The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-29 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE ABBE GIOBERTI.

Intelligence has reached London that the Abbe'.
Gioberti, whose prominence in Italian politics during
the years 1847 and 1818 our readers will not hare
forgotten, hue just died at Paris at the age of 45, of
a fit of apoplexy. Giobcrti was for a time President
of the Council of the cabinet of Charles Albert, and
in ISI9 represented the present King of Sardinia at
Pane. e find the following details of his career in
the volume entitled " Men of the Time : "
Vincentio Gioberti was burn in 1503. lle drat attracted
attention about 1841, when he was deprived of his profes-
' sor's chair of Moral Philcsophy at Turin by the influence
of the Jesuits, who found fault with the boldness and
originality of hismetaphysical theories, though in the main
they were those of Iteismiio, the foremost philosopher of
modern Italy. Deprival of his income aed debarred from
professional advancement, he did not succumb and sink
into hopeless obscurity. Cetfe tete vat une puissonee,were the
words of Mirabeau ; and Giuberti felt within bars powers
and cap.,bilities which convinced him that, single-handed,
he was more than a match fur any aggregate to mediocri-
ties arrayed against him. He ion 1 urns In the uncontrolled
guidance of the fathers, and sought out a free resting.
place, exclaiming, in the words of Tully, Miba, et uhi
inreneta liberans eivitatent in ea conquiateam. He fixed
his abode at Brussels, sat down to his desk, and shwk
all Italy with his pen. His first volumes, printed at Brus-
sels, treated of the pre-eminence and claims of Italy in all
the walks of science, art, war, and industry (del promato,
' ate.) ; these had an enormous circulation in the Peninsula,
though prohibited by the same influence which had ousted
him from his chair. But though such dragons can keep
watch and debar access to chairs and pulpits, the printing-
press is not to be withheld from the suitorship of intellect ;
and having touched a chord which vibrated through every
Italian heart, Gioberti followed out his inductions by a
powerful appeal to his fellow-countrymen to drive out the
Germans and repossess their own land, freed from the
footsteps of the Vandal. Here the Jesuits were again at
work in denouncing and suppressing his book. He followed
up the blow by a direct attack on themselves as obstacles to
improvement, and as so many agents of Austria. This
volume is entitled " Prolegomena," and raised a perfect hur-
ricane in the Peninsula. Father Curd, a Neapolitan
Jesuit, published a volume in reply, well written and even
witty, but it fell unnoticed. It only served as a puff to
the original work, inasmuch as the walls of Modena, Turin,
and Naples were placarded with the "Risposta a Gio.
berti " when nobody was allowed by the censorship to read
the book inculpated, and hence its clandestine demand be-
came still more considerable. The upshot of his writings
was to prepare the mind of Italy for the death of Gregory,
which he foresaw would necessarily be the signal for an
outbreak. In the system propounded by Gioberti, from
his first work to hie last, Ital was called on to form a
rand federative union, with the Pope as president. This
idea caught the religious as well u the political mind of
the people and was the watchword of all subsequent move.
merits. Upon the accession of Pius IX, and the resolve of
the King of Sardinia to enter upon a constitutional career, I
Gioberti was called into prominence. He became an ad-
viser of the crown, we. enrolled, and even elected Presi-
dent of the Chamber at Turin. In the spring of 1848 he
was deputed to visit the Pope, and cement acordial feeling
between the two potentates. The influence he exercised at
this time in Italy may be inferred from a few lines found
is a letter dated Rome, May 28, 1848: " Gioberti is here,
and is nightly surrounded by the Romans. For the last
three evenings he has been obliged to come forth on the
balcony and address an enthusiastic crowd, who hang on
every word, and believe him inspired. The scene is most
picturesque. Two attendants stand on each side of the
orator, holding out large torch-lights, which illuminate
his anuatestanso and part of the auditory beneath. He
republicanism, and exhorts the
Ratanslirnit =ftnsthe pontiff and illy round his vene-
rable throne. In this he has been most successful, and has
treated quite a session in favour of Pio Nono, whose popu-
larity required ashes an aid than Gioberti could bring to
the rescue." Whys the hollowness of the pseudo-liberal
Pope had been proved, Gioberti, who loved the church
(which la all his warfare he had forborne to assail) yet
more than elm kw*, saw his hopes of liberal government
under aprantlff drinnyed, and his system fell into con-
tempt. He has since occupied a private station.

THE MADILL Fatimr.—The following letter was
received in Edinburgh on Friday :—" Foreign-office, Oct.
20, 1862.—Sir,—I am directed by the Earl of hfalmesbury
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th in-
stant, forwarding a memorial adopted at a public meeting
of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, end praying that her
Majesty would interpose in the behalf of the Medial family,
now suffering imprisonment in Tuscany on account of their
religions opinions ; and I am to state to you in reply, that
the parties in question not being British subjects, her Ma-
jesty's minister at the court of Tuscany cannot interfere
oficially in their behalf. Sir Henry Bulwer has, however,
been instructed to give every assistance that he can unoffi-
cially afford to the deputation which has proceeded to Flo-
rence with the view of interceding with the Grand Ducal
Government in favour of the Medial family.-1 am, Ac., Nichol, Esq., 9, North Bank-street, Edin-
bamh."
WHITTINGTON CLUB CONCEBTS.—Tho first of a
aeries of concerts to take place at this institution was given
last evening. The general programme ennounoes instru-
mental 'performers on the violin, violoncello, flute, and
concertina, but last evening the only instrument brought
Into requisition, of course in addition to the piano, was the
concertina. The artists were Messrs. J. and U. Care, F.
Bertioli, and Miss Case, and they played ten or three
pieces with considerable taste and skill. The programme
also included several songs, ballads, duets, and trios. The
room, which contains several hundreds, was well filled, and
the performances appeared to give general satisfaction.
DR. WARNEFORD'II ADDITIONAL ENDOWMENTS
TO TIII QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRKINGGA I(.—ThaL great
philanthropist has just paid over to his trustees, the Rev.
Chancellor Law, the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, William
Dickens, Esq., and William Sands Cox, Esq., the muni-
ficent sum of 2,00 W., one moiety of the annual income
arising from the same as an endowment of the " Professor
of Clerical Literature " for the time being of the said col-
lege, who shall be duly qualified to instruct the students of
the said college, both in the senior and junior departments
thereof, in the Greek and Latin languages, according to the
schemes of Instruction laid down and adopted by the council
and committees of council of the college, and carried out
under the superintendence of the Rev. the Warden, and
more particularly to instruct the students of tho Theological
Department in such a knowledge of those languages as is
necessary for reading sad understanding the Iloly Scrip-
tures in the original Greek, or in the Greek and Latin ver-
sions; and the other remaining moiety of the an-
nual income as an endowment of the Professor
of Arts and Sciences for the time being of the
said college, who shall be duly qnalifltd to instruct the
students of the said college, both in the senior and junior
departments thereof, in pure and mixed mathematics,
natural philosophy, and such other branches of art and
science as are required by the schemes of instruction laid
down and adopted by the council and committees of council
of the said college, and carried out under the superinten-
dence of the Rev. the Warden, with a view to fit and
prepare such students for obtaining the certificates of the
college, and the rank and degree, or diploma, of Bachelor
of Arts in the said college, in order thereby more effectually
to carry out the objects of the said college, with reference
to the preparation of the students in the theological depart-
ment thereof. Dr. Warneford's endowments to the medi-
cal, arts, and theologica4 departments of the college now
mut to 2•10901.