The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-14 00:00:00

ROMAN AFFAIRS. (From a Correspondent of thelVestminster Gazette.) ROME, Dec. 7. On Sunday, being the first Sunday in Advent, the Pope as usual bore the Blessed Sacrament:from the Sixtine to the Paoline chapel, where the forty hours' Exposition commences on that day, and is reckoned to open the cycle of that beautiful devo tion for the year. On this occasion be is not borne aloft on the talaino as at Corpds Christi, but walks, carrying the Monstrance all down both chapels and the great Sala Regia, which unites them, through a crowd of clergy of every degree, in their festal robes ; of guards in brilliant antique and mo dern uniforms ; of noblemen, in costumes such as Vandyke loved to paint; of monks and religious, in the unvarying habits of their various orders ; and of faithful from every country under heaven. It is one of those occasions which seem destined to supply a symbolic tableau vivant of the universal character of the Church. The Holy Father showed himself firm and erect, but little altered since the first time I assisted at this office, now many years ago, except that I think, as struggle after struggle is mastered year by year, his brow acquires a more majestic serenity. He trod with a step almost rapid in its energy, showing his spirit as undaunted as at the commencement of his generalship in the warfare ever waging between the Church and the world. It is impossible to be near Pius IX. and not catch a spark of the exube rant confidence in Divine Providence which seems always to animate him. Yesterday he assisted at the funeral office of Car dinal Bofondi, who died on Tuesday, aged 72, fulfilling the popular tradition that cardinals always die in triads ; the other two on this occasion being Cardinal Roberti, and Cardinal Sterckx, Arch bishop of Malines. Among other little acts of attention to those who have suffered in his cause that I have heard cited is that of sending a beautifullpanther skin to Lieu tenant-Colonel de Charette, with the message that it was to cover the wounds of his horse. This officer, who had had a horse killed under him at Nerola, had mounted a favourite charger on the day of the action at Mentana, which he rode till it was disabled by three wounds ; he was obliged then to dismount, but continued to fight on foot till a horse was brought him, captured from a Garibal dian officer; his own is, fortunately, in a fair way to recovery. I have already mentioned that he has devoted all the available space in the Quirinal to the service of the wounded. Two spacious halls—the Sala Con sistoro and the next to it—in one of which stands the curious water organ (like that at the late Em peror Maximilian's Palace of Hellbrunn), presented by Joseph 11. to Pius VI.--are at present occupied by about twenty-five soldiers, who have been selected from among those whose convalescence is advancing, as the spacious gardens, more than a mile in circuit, attached to the palace, are particu larly advantageous for their use. The Pope gave the men in this temporary refuge the consolation of his visit and benediction on Saturday ; he spent an hour talking with the men, and was, of course, re ceived with the usual enthusiasm. It is when visiting these various depots,lweek by week, standing over the painful dissolution or the tardy restoration of these brave fellows, that the wantonness of the late attack is specially brought home to one ; the amelioration one had hopefully watched yielding to a supervening attack of fever ; the terrible amputation at last declaring itself ne cessary where one had hoped to have struggled successfully against it ; the prolonged flickering be tween recovery and relapse of weakly constitutions ; the final dismissal of fine, well made forms hope lessly mutilated for ever, or subjected to chronic conditions of painful disease ; the silent writhing, the suppressed groans, the all but worn-out patience of the most enduring. • To observe the bravest as he endeavours silently to realize a future from which his la teAreams of glory and promotion are suddenly blotted out, in which he who anon left his betrothed full of pride in his bearded manhood, must return to her a helpless cripple, blind, or halt, or maimed ; dependent on others' help who would have been their support and stay. To see the face which in the field confronted death without flinching, blanched at mention of the use of the surgeon's knife ; or the spirit which shrinks not even from this yet, quelled in all its high courage by the dire agony of the actual operation or its consequent reaction. Still more, to grapple with those strange forms of phantasy with which fever invests the strong man's soul—to calm the rambling imagina tion, and withdraw it from its wild and troubled flights, for truly the flesh is weak where the spirit is most willing. In the long and silent hours the thought forces itself home, all this depressing waste —although borne as we see it here, it is, indeed, not wasted—of human suffering, whence does it arise ? From one man's ambition, another's love of notoriety, another's unbridled violence. Such horrors rouse one's indignation to the utmost against the agitators who have come to pour them out upon us. Especially that the wounds received even in fight are not always the most distressing. The splinter of a bomb, the mined barrack, or treacherous invention, supplies us with acme of our worst, even though isolated, cases. I saw a victim to a form of special atrocity brought into San Spirito one day this week. It was a fine young Spanish Zouave, who, coming out of a cafe late in the evening, was accosted by one of . the Mazzinian agents ; the 'Gonave, being himself a foreigner, had not the advantage of de teoting the north Italian accent, which might, pro bably, have put a Roman on his guard. After a few minutes' friendly conversation on different subjects, the fellow pulled out his cigars, and lighting his own, offered another to his new ac quaintance. Your Zouave never refuses a cigar, as all who are acquainted with continental customs are aware, nothing is more common than this little attention among even utter strangers. So, of course, he suspected nothing wrong. The stranger bowed politely and passed on his way, and was out of sight while the Zouave was striking his fusee. He had scarcely taken a puff, however, when the cigar so acquired suddenly burst, filling his mouth with a corrosive poison, the fumes of which rendered him insensible for some minutes. It is commonly observed here that a " special providence " watches over the Zouave. Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, and the remoteness of the locality - , a passer-by found him almbst immediately, and carried him into a chemist's shop, where he was promptly treated, and hence there seems no reason to apprehend serious consequences. It was, however, gratuitously cruel, as it could not possibly put more than one enemy hors de com bat, had it even succeeded. The story, of course, got repeated in the course of the day through every barrack in Rome, and the plot can, there fore, hardly be repeated. And yet it is not needed, either, for a few explosive cigars have entered into the tactics of every former attempt at Revolution. Yet it is heartless wretches who invent such bar barities as these who venture, in the journals in which they delude the public mind in Italy, to chatge the Pontifical Government with cruelty in its treatment of those who have been sent here to fight with and injure its subjects. They do not seem to consider that when a man enters the army he takes the chance of all these things. A la guerre comme a la guerre ; and have we not suffered irreparable losses through the neglect with which the Garibaldians treated some of our wounded? Our own countryman, Collingridge, died not of his wounds which were not mortal, but of sheer and probably calculated mismanage ment. For while some of the privates, whom they might have imagined they could gain over by kindness and attention, were sedulously nursed, officers like De Quelen and Guillemain were left to perish in the cold night air, their wounds untended for hours and till too late to save. People who admit such tactics into their policy can readily suspect the same of others. It is fair to add that only the least respectable papers indulge in this particular form of falsehood. No better proof of its utter groundlessness could be given, perhaps, than the fearless reproduetion of the charge in its worst form in the Roman papers. Every one who has any personal acquaintance with the matter knows the prisoners have had nothing to complain of, and what is more, that they have not complained. The pretended difficulty of access to them has not been discovered by any who wished to relieve them. And, besides the Romans who have been forward to do this, there have been English and Americans who have got up collections of money, and of various objects which they might stand in need of, andthese also have been constantly admitted to minister to them. Among others, used to come a Princess della Torre, a Florentine, I be lieve, but the above name and title probably as sumed, whose liberal opinions were well known. She nevertheless met with no obstruction in her visits to the prisoners. This indulgence has been ill-repaid, for it has since become known that she was carrying'on, or endeavouring to carry on, an active propaganda among the young Romans, and was particularly assiduous in her attentions to the army. She has been requested by the police to return northwards, and as she refuses to comply, a gendarme is stationed at her door. Her house was but one centre of this kind of plot ; there are several others chiefly of an inferior order, where Mazzinian propagandists carry on the most strenuous efforts to gain over the soldiers by all manlier of fine promises and flattery. Nor do they rest on " fair means" alone. They are far from despising harsh measures. It is not easy, of course, to acquire a knowledge of all their ma chinations, which are sedulously conducted in the dark in every sense of the word. But I have the most unimpeachable authority for asserting that the most tyrannical threats have been held over many men of the middle class to induce them to join the movement. Your modern Roman is not troubled with over much pluck or strength of cha racter, and many a man who out of devotion to the Government would have turned a deaf ear to any amount of bribing, may not be proof against a promise of a stab in the dark. And there is no doubt that for some time before the 22nd of Oc tober, the day fixed for the great plot which has not yet received a title, but which deserves a place among the most atrocious conspiracies of history, they did induce a certain number of trembling citi zens to assent to cast in their lot with them if they succeeded. All that time when, as General Kanzler expressed it, a horde of assassins was making its way up to the very gates ; when the principal barracks had their drains stuffed with barrels of gunpowder, so that it seemed only to need a few matches to annihilate the army ; when depots of arms and infernal machines of various kinds had been contrived in various points of the city, with which to massacre all who had the courage to resist ; when various similar preparations were in readiness, and it only wanted the signal to be given in order to set the whole in motion like a turn of the wheel on a box-full of auto matons. At that time the Mazzinian and Gari baldian agents were' so cock-sure of being shortly in possession of the city, that they inspired awe by their very self-assertion, and those who could not be won by a promise of place and fee from the new Government yielded to the threat of guillo tine, confiscation, and lawless ravage without rescue. There were some such, of whom I know, who desired the Gendarmi to arrest them ; who looked on a temporary sequestration as a refuge against the vengeance of the invaders ; but the Gendarmi knew them for the most part as well affected citizens and they would not. That plot was baffled primarily by the deter mination of one man, and that man, so to speak, the very incarnation of the idea of the Roman people—the Senator of Rome. It was reported to him that the signal which was to set the conspi rators to work was the ringing of the Capitol bell ; and determined to prevent it, he took upon himself the watch, while the small body of military who bed been hastily called to the spot were keeping the aggressors at bay, he defended the door giving access to the bell with his life. It would have been a grand historic night to have been in Rome ; un fortunately, I only arrived a day or two later ; but I am told by those who were here, that the aspect of the people was as of those who expected a thing of terror, and not at all that of those who looked for a " deliverance." A bomb was thrown near a shop where a friend of mine was an hour before nightfall, and he heard the master exclaim, with a face blanched by fear, " Dio !it has begun !" lle was clearly one who had been tampered with, for he knew what was coming; but he was a genuine Roman, and there was no triumph in his mien at the prospect of the success of a " Liberal Go vernment." But the spirit which animated Senator Cavaletti kindled the troops no less. For a long time three men bore the whole brunt of defending the broad flight of the Capitol steps, and until relieved, succeeded in keeping at bay all who approached to the attack—some say to the number of 500. I doubt whether the Garibaldians had introduced so many of their number into Rome ; but no doubt there was a crowd far out-numbering the triad of defenders, and that these did wonders. In fact, every one who had anything to do that night did wonders. The whole escape was a wonder, and perhaps the most wonderful episode of all was the successful defence by the Zouaves of the Porto San Paolo, and their take of arms and money in the Villa outside it, at the very time when they ought to have been blown into the air by the explo sion of the only barracks where the signal was not waited for, and which, as it turned out, was just that one in which there was the least harm to be done. Every one, however, of the numerous successes and deliverances we have had has partaken equally of the character of a miracle. In fact, to use the words of one who, by his office, has the means of seeing the dessous des cartes, and appreciating to the utmost the crisis we have lived through, " we have for weeks past been passing literally through a series of miracles." All this is a digression from the regular report of the week, but it is, perhaps, not amiss now and then to summarize and look at as a whole the events we have been following piece by piece as they occur. To take up the narrative of more recent events. The English Garibaldian, calling himself Scholey, but still believed by many to be Peard, died last week, in spite of the first apparent success of the amputation. He was a rather fine looking man, strikingly like Garibaldi in