The Sun. — London, England, 1859-03-19 00:00:00

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. I 'THIS EVENING will "be performed THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Mr. C. Kean. After which, a new *rand Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE KING OF THE CASTLE; or, Harlequin Prince Diamond and Princess Brighteyes. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, under the sole Management-of Miss Louisa ryne and Mr. W. Harrison For the Benefit of Miss Louisa Fyne. THIS EVENING, Auber's opera of the THE CROWN DIAMONDS : The characters by Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss /Susan Pyne, Mr. Harrison, Mr. G. Honey, &c. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. And a new ballet of action, ROBERT AND BERTRAND. Messrs. Payne, Miss Morgan, Mdlles. Morlachi and Pasquale. Commence at Seven, THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee—Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, will be performed the original English Ballad Opera, entitled WILLIAM AND SUSAN. William Mr. Haigh ; Susan, Miss Lucette. Po conclude with the new pantomime, ROBIN HOOD or, Harlequin Friar Tuck and the M err y Men of Sherwood Foreit. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. A new Comedy, MILLINER TO THE KING; or, The Royal Salute. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. With NOTHING TO WEAR. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. And the Opening Story of UNDINE. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer, prrrs EVENING, OTHELLO. lago, Mr. Jas, Bennet. After which, STAGE STRUCK. Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, ls. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past to commence at 7 every evening. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. This Evening, ► DOMESTIC ECONOMY. John Grundy Mr. Wright. After which THE BENGAL TIGER. Mrs. A. Wigan, J. L. Toole, Mr. Billington, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Arden. To be followed by TIIE FIRST NIGHT. Mr, A. Wigan and Miss Keeley. To conclude with THE INVISIBLE PRINCE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Miss Woolgar, Miss Arden, Miss Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and 'Directress, Miss Swanborough This Evening, will be presented MATRIMONIAL PRO SPECTUSES. After which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH ; or Ye Queene, ye Earle, and ye Maydenne And THE BONNIE FISHWIFE. Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Westminster-road. M Lessee and Manager r. William Cooke. Brilliant and unprecedented success of the new Dramatic Spectacle. THIS EVENING the performances commence with a grand new Spectacle, from the pen of R. Phillips, Esq., interspersed with extraordinary hippodramatic effects and striking situa tions, in three Acts, and entitled THE HUNDRED CUIRASSIERS. Produced with new scenery, mechanical arrangements, gorgeous in I characteristic costumes, elabo rate equestrian and spectacular appointments, and the hand somest Stud of Horses in the world. Characters by Messrs. Holloway, Phillips, Anson, Francis, Anderson, M. lloward. Herbert ; Mesdames Dowton, Blanche, Julia Weston, Thorne, dm. To be followed by SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, Intro ducing Miss Kate Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Maddlle. Fleurette, and Madame Fran cisco, being tne greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night at any theatre. Grotesques : Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. To conclude with the CAPTAIN IS NOT AMIkS. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— Proprietor --C. MoRTON. The üblic is most respectfully informed that the FINE. ARTSGALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 3'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec- Aon of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters =and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Musie Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied Instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will >erform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAYvEVENING, MARCH 19, 1859 THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MARCH 19. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 43—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.29; a sudden rise of half an inch. WIND, North Easterly ; moderate, with very fine dry weather. THE SUN. SATURDAY. MARCH 19, 1859. The effect of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S amendment, if carried, must be to inevitably postpone any measure of Reform whatever until a future session. This Mr. ROEBUCK has clearly and distinctly ex plained, and the matter is well worthy the con sideration of every consistent Liberal. To either of the ex• Premiers, or their immediate followers, it may be the chief recommendation of the proceeding. They have already exhibited an extraordinary love of procrastination, of postponing any matter that could be adjourned; or, if the public mind was too much excited to admit of direct neglect, of consigning it to the " limbo" of a Select Committee, by which it would be effectually shelved until the agitation had terminated, and the question could be disregarded with impunity. Lords JOHN RUSSELL and PALMERSTON have never of late years exhibited any extraordinary zeal in the cause of Parliamentary Reform, and if they now display any anxiety it is rather that they may be enabled, in pursuance of the recent compact, to occupy the Treasury Benches, and to place the present Ministry in the cold shade of Opposition. Will the independent Liberals join them in this course, and render the session of 1859 almost a blank ? We believe not. The views put forward last night by Mr. ROEBUCK and Mr. Cox show that the party which can really decide between the Government and the Opposition are by no means disposed to lend themselves to any paltry, petti fogging trick, and that before they make them selves auxiliaries to displacing the existing Govern ment, they will clearly ascertain the intentions of their probable successors. Mr. BRIGHT was by no means anxious to bring back Lord PALMERSTON to power, then why should he lend himself to a course, the inevitable result whereof must be to cause a change of occupants in the official man sions of Downing-street, and postpone the question of Parliamentary Reform for an indefinite period ? It is not only Mr. ROEBUCK and Mr. Cox, wh o are dissatisfied ! We have already commented on the letter of Earl GREY, which, although in some degree " out of order," yet went straightly and directly to the point at issue. Although not placed, in what would unquestionably be a more congenial atmosphere for his temperament, we readily recognise the claim which the Noble Lord possesses either to speak or write on the subject of Parliamentary Reform. He was educated in the faiths under a distinguished father. Earl GREY might-truly have been designated as " the Apostle" of R 6 form,and although his son is now a member of the hereditary branch of the Legislature—he was, even while a mere boy, instructed in the true prin ciples by which a nation should be governed. With all respect. for Mr. ROEBUCK, and giving him perfect credit for the candour, which no one who knows the Honourable and Learned Gentle man can