The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-02 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1862.

ITALY.

THE " CONFIDENCE " DEBATE IN THE
ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.
(nom OCCASIONAL comaroaDarr.)

TI MM, Nov. 21.

The excitement of yesterday's and to-day's sittings '
of the Italian Chamber of Deputies is almost with- '
out a precedent in the parliamentary annals of this
or any other country in Europe. The telegraph will
no doubt have conveyed to you a summary of
Rattazzi's speech, which was the great event of
yesterday. The Italian Premier spoke for four
hours with an easy, abundant, and dexterous
fluency, which sometimes rose into real eloquence.
But, alas ! he had a bad cause to,defend—a cause
already condemned by the conscience of the nation.
The House, as you may easily imagine, was full to
suffocation, so full that it was impossible even for
11 ticket-holders to obtain a place in the galleries.
The ministerial bench was, of course, au comptet.
Rattazzi stood in the midst of his colleagues,
calm, collected, and to all appearance, in-
different, like a man unconscious of the great
storm raging around him, or unconcerned. He
tams 'at • isids Wee the. member, as -beat
sides of the Home, who had so violently attacked
his administration on the two previous days. His
speech went on smoothly enough until he ap-
proached the question of the arrest of the deputies, I
Mordini, Calvin, and Fabrizzi. It was then that
the uproar of the Left was aroused. Ever and anon
the resonant voice of Baron Nicotera rent the air
of the spacious hall, sustained and harmonised,
so to speak, by an occasional chord from Crispi's
powerful organ. It was a crams& of confusion—
s. veritable Babel. To defend himself from the
charge of having violated the constitution by
arresting the three deputies, Rattazzi thought
proper to read a confidential report from Ge-
neral Della Marmon. He was, however, so ex-
hausted that the house asked one of his colleagues
to read the report for him. The Minister of
Finance, Sella, rose and began to read it.
This paper was written in a short, sharp, soldier-
like style, and the General's remarks on the
three deputies were certainly never intended to
be made public. After narrating the circum-
stances which had induced him to arrest MM.
Mordini, Fabrizzi, and Calvin, Della Manners
said that he had read with the deepest regret the
protest made by some of his colleagues
against that arrest, and that he blushed to
think that he had those three gentlemen for his
colleagues in the national repmentation. No pen
can describe the sensation which the reading of
these last words created in the Chamber. Almost
all the honourable members left their seats,
while an ominous groan, like the distant murmur
of an angry sea, rose and fell and rose again.
Rattazzi, however, came to the rescue of his
indiscreet colleague, and tried to explain, if
not to justify, Della Marmora'a words by saying
that in the mind of the General those three
deputies were " guilty " when he wrote the
despatch, rand that he therefore applied them to
men who, according to his belief, had acted against
the oath of allegiance they had taken. Rattazzi's
words appeased the storm a little, and the Premier
was allowed to resumes his speech.
Such are the main outlines of yesterday's sitting.
As for to-day's, it has been scarcely leasexcitiug. To
begin with, it was reported this morning that Gene-
ral Cialdini had arrived from Bologna to challenge
Baron Nicotera, who in his yesterday's speech had
attacked that general. It was, however, afterwards
ascertained that such was not his intention.
Cialdini entered the House late in the day, and
no Allemge was sent The orators who spoke to-
day were Mordini, Calvino, Fabrizzi, and Cado-
lini. All spoke on personal questions, and in repli-
cation of points in Rattazzi's speech of yesterday.
Baron Nicotera disclosed some interesting details of
a conversation ho bad with Rattazzi before the latter's
coming into power. To-morrow Mancini will speak
on a personal question, so that it is doubtful
whether itattazzi will be able to treat foreign
affairs as he proposed to do. Judging by the
length of yesterday's and to-day's speeches,
it is scarcely probable that the House will come to
a division before Monday. The division will in
all probability result in a majority against Rat-
tazzi's cabinet. Whether that majority will be
very large, it is impossible at this moment to tell.
Since, however' Cassini, Vegczzi, and Mingbetti
have declared to vote against the Cabinet, Rat-
tazzi's political fortunes are decidedly at a very low
ebb. Will Rattazzi venture to advise a dissolution
of parliament 1 That is the question which the next
few days will solve.

