The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1851.

FATHER OAVAZZI'S TWELFTH ORATION
YESTERDAY AT THE PRINCESS'S CON-
CERT HALL.

the Suloos. -
The following is translated from the Diario ds
.Gaulle, Jun. 17, Deal :
The arrival of the steamer Reina de Castilla, with the
Commander-General of Marine and Government Secretary,
has afforded us the pleasure of learning that his Excellency
the Governor and Captain-General, with the expedition, at
the date of the steamer's sailing were remaining at Zam-
leunga in order to arrange some of the unsettled affairs of
Mindanao, after having given a severe lesson to the Tonquib
and people of the islands of bantam' and Maim, from
which places the last three piratical expeditions which
scoured the coast of Samar and Leyte, in September last,
originated. His Excellency the Marquis de hi Solona, ful-
fulling the promise which he had announced to them MI
exacting severe retribution from all who should dare to com-
mit
any acts of depredation in our provinces, tatted a dis-
embarkation on the above-named islands. Their inhabitants
either hid themselves in the jungle on the hills, or Heel to the
neighbouring islands; but notwithstanding this, their houses,
to the number of six or seven hundred, were reduced to
ashis, their coolly of grain and fruit trees laid waste and cut
down, their cattle and all articles of any utility destroyed,
and the few men wit.. were seized treated with the utmost
rigour. Their hoots and vessels, both piratical and trading,
were sunk or burnt, and forty captives recovered, who were
taken on in our vessels to Zamboanga.
It appears that notwithstanding the pacific intentions
with which his Excellency went to Sults) to arrange with
the Sultan and flatus some point+ which would have more
finally established their authority, and have given them the
power which they need in order to hold their subjects in
cheek, the events which had occurred at 'remand
and Doeutuan, or exaggerated and distorted accounts
or them, induced them not only to refuse to enter
into any conferences or negotiations but to dare
to assume a belligerent attitude, and even commence at-
tasking our vessels. this Excellency has viewed such ill-
tinted and audacious proceedings with the iminniatiou
caused by such conduct. We are as yet ignorant of what he
may have determined un in cons ,burns, but we doubt nut
that, acting with his usual energy and prudence, he will do
what will be. in accordance with the honour of Spain and
the interests of the government and of the country. Ac-
cording to a communication which I received yesterday, his
Excellency the governor and captain-general of these islands
was at Zamboanga on the 11th Jan., after having punished
the pirates of the Islands of Santales, Rocoluan, Hamm and
Tommil. From six to seven hundred of their houses
have been burned, with a large number of sailing craft;
twenty-five pirates were killed, and forty captives res-
cued. The troops have conducted themselves with great
order and discipline, and his Excellency is much pleased
with the spirit which animates them. The expedition has
also been at the bay of Diana and Suloo, at which last platy
warlike demonstrations took place without provocation.
llis Excellency, much dissatisfied at such a limeys:ding, has
returned to Zamboanga, where the expedition at present
remains. All which I communicate to the army for its satis-
faction, and that of the loyal inhabitants of the l'hillippines.
16tIt Jan., IS,l.—The Second General,
Blanco—True copy.—Mera." We hear that the province
of the Dominicans has voluntarily offered to the government
a donation of .1,000 dollars towards the expenses occasioned
by the expedition against the pirates. Although the pros-
perous state of the colony places the goverument in a free
and untrammelled po-itiou with regard to the sinews of war,
stilt we cannot but applaud the patriotism which dictates
this act, and do not doubt that it will had imitators.
The above account, which may be looked upon no
semi-odicial, must be taken owe yrano salls, but
front other sources we have received details of the
operations actual and contemplated against Suloo.
On arrival of the expedition ut Suloo, a party was
sent on shore with a tag of truce which, without
much parley. the Sultan advised to return to their
vessels us the mob or manses of the people being
much infuriates( against the Spaubuds, were demand-
ing their heads; through the intervention of the •
Sultan, the patty succeeded in getting clear of the ,
shore without personal injury. The squadron was
lying within pistol shot of the shore, and there re-
mained for sante days much to the annoyance of the
Suloos, who, after waiting and finding they would
neither commence hostilities nor leave the plate, at
lust opened tire. from the forts, and one 41-}asunder
struck the steamer Mina de Castilla, and killed ten
men. This same shot also passed near where the
governor-general was at the time. The squadron
weighed 'mondic, and after discharging some
shot and grenailes into the town, they left
for Zamboango. The government at Manilla
is making extensive preparations to equip a
considerable reinforcement, which would leave
at the Old of January. Seven ships had been
taken up as transports, and more were advertised for
on account of the government, for the south of
Mindanao."

THE ABSURDITIES OF A MEMBER OF
PARLIANIEN I.
The hall was crammed. The first appearance of
the gifted orator on the platform was greeted with
prolonged cheering, and without a moment's pause
or preliminary. prelude he proceeded to grapple with
his aggressor in the House of Commons.
