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may be mentioned that the Queen of England has been indecorously abused for having changed the name of the Waterloo Gallery at Windsor Castle ; and the anniversary of the battle, with the approba• Lion of MM. Stahl, Niebuhr, Gerlach, Arnim, West phalen, Wilhectri, and others, was celebrated by a commemorative banquet. To top the infinite of insult, M de Bismarck and his organ, betraying the private confidence and the secret policy of Austria, proceed to say :—" En suivant le drapeau d'Autriche "—the avowed ally of France and England, whose emperor sent special messengers to compliment the allied sovereigns on the fall of Sebastopol— En suivant le drapeau politique d'Autriehe, l'Allemagne, rennin a Bette puissance, furmerait no corps politique dune force immense suttisante pour arreter la lutte des parties belligerantes, et lour imposer la paix. A parting word to M. de Bismarck Schonhausen. He is accustomed to speak of the envoys of her Britannic Majest3 in Germany as a parcel of old women—" et celui-ci je le Liens en pUche." His pre sent language will open their eyes to his real character. T. E. L. SIENA, Oct. 12. AFFLICTION, above all that of a domestic nature, is prompt to impair the physical organisation of man ; but there are bounds to the species of malady re• suiting from such a cause, and the injury is general and not local. It has been affirmed that the illness of the King of Sardinia has been exclusively occa sioned by sorrow at the severe bereavement with which his family has been visited. In the first in stance this account might have had a colourable foundation. The prolongation, however, of the malady, its continuance, its gravity and peculiarity, have thoroughly disproved that asseveration. Sorrow is not the present and active cause of the royal ill ness, although it may be an aggravation; and if, as public report announces, his Majesty be convalescent, he must attribute his recovery to the skill of his pro fessional attendants, and to the means whereby, under Providence, they have discomfited the machinations of the Jesuit.. The prayers which, by authority, were addressed within the Papal sanctuary to the Almighty fur the worldly punishment of the King of Sardinia, in judgment and expiation of the royal sanction for the suppression of the convents, have, according to the Jesuit showing, been heard. The Jesuit end sanctifies the Jesuit means : the Pontifical supplication has not been vain, and the titular Vicar of Christ, under the protection of the Madonna Immaculate, has preached the first and fund the latter. Betwixt the stiletto of Mazzini and the Borgian cup of the priest the alliance has had a practical illustration. The differences of the Tuscan and Piedmontese Governments have not terminated. At the com mencement of the misunderstanding the interven tion of the English Minister at Florence ? the Marquis of Normanby, was immediately solicited. The Whig-ltaclical representative of England de clared the nomination of M. Cassati to have been in judiciotis and improper and accepted the remon strance of the Grand. Puke of Tuscany, which was made as Archduke of Austria, and for reasons appertaining to the archiducal character. But the Whig Radical Marquis is not accredited to an Austrian archduke ; he is envoy to a prince who is or ought to be independent. If he be not indepen dent, and the archiducal subjection to Vienna be per mitted to override and to eclipse the ignes minores of Tuscany, then, and in that case, a Secretary of Lega tion, under the tutelage of the English Minister at Vienna, would be amply sufficient. The English Minister at the Court of Tu,scany was, not called upon to regulate his official conduct according to the wishes of an Austrian archduke, except upon the understanding, especial and concedekthat the Grand Duchy.of Tuscany and Austria are one and the same kingdom; and the indirect admission has been in ferred by the imprudence of the English Minister. Lord Normanby is and ever his been unfortunate in his ambassadorial capacity. As the representative of her Majesty in Ireland, he was the liberator of convicts well deserving of the halter for foul treason to the Queen whom he represented. At Paris in a note, Ministerial and confidential, he branded Louis Napoleon SS an unprincipled adven• turer, and he now consents to betray his post and to bow the knee to the Imperial Baal of Austria. The Sardinian Marchese Sauli, with a just propriety, left Florence and placed his case iu the hands of the French Minister. If history indeed be something more than an old almanac, if the record of the past emblazon one fact more prominently than another, it is that an intimate alliance betwixt France and the house of Lorraine bears an augury and is the forerunner of evil to both countries. The sad events of the Place Louis Y. that afflicted Pariis on the ierl eye of the - - nuptials