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Prospectuses explanatory of the gate, Deposit, Borrowing, and Land Departments free.— 'a.ns of Estater, CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. Oftlees, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. EWSPAP - - • • - - - - . other States of Italy e . . he Aoman'State the cht •`‘ `treit - seS- severan - T -his Iloilo P 8 Ira t o„ t . aataf-liiscl.4 • ;he *is ., lar senteU c e, wad turned e-i$ 'c -ed his subjects. Yids is the most Xtmerittrus gic rifice of the mass,that ever priest or pmntifr eeleVrated. Now is the Panther's time come ; he has only to extendliis amicable paw, and offer - the rude hospi talities of his den to the poor outlawed Hind of Italy. Preiselytisth will-now be charity. What a harvest of souls Lord Shaftesbury has now in his mind's eye ; what a glorious opportunity for the- Protestant sickle. All Europe may now see which is the religion of freedom, which the religion of the slave and the despot, or indeed almost of the despot without a slave. The Pope has wonderfully nar rowed the business of the controversialist, \V ho has only to stand forth and ask if this can be a Chris tian church that exhausts itself in curses on human liberty, and chases from its altars every man who has even a yearning to be free. But we leave. it to Lord Shaftesbury- and the Record to speculate further upon a sectarian revolution in the field which the triple tyrant no longer sways. For our selves it is enough to believe that the Protestantism of the mind is sure to advance witn mighty strides, provoked and encouraged by the infatuation of the Vatican. These are not days when men care much for names and symbols ; or when national piety is much concerned whether the truth be worshipped in the temple or on the mountain. The Luther of the nineteenth century is not a founder of churches or an author of dogmas, but he is a sure reformer for all that, and will know how to profit by the imbecilities of ono Popo as his predecessor did by the corruption of another. THE SUN, LONDON, FEIDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1860. 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At about one Otti ) l rr meal, it effectually cures the above, also children's t„ 4 lam, and saves fifty times its cost in medicine. It does ;kltj l N acid nor interfere with a qberal diet but imparts a Y relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty ttlfgption, and nervous and muscular energy to the most ''jed. We extract a few out of many thousand cures 54,816, from the Rev. James T. Campbell, Syder t ktt4 t eotOry, near Fakenham, Norfolk : "In all cases of in fttir, and particularly where the liver is affected ; fit it the best of all remedies. -James T. Campbell.' e r"o• 71, of Dyspepsia, from the Right Honourable Ostird Stuart de Decies : " I have derived considerable I;ut, pfd DU Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. Stuart de - -Cure No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony / I , l lll t grapepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, .I,le I;eY, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomiting, 1 1 7. 51 1 removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. 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LA'MERT, Registered L.S.A., Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, M.D. of the University of Erlangen, &c., may be CONSULTED on all cases of Debility, Nervousness, and on the Socret In firm - Ries of Youth and Maturity, from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight, at hts residence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON Dr. La'Mert has just published, price Sixpence, with nu merous EngraviuLrs a;1 Cases, a New Edition of his Work, SEL F-Plt ESP: RV AT lON, which will be sent free, in a sealed enTelope. by Mann, 39 Cornhill, London, or by the Author, for Eight stamps. CONTENTS. SECTION T.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. SECTION IL—Puberty—Manhood —The Morale of Genera lye Physiology—True and False Morality. SECTION M.—Marriage in its Moral, Social, and Physical relations—lts Expectancies and Disappointments—Advan tages of Physical Oontrasts in securing healthy Offspring. 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In its pages facts of par Amount utility are brought together, wholly divested of tne delusions and incon sistencies so largely introduced into certain quasi medical publications given to the world gratis, under the guise of philanthropy, or as "acts of gratitude," by pretended clergy men and others, whose tamperings with the constitution are frequently followed Py fieric)W3 Mr. BRIGIIT rose, and was received with loud and long-continued cheering. He said—Though it was a holiday time both for hardworking people and for members of Parliament, he thought it was never inopportune for the citizens of a free country to meet and discuss questions of public interest and importance. We were now arrived at an interval, or sort of half-way house in the session of Parlia ment, and it would be an advantageous opportunity to survey the past, and glance at what is in store for us in the immediate future. Looking back to the last two months in Parliament, he was glad to be able to say that what we beheld was highly satisfactory; if it was not for the enormous, the needless, and he might say the guilty, military ex pentiliture, he would have been willing to express unmixed approbation of Mr. Gladstone's Budget. We should probably have had a good budget from Mr. Gladstone