The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-12 00:00:00

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Om.—Afternoon, 6h. 21m OR, . r , -At <• ?W'r 1 . 7 J.1"17; - ' (r_l_~ ~f:(iiJ~ THE SITN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 1862. It is earnestly to be hoped that a lamentable statement put forward this mm fling in the Foreign correspondence of the limes may, on further in quiry, prove to be altogether unfounded, or, at the very least, considerably exaggerated. We at once give the announcement in its integrity: precisely in the words in which it is expressed in the columns of our contemporary. " A calamitous duel," writes the Times' Correspondent at Turin, under date the 9th instant, " has been fought to-day near Turin between MENOTTI GARIBALDI, the hero's eldest son, and that Colonel, now Brigadier-General, PALLAVICINO, who attacked the volunteers at As promonte. This latter had given offence to the officers of GARIBALDI'S staff when he said in his report that while the combat raged these officers were busy sharing the contents of their chief's mili tary chest among them. The efforts of well-mean ing persons who wished to prevent the duel were unavailing. MENOTTI GARIBALDI is said to be mortally wounded in the side ; PALLAVICINO is also seriously hurt. I have not been able, however, to ascertain the particulars of the sad event, and still hope the account of it may be exaggerated." Supposing, most unhappily, that the report thus confidently stated should be eventually confirmed, occurring as such a fatal duel will then be seen to have done immediately after the melancholy catas trophe closing the encounter with swords between Mr. DILLON and M. DE GRAMMONT, otherwise known as the Duc de CADEROUSSE—dueIIing, as a system, we may rest assured, will, elsewhere than England, be abolished. Its abolition, at any rate, will infallibly be hastened. Ttie more civilised States upon the Continent will follow in this the rational example long since set to the world at large by England—meaning, that is to say, when Eaglishmen resolved at length, by common consent, upon getting rid, at once and for all, of this barbarous and intrinsically ridi culous, yet at the same time execrable, method of settling a dispute. Of late years a man could hardly put himself, socially, in a more ludicrous position than by taking part in a duel. One of the last ever attempted—who can yet have forgotten it ?—was that in which the late Viscount STRANQFORD, better known during the chief part of his brief and brilliant career as the Hon. G EORGE SMYTHE, appeared as one of the principals! The intending duellists and their seconds taking train one morning at the Waterloo terminus—getting out of the train twenty miles down the line at Weybridge Station—taking a hired fly in which the combatants (that were to be) and their friends (!) rode amicably (some inside, some outside the vehicle) to a secluded spot beyond the gorse and furze and heather of that pretty common of Wey bridge. The particulars of that latest of these hos tile encounters, here in England, no sooner became b ruited about than the wits of London had it all theirga own way—that is, of course, in the way of -natured ridicule. Punch's comic artists and droll ong-writers were " at it" industriously week after Week ieaeepkfoar a long while. Bon mots, flavoured ant sarcasm, were echoed about the clubs a n d dra The whole incident by man y a laughing lip. i seen to be and felt to be something intens e l y nt as was absurd and n o nsen s ical.) Thenceforth — en far the opinions o f one ' s neigh bours can affect uas;we similar sh ould all o f us shr i n k f rom taking part in n proceedi ng , if f or no other and nobler reason, because so doing we should be rendering ourselves le by a u u : i h i i i n t g-stocks t o the general community. A ci would be a butt. s ett o o f f It would require the Ti d o ' wad y a3's a different kind of courage than any ever dr as r equisite by the deadliest shot and the liveliest ficeater once u p on a time accustomed, as an °raj_ I nary rnatutinal arrangement, to indulge in, the l luxury of coffee and pistols for two, at some un- - earthly hoar or so before cccit-crow Courage, that is, to face the poignant shafts of ridicule. Cou. raga to bear the brut of pcpular scorn , and— w o rst of 6 all—the anguish of being openly laughed at ! Until, however, we shall have received distinct intimation of the actual and lit eral trath of the account of this fatal rencontre between AIENOTTI GARIBALDI, the eldest son of the Hero, and Gene ral PALLAVICINO, the leader of the Bersaglieri 'who shot down GARIBALDI himself at Aspromonte —we shall take it for granted that the reported issue of their contest is altogether an exaggera- Meanwhile, it is profoundly interesting to note the recent expression of the heartfelt gratitude of the General towards the most successful among all the eminent surgeons who have endeavoured to alleviate the Hero's sufferings. The illustrious French surgeon Dr.NELATON—the one who first confidently insisted upon the fact that there was a bullet lying there deeply imbedded among the torn flesh and shat tered bones of the wounded ankle, and, under the guidance of whose advice, and with the employ ment of whose exquisitely constructed instruments, the rifle ball was at length drawn forth, and a per manent cure rendered, for the first time, possible. Here, however, is the letter itself, precisely as it was addressed the other day to Professor NELATON by General GARIBALDI :-- " Pisa, Dec. 5. "My very dear Friend, —I owo you a word of love and gratitude. Your appearance at Spezzia brought happiness to me, and if any doubt of my recovery could ever have crossed.my mind, in spite of the fraternal and learned care of the surgeons who attended me, at your interview, so eminently sympathetic, and at your words, so sublimely encouraging-, it would have disappeared. lam much better since the extraction of the ball so ably effected by our com patriot, Professor ZANETTI, and with the instrument you had the kindness to send me. To-morrow a fixed bandage will be applied, and I hope to be able very soon to move about upon crutches. GOD bless you, as well as those vir tuous men whose humane principles have honoured the eminent man of science and the benefactor.