The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-20 00:00:00

SPIMIT 01 1 THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Tinus, in an article on the decline of trade in the* United States, gives Protection as the reason for it, and arrives at the conclusion that Protection has failed in one of the principal objects it was expected to accomplish. The cotton interest, according to Senator Sprague, exists no longer. "Sir," he said, "in my judg ment you have not this interest in your hands. lam afraid that you have lost it for ever." The country whose manufactories were to be closed through the closing of the American ports still holds its ground, while America, with its Sea Island cotton, has been going backwards faster than the most gloomy forebodings would have pre pared us to anticipate. There is a demand for the cheap fabrics of England iu America, notwithstanding the high tariffs, and the inferior productions of native manufac turers are left unsold. But this is not all. There is an immense depreciation in the value of cotton lands to be taken into account. "We had the South before the war," said the Senator, whose remarkable speech has been the subject of discussion everywhere in the United States. "I know the fact that many of the principal plantatious of the South are not worth one-twentieth part as much r-s they were then." The wealth of the country has been reduced, and how is the loss to be made up? Not, as we have seen, by extending local trades. Even if American manufacturers entered an open market, they could not hold their place in it at ptesent, for excessive taxes have killed native industries. An admission of this fact by Senator Sprague is worth more than a whole library of abstract arguments. "In the whole range of my experience," he said, " I do not know of an article that the American manufacturer can now produce and export, and compete with foreign manufacturers in the markets of the world, even with the drawback. I must say that we have taxed out of existence interests which made us a prosperous people." This is plain speaking, and we cannot wonder that it took the Senate completely by surprise. The shipbuilding trade, as all the senators must have known, is dead. The iron trade threatens to fall away, and now a leading manufacturer comes forward to avow that America no longer has a " cotton interest " worthy of mention. Is not all this sufficient to prove that the whole commercial and financial system of the country urgently needs revision? Senator Sprague, with all his candour, would not admit that Protection was at the root of the evils he so bitterly lamented ; probably he is not convinced of that fact. He ascribes all the misfortunes he pointed out to excessive taxation, inflicted with the view of paying the debt off rapidly. He would repeal the cotton tax, and prevent the Secretary of the 'Treasury from contracting or withdrawing the currency. Any more searching remedy than this he was not bold enough to pro pose, or, to use the fashionable phrase, he is not yet " educated " to the point which would lead him to demand free trade with all the world. On the Manchester Conference the Post says that notwithstanding the laudation that has been showered upon it, has not actually done much towards the solution of the great questions which are staring us in the face and stop the way. They have got no further really than sheav ing their feeling, and presumably the tendency of public opinion is in favour of compulsory rather than permissive rating. Mr. Austin Bruce's bill, on its introduction, will, it may be taken for granted, be band on this view. But with regard to the question, Who is to be the school. master? we are a very long way from a conclusion. It will probably have to be fought out in Parliament, and by Parliament, as the construction of the Reform Bill was. On the second point, the determination of childhood or pupilage, there were symptoms exhibited of a disposition to running amuck with the idea, which, wise and practi cable while kept within bounds, would be ruinous alike to the classes to whom it would be applied, and to the in dustry and producing power of the country. We are glad to observe that the principal framer of the coming bill, Mr. Austin Bruce, who is practically well acquainted with the condition and wants of the working man, as well as with the philosophy of the subject, peremptorily and strongly stood forward in opposition to what he rightly designated as a weak enthusiasm. Daring the past week most of the leading joint—lock banks in London have held their meetings, laid their affairs before the public, and shewn, as far as they are ceacernel, how commerce has fared in the past six months. The re sult, according to the Daily News, is not encoLraging, at least has the merit of being truthful. These great com mercial establishments publish not merely a resuna of their affairs each half-year, but publish it sufficiently early to be of value. Figures six months or a year old are virtually useless. No man of business cares to dip into the statis tical reports—elaborate and complete as they may be— which are periodically issued by the Government. It is no assistance to the practical trader to know in 1863 the pre cise.amount of yards of cotton manufactured, or tons of iron exported in 1866. What is required is not merely good, but immediate information. Much more is therefore learnt from the reports of the joint-stock banks—iroperf,ct in a general sense as they must necessarily be—than from more ambitious documents. An experienced merchant can hardly fail to draw from the comparatively few figures presented certain deductions which may materially influence his course of business. The Herald devotes a leader to the subject of the Iris difficulties. It argues that a Conservative Government may legislate for the protection of the tenant's industry, but however adapted any enactment they pass may be for the purpose, it is more than likely to share the fate of Mr. Cardwell's measure, and fall still-born to the ground, because the peasantry will be advised against profiting by its provisions. Security for the Irish tenants' improve ments is of value to those who clamour for it, merely as the opening of the trenches against the existence of a ter ritorial aristocracy, which has both here and there hitherto proved such an obstacle to the full development of demo cracy amongst us. The idea of calming disaffection arising from a hereditary hatred of races, and which is often, it must be admitted, aggravated by the folly of the victors, in incessantly recalling their humiliation to the minds of the vanquished, by legislation affecting social interests, is mere moonshine. It can only be eradicated by the uninterrupted continuance of firm government and the healing influence of time. The Standard attaches very little importance to the tales told of a sudden growth of cordiality between Paris and Berlin. Our confidence in peace rests upon the con viction that Prussia will, in her own interests, do every thing she can to prevent war ; and in the circumstances at which we have arrived it is in her power to prevent it. France has accepted, with more or less unwillingness, the transformation which has already taken place in Germany, and that transformation is quite sufficient for Prussia, for the present. By the Zollverein treaties and the offensive and defensive alliances, the supremacy of Prussia over the South is practically established. If Prussia is content to leave Germany in