same time merely because they were obnoxious. Ledru Rollin is not included in it because he stands condemned (quite unjustly, as I believe) as an ao complios in the attempted aasaseimation of the Ben peror by Tibaldi and others. Victor Hugo, how ever, and Blanqui, and Louis Blanc--all the man whose names are best known as representing detes tation of imperialism--are now Lae to enter France simply as French citizens, without acknowledging themselves under the burden of any obligation to the Emperor. I think, and I greatly hope I may not be mistaken in this opinion, that they may come back without being subject to the operation of the odious law of public safety which was pealed last year. I remember that at Monte lembert's trial his counsel justified him morally for standing on his undoubted right to go on with his appeal, notwithstanding the Emperor's pardon, on the ground that the pardon only remitted the par ticular penalty, bat left him in the odious category of suspected perilous, liable to be transported at any time without trial. But if I mistake not, it was then taken for granted that an amnesty, which is a wider act of grace than a pardon, would—as the word itself imparts—completely annul and wipe up the original judgment or "measure of public safety," and necessarily do away with all its col lateral consequences. If I am to credit re ports circulated in official circle, this evening • number of the most eminent exiles in London and Brussels have resolved to return to France imme diately, and some of them may be expected in Paris to-morrow. The Emperor has ordered two govern ment steamers to leave immediately for Algeria ' and Guyana, to bring back political transports. There will be great rejoicing in the departments of the Herault and Var, from which alone it is calculated that no less than 3,000 citizens have been banished, transported, or impr•oned for political offences since the coup d'etat. I hear that the people of the Faubourg St. Antoine are getting open illumination this evening in honour of the amnesty. At the Bourse, singular to state, the amnesty, so far from being considered es a reassui.og symptom, had a depressing influence. Many people saw in it a confirmation of the many signs of war; the Em peror, the pessimists argued, sties a European coali tion forming against him, and feels the necessity of uniting all parties in France round his standard. The rumours from Zurich are anything but satisfac tory. The Rents underwent the further fall of 30c. for cash and 23c. for account, closing at 88fr. 70e. and 68fr. 80c. blobilier fell Bfr. 76c. The rail ways were all very heavy, and closed fully Ur. lower. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Imperial Prince leave Perk for the Pyrenees at a quarter to 8 this evening, by a special train from the Orleans station, where preparations for their departure have been going on all day. A counel of ministers "ifs held at St. Cload this morning, and there are rumours of some very im portant mersurea having been taken. It is scarcely doubtful that a decree has been signed wiping off all warnings scored up against the press. The young (soi-disont) Grand Duke of Tummy has come to Paris incognito to supplicate the Emperor to help him to his father's throne. The Emperor is reported to have said—" It is not my fault that you fought against Italy in the Austrian 1 ranks." ROME. The Gio►nale di Roma of the I Ith annonnon the retirement of Cardinal Antonelli from the Presidency of the Council of State, and the appointment of Cardinal di Pietri to that office. Letter from Italy state that Father Gayszzi is preaching at Bologna. The Monitore di Bologna publishes a decree declaring all the citizens of the Romagna, without distinction of religion, equal in the eye of the law and in the exercise of their poli tical rights. THE TWO SICILIES. Mon oca owN magi NAPLES, Avousv 9. The Cardinal Archbishop or Naples has just pith- Hailed an encyclical letter to the clergy and to the faitnful of the city and the diocese. It is of very great interest as betraying an intimate knowledge of the thoughts and proceedings of the Almighty, which are laid down as distinctly as are all the physical features of a country on a geographical map. Paseisg over these pleasant speculations of the cardinal, there are, however, one or two pea sages which betray the feelings and the fears, and show what will be the tactics of the church in Southern Italy. " The malignant spirit of unbelief and correptionwhich forms the abominable character of this age seduces very many Christians who, as if they had no hopes beyond the tomb, determine to establish their happiness on earth, and by their works fall into the quiveirof God, and there produos the arrows of his wrath, &c. ' Ac." It is to be hoped that the cardinal and his coadjutors will have assorted the happiness of those who depend upon them in Heaven ; for surely here on earth they have been but too successful in establishing the reign of misery, want, and vice. However, the