even if there had been no Commer cial Treaty with France, but that treaty made it doubly valuable. By means of the treaty every ves• tige of Protection had been swept from the tariff. The Treaty would come into full operation in three years from this time. He believed we shOu/d find the tariff of France much more liberal than the present tariff of the United States. If we now ex ported 23 million pounds' worth yearly to the United States, how much should we export to France —a country more populous and much nearer to our shores—when we had a more liberal tariff than that with America? How were this Budget and Treaty received ? The Treaty was received with marked coldness by both houses, and hotly opposed by a large party in the Commons. They said it was not according to precedent, and that the chief apostle of Free Trade did not know his own business. (Laughter.) They said the French tariff ought to be lower, and that it ought to come into operation at once. Well, that was to the loss of France. (Hear, hear.) They said it had not re ceived the sanction of the French Chambers, but that it was carried into effect on the sole will of the Emperor. If it was passed in accordance with the French constitution, and the mode of exacting it was sufficient for France, it ought to be sufficient for us. They said the duties were chiefly taken off luxuries. The truth was, we had not many articles left except luxuries the duties on which could be abolished. The Times said we ought to have left the treaty to be negotiated by an experienced diplomatist. We had diplomatists in all parts of the world, receiving enormous salaries, yet we should look in vain for any service done alone by them to English industry equal to the service done by the unpaid and inexperienced diplomatist, Mr. Cobden. (Loud cheers.) But the true reasons against the treaty had not been given in the House of Commons. The Budget abolished several sources of indirect taxation, and had tied up the military expenditure by a tax from which hereafter there would be no escape. Henceforth these two things would go together. If Parliament raised the mili tary expenditure to 20 or 30 millions, that increase must be defrayed by an income tax, or by an income tax coupled with a property tax. He (Mr. Bright) thought it a most happy thing that this result should have been brought about. This treaty promised peace and confidence with France, but there were persons connected with the oligarchy and the mili• tary service who wished for a different policy. Out of the 125 years previous to 1815, we were at war with France during 68 years. When the system began our taxation amounted to two millions. In 1815 it had reached to 72 millions, and we had an accumulated debt of 800 millions. All this took place under a system in which only the " select ' were allowed to vote, in which the great aristocratic republic stood supreme, uninterfered with by the breath of public opinion. The treaty concluded with France menaced this patrimony of taxation, and hence the concealed op position to its being carried into effect. Besides those questions of the budget and commercial treaty, Parliament had been called upon to consider the question of Parliamentary Reform. Lord John Russell's bill must be taken for what it was, viz., a bill for the extension of the franchise. It only re• motely touched upon the redistribution of seats, and did not comprise the b. not. The borough voters in England Wales now on the register num bered 4'10,000, and he believed the new bill would only add 167,000. Was that a measure likely to give an ignorant and excited mob a preponderant power in all the boroughs of England? In 1832 it was said the new voters enfranchised by the pro posed Reform Bill would swamp the old constitu ency, and the same argument was being used at the present time. Yet the £lO householders had never conspired, so far as he knew, to swamp the power of persons of property and education. Mr. White side, in a recent debate, had endeavoured to frighten the house by reference to the strike of the London builders. Now, it had never been proved that strikes were bad. A strike was the reserved power in the hands of the working man. He (Mr. Bright) would tell the working men never to surrender their right to combine with their fellow men in support of their interests. He believed Mr. Disraeli would be glad to allow the present bill to pass, so that the question of Reform should no longer obstruct his battles with his old antagonists, the Whigs. Others among the Tory opposition would also will ingly give it their support, but he feared the policy of lukewarm Liberals. He, however, gave credit to Government for bringing forward the measure, and hoped they would take care it was not damaged in its passage through the house. If it should not be passed this session, or was much longer delhyed, he would recommend the working classes through out the country to appoint delegates from their trades' unions and societies to sit permanently in London, to act upon Parliament, and to tell it that they did not longer intend to be put off and trifled with and cheated of their just expectations. (Cheers.) Mr. Bi ight then drew a parallel between the present time and that of Mr. Pitt, with regard to the Reform Bill and the commercial treaty with France. In 1784 Mr. Pitt's reform measure was rejected, and his commercial treaty was got rid of by war with France. He warned the people to see that the same course was not adopted now. There was a party in this coun try who systematically endeavoured to