The Press.
London, England, 1855-11-17 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

parted knowledge to the worthy, elevated the mind,
and subdued the nations of the North with its
Ausonian elegance—that " caro ftuono lusinginer " of
living harmonies—the language " of the all Etruscan
three "—is about to be prohibited by the imperial
order of the " Tedesco. rabbis." Hear. It is decreed
and commanded that in all public schools of the
Lombardo-Veneto kingdom, the teaching of the Ger-
man language, conjointly with the Italian, shall be
imperative and compulsory, until the year 1800 ;
that after the same year of 1860, then and thence
forward, the German shall be the sole and exclusive
language permitted to be taught in the schools ;
and, further, in all official documents, orders, sales
by auction, and in all the " Uffizi Reali ed Imperiali,"
the German shall be the only language spoken and
written. Receipts, leases, contracts of marriage, and
all other writings requiring a Government stamp,
shall be in German, and the trials of prisoners and
all other judicial proceedings shall be conducted in
the same imperial language. A more obnoxious
insult, one of more venomous irritation to the
Italians, could not have been offered.
It is well known that the Italian clings with en-
thusiasm to the memoried fame of the mighty de-
parted. The iron severities of the " Gran Cane,"
the crimes of the Borgia, the gorgeous regalities of
the Medici, with their " pyramid of precious stones,"
the word of the Jesuit-imprisoned Galileo, " eppur
si muove," the loves of Laura and Bianca Capello,
the murder, by Papal consent, of Joanna of Naples,
the tragedy of the "Castello di Petrella," "11 Para-
diso," and " l'lnferno," the famous deeds of the still
famous land "dove it si suona," have all been
chronicled and sung in the magnificent and enchant
ing measures of Italian diction. It is the pride, as
it is the boast, of the Italians to have been the
missioned heralds of European civilisation. The
Medici, the Gouzaga, and the Farnese, conveyed the
suavities of art, literature, and scienze to France,
England, Germany, and Spain, and the one fond
memory of their fallen greatness lives in the im-
perishable words of Dante, Patrarca, and Boccaccio.
To rob them of this their last treasure is that act of
Northern barbarism whiei shall rouse and justify
the victim to " glut his ire " on the Goth.
M. T. A.

3ortign M. doinnial cinttiligtitte.

FRANCE.

The reception of the King of Sardinia by the
French clergy is a leading topic of discussion in
Paris. His Majesty, who is under the ban of ex-
communication, presents a peculiar difficutly to the
French Churchmen. It is expected that the Legiti-
mist and Ultramontane party in the Church, as well
as most of the higher dignitaries, will stand aloof.
The result is looked forward to with much curiosity.
The reply of the Holy See to the Piedmontese
Memorandum is ready for publication ; but the Em-
peror Napoleon is said to have demanded that the
appearance of the document should be postponed
until King Victor Emanuel has left Paris.
The Siicle of the 14th has ar article on the sub-
ject of the Austrian occupation of the Danubian
provinces, and informs us that the French Govern-
ment is determined to have the question of the
principalities immediately settled, as it has reason
for suspecting that Austria is trying to obtain pos•
session of the mouths of the Danube. _

The warm reception of General Canrobert at
Stockholm appears to give great satisfaction to the
French Government, but it was not generally be-
lieved that any positive alliance with the Western
powers would be concluded.
The Commission named by order of the Emperor
to report upon the causes and means of prevention
of railway accidents concluded its labours, and
on Tuesday presented the report to the Emperor.
A conference was then he'd, and the Emperor de-
creed that the use of detonating signals and various
other improvements should be immediately adopted.

AUSTRIA.
M. de Bourqueney, the French ambassador, has
been received by the Emperor, and has since had
several conferences with Count Buol. It is asserted
in the Vienna papers that the subject of these con-
ferences was known to relate to a contemplated
campaign by the allies in Bessarabia next summer.
The summoning of Count Coronini from Bucha-
rest to Vienna had arisen, it was also stated, from
the desire of the Austrian Government to obtain his
opinion upon the projected campaign.