There be two gangs of foreign janizarica in the parliament
of England: tilt liesudindi r gh instritwonti—the Aus-
trian brigade and the lancer. of Loyola. Moore, of Mayo,
on behalf of the Roman camarilla ; and Baillie Cochrane,
a Lansknecht of the Kaiser—both just now engaged in re.
riling the Queen's government, have made a joint onslaught
on Italy's humble advocate; one calls me apostate, the other
rebel! I am told I excite the poor Italians to discontent.
idol help them! they little need a voice to bring home to
their agonised minds and isms% 'nestle the realty of their
woes. On the rivers of Etalielon they weep with tears of
too spontaneous sorrow. lam called the apostle or,
anarchy! My countrymen who know me well for-
bid me to waste the withering scorn of a patriot priest
on the venal calumny. They as well as I look for-
ward to a depurated religion and a disinfected faith,
to a Christianity freed from the foulness of ultramontane
feculence, as a necessary concomitant of the land's political
and mural regeneration such is the extent of our common
apcsdacy, in which we glory. (Cheers.) As to our treason
to the house of Ilupsburg, and our want of reverence for ita
ambassador iu London, the servile and un-English taunt of
Mr. Cochrane shall meet an answer. (Cheers.) Who is
this person ? We all know the poor drivelling pantaloon,
Viscount Arlineourt, of France—that brainless, toothless,
and tottering champion of divine right, who last year, on
returning Irma our country, where he had gone to frater-
nise with all its reinstated tyrannies and tomfooleries, wrote
a book called Italie Rouge, wherein he gave vent to the'
vituperation of venomous dotage. Arraigned before the
tribunals of France Mr a malignant libel on Prince Canino,
and found guilty even by the functionaries of a government
that had crushed the commonwealth of !tome, he owed
the mitigated penalty in which he was mulcted to pity
for his grey hairs, and indulgence fire idiotic senility.
But the book, " Young Italy," written by this Mr. Coch-
rane, and a wretched counterpart of the old Frenchman's
twaddle, only shows that raw youth can antedate the in-
evitable work of years, by the sad exhibition of precocious
imbecility. (Cheers.) This gentleman belonged to the
ceteris of " Young Englanders," a small infantry of con-
ceited nonage, which the manhood of this country has
scouted with deserved derision, and of whose exploalall
puerilitiea he is now the solitary embodiment. And what
is the charge he bring, forward in the British parliament
spinal our proceedings in this hall? Fon,outh, that the
vies of the imperial court of Shiinbrunn are nut atoned
over or liush«l up in an assembly of its victims, and what is
uuly whispered at Vienna is here proclaimed from the house
top. Why not quote iu full the whole paragraph of
my eighth discourse, of which a garbled frogs
latent was ',elected tor unfair and invidious commentary ?
Was no other archduchess of Austria besides the immaculate
Sophia held up as a model of decorum ? Why overlook in
Iffy championship of that irreproachable household the
Austrian archduchess, Caroline of Naples, of whom also thu
contest made honourable mention as having " revived" in'
that classic haunt of imperial profligacy " the cruelties as!
well as the Capri:an saturnalia of Nero," perpetrated the
murders "of Cirillu arid Caracciolo," and dragged into un-
holy complicity with her disgusting decals the brightest
name in England's muster-roll of naval heroism. (Cheers.)
Has he hogotten another archduchess of Austria, wedded
to the greatest conqueror and ruler of the modem world,
who did nut wait for the weeds of widowhood to
contract an inglorious alliance, forgetting in the dal-
liance of an ignoble paramour the distant &ni-
sei' of a desolate rock under the equator ? (Cheers )
I make him a present of the Arehducheas Antoinette of '
France: not a syllable of blame shall fall from my lips
on her whom sacred misfortune has absolved, and calamity
almost canonised but I tell him her sister, the Archduchess
Louisa Amelia of Parma, has left in Italy a remembrance
of public frailty and scandal which no similar atonement
has conic to obliterate in the memory of mankind. Let
him then seek sympathy fur his Archduchess Sophia else-
where than in the Commons of England, and when I pub-
licly designate her as enacting in modern history the part of
Etrurian Matilda, in propping up the tottering papacy, and
crushing the liberties of Europe as a set off' for ill-dissem-
bled personal misconduct, let him hear in this hall
the echo of a thousand tongues, and estimate atits pro-
per worth the "respect of those who surround her.'
Who are they ? Does he mean Prince Schwartunharg,
the notorious seducer of another man's wife, who has left •
unpaid to this slay the damages awarded by an Engliah jury •
to the injured husband? " The respect of throe who our-
round her !" llas the honourable gialthanan ever heard of
certain letters intercepted, after the Milanese revolution,'
from the sun. of Archduke Ranieri, Viceroy of Lombardy ?