—Your devoted, " G. GARIBXIDI.” Among the numerous letters and documents penned by the Hero, this is about the most satisfactorily expressed in every way, of any that has yet come to our knowledge. For beyond all doubt GARI BALDI'S hand has shown itself less skilled in handling the pen than in wielding the sword on the battlefield, the spade or the mattock in his island home, the oar or the helm upon the flashing waters that in the earlier part of his life might have been called his element—before the Sailor gave place to the Soldier, and the daring Adven turer rose to the historical dignity of the Hero, the Patriot, and the Liberator. An important game case is given in the Bury and Norwich Post, which was tried before several of the great unpaid at the Mundford Petty Sessions, the Honourable FRANCIS BARING being the Chair man. It is likely to come, on the point of law, before the higher courts. The magistrates seemed, indeed, very shy of the superintendence of her MAJESTY'S superior courts at Westminster, but Mr. WALPOLE of Bury, the solicitor who appeared for the defen dant, was not to be easily deterred. The magistrates wanted him to appeal from the great game pre serves in Petty Sessions, to the same gentlemen and their class in Quarter Sessions. But, as Mr. WAL POLE well observed, that was like appealing from C,ESAR to C.ESAR. Mr. WALPOLE wanted "a case," as the question was purely one of law, to take to the Queen's Bench. The wary game preservers refused it. Mr. WALPOLE then demanded a cer tificate of refusal, in order to enable him to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench to compel them to state a case. This they dared not refuse, and they had also the prudence to suspend the order for the payment of fine and costs for a month. We may expect, therefore, to hear the matter argued soon at Westminster. The question to be decided is, whether under the " Night Poaching Act,"—so infamously forced through the House by the game preservers at the end of the session, Lord GREY and some of the best of the Tories and Liberals fighting desperately to the last, but Lord PALMERSTON conniving—a man is to be required to criminate himself. This, at least, is the substantial question. The magistrates hold that the possessor of game on the highway must prove that he came by it lawfully. Mr. WALPOLE thought it was for the accuser to show that he came by it unlawfully. The accused in this case was a carrier, whom two policemen, doing duty at the county's expense as a landlord's game keepers, had stopped, and, finding some rabbits and other game in his cart, had summoned him as guilty of taking them off the land of a neigh bouring squire. There was not a tittle of evidence even adduced to prove that PHILIP FULLER had been on Squire BIRCH'S land. The Chairman, in summing up for a conviction, did not even pretend that there was. The ground of the conviction was that the man had the game in his cart, and refused to account for some of it, and that he had been previously convicted of poaching. We think it highly probable that the rabbits, &c., may have been procured at first un lawfully ; possibly FULLER may have been quite aware of this, and may even have taken them unlawfully himself. But really the nroceed ings of these Mundford magistrates compel us to ask whether we also live under ABE LINCOLN; whether upon simple suspicion—great probability, if you will—we can be made to pay a fine of £5, or go to prison for two months. If the Act really permits this, then the sooner, in 'the good old fashion, it is burned by the hands of Mr. CALCRAFT the better. If for the sake of country magistrates' sports the whole genius of the laws we live under is to be reversed, then, we say, perish their sports first ! Let not the distinguishing glory of English law be sacrificed that country squires may cover the Norfolk heaths and woods with temptation to crime, and then send Englishmen to prison on the suspicion only of yielding to the temptation. Let us know whether the mad landlords of the end of the Session did make such a law as this. If they have, we shall know what to do. Justly odious, however, as that disgustingly selfish addition to the selfish and tyrannical game law code is, we do not believe that it is quite so bad as Mr. BARING and his colleagues would make it. Their fear of the superior courts seems to indicate that game preservers' law will not be held as law at Westminster. They cited indeed several oases which had been decided according to their wishes, but they were all game preservers' decisions, and the only lawyers concerned were the magistrates' clerks, who eat the bread of game preservers. No oppressed poacher has found the means yet to try a case of law with a bench. To a common reader the Act would certainly seem, in accordance with English practice, to require the accuser to prove the unlawful possession. If it does not, why then wo have aboi de suspects in England; and, worst of all, we give the landlords' country police a power on behalf of game, which our town police dare not exercise o❑ behalf of saving her MAJESTY'S subjects from being garotted. We have no doubt, however, that country magistrates would laugh at the idea of representing the heads and throats of dwellers in cities as of equal importance with the heads 1 1 and throats of hares and partridges. We trust we may regard the question of the future site of St. Thomas's Hospital as now settled—and that no further attempt will be made to remove it from the vicinity of those who need its services. To "babble o' green fields" was a plausible device for a railway and architect's job, but it will not do. All parties concerned have risen up against the im position—the medical men, the parish authorities, the watchful prers—we might almost say nll, except the little clique so powerful in the grand commit- THE SUN, LONDON, FRP)AY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1862. tee, have denounced with one voice the scheme of removing the noble hospital from the half million of working people to whom for more than two centuries it has been so great a boon. Already the grand committee has found public opinion, acting on the whole b od y of the g overnors, sufficient t n o ow che m ck et ly th i e t I n h a i n rebuke their from a course, and they have body which, in such a case as t his, will, we have no doubt, com pel unqualified deference. The corporation of London, it will be seen, has, unanimously voted, that " having regard to the local duties for which the great charity of St. Thomas's Hospital was originally chartered, founded, and endowed, and which have been ful filled for three centuries, the new hospital ought, so far as circumstances permit, to be built in a situation no less central than that which the for mer hospital occupied." The vote was not only unanimous, but so enthusiastic, that when the seconder of the motion, Dr. ABRAHAM, was about to speak, also, to the motion, the Court was so anxious to express its opinion, that he gave up his speech, and the vote was taken at once. One circumstance of weight was noticed by the mover, that the tendency is increasing every day to leave the City of London and the Borough to the class which needs hospitals. All who can afford it migrate to the suburbs, and the resident population of the centre of business will consist more and more of the working classes. In the City and the Borough, also, all that kind of work is carried on from which the worst accidents needing immediate attention are continually occurring. The very idea, therefore, of removing an institution, which spends £30,000 annually, and will soon spend £.50,000, in relieving the pressing wants of the poor, away from the residences of the poor, is so extravagant that it is really difficult to see how it could have originated. An hospital and a sana torium are, in fact, different things. The latter may be a very valuable adjunct to the former, but it is not an hospital in the now current sense of the word . If the Governors think it worth while to employ the additional £20,000 when the rents fall in, in establishing a Sanatorium in connection with the full establishment of the old Hospital, we will not say that the subject might not be worth consideration. We rather expect, however, when the time comes, that ample employ ment will be found for the additional income, in re lieving the wants of the constantly increasing popu lation of the locality for which the charity was originally created. As the corporation has even now the nomination of thirty-eight governors, and has it because " the said hospital is a Royal Hos. pital founded by and at the cost of the citizens of London," we may assume that the vote of yesterday will be final as to the general site of the Hospital. And as to the precise spot, it would surely be im possible to find one which, all things considered, can compete with its present temporary site—the Surrey Gardens. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPII COM. PAN Y S SCHEME. The Emperor of the French received a letter in which General Mitre announces his elevation to the post of President of the Argentine Republic. his Majesty also received the reply of the King of Sweden to the letters of recall of M. Charles Baudin, French Minister at the Court of Stockholm ; and those from the King of llanover and the Duke of Brunswick, to the letters of recall of Baron de Maluet, French Minister at their Cowls, Marshal the Duke de Malakoff was received yes terday at the Tuileries by the Emperor. fIIE MEMBERS FOR NoTTlNctrAm.—The banquet to the borough member at Nottingham on Wednesday gave to Sir Robert Clifton and Mr. Paget an opportunity for giving an account of their parliamentary stewardship. Mr. Paget explained his views with an amount of caution that did not appear to give entire satisfaction to the radical sec tion of his audience. Sir Robert Clifton entered at great length into a review of his first Parliamentary experience, denouncing the present Government for its extravagance, and intimating that it was his intention to do everything in his power to repress the enormous expenditure of the country, which exceeded that of any previous period of peace,—Nottingham Daily Guardian, A LADY IMPRISONED BY THE CONFEDERATE G OVERNM EN T.--A Southern paper, theßiehmond Inquirer, says that 10 days ago a very accomplished lady, connected with people in Richmond of great wealth and influence, was imprisoned in Castle Thunder under a charge of giving information to the Yankees by way of Portsmouth, where she dwells, and from which place she has made several visits to Richmond, SIGNOR GIUGLTNI AND MRS. WINDIIAM.—On Monday evening Mdlle. Tietjens and Signor Giuglini, ac companied by three operatic stars of less brilliancy, gave a concert in the Music Hall, Aberdeen. The lady was re ceived with unqualified approbation ; not so the great tenor, his part in the last public act of the Windham drama having created an unfavourable feeling against him. The conse quence was that the Signor, on making his first appearance was greeted with considerable hissing—a manifestation which not a few evidently thought all the more deserved, that the now notorious Mrs. Windham, nee Miss Rodgers, • occupied a prominent place in the gallery, and was hearty in applause of her favourite. The lama regarding Giuglini and the lady of Felbrigge Hall, however, spoiled the con cert commercially. A Tzsr or LOYALTY.—Among the political pr Boners recently released at Camp Chase is a boy of 13, who was employed on a steamboat running from Parkersburg to some point up the river. He contracted a wash-bill with a woman in Parkersburg, which he paid, with the exception of 15c., which he would not cr did not pay. She reported him as disloyal; he was arrested, and, as is usual in such cases, he was hurried off to prison, not even being told of what he was charged. He has been a close prisoner for four months, but was lately brought forth for examination, and told that there was no sufficient charge against him, and that he was at liberty again.—Dayton (Ohio) Dui? . .. GARIBALDI.—A friend writes from Turin, Dec. 5 :—" I have received a letter from the General to-day. He says he is •going to get on horseback, and that he will soon return to . his blessed Solitude in Qaprera—which sig nifies that he is better." THE LATE MR. SHERIDAN KNOWLES.—It gra tifies us much to hear from a private source that a memo rial is being prepared in Glasgow, soliciting a pension of £lOO a year for his widow. A memorial to the same effect should be sent from Belfast, where Mr. Knowles was so well known and so highly esteemed. A handsome monu ment is about to be erected to his memory in the Glasgow Necropolis ; and, as evidence of the spirit evinced in refe rence to it, we may state that two of his friends in London, one of whom went all the way to attend the funeral, have put down their names for £lOO each. We are glad to know that Mr. Dalgli , h, M.P. for Glasgow, and several of the leading men in Glasgow, take a warm interest in the move ment to do honour to the late Sheridan Knowles.—Belfast flews Letter. DR. GUTHRIE IN LIVERPOOL.—The Rev. Dr. Guthrie, of Edinburgh, says the Liverpool Mercury, the eloquent and warm-hearted friend and advocate of ragged schools, has kindly consented, in compliance with a nume rous and highly influential requisition, signed by the Mayor, ex• Mayer, the President of the Chamber of Com merce, and other gentlemen, to lecture in this town next week, in behalf of the Lancashire Relief Fund. THE LION OF CHOERONEA.—A cast of one of the most famous relics of ancient Greek art has just arrived at the British Museum, and is being put together under the auspices of Mr. C. E. Newton, of Christ Church, Oxford, keeper of antiquities, well known for his able work on his excavation at Halicarnassus. About a mile from Choeronea (Kapourna, or Kaprena), in Boeotia, on the right-hand side of the Orchomenos-road, is the sepulchre of the Boeotians who fell in the battls of Choeronea, fighting against Philip of Macedon, B.C. 3.3. Pausanias speaks of the tomb in his quaint but touching language as " having no inscription, but a figure of a lion placed on it, as emblem of the spirit of these men. There is no inscription," he adds, " because the gods willed that their fortune should be unequal to their valour," In the time of D odwell, Leakes, and other travellers, the lion had disappeared. About twenty years ago, according to Colonel Mure, the splendid marble figure was discovered strewed in detached masses about the sides and the interior of the excavation. It was said that the celebrated patriot chief Odysseus, when occupying the town, observed a piece of marble outside the summit of the mound, sounded it with a stick, and, finding it hollow, broke it up, Greek-like, in the idea that treasure was concealed in it. Other people think that the discovery is due to the patriarch of philolo gists, the Austrian consul Gropius. With the exception of the Marathonian tumulus, the famous lion of Choeronea is the only relic of the best days of Greek art. When put together this gigantic figure will, no doubt, attract much interest. THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY.-The following short biography of the new Italian Ministry is given by the T em p s M. Farini, the President of the Council, is a Roman ; he was an eminent physician and a leader of the Liberal party when he was appointed Director-General of the Hospitals and Prisons of Rome under the Ministry of Count Rossi. In 1848 , when the Republic was proclaimed in Rome, ho emigrated to Tuscany ; th ence h e remove d t o Piedmont. M. Farini was for some time Minister of Public Instruction in 1850, and subsequently he was Minister of the Interior in the Cavour Cabinet: He was Dictator of Emilia and Lieutenant. General of the King at Naples after Garibaldi's departure. M. Farini was the principal nego tiator of the cession of Nice and Savoy to France. He was born on the 22d of October, 1822. M. Peruzzi, the new Minister of the Interior, is a Tuscan. He was a leader of the Liberal party in 1848, and i n 1859 was a t th e head of the movement w hic h transferred Tuscany to Pied mont. He was Minister of Public Works in Ricasoli's Cabinet. Ho is a man of energy and undoubted liberalism. It has been said by mistake that he is an enemy of the French alliance. M. Minghetti was, in 1848, Minister of Commerce to Pius IX.; he has twice been Victor Em manuel's Minister of the Interior-once under Cavour and once under Ricasoli. He is a distinguished political economist; as Finance Minister he will now have an opportunity of showing his talent. M. P aso li n i , t h e new Minister of Foreign Affairs, is also a Roman. He was for a long time Mayor of Ravenna. In 1847 ho was a colleague of Rossi, under whom he filled the office of Minister of Public Works. A refugee in 1849, he went into Piedmont, In 1859 he was appointed Governor of Milan, which post he held till M. Eattazzi came into power, when he resigned. Shortly afterwards, at the personal request of the King, he accepted the appointment of Governor of Turin. M. Manna, the Minister of Commerce, is a Neapolitan. He was a director-general of customs under the Dour bons, and in 1860 was sent by Francis 11. to Turin, to negotiate an alliance with Piedmont. M. Menabrea, Minister .of Pubic Works, is a General of Piedmontese I Engineers. He was secretary-general to the Azeglio in 1850, and Minister of Marine in the Rioasoli Cabinet. M. Amari, Minister of Public Instruction, is a Sicilian; one of the most eminent savants in Italy, and an Orientalist of European reputation. He long resided in Paris as a re fugee, and is a corresponding member of the Institute. M. Della Rovere, Minister at War, held that porfolio under Ricasoli ; he has been Lieutenant-General of the King in Sicily. M. Ricci, Minister of Marine, is a Genoese, and has had the reputation of being a naval officer. MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE.-The waifs and strays which float into the national exchequer are some of them of a curious character. Thus, small branches of hereditary revenue produced £33,580 in 1861-2, as compared with £16,421 in 1860-1; fees of the House of Commons;£79,ols in 1861-2, as compared with £60,350 in 1860.1 ; fees at the Home-office, £1,287 in 1861-2, as compared with £1,159 in 1860-1 ; fees at the Privy Council-office, £1,027 in 1861-2, as compared with £915 in 1860-1; fees at the office for the registration of j ,, int-stock companies, £10,505 in 1861-2, as compared with £7,073 in 1860-1 ; fees at the office of the registration of designs, £3,068 in 1861-2, as compared with £2,659 in 1860-1; fees and fines from police courts, £10,812 in 1861-2, as compared with £10,809 in 1860-1; fees at British Consulates abroad, £11,894 in 1861-2, as compared with £4,124 in 1860-1; surplus fees in superior courts of common law, £120,000 in 1861-2 (this item does not appear in the corresponding accounts for 1860-61); miscellaneous fees, £8,020 in 1861-2, as compared with £7,060 in 1860-1; fees from public offices in Scotland, £39,261 in 1861-2, as compared with £40,970 in 1860-1; fees from public offices in Ireland, £10,611 in 1861-2, as compared with £3,800 in 1860-1 ; army and ord nance, & c., ex t ra rece i p t s , £363,045 in 1861-2, as compared wi t h £ 469,95 0 i n 1360-1 ; na vy old stores, &e., £191,953 in 1861-2 , as compared with £16 8 , 902 in 1860-1; receipts in o ffi ce of wor k s f or o ld ma t er i a ls, &c., £35,905 in 1861.2, as compare d w i t h £12 , 074 in 1860-1; seignorago on bullion purchased for coinage at the Mint, £69,580 in 1861-2, as compared with £34,321 in 1860-1; proceeds of the sale of books at the Stationery-office, £21,080 in 1861-2, as compared with £28,06 3 in 1860-1 ; productive labour of pr i soners in conv i ct es t a bli s hment=, £13,641 in 1861-2, a s compared with £ 1 5 , 179 i n 1860-1 ; Load on, Dublin, and Edi n b urgh Gazettcs, £24,479 in 1861-2 , as compared with £22,280 in 1860-1; conscience money, £7,573 in 1861-2, as comp are d w i t h £10,219 in 1860 -1 ; va rious casual receipts, £3,487 i n 1861-2, a s compared with £140,935 in 1860-1; and a:18,914 set down in sheer des p air as " miscellaneous" in 1861-2, as compared with £ 18,360 in 1860-1. •, . LATEST NEWS. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 12. The illoniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results, as compared with the November return : INCREASE. Francs. Cash in hand Treasury balance DECREASE. Bills discounted, not yet due .... 38 Advances Bank-notes Current accounts PARIS, DEC. 12. The Monzleur of to•day says : " M. de Budberg, the new Russian Ambassador, in delivering his credentials to the Emperor, said : " , I have been commanded by the Emperor, my master, to be the interpreter of his feelings of sincere friendship for your Majesty. I shall do my best for the development of a mutual understanding between two great nations, the union of which is based upon the right comprehension of their mu tual interests.' " The Emperor replied— " congratulate myself upon the friendly rela tions existing for six years between the Emperor and my Government, and which have the more chance of continuing, as they are due to the mutual sympathies and real interests of the two Empires. I have been enabled to appreciate the straight fu,. aaeuemrs or ueart of your Sovereign, and have conceived for him a sincere friendship. You will find among us a hearty reception." The " bulletin" of the Illoniteur contradicts tele grams published in the Paris papers, stating that several of the legations at Athens had landed ma rines to protect their hotels, which had been threat ened by the movements of the populace. BERLIN, DEC. 11, EVENING. Sir Andrew Buchanan, the new British Ambas sador to the Court of Berlin, has arrived here. ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 12. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day says : —" We can state on the best authority that the great Powers have agreed to maintain the protocol of 1830, but have not yet come to an understanding about any candidate for the throne of Greeee. The Russian Cabinet has not proposed any can didate." COPENHAGEN, DEC. 12. The lodrelandet and Dagbladet of to-day assert that the Swedish Foreign Minister, in the middle of October last, forwarded a despatch to the Minister of Sweden, in London, stating that as Earl Russell's despatch upon the question of Schleswig can only be destined for the enemies of Denmark, or for those who are not acquainted with the real position of that question, the Swe dish Government thanks Earl Russell for not having forwarded to Sweden a copy of the despatch, as she does not belong to either category. MADRID, DEC. 10 (Evening). In to•day's sitting of the Senate General Prim read some confidential letters addressed to him by Admiral Lagraviere, containing strange details in reference to the expedition to Mexico. According . to these letters, Aimonte had declared that he was authorised by the Emperor Napoleon and the Archduke Maximilian himself to put for ward the candidature of the latter, and that the French troops would guarantee the throne of Mexico to the Archduke. General Prim then read letters written by Mar shal O'Donnell and Senor Collantes, recommending the strict execution of the Treaty of London. He said that the Representative of England made similar declarations to him, and, under the circum stances, he deemed it wise to re-embark for Spain. In conclusion, he expressed his opinion that the French expedition would not have the desired result. TURIN, DEC. 11. The Italian Parliament re-assmbled to-day. All the new Ministers were present. Signor Farini officially announced the formation of the Cabinet and its programme, which was received with great marks of approval. The President of the Chamber of Deputies ten dered his resignation to the Chamber, which how ever, declined-to accept it. The Minister of Finance laid the provisional budget on the table of the house. The following is a summary of the speech de livered by Signor Farini. The minister commenced by saying : " We shall find in the assistance of Parliament the necessary authority for accomplishing the in terior organisation of the country, and for worthily representing Italy abroad. The administrative re forms will be based upon a system of decentralisa tion and the development of constitutional liberties. The first condition of liberty is the maintenance of public order." Signor Farini'then eulogised the army which had under a painful trial, given an example of abnega• tion and discipline, and restored the authority o : the laws. He continued—" With unshaken confidence in the accomplishment of Italian unity, we abstain from making promises which might not be followed by immediate effects, and await the course of events without illusions and without discouragement. " We shall be careful to maintain alliances whilst preserving the independence of the country." Signor Farini concluded by making an appeal for Italian concord, which, he said, was personified in the King. TURIN, DEC. 11. The Parliamentary Committee, deputed to exa mine General La Marmora's report upon the brigandage in the Neapolitan provinces, has com municated to the Chambers the conclusions at which it has arrived thereon. The Committee state that the General's report is incomplete, and censure on several points the system pursued by the Government, They express their belief that the principal causes of brigandage are the insufficient confidence of the populations in the present state of things, and the stay of the French at Rome. The Committee point out the measures necessary to inspire confidence and associate the country with the efforts of the Government, and conclude by proposing the appointment of a special committee to thoroughly investigate the matter, and make a further report to the Chamber. PARIS, DEC. 11, The Patric of this evening says : " The Provisional Government of Greece, having received information that the Porte was concen trating considerable forces on the Greek frontier, and that bands of Albanians in the service of Turkey were making incursions into Greek terri tory, addressed a note, on the 24th of November last, to the Greek representative at Constantinople, ex pressing its surprise that Turkey should take mea sures calculated to excite the public mind and create regrettable complications. "The note of the provisional government further declined the responsibility of events which might result from the measures adopted by the Porte." La France of this evening announces that the Corps Legislatif and the Senate will be opened on the 12th of January next. The Emperor has received Baron de Budberg, Russian ambassador to France, in solemn audience. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Hamburg American Company's screw steamer Teutonia, Capt. H. Taube, with advices from New York of the 29th ult., arrived off Cowes at 2 a.m., on her way to Hamburg. She has had strong, variable winds and much fog during the passage. The Teutonia brings 33 passengers for Southampton and Havre, and 76 for Hamburg ; and on freight 88,985 dole. in specie for England, 97,336 dols. for France, and 2,220 for Hamburg, with a full cargo. Her news is anticipated. On the 30th ult., in lat. 40.30 N., long. 70 W., the Teutonia spoke the British man-of-war steamer Transit, and on the same day, in lat. 40.38 N. long. 68 W., the American ship Orient, both bound west. The City of Washington steamer, from Liver pool, arrived at New York on the 27th ult. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ordinary enterprises it is a matter of little public moment whether men part with their money wisely or foolishly. In the one case they will receive the congratu lations of their friends for their success, and will be able to contemplate with satisfaction an increase in their means of enjoying life; in the latter, they will be laughed at for their folly, and must bear the loss of their money with the best grace they can. But the public, generally speak ing, are in no way interested in the result—not so, how• ever, when the failure may prevent the realisation of a great boon to the whole world, such as lutist be derived by telegraphic communication between Europe and America. It is for this reason I have ventured to make some reflec tions with respect to the present attempt of the old Atlantic Company to resuscitate their enterprise. If they fail, the result would be a death blow to the well-grounded hopes of success which other routes claim to have on public support. The Atlantic Telegraph Company have announced their intention of inviting the public to lay out £600,000 of new capital, the nett proceeds of which, should they be fortu nate in laying the cable, they estimate at £413,000 per an num, producing 18 per cent. upon the new capital, 14 per cent. upon the £462,860 of old capital previously expended, and leaving after all a balance for reserve fund of £240,200 per annum. The rate of working upon which this estimate is based appe irs to have been derived fr, m the limited experience acquired upon two short shoal-water cables, in the North Sea, and is altogether at variance with the opinions of the first electricians of the day, and