words which I have just quoted display the spirit of the church in this part of Italy, and it is tolerably clear against whom they are aimed—against these who are impatient of the abuses of the papal government, and against Piedmont, who at the present moment is regarded as the embo diment of the spirit of evil. Appeals therefore wilt be made to the religious feelings and prejudices of the Italians, and political questions will be embit tered by religious animosity. Already here in Naples the clergy are declaring that the members of the confederation are proteetauts and unbelievers-- . . that it is impossible to . hold communion with them; so that, u tar as this country is moaned, that pan of the Napoleonic programme which recommends a ormfiederation may be considered ea an impossibility. The letter attributes the cessation of the war to the Mother of Gracie, and orders continued prams to her " who alone can pass through Heaven, arrive at the throne of the Most High, take from his hand the thunders which have been prepued by our sins, and oblige him to regard us with t s smile of his love, end overwhelm us with the treasures of his mercy." This is perfect painting, and the cardinal, with a master hand has t hro wn off an interesting sketch of the in terior of Heaven. To conciliate the favour of God a memo is ordered on the occasion of the Jets of the Assumption of the Madonna, and another for the fete of St. Januarius, beginning from the 10th of September. For the last three months the history of this country is that of religious festivities, processions, holidays, and the necessary accompaniments of such proceedings. The summer is always rife in these fetes, but it seems u if this year the church was making an extra effort to give a . special direc tion to the public mind. You may imagine what a strong and combined action will be made against internal reforms in this country, and what difficulties will be thrown in the way of effecting any arrange ment of Italian affairs calculated to satisfy the rea sonable wishes of moderate reformers. I believe that the necessity of giving a constitution has been suggested to the government, and I know that amongst the enlightened portion of the com munity it is the unceasing topic of discussion and desire. The hopes are very s li ght, however, that any act of that kind will originate with this govern ment. A judicial blindness seems to hang over it- Those at the head of affairs appear utterly un conscious of the dangers of the position; and whilst ell Italy is in a ferment, ministers of state are occu pying themselves about the removal of nuisances which are never removed, and the drying of rags. The fleet is still at Castellamare, as though it were the faithful supporters of his M ajesty, iwe who, as I told you in my jest, is now at his of QM si Sans, in that neighbourhood. Ato gram from the Admiralty was received by the admiral last Saturday, and tt was asserted that it contained orders to leave, but I believe that it will remain yet some days. It is now understood that the fleet will leave on Wed nesday or Thursday, the admiral having signalled to the fleet to hold themselves In readiness after the arrival of the mail. THE FRENCH AMNESTY. TO Till RDITOI OF 111 lIPRW. Sis,—ln reference to the general amnesty, an notuioed in the evening paper!, I beg you will be kind enough to allow space in your columns for the following remarks: I will not stop here to inquire whether it be fit that the offender should be the forgiver; that "crimes " should be remitted which never were com mitted ; and that those should be partoned who were so cruelly wronged, having been, although guiltless, driven out of their country, torn from their families and their friends, consigned to absolute ruin, and, in fact, bereft of all they held deer on earth. Speak ing in my own name alone, and judging from a mere practical point of view, I own candidly that, situated as he is, Louis Bonaparte could now hardly do more for us than he hes just done. But it is not the leis true that those whose hearts have been for years made to bleed from innumerable wounds have a claim to something better than a contemptuous and perhaps unsafe favour. What was due to them in the shape of justice cannot be paid in the shape of Butßut enough of this. Considerations of a higher significance and more general import are involved in the question. Let treedom be wholly and sincerely restored to France I, for one, am prepared to applaud. Our wrongs we might forget: may we be indifferent to the wrongs of our country? We are permitted to return to France. So long as she is kept in bondage why should we go? To complete the victory of might over right—to render Imperial despotism still more absolutely unopposed —to extiogrush the few last beacons which, fed by French hands, yet loom in the distance before the eyes of our unhappy country—in one word, to be slaves among slave.. Better stay in the land of un fettered thought and free speech ; better live where to be an exile is