arouse an ill feeling against the French nation. (Hear, heap.) The ?Imes was following in the wake of the Morning Advertiser, not in the same pot-valiant style, perhaps, but with a malignity, if possible, more satanic, trying to arouse a spirit against the French nation. From week to week and from month to month it published leaders, one day in sulting France, next day alarming Germany, and another time exciting England. (Cheers.) He knew what would be said in reply to this, but he was not writing anonymously. He was an Eng lishman like themselves, caring nothing for the railings of the press, but caring dearly for the solemn interests of his country. (Hear, hear.) His warnings were not unnecessary. He spoke not to the Court ; for, though honest, his speech was scarcely tuned to courtly ears. He spoke not to the aristocracy, who, wrapt in luxury, cared not to listen to his appeals ; but he addressed the great body of his fellow-countrymen. In a few years this treaty would become a bond of perpetual peace. Stick to it. It might yet be wrested from their hands. With peace, the progress of reform could not be arrested, and political power in this land would be transferred from a clique of families to a great nation. Mr. Bright concluded amidst great cheering ; having spoken one hour and 20 minutes. The meeting broke up immediately after. [ADVERTISEMENT.i—The following are not the least re markable among the numerous extraordinary cures without medicine effected by Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, of indigestion (dyspepsia), flatu lency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, con-711, asthma, consumption, and debility. 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A letter from Geneva, dated April 9, says,— Long before the great Powers had given any as surances—nay, at the moment when they seemed to have altogether overlooked the Swiss side of the Savoy question, and only expressed their feeble and cautious indignation at the off-hand manner in which the Emperor Napoleon took his "guaran tees"—the Swiss were determined to take up the gauntlet thrown down by France, and, if neces sary, to risk the chances of a war, in which, at any rate in the first instance, they could reckon on no support from any side. Such a re solution of a small State of scarce 2,000,000 of people against a powerful empire, close to its gates, must seem little short of madness in a shrewd and positive people, as every one knows the Swiss to be. True, it would not have been the first time that this little free people would have engaged in so unequal a struggle ; but then Switzerland was for the most part a wild and almost inaccessible country, while now it is intersectedin all directions by some of the finest roads in Europe. Then mili tary science was in its infancy, and a small number of determined men were often a match for large hosts ; while now the art of warfare makes daily giant strides, and what seemed perfect yesterday is antiquated to-day. How does it come, then, that in spite of these changes, which seem to. defrive Switzerland of many of the advantages which she possessed for merly in a defence even against powerful foreign enemies, this sober. people should still have con sidered it possible to have some chances in meeting at any rate the first onset of the great French Empire until they could find some support from abroad ? Where did this confidence come from ? No doubt, in the first instance from the conviction that valour and love of independence is not incom patible with cotton-mills and money-making, and that, if need, there might be found Winkelrieds in the second half of the 19th century; but this con viction would scarcely have been sufficient in the face of an adversary provided with rifles and rifled guns, had there not been some trust likewise in a military organisation which was calculated to make the most of this valour and love of independence. Although others might have thought Switzerland sufficiently protected by the wgis of neutrality, held by all the great Powers of Europe, the Swiss them selves, seeing daily examples of the sad fate of small States enclosed between powerful military nations, thought it wise not to trust entirely to foreign pro tectors, but to do something likewise for them selves. With France and her legions on one side, and Austria and her battalions on the other, this would have been a hopeless task. Had Switzerland tried to imitate the military organisation of those large States, she would have exhausted her finances without ever being able to command a standing army sufficiently numerous to oppose, even for a day, what others might bring into the field against her. Instead, therefore, of exhausting their strength in an impotent rivalry, the Swiss took their own pe culiar condition as the basis for their military or ganisation. As a free country, Switzerland had no need of bayonets at home, and no wish to engage in offensive wars; a standing army was, therefore, a ruinous luxury, which would have weakened instead of strengthening the power of defence in case of ag gression, against which alone military measures were necessary. Leaving, therefore, this hobby to its neighbours intent on annexation, Switzerland has concentrated her efforts on a general system of arming the whole population, and organising a mili tia system on a larger scale. The task was not easy, and well might the professional soldiers of the great military nations around scoff at the profanation of the sacred mysteries of military art; but the Swiss would not