person. His poor mother was telegraphed for as soon as it became apparent that he was in danger, and she arrived just too late to see him alive, and even while the body was yet warm. She travelled under the name of Scholey. We have had two losses among the wounded of the Roman army also, both of ' Belgian Zouaves, Alcantara and Muller by name. Mgr. Borromeo Arese, maggior-domo of the Pope, administered extreme unction to them, and sang a Requiem Mass for them next day at Sta. Maria, in Traspontina. They had been nursed together at the house of the Belgian Brothers of Mercy in the Piazza Pia, and they both died on Friday. The American Col lege has received Mr. Larroque, the Canadian, so badly wounded at Mentana, who, after a severe crisis, is progressing favourably. The other Ca nadian, Mr. Hugh Murray, wounded in two places in the same arm (above and below the elbow) by the same ball, is also going on well, and is now among the convalescents at the Quirinal. He strikes one as a remarkably fine soldier, and I think his earnest desire to rejoin his company, as well as his great equanimity under sufferings and inconvenience, have had some part in hastening his recovery. I should fill more space than you have to spare if I were to tell you of half the cases of interest that come under our notice in the hospitals, but the spirit that animates every individual there gives the lie to the miserable mockery of calling them mer cenaries. One of the most suffering cases is that of a young man from Nantes—there are so many from Nantes. He entered two years ago when only sixteen, though he looks quite a man. During the whole of this last month of pain, he has never been heard to utter a word of complaint, everything seems to come right to him, and he makes every thing a motive of thankfulness. When his brother at home heard he was disabled, instead of being cast down or disheartened, he immediately set out THE SUN, LONDON. SATUROAY IVENJNG, DECEMBER 14, 1867. for Rome and applied for admission to the Zouave regiment, as he said to replace his brother, that his family might still supply a defender to the Pontifical throne. Near him lies another young Frenchman with a very deep wound near the collar-bone ; the muscles are severed, and the wound has to be kept from closing externally before it has properly healed within. It is a wearying process, but he consoles himself with a book and looks bright and gay. He does not complain of the pain of the dressing, nor of the weariness of a constrained position, nor the tediousness of the long confinement. He only frets because the report that the red-shirts are gathering has reached him too, and he is afraid that when they come the doctors will not let him out to join in driving them back (les chasser). "Car avec eux" he added smartly, "ce n'est pas un combat, c'est une chasse et la-bas parmi les buissons c'e'tait veritablement comme une chasse aux alouettes." I have had occasion frequently to speak of San Spirito and some of the other hospitals, but I do not think I have mentioned the one which is per haps the most comfortable of all, that of San Giovanni Calibata, in the island of the Tiber. Most of the other hospitals are served by Sisters of S. Vincent, or by a kindred Italian community of suore ospedaliere ; under the present emergencies, too, the former have been reinforced by auxiliaries from convents in France, Belgium, and Turin. We are all familiar with the merits of the Sisters of Charity, and any who have seen them at work may picture to themselves the character of their arrange ments in the sick wards. But the Hospital of S. John of God is served by religious of the other sex, whom the people have gratefully named the beneficent brothers—fa te-bene fratelli—and it is a less familiar sight to observe them engaged in their charitable occupations. The superior neat ness and amenity of the wards might have led one to guess that the respective regimes were reversed ; while nothing can be more tender and patient than the attentions one may see them rendering to the very whims of their fevered charges; the gentlest hand of woman could not handle a quivering wound more delicately. The building comprises some nice private rooms for patients of a respectable class who may yet lack the means for providing duly against the exigencies of a long or dangerous illness at home. The more public part consists of two wards with about forty beds in each, well-ventilated, warmed, and lighted. The floors are of polished Venetian scagliola which, while it has the merit of being kept perfectly clean with ease, and well adapted for the summer heats, has also the advantage by its close ness of excluding all possible draughts in winter. Each bed is provided with every modern appliance and convenience ; an ornamental locker with a nest of drawers beside each enables the patients to entertain a sense of security as to the inviolability of their letters or other little matters precious to them. Except iu a few instances, curtains are dispensed with as interfering with the free circula tion of air, but a neat valance trims the tops of the iron bedsteads, and imparts an air of care and comfort ; a glazed door at one end admits to a spacious lozzia, prettily laid out with plants and rock-work, where convalescents may take the sun and snugly smoke their cigar, while there lies spread out before them one of the nicest views of Rome. At the other end is an altar bright with coloured marbles, at which Maffs is said every morning. At night dark blue glass lamps soften the lights which it is convenient to keep burning, and the whole place wears a pleasant cheerful tone. Attached to the hospital is a pharmacy, where everything is in shining order, and which enjoys the reputation of being one of the best here. The "Benfratelli," however, are not the only men who devote themselves to this good work ; both they and the Sisters get admirable help from a number of gentlemen visitors from all nations as well as Romans, some of them quite young:lads who yet do not shrink from their share in the mid night watch—who are indefatigable in their minis trations and even more numerous than the lady helpers. Among the latter none are more devoted than the Queen of Naples. One of the French Zouaves gave me an account the other day, with great naivete, of her visiting him while he did not know who she was. He asked her to perform some little service for him, just as if she had been any other lady, and he would have been, he said, greatly ashamed when he found what he had done but for the charming simplicity with which she complied. It is gratifying to perceive that the Protection which guarded our brave little army in the field, and made the losses in its ranks so inconsiderable, in proportion to those inflicted by them on the enemy, is still extending a care in the sick-wards over lives so precious. It has been calculated by one who has had great experience on the subject that the per tentage of recoveries here is something unprecedented. At Solferino, where it happened to be unusually low, I understand it stood at 30 per cent., while 40 or 45 is considered a fair ave rage, and this was scarcely reached in the Crimea. Here, even counting as lost some few still doubtful cases, it is not likely to be lower than 70 per cent. I have not yet heard to what second cause this immunity is to be ascribed ; probably in some measure to the more regular and temperate habits prevailing amo.ig the men than is usual in other armies. Their numbers are receiving a very considerable augmentation. On the Ist October, when the Garibaldians first crossed the frontier, the Pope's army was made up as follows : 1 Regiment of the Line, comprising 1,200 men. 1 Battalion of Cacciatori Gendarmi 2,400 „ 3 Squadrons of Dragoons 360 ~ Artillery l,lOO Sappers Squadriglieri (a name given to the pea sants who have been armed chiefly for following up brigands) l,OOO „ Sedentarii (that is veterans and infirma- rians who do not leave Rome) 5OO ~ The above are almost entirely composed of Italians ; then there were also of mixed Romans and foreigners— A Battalion of foot Carbineers, mostly Swiss 1,400 „ The Roman (Antibes) Legion, mostly French BOO „ And finally, the Zowtves of all nations 2,400 „ In all.. 11,980 „ Now, the Zouaves are already raised to over 4,000, the Roman Legion had received several hundred now volunteers up to the 30th ult., and this week I am told a yet larger number have come in, and every day each corps receives additions. I am glad to see that Germany is stirring herself at length to send something like a proportionate quota to the Papal army. 