name what she now is, the Emperor will hardly move. Now, it is most probable that Prussia will be quite content with what she has. The change in the language of Count Bisnu r,:k and his organs is per fectly intelligible. They rode the high horse, and in dulged in bravado against France, as long as the constitu tion of the North German Confederation and their alli ances with the South were in dispute and dmint. The Minister knew the temper of his countrymen. Whatever their weaknesses, they are eminently jealous of kreign interference ; to avert that they would sacrifice any liberty or privilege, however dear. The Hon. C. H. Lindsay, M.P. for Abingdon, has recovered from the effects of the accident which hap pened to him some time ago. He has left his residence at Winehfield House to pay a visit to Lord Overstate, r.t Overstone Park. The Right non. Robert Lowe, M.P., will pay a visit to Liverpool during the present week, being the guest of Mr. P. H. Rathbone. On Wednesday evening Mr. Lowe will be present at the annual dinner of the Liverpool Philomathic Society, which will take place in the large room of the Law Association in Cook-street. On Thurs day he will meet a number of gentlemen interested in the question of education. A GER3IAN VIEW Or IRELAND. The Cologne Gcretle thus concludes an article on the press pr9secution in Dublin :—" Happy country ! where there h as been only one press trial for many years, and that only in a place is which, if Prussia had ruled, a state of siege would have been declared long ago, and all journals preaching insur rection would have been suppressed. We need hardl: s,y that confiscations by the police of newspapers and books are as much unknown in the United Kingdom as wolves and bears, and it is indeed evident to the meanest under. standing that real freedom of the press, or anything that bears the most distant likeness to that noble boon, can nowhere exist side by side with the unrestricted right of confiscation. When shall we learn the truth in this matter from the country of hereditary political wisdom ?' MR. BUXTON, M. P. , ON POLITICS. —Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P., has been lecturing at Cromer on the past year. He sketched the leading pditical, social, and phy sical incidents of 1:367, dwelling particular:y on the pro• gress of events in France, Italy, Germany, in esia , an,l the United States. No one, he thonZit, could have fai!. I to see that there had been an accelerated rate of intellec tual advance, and that nations were by degrees attaining to a larger and wiser tone of thought. The darkness of stupidity seemed to be slowly lifting from Europe. At home, he c.nisidered that the national mind was being more and more led to insist that government should be at once by the people and for the people, and that they should no longer be like children under the care— however wise and good—of others. Upon the whole, although 1.567 had been a year of disappointment and depression, he believed that England was still making her way for- FAO , t 9 Yet lalla Aucl toppWr weer, THE BUCKHURS7-HILL TRAGEDY, A day or two ago the Registrar of the Chelmsford County Court held a sitting for the examination of debtors then detained in the Essex County Gaol, when, amongst those who presented themselves for examination upon their own petitions to be adjudicated bankrupts, was Matilda Griggs, the young woman who, at the beginning of last year, was the victim of what was then popularly known as the Buckhurst-hill tragedy. The bankrupt is only 18 years of age. The warrant explained that she was detained in custody to satisfy a claim by the Crown of £4O, the amount of recognisances entered into by her to appear and prosecute her would-be assassin, and she was arrested " by order of the Barons of the Queen's Exchequer because she did not appear at the Central Criminal . Court to prefer a bill of indictment, and prosecute the law with effect against Frederick Alexander Watkins, for felony, as she was bound to do by her recognisance." The Registrar, after expressing a doubt as to his ability to deal with the case, proceeded to put some questions to the debtor which she answered to the following effect, the leading circumstances being. no doubt, in the recollection of our readers :—She stated that her father is by trade a well-sinker, at Buckhurst-hill, and he is poor in worldly circumstances. She has no sisters, but has one brother, and until she was 16 years of age she was in the habit of going to school with tolerable regularity. She will not be 18 years of age until the 3rd of April next, but when she was 16 years of age she made the acquaintance of Frederick Alexander Watkins, and was engaged to be married to him. About fourteen months ago she gave birth to a child of which he was the father, and he came regularly to see her after that time. When the child was about three months old he called upon her one evening, and they went out for a walk together. In the course of their ramble they had a dispute, and he stabbed her with a dagger in thirteen places, leaving her for dead on the ground. In the last wound which he in flicted he left the dagger sticking, and she was told but for that circumstance she must have bled to death. After Watkins had left her she returned to consciousness, and made her way for a few yards in the direction of home, but was unable to proceed far. There were two calves in the field where the attempted murder was committed, and they followed her to the place where she fell the second time. When she fell down the two calves lay down one on each side of her, and their warmth kept heat in her, or she must have died from the cold of the night and loss of blood. She was found in that condition on the following morning. The reason why she did not appear to prosecute was because she thought that without her evidence Watkins would not be convicted, although she had deposed to the facts when it was sup posed she was dying. She had promised in a letter written to Watkins after his arrest that she would remain with his parents until he was set at liberty, and then they would be married. She was not afraid to marry him after what he had done to her. She could not tell why he had acted so cruelly to her, for she had never refused to marry him, or given him cause for jealousy. She was with his father, who is a jeweller in London, at the time of the trial, and she went abroad, but could not say where she went to. Watkins was convicted of attempting to murder her, and sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude. She had never been a trader, nor had she carried on business of any kind, having lived with her father all her life until this occurred. The Registrar said that as she was not a trader he could not deal with the petition at present, and as far as he was concerned she would have to remaia in gaol until March next, but she would come before him at the February sitting, and he would then see what could be done for her. 1111PORTA,NT FENIAN ARRESTS. The public will be glad to hear, says the Tunes, that not the slightest doubt exists in the minds of the police that they have succeeded in capturing the man Barrett, so long and so earnestly looked for as the person who actually fired the powder which destroyed the wall of Clerkenwell House of Detention and spread death and suffering among so many innocent r_ople. The capture was made on Tuesday night, at Glasgow, where none of the local police who made it seem to have thought at first of the im portance of their