with the laws derived from the actual working results of longer lines, which show that the speed of signalling is reduced inversely as the square of the length of the cable. Hence it was that the line for merly laid between Newfoundland and Ireland (2,200 miles in length) could only be worked at the rate of about a word a minute ; and for the same reason the Government re cently, in laying the Malta and Alexandria cable, divided the length into three sections, intermediate stations being opened at Bengazi and Tripoli—not, as the Atlantic Tele graph Company have the hardihood to maintain, for the sake of the few pounds of annual traffic to be got there, but to enable the line to be worked through at a commer cially paying rate, which could not be effected with the slow speed of working through the entire length of the line in one circuit. This is one of the greatest objections to the long route, and the company seem not altogether ignorant of it themselves; for although they estimate their traffic so liberally, they state that their preference shares are to be guaranteed 8 per cent. dividend from the Government " in case of success." It would appear from this that if the line, being once laid, could only carry a message a day, the Government would have to pay the working expenses of £25,000 a year, and £48,000 dividend on the preference shares. The estimate of receipts to which I have referred is cal culated by the company upon an uninterrupted rate of working of ten words per minute for sixteen hours out of twenty four, or 480 messages a day, which is assumed to be a moderate expectation, because 1,500 messages are said to be passed daily between this country and the con tinent. It must be remembered, however, that the continental traf f ic spoken of is spread over no less than 35 conducting wires, none of which are so long as to be materially subject to the retardation and confusion of signals by inductive phenomena, which are so prejudicial to the well-working of lines of great length. When the Government are applied to for assistance in the construction of a line of telegraph to America,which will no doubt be the case before long, as no less than three dis tinct undertaking are in the fields, it is most earnestly to be hoped in the interests of the public that the whole matter will be referred to a competent committee to investigate. It will then be determined whether the direct line with its enormous stretch in one single risk, and its great electrical obstacles, affords the best promise of success, and is most worthy of aid fromthe public purse; or whether the several other routes in shorter sections, by the Northern or Icelandic route, by the A zpres, by the Canary and Cape Verde Ishnds and Brazil, or by the Alentian Island and British Columbia, are not, any or all of there, immeasurably superior to the line between Ireland and Newfoundland. Believing the subject to be one of universal importance, I have ventured to lay before you these few facts and con siderations, so that by your kind aid the public may well weigh the scheme which is seeking their sanction and support, and may fairly adjudge the best means to be adopted for crowning with due successelectrical intercourse with the New World.—l am, Sir, your most obedient servant, GEOGRAPHER. THE MEMBERS FOR BIRMINGLIAM.—We under stand that Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Bright are about to meet their constituents. The intended meeting is fixed for Thurs day, the 18th inst., to be held, as usual, in the Town Hall. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SilOW.—Although the attendance of visitors yesterday was not so numerous as on Wednesday, it was considerably in excess of the number who e ntered the building on the ls. day. Nearly all the animals have now been sold, and many of them have realised very high prices. The Earl of Leicester's Devote, disqualified from competition at the show through being too late for entry, have been purchased by Mr. Jeffery, of Regent-street. CANADIAN MAILS.—The Royal Mail steamship Bohemian sailed yesterday from Liverpool for Portland. Besides the Canadian mails, she took out 2:5 cabin passen gers, and had a fair amount of cargo. LETTER FROM GARIBALDI.—The following letter has been received in reply to resolutions forwarded to Gen. Garibaldi from a public meeting at Norwich :—" Pisa, November 30.--Sir,—l beg to express to you and your frienis, and to the British public, my sincere gratification for the sympathy you show to me and to the Italian cause. Born in a free and glorious country, you have noble feelings. You give your hearty support to a people struggling for liherty and independence.—Believe me, yours devotedly, G. GAnyalLnt.—J. J. Colman, Esq., Norwich, Sheriff, Carrow-house." ~e FRANCE. BOURSE, DEC, 11.—The retrograde movement has been again checked, and in the little business done a slight improvement has been obtained. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f. 65c. The Railway Share Market has been also firmer, but without much doing. The market closed as follows: It per Cents. 97 55 Do. end month -- -- 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 65 New 3 per Cents Do, end month — Credit Mobilier 1100 Do. end month 1113 75 RAIL' Bank Shares 3395 Credit F oncier 1335 -- Piedmontese Fives —, Italian Loan 7l 65 Russian Austrian - Spanish Threes 54 Home Debt rAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO6O .. 1065 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1153 75 .. 1155 Geneva .. Southern .. 7BB 75 .. 787 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Low bard North of Spain Saragossa 652 50 .. 657 50 Ditto to Barcelona RUSSIA. At a recent reception given by the Emperor of Russia to the nobles at Moscow, his Majesty ad. dressed them as follows : " It is particularly agreeable to me, gentlemen, to see you assembled in our ancient capital, which is doubly dear to me as it was my cradle. lam satisfied to be able to repeat to you what I said to the nobles of Novogorod on the day of the celebration of the thousand anniversary of the Rus sian Empire. " I am accustomed to place my confidence in the senti ments of devotion of our nobility—an unshaken devotion to the Throne and to the country, of which it has so often given proof by its acts, especially at periods of sad trials for country, as was only recontly the case. "I am sure, gentlemen, that our nobility will eontinue to be the most firm support of the throne, as it always has been and ought to be. This is why I put my trust in you, gentlemen, in your unanimity in aiding me in every thing which tends to the welfare and power of our country. May God aid us in this task, and may His blessing be with us I And you, gentlemen, members of the nobility of Moscow, know that I hold it a special honour to be one of you as proprietor of this province. I thank you for your cordial welcome, which I know how to appreciate." The appeal of the Emperor to the nobles pro duced a great effect upon the Assembly. The Grand Duke Michael, the Emperor's brother, has joined the Emperor at Moscow. Prince Albert of Prussia, who is on his return from a tour in the Caucasus, also proceeds to Moscow. 