doubt, we think, that the time has passed for proceeding by resolutions. The Govern ment has brought in a measure which, although very short of the requirements of the peo ple, m ay yet be easily moulded into p roper shape in committee. It • is admitted on evtry side save that of the ultra-Tories —that it contains many good points, It practically adopts the principle so consistently insisted on by Mr. LOCKE KING, and of which his determined energy and perseverance have ensured the success. Can the hon. gentleman, or those who are disposed to co-operate with so able a leader, ignore that great fact, or prevent any possible chance of reform this session, for the purpose of making either of the rival lords Premier ? We think not, and therefore we do not feel any great anxiety as to the result of the division on Monday evening. The true course will be to carry the second read ing, and then to bring forward the requisite amendments in committee. There are openings for many ameliorations. The increase of the franchise is within the purview of the bill, and that may be extended to any extent, even to universal suffrage, if deemed expedient. Several boroughs are to be deprived of the privilege of returning one member. The number may be largely increased, and sundry others altogether disfranchised—all that can be done in committee. The rejection of the Bill will only stay the progress of improve ment. Again, there are many borough s whose rights have been recognised to independent repre sentatives. The number may be increased or diminished, although there is no great probability of the latter course. The claims of Chelsea, Ken sington, and Hammersmith, may be fully con sidered ; any other populous districts may put forward their demands, and there is nothing in the preamble of the Bill to prevent requisite attention from being directed to the subject. The great, the all-important point—that on which the greatest excitement exists—is THE BALLOT or, in other words, full and complete protection for; the voter from every undue influence, whether it may be preferred in the shape of bribery, patron ; age, or intimidation, proceeding either from land . lord, creditor, employer, priest, or customer ! or • even the unrepresented gentlemen whose mild . bludgeoneering arguments are so strongly approved of by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The power of exer cising the suffrage by voting papers must inevitably lead to the Ballot. It is a step in the right di rection, and therefore we unhesitatingly say that any professing Liberal who votes in favour of Lord JonN RUSSELL'S amendment must either be indif ferent to the principles of which he declares him self to be the advocate, or so ignorant of public matters, as to be no longer a suitable representative of an independent constituency. The question will speedily be decided, and as the votes of the independent Liberals must determine the result, we only hope that they may be given on the real merits, and without any party or factious motives. " I never could have believed that I was so grossly ill-treated, until I heard the statement of my counsel," said an unfortunate plaintiff, when he was non-suited. Lord CANNING may also say that he could not have suspected that the despatch of the 9th of December, until referred to by Lord JOAN RUSSELL and another " good - natured ' friend, was either " a sneering, taunting, or ironical despatch," or one which in any degree merited Legislative censure. It is but a few days— within the present week—since we published the able document referred to. It will be found in extenso in our impression of Tuesday last. Let any disinterested and unprejudiced person carefully and dispassionately consider the question, and then declare, if he possibly can, that the despatch was either "sneering, taunting, or ironical." That may be the opinion of Lord PALMERSTON, and he seems to have rather unusually, of late days, coincided with Lord JOAN RUSSELL, who had complained of its "cold and sneering tone;" but it will not be the feeling of the country. The community will understand the perfect truth and justice of the in culpated despatch, and the correctness of the criticisms passed on some parts of Lord CANNING'S conduct, while he is, with equal justice, applauded for his general administration. We believe that there is but one potentate who claims infallibility—and certainly a Governor of one (we shall not call it a dependency), but an auxiliary kingdom, cannot complain of the fair suggestions of the Minister of the Sovereign of whom he is the representative. The uneasiness of Lord SOH RUSSELL, the rest-* less anxiety of Lord PALMERSTON, might be ap peased by the assurance that it was intended to include Lord CANNING in the vote of thanks about to be bestowed on Lord CLYDE and the other dis tinguished persons who, whether in a civil or mili tary capacity, have so largely contributed to the complete suppression of the rebellion an d mutiny in India. Surely the greatest friend of Lord CANNING could not complain at the answer given by Lord STANLEY, who declared that the only reason why it had not been proposed at the commencement of the session, was that the disturbance had not then been completely sup pressed, or order restored, and India "pacified. Lord STANLEY could fearlessly appeal to the terms in which he spoke last session respecting the Governor-General ; and surely if there could be selected in the entire house, in one whose hands the reputation and honour of Lord CANNING would be preservediintact, it would be in those of theipresent Secretary for India. An admirable precedent, as to the revision of our street nomenclature, has just been afforded in the reconstruction of a block of buildings in the Inner Temple. It may be remembered by many that last year witnessed the removal of a dilapidated row of houses on the right hand side of Inner Temple lane, immediately after passing out of Fleet-street under the arch of the ancient gateway. There, at No. 1, Inner Temple-lane, was the veritable abode of the celebrated Doctor SAMUEL JOHNSON. There it was that, on Tuesday, the 24th of May, 1763, Dr. JOHNSON received his first visit from his future biographer, JAMES BOSWELL, Esq., of Auchinleck. Mr. BOSWELL having, eight days previously, been introduced to the Doctor by Mr. THOMAS DAVIS, actor and bookseller, in the little back parlour at No. 8, Russell-street, Covent-garden, behind the shop kept by the said actor and book seller. There it was—at No. 1, Inner Temple-lane —that Boswxu. (in the words of Dr. BLAIR, of Edinburgh) " found the Lion in his den." The Lion, by the way , b e habited at the time in a ru sty suit of brown being clothes—ha v in g a littl e shrivelled, unpowdered wig, much too small for his head, perched on the top of it—his feet thrust into way of S li ppers —his black worsted l s d shoe s tockin b g s ill drawn u P—his shirt unbut toned at the neck and his . breech es at the knees. Altogether a lion withhts No. 1, isntnra: g T e e ly mple- dis hevelled. There it was—at Temple lane—that (according to TOPHANI BEAUCLE R w s account of the incident) Dr. JOHNSON, receiving a visit from Madame DE BOUFFLERS, conceived incumbent upon she had left him) that it w as upon him in politeness to see her to her coach; then waiting for her in the Strand. "All at once," said BEAUCLERK, who