'Whilst countries like Holland and Poland have sent us numbers of sol diers, we have had but few Germans hitherto. The report of the Congress held at Mayenee, with the view of supplying this deficiency, will, doubt less, have reached you. It was attended by dele gates from all parts of Germany, and I have no doubt, from the spirit of the speakers, that so me efficient system of subsidizing the Papal army will be organized. The petition from Cologne, so numerously signed, urging that the support of the Prussian Government be given to the maintenance of the temporal power, is also a sign that Germany is determined not to lose the merit of taking her sharein the struggle. Among the latest body of recruits for the Zouaves came a number of trained soldiers who had been allowed to volunteer out of the Belgian army. The Romans, too, are keeping up their pro portion well ; they have not failed to observe how much more disastrous would have been the ra vages of the Garibaldians over their country had it not been for the Pontifical army. It is animated by the best possible spirit. The garrisoning of the provincial towns now falls on it alone, and to its care, under God, we are left now. The last French soldier left Rome on Tuesday, and the whole of General Battaill's division is concentrated on Civita Vecchia, and three or four small towns near. From the tenor of de Moustier's speech in the Senate, on the 30th ult., and of the orders from Paris directed to General de Failly, there is every reason to believe that this division will take up its winter quarters on the Pontifical shore, unless, in deed, the Conference should come off, and should provide some superior security for the Papal so vereignty. The French officers were, many of them, very indignant at the order for turning their.backs on Rome while the enemy was threatening around ; even those who had no special devotion to the temporal power complained that it was equivalent to making them run away from the:fire, or, at best, leaving their work undone. General Dumont, who had command of the division that has gone back to France, indeed, in parting from his friends, as he went on board, exclaimed aloud—" Au revoir, et h bientot !" And M. de Failly, as he took leave of the Pontifical officers, said :—" If you are attacked, gentlemen, you will bear in mind, as you stand your ground against the enemy, that the French flag still waves at Civita Vecchia, and that behind that flag stands France." It is also re ported that at his final audience of the Pope the General-in-Chief renewed the assurance " that France would save the Pontifical throne at what ever cost." I am further told that the quarters occupied by the troops while here have all been left exactly as if the officers expected the order to return shortly ; and so far, at least, men have been left on guard over each with orders to keep them in their present condition. Faithful to its crooked line of policy, the Florence Government is trying to hoodwink Europe by publishing in the various journals under its in spiration, simple negations of the fact that the revolutionists are re-forming on the Roman fron tier. It is another instance of the shameless ab sence of self-respect of the present rulers of poor Italy that it can be sought to carry on the Govern ment of a country by suck means. And who does not remember that the last gatherings were denied in a similar way? What faith can be expected in such denials ? Contemporaneously with them, too, the liberal journals-- 7 that is such of them as have not self-command to enter into the views which dictate them—are boasting of the very facts denied. Here are the triumphant prophecies of the Dovere of Genoa :—" The lightning flash of Revo lution shall be kindled again, and a new path of light shall be traced across the firmament of Italy. We are far from participating the discouragement of the weak-minded. The darkness which for the moment has fallen so thickly upon us shall be dissipated again in a moment. Let none be silent. Keep up the cry of " Viva Roma, and out with the French !" • The official Gazzetta itself, too, boasted but a day before its first denials appeared, that the police had seized cases of arms and munitions which were being transported clandestinely through Florence. Here, the news arrives by 'every possible inlet. Everybody has heard it, and it is in every one's mouth. Letters from friends in the border dis tricts, accounts of travellers passing through them, and of the peasants coming up to the capital with their produce. The very hospitals are preparing for an expected influx of new victims. As long ago as Sunday evening last, I had an urgent mes sage from a wounded soldier for one of the excel lent army chaplains. I found him on the eve of starting on a mission of consolation to the most ex posed garrisons, where there would be many who would gladly avail themselves of his ministrations in the prospect of an approaching struggle. I may add, par parentliese, that though he had to start in the early hours next morning, and there only re mained a short space before the time appointed for a night conference with the soldiers at a dis tant church, and notwithstanding that he was still suffering from the effects of the night's exposure in the field at Mentana, he came with me without hesitation, and left the poor wounded man con soled and at peace. This, by the way—but his journey and its object show something serious is expected, and that the report of it is not a mere newspaper paragraph. The following mot, attributed to the Pope, too, I cannot recall exactly on how good authority, may have an interest in relation to this question. An ecclesiastic of one of the most active orders, speaking to him of our late victories, asked if his Holiness did nolthink it would be right to testify our sense of the signal help so manifestly extended by Divine Providence in them by appointing a special thanksgiving with the singing of the Te Deum. "True," the Holy Father is reputed to have replied, "we have received great and signal mercies, but there are words in the Mass which we may fervently apply for them. A much greater victory is at hand, my son, and after that we will sing our solemn Te Deum." Whatever faith may be attached to such expres sions as these—and similar ones are frequently re peated in Roman circles—the increase of the army is a palpable fact showing that in high quarters, as well as in ordinary firesides, tidings that fresh