prize. In fact, the circumstances which led to the arrest may be regarded as almost accidental. It is necessary, in the present stage of the search after the Fenian criminals, to be very guarded in what is published. What follows, however, may now be stated without fear of injury to the public service. Before the Clerkenwell outrage the police had a certain sort of indefinite information as to something afoot among those suspected in Glasgow to be Fenians. After that catastrophe all the energy and astuteness of the detectives were employed in endeavouring to trace its perpetrators, and it was made pretty clear that the whole plot was laid and matured at Glasgow, and that a man named Barratt was, with one or two others, entrusted to "do the job." Private inquiries pointed to Barra% and only to Barratt, as the man who fired the fuse. He was seen by many witnesses, and all who have spoken of him have given a clear description, and declare that they are able to identify him instantly if they see him again. The description given of him to the police was sent especially to Glasgow, where he had left the work he had been engaged upon, and disappeared also from the city itself. On Tues day night last the Glasgow police were alarmed at hearing the sound of firearms in one of the principal streets, and on hastening thither they found two men, one or both of whom had been discharging pistols. They were tal:en into custody, when they gave the names of Michael Barrett and James O'Neill. The return of Barratt, and his an swering the description of the Barratt said to have fired the fuse in the barrel of powder at Clerkenwell, led upon consideration to the gravest suspicions against the prisoners, and a special warrant was given by Bailie Anderson for their detention while the autho rities at Scotland-yard were communicated with by telegraph. This message brought down Inspector Wil liamson, the chief of the detectives, with four of his subordinates, and these at once recognised the prisoner from his minute description, and, perhaps, not less so from the clue they had as to his history, as to why he had left Glasgow to come to London, and why he bad left London. At any rate, they were convinced he was the man they were so earnestly in search of, and on Saturday night they brought him and his companion, O'Neill, safely to London. On Saturday evening another capture of a Fenian leader, Clancy, who has long been " wanted," was made in Bedford-square, Bloomsbury. He was recognised, fol lowed, and watched by two detectives, who, at what they thought the proper time, closed with him, told him who they were, and demanded his surrender. In an instant, however, Clancy fired twice, without effect, from a revolver, and tried to fire again, but, failing, ran off, and was almost immediately caught and overp )werel. It is said an examination of the revolver shews that the third ball had jammed in the chamber, and so prevented the weapon being discharged. It may reassure the public to learn, when reading of these arrests, that the police have already seized nearly all the chiefs who are really " very much wanted," except two or three who are in close hiding, in the hope of finding mean to fly the country when the storm has blown over enough to justify them in risking the attempt. lenianism, as far as the police can ascertain, is for the present scared ahno;:t to death in England, and neither in this country nor in Ireland have the Fenians either leaders or funds. On Satt.Alay, however, a very daring act—though pro bably only a bad joke —was perpetrated in broad day in a part of the city which is usually crowded, and under the very windows of the Lord Mayor--the posting of a seditious placard on the front of the Mansion House, and on that part of it upon Which royal proclamations are always ex hibited. The document was wholly in manuscript. At the head of it were the figures 186 S, immediately below which was a pen-and-ink sketch of an Irish harp, sur rounded with representations of shamrock, and below that again the words "God save Ireland !" On each side of these emblems were the capital letters " I. E.," denoting, it is presumed, Irish Republic. Then followed this elegant effusion, some of the words of which were sought to be emphasised by the use of capitals : " The Irishmen of America are united ! Irishmen of England, follow their example ! Unite ; forward, ye fear- less sons of Ireland ! Stand for the old country !" In the concluding sentence a sorry attempt is made at rhyme, thus : " Oh, that to England nailed Ireland should be. Preserve her green flag of liberty. Erin-go-bragh.." The whole of this production was written upon a mean looking slip of paper, and immediately below it another slip had been pasted, upon which were the words, in letters nearly an inch long, " God save the Green," which might at first sight have been taken for the familiar expression of loyalty with which all royal proclamations conclude. The question arises how such a document came to be there. To the police authorities it is an entire mystery, and one to which as yet they have no clue. The front of the Mansion House is part of an ordinary beat which a policeman usually traverses once in a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes, and the. paper mutt have been placarded there the coni:table on duty was goilir some other part of his naiad. City p,lice-consta.t.le Newnham, '577, who Wa:3 stationed in front of the Mansion House throughout the day on the sp , eial duty of regulating the traffic there, d.d not sec the act done, but he hail his attention called to it sis.rtly afterwards. He saw a crowd assembled, and on going to inquire the cause he found them reading the placard. That was about a quarter to three o'clock, a time of the day when that part of the city on a Saturday is usually most thronged by people who have been released from duty by the prevailing half-holiday. The officer found most of the crowd ridiculing the document they were reading, and some were attempting to tear it d own . He immediately interfered on becoming aware of its nature, and, having removed the placard, he took it forth. with to Colonel Fraser, the City Commissioner of Police. THE SUN LO_NDO . MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1868. 87ATE OF ROME. ROME, January 4. On the last day of the year a solemn "Te Deum" is sung in many of the churches of Rome in token of thanksgiving for mercies received in the year just closed. If in the year 1867 the Church has passed through a searching crisis, try ing the faith of her children in her supernatural vitality, she can count up also, along its course, a" far larger measure of glories and triumphs. It is not necessary to recapitulate them in detail, in columns where they have been chronicled week by week ; but the most casual retrospect of the past twelve months calls to mind three special triumphs of the Holy See over its enemies. (1) The religious triumph afforded by the Centenary of S. Peter and the unanimous adoption of its celebration by representative Catholics from the whole world's surface, while the Italian Revolu tion was covering its name with reproach by trampling under foot the first principles of re ligious liberty. (2) The political triumph afforded by the loyal bearing of the Pope's subjects under the most trying provocations of every kind, while the Italian Revolution was tossed hither and thither by fratricidal dissensions, displaying to the world at the same time the most lament able spectacle of