accompanied the elegant Frenchwoman in her visit, " I heard a noise like thunder." It was JOHNSON—" eager to show himself a man of gallantry, hurrying down the staircase in violent agitation"—JOHNSON, in just such another state of dishevelment as we have just described. BEAUCLERK describes his costume almost in the same words as BoswELL—" a rusty brown morning suit, a pair of old shoes by way of ' slippers, a little shrivelled wig sticking on the top of his head, and the sleeves of his shirt and the knees of his breeches hanging loose." No wonder that Beau BEAUCLERK adds—" A considerable crowd of people gathered round, and were not a little struck by this singular appearance." There, too, at another time—hardby that same No. 1, Inner Temple-lane immediately outside Inner Temple-gate, in the Strand, appeared that strange spectacle of J OHNSON'S hilarity, described as having been witnessed by BOSWELL about midnight on Monday, the 9th of May, 1773. When Dr. JOHN SON, writes BOSWELL, " burst into such a fit of laughter that he appeared to be almost in a convul sion ; and in order to support himself, laid hold of one of the posts at the side of the foot pavement, and sent forth peals so loud that in the silence of the night his voice seemed to resound from Temple Bar to Fleet Ditch." " This most ludicrous ex hibition of the awful, melancholy, and vener able JOHNSON," writes the biographer, " hap pened well to counteract the feelings of sadness which I used to experience when passing from him for a considerable time :" Adding,—" I accom panied him to his door [No. 1, Inner Temple-lane], where he gave me his blessing." But that house —classic ground, trodden as it was familiarly by the footsteps of SAMUEL JOHNSON—was destroyed last year, by reason of its dilapidation. The stair case of the old house has been preserved, as a relic of the Great Doctor, to be kept and shown as such henceforth in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. But the house itself and the contiguous tenements have been removed— have been destroyed—are now rep'-aced by an en tirely new pile of buildings. Here is our precedent. These new houses in Inner Tcmple•lane have been just now re-christened. They will henceforth go by the name of Dr. Johnson's-buildings. In the intended revision of our street nomencla ture, why not take this incident really and truly as a rational precedent ? •Why not consecrate classic ground, here and there, all over our metro polis, by affixing to it some appropriate name of immortality ? Why not, for example, let the street disgraced by the infamous cudgelling of JOHN DRYDEN by the clubs of hireling bravos, compensate for that brutal indignity by receiving henceforth the name of the great Laureate ? A glance through LEIGH HUNT'S " Town" would be sufficient to suggest scores of other revisions quite as appropriate. We commend the notion to the good taste and judgment of our Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvements. COWES, ISLE OF IVIG.U:T. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MARCH 19. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON IN TELLIGEN CE.-A good many of the members have already got their yachts ready. Lord Colville, Lord Godolphin, James Maxse, Esq., P. Percival, Esq., Admiral Wal pole, Capt. Ponsonby, and several !other members, have been at the Squadron•hause this week. RAILWAY COMPETITION.—The directors of the South Coast Railway take passengers from Cowes to London, or from London to Cowes for 45.; this includes the railway carriage, the omnibus from the rail to the Portsmouth pier, the pier dues, and the steamer to or from Cowes. Two-day return tickets are only ss. for 3d class ; Bs., 2d class, and 10s. for Ist class—everything included. In Cowes there is as much excitement as during a contested election. The walls are covered with posters, and the shop windows are filled with bills. Special steamers are employed, and express trains, the dis tance from London to Cowes being done in three hours and a half. By goods train the charge has been, to linendrapers and others, 2s. 2d. per cwt. This is now very much reduced. ENGLAND AND AMERICA. 1 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In one of your leading articles of this evening's date I find the following paragraph, viz. : —" There may be, there undoubtedly is, more apparent economy in the State expenditure, year by year, in the Great North American re public. There, our brethren in the United States, are without the incubus of our almost overwhelm ing civil list. They are without the stupendous burthenof a national debt, amounting to the fright ful aggregate of £800,000,000. They are not drained of annual taxes (as we were during this last year 1858) to the tune of £63,000,000. They are without the necessity of keeping up an army of 200,000 ; they are without the trammels of red tape," &c. To any one who has been a resident in the United States for a length of time, this diatribe against England in favour of the model Republic must appear most strange. As a nation the public burthens are light, and yet the people are more heavily taxed and more deeply involved in debt, than England or the English. During the past seven years the City of New York, alone, has been taxed to the amount of 38,000,000 dols., of which no ac count has been rendered beyond 18,000,000 dols. The railroad debt of the United States amounts to nearly 1,200,000,000 dols., the different State debts, for which sectional portions of the States are responsible, to nearly another 1,000,000,000 dols. Instead of 200,000 men being kdpt under arms in the United States, there are more than 600,000 men kept constantly in a state of military efficiency. These are not kept in a state of efficiency without cost, and if they are not mismanaged through red tapeism, they are through the selfishness and folly of low demagogues. As you justly observe, " the Americans have plenty of Know-nothings, and by no means a multiplicity of do nothings—there are too man ymischief-makers and destructives, who leave behind them traces of their handiwork—there is too much to be deplored to say they do nothing." JOHNNY RAW. Westminster, March 17. The Nord says that the cabinet of Turin has sent to Paris a memoir in which it exposes all the aggressive acts of Austria for some months past. At Turin the editor of the Savoy Gazette has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment and a fine of 15,000 fr. for a libel upon the Marquis Costa de Beauregard and the Count de Very, on the occasion of their speeches in favour of the loan of 50 millions. A Paris letter in the Nord mentions a report that Prussia and England have resolved on ratifying in the con ference the double election of Colonel Colas.. The editor of the Delhi Gazette mentions that one year has elapsed since he returned to rebuild his establish ment, which was totally destroyed in the mutinies. Within that time he has reorganised the press, re-established his paper, and obtained for it a circulation higher than it has ever reached before. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS.—At a special general meeting of this institute on the 14th instant, a peti tion to Parliament, praying that members of the institute should be entitled to vote, as such, for members of Parlia ment, was agreed upon, and Mr. Tite undertook to present it.