711 E .130MBAY AND MAU.RITIUS MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. Tho Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamship Ellora, Captain J. Kellock, arrived about midnight, bring ing the heavy portion of thcoo mail., ii charge of Mr. Douglas, of the General Post-office. She has 37 passengers, £549 12s. 7d. in specie, 280 bales and 21 cases of silk, 36 Cases of shawls, 50 chests of oranges, 583 bags of corn, 1,077 bags of wheat, and 131 packages of general merchan dise. The Ellora left Alexandria on the 28th ult., Malta the 2d inst., and Gibraltar the 7th, and has had fine weather throughout the voyage. She passed her Majesty's ship St. George in lat. 37.29 N., long. 6 30 E. ; off Finistorre, passed the hull of a vessel timber laden, waterlogged and abandoned. Her Majesty's ships Trident and Firefly were at Alex andria; the Marlborough, Trafalgar, Liffey, Phoebe, Alac rity, Firebrand, and Scylla at Malta; and the Doris, Procris, and Redpole at Gibraltar. Exchanges at Gibraltar on the 6th inst. were as follows : London, 90 days' date, 501 to 50a ; Pads, ditto, sf. 28c. ; Marseilles, ditto, sf. 29c. ; Genoa, ditto, sf. 30c. ; Madrid, 8 days' sight, / pm. ; Cadiz, ditto, / dis. ; Seville, ditto, dis. ; Malaga, ditto, par ; Barcelona, ditto, / pm.; Almeria, ditto, par; Valencia, ditto, par; Alicante, ditto, dis. The boat of the late Dutch galliot Finna Gerarda, A. Struich, master, 23 days from Leghorn, with marble, &c., for London, arrived at Gibraltar en the 28th ult. The vessel sprung a leak on the 26th in a gale, wind W.N. W., and sunk three hours atter, 32 miles E. of Cape St. Vincent. The crew were picked up by the brig Lebanon, W. Hutchin - son, master, of and from Sunderland, bound to Mahon, which took them to the entrance of the bay, and proceeded. The Dutch schooner Stad Appingadam went on shore off Punta Mala early on the morning of the 30th ult., but was got afloat a tide or two afterwards. The Italian brig Carolina landed at Gibraltar J. Espino, master, crew (16 in number), and five passengers of the late Spanish ship Ana Teresa, from Cadiz, with olive oil, for Ha • vana, which vessel sprung a leak and sank in let. 35.16 N., lon. 8.36 W. The crew and passengers took to their boats, and were picked up on the 26th ult. by the Carolina. The Carolina and the French brig Charles et Victorine put in on the 30th, from the coast of Barbary, which the bad weather compelled them to abandon. The latter lost anchors, &c. The British bark Mary Catherine, which drove on shore under the Line Wall during the gale of the morning of the 24th ult , would, it was feared, become a total wreck if the weather continued stormy. All efforts to get her afloat had been unavailing. The following British merchant steamers had arrived at Gibraltar :—Nov. 28th, the Grecian, Capt. A. Flinn, from Liverpool for Malta and Constantinople ; Dec. Ist, the lonia, Capt. J. Beggs, from Liverpool for Alexandria ; 3d, the Massilia, Capt. J. M. Rogers, from Southampton, for Malta and Alexandria; 4th, the Edith, Capt. W. Cassop, from Cardiff, for Trieste ; sth, the Laconia, Capt. W. Betts, from Liverpool, for Malta and Alexandria. The revenue of California will exceed 50,000,000 dollars this year. HER MAJESTY AND DR. NORMAN MACLEOD.— We (Mail) have been informed of another instance of the affectionate solitude felt by the Queen for those honoured by her acquaintance. Her Majesty, on reading in the newspapers of the death of the late lamented Dr. Norman Macleod of St. Columba's, expressed her deep sympathy and grief that he had been cut off in the full career of a life of wide-spread usefulness—a sympathy intensified by his connection with memories of her visits to Balmoral, both as wife and widow. One of the ladies in attendance expressing her Majesty's feeling on the event, the words fell on the ears of a " Scotch lassie," a servant to Lady Augusta Bruce, who ventured to remark that it must be the father of Dr. Norman Macleod of the Barony, and not the Dr. Macleod who preached before her Majesty at Bal moral. The Queen, being informed of this, desired the gill to be sent into her presence, and the lassie, who comes from Glasgow or its neighbourhood, having been ushered in, was asked by her Majesty regarding the whole matter. She explained the points that she thought inconsistent in the Alert and inaccurate paragraph her Majesty had been reading. In consequence, a telegraph was despatched to Sheriff Sir Archibald Alison of Glasgow, who confirmed the girl's story; and soon after a feeling letter of qympathy was sent to Dr. Norman Macleod by the Marchioness of Ely, by her Majesty's commands. Could we peep behind the curtain that veils the many similar traits that adorn the private life of our beloved Queen, the love her subjects bear to her Majesty would be intensified tenfold, if that were possible. The Semaphore of Marseilles states that the effects of the torrents of rain which fell last week have not yet ent i re ly ceased. A house on the Boul evar d d' Orleans in t h a t city partially fell two days since, leaving so me o f th e hi g h walls in such a state that th e i r d emolition could not be or e e ff d e r c i t e ed , found d angerous to the adjoining the p remises the firemen made a kind of tried, by bu t the a s iordinary was fore ruinsbcttte buttering-ram, which they at last brought down without injury to life or limb. GARIBALDIS WOUND. -~--- PISA, DEC. 5. A very interesting report has just been published by Professor Cipriani, a distinguished Italtan sur geon, and a tnembf?r of the Chamber, on the case of General Garibaldi's wound. The statement—beginning from the day of Aspro monte, and concluding at the period of the extrac tion of the ball—is so full and complete, tr.at it, leaves no question unanswered on this most interest- ing case. It distinctly states that on Garibaldi's arrival at Varignano the degree of tumefaction and inflam mation was such that any examination was barely practicable, and that the Professors Porta and Zanetti, on their consultation, could only discover a short narrow passage—a "sinus"—passing from above downward from the external orifice of the wound, in which the probe could not detect the presence of a ball. This inspired all with the hope that the wound of one so dear to Italy would t not prove to be very dangerous, and that the balls having entered and fractured the inner ankle, had i by a rebound dropped out of the wound again. By unremitting care and attention the tumefac tion was subdued and the inflammatory sym ptom° got under, and it was at this period—about the 16th or 17th of October—that Mr. Partridge arrived from England, sent by the Garibaldian Surgica l Committee, to report upon the case and inform ou r public at home as to the true circumstances of the injury. It is necessary to bear this precise period in Min a to understand clearly what ensued. When Mr. Partridge presented himself at Varig; nano, it was not as a surgeon whose assistance had been sought for by the other medical men in E aten' dance. He was neither known