tergiversation. And (3) the military triumph afforded by the unvarying suc cess of the small but brave and devoted Pontifical army, while the Italian Revolution strives in vain to blot out with tears of shame the names of Lissa, Custozza, and Mentana. The feast of the Circumcision is commonly called here the Name of Jesus, and it is accord ingly at the Church of the Gee.' that the Pope presides at the singing of the " Te Deum," on the eve of that festival. The Senator and the Con servatori, in all their array of municipal grandeur, attend it at the Church of the Ara Cceli, which adjoins the Capitol. In some other churches the " Veni Creator Spiritus " is sung, to invoke the Divine blessing and assistance on the coming year. The Gesii was densely thronged in every part on Tuesday last with Romans of every degree, who always come to surround the Sovereign Pon tiff with this demonstration of affection and sym pathy, and there was the usual concourse on the steps of the church and in the vast surrounding space, to cheer the Pontifical cortege, as well as all along its way to and from the Church. Lord and Lady Clarendon, Lord Hyde, and several other distinguished English visitors, who have been spending the Christmas here, were in a balcony overlooking the Piazza, apparently much interested in observing the loyal enthusiasm of the people, of which this occasion afforded a striking display. Colonel Allet and a knot of officers of the Zouaves were standing in the midst of the crowd below. Lord Clarendon had a lengthened audience of the Pope on Monday, and is now gone on a few days' visit to Naples. On Tuesday Count Albert Crivelli presented his credentials as Ambassador Extraordinary from the Emperor of Austria, Baron Hubner having taken leave last week. These past days have, indeed, been occupied by a series of audiences on occasion of the recurrence of the Christmas and New Year's festivals and the name-day of the Pope, the 27th of December. Some of these I have already mentioned. The Sacred College offers its congratulations on Christ mas Day itself, because the Christian year was once considered to begin on that day, and on that day also the Dean of the Sacred College pre sents the compliments of its members to all• sove reigns recognized by the Holy See ; for an ancient Roman maxim says, " Cardinales non sunt reges sed regibus aquiparantur. Then the senator and muni cipal body and heads of various offices of the State have each their turn. Nor were the officers of the French army at Civita Vecchia behind hand with their salutations. The interview was very cordial, and his Holiness did not even forget to express his regret that the accommodation they have to put np with there is not more com fortable. How long they will have to stay there is a question often debated, and though there is every reason to believe that it will be for a couple of months more, and that then we shall have good hard work again, yet scarcely a day passes but one is told of a report on the best authority that they have received orders to move their troops into Rome and the other towns of the State ; that 20,000 more men have started from Toulon, and so forth, while the very instructions of the French Government to General de Failly, who still com mands at Civita Vecchia, are most uncertain, at one time leading him to expect an almost imme diate return to Rome, and then, again, hinting at the possible recall of part of the army of observa tion. Of course, all depends on the initiative taken by other Powers, and it cannot be denied that the tone taken by the Moniteur of late has been singu larly mild and unprovocative. • Meantime the Pontifical army is not idle. The fortifications in and around Rome are being steadily carried on. Those of Monte-Mario and the Monti Parioli will not, probably, be carried further, as they would entail an inadequate ex pense. The chief works are at Castel St. Angelo, and on the Aventine and Janiculum. The right bank of the Tiber, too, is being provided with palisades, and no doubt the work is being well done, as General Proudhon is giving it his (non official) supervision. The men, too, are hard at work drilling, and new recruits are arriving by the hundred. The Irish, whose return it was my painful duty to mention last week, have been replaced by as many more of their countrymen from Dublin, said to be as fine and steady a body of men as it would be pos sible to find. Lieutenant -Colonel de Charette passed them on Monday and expressed himself particularly satisfied by their soldierly bearing. Indeed it is hardly possible to keep pace with the arrivals in providing uniforms, beds, &c., and thus the accommodation at all the three present depots is somewhat of the roughest ; yet we have men used to comfortable and even luxurious homes who accept all the hardships of the service without a murmur; some even tell you it is " awefully jolly." " I am quite used to it all now," said one, " and like the adventurousness of our style of life very much, but at first I found it very hard to get into, and could never have endured it but that I know whatever a Zouave does he may reckon he does for God, and one may make as much merit out of accepting those privations as out of offering one's life in the field." There is a little obscure office on a third floor in one of the most untidy palaces in Rome, pro bably selected to serve as the office of enrolment at a time when enrolments were fewer, and with out a thought as to any appropriateness in the site, but which stands facing the stately church under whose foundations lies the cloaca where the body of the noble Roman soldier, St. Sebastian, was thrown after his second martyrdom. Here day by day there come to devote themselves to the same sacred purpose of defending the Church as that with which he came to Rome to enter on the military career sixteen hundred years before, and that in all humility as simple soldiers, men whose names entitle them to a far different rank at home. Thus there were among them this week Count de Schmissing-Koersembroeck, formerly an officer in the Prussian Foot Guards, the story of whose quitting that service with his brother on account of their manly condemnation of the practice of duelling made a great noise in Europe some time ago. His brother obtained a pass-port of emi gration, was naturalized an Austrian subject, and entered the Imperial army. He was thus ranged on its side in the battle of Sadowa, where he met with very severe treatment ; for, while lying on the ground wounded, he received a number of thrusts from the lances of those who recognized him. lie has recovered, however, and has resumed his post in the army. There were likewise Baron Krockovr, of Westphalia, and Count Stolberg, as well as four young Englishmen, three of most respectable names, and one which is well known in the diplo matic annals of our country, and no less honour ably represented in both its military and naval careers. Another Englishman there is lately arrived who has held an officer's commission in the Prussian army, and who here insists on taking his turn with the rawest recruit, and will accept no exemption from the most toilsome and uninviting offices. An American officer, too, - whose name was well known on both sides of the Atlantic during the late war, offered himself a few days ago to serve as a simple private. I believe, in considera tion of his great experience, General Kanzler would not suffer him to enter with any lower grade than that of sub-lieutenant. Nor are those