— The Builder. THE LARGEST FEE ON RECORD.—The Medical Times says :—Scanzoni, of Wurtzburg, attended the Em press of Russia in her last confinement, and received for his services £5,000. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION MEETING AT ABER DEEN.—The amount contributed to defray local expenses connected with the British Association's meeting at Aber deen in the autumn is now upwards of £1,400. A committee of the Law Amendment Society is now engaged in considering the Lord Chancellor's bill and Lord John Russell's bill, and will report on the subject in a short time. We ( Cheltenhanz Examiner) understand that Mr. C. J. Monk, who had been named as one of the Liberal candidates for the representation of Gloucester, intends again to contest the borough of Cricklado. cha T s h eci e the P e u s t i e n a s i n u tralian Mail Packet Comp a ny. e l r ar co a l n u d mb o ian rie i n re tal t C h o e m Eu p r a o y ea h n a a v n e d A p u u r s " The accounts from Rome relative to the health of the King of Prussia," says a letter from Berlin, "are very unfavourable. The intellectual strength of his Majesty appears to be completely exhausted. His return to Berlin, which had been fixed for the end of May, has been again postponed." Captain Field has been appointed to the command of the Indus, which leaves to-day with the Calcutta and China mail. A post- office has been fitted up on board, in w hich the homeward Calcutta and China mail will be sorted. PARDON TO AN INNOCENT STAN.--A full pardon has been granted by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Capt. Slee, of the Senator, whose trial and detention fat nearly three years, at St. Helena, excited so much complaint on its fairnes ea s, a b s ef N o v r e e ll t a h s e the vmeertunritseonfttbhye Mr.ease ' S w ol hi ly e F h l w oo e d re , s t rong ly plae the accuse d , legal adviser and by the merchants of Liverpool. LATEST NEWS. THE INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The steamship Ceylon, Captain Evans, has arrived, and brings 136 passengers, £10,700 in specie, 2,014 bales silk, and general cargo. She left Alexandria March 7th ; Malta, 11th ; Gibraltar, 14th. Prince Gholam Mahomcd, Prince Ferozeshah, Prince Bukht, and nine attendants are passengers. At 5 p.m. yesterday she exchanged colours with the sailing ship Nepaul and the Company's steamer Jeddo, for Lisbon. Her Majesty's ships Euryalus and Caradoe, the Royal Mail steamer Teviot, the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Panther, Austrian steamer Arca dia, United States' steamer Macedonian, and the usual Egyptian fleet were at Alexandria. At Malta were her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Conqueror, Centurion, Princess Royal, Vulture, Ariel, Recruit, Tartarus, and Medina ; also the Russian ship of war Cesarewitch and corvette Medlead. At Gibraltar, her Majesty's ship Argus. Exchanges at Gibraltar—on London, 501 to •? ; Paris, 528 ; Marseilles and Genoa, 529. The Ripon, with outward India and China mails of the 4th, hence, arrived at Gibraltar on the 10th. The following telegram has been received by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany this day : " The Pera, which left Southampton with the Bombay and Australian mails on the 12th instant, reached Gibraltar yesterday afternoon ; all well. Detention caused by terrific gales." The Paris correspondent of the Times' (second edition) says : " Of the interview between the Emperor and Lord Cowley yesterday I can give no details ; but the fact which principally concerns us is, that there is very good reason to believe that peace will be maintained. The French Emperor now knows all his Austrian brother will concede, and is said to be satisfied. I should not like to raise hopes of an exaggerated nature ; but I cannot do otheekvise than assure you that at the present hour there are grounds for believing that the danger of war has passed away, and thus the ardent wishes of the French people so far satisfied. Whether the solution of the ' Italian question' will be by means of a congress or some other pacific machinery I do not yet know, but, settle how it may, I believe the peace of Europe will not be disturbed for the present by France. " I learn that an aide-de-camp of Prince Napoleon left Paris yesterday for Nice or Turin ; that the Prince himself desired to go, but the Emperor set his face against it. What was the mission en trusted to his agent ? I cannot say ; but I should not be surprised if it was to prevent the Pied montese from perpetrating some egregious piece of folly at this critical moment." The Paris correspondent of the Morning Pos, (second edition) says : " The more I learn of the results of Lord Cowley's mission—if results they can be called—the more convinced am I that nothing has been done to remove the causes of war. I observe that in a leading article you call on the British Govern ment to report progress. What can be said ? Positively nothing ! The Emperor of Austria is determined to fight, although M. Buol and his civil advisers say there is no money in the exchequer ; and further, a probability of the Austrian empire breaking up from internal revolu tionary discontent as well as external pressure. No matter, says Francis Joseph, I will not renounce my hold on Italy ; I will lose Lombardy or march on Turin, and there settle the Italian question. Mean whilr.) there are those in Paris placed in high places who hang fondly on the hopes of diplomacy; who live in a cloud of words brought to Paris by Lord Cowley ; and, I suspect, his Excellency has carried with him nothing but a cloud of words. Those who wish to arrive at correct conclusions will do well to fix their eyes on the Ticino—there they will find the theatre of a rapidly appearing struggle. The army authorities in Lombardy have received orders to seize on all they require to provision the fortresses, prepare for a cam paign, and pay the landowners and peasants with Austrian paper ! Ere long the Austrian troops in Italy will be in the position of imperial brigands, with orders to fight their way up to Turin. War preparations continue on both sides of the Ticino as usual. The great difficulty on both sides seems to consist in finding horses. " Whilst I am fully convinced that war will take place about the end of June next, the Govern ment organs of the Paris press pretend to believe in peace. The Pays talks of Lord Cowley having brought the bases of negotiations, &c. All this is inspired by those who express their hopes, rather than convey what they know to be true." The following telegrams have been received al Mr. Reuter's office : Advices have been received from Naples to the 15th inst. The operation which the King has undergone has been ineffectual. A tumour in the groin is feared, and also gangrene or caries in the thigh. Cardinal Riario has ordered public prayers for his Majesty's recovery. The public funds fell 2f. VIENNA; MARCH 18. Funds have risen since the close of the Bourse one per cent., on account of favourable news from Paris. Advices from Milan state that the public feeling that city is quieter. TURIN, FRIDAY. The official Piedmontese Gazette contradicts the suggestions of the Presse of Paris of the 15th March, and points out that the policy of the Sardinian Government, it says, has been neither provocative nor revolutionary, but always m o tional and liberal. The confidence which it inspires, and the admirable concord which prevails throughout the country, show that this policy is approved of. The Sardinian Government accepts with satis faction the manifestations of sympathy and the offers of co-operation of all men of good faith, without regard to what their past may have been; but at the same time, its firm determination is not to concert with those incorrigible persons who prejudice the national cause by disturbances of sect or faction. BERNE, MARCH 18. Orders have arrived here to buy up for the Sar dinian Government all the horses which can be pro cured. - The expression of public opinion in the French cantons of Switzerland is strongly in favour of con_ yoking the Federal Diet. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. Some of the journals state that petitions to the Emperor are being signed in Algeria, praying that the colony may be erected into a vice-royalty for Prince Napoleon. BOURSE, March 18.—The general tone of the market has been better, but business still remains limited. Threes, after having been done at 68f. and 68f. 10c., receded to 67f. 85c., and are now at 67f. 955 c. Mobilier varied from 785 f. to 775 f. ; Orleans, 1,345 f. to 1,340 f. ; Lyons, 8361. 25c. to 832 f. 50c. ; Southern, 5121. 50c. to 5101. ; Austrian, 532 f. 50c. ian, 507 f. 50c. to 505 f. ,st quotations : Credit Foncier 645 Belgian 4i Piedmontese (5) Roman B5 Austrian B4 Spanish Threes -- Home Debt — to 530 f. ; Lombado-Venel The following were the h 4} per Cents. 94 25 Do. end month 3 per Cents 6B 05 Do. end month 67 90 Bank Shares 2BOO Credit Mobilier 777 50 Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 925 .. 925 New ditto 790 795 Lyons and Mediterranean 832 50 .. 832 50 New ditto — Geneva 530 .. 530 Midi — Southern Western 595 .. 595 Eastern Grand Central — • . Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight; paper, 25f. 12c. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 21c.; money, 24f. 971 c. .oft, 0.0 M4 z 4 Ob i , kg. _ L 4 1 b iEr , - - c r • m o • orr at,t COCHIN CHINA. By the last China mail accounts from Touron, in Cochin China; to the 18th Jan. have arrived :—" The situation of the Franco-Spanish expedition was satisfactory. Rains, however, had re-commenced, but with less intensity than before. The Annamite army, which had disappeared for nearly a month, had resumed its former positions, and had com menced the construction of a circular line of small forts and redoubts at about two miles from the allied camp. To prevent the continuance of these works the French and Spanish had made severa sorties, all of which ended in the defeat of the Annamites, with rather large loss in killed and wounded, and with the loss of 14 pieces of cannon and considerable stores. On two occasions the Annamites made a vigorous resistance, and among 'the killed in one of the combats was a mandarin, nephew of the Emperor, commander of the artil lery, as well as some superior officers. Several prisoners were taken, and are to be sent to Manilla. After these combats the Annamite army retired in the direction of' Phutuon. The Pregent, which had been sent to the coast of Tonquin to look after the missionaries, had returned, having on board several Spanish Dominicans. The persecution of the Christians was so severe that the villages occu pied by them were being burned down, and their populations carried into captivity. A mass for the repose of the soul of Mgr. Reford had been celebrated in the French camp, and a resolution had been come to that a monument should be erected to his memory on the heights of Tiencha. Admiral Rigault de Genouilly was preparing to attack Ilue, the capital, at the end of February or beginning of March. The French had purchased two steam corvettes, the Lily and the Rose, which draw little water, and in addition to the English steamer Scotland, the command of which had been given to a Frenchman, had freighted two merchant ships. The fortifications of Touron were completed, and were strong enough to resist any attack, though they will not be fully armed until the arrival of new_ guns expected from France." A communication from Vienna, in the Aruremberg Correspondent, states that an envoy is to be shortly sent by the Austrian Government to London, and that Field Marshal the Prince de Windischgratz is to be selected to carry an autograph letter from the Emperor Francis Joseph to Queen Victoria. The St. Petersburg Gazette states the Cabinet of St. Petersburg appears decided on energe tically defending in the conference the double election of Colonel Couza. That journal even pro poses the admission at the conference of a repre sentative of the united, provinces. The Greek Government, whose interests are not very visibly connected with the political questions now und* consideration in the western parts of Europe, has demanded from the Chambers a credit of two millions of drachmas (1,600,000 fr.) in order to provide against eventualities, which, however, it does not define. It has also, letters from Athens state, given orders in France for three batteries of artillery, and had applied a sum of 400,000 drachmas (320,000 fr.) for the purchase of rifle muskets. MB. GLADSTONE'S LETTERS ON THP, NEAPOLITAN STATE TRIALS. (From the :Daily News) Nearly eight years have now elapsed since the publication of that first letter addressed by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone to the Earl of Aber deen, which contributed so much to engage the public opinion of England on behalf of the noble martyrs of Italian liberty theft suffering, as they have continued to suffer, the extreme of cruelty inflicted by the modern Dionysius of the Two Sicilies, under the implied sanction and protecting superintendence of his Imperial, Royal, and Apos tolic Majesty of Austria. Mr. Gladstone's pam phlet, which created an European sensation at the time, and which, it will be remembered, was so far adopted by the cabinet of Lord John Russell, in 1851, that Lord Palmerston, being then Foreign Secretary, sent copies of it to our ministers at each of the European courts, has long been out of print, and cannot now be easily procured. We therefore think it worth while at this moment, when a few —and be it remembered, only a few—of the most distinguished victims of the infamous tyranny of Naples have succeeded, thanks to the imminent menace of a French war, in obtaining their release, and have been landed upon our own shores, to fur nish our readers with some extracts from Mr. Glad stone's first letter, in order to refresh their recol lection of the justly indignant vehemence with which an honourable English gentlemen, a Conser vative statesman, whose political principles have consistently attached him to the legal maintenance of all existing governments at home and abroad, came forward as a personal witness of the villany of a king and his ministers, to denounce that almost incredible system of wickedness, that com plete and unparalleled fabric of injusti ce , hypocrisy, falsehood, and ferocity, which has nevertheless been tolerated by the devotees of what is called " Order." Without further comment, we proceed to give some extracts, and a little analysis of the letter, which was dated the 11th July, 1851, addressed to the Earl, late Minister of Foreign