be discouraged, and persevered. The problem which Switzerland was thus trying to solve was not only of vital interests for this country itself, but for all "free and unaggressive" countries which might be called upon to defend themselves from annexionist neighbours ; hence it may not be without interest for England herself. • There is a considerable analogy in many respects between the two; both are free countries, having no need of bayonets for home service ; both are industrious, rich countries which cannot afford to loose great productive power in an unproductive occupation, and aggressive wars are held in equal horror by both countries. England, it is true, has her colonies and foreign possessions; she is a great power, who has her exalted place to guard among the nations- This will always force her to have an army disposa ble for foreign service ; but, i n order not to make this necessity too expensive, a cheap and efficient system of home defence must be of interest to her. Without pretending that a system of defence in vented for this country could bo applied in its in tegrity to England, much may be learnt if the sys tem has succeeded here. It is presumptuous to judge of the efficiency of a military organisation before it has stood the test of a campaign, yet one might be allowed to draw some inferences on the general capability of the system if one has before one's eyes some grounds to go upon. A short sketch of this organisation must precede, in order to understand the basis of the whole system. Every male inhabitant of Switzerland, unless phy sically incapacitated, forms part of the militia. This latter forms two classes ; the first, comprising all those from 20 to 44 years of age, are liable to Fede ral service, while the second, comprising those above 44 and under 20 years of age, are only called in for cantonal service. In cases of great necessity alone, and with their own consent, can they be applied to service out of their own canton. The Federal army itself is again subdivided into two classes—the con tingent, comprising all men from 20 to 34 years of age, and the reserve, from 34 to 44. Both the con tingent and the reserve keep up permanently their organisation in battalions, companies of carabineers, squadrons of cavalry, and batteries, with all their officers and non-commissioned officers. The quota of each canton in this organisation is according to the number of inhabitants, and consequently accord ing to the number of men each of them can furnish. The troops of each canton form, as it were, a body for themselves, with their own cantonal staff. The equipment, as well as the armament and accoutre ment, of the troops are at the charge of each canton, with the difference, however, that arms are supplied by the Federal military authorities, and that the equipment is in some cantons procured by the indi vidual soldier, while in others this is done by the cantonal authorities. The contingent of each can ton is called in every year for a fortnight into bar racks for " repetitions," the only exception to this being made by the first category of the contingent, the recruits who have completed their 20th year. '1 hese latter must remain for six weeks in barracks, in order to receive their first military education. The reserve is called together for 48 hours a-year. Officers, as well as soldiers, as soon as they enter the barracks are paid and subject to an ex tremely rigorous military code. The canton de frays the expenses of this yearly drill. Besides this there are every second year for a month or six weeks Federal concentrations of troops, usually one or more divisions. The expense in curred by this concentration, as well as that re quired whenever the troops arc called for service out of the canton, is borne by the Federal Govern ment. The cantonal authorities have the right to name their officers up to the rank of captain inclu sive, the higher ranks being within the sphere of the Federal authority. For the concentration of this cantonal military organization there exists a Federal Staff, which is in permanent service and pay, and which has to superintend the general direction of the whole sys tem. All officers and those named by the cantons must pass an examination, while those wishing , to belong to the Federal Staff, as well as those be- I longing to th© special arms, must pass through a year, and then a fortnight ever after, except once or twice during the whole time of service, when called out for Federal concentrations and manoeu vres. There are few more industrious people than the generality of the Swiss, consevently, few more aware of the value of time. Every fire years they are asked whether they wish for a change in their constitution. As no objection has been raised against the burdens of the military service, it is presumeable that they are felt very little. With this small sacrifice of time and money Switzerland is able to put on foot in less than a fortnight 119 battalions of infantry, 71 companies of carabineers, 42 batteries of field artillery, 8 rocket batteries, and 42 squadrons of cavalry, 18 companies of sappers and pontoniers—in all from 110,000 to 120,000 men, provided with all the mate rial necessary for field service—a force which, in an extremity, might be well nigh doubled ; and this force comes into the field fully organised as an army, the battalions, squadrons, and batteries being collected, even in times of peace, in brigades and divisions, the latter comprising all arms of the ser vice. That this constant readiness is not an illusion was