of less illustrious origin less devoted; the same cheerfulness under difficulties distinguishes them all. And then, be it remem bered, there is no bribing by high bounties—no " treating ;" so far from it they receive no bounty at all, and those who only enter for six months pay down sixty francs towards their outfit. Is this the way in which " mercenaries" are hired? The men who would be attracted by bounty-money are not the men to defend a sacred cause ; we do not want them, for there is, you see, no lack of men of a higher order. Their disinterestedness shows itself in many a little detail. " I came out to die for the Pope," said one, whose want of prudence in the mode of parting with his private clothes I had chided. " I have a presentiment I shall not live to want them again." Yet he is one of the most impatient for the days of active service to begin. " I don't want a libretto" (the little book in which the account of the soldier's pay is kept), said another, instead of complaining because he happened not to have re ceived one. "We have our uniform and our kit, and our few bajocchi a day, and I am not afraid but it will be all right." Then the mutual kindliness and good-will which reigns between officers and men is most creditable to the spirit of both. The young Corporal Shea, whom I have had occasion to mention before, is quite worshipped by those under him for his steady patience and thoughtfulness. There is in the same depot an Algerian sergeant, whom, de spite his coffee-coloured skin (" black coffee " mind), all his men delight to obey, because he is a very model of good nature, as well as of regularity. And this is still more the case, if possible, with the commissioned officers. I asked a man yester day how he got on with a certain captain. " A celui-la it est bon par exemple," he replied, " mais quant a ca ils le sont tour; it n'en est un seul dont on a en a se plaindre." If, when worn out at Mentana by the long day's march and fight, responsibility and danger, keen air and fast, Lieutenant-Colonel de Charette sent out the dinner which had been prepared for his table to those who had been digging the graves of the slain, his abnegation can be overmatched by an example taken from the ranks that day when two Angevin peasants, seeing their captain (now commandant of the 2d Battalion), whom - they had followed out from France, hard pressed by the enemy, threw themselves before hiin, one falling dead on the spot, and the other lyipg still in hospi tal, cheerfully suffering, and never telling those who come to visit him how he got his wound. Nor are instances of, noble devotion by any means confined to the Zouave regiriaent. 1 could tell you of many in other corps;. there is one very remarkable case the earbiniere esteri, of a Pole who, his father having fallen victim to Russian oppression, has been the support of his widowed mother ever since he was ten. He has been em ployed for many years as an engineer in England, where he is much respected by his employers, who will gladly receive him back at any time. Now comes the remarkable part of the story. Being a steady young man, he picked out among his fellow workmen for his bosom-companion another equally steady, wh3 was also a devoted son of ,the Church, he being him' self a Protestant. Fired by the zeal of his friend, he conceived so great an interest in the injustice suffered by the Holy Father, that he accompanied him on the occasion of his coming out to join the Papal army in 1860. At Castel Fidardo, he received two sabre-cuts, one in his back, and one in his head, the scars from which attest that he has not shrunk from coming to close quarters with the enemy. At the close of the campaign, the two friends returned to their work in England, and at the breaking out of fresh troubles in Rome, six months ago, they hastened again to join their regiment. The Englishman was killed at Mentana, the Pole received a not very severe bayonet-wound, which has now healed, and he resumed duty two or three weeks ago. But his labours in the cause of the Holy See have obtained for him the grace of conversion, and he is shortly to be received in to the Church ; it will be seen that he has not ar rived at this step by any sudden impulse, but after the deliberate investigation of years. He appears very intelligent, and in the course of his adventu rous life, which, however, numbers little over six lustres, has acquired a very tolerable acquaintance with no less than sev en lan guages. By his profi ciency in his profess i o n, h e was gaining very high wages in England, an d by his frugal mode of life he was able, not only to send home a large monthly allowance to his mother, but to leave in his em ployer's hands a sufficient amount out of his savings for her to receive the same during his absence. Is a man who:exchanges such wages for the pay of a private soldier out of pure love of justice to be called a " mercenary?" Regard for your space alone makes me leave un told many other similar deeds. Have you seen a little poem of Victor Hugo's, which, though unpublished, has been pretty widely circulated, designed to enlist sympathy on the side of the Garibaldians by claptrap descriptions of their sufferings ; representing them as mourned by their mothers, for whom their eyes are still cherub blue ; their hair (despite the beard of manhood), is still in golden curls ; their strong, bare hands still the plump, rosy fingers of infancy? But why did not the said mothers keep them at home ? why did they invade the soil of the Holy See ?—and is not every one of the poor fellows they have wounded " somebody's darling " too ? Also the " sinistre vieillard," who has caused all this " dechi rant" misery, may he not be found at Caprera or Lugano, or in the Pitti Palace, rather than in the Vatican? The cherub-eyed, golden-haired, rosy-fingered gentry have received a severe lesson, it is true, but they have not yet had enough to make them keep at home with their admiring mothers. At Acquapendente, within the very frontier, they have been seen gathering in considerable numbers ; their " rosy fingers " busy practising with needle guns—and needle-guns supplied from England, too. Perhaps there are those in England who consider it safer to place a few thousand rifles in the hands of Mazzinians than Fenians, but let them beware of the recoil. Ifoa hot-bed of Mazzinianism is fostered in Italy, the half-dozen Fenians who are wisely hung at home will be very quickly replaced by a host more from here. Their agents are even now at work here, endea vouring to prepare the way for the next attack; for, notwithstanding all the caution with which they go to work, they find to their cost it is dan gerous to tamper with a Roman who does not want them. The police have been thus put upon their track in several instances, and it is pretty well known who and where they are. Some Gendarmi went the other night into a café, where they expected to find some of the sect. The gas was instantly turned out, so that the faces of the men in the room might not be re cognised. By the time the order to re-light was obeyed, they had evaporated. I myself met, a day or two ago, a man who stalked along with all the swagger of a would-be demagogue, wearing very ostentatiously a red, white, and green neck-scarf. He was surrounded by some half-dozen rough young fellows, just emerging from the age of gamin-hood, and looking much like the troop one sees at the heels of a recruiting-sergeant in an English town. They had doubtless been entrapped