THII HUDSON'S BAY COM PANY. —Mr. George
Oreofell Glyn, M.P., Mr. Watkin Mr. Robert Beason, Mr.
Newmarsh, F.H.8., Mr. H. Woll;iston Blake, and Captain
Glyn, it.N„ had an interview yesterday (Monday) at the
Hudson's Bay House with the Governor and Court of the
Company with reference to the opening up of telegraphic
and petal communication across British North America to
British Colutotht and the Pacific, the conference having
been suggested in a communication from the Colonial.
°thee.

FIRE AT PETROLEUM OIL WORKS AT ROTH ER-
urna.—Great excitement was caused last night in the im-
mediate vicinities of Rotherhithe and Deptford, owing to
a report that the Patent Petroleum Oil Works, belonging to
Messrs. Itoosell and Co., in itotherhithe-street, were on fire.
The fire commenced in a brick building used as one of the
oil refineries. Adjoining this extensive building were a
number of open yards and sheds piled with casks, At., and
it was feared that the dames would have extended to those
portions of the works. A number of steam and other en.
Fines soon arrival, amid were set to work from the river
Thames and from a tidal ditch, but such was the inflamma-
ble nature of the goods on the premises that a ainsiderable
time elapsed before the brigade could do more than cut off
the progress of the flames in the direction of the adjoining
buildings. Before nine o'clock Captain Sbaw sent the
principal portion of the engines borne to their respective
stations, thereby allaying all found any further extension
of mischief, and shortly afterwards the flames were entirely
extinguished. The damage done, h ,is very couside-
Table, sod is thus officially reported by Captain Shaw :
" A brick builihug 70 feet long by 110, used as an oil re-
finery, burned down, and machinery damaged by fire? The
origin of the misfortune has been traced to a leakage of one
of the stills. Unfortunately the dock and plant ware un-
insured. Two other fires took place—one at Limehouse,
and the other at Broad-street, Golden-square, but the
damage at each was not very considerable.
E CATTLE NI7IRANCE .—FATAL ACCIDENT.
Yesterday evening an inquiry was held before Mr. H.
Rattles Walthew, the deputy coroner, at the Rose and
Crown Tavern, Wentworth-street, Whitechapel, respecting
the cause of • series of accidents which have led to the
death of Henry Middleton Sheen, aged one year, and it is
believed will result in the deaths of two other persons. It
appeared that a large drove of wild Welsh "runts" were
being driven from Hackney Wick to Gulatone-street after
7 o'clock in the evening, and when they arrived st the
Whitechapel-road it became necessary to drive them down
a narrow turning. Several men and boys threw • chair
across the passage, anti set up loud shouts, which caused
the drove to take fright. One of the runts bounded over
the chair and dashed along the street upon the
foot pavement at • terrific pace, goring everyone
it met. It rushed at a foreign Jew who was
walking along with a child in his arms, and threw the
latter on to the pavement with great force. The child was '
conveyed to the hospital, and little hopes are entertained
of its recovery. Between three and four hundred men and
boys followed the animal up the Whitechapel-road, render-
ing it perfectly furious by their hurrahs and blows. It
tossed and gored several men and women, and rushing at
• Miss Eliza Rus, who had the deceased, her cousin, in
her arms, threw her and the child with fearful force on to
the pavement. The child died from injuries to the brain,
and the young woman bas not yet recovered from the shock
to her system. The drovers bad the utmost difficulty
in preventing the rest of the herd from giving way also to
, panic, in which cane the consequences in the crowded streets
would have been frightful. Ultimately, after great
damage bad been done, three tame bullocks were procured,
by means of which they got the wild animal into a yard.
I coroner said it was a most dangerous proceeding to
. drive wild animals which, agitated in the evidence, " bad
never seen gaslight," through the crowded streets of the
1 metropolis, without any effectual means of restraining
1 them. A verdict of " Death by misfortune" was returned.
LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY(LIIIITED).
Trhaio receipts for the week ceding Nov. 23, 9,966 i, 4s. 7d.