to remain • man. It is recorded that in the Revolution of 1789, at I the first celebrated fete du Champ de Mars, some 60 Englishmen were seen wearing on their chest a medal, on which these words were inscribed : " Übi Liberia., ibi Petrie." Without presuming to sit in judgment upon such of my countrymen as may take a different view of the case, I venture to say that this should be the motto of every man feelingly alive to the dignity of his own nature. Not that I consider my beloved country lees en titled to claim our devotion, because temporarily shackled. No. The very state of intellectual debasement and moral agony in which France is now plunged endears her the more to us, as we know it originates in a fatal combination of uncon trollable circumstances, and is maintained by brut* force alone. That France will, sooner or liter, be warmed into life and be herself again, is a creed which I fondly cherish, sad to which I cling with unshakeable convictions. But so long as she is forced into silence and darkness, I take it to be n that some at least of her most faithful sons shout by living abroad, retain the power of representing true geniue, of making known her sorrows, de nouncing her wrongs, invoking her most glorious recollections, vindicating her stifled aspirations after freedom, and championing in her name the eternal principles of justice end the rights of reason. I am, &e., London, August 17. LOUIS BLANC. A letter from Florence of the 13th says :—" At Penns the beaks of hundreds of high-minded youths en 0111 'monists with the Manmade. Such people, or each men, ere not to be reasoned with. It is in vain to my that the Ducheaa-Ragent was never guilty of the in diction of that degrading punishment- The officers who teat her road husband a hand in that odious work ere, or were till lately, still by her side. As late se yesterday, the new Dictotor, Manfredi, woo golden opinion . with the multitude by the dimaissel, conchae:lin the most ignominious terms, of one Colonel Ricci, who carried into execution a sentence of that nature on the person of an inament young man named Kmiii, on the public sonars of Pontremoli, and was in- I human enough to stand by sad me the blows struck, me by one, till the blood freely Bowed from the bare book. The outrage wee committed in 1852, before the murder of the in fatuated duke; but the people have not forgotten it, and the cloche.■ and her infant hair must suffer for the husband and father's offences." The Parts correspondent or the Guardian, des cribing the effects of the shower which fell towards the ekes of the fetes on Boodey, sem "The first drops ems down hke crowa-pieces, as though sprinkled by the inisebievous fingers of soma fairies above, in mockery sr emulation of the tiny white and rose-coloured parasols, with their silken fringe*, which, alas I were all that could to opposed to each an unmannerly attack. At lest down canto the thunder-shower in earnest. Am I stood just opposite the Emperor, I bad the pain of smug his Majesty, who bad been litertlly toasting under • boning glass for more then three hours previoutly, cooled to some purpose. He and his home looked precisely se though "some one were pouring buckstef•l of water on their heads, so incessant was the downfall for some minutia. The weather cleared up Main; but the change was sadly rust apropos, and ruffled the feathers as well se the tempers of the whole assembly. Even the Emperor looked annoyed and provoked, as well he might, under his color exterior ; ind her Majesty must really have ' felt' for him and his .rearebsla as she gazed down from her gallery on their drenched and diahavelled plumage." - - THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE.—His Imperial Miss the Grand Duke Constant. e, accompanied by Greig and suite, yesterday paid a private visit to Possmainal dockyard. His imperial highness landed at the Victoria Pia, Foam:south, from the Prince of Wales, Ryd• steampackvr, and wee received by Flag Captain Far quhar, of bee Majesty's shin Victory. Tbo pay imme diately proceeded in Madre] Bowles's carriages. which were in vatting, to the Adiairalty-bonee in the dockyard, front which, accompanied by Aduarara Bowles and Grey, Fag Captain Farquhar, and Plig Liana. Robinson and Swin hums, the grand duke proceeded round tits yard, making a minute inapection of the ropery, smiths shops, Weak factory, atom taria, shipping, and the principal points of interer. lila imperial highness returned to Ryite b staimparket, la lb. rams sulostemetioue MIMIC he which he arrived et Pert month. ALARMING 4CCIDINT TO 4 MARGATE TlLdfly ON MB TILIJUN7 NAILWAL GRAVESEND, TIII7IIDAT Noiutixo. Last evening a very alarming accident, involving meow injury to • large number of passengers, happeael on the Tilbury Railway to what is known as the Margate train, from Thames Raven, which is due at Fenchurch station at 8 o'elock. During the summer months the company run steamboats from that place to Remote and Margati, and • large timelier of persons avail themselves