proved in the Neufchatel affair, where, in spite of winter, 60,000 or 70,000 men were at Basle in 10 days. One battalion of Geneva, for instance, which received the order to come into barracks on Friday, had started on Monday, and was four days after on the opposite frontier. As far, therefore, as the quantity, readiness, and cheapness of the means of defence are concerned, there can be little doubt about the efficiency of the present system of military organisation in Switzerland. As for the quality of the soldiers thus supplied, I should not like to speak dogmatically, having seen only four battalions of infantry, two of carabin eers, and one battery, but these troops were from various parts of Switzerland. I have seen them manoeuvrin g, I have had opportunities of judging of their physical and moral disposition, and I have no hesitation in saying that they are, as a body, superior in some respects to most soldiers I have seen, equal in other respects to most, and only inferior in a few things to any Continental army. At this moment we have here the 84th battalion of Geneva, the 6th of Neufchatel, and the 58th of Berne, besides the 10th Carabineers of the Pays de Vaud, and the 25th battery. If any professional man, duly impregnated with the spirit of the martinet and corporal stick, were to see the men walking about the streets I have no doubt he would be shocked at the unmilitary, almost clownish appearance of the single specimens of these popular soldiers. Not a trace of smartness, shockingly comfortable blue capotes, indifferently made loose trousers and easy black cloth gaiters, the whole topped by rather ridiculous looking shakos, would fully deserve their reprobation. They have et ideally no idea of a movement of limbs without motion of the body, that great problem of standing armies. They push their shakos back from their foreheads if they feel warm, and even unbutton their coats ; they tuck up their trousers into the gaiters when it is muddy, and walk about like any other mortals, but even the most prejudiced admirer of smartness could not help being struck by the size and squareness of these bourgeois soldiers and he would probably sigh that the Swiss know not how to use their splendid material. But it is only when you see them in line that you perceive how splendid this material is. The battalions of Berne and of Geneva, especially, might bear in this respect a comparison with any corps d'elite—nay, if strength and endurance are taken into consideration as well as size, an eye accustomed to judge will give them the superiority. The great mijority are men and not boys ; this will be the impression on any one who thinks of standing armies. The troops under arms here have every day eight hours' exercise in battalions from 6 till 10 a.m., and from 2 till 6 p.m. they are fully accoutred with knap sacks, blankets, and even camp kettles, they h ave their ammunition with them, and look at them in the last quarter of an hour. I have looked and can tell you that most of them had scarcely turned a hair, which proves that they aro in a better condi tion than most of the standing armies. Above all, the Bernese seemed scarcely to feel that they car ried a weight which oppresses most other soldiers. It is true they carried it in their own way rather, but they moved about like people accustomed to it. Equally well did those of Geneva stand the hard test; rather less so those of Neufchatel, although even these latter might give odds to any other continental army. Something must be put, no doubt, on ac count of race and continual exposure at home, but I am sure that not a little is due, likewise, to the permission of using their muscles in a natural in stead of an artificial way. What, then, my eye told me about the hardiness and power of endurance which such unsophisticated troops must possess was confirmed to me by ac counts of the Neufchatel affair. In six weeks of a winter expedition on the frontier, with outpost duties and marches, one of the Geneva battalions, effeminate in comparison with the men of Uri or Schweitz, lost two men out of 800—one was con sumptive before he went, and the lieut.-colonel who was ill when he started. So much about their physical qualities. But will these soldiers of a day fight, these men with wives and children at home, accustomed to peaceful occupations—a farmer here, a banker there, next a tailor, and beside him a greengrocer—where is the link, the esprit de corps, to keep together these men, where the stimulus to impel them ? Look at those determined faces and listen to their simple language, and you will have little doubt. They don't fight for crosses and promotions, and they know for what they are fighting. They don't take a pleasure in soldiering, but consider it as a serious business which must be done. The cause for which they are fighting is their own, and every one has as much interest in it as his neighbour, and this neighbour he knows. It is not as in standing armies, where men from all corners are placed side by side and must be cemented together. Here everyone knows and lives with his neighbours, he is under the eye of those with whom his lot is to dwell and associate for the rest of his life. Besides this, there is the traditional spirit of emulation and rivalry between the different cantons, and it would be strange if the Bernese who let himself be shot down at Naples rather than give up his banner with the bear would not do more to keep up that symbol of his country in his own home. Physicol strength and endurance, personal valour and esprit