red,shirts are weaving, have been heard. And, as I suppose there are many among your readers who are not of those who consider that everything which emanates from the official journal here is necessarily a fabrication, 1 may mention that the Giornale di Roma, of Monday, speaks of a brush between a band of Garibaldians and the post of Gendarmi whose barracks they had tried to take by surprise at S. Stefano, a little place on the coast inhabited chiefly by tawny-fishers, not far from Orbitello, on Friday last. It would seem, however, that recruiting does not go on so fast this time as last, though the beating up for it is just as active. It is pretty well known now that the Pope's army is strong in its discipline, its valour, and its trust in God, and it is useless to attempt longer the de ception that there is nothing for those who join the Garibaldini to do but to don a red shirt, and put to flight, by its mere presence, a handful of mer cenaries, behind whom there is a store of plunder to be easily carried off. Possibly, too, the wholesale arrests which are going on in Florence may clear away many unruly spirits who, if at large, would have been driving on the new invasion hitherwards. And Mazzini's reported illness may'also act as a check. Garibaldi certainly announced that he should not quit Caprera till the spring ; and, although he can in no way be relied on, as it is just as likely to be a ruse as a true intention, it would not seem likely that any attack on a large scale could be attempted during the winter. Cowardly outrages on a small scale will no doubt, however, be continued, for the sake of trying to keep up popular excitement and tiring out the army. The latter consummation, however, is not likely to be attained ; the men seem inclined rather to be exasperated at the dastardly nature of the plots, and the result of all hitherto tried, where not a failure altogether has been so miserably small that the conspirators, and still more their Flo rence subsidizers, are likely to be tired out first. For the moment they are still attempted here and there. There are under many parts of Rome subterra nean passages which may in ancient times have been used as drains and sewers ; the entrance to some of them lies at a considerable distance in a vigna or a field, and many a vine-grower has stored his wine in the cellarage afforded by their entrance without suspecting they extend to any distance, much less exploring them in, all their length. But where any of these extend under one of the barracks it is a tempting opportunity for laying a dastardly and nefarious plot. The outlets and direction of all these is probably unknown ; but those who are fond of burrowing in the dark, may in time trace one such as will suit their, purpose ; it was thus at Serristori and with others which were found out and rendered harm!ess. But on Monday 'night a soldier in the barracks near San Giovanni dei Fiorentini was awakened by a noise of workmen driving their picks and spades directly under him ; the noise was tracked, and found to proceed from beneath the cellars, continuing till 'daybreak. Something of the same kind occurred near Sta. Maria Maggiore, and now the key is ob tained to this class of attempts they are almost deprived of their power to do mischief. Another miserable mode of keeping up the effervesence is spreading among the common people—the report which gets quickly carried from café to café and from house to house that in such a day "something is expected." The nature of the event to be ex pected is not explained, as mystery is supposed to add to the excitement. This week, Sunday and, Thursday (the latter being the day of opening the Florence Chambers) have both been thus named, but both passed off without the least attempt at dis turbance, and even bomb throwing seems to be gone out of fashion. The towns in the usurped districts hearing the talk of a restoration of the Pope's territory in its integrity are taking heart and making loud demon strations in its favour. One of the foremost has been Ascoli, a town on the borders of the kingdom of Naples. During the performance at the theatre, which is part of the yearly festivities of the No vember fair, there was a great demonstration the other day, in which cries of " Viva Pio IX. ; Viva Francisco 11. ; Viva i preti ; Viva it Papa- Re " were uttered vociferously. The head of the police stepped forward invested with his scarf of office to endeavour to obtain silence in the name of the law, hut the people were only louder in their denunciations of the Government which had imposed itself on them and then reduced them to such misery, and it was found necessary to stop the performance and put out the lights in order to clear the house. Meantime the peaceful Pfifferari have arrived— I think in greater force than usual—to remind us of the .advent of the Prince of Peace among us ; at all hours of the day from the earliest dawn and in all weathers these hardy children of the mountains may be seen standing with their heads uncovered at the corner of the streets gazing up to the Mother and Child whose festival they are come to celebrate, with as great devotion as those first shepherds directed by angels to the Manger, pos sibly bearing the same instruments of pastoral Music and not improbably drawing from them the same simple and peculiar melody. Another token, though of a different kind, of a peaceful winter is the opening of the hunting season ; the first meet took place on Wednes day. This morning it was to be at Cicchignola, a disused torretta of Leo XII., outside Porta San Sebastiano, not far from the Tre Fontane. On Monday it will be at Magliano. The Giornale di Roina published, on Wednes day, the Brief suspending Cardinal d'Andrea from his rights as a Cardinal, including that of assist ing at a Conclave ; and summoning him to Rome before the 29th of December, under pain of being deprived of the purple and of his See. It is ex pected that he will . come. Since writing the above, I have been at pains to see a friend from whom I could learn par. ticulars as to the treatment of the Garibaldian prisoners, which would serve to check or confirm what I have said above. He is a foreign noble man who lives in Rome and devotes himself to useful works, and 1 know that he goes the round of the hospitals every day. I spoke to him of the article in the Unity Italiana, and you will per haps value the confutation more if I quote it in the first instance. " Persons arrived from Rome tell us of the sufferings, the privations and insults which the ferocity of priestly vengeance inflicts on our poor Garibaldian prisoners remaining in the hands of these cannibals (sic.). About two hundred of them, shut up in the hospital of Sant' Onofrio, are treated worse than beasts. They have no clothes, no linen, not even shirts to wear ; their food is insufficient, unwholesome and re volting, and for drink they have nothing but a little muddy water flavoured with the juice of musty lemons ; such is the charity of priests ! Death is mowing them down wholesale because on account of the filthiness of the hospital, gangrene is spreading fast among them. It is most difficult for charitable citizens to gain access to these wards, at the doors of which, however, you may be sure there is no great crowd of visitors, for the cruel mistrust of the Roman Government selfish ness, and the dangers of infection, serve to distance all who are not inspired by a special love of humanity. And if any, overcoming all the obsacles thrown in their way, succeed in getting