The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-02 00:00:00

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TO Par imolai'
Suffering under repeated blows, botkinaord and physical,
a man can more exquisitely feel both good and ill, hurl •
maled;cticia at the authors of evil, and consecrate to his
benefactors unlimited gratitude and affectioa.
And I owe you gratitude, 0! English nation, and I feel
it aa much as my soul is capable of feeling it. You were my
friend in my good fortune, and you will continue your
precious trienduhip to me in my adversity. May God bless
you. My gratitude is all the more intense, 0! kind nation,
that it rises high above all individual feeling, and becomes
sublime in the universal sentiment towards nations of which
you represent the progress. Yes, you deserve the gratitude
of the world, because you offer a safe shelter to the un-
fortunate from whatever side they may corns, and you
Identify yourself with the misfortune of others you pity
and help. The French or Neapolitan exile finds refuge in
your bosom against tyranny. He finds sympathy and aid
because be is an exile—because he is unfortunate. The
Hamm., the iron executioners of internale, will not be
supported by the soil of thy free country ; they will Ay '
from the tyrannindal anger of thy generous sorts.
And what should we be in Europe without thy dig-
nified behaviour? Autocracy can strike her soiled ones in
other countries where only a bastard freedom is enjoyed—''
where freedom is but a lie. But let one seek for it on the
sacred ground of Albion. I, like so many others, seeing the
cause of justice oppressed in so many parts of the world,
despair of all human progress. But when I turn my
thoughts to you, I find traequillity from your steady and
tauter advancement towards that end to which the human
race seems to be called by Providence.
Follow your path undisturbed, 0 ! unconquered nation,
and be not backward in calling eider anions osa the road of
human progress. Call the French anion to 'cooperate with
you. Yon are both worthy to walk hand in hind in the front
mak of human improvement. But call her ! In all
your meetings let the words of concord of the two great
sisters resound! Call her! Call her in every way with
your own voice, and with that of her great exiles—with
that of her Victor Hugo, the hieropheat of emceed brother-
hood. Tell her that coalman are to-day an aberration,
the emanation of insane minds. And why should we
conquer foreign lands when we must all be heathen?
Gall her, and do not care if she is for the moment under
the dominion of the Spirit of Evil. She will answer
in due time, if not to-day, to-morrow ; and if not to-
morrow, will later answer to the sound of thy generous
and regenerating words. Call, and at once, Helvetia 's strong
sons, sod clasp them for ever to thy heart. The warrior coos
of the Alps—the Vestal of the sacred fire of freedom in the
European continent. They will be yen ! And what allis !
Call the great American Republic. She le, after all, thy
daughter, risen from thy lap ; and, hoverer eke may go to
work, she is struggling to-day for the abolition of slavery
so generously proclaimed by you. Aid her to come from
the terrible struggle in which she is 'evolved by the traf-
fickers in human flash. Help her, and then snake her sit by
your side in the great assembly of nations, the final work of
human raison. Call unto thee such nations se perms free
will ; and do not delay • day. The initiative that to-day
belongs to you might not be your* to-morrow. May God
avert this ! Who more bravely took the initiative than
France in 'B9. She, who in that solemn moment gave
reason to the world, levelled tyranny to the dust,
and consecrated free brotherhood between nations.
After almost • century she is reduced to com-
bat the liberty of nations, to protect tyranny, end to
direct her effort. to shindy, on the ruins of reason,
that hideous immoral monetrosity—papacy. Rise, there-
fore, 0 ! Britannia, and lose no time. Rise with uplifted
brow, and point out to other nations the read to follow.
War would no longer be possible where a world's congress
would judge of the differences arisen between nation. No
more standing armies, with which freedom is incompatible!
Away with shells and iron plating ! Let spades and reaping
machines come forth—let the milliards spent in destructive
implements be employed to encourage industry, and to
diminish the sum of human misery. Begin, 0! English
people, for the love of God, begin the great era of the
human compact, and benefit present generations with so
great a gift.
Betides Switzerland, Belgium, and others that will rise
at your call, you will see other nations, urged on by the
good sense of populations, rush to thy embrace and unite
in use. Let London be at the present time the seat of
me congress in due course to be chosen by mutual under-
standing and general consent. I repeat to you, may God
bless you, and may He amply repay you for the benefits
you have showered upon me.—With gratitude and affec.
tion, thine, G. GAIIIJILLUL
Varignano, Sept. 28, 1882.

THE ROMAN QUESTION.

The /adepeudance of yesterday says :
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The Emperor Napoleon, who is the supreme arbiter of
the situation in Italy, has indicated what his views are as to
the final solution, but he leaves the world in utter dark-
ness as to the time fired in his mind for the accomplish.
meet of his designs. We are assured that 11. Foald, during
his recent visit to Biarritz, made an attempt to sound the
Sovereign on this point, but without the least suc-
cors. The Emperor confined his answer to the simple
statement that all the noise which was made about
the Roman question would not advance by a
single hour the decision which he had resolved on.
In political circles where this statement finds credit, the
probable conclusion is drawn that the Emperor is desirous
of allowing tho question to arrive at such a point that any
solution will be accepted as a relief ; but the conviction is
strong that the evacuation of Rome is in principle decided
on. M. de Lavalette has arrived in Paris, and letters
from Rome state that he will not return as ambassador to
the Holy Sera. It is said by others that he is charged with
a •-•,-;nn from the Pens to the Emperor.