The Press.
London, England, 1856-10-25 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

deposit them with any other than the authorised collector.
Will you kindly state that I remain at 8, Percy-street, on
Saturday, between the hours of twelve and four, and am to
be found on any other day at the office of the committee
for the emancipation of I taly, , 22, Sloane street ?—I am, dm.,
J. MEI:MON Wurrs.
Committee•room, 22, Sloane street, Oct. 19.
Subscriptions for the emancipation of Italy, received by J.
Meriton White, 8, Percy-street, Bedford•square.
For the ten thousand muskets to be given to the first
Italian province which shall rise against the common
enemy :
U. Montazi
N. N.
Albion
John Hull
A. I erren
Count Pepoli
W. S. Latidor
B. Johlison
lt. L Truro
List returned by John Nicholson, &aside,
Penrith 2 15 6

Zl2 10 6

For the hundred cannons to fortify Alessandria

From Birches Green
Benjamin Smith

t 4 0
To be intrusted to Joseph Mazzini for the " Etnancipa•
tion of Italy " :
J. Cowen, Newcastle
J. Stansiel,l
Sir John Fife, Newcastle 5 0 0
M. S.
Mrs. Fletcher 3 0 0
N. N. U 10 0
Two Clerks
Sir John Furbes

£J 2 0
Total

Three studies from the " Vita Nuova" of Dante, painted
by E. A. Hawkes, to be raffled for by two hundred sub-
scribers at ss. each. The proceeds to be intrusted to
Joseph Mazzini.
The " Thunder Shower," painted in water colours by
Barbara Leigh Smith, to be raffled for by twenty subscribers
at 10s. 6d. each. The proceeds to to intrusted to Giu-
seppe Garibaldi for the emancipation of Italy.
Holders of subscription lists are solicited to send all
fresh names, and the amount of the subscriptions, to 8,
Percy-street, every Wednesday for publication. Mr. Nichol-
son's, of Penrith, is the only list yet returned.

TO THE EDITOR OP " THE PRESS."

Sir,—l have just chanced to meet with your un-
manly and insolent attack on Miss J. Meriton White,
my daughter. Your assertions are as false as your
style is vulgar. My daughter has been established
in London for some time past, with my full con
currence, and, while mindful of nearer duties, has
been working in behalf of oppressed and struggling
Italy in a manner I very highly approve.
If, because she has published General Garibaldi's
letters to herself, detailing Austrian atrocities, and
has translated Orsini's narrative, the Genoese Com-
mittee has deputed her to collect subscriptions for the
10,000 muskets, to be given to the first Italian pro-
vince that shall rise against the common foe—is
that a reason why a paper, arrogating to itself such
respectability of opinion as yours does, should (fail-
ing to suppress the public feeling in favour of truth
and right) demean itself to insult a woman labouring
for one of the most sacred causes that a human
being can labour for?
Without going into the question whether a woman
is, or is noi, justified in ent'ring on any sphere of
action to which her abilities or tastes incline her,
would it not be well for the men who would fain
sneer away her usefulness, to come forward and
undertake the work for which they deem her unfit?
Of this I am sure, that if any Englishmen will
undertake to collect for the Genoese Committee such
sums as the " liberal•minded" of England are
willing to give, my daughter will gladly withdraw
from public notice, and work silently and alone as
she has hitherto done.

I request that you will publish this letter; not
that I feel my daughter in the leastwise injured by
your unworthy attack, but that I, her father, choose
it shall be known that we are one in thought and
sympathy on the great question of the day—England's
duty concerning the oppressed nationalties.—l re-
main, sir, yours,
THouss WHITE, Ship-builder.
Portsmouth.
P.S.—I send you a stamped envelope, that if you
decline the insertion of this letter it may be returned
to me for publication elsewhere.
[The only question raised by this letter is, whether
Miss White has fairly exposed herself to the com-
ment of journalism by her conduct. As it is ad-
mitted that she has been forward in collecting
subscriptions to bromote Italian insurrection, and
as she published without any expression of dis-
approval the letter addressed to her by Mr. Landor
offering a reward for the assassination of ' conti-
nental tyrants," it does not strike us that her friends
have any reason to complain at her being exposed
to the natural consequences of that notoriety she
evidently desires. Miss White has chosen to make

SATURDAY,

herself a public character, and must not hope to
escape public criticism, especially in relation to a
"cause" which we are so far front thinking "sacred,"
that we regard it as utterly foolish, or criminal, or
both.]