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INDIA AND CHINA.

The mail, with dates from Calcutta of the 22nd
of October; Bombay, 2nd of November; Hong.
Kong, 15th of October; Canton, 12th ; and Shanghae,
the Bth of October, arrived at Trieste from Alexan
dria on the 27th. The Santhals had broken out with
greater force than before, and martial law had been
proclaimed.
In China the Imperialists had been defeated by the
Revolutionists.

TEE POPE has created a resident Cardinal, in the
person of Mgr. Villecourt, Bishop of La Rochelle.
The new Cardinal is stated to be noted for his piety
and learning, and to be a personal friend of the
Pope.
GENERAL CANROBERT, who was present at the an-
nual sitting of the Royal Academy of Military Sci-
ences of Sweden, in company with the two sons of
the King, has been elected foreign member of that
body.

COUNT CAvoun, during his stay in London, will, it
is stated, endeavour to make the preliminary ar-
rangements for the negotiations of the new loan of
thirty millions, at present under consideration of the
Sardinian Chambers.

THE OPENING OF THE SOUND CONFERENCES has
been adjourned for a short period, until tho Minister
of the United States receives his instructions. The
Danish Government does not appear to place any
great confidence in the success of its proposed
scheme,

SATURDAY,

Crud anb lastitin.

Her Majesty and the Court have remained at
Windsor during the week, where preparations have
been hurried forward with every despatch for the
reception of the King of Sardinia.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, and
attended by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon.
Flora Macdonald, Major-General the Hon. Charles
Grey, and Captain du Plat, left Windsor by a special
train of the South-Western Railway at ten o'clock on
Wednesday morning for Chatham. On arriving at
Strood her Majesty was received by Colonel Eden,
commanding the garrison, who conducted the Qneen
and Prince the hospitals of Fort Pitt and Brompton,
when her Majesty inspected a large number of
invalids, and returned to the castle in the afternoon.

,
His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Sing
(attended by Sir John Login), Viscount and Vis-
countess Hardinge, Colonel Sir Thomas Trou-
bridge, and General Sir James Simpson, arrived on
Thursday, on a visit to her Majesty. The dinner
party in the evening included her Royal Highness
the Princess Royal, with the guests at the castle.
The Duke of Richmond remains at Brighton until
the departure of the principal portion of the Royal
Sussex Light Infantry Militia, of which corps his
Grace is colonel, for Chichester.

Lord and Lady John Russell, with his lordship's
son and daughter, paid a visit on Thursday to Dr.
and Mrs. Humphreys at the Cheltenham Grammar
School.

The Bishop of London lies in a very precarious
state. His lordship's life is considered in danger.
His Excellency the Marquis D'Azeglio, Sardinian
Minister at the Cuurt of St. James, left town on Wed-
nesday for Dover, to be in readiness to receive the
King of Sardinia.
The Marquis de Cambry has left the Clarendon
for Paris.

The Earl and Countess of Wilton, Lady Katherine
Grey Egerton, and the Hon. Captain and Lady
Elizabeth De Ros, have arrived in Grosvenor•terrace,
from Melton Mowbray.
Mrs. Willoughby Moore, Lady Superintendent of
the officers' hospital at Scutari, and widow of the
late distinguished Colonel Moore, who perished in
the Europa, has lately died at Scutari from the
effects of diarrhoea and fever.

THE NEW CONCORDAT is regarded so unfavorably in
Germany, that the heads of the Church have ordered
their subordinates to act with extreme circumspec-
tion, and gradually to accustom their flocks to the
new order of things. The clerical party make every
effort to prove it is the death-blow of the revolutionary
party in Italy, but the people regarJ it more as a
precursor of the certain downfal of the Austrian
empire.