of this routs. The Margate boat arrived with more than its naval complement of peseemgen, and a heavy train was despatched to London. It proceeded at Its general rate, end on going round the curve neer the Tilbury station to go upon the London section of the line, the aide of the engine, as we Dave bean given to understated, broke inside, end the tender and three of the carriages were thrown off the rails on to the aide of the embankment with considerable force. The shock is stated to have tom very mare, and the cries of the injured and affrighted passengers were most distress ing. The toils not having to run into the Tilbury station, was prometlingat a sharp rats, and the nature of the mash may easily be conealved. The company's offing. from Tilbury were soon an the spot, and every care and haste were teed to extricate thine hart. Oas of the animas was much shat iced, and the anfortumate occupants =fired accordingly. Medical aid was procured from the alarm, end every WNW= was shown the sufferers. As yet we have been unable to aimertein their particular injuries, but several •re Meted to have boa seriously hurt, and two went on to one of the London hospitals. As soon as possible another train was made up, and the large proportion of the passengers were sent on to town. Several, however, remained behind. Mr. Wightmen, the superintendent of the Blackwell Railway, end who has charge of the traffic of this line, came down this morning at the request of the directors, to Institute an inquiry into the unfortunate mishap. A number of labourers have bean employed in re moving the disabled carriages from the side of the line. DISTEMSING BOAT ACCIDENT UPON THE MM.-THEM LIVES LOST. A distressing oxidant occurred on the river yes terday afternoon near Putney-bridge. It appears that Mr. Johnson, a young men about twenty. aye years of age, a barge owner, carrying an busineas at Rotherhitbe, had been paying his addressee to the daughter all Mr. Prince, the landlord of the Yorkahire Grey public-boa= near the Cadogan-pier, elide= On Wednesday afternoon he proposed a row upon the river, and was accompanied by the young lady and her sister, a little girl about seven years of age. Upon resohing that part of the river opposite Wandaworth-fielda on the one side, and the grounds of Sir Frederick Rows, on the Middk sex aide, the boat soddenly c►psized, and the three were immediately struggling in the water. The young girls soon disappeared ; but Mr. Johnson must have swam some short distance before be sank, sable body was subsequently discovered lying upon a mound of mud, near Sir Frederick Rows's premises. It appears that no person actually wintered the unfortunate occurrence, but the deceased were seen strug gling in the water. Some person rowed up to Putney-bridge, wry toroth alarmed, and stated that a boat had been over turned, and that the occupents were in the water. The =- taro= at Putney-bridge quickly put off in their boate, as also some at the Feathers, at Wandsworth, but their ser vices were of no avail. They ware only in time to pick up the sculls and to secure the boat, which wee what wee termed a small " gig." • ' The whole of this scorning a number of persona were upon the river dragging for the bodies of the unfortunate young girls, but up to the present time they hero not been toned. lb. Pekoe drove to Putney-bridge about ten o'clock, and appeared groom heart-broken at the sad event. The body of Mr. Johnson was taken to the Swan pablie-house, Fal bem, where it now remains awaiting en inquest. It ap pears that the age of the eldest girl was 19. DEATHSBYDROWNING.—On Monday a melaccholy accident occurred at Limerick. There was to be a boai-race in the evening on the Shannon, and, se is customary. ell the available eraall boats were in tvqmisitlon for the amusement It appears that two men, named Patrick kVNamara and James Begley, had arranged to eejoy the uott, and übtalud the loan of a fishing cut, or breaches, in which was a quantity of water lodged; end in baling oat the email craft she unfortunately upset. Wlfueara was an expert swimmer, but Begley could not seine a stroke, and when bo th dose d together, the latter gripped M•Naroara by the shoulder, when a desperate death struggle ensued be tween the drowning men. M'Nsmara used every exertion to free himaell from Begley, to whom he repeatedly called to let go his hold and be would save him; but to no purpose, ea the man wee so frightened lost he should be sac:hied that hie obstinacy led him to bold on until both sank and perished. THE BALLOON ASCENT TIM NEWCASTLE.