of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette .of Austria may have, under other bearings, an imperial instead of a royal phase. Ominous disaster has a fortuitous rule, and it may be remembered that the ma t r i m onial connection with the house of Lorraine, foyal in 1770 and imperial in 1810, brought about the downfal of each bridegroom. The Bourbons have fallen once, twice, and thrice from an unwise disregard of historical admonition, and the same fate will assuredly fall upon others if a similar impru dence mark their unreflecting career. The partisans of the Pope with Cardinal Antonelli and the Jesuits boldly and pertinaciously assert that the cause of the Pope and the Vatican dominance in Italy is safe under the protection of Austria and France, and that no politically -disturbing cause will be suffered to en danger the existing Governments of the Italian peninsula either in form or nature. The evils are to remain in esse. The Papists quote the assurance of the Emperor Napoleon; they rely on the increasing battalions of Austria in Lombardy ready to pour into the southern provinces; and they sneer with equal sarcasm and truth when they appeal to the conduct of Lord Normanby in direct antagonism to tonstitu tional Sardinia. The Jesuit holds Tuscany in fetters—has bought Naples, employs the brigands of Fondi, Ronciglione, and Calabria—rules at Vienna — coaxes and menaces at Paris, and has a Whig foot ing in England. With all these advantages what has the Pope to fear? With all this dishonesty what has Sardinia to hope? That a struggle in Italy is about to take place, that it must and will take place, nobody here will deny, with the knowledge of passing events national and provincial. That the attempted liberation of the country from its excess of mis government will be caused by the example of Pied mont, firm and respected from its power of self government, is not less evident ;. and in what manner England would seem prepared to act has, to its shame, been demonstrated by Lord Normanby. At Naples, although the Police Minister, Mazza, has been apparently dismissed, his sinister influence has greatly increased. He is employed in mar shalling the lazzaroni into compact bodies, has formed them into divisions, given them watchwords, and, in the event of an outbreak against the Government, has promised them the spoil of the palaces belonging to those who are his personal enemies. At the head of this list, as may be suppoued, appear the Prince Ischitella, the Duke of Cesano, and another noble man who lately purchased his permission to return by a bribe to the King and his Ministers of 100,000 colonati. This is not all. Mazza has sent his emissaries into the Abruzzi with an injunction to negotiate with the brigands for their support of "Fernando, it Re assoluto" and of "la Madonna Immacolata," promising them for that same the ple nary absolution of the Pope for past and manifold deeds of murder, rape, and brigandage. These acts are done with the full knowledge and permission of the King, with whom Mazza is in daily communica tion. Not the slightest reparation has hitherto been made to the English Minister, and for the personal insult of Mazza there never will be. These are the men—royal and infamous, pontifical ani blasphe mous, Jesuits and assassins—that are assured of the positive assistance of Austria, and proclaim the speedy protection of France by an augmentation of the French forces at Rome to overawe the Muratist demonstration that may possibly ensue. The dis claimer and reproof of the Murat letter was proper and unavoidable on the part of the French Emperor, but the gratuitous advice to the Pope and the King of Naples for a governmental reform, in which he was joined, it is so said, by stolid England, availeth in the same degree as if the united wisdom of the Anglo-Frark allies were to counsel the Holy Father to turn Protestant, and not more. Upon this mass of insincerity, subterfuge, and chi canery bursts forth in the full force of a rabid simplicity the joint manifesto of Mazzini, Ledru Rollin, and Kossuth, a declaration of Red Itepubli canistn at one and the same time arrogant, menda cious, insulting, and mendicant. " Arrogant," because assuming a republican and European dictatorship, which is in reality confined to themselves only and to the bravos of the " coltello ;" "mendacious" in the asseveration of unfounded fact; "insulting" to the country which has harboured and saved them from the merited halter; and "mendicant." by reason of the sordid and beggarly petition for the obolus of the poor and the golden piece of the rich, in order to erect the Robespierre guillotine of extermination. From the North Cape in Sweden to Cape Spartivento in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and throughout the breadth of Germanic Europe, there is an aspira tion, nay more, there is a determination, to possess constitutional advantages, real and not nominal, and to form a Saxon