There he might learn the respect of those who ought to
know her. 'there lie would understand the drift of two
yenta' intrigue to bring about the alnlieation of a dotard
and the subatitution of un idiot emperor, lath being her
tools, for the furtherance of a policy originating in her
alone. Has the gentleman ever heard of the wholesale
murders iu ..--of peasants paid capitation money
for the heads of refractory nobles throughout that
unhappy land, delivered up to the mercies of Arch-
duchess Sophia? Has the name of Zecla reached him ?
or dues he mean to class the butcher llaynau among those
who surround her with the bulwark of their respectful de-
ference ? Doubtless Catherine of Russia, the Messalina of
the north, was an object of similar respect to her court
circle, but the Ituaaian amliaesador would find it difficult to
euforce here in London her claim to British veneration.
Christina of Swcalen, after the murder of her paramour,
Monaldeschi, in the saloons of Fontainebleau, was nut only
respected by those around her, but got a sepulchre in the Vati-
can basilica, and a statue erected by an admiring Pope to this
illustrious convert, whose adoption of catholicity preceded
that act of assassination. But why talk of female honour in
connexion with papal testimony? Am Ito be arraigned by
court sycophants and volunteer flunkeyism for telling a no-
torious truth, when a notorious lie goes unrebukeol, and the
noble women of Rome are proclaimed prostitutes by the
felon Ferretti "in the facto of Europe with dastardly coward-
ice and unblushing effrontery." Is the gallantry' of Coch-
rane insensible to all but archichical defamation? Hams
womanhood no claim on his championship when only, digni-
fied by love of country and active benevolence ? And meat
the lady of his chivaln. assume the attractive beau ideal of
Hecate or Moog:era, the scourge of humanity (Donna de
Sodarmsso), when lie oaks his Dulcinea del Tubuzu in the
house of Hapsburg ? (Cheers.)
The speaker next adverted to Mr. Cochrane's un-
warrantable
assertion in the Commons, that one of
the Roman triumvirs, Martini, hid himself in Consul
Freeborit's wine cellar at the entry of the French.
He was not Mr. Martini's spokesman—that gentle-
man was fully competent to defend his own honour
against such scurrilous assailants, if not damned
beneath the notice of his lofty and unimpeachable
character ; but he would tell Mr. Cochrane that the
French had met on the ramparts of home valour
equal if not superior to their own, and if he (Ga-
vazzi), who had not shrunk front their encounter in
honourable warfare, had after their entry into Rome
felt himself on unequal terms with the foe, it was
because the soldiers of France were set to do the
vile work of papal bbirrt and police agents, in which
capacity he declined their further acquaintance-
ship. (Cheers.) lie proceeded to animadvert
on Mr. Coehrune's book, of which he repro-
duced several malignant and offensive passages.
This member of a British parliament thus propounds
his views of the policy becoming a mitred sovereign:
He perceived that it was absolutely necessary to
play with the movement. The leaders of the mob
dad not understand his character; they mistook the
mere coquette for the lady of easy. virtue r (page 04).
This is pretty decent, but all is in perfect keeping.
Again:—" The Pope had been unfortunately advised
'to concede a slight degree of liberty to the press"
(18). To find an Englishman using such phrusco-
lagy must be highly acceptable to the Archduchess
Sophia, but the fattier questioned whether this coun-
try was vet ripe for the introduction of an Austrian
censorship, either for the press or the free utterance
of opinion in public assemblies, which Mr. C;xliraue
would put down by the interference of the Austrian
embassy. Such an attempt would be quite natural
on the part of ayoung England," but old England
thought otherwise, thank heaven, and any emissary
: of Austria who would seek to enforce here any
terrors
prevalent at Vienna would do well to avoid the
brewery of Barclay. (Cheers.)
The *closing statement of a subsequent paragraph
will no doubt interest the archduchess. Mr. Coch-
rane says:
Under Gregory it is unfortunately too true that the
greater part of the sums which should have been devoted to
charity were bestowed on favourites, or the expenses and
salaries were sometimes allowed to swallow up the whole
profits of the foundation. Several hospitals may be men•
tioncd where the rual-admiuistratiou and peculation were
almost inedible—au in one where no less than ninety er-
sons were emloyed to attend un fifty-six ; and in another,
devoted to women, containing a long list of names, among
them some of very illustrious houses, whose ladies received
assiatauce under the expressive name of orris-oh-mei.
The expressive name of pericolunti means simply
that among the nobility any widow or old maid who
fancied her virtue in peril from the absence of suit-
able revenues could claim front a committee of
clerical bachelors any sum which her eloquence or
other persuasive charms might enforce as a proper
done-ear for remaining chaste. The Father here
described in detail the plunder and peculation
carried on in the administration of hospitals.
especially the great Santo Spirit., at Rome, the
revenues of which, 700,090 dollars, were scandalously
distributed among grasping of and cardinal-.
In his native town of Bologna, fifty years had now
elapsed since the last audit of hospital accounts, and
the malversation carried on in virtue of a Tridentine
decree, or canon law, investing bishops with the sole