to any of them no r in a position to be consulted by them. He was i 0 that extremely delicate and diffieult position of a looker-on come to observe and report on what 110 saw ; being only on sufferance, as it were, per' milted to feel the patient's pulse or inspect the appearance of his wound. Nothing could be m ore courteous than the reception he met with, nor, as I have heard, anything more conspicuous than hi e own tact and delicacy in a situation eminently did' cult and awkward. Mr. Partridge saw and questioned, but did lin t examine Garibaldi; that is, he did not do that which, had the case been his own, or one to whic h he had been called in consultation, ne might have done—viz., submit the patient to the paL ° and suffering necessary to satisfy himself as t° extent and nature of the injury. He heard th e history of the case, and saw th e wound: and from both he inclined to th e op i n i on , Whic' was then that of Zanetti and the others, that ther e was not the amount of injury apparent which in di ; cated the presence of the bull e t— a pro j ect il e , be remembered, above an ounce in weight, of the f° ld of a bolt, with a .onical extremity, and said to 1 10° been discharged at the short distance of 200 metr es ' That a ball of this size and shape, and. with force proportionate to this short range, should enter in' jury.ankle joint, implies an i mmense amoun t of ' Il ; jury. Indeed, the total d es t ruo ti on o f t h e vi'l lei p articulation, and the pulverisati on o f the b ne-Ey around might reasonably h ave b een looked f°',.• Here, however, there .was nothing to argue tii L such mischief had occurred. P ro f essor Z an etti w distinctly of this opinion, and though he ag r A ec i with Mr. Partridge that nothing positi ve l y e xclud e the belief that the ball might be there, yet no sirer torn then present implied that it was. 110 The wound, besides thi s , was i n that cowl' in which the fact of the presence of the ball be ; l3 t v ascertained could n o t h ave i n fl uence d t h e t r eatrae" o There was far too much local disturbance to an e of any operation for extraction. Arthritic gou t : to disease Garibaldi had long suffered from, added u' the pain of his injury, and increa se d the eons tl eeo tional derangement ; so that it w(au ld have highly injudicious to subject the 'patient at sue to time to a very painful operation, an d for the aa reasons, in a minor degree, Wes all examination) far as practicable, omitted. the That nothing could be done save to continu e 0 , treatment already pursued—viz., a diligent al ` , e d tion to whatever could diminish local inflananat iOwf and at the same time sustaiu general health- 4 ;1 fully concurred in by Mr. Partridge, Zanetti, O n Ripari, and the other surgeons in attendance: Indeed the aotual preacnce of the ball at tbl time was less the important p o i n t to res olve th at ; that of whether the articulati on h a d been ope ned o f the wound of a joint, and the consequen ces e o f escaped fluid, being to surgical authorities one the gravest forms of such injuries. Mr. Partr bide e ,O was not of the opinion that the joint ha d be opened : he distinctly declared that he believed do wound had taken its course upwards and ou tiga ' "over the arch of the foot," instead of into it. g o This M. Cipriani, in his report, confirms. arrived after Mr. Partridge had left V 0 4 ,1 1 1,0 and states that " by good f or t une the Illiss lie passed over the line of the ar ti cu l a tion," a l3d patted itself in the directi on o f th e o uter 01' that t be It will be seen, ther e f ore , th a t h e a ffirms t z he oe tti ball was certainly there ; a p o i n t on which , thei and Partridge had not fully a gree d, thoug h ler by no means rejected or denied it. Professor r !but ciano, of Naples, concurred with M. cipriant;toi all were unanimous on the essential point th iner operation with a view to extraction would b e pedient and ill-timed. a so' M. M. Nelaton arrived on the 28th October all • aluni s • jected the patient to a long and painful ex h ad tion, in which he affirmed that he believed habelf ote detected the ball at two centimetres and a it calg • ht - the external orifice, but was not positive ea not have been a fragment of bone, and sugg eete g 0 dilatation of the wound, by gradually plugg j o Ittrac' larger and larger e ac h d a y, s o as to render o f r i e d tion of the ball easier"—a process which ev ill re' of humanity—not to add of good surgery --W joice to hear was not listened to. Woo ls At the consultation of the day after ro Pen ton „, departure, 19 surgeons were present, and ILL' t oot after a tedious and terribly painful examin°' was declared that the object touched by Nelat° ll d 010 not the ball, but an " osseous fragment," a nd e at' no change whatever should be made in th e olr , ment. " The day after," writes M. Ciprianitof t he Partridge, and M. Pirozoff, chief surgeo n , eon' Russian staff, arrived at Spezzia, and fully is to firmed the opinion we had come to," --thtl ea bu bou t° say, that no actual knowledge of the w her t of the ball being attainable, there w ad or all course to pursue—viz., a patient proseentio n _ means to subdue inflammation, occasional l iao aeu of detached fragments of bone, and. t .. e v eal; of such remedies as would assist nature In 00 1 ing the presence of a foreign body. On t} ,: so an d November Garibaldi was transported t o ; J ob e ' on the 9th an examination was made by t ' e e tre' which, passing up a "sinus" of four cent's bed encountered a resistance which proved t o he tit tsc o , fragment, but on passing behind which e e el kith c d e e n n t t ir T e t t h r e es b , a s l t l r . uck on a hard, firm subs taue By the introduction of a probe armed cosily prepared on h sp sponge 22 et d of November;heesseous fragmenta and :o9:h a e f0 1 f( detached l: r lowing day, the wound being thus dilated _d 31i an e witting of easy access, the ball was safely "" peditiously withdrawn. re to t sect To any one who will tak e a trouble jo t' ° on the case, the conclusion wilt be easily arrosiu; that it was one of those difficult and emhar to tia° incidents, wh ose d eta il s b e i ng d a ily giC ell u bliC a world in b u ll et i ns, di sp l aye d befo w ret c h h e o P.. o: , ; e o c r e o f degree of d ou b t an d h es it a ti o n hi medical men f ee l i n th e conduct of a case, noe! e not prone t o p ara d e o penly; and th us . I `_ w her! apparently, con t ra di c ti o ns and discrepane 1 7_ t est in reality none existed—the real fact holm ole o ; 0 , to the changeful condition of the wound g( each varying diagnosis, and re ndered the pops one day the probable of the next. V ICTOR E MMA NUEL'S FIRMNESS. —.The TOW ° I ' D , respondent . of th 3 ,Siecle says that, in a conversation , Signor Plutino upon the late ministerial crisis, Victor Vio in muel declared he had intended to unite alle, parties 1110 new cabinet, but finding the project impossible, there 1/130 only one course open to him, viz.. that traced out by ' to institutions of the country. Upon everything relating the statute," he added, " I am firmer than the Alpe'. ...J. r