Affairs, and pub lished by Mr. Murray, of Albermarle-street, under the title of " The State Prosecutions of the. Neapolitan Government," as a pamphlet of 32 pages. Mr. Gladstone commenced by explaiiiing the motives which had induced him thus to trouble his noble friend with a statement " which you will find," he says, " painful, nay, revolting to the last degree." He had been impressed, during a resi dence of three or four months at Naples, with a " deep sense of the duty of making some attempt to mitigate the horrors amidst which the govern ment of Naples is carried on." It was not for the purpose of political criticism or censorship that he had gone there, but from circumstances purely of a domestic character. "I disclaim," he says, "po litical propagandism, and I did not go to look for grievances." As a member of the Conservative party, he remarks, he is naturally disposed to sup port the reigning monarchies of Europe ; but his own actual observation, and the most authentic in formation which could be procured, have convinced him of the following propositions :—" Firstly, that the present practices of the government of Naples, in reference to real or supposed political offenders, are an outrage upon religion, upon civilisation, upon humanity, and upon decency. Secondly, that these practices are certainly, and even rapidly, doing the work of republicanism in that country— a political creed which has little natural or habitual root in the character of the people The go vernment of Naples, in its social, like its physical position, is under the shadow of a volcano, and is doing everything in its power, from day to day, to give reality to its own dangers, and fresh intensity, together with fresh cause, to its own fears pass over the consideration of the whole ground work of governing authority in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies at this moment. I shall not in quire whether, according to reason and social right, the actual government of that country be one with or without a title—one of law or one of force. I shall assume that the constitution of January, 1848, spontaneously given, sworn to as irrevocable with every circumstance of solemnity, and never to this day either controverted or ostensibly revoked, though contravened in almost every act of the govern ment, never existed, and is a pure fiction." Mr. Glad stone then suggests, with regard to our own in terest in this question, that " a question may arise in reference to the treaty of 1844 between the Two Sicilies and England, upon some parts of which, as a colleague of your lordship, I had the honour to be employed." Again approaching that picture of evil which which he is about to delineate, he observes : "I am persuaded that, in reading this letter, you will feel distosed to ask, how can con duct so inhumann and monstrous be pursued with out a motive ? and what can be the motive here ? To answer that question fully, I must enter into the history of the Neapolitan constitution. Ido not refer to the struggle waged by the King of Naples against his Sicilian subjects. My subject is the conduct of the Government of that sovereign towards his Neapolitan or continental subjects, through whose fidelity and courage the subjuga tion of Sicily was effected." "There is a general impression," he then observes, " that the organisation of the Governments of Southern Italy is defective—that the administra tion of justice is tainted with corruption—that instances of abuse or cruelty among subordinate public functionaries are not uncommon, and that political offences are punished with severity, and with no great regard to the forms of justice." This is the mild and favourable view of the matter, which Mr. Gladstone repudiates as altogetherin adequate to the blackness of the real case. " Had this supposition of the state of things been accurate," says he, " I should have spared myself this labour. The difference between the faintest outline that a moment's handling of the pencil sketches, and the deepest colouring of the most elaborately finished portrait, but feebly illustrates the relation of these vague suppositions to the actual truth of the Neapolitan case. "It is not merely imperfection, not corruption in low quarters, not occasional severities, that I am about to describe ; it is incessant, systematic, deli berate violation of the law by the power appointed to watch over and maintain it—it is open violation of human and written law, as there , carried on for the purpose of violating every other law, unwritten, eternal, human, or divine—it is the wholesale per secution, of virtue when united with intelligence, operating upon such a scale that entire classes may with truth be said to be its object, so that the Govern ment is in bitter and cruel, as well as utterly illegal hostility to whatever in the nation really lives, and moves, and forms the mainspring of practical pro gress and improvement—it is the awful profana tion of public religion, by its notorious alliance in the governing power with the violation of every moral law under the stimulants of fear and yen• geance—it is the perfect prostitution of the judicial office which has made it, under veils only too thread bare and transparent, the degraded recipient of the vilest and clumsiest forgeries, got up wilfully and deliberately by the immediate officers of the crown for the purpose of destroying the peace and free dom—aye, and even if not by capital sentences, the life—of men amongst the most virtuous, upright, intelligent, distinguished, and refined of the whole community—it is a savage and cowardly system of moral as well as, in a lower degree, of physical torture, through which the sentences extracted from debased courts of justice are carried into effect. "The effect of all this is a total inversion of all the moral and social duties. Law, instead of being respected, is odious. Force, not affection, is the fcundation of government. There is no association, but a violent antagonism, between the idea of free dom and that of order. The governing power, which teaches of itself that it is the image of God upon earth, is clothed, in the view of the overwhelming majority of the thinking public, with the vices for its attributes. I have seen and heard the strong and too true expression used,—' This is the nega tion of God, erected into a system of government.'" Mr. Gladstone goes on to speak well of the dispo sition of the unfortunate Italian and Christian popu lation who arc doomed to groan under this horrible yoke. " I confess my amazement at the gentleness of character which has been shown by the Neapoli tan people in times of re7olution. It really seems as if the hell-born spirit of revenge had no place what ever in their breast s . I k now t h at at any rate some illustrious victims are supported by a spirit of Chris tian resignation, an d b y th e i r c h eer f u l acceptance of the will of God. But the present persecution is awfully aggravated, as compared with former ones. It differs, too, in this—that it seems to be especially directed against those men of moderate opinions whom a government well stocked with worldly prudence, whom Machiavelli, had he been Minister, would have made it his study to conciliate and attach. These men, therefore, are being cleared away, and the present efforts to drive poor human nature to