—We (Newcastle Chronicle)) are extremely sorry to announce that the injuries sustained by Captain Hall ere far more serious than at lint apprehended. The unfortunate man having relovaed endkiently yesterday morning, au examination was nods, when it wee found that the ligaments of toe vertebra beta been lacerated, and one or more of the bones dieplemed. The effect of this would be to paralyse the sensfrive ead motor nerves on the whole of the body below the point Waled. From the nature of the injuries It is elm that the =Lacunae. man must have alba heed Oxen= from the balloon, his head and left shoulder arming first in contact with the earth, the body and lower extremities being forcibly bent over so as to break the beck. The spine, no doubt, is seriously injured, and the prognosis in ell ouch cum le highly no favourable. The mecums received up to • late hour gave hint hopes of Ma living through the night. During the day he vas taken to Newcastle Infircesry. Mr. Pattanaun showed the greatest Medusas towards the unfortunate sufferer, and lad a spring-cart comfortably seranged fur his accommoda tion, end in this he we , conveyed to the infirmary. At the =a: o h:re he fell there are two indentations in the that be must have fallen with great velocity. Duren yesterday there were rumours that the balloon had been hand neerWhithy. A GOOD EXANPLE.—Thern is probably no bay In the was of the British Isles more dangerous to navigation them Cannertheo Bay, in South Wslea. In its vicinity are situated some fearful quick-sand Oulu. Ors of these, called Ws Ma Sande, has been celebrated for ages for its dangers aid terrors to the mariner. Lest winter two dreadful ship snub took place on these sands. The new of one of them bad a narrow and providential wipe if their laws ; but those of the other vessel had onheppily perished before sno- MM. could possibly reach them. Toe National Lifeboat In stitution is now making en effort to eetabliah a lifeboat in the vicinity of these dangerous sands. The honorary secretary of the Carmarthen Bay breech of the society having, 'maimed .there, applied to Mr. R. Parnell, of Biehopegate street, who fa a native of the might), nrhood, for his assist ance, be returned to him the following reply .—" Ludas, August 8. 1859.—My dear Sir,—Your note, of the 6th dust., is duly to band. The establishment of a lifeboat in the vicinity of Carmarthen Bsy is beyond all praise. I have placed my name on the list for IW., but rather than that the noble imd humane of just should be defeat, rl you may, if needful, con sider me good for 1005. Hoping the resident gentry who have any sympathy for poor Jack will cheerfully follow the example of the non-residents, and with beet wisher, I ern, &c (sig ned) ROBZXT PAKNALL.—ReV. W. Williams, Fer rule:le.' Earl Cawdor has also promioxl 541/.. Lord Dynasts 501, and Sir James and Lady Hamilton 201. Melly other persons have slim subscribed sums of less amount in aid et the coat of this laudable undertaking, which will involve an expense of 3001. or 4001., for lifeboat, transporting carriage, and but-house. It is o,nfidently anticipated that before another winter has set in the Carmarthen Bay Helmet will ben her station. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A LIVERPOOL SHARE eneenn.—At the Liverpool polleromtrt yesterday an in formation was laid„ at the meanest of Yr. Patrick Bolen, of Dublin, against Mr. William Roberts, a sharetiroker, of Liverpool. The ear, however ' wee not fatly enteced into, and on the understanding that Mr. Roberta would be in town neat day it was adjourned. It is understood that the dame has reference to the deposal of eerie to the vellc of 3,0001. or 4,0001., but there is a doubt whether the act of parliament will apply in the came. NOVEL UBE OF BRAY'S TRACTION ENGISE.—The vestry of St. Jamie., Westminster. Liddy adopted the sug gestion of levelling the new macadamised pavement in Re gent-street by means of a largo iron roller %eighlng 20 tons, and of the diameter of 9 feet, but when in action there arose not only the objection on account of the elate occupied by the hires number of horse. required to draw it. but to mesas could be devised toe rudely taking it down the iodine of Waterloo-place. In this dilemma epjlicatiou wee marls to the directors of Bray's Traction Brigire Company for the loan of one of their engines. This was !caddy granted, and on Tuesday and Wednesday morning of this wick the large toiler might be seen quietly following the engine, which had such perfect control over the load behind it last for the pur p ies of showing this, it stopped several times on going down Waterloo-place, and on oroeeding the hill it mopped half way up, awl started again with perfect ease, notwithstanding the dead pull of 20 tone behind it. Several men were in ettendeuee with large blocks of wood to net as breaks in rase cf need, but their rervioel were not required. The rend save) or appointed by the vestry to accompany the engine 'sported that not only was the experiment most suoceesful, but that the riegion so tar from doing, no alt. apprehended, dernege to the rued, rather waisted in pitting it, ov arcount of the width of its driving wheels. We utAlcsittil that the engine may be seen again in Regent-eve/et, between 8 and 9 o ulook un Friday morning. SERVICES IN GREENWICH PARK.—By perfniniOn dike Ittogtv, Lord Aberdrea t speak& genial; will be ma de:Sad by various WillloterS I.llotelailkii-park on Turfed, lad Friday attionlooas.