de corps arc much, but they are not all against regular troops ; there is the drilling, and certainly in this point the Swiss troops, as far as I have seen them, are inferior to regularly drilled armies. There is not that precision in their evolu tions which would satisfy the eye of a connoisseur ; but whoever saw a battlefield and did not recognize the uselessness of those complicated movements, which fail frequently even on the parade-ground, and are utterly inapplicable in a real fight. But, ir the troops I have seen here are wanting in that automaton precision, they seem to understand very well what they are doing— a rare case in other armies ; and if, as might be hoped, the commanding officers underst an d th e s t reng th an d wea k ness o f I their troops, they will keep to a few single move ments, which they can execute as well as any regu lar troops. If inferior in evolutions, the Swiss troops are decidedly superior in the use of their arms, which in these days of rifles is no small advantage. The rifle societies have done a great deaf to educate people is this respect, and this education, is taken advantage of, in the formation of the army. There are 71 companies of elrabineers, or about 7,000, all the best shots in a country where everyone has his rifle and • practises. Only those who have proved themselves to be superior to the others are accepted in this body, which, in its specialty, has no equal anywhere else. Besides this, the compa nies on the wings of each battalion arc chasseurs, likewise chosen for their efficiency in the use of their rifles, making about 30,000 more proved marks men well aware of their skill. A new rifle, thoroughly - experimented, has been procured for these latter. I have not seen the firing, bat the arm itself is as handy as the Enfield, and about the same weight. Here are, then, almost 40,000 men more formidable in the use of their weapon than probably any other army can show; the rest of the troops have muskets in the ranks, but most of them have rifles at home, and know - how to use them, too, as well as the bayonets which are fixed to them. Behind the contingent and reserve are tbe Land wehr and Landsturm, men above 44, who have their own rifles, which they used for years,—a not at all despicable reserve. From this sketch you will see that, although weak in numbers, the Swiss in a national war of defence would be no contemptible adversaries ; above all, in a country which does not admit of a simultane ous action of large masses of troops. There is altogether a great illusion in this respect, as every one might see in the last war in Italy, where, after talking of millions of men, scarcely more than 300,000 met on both sides at the battle of Solferino. These masses may ultimately tell in a long war, and in such a one of course 2,000,000 men, however brave, could not compete with 35,000,000 ; but, if they were forced to de fend themselves against a first onset, I am sure the Swiss would be found equal to the emergency, and people will cease to smile at their militia. Whether they would find a leader who would make the most of this militia is a question on which one cannot judge in any army until the moment comes, which we hope is far distant. APRIL 10. While the great Powers are debating within themselves what attitude they ought to take, and while the Swiss are waiting anxiously and impa tiently for their decision, and are completely pa ralysed by this incertitude, the French are con tinuing systematically to complete the annexation of the whole of Savoy. The process they use for o th p i e s p rat u in rp g o o s n e thereminds m fly which very much iehhaabeen o t f h t r h o e wn sp i i n de to r its web ; the lower extremities and the legs are already spun in and are motionless, and it is only in the short feelers about the head that one per ceives from time to time a convulsive movement. Whenever this takes place there is a corresponding activity in the long sharp claws of the spider, which ends in adding another thread to its web; every time the movement of the prisoner becomes weaker and weaker, its efforts more languid and despond ing-; a few moments yet and the spider can fix itself on the head and put an end to the agony of its prey. Indeed, this last moment is at hand. M. Laity, once lieutenant of artillery at Strasburg, and now Senator and Imperial Commissioner in Savoy, is charged with the final blow. On Saturday last he began his tour in the northern provinces, lie began with Annecy, went the next (lay to Bonne ville, was yesterday at Sallenehes, and will be to clay at Thonon. The municipalities and syndics, most of them members of the deputation to the Tuileries, did their best to prepare everything for this triumphal procession, which may be consi dered as tantamount to taking possession of the territory whi !h has been ceded. EXCOMMUIVICA7ION OF ITALY. (Fi.oin the' .Evambler.) " St. Anthony's fire burn you; Mahomet's disease whir] you, the squinzy choke you; botches, criekurns sink you 'plumb down to Pegtrantum's. The plagues of Sodoin and Gomorrah cram you with sorrow. Fire, brimstone, and pits bottomless swallow you all alive."