extremes cannot wholly fail in stirring up the ferocious p ass i ons w hi c h never , to my belief, since the time of the heathen tyrants, have had so much to rouse, or so much to palliate, when aroused, their fury." After this impressive preamble, Mr. Gladstone states that the number of political prisoners con fined in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, at th e period of his visit, was variously estimated, but that he does not reckon it below 20,000, and in Naples alone some hundreds were under indictment at the moment of his writing. I n th e t r i a l of the 15th of May, which was then exp ec t e d s h ort l y to come on, the numberl capitally charged w as 400 or 500, " including,' as he tells L or d Ab er d een, " one or more persons of high station, wh ose o pi n i ons would be considered in England more conservative than your own." He adds, that the number of ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. HARWICH, FRIDAy EVENING. The contest began with great spirit on both sides, and the Campbell committee claimed the majority up to 11 o'clock, the candidates during that time having been more than once on an equality. At 12 o'clock there was only a difference of two, Captain Jervis having polled 119, and the Hon. Mr. Camp bell 117. From this time, although the voting was slow, the majority for Jervis gradu a lly i ncrease d until at the close it had reached 11. The instant the church clock pointed to 4, the hustings, accord ing to custom at Harwich, were attacked and de molished, but as no resistance whatever was offered to this somewhat lawless proceeding, it had not the character of a breach of the peace. The Mayor having adjourned the proceedings to the Town-hall, announced the numbers to be— Jervis Campbell , Majority for Jervis —ll And his worship declared Capt. Jervis to be duly elected. The gallant captain afterwards returned thanks from the window of the White Hart Hotel. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, March 19.—Wind this day at.noon, N.N.E. ; light breeze, and fine weather. QUEENSTOWN, March 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived— Elizabeth, Honduras. PORTSMOUTH, March 17.—Wind W. to N.W.—Ar rived—Grenfells from Sunderland for Coquimbo ; Mar garet Dundas, from Sunderland for Point do Galle, with loss of part of bulwarks, and bulkheads started. PLYMOUTH, March 18.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Earl of Hardwicke, for Madras. IIOLYHEAD, March 18.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Armorial, for Havannah. FALMOUTH, March 18.—Arrived—Triumph,from Shields, to stor, a leak. SMELDS, March 18.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Esther, from Huelva. OFF DARTMOUTH, March 18.—Arrived—Nepaul, from London for Melbourne ; Sword Fish, from London for New Zealand. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. Wind W.N.W., fresh. Arrived, March 18—Morning Light, from Melbourne ; Clara Novello, from Rouen. Arrived, March 19—Carioca, from Buenos Ayres ; Con stitution, from Galveston. Off—Sir William Eyre, from Melbourne ; William Fair bairn, Loodianah, Egad Favourite. Sailed—Sarawak;' for Philadelphia ; Montmorency, for Melbourne; Guildford, for Garboon ; Margaret,ffor Am briz ; Persia, steamer, for New York. The Morning Light left in company with the Saldanha and Tornado, Royal Bride steamer, for Bristol, was to sail on the 28th December; and the Royal Mail screw steamer Oneida for Suer on the 21st January. A heavy gale at Ilobson's Bay on the 21st of December. Ellen Stewart, William Jackson, Prince Alfred, Resolute, Maidstone, and Earl Grey were more or less damaged by chafing. The American barque Onward drove alongside the Royal Bride, carrying away latter's jibboom and damaging herself. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Wind W.N.W., tide one hour's flood, weather fine. Arrived, March 18—Hoppet, from Moulmein ; Flora, from Amsterdam ; Phceix, from Porto Rico ; Symmetry, from Musqwash ; Martha, from Gergenti; Bravo, from Alexandria; Brothers. from Odessa; Testadlen, from Fre derickstadt; Commodore, from Bathurst. — s a iled, Mitreh 19.—Rhine, steamer, for Ostend ; Beiston Castle, for Bombay. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Wind N.N.W., moderate. Passed—Faith, for the Cape of Good Hope ; for Syra ; Rosalie, for Swansea; General Williams, screw steamer, for Athens—all from London ; Fingalton, from Sheerness, for Carthagena ; Naparaden, brig, and Ages, brig, from Shields, fo r C ons t an ti nop l e ; Erie, from Shields, for the United States. Sailed. — Majestic, Honewell, Am azon , A s i a , Th omas Mitchell, Edith Moore, Persia, otentato, Krond Prinsen, Circassian, Ewood, Jem, Scottish Maid, Witch, Brierly Hill, Empress Eugenie, Rosemarvel, Heroine, Criteria ; with most of the outward bound. refugees, or of persons variously concealed, was greater than the number actually imprisoned. A very large proportion of those prisoners belong to the middle classes ; very few of them have inde pendent means of support for their families ; not to mention that, as Mr. Gladstone was informed, confiscation or sequestration upon arrest was fre quent, so that generally each case of a prisoner or refugee becomes the centre of a separate circle of humam misery, and the system bears on whole classes—on those classes upon which the healthy solidity and progress of a nation mainly depend. He then makes the following precise statement : " Nearly all those who formed the opposition in the Chamber of Deputies under the constitution are in prison or in exile. The Chamber had been • elected twice over, and with very little change, but that little in favour of the opposition. Not one of the body had been brought to trial, although one of them had been assassinated by a priest named Peluso, well known in the streets of Naples when I was there, but who was never questioned for the act, and said to receive a pension from the Government. The full complement of the Chamber of Deputies was 164, elected by a con stituency which brought to the poll about 117,000 voters. Of these about 140 was the greatest num ber that came to Naples to exercise the functions of the Chamber. An absolute majority of this number, or 76, besides some others who had been deprived of office, had been arrested or had gone into exile ; so that after the regular formation of a representative Chamber, and its suppression in the teeth of the law, the Government of Naples has consummated its audacity by putting into prison, or driving into banishment for the sake of escaping prison, an actual majority of the representatives o the people." So the constitutional parliament has been dis posed of en masse. Now let us see how, according to Mr. Gladstone's report, , the individual citizen fares under this paternal despotism. The law of Naples—he means the old law, anterior to and inde pendent of the constitution—requires that personal liberty shall be inviolable, except under a warrant from a court of justice; the warrant must proceed upon actual depositions, and the nature of the charge be stated. "In utter defiance of this law, the Government, of which the prefect of police is an important member, through the agents of that department, watches and dogs the people, pays domiciliary visits, very commonly at night, ransacks " the houses, seizing papers and