M. OLOZACIA, Minister of the Interior in Spain, with
reference to his late quarrel in the Cabinet, has de.
dined to withdraw his resignation. The Queen has
refused to accept it, and it is expected that a pacifica-
tion between M. Olozaga and the Minister for Foreign
Affairs will be ultimately arranged.
M. DE LESSEPS, with the members of the Inter-
national Commission for exploring the Isthmus of
Suez, has left Marseilles for Alexandria. The Pacha
of Egypt has ordered every preparation to be made
for their reception at Alexandria and Cairo. The
line of the canal from Suez to Peluze is marked out,
and the borings are said to have proved the subsoil
to be favorable to the operation.
M. DE GOPCEVICH of Trieste, who, it will be
remembered, was announced as having obtained the
permission of the Russian authorities to load vessels
with corn in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff not-
withstanding the war, upon arriving at Odessa dis-
covered that the Russian Government would not
permit the export of grain.
THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER in his late visit to the
southern provinces of his empire is said to have
personally satisfied himself of the way matters aro
carried on in the various departments of the
army, and several important "radical administrative
changes" are spoken of as about to take place.
Notwithstanding the war, active preparations are also
being made to unite the different parts of the empiro
by a network of railways, the Russian Government
intending, it is said, to grant concessions to foreign
companies for this purpose.
SIR HAMILTON SEYMOUR, according to letters from
Vienna, was expected to arrive in about ten days
at that capital. His Excellency has engaged a new
residence for the Embassy.
THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT addressed energetic
remonstrances to Austria upon the case of the Pastor
Borzinski, who was lately arrested in Austria for
having quitted the Catholic Church and embraced
the Protestant faith. Before these remonstrances,
warmly supported by the English Ambassador at
Vienna, could have resulted in much, Borzinski,
while closely confled in a monastery, happily effected
• his Gesso, and is now safe in Prussia.

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DECEMBER 1, 1855.

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History of Piedmont. By Antonio Gallenga.
London : Chapman and Hall.
THE visit of the King of Sardinia to this
country, and the interest which is universally
felt in the affairs of his kingdom, make the
publication of this book peculiarly well-timed.
We are not sure that we rightly apprehend
the point of view from which M. Gallenga
would wish his history to be regarded. It is
not exactly a popular, and it is not exactly a
profound or exhaustive work: it is too long
for the one, and too short for the other. Either
the first volume should have been a good deal
compressed, or the third a good deal expanded.
But we cannot be well satisfied with a history
so much of which is devoted to a period about
which men scarcely care, and so little to that
about which they care so much. It is no
doubt indispensable to a complete work on
this subject that it should tell us all that is to
be known about " Humbert with the White
Hand," and "Amadeus with the Long Tail,"
and other worthies to whom the Duchy of
Savoy owes its origin ; but then it is equally,
or even more, essential that we should have a
corresponding copiousness of detail about
those who made the duchy into a kingdom,
and the kingdom respected throughout
Europe. We cannot but half suspect that M.
Gallenga must have set out with the intention
of composing a very much more extensive
work, but was compelled, for some reason or
other, to hurry it to a conclusion. There is,
however, he tells us in his preface, a work of
this description in progress, by a member of
the Sardinian Cabinet, which has as yet only
reached the end of the fourteenth century.
Whether it will ever be completed he thinks
doubtful ; in the meantime he has, we suppose,
resolved to do what he could himself. Passing
over the early days of Ostrogoth, Lombard,
and Frankish domination, we will endeavour
briefly to set before our readers such informa-
tion relating to the present reigning family of
Sardinia as we think may prove most accept-
able to them.
The first Count of Maurienne and Savoy
who can be considered an historical personage
was the above-mentioned Humbert of the
White Hand, who died in the year 1056. His
son Oddo married Adelaide, daughter and
heiress of the Count of Turin, and after the
death of her husband governed for nearly
thirty years as Countess of Savoy and Pied-
mont Her descendants had great difficulty
in making good their ground in Italy, espe-
cially against the Marquisses of Montferrat;
nevertheless, now advancing and now reced-
ing, they did manage to maintain some sort of
footing there down to the accession c f Amadeus
VIII., Count of Savoy, in the year 1391. He
consolidated and strengthened his family in-
heritance, and reunited in his own person the
titles of Savoy and Turin, which latter had for
some years been held by a collateral branch of
his house. In 1418 his dominions were raised
by the Emperor to the rank of a duchy, and
from this period begin to take that shape with
which the ordinary reader is best acquainted.
M. Gallenga has likened him to Henry VII. of
England; and in many respects doubtless the
comparison is a good one. Amadeus after
wards abdicated in favour of his son, and in
1439 was elected Pope, with the title of Felix V.
This dignity he in turn resigned ten years
later, and died in privacy in 1451. His career
is certainly one of the most remarkable in all
history ; and we could wish our author had
been able to procure more interesting informa-
tion than he has concerning his character
and habits. Piedmont was now for more
than a century the theatre of incessant
war. The expedition of Charles VIII. of
France, though so disastrous to himself, was
renewed by his successors, who eventually
succeeded in making good their claims to
Piedmont. Turin capitulated to the French
on the 2nd of April, 1536, and remained in
their possession nearly forty years. This, too,
is a period we should like to have had eluci
dated. The nature of the French Parliament
established in 1537—the character and mode
of life of the French governors, of whom the
gallant and unfortunate Du Laugney, the best