to see them, they are watched by spies and for bidden to distribute money and clothes, under the pretext that it might enable them to escape. By means of their keeping them naked and famished, the Pope's Government can enjoy the satisfaction of gloating over their lingering agony until death delivers them from its claws." He told me he had for a moment entertained the idea of answering the charge in the Italian papers, but second thoughts had convinced him that it was so gross and so vulgar that it carried its own refutation with it to all who knew any thing of Italy, Wit in England it is different, as such falsehbods get believed there. "Nov, with regard to Sant' Onofrio," he continued, " it must be borne in mind that it is not a regular hospital. That at the time when the building was thus first adapted we were overwhelmed with the number of wounded—our own as well as prisoners. The powers of the vast wards of S. Spirit° were over taxed, and in the hurry with which this one was improvised, of course many little appliances to be found in the regular hospitals could not be sup plied in the first days. Nevertheless, good beds, bedding, changes of sheets, and an ample supply of medicaments, bandages, &c., and a staff of ex cellent surgeons and helpers, were provided with the most remarkable celerity. Experienced Roman Sisters, from San Spirit°, took charge of the nursing department; and little by little, everything was added to put the treatment quite on a par with that of our own soldiers. A great number of cases were very bad, indeed. Several wounds dated from engagements prior to that of Mentana, and some had been much neglected. Any one who has ever had any occasion to observe the management of wounds, must be conscious that under such circumstances a room full of patients, and one not built for the purpose, would be likely to be very offensive at the time of dressing the wounds ; but I have been round continually with the sur geons, watching both dressings and operations, and can bear testimony that it would not be possible to pay more scrupulous attention either to health or cleanliness." He then adverted to the circum stance that liberal papers have been forward enough to assert that some of the medical men here entertained advanced opinions, and as it is just those who attend at Sant' Onofrio, it is not likely they should ill-treat or neglect those with whom they may be expected to sympathize. . More than this, he had himself gone round and asked them man by man if they had any desire to be moved from Sant' Onofrio, if they wanted for any comfort which could be better supplied in a regular hospital, or in a smaller house, where it is, of course, easier to afford individual attention. The poor fellows have great confidence in him, because, while yet working among them as a brother, he yet never disguises his own opinions. Many re cognized him from having seen him at Mentana binding up wounds, and taking him hence for one of the surgeons, held out their hands to him, calling him " Signor Dottore," and " Signor Pro. fessore." But the general answer he received was in the negative. " We have all we want here, why should we more ?'' they said. Some few re ferred to the surgeons of the ward—personally they were satisfied, but if they thought the change would be beneficial they would go, if not, they were quite content where they were. One only elected to be removed. Many other gentlemen, also, have been forward in attending to their needs, and their kindness seems to have been truly appreciated, and not only laymen, but two or three Capuchins, a Benedictine, and some other religious also. In many instances their labours have been rewarded by the most gratifying results, but in no case has any attempt at preaching repentance been forced upon them. Once or twice, when he asked one of the Capuchins what he thought of the state of mind of such an one, the answer was, "I have not spoken to him in that way. I have only been attending to his bodily needs." But numbers have come round to the happiest sentiments, and only three have died without the sacraments, one of whom was Mr. Scholey, who, of course, had never been a Catholic ; and speaking even of him, the others said, " Ah, poor fellow, he was a brave man it was a pity he never seemed to think about hi soul !" And, " Ah, it was sad that he should die without the sacraments, I liked him well, I cannot bear to think of it." A young Jew of a good family in Mentana ap plied almost on his first entrance for some books on the Christian religion, a subject to which his attention had, it would seem, already been drawn. One day he called the Benedictine to his bedside, and told him he really thought Jesus Christ must, after all, be the Messiah, and he had a great desire to be baptized, but he wished first to have his mother's consent. lle accordingly dictated a letter to his mother, but urgently rejoined the priest to baptize him if he should be pronounced in danger of death before the answer came. It happened that two or three days after he was going round the hospital with the Benedictine, they had spoken to this young Jew on entering, and had passed on to a fellow sufferer at some distance, when they sud denly heard a cry, " Padre, padre, fate presto !" (Father, father, make haste !) They turned to see where the cry came from, and at last found it was uttered by this young man. An internal haemorrhage had suddenly supervened and he was already dead 1 A Capuchin standing near, how ever, had heard his appeal and had baptized him. Another young man of good family, a student of a north Italian university, who had received a terrible wound from a rifle ball which had entered his back and completely traversed his body, finding his end near and his strength failing, called the Sister to him, and having exacted a promise that she would fulfil his last wish, he said solemnly, " Promise me to write to my parents and tell them from me that I die fully reconciled to the Church. Tell them that I acknowledge the folly of the path into whiCh I have been led, and that my only desire now is to receive pardon. Oh! that my sufferings may be taken as an earnest of my re pentance." Poor young fellow I he was not more than eighteen, and his sufferings were fearful, in deed, both from the wounds I have mentioned and from others in his legs, both calves having been injured by another ball. But the elasticity of youth. wrestles long with death, and his agony lasted a day and night, during the whole of which it needed gentle hands to hold him ; for as he writhed and tossed he opened his wounds afresh, and there was no rest for his back but when sup ported in one direction, and in his intervals of de lirium the prevailing ideas of his mind "showed themselves in the fancy that he was being tor tured, and he cried out "Assassini ! Assassini !" Then, again, his senses came back, and he recog nized and gently thanked those who were attending him, and renewed his vows of penitence, and then the delirium took him again ; but he died with the , name of Jesus on his lips. So far from its being prohibited to give presents of clothes and relief for their use, these things were brought and administered in abundance, as well by persons of known " liberal " tendencies as by the Roman Relief Committee, with this difference, that the latter, seeking only to do good, were content to have their offerings dispensed by those whose knowledge of each case enabled them to do so with good effect, while the former would not yield to this wise consideration. Not