The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-14 00:00:00

TVE AVRESS, WEDNESDAY BYENING, JANUARY, „14, 1863.

Department of the Lower Seselele they holt
their readers carefully info rmd of the distrait
in Lancashire. But for the cessasseus initaatite,
of the Revue des Deux Monde., std the Temps;
the sufferings of these poor workmen at Rouen
might have remained unknown to the French
public until now, when an extraordinary credit is
proposed to the Legislative Corps for their relief.
When the Empress CATHERINE made the tour
of her dominions, her Minister and favourite,
PornmiN, contrived to gladden her eyes at every
halt in the progress with the most glowing picture
of popular contentment and national prosperity.
Model villages and model peasants rose before her
as if by enchantment ; the villages, it is true,
were of pasteboard, and the peasants were tamed
and fattened for the occasion. The Emperor
NICHOLAS, on a visit to the late lamented FERDI-
NAND 11. of Naples, was never saddened by the
sight of begging or destitution during his stay in
that lovely city. King FERDLNAND had taken the
precaution to wall up the quarter of the city in
which the paupers and beggars dwelt, and
from that extemporised Ghetto there was no escape
so long as the Russian Monarch was admir-
ing a well-fed and prosperous population.
This is how despotic Government deceives itself
and imposes on the world. It is served by
creatures who cannot bear the light, and in silence
and secretly is its strength. The Emperor
NAPOLEON, it is true, is no vulgar despot of the
old type ; he knows his epoch, and has meditated
in the loneliness of exile on the great problems of
government and society. It is not the man, but
the system he personifies, that loves the
darkness better than light ; but how in such a
government are we to separate the system from the
man f Nor is it in any Phariaaic spirit that we
would point the moral of the contrast between a
people accustomed to self-government, and to that
self-reliance which the Emperor of the FRENCH is
anxious to promote in France, and a people
denied all active and spontaneous participation in
their own affairs, in the presence of distress which
all the united energies and associated efforts of
private and public charity are barely sufficient to
relieve. How repeatedly during the last ten years
have not writers and speakers professedly
liberal, even in our own country, compared
the tardiness and inefficiency of free institu-
tions with the administrative vigour . of a

military despotism f During the Russian war
it was the fashion in good society to im-
pute the deficiencies of our military departments
to the free press and the public meetings which
exposed them. Nothing was known to the
world of the state of the French army,
because nothing was published ; but when
the second winter of the war had come, the com-
parative condition of the two armies was certainly
no discredit to that enduring self-reliance which
only freedom can create. How often have we
been taunted with the great public works of
despotism ; yet if there be one great public work
more than any other worthy of imitation, surely it
is the work of self-help in distress ; the work in
which France and England are now engaged.
From so sad and stern an example steadfast be-
lievers in liberty may take courage, and flatterers
of personal government accept a warning. Should
the noble agitation which a few of the bravest and
most independent of our liberal contemporaries over
the water have undertaken, reanimate public spirit
in France, disseminate, as the EICPIII.Oa desires,
true ideas, and accustom the country to self-
reliance, the poor workmen at Rouen will not have
suffered in vain.

LATEST INTELYAGicION.

(arms% riasamas.)
AMERICA.

r down among your twins, among your tombs, said in the
' midst of your dead you will find it. Touch the dust st
Spa-tacos, of Brides, and a hundred others who hare Il-
lustrated the pages of your history. Interrogate the put;
two epochs of civilisation will answer you. Trost to the
present ; twenty-nine millions of brothers are bound to help
you ; and they will help you. I shall be with yon as in the
glorious days of '49. Yee, glorious days I We were all
Italians, who were defending our hearths, our land and
laws from foreign invasion ; and I say it with pride, with
the consciousness of truth, that the honour of Italy came
forth unstained from the trial.—Yours, °Amami.

ITALY.

PSOlt a= owl

TURIN. JAL 10.

' Signor Peruzzi, the Minister of the Interior, has
returned from Florence. Immediately after his ar-
rival a very long Cabinet Council was held, at which
there-opening of parliament and the King's speech
formed the principal subjects of dilatation. No do-,
termination, however, was come to upon either
subject, the majority being in favour of waiting
until the Emperor Napoleon has made his speech on
the 12th. Some decisions were arrived at respect-
ing the surveillance of the foreign agents who are
exciting political agitation in Italy.
The subscription in favour of the victims of
brigandage succeeds in Northern Italy much better
than was expected ; especially as it seems that those
Neapolitan provinces, which have been almost
entirely free from this annoyance, look with much
indifference upon neighbouring provinces not simi-
larly fortunate.
It seems that the celebrated leader of the liberal
clergy, Father Pamela, is likely to be elected a
member of the Italian parliament. If he is re-
turned the annoyance at the Vatican will doubtless
know no bounds.
The third and last volume of the "Letters of
Vincenzo Gioberti" has just been published.
It is full of important information respecting those
events in which Gioberti himself played so
important a part. Many despatches relating to the
affairs of Italy in 1848-9 are now for the first time
published
in this volume, which will be read with
much interest.

The municipality of Turin has at last published
the conditions respecting the Cavonr memorial.
Genoa, Milan, and many other cities have already
erected statues to the great Italian statesman ; but
Turin, his birthplace, and the provisional capital
of Italy, owes him of course a more imposing monu-
ment than any of these places. The proposed
memorial is, in fact, to coat 500,000 francs.
It may be architectural in its character, or other-
wise, according to the taste of those who com-
pete, but its principal feature is to be a colossal
statue of Cavour. Designs and drawings must
be sent to the municipality of Turin by the
30th of June, 1863. If the height of the proposed
monument is less than thirty metres, the designs
must be on the scale of one-tenth ; if more than
thirty metres, the proportion is reduced to one-
twentieth. A sum of I,ooof. will be awarded for
the ten designs which are moat approved, with an
additional 4,000 f. for that which is finally selected.

.-(THIS DAY.)

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