effects, and tearing up floors at pleasure, under pretence of searching for arms ; it imprisons men by the score, by the hundred, by the thousand, without any warrant whatever, sometimes without even any written authority at all, or anything beyond the word of a policeman, constantly without any statement what ever of the nature of the offence. Nor is this last fact wonderful ; men are arrested, not because they have committed or are believed to have committed any offence, but because they are persons whom it is thought convenient to confine or to get rid of, and against whom, therefore, some charge must be found or fabricated." Mr. Gladstone then describes particularly the mode in which the secret examinations of the pri soner are conducted, in order "to create a charge, which as yet does not in fact exist." He tells us how the man is insulted and annoyed on pur pose to make him lose his temper and utter some expression which may be construed into disaffec tion or disapproval of the Government—which may even be taken as expressing some intentions of re volution or regicide. " Thoughts are forged," says Mr. Gladstone, " in order that they may be punished. I here speak of what I know to have happened, and I have imagined or heightened nothing." The next portion of his subject is the long deten tion usually inflicted before trial. "I do not happen to have heard," he significantly observes, " of any one tried at Naples on a political charge in these last times with less than sixteen or eighteen months of previous imprisonment. I have seen men still waiting who had been confined for twenty-six months—and this confinement begun by an act not of law, but of force, in defiance of law. There may be cases of arrest under warrant, after depositions, but they are entirely exceptional. So much for the principle which we prize in England under the title of our Habeas Corpus! With regard now to the conduct of prosecutions, let us see what Mr. Gladstone says :—" I do not scruple to assert that when every effort has been used to concoct a charge, if possible, out of the per ' version and partial production of real evidence, this often fails, and then the resort is to perjury and to forgery. The miserable creatures to be found in most communities, but especially in this, where the Government is the great agent of corruption upon the people—the wretches who are ready to sell the liberty and life of fellow-subjects for gold, and to throw their own souls into the bargain—are delibe rately employed by the executive power to depose, according to their inventions, against the men whom it is thought desirable to ruin. These depositions are generally made in the coarsest and clumsiest manner, and they bear upon the evidence of false hood, in absurdities and self-contradictions, accu mulated- even to nausea. But what then ? Mark the calculation. If there be plenty of it, some of it, according to the vulgar phrase, will stick." Mr. Gladstone dwells somewhat upon this infernal principle of obtaining a conviction by the sheer quantity of charges brought against an innocent prisoner, who may after nine-tenths of those charges have fallen to the ground, be destroyed by the remnant of accusation which he cannot formally refute. To quote our author, " the whole proceed ' ing is linked together, from first to last. The pri soner may have counter-evidence mountains high, but he is not allowed to bring it ; I know this is hardly credible, but it is true. The very men tried while I wps at Naples named and appealed to the counter-evidence of scores and hundreds of men of all classes and professions, military, clergy, govern ment functionaries, and the rest; but in every instance with, I believe, one single exception, the court—the grand criminal court of justice—refused to hear it ; and in that one case the person, when called, fully bore out the statement of the prisoner. Of course the assertion of the accused, however supported by the evidence of station and character, goes for nothing against the small remaining frag ment, not self-destroyed of the fictions of the vilest wretches, however such a fragment be brought beneath presumption of falsehood ; and this frag ment, being thus secured from confutation, forms the pillow on which the consciences of the judges, after their work of condemnation, calmly and quietly repose." In another place he says, Ido not allege that the judges of Naples are all mon. sters, but they are slaves. They are very numerous, very ill-paid, and they hold their offices during pleasure. Perhaps the eight judges who are now trying political prisoners by the hundred at Naples may have amongst them about one-half the salary of an English puisne judge." He refers also to the tyrannical severity with which they are treated in case of their deciding against the accusations brought by Government—" not that it actually signifies much, as the Government arrest and imprison without any warrant, and think nothing of keeping men in prison, after they have been first punished by two or three years of imprisonment and terror, and then solemnly declared guiltless." He then specifies six cases of men who, after being acquitted, still remained in prison. Reverting, however, to the earlier stages of pro secution, we are told how, after a person has been arrested without any warrant, without any wit nesses against him, " when the forged testimony . has been procured, the Government are in a posi tion to present it to the court, obtain a warrant, and so far to legalise the imprisonment." Mr. Glad stone then proCeeds to inquire " how are these detenuti treated during the long and awful period of apprehension and dismay between their illegal seizure and their illegal trial ?" This investigation leads him into details which are physically revolt ing, almost beyond imagination to conceive. " The prisons of Naples are another term for the extreme of filth and horror. I have really seen something of them, but not the worst. This I have seen, my lord—the official doctors not going to the sick pri soners, but the sick prisoners, men almost with death on their faces, toiling upstairs to them n , n a l t t a h n a d t charnel-house of the Vicaria, because the lower re gions of such a place of darkness are top f loathsome to allow it to be expected that profes sional men should consent to earn bread by enter ing them. -As to diet, I must speak a word for the bread I have seen. Though black and coarse to the last degree, it was sound. The soup, which forms the only other element of subsistence, is so nauseous, as I was assured, that nothing but the extreme of hunger could overcome the repugnance of nature to it ; I had not the means of tasting it. The filth of the prisons is beastly ; the officers, except at night, hardly ever enter them." We cannot find space on this occasion for any further extracts, and must leave this general de scription to speak for itself. The details which Mr. Gladstone subsequently gives us of the dreadful state of the several prisons, and especially the Bagnio of Nisida, in which Poerio wore his chains so long, com pl e t e l y bear out, and even go beyond, the foregoing account. We must defer these quo tations, however, and the narrative of the case o Poerio and his companions in misfortune, to another occasion. 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