only clothes and ne cessaries, but fruit and delicacies of all kinds, in cluding champagne and other wines, were supplied by both. An English physician, accustomed to the practice of English hospitals, was, :indeed, scan dalized at what he called the laxity with which injudicious well-wishers were suffered to distribute such things when they persisted in doing it ; and there is no manner of doubt that four deaths have to be ascribed to the want of discrimination in these matters of their sympathizers. The fact that so many of them were in such bad plight as to clothes has likewise to be ascribed to the fault of their own friends. Many of them have confessed that it - was their own people stripped them as they lay helpless. S ORTING INTELLIGENCE TENBY STEEPLECHASES. TUESDAY, Dec. 10. Stewards—Major Kempson, Capt. Kuatchbull, Mr. J. S. Jeffries (9th Regiment), and Mr. H. Paul. Hon. secre tary—Mr. P. Bowers. Under the auspices of the officers of the Pembroke Dock Garrison a very fair day's sport was brought off as above on the I'enby Race Course. Tho snow covering Wales towards the end of the previous week had entirely dis appeared, and but for two rather severe accidents in the open ing chase every gratification would have been afforded to a large muster of the denizens of Taffyland. The stewards' ordinary took place at the Royal White Lion Hotel in the evening. It was well attended, and did infinite credit to the catering abilities of mine host Bowers, who also capi tally discharged the duties of Clerk of the Course. To keep the game going a pigeon match was got up on Wed.. nesday, for which 15 gentlemen entered, the winner being Mr. E. C. Leighton, who killed all his birds in good style. The Tenby Stakes of 3 sous each, with 20 added; weight for age, with selling allowances; throe miles. 5 subs. Capt. Turner us Flatcatcher, by King Tom, 4 yrs, lOst (40 sots) (Ethel:jugs) 1 Mr. Davidson's Minossa, 5 yrs, list (40 sous) (Downes) 2 Chance and The Hawk also ran. . Chance fell after cutting out the work for about a quar ter of a mile, but was soon remounted, resumed the lead jumping the made fence in:admirable style. When, how ever, half the distance had been gone over she again came down and sadly damaged her rider; The Hawk, mean while, having also got to grief, and likewise injured her pilot, each sustaining a fracture of the collar-bone. The command was then taken by Minossa till deprived of it half a mile from home by Flatcatcher,;who„won a closely-con tested race by a length. The winner was bought in for 40 soya. The Garrison Stakes of 3 sows, with 15 added, for horses bona fide the property of officers stationed at Pembroke Dock ; catch weight ; two miles ; 4 subs. Mr. Douelan's (9th Regt) Gameboy (Owner) 1 Mr. Jeffare's (9th Regt) Ferret .• Owner) 2 Mr. FandUn's (58th Regt) Jack O wner ) 3 Mr. Leighton's (9th Regt) Barm a id Ferret made play, waited upon by Gameboy to the dis tance, where the latter was let out, and won by two lengths. The Hunters' Stakes of 3 soya each, with 15added; weight for age. Three miles. 4 subs. Mr. Lewis's Spaniel, by Servius, 5 yrs, list 71b(Flutter) 1 Mr. Williams's Cardiff, 4 yrs, list 71b (Mathias) 2 Capt. Turner's Bandmaster, aged, l2st (llitchings) 3 Spaniel went away with the lead, and at a mile had in creased it 200 yards, Cardiff going on second, and reducing the gap towards the finish, but having laid off too long he never gob up, and Spaniel won by several lengths. Band master was stopped at the second mile. The Innkeepers' Plate of 15 soya, added to a Selling Sweep stakes of 2 sovs each, p.p. ; three miles ; 6 subs. Captain Turner ns Flatcatcher, 4 yrs, lOst 71b (£2O) (Hitchings) 1 Mr. Waller's Catch 'em Alive, aged, list 71b (.£2O) (Flutter) 2 Mr. Bishop's The Hawk, aged, list 71b (£2O) (Lieut. Alnat) 3 Mr. Gulley's Nettle, 5 yrs, list 7113 (£4O) (Lower) 4 Catch 'em Alive made the running, closely followed by Flatcatcher and The Hawk to about half a mile from home, when Flatcatcher took the lead, and won a good race by half a length. In a Match, 50 each, one mile on the flat, Mr: Bishop's Samba easily beat Mr. F. Bowers's Miss Gaunt, and this terminated the sport. We aro happy to state that latest inquiries report the injured gentlemen above mentioned to be progressing favourably. TTJRF NEWS FROM FRANCE. M. Edward Fould, nephew of the late Minister, has cer tified his intention of forming a racing establishment at Chantilly, and T. Carter, jun., late trainer to Count de Lagrange, has been engaged to take the management of it. The new stud will occupy the Duke de Morney's old stables, and M. A. Fould intends to confine his racing to the Midi, so that his second trainer, A. Jordan, who has had great success in the north during the past two seasons, will be open - to an ergagement from the Ist of January. A steeplechase meeting will probably take place at Havre next year. A match has been made between the produce. , of Ka: tinka and the produce of Mrs. Shunt in 1869, the race to take place as two year olds iu 1871, for 200 sovs each, over the T.Y.C., at Chantilly Autumn. Meeting. Mrs. Shunt is going to Argonaut next year. The Imperial Hams, it is said, has decided upon t a ki ng Tourmalet. The price is not known, but previous to this decision an offer of 15,000 f. (GOO sovs) was male and re fused for our black friend's old rival Gontran. Count do Lagrange has let Lo Mandarin to Viscount de Buiseret of Belgium, and he will cover in that country next season, at 300 f. a mare. The steeplechase horse Volta, by Cossack, died of in flammation last week. Meli Melo has been added to the list of geldings. Our readers will be surprised to hear that "the strike fever" has actually been caught at Chantilly, not for wages, which is the general symptom of the complaint, but because roast beef, pudding, and potatoes are not consi dered to be proper fare for racing lads, without the addi tion of tart or perhaps cheese and celery. The complaint broko out at Monsieur Delamaire'e. One morning all the ~ ~...• - - - boys struck, and very properly their grievance was not admitted, but all got dismissed from about the most com fortable and best places in the town. Anything more absurd than the above paltry movement cannot be well conceived, and it shows what servants have come to, for at Chantilly the lads/certainly fare three times as well as they do in the majority of the racing stables in England, and the bill of fara that has been• mentioned to us as a specimen of the generality is certainly superior to that which is provided at a public school to the sons of gentle men. LATEST BETTING ON THE FRENCH DERBY. 20 to 1 agst Guerriar 25 to 1 agst Cromwell 25 to 1 agst Le Bosphore 25 to 1 agst La Jung Frau 50 to 1 agst Dutch Tar 10 to 1 agst Miss Thunderbolt and La Mousse coupled/ and 3 to 1 each agst Count de Lagrange's stable. PROGRAMME OF WILTSHIRE COUNTY 4.k BEAU FORT HUNT (WESTBURY) MEETING. TUESDAY, Dec. 17. The Wiltshire County Handicap of 10 sovs each, 3 ft, with 100 aided ; winners of any steeplechase after Nov. 28 (at 11 a.m.) 51b, of 200 sovs at one time 91b, or the second in any race of that amount 41b extra ; Pe nalties accumulative up to 91b ; the second to save his stake; about three miles and a half ; 15 subs. Age st lb Sir Bobby ... a 12 .7 Sprite ... a 12 1 Cabia Boy (h b) ... a 11 10 Arlescott a 11 6 Fairy Mount (h b).. 