—Rabeigis, The long-threatened excommunication has been launched; the Pope's red right hand, literally red with Perugian and Roman blood, has bolted the spiritual thunder at last, and if there be terror in it, it is all the more terrible that it names no special victims, but falls indiscriminately upon millions, and blots whole States out of the book of life. All Italy at least comes within the mischief of the exe cration, of which the following is the enacting clause : " Having invoked the light of the Holy Spirit in private and public prayers, and having taken the advice of the reverend bro thers, the Cardinals of our holy Romish Church, we declare, in accordance with the authority which we hold from Almighty God and the most holy apostles, Peter and Paul, and also in accord ance with our own authority, all those who have taken part in the sinful insurrection in our provinces, in usurping, occupying, and invading them, or in doing such deeds as we complained of in our above mentioned allocutions of the 20th of June and 25th of September of the last year, or those who have perpetrated some of those acts themselves, as well as those who have been their warranters, supporters, h e lp er s, counsellors, followers, as well as those who connived at executing the above-men tioned deeds under whatever pretence, and in what ever manner, or who perpetrated them themselves, to have taken on themselves the atonement of the major excommunication, and religious punishment, las they are determined in ourapostolic constitution, and by the decrees of the general councils, especi . ally that of Trent (sess. 22, chap. 11, on reforms), and if necessary we excommunicate them again, we anathematise them, further declaring that they are to lose all privileges and graces and indulgence which they enjoyed until now from our Papal predecessors, and that they cannot in any manne r b e re l ease d or absolved of these censures by any one except our selves, or the Romish Pontiff then reigning, except at the moment of death, but no t i n the- event of their e a n n d they e a u r n e a a b g l ea t n . s o r u e b e j e ie i c v t e tovnt , o a n t y h e a b a s b n o l l n , e rpeneno i v s e h r m y, , e tion until they have retracted, revoked, annulled, and abolished in public all they have committed, and have brought every thing back fully and effectively to its former state, and have given com plete satisfaction to the Papal Power. Therefore, all those who in the remotest manner have par ticipated in those deeds, and also the s uccessors in their offices, are liable to such revocation, retrac tion, abrogation, and abolition of the above-men tioned sins, to do so personally, in reality, and in truth, and to give the full satisfaction they owe to the Holy See, and under no pretence to be released and freed, but to always remain bound by it until they arc worthy to obtain the benefit of absolution ; thus we declare by the present letter." First, observe the extent of the curse, the breadth of the Christian world blasted by his Holiness, if there be more real fire and:brimstone in his anathema than in its Rabelaisian or Shandean parodies. Not merely are all excommunicated who have taken part in the sinful insurrection in the Roman pro vinces, in usurping, occupying, or invading them, but all who have been their warranters, supporters, helpers, counsellers, followers, as well as all who have connived at the doing of the said deeds. There are, perhaps, not three hundred men in 1411 , j - who are not included i n thi s f ar - reac hi ng an d all-com prehending malediction. The Pope, by this flam ing instrument, expels from the Church nine-tenths of the Catholic world, and leaves himself, indeed, rro spiritual subjects beyond the college of cdrdi nais, some score of priests, and perhaps here and there a handful of servile laymen. The curse falls upon Naples and Venetia as heavily and sweepingly as upon Sardinia and the Romagna. It is not merely the " shoe," to use the quaint Scriptural expres sion, but the entire boot that is " cast over Edom," or given up to the heathen. As a spiritual monarch, the Pope may now be said to reign over a solit ude, an d one of his own creation. He is a shepherd who has mad e away with his flock. In all his pastures he can now count only the few black sheep. He might almost address his Antonelli as the lover in Tibullus ad dresses his mistress—".'Nleo turbo in soils locis." TILE TREATY . OF COII4II.ERCE. Yesterday's Moniteur contains the following re port to the Emperor : " 13th article of the commercial treaty recent! • c- , nel..ided between France and Great Bri tain stipulates tilat w .aupplementary convention shall fix the ad valorem duties applicable to the articles of British origin and manufacture which are enumerated in the first article, and shall con vert them into specific duties before the Ist of July next. The high importance of this convention, destined to fix the degree of protection necessary for articles of French fabrication within the limits laid down by the treaty of January 23, 1860, could not escape yeur Majesty's a tt en ti on . Y ou h ave therefore willed that the new arrangement that is to intervene should be preceded by a loyal and con scientious inquiry, when the interests, so numerous and various, which this treaty embraces should be called upon to make themselves heard. In con formity with your orders, sire, I have been engaged in organising this inquiry, and I now have to sub mit to you the measures that appear to me best adapted for obtaining useful suggestionstherefrom. " Under previous governments, the mission of collecting information respecting cigars and iron, coal, prohibited wares, linen and hempen cloths, and linen threads, was at successive periods con fided to the superior council of commerce. " Since the decree of Feb 2, 1853, which recon stituted it, this council has been called upon to exercise the same attributes respecting the various kinds