by fine words and mysterious promises, and were on their way to some rendezvous to be " treated," and thoughlit very fine to follow a leader who carried his colours through the streets so courageously, and who yet, informed by a scout's whistle of an ap, proach of gendarmi, 'would know how to cut; damn a bye-street as cleverly as any under. gra durite at sight of a university proctor. Probably he - would be allowed to pass on his way just as leniently. The immense majority of the popu lation are known to be loyally and peacefully in clined, and the police seem to prefer the maxim of letting wheat and tares grow together, over the warning that a little leaven may extend its in fluence over the whole lump. I am sorry to have to tell you that Mr. White Binny, the English gentleman who claimed to be considered no prisoner, but to bear the sacred character of the Chronicle correspondent, died on Saturday, at four o'clock. His case was an instance of several we have had—some among our own men, of the imprudence of exceeding the medical regulations. It would seem that in this climate it is necessary to adopt a lower scale of diet than would be recommended further North. Those who have not submitted to this necessity, have paid dearly for their imprudence. Even the amputation of the wounded limb Las not sufficed to arrest the mischief produced. The papers found after his death prove him to have been a true Garibaldian after all. He was first captain of a company under Garibaldi, and was afterwards made an officer of his staff. Thus his whole story, as well as his inclinations towards Catholicity, would appear to have been a make believe. There is, as usual, a romantic side to the story also from which there is no need to withhold our sympathy. He was, it seems, brought up in St. Petersburgh, where he formed an attachment to a Russian lady, to whom he was to have been shortly united. His burial awaits her arrival, It is said she did not share his Garibaldian ten dencies, and had dissuaded him from following them. The telegrams have announced that the affair of Cardinal d'Andrea is settled, and that he is restored to all his dignities. I fear this is not quite the case as yet. Though he has shown a dispo sition to yield, there are still some difficulties as to the terms of his retractation. The expected creation of Cardinals will, it is thought, take place in March, including, besides those I mentioned last week, that of the Arch bishop of Westminster and Mgr. Monaco, as sessor of the Holy Office. There was a meeting of the Roman branch of the Archaeological Society last Friday, at which Mr. Parker read a paper on the different epochs of the art of construction in Rome. The gold medal bestowed in acknowledgment of the devotion of those who, in Rome, Albano, and some other towns ministered to cholera patients, and those who were not afraid to bury its dead last summer, was distributed yesterday. It bears on one side the profile of Pius. IX., executed by Voigt, the eminent numismatist, with his name and the year of his Pontificate. On the obverse this inscription—" Ob Christianm charitatis officia lue Asiana correptis exhibita," and below the name of the person to whom it is given. Permission is given with it to wear it as a decoration, for it celc. brates a courage as heroic as any exercised in the field. Two of our countrymen have earned this distii)etion. - • There will be a distribution of silver medhls of the ; saine intention and design - on Sunday. lt is worn on a ribbon of the Pope's - colours. Another gold medal will be giyen to all those who have received wounds in the present cam paign. A warmer and more April-like season has suc ceeded our bright and sunny, but (for Rome) un usually cold Christmas. The poor pfifferari are gone back to their mountains with the cold weather, and now they are gone, one feels a touch of self reproach for the occasional irritation their wild music used to excite when it woke one before day light in the cold December morning, or burst in on one's mid-day occupations, or in the later hours drowned the conversation of one's - visitors. One only considers now that it was a beautiful thought so to remind us of the approach of the great Christ mas mystery, and that it would be a cause of last ing regret if such customs should ever be swept away. Simple as they are, they call forth a world of reflections, reminding one of the part Rome bears in the midst of Christendom—that of being the focus and living representative of the teaching of the New Law. And while in other countries the visible tokens of belief in it are dying out or degenerating into grotesque parodies of their origi nal intention, here they flourish serenely with undy ing energy, and shine forth ever the same ; sug gesting one —if even it be considered a low ground on which the most violent Liberal, if at all con sistent, ought to respect the inviolability of Rome, namely that if all opinions have a right to be re presented, Christianity ought to be allowed this fair field for displaying hers in all the minuteness of detail and completeness of result she has attained here. I have often dwelt, as the seasons have flowed by, on the appropriateness and harmony of this system of representation of the doctrines and his tory of religion, because it seems eminently cal culated to fix those mysteries on the mind, and because I think they must interest all persons of taste and feeling, of artistic or antiquarian pur suits, as much as the devout. And none of its a cts is more picturesque or full of meaning than that of this pastoral harmony, in which the special lesson of humility, involved in the Incarnation, is brought home to us by the lowly ones of this earth. They are shepherds and husbandmen from the poorest districts, and they bring the rustic melody, which they have learnt from their fathers, to honour the shrines of the Madonna on the occa sion of the celebration of her two great festivals, the Immaculate Conception and the Nativity. Their lays are rustic in metre, but are not without a certain poetic beauty -0 Vergine immacolata, e giglio d'amore. (0 spotless Virgin, lily of love). So begins that for the first novena, and it will not be denied it is a pretty line. 'Their instruments are rustic too, but far from unpleasing ; and, if they are them selves rough and uncultivated in appearance, the uncovered heads, uplifted eyes, and decent serious ness with which they go through their perform ance, the dignity and earnestness with which they utter their benedictions on you when you have spoken with them, show that their simple function is sacred in their eyes. About a hundred couples come up to Rome every Christmas; the rest of the year they gain a frugal living by tending sheep or sowing or reaping, for not all are shepherds. " How come you to sing the novenas ?" I said to a pair of brothers who owned to greater conversance with field than pas toral labour. "We learnt it from the shepherds ; may we not praise the Madonna, too ?" they replied apologetically. Some of them are adventurous fel lows, however, and have made the tour of Europe, all on foot, earning their living as they go by their minstrelsy, and bringing home a small amount of savings against their marriage or " a rainy day." One owned to twenty scudi, another to fifty scudi between four, but then he was a jollier subject, and had probably spent more by the way. Their general plan seems to make for Paris in the first instance, spending some two months, and wearing out half a dozen pair of cioccie (i.e., the pieces of leather cut to the shape of the foot and turned up all round it by means of elaborate thongs, which form a very easy and inexpensive style of shoes) on the journey. The sack of their bagpipe they renew likewise frequently for them selves out of the skin of a young sheep or goat, the wool or hair shorn short and turned inside. It lasts, under ordinary circumstances, about two months; but, during constant playing, such as that of this season, for example, it gets worn out in a novena. Arrived at Calais, they are obliged, reluctantly, to accept a place in the steamer in lieu of their natural means of locomotion, which they gladly re sume at Dover. Partly by tradition from those who have preceded them in the adventure, and partly by necessity, they pick up enough of the - language of each country for their simple needs— " a glass of beer," "a loaf of bread," " the way to next large village ?" are sentences which they re peat with the glee of- a parrot. Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Bavaria, are visited in turn on the way home, bat England suits them best, because there alone they have nothing to pay for a licence to' perform in the streets. Berlin they find the most restrictive city in Europe. The English beer, too, seems to be remembered with enthusiasm, and the English sheep has taken a prominent place in their fancy. Their fabulous recitals of its perfections contain the force of a whole treatise on the way in which myths and legends arise. London, with its noise and bustle, seems to excite more surprise than admiration ; but the big church, with a cupola " like that of the Holy Father," did not escape their notice. " But I didn't want to go into it," said one of them, " when they said it was Protestant, and I found plenty of good priests who could talk our language." The large church of " 'atona gardenna " (unde which appellation, after several repetitions, I re cognized Hatton-garden) they seemed to think as fine as some in Rome, but that it was so very white. What 1 have said above of the Mazzinian move ments has been gathered from private sources. The following is from a Roman paper of last night: - " We have received the following from Viterbo : "The notorious A. L. has gathered together a band of about 100 rapscalions, and stationed them in scattered parties, in various localities along the frontier, with orders to hold themselves in readi ness for action at a moment's notice. A few days ago he entertained a score of Garibaldian officers at the little village of Pecorone, and when the wine had flowed a little freely they boasted of their con quest of the surrounding country as a proximate event. The news of this has caused quite a com motion of alarm in Acqua-pendente, and fallen like a bomb amid the merry family parties who were keeping Christmas in peace and chee r f u l ness . _ _ "Notwithstanding any masquerading of the Italian Government, there is no manner of doubt that it is secretly at work consolidating the party of action, and encouraging it to be on the look out for any opportunity to strike some decisive blow. The heart of the movement is at Terni ; number of pieces of woollen stuff have been received there ready to be dyed red, or any other colour (colore is used even more commonly than with us to denote varieties of opinions) in which they may be pleased to array the encamisados. (This word is often used for the Garibaldians, because, though it may be used to denote simply the wearer of a shirt, it means one who fights under disguise, as the Piedmontese soldiers did under Garibaldi.) "Further several hundred Garibaldians are posted in the various small towns all along our border—at Castel Giorgio, Castel Vicardo, Monterubbiano, Viceno, &c. They are, for the most part, Lombards, and they are busy exercising in the use of their arms; manifestly holding them selves in readiness for an order from their Go vernment, or from whoever is to pull the strings for it this time." P.S. —Since writing the above the most exact particulars have been brought me respecting Mr. Arthur W. Binny ; and, as his being a Garibaldian is denied, it is important you should have them. He, ; was, then, in the 15th company of the Bth Regiment of Garibaldians, and it was on the 3rd of October'he was made an officer of the staff. January 11. It was rumoured that the fair of S. Eustachio Would be ciosedthis Epiphany, lest its festivities should be made a pretext for a disturbance ; it went on as usual, however, and drew together the usual good-humoured crowds. Children's dreams here at this season are visited by a certain deformed fairy they call la Befana (a corruption, it will be observed, of Epifania), whom they suppose to bring them gifts. The conceit is analagous to " Father Christmas " of England, St. Nicholas of Germany, the "Enfant Jesus " of France, but is even more directly con nected with Christian history than these, as being not merely like them, a pleasing mode of cele brating a holy season, but actually represents the gifts of the Magi to the Child of Bethlehem ; the rather that, by a pretty tradition, the eastern kings are said to have brought among their offerings toys and dolci, such as a child loves to receive. The fair of S. Eustachio holds a very important place in popular estimation, for it supplies the cornucopia of Dame Befana, not only for the grati fication of infant minds, but also for the inter change of tokens of goodwill between children of a larger growth. Colossal booths are set up all along the streets running out of the Piazza of S. Eus tachio ; a cordon is established round the favoured precincts, excluding all wheeled traffic for two or three days ; if, as this year, a Sunday happens to fall within the time, for that once in the year the tradesmen of the neighbourhood are allowed, or take leave, to keep their shops open—suchof them, that is, as sell any matter or thing which could by any possibility be made the object of a present ; gigantic flambeaux keep up a brightness akin to that of day, and far into the small hours the light hearted multitude troops by, spending, meeting acquaintances, chatting, singing, laughing, eating sweetmeats, drinking wine (but not often over much), and making themselves very merry indeed. The revolutionary party are much provoked that they cannot disturb the even flow of the Romans' spirits. Early in the season they issued the cir cular they have now been in the habit of putting forth for some years, calling on the people to ab stain from attending the theatres as usual ; this has had little effect, except in the case of the principal opera house, which the timid have been restrained from frequenting because they have given out that they have mined its foundations, and the proximity of the building to the river-bank affords some reason for believing the possibility of the report being true. Though the police are on the alert, and will, no doubt, be able to prevent actual mischief, the recklessness of the people under the orders of such committees has been so fully proved now, both here and in England, that it is scarcely strange many are afraid to risk their lives, even for the enjoyment of an opera. The consequence can only be to deprive Rome of one of her great charms and prerogatives. The manager is almost ruined, and native talent is driven out of its natural market. This is pa triotism ! Two individuals have been lately arrested whom there is every reason to believe were concerned in blowing up the Serristori