6 11 5 N'rthn. Light (II b) 6 11 3 Orleton (h b) 11 2 Spatchcock ... a 11 1 The Savernake Forest Handicap of 5 soya each, 2 ft, with 40 added ; winners of any steeplechase after Nov. 28 (at 11 a.m.) 71b extra; the second to save his stake; about two miles; 16 subs. Age st lb Age st lb Sir Bobby a 12 9 Darkness (h a 10 8 Cabin Boy (h b) ... a 11 2 Heurlys,, a 10 7 Violet ... all 0 Serious Case „,, alO 7 Portland ... ... alO 12 Diomed 610 6 Laura (11 b) 6 10 12 Empress a 10 0 The Tartar ... 6 10 10 Jack a 10 0 Sinite a 10 10 Miss Dods on (h b). 6 10 The Guide: 0 5 10 8 Th e R o bb er 10 0 The Longleat Stakes of 2 soya each, with 25 added; the second to save his stake; three year olds 9st 71b, four lOst 71b, five list 21b, six and aged list 71b; winners of any steeplechase 71b extra; thoroughbreds 71b extra winners of any steeplechase 71b extra; thorough breds 71b extra ; to be ridden by gentlemen, farmers, or tradesmen ; about two miles and a half. 14 subs. St. Magnus, 5 yrs, Penelope (h b), 6 yrs, Tinderbox! 6 yrs, Tremors Lass (h b), 4 yrs, Lord Albemarle, Turpen" tine (h b), aged, Barbarian, 6 yrs, Blarney, 3 yrs, Swindler (h b), aged, Useless, aged, Sunbeam (h b), aged, Bessie (11 b), 5 yrs, Jacob (b. b), 4 yrs, and Merry Horn (11 4 yrs. The Bowood Plate of 30 soya ; lOst 71b each ; winners once 71b, twice 141 b extra; gentlemen riders, profes sionals 51b extra. About one mile and a half. La Pique, 5 yrs, Confusion, aged, Penelope (h b, 6 9 1.8, Pearl, 4 yrs, Redmire, 5 yrs, Amesbury, 4 yrs, The Switcher, 6 yrs, Marion, 6 yrs, Ardericca, 5 yrs, Janet (h b), 4 yrs, Useless, aged, Jassy, 5 y rs , C ra f ty, 4 yrs, Rocket (h b), 5 yrs, Vanity (h b), 5 yrs, Mother of Pearl, 4 yrs, Warwick Lass (h b), aged, and Polly (h b), 5 yrs. WEDNESDAY. The Beaufort Cup, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, 1 ft ; four year olds, 12st, five 12st 91b, six and aged 13st ; half breds allowed 71b ; to be ridden by gentle men, farmers, or tradesmen, who have never ridden for hire, and those who have never ridden a winner of 20 soya 51b extra ; the second to receive 10 soya out of the stakes; about three miles of the StJeplechase Course. 24 subs. Moonshine (h b) 6 yrei, Princess (h b) 4, Mail Train aged, Queensland (b b) 4, Beeswing (11 b) a, Batthyany 5, Frailty 4, Jacob (h b) 4, Brush (11 b) a, Billy b) 6, Apple Pulp (b. b) a, Hotspur (h b) a, Handsome Jack (h a, Mon mouth (h b) a, Deerhound (11 b) a, The Needy Mizzler The Major a, Polly (h b) a, The Drover 6, The Dictator s• Rhone 5, Swindler (11 b) a, Cranruore Lass (II b) 5, Bel grave 5. The Penleigh Stakes, a Free Handicap of 5 soya each, 2 ft, with 40 added; the winner of the Wiltshire County Handicap 101 b, any other winner after Nov. 28 (at 11 a.m.) 71b extra, not accumulative; the second to se." his stake; about three miles ; 15 subs. Age st lb A g e st lb Sir Bobby ... a 12 7 Spatchcock „,, a 10 1 1 Sprite ... a 11. 10 Daniel O'Rourke 610 19, Cabin Boy (11 b) .. all 7 Corkscrew (b. b) 510 I '', Violet ... all 3 The Guid e _ ~, 510 in Fairy Mount (h b). 6 11 1 Stourton „. 6 10 Arlescott ... a 11 0 Macki n t os h , 5 10 u f Heurlys a 10 12 Miss Dodson (la b).. 6 10 Orleton (h b) a 10 12 The Beaufort Hunt Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 50 added; four year olds list, five list 91b, six and aged 12st; the winner of any steeplechase 71b, of 50 sovs or upward s 101 b extra; half breds allowed 71b, and those that have not been in a training stable for six months before the day of running allowed 71b ; gentlemen riders and those who have never ridden a winner of 20 soya allowed 5 1 b1 professionals 51b extra; the second to save his stake; about two miles and three quarters; 30 subs. Ganymode (h b) aged,Magnus 5 yrs, Forest Las s (h b) aged, Lawr e nce b) aged, c 'bk tu by Tempest dais (h b) 5 yrs, Corkscr ew (h b) 5 yrs, Violet aged, The Tartar 6 yrs, Tinderbox (h b) 6 yrs, Arlescott (h b) aged, Thn Robber aged, Frailty 4 yrs, Demon aged, The Switcher yrs, Andover (la b) 6 yrs, Empress 6 yrs, Woodbury Ud l (h b) aged, Northern Light (h b) 6 yrs, Jassy 5 yrs, Orle ton (If b) aged, Batthyany 5 yrs, Bracknell aged, Sprea combo 4 yrs, b m by Leopold (h b) 6 yrs, Rocket (h b) 5 yrs, Miss Dodson (h b) 6 yrs, Yarborough (h b) 6 yrs, Mother of Pearl 4 yrs, Warwick Lass (h b) aged, Merl' Horn (h b) 4 yrs. The Draycot Plate (Handicap of 30 sovs; any winne r after the publication of the weights 71b extra; about one mile and a half. Confusion aged, Warwick Lass (h b) aged, Useless aged. , , Heurlys 6 yrs, Joker 5 yrs, C ra fty 4 yrs, C a bi n Boy al"?' aged, Mother of Pearl 4 yrs, My Love (h b) 5 yrs, Stool" ton 6 yrs, Queen Bee gelding aged, Helice 5 yrs, Wedding_ Peal 5 yrs, La Pique 5 y rs , Mi ss D o d son (h 6 yrs, Red mire 5 yrs, The Robber aged, Penelope (h b) 6 yrs, Niinly A aged, Barumite 5 yrs, All ow M e age d , S w i n dl er (h b) age') Janet (h b) 4 yrs, The Drover (h b) 6 yrs, Vanity b) yrs, Polly (b. b) 5 yrs, Sir Bobbylaged. Age st lb Daniel O'Rourke .. G 11 1 Corkscrew (i t b) 511 0 The Guide... 5 11 0 Stourton 6 10 13 Gelert 4 10 13 Higbflyer a 10 13 Jassy 5 10 10 HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE MENTS. Nov. 14, at 9 a.m., Benazet, out of Shrewsbury Steeple' chase ; Dec, 1, Trap, out of Harpenden and Luton Plates at St. Albans; Dec. 7, after 6 p.m., all Mr. Studd's horses , out of St. Alban's Steeplechases ; Dec. 10, at 3.35 px" Bishopton, out of the Metropolitan Handicap Steeple" chase, at Kingsbury. L. ae lIVERPOOL FAT CATTLE SHO W.—This show' lo held on Thursday and yesterday. The entries were mo re) numerous than on any former occasion. Mn uarrie, of Forres, Morayshire, took the first prize, a silver cup, for the best ox of the show. Mr. Bennett, of Market flarb ° ‘ rough, won the principal prize for sheep. 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Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James T b iooci , of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting d 0 .. ., liver derangement, and partial deafness Important C a ;,tio°° Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy oda' to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is ra° s " ciously attached 11 0 '; In tins at ls. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d,; 5 1b 0 •4 0 . 71, 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 408.— BARRY Du BARRY and Co: , ;Ay; Lie gent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, a 28 9 and at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 150. Oxford-street: 330 Strand: and all grocers and Births. CLARKE—On the 13th inst., at 32, Holland-road, nrilt°ll' Mrs. Henry Clarke, of a daughter. COLOMB —On the 13th inst., at Roxeth Villa, Itarrosv-°: the-Hill, the wife of Commander P. H. Colomb , of as" -TEwsort--On the 12th inst., at Grove House, Ilittlth4"l stow, Mrs. Edward Teweon, of a son. Mar. FREELING—LENNARD On r t i he ages 12th inst at St. Len °3rd il; ou-Sea, Francis Henry, second son of the late C 1 1 34 - Rivers Freeling, to Georgina, daughter of G. B. nard, Esq., of the Inner Temple. MORGAN - WIIEELEY—On the 12th inst at St. J 3n ' es t Piccadilly, (Marlon Morgan, Royal Welsh Fusilies/,:s Emma MAtilda, the second daughter of the late 10"- Wheeley, Esq., of The Pentie, Monmouthshire . Deaths. Lair ALLEN —On the 10th inst. at at 14, Lancaster-street, caster-gate, William Ailee, aged 62. BUSH —On the 11th inst., at The Chestnuts, EWell, Sa rrel J. F. Bush, Esq., aged 61. gym • SCOTT—On the 12th inst., at 14, St. Jamos's-place, Scott, Esq., aged 67. 13th inst., es' th VAuGHAN— On the at 6,York-street, Saga the Hon. W. M. Vaughanaged 60. -51 13 00 j. WAnwicK—On the 12th inst at Notting-hill , — I. " Warwick, aged 76. 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