of iron and cotton twist. In 1856, when your Majesty decided that the question of removing the prohibitions should be the subject of a supple mentary instruction, you deigned to authorise me to instruct the same council to that effect. "These numerous precedents, the terms of the imperial decree of 1853, the legitimate authority attached to the names of the members composing this council, appear to me to point it out expressly to . y our Majesty's confidence for this new mission. " I have therefore the honour of proposing to you, sire, to charge the superior council of commerce, agriculture, and industry with this inquiry. The project of a decree, which I present for the Em peror's signature, defines the threefold object of this information. The council will have at first to ascertain the average prices of the English articles within the six months preceding the date of the treaty. From this knowledge will be derived the element by the help of which the maximum limit will be fixed of 30 per cent., within which the new tariffs will have their range. It will then have to collect all the information proper for determining the degree of protection necessary to each of the branches of our industry, and for fixing the amounts of the specific duties to be laid upon the importation of each English article. " For the performance of this important mission, the superior council will have the power not only of collecting evidence from French Or foreign nren of business, hut. also of having recourse to the know ledge of particular individuals, who will *nligkten tliinn on teehnis. II points and enable them to solve, with a full mastery of the subject, the question of detail; lastly., my administration and. that of the finance will make it their duty to assist in the per formance of its labours with all the :means - at their disposal. " I venture, then, sire, to promise to yon, that the inquiry shall be, as desired by your Majesty, com- Ect /Ina sincere. "The eirecnnst;:nce3 require that this inquiry should he actively carried out, and that its results, which are to serve as a basis for the new negotia tion, may be promptly ascertained. " It is to satisfy this necessity of the situation, as also your august solicitude for the industrial classes, that I think it, my duty to beg your Majcsty deign to permit me to create, in the Superior Coun cil of Commerce, general commissioners specially empowered to prepare, under my direction, the pro gramme of its labours, to collect both in France and England the information it will be useful to lay before the council, to summon together the manu facturers and merchants of the two con n t ries, whom the council may have an interest in hearing, to verify the accuracy of the declarations that will be made, la,tlv to consign in reports carefully drawn up the result of those investigations. Should your Majesty approve of this appointment, which for the rest will be temporary, like t he commisbion entrusted to the council itself, I shall have the honour of designating to you, for discharging the functions of commissioner-general, M. Herbet, minister plenipo tentiary, formerly consul general of France at Lon don, whom his Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs has been so good as to place at my disposal. I further ask of your Majesty the power of appoint ing, organic in decree conformityireoof Fe v with ith2? 85 the stipulations t tipuo the lations su i p n e te r council, special delegates whom the nature of their studies have prepared for the discussion of the ques tions that concern this or that particular branch of industry. " Constituted on these bases, the inquiry will surely and promptly attain the object assigned for it by the wisdom of your Majesty. It will conduce, with the various measures already initiated by your Governmentrto the abridgment of that inevitable period of uncertainty and that partial stoppage of commercial activity induced by the transition from one system to another, and will give all the desir ableth e e g o m u a p r l a e n m t e e e n s t a t royt negi ointereststhat hasc o n t c o e r b n e e c d a i r n . ried on with Great Britain. "Death has made in the superior council, since its reconstruction, some regretable vacancies. I beg your Majesty's permission to fill them up, by c alling on Messrs. Dumas and Michael Chevalier, senators, to replace Messrs. the Count of Argout and Gauthier. I have, moreover, the honour of proposing to you for the vice-presidentship, rende re d vacant by the resignation which his Excellency M. Billault ad dres=sed to me at the time of his appointment to the Ministry of the Interior, his Excellency the Presi dent of the Council of State, who, notwithstanding his numerous and important occupations,w ill kindly share with me the direction of these great economic discussions. " I am with profound respect, sire, your Majesty's most faithful and obedient servant and subject, the Minister Secretary of State for the Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, " E. ItounEtt." THE lONIAN ISLANDS.—A letter from Corfu, dated April 3, says :—" The Lord High Commissioner, Sir Henry Storks, has gone on his tour t o the Southern Islands in the lonian, with the squadron at p resent stationed hero as his escort, viz , the Exmou th, London, and Liffe y ." S ERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILW AY . m N ing —An accident, attended with considerable loss, occurre d near thoDefford station of the Midland Rail way, on Wrd nesday. 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