barracks. A third, similarly suspected, has contrived to escape. The Consistory, for the creation of, I believe, fifteen Cardinals (the vacant hats are, you know, seventy-one) is fixed for the 16th of March. Every one says that if the Archbishop of Westminster does not receive one this time, it will not be delayed later than the next, which is to be held in June. The Archbishop of Cambrai, Mgr. de Merode, Mgr. Ferrari, Minister of Finance; Mgr. Borromeo, major-domo of the Pope ; Mgr. Barili, nuncio at Madrid ; Mgr. Ferrieri, nuncio at Lisbon ; and Mgr. Bonaparte, the Emperor's cousin, are spoken of. There seems greater doubt again whether the Archbishop of Paris will receive the purple. Mgr. Chigi, nuncio at the Tuileries, also, it is thought, will remain a little while longer at his own desire in his present position. Mgr. Bonaparte, it ought to be remarked, has always shrunk from receiving any species of dignity from the Emperor. He is living . in Paris, in the quietest way possible for him. The following is the published text of Cardinal d'Andrea's retractation as signed by him the day after Christmas Day. It is said he has since re ceive'd threatening letters from the Revolutionary committee : "The undersigned Cardinal, in obedience to the orders of His Holiness, declares : "I. That he asks pardon for disobedience com mitted by going to Naples contrary to the veto of the Holy Father. _ " 11. That he deplores the scandal given to the faithful by his attitude towards His Holiness and the S. Congregations, by his writings and by his relations with the Examinatore of Florence, the doctrines of which he reprobates as being held by the Holy Father to be heretical and schismatical. " 111. That he gives his full adhesion to the Address of the Catholic Episcopate assembled in Rome in June, 1867. " IV. That he reprobates the protest and other his acts done, the publication of the Brief of the .12th of June, 1866, notwithstanding. "V. That he humbly asks forgiveness of the Holy Father, and makes excuse to their Eminences, his colleagues, and of all others whom he may in any way have offended." The Cardinal will shortly be restored by a Brief to the dignities from which a Brief suspended him. Herr Von Sigmund, the Bavarian Minister, had the honour of an audience of His Holiness, and presented his credentials on Monday. There have been many irregularities in the in coming of the post :of late, caused by snows on the land route and storms by sea. The weather, though continuing milder, is damp and not at all favourable for those who are not well protected from it. The French troops at Civita Vecchia are suffering terribly in this way ; febris castrensis has broken out among them. The sick overflow the hospital accommodation of the place, and numbers have had to be sent to Toulon, and the hospitals here are taxed to the utmost to provide them with linen, &c. It is said that to stay the inroads of sickness some have been transferred to Viterbo, and a note of explanation for the neces sity of so doing has been transmitted to allay the irritation the movement might produce in too-sen sitive Italy—the cause of all this suffering The return to Rome of the greater part of the division is still talked of, though less than pre viously. There is no doubt it is dull and uncom fortable work enongh at Civita Vecchia, and the men have long been used to living in large cities. .General de Failly, at his last visit to‘Cardinal An tonelli, explained the necessity of a theatre for a body of men shut up in garrison with nothing to do. " Well, General," replied his Eminence, smiling, "I will endeavour to turn my hand to this work next." Whether their return hither be delayed or not, there is no sort of thought of their moving France wards ; on the contrary, large quantities of winter clothing, provisions, and war materiel, including artillery, continue to:arrive in port. And here, while the wards of the wounded are gradually getting cleared, those of the sick in the military part of S. Spirito are filling with slight cases of fever, colds, and sore throats. The airy sala of Pius VI. (with its polished floors, its fifty scagliola columns, and bright, brass stoves, I can not call it a ward), has most of its 400 beds so occupied. One of our smaller improvised hospitals, that of S. Nicolo di Tolentino, has " shut up shop" this week, having turned all its patients into con valescents in the most satisfactory way. Two are gone to France to finish their recovery by help of their native air, some are resting at Monte Cavallo, some with private friends, and some have already returned to barracks. Now, when the ex citement of novelty has passed, and crowds of visitors who at first encumbered the various wards have melted away, among those who remain on in patient attendance on the lingering sick, reading the newspapers to them, or performing any cheer ing office by their bedside, none is more constant than the Queen of Naples. •On New Year's Day, the men clubbed together to send her a splendid bouquet to symbolize their gratitude and good wishes. Foreign Mail Packet Mot NAILS DUE. tustralis and New Zealand, via Boutitampton......Jan. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles .........Feb. 13. Ditto, via Panama ......... ....• ........ 2&. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Feb. 3. Ditto, by French packet °spa Verde. by Brazil !motet Feb. 8. „ape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helena. Jan 27 Uitina, Penang, and Singapore. via Souttiampton_Jan. 1). Ditto, via Marseilles ••.•..• ..... Jan, 27 Falkland Islands Jibra!tar, via Southampton Jan. 19. India, via Southampton ........• • ••.... ....Jan. 19. Ditto, via Marseil es Malta, Egypt, Jzo. Jan. 19. Ditto, Marseilles... Jan. 22. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Jan. _ _ Dia), - Marseilles Feb 19. Newfoundland ...... ....... leeb 12 Portugal Ditto, by pr \ 1 1u ship to uoor o Ditto r Ato to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &0., oy Briush packet Ditto, by l Lited Sttites packet. Ditto ditto 'New York, Ditto ditto Ntw York) Jan. 20 Ditto dittt (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet .... Jan 21 West Coast of Africa, fladeira, and Te ieriffe West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- mas) Cub i and Mexico Ja-. Bilia:nas, via New Y." , Bermuda, via Halif.x . . Feb 3. The total number of volumes, exclusive of unbound pamphlets, periodicals, &c., in the Congas sional library, is 165,467, of which 23,915 are in the law de partment. During the year ending Dec., 1867, an addition of 9,474 volumes has been made to the library. By a provi sion of the copyright law the Government claims one copy of each publication, for which it grants a copyright under the operation of this provision ; 1,493 volumes of books, 1,340 pamphlets, 1,250 pieces of music, 819 engrav ings and photographs, and 91 maps were secured for the library during the year ending December, 1867. Mani festly this forced contribution affords no indication of the actual number of books, pamphlets, &c., copyrighted dar ing the year; copyrights have been obtained on over 4,000 books in the southern district of New York alone during the past year. Fenton clubs are being organised in New York to press the Governor's name for the vice-presic.ency, with energy and vigour. Eight wore started at New York city in one week, and the Central Fenton Club at Albany has elected Borden 11. Mills president. 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