barrier against the encroachments of Sclavonic Russia. M. T. A. Mn. GUILETON, her Majesty's Consular Agent at Sfax, on the Coast of Barbary, died suddenly on the sth ultimo, SATURDAY, Foreign not Colonial 3attiligtnte. FRANCE. Certain changes are spoken of in the French Cabi net. M. de Persigny, the French Ambassador in London, it is rumoured, will be replaced by the Count Walewski, while the portfolio of Foreign Affairs will once more be resumed by M. Dronyn de Lhuys. It is positively stated that the Cent Gerdes will be suppressed. The Constitutionnel, which last week published certain remaiks upon the appearance of the Baron Prokesch Osten at the Tuileries, received a reprimand from the Goverment, which denied that M. de Prokesch was charged with any mission to the French Court. Bellemare, the man who attempted to fire at the Emperur, has been judged insane, and condemned to detention in a lunatic asylum for life. The trial of the forty-eight prisoners for the insurrection at Angers in August last, was concluded on the 16th. The three ringleaders, Secretain, Attibert, and Pas quier, were condemned to transportation ; eleven to imprisonment in a fortress,,;, eleven to simple banish ment ; and the rest were acquitted. The attempt of the French Government to regu late the price of meat has not succeeded to that extent which the public believed. The averages remain as high as ever, and by mutual arrangemett the butchers succeed in preventing any reduction in the price. The French Government are making extraordinary efforts to keep down the price of food, not only in Paris, but throughout France. The fête to Prince Napoleon, by the exhibitors in the Exposition, at the Hotel de Louvres on Tuesday last, was ill-arranged, and not attended with that success which usually attends such entertainments in Finis. General Bosquet, it is said, is about to return to France, having obtained leave of absence on account of his wound. The Noniteur gives the return of the produce of the taxes and indirect revenue from the Ist of January to the 30th of September, 1855, inclusive, amounting to 699,798,000 f., being 81,055,000 f. over the same period of 1854. A report on the Bourse on Wednesday that the French Government had decided upon receiving at a discount subscriptions to the last loan above 1,000 francs, such subscriptions having been excluded from discount up to the present time, caused some alarm, as it was taken as a proof of want of money by the Government. RUSSIA: An ukase of the Emperor of Russia, dated on the 7th inst.; orders a new recruitment for the defence of the empire. The proportion is to be twenty-three men to every 1,000 souls. In Orenberg and Samara the recruiting began on the 25th of this month, and will finish on the 15th of December. A commission has been instituted at Kieff to examine all prisoners from the foreign legions in the service of the allies. They are not to be treated as prisoners of war, but handed over to their respective Governments. Great changes are about to be made in the ad. ministration of Poland; a letter from Warsaw, on the Bth, says It is certain that M. de Kotzebue has brought forward a plan of re-organisation of the kingdom of Poland, which has been approved of by the Minister of the Interior, and submitted to the Emperor. The plan suggests a fresh division of the provinces. None of the present govern ment will remain, except those of Lublin and Warsaw; those of Radom, Plock, and Augustowa will be united and form one government. The kingdom will, therefore, be composed of three governments ; the civil and military administration will remain in the same hand, but a separation will take place in the lower branches of it. PRUSSIA. The general result of the elections in Prussia is stated as follows :—The nominations are divided into three-fifths for the Ministry; one fifth for the Catholic party, which, in a political point of view, cannot be classed among the Opposition; and one fifth for the Opposition properly so called. The composition of the Second Chamber is not therefore very sensibly modified. The Chevalier Bunsen, late Ambassador in London, had declined a seat in the Chamber, to which the electors of Madgeburgh had returned him. The anniversary of the King's birthday was kept at Berlin, on the 15th, with great rejoicings. The Prussian Correspondence of Monday contra• diets the report that Prussia is attempting to mediate between Russia and the allied powers ; and adds, that on sounding the allies, Russia found them so disinclined to negotiate at this moment that she made nol_proposals. PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS. Oct. 13.—With very few exceptions, the results of all the elections are now known, but yet it remains an impossibility to form any reliable judgment as to the proportions of parties in the future House of Deputies. Out of 350 electiops 163 have fallen upon men new to publio life : while this ftirnishes a id