The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-02 00:00:00

apt Court.

BALIdeILILL, don. SO.
The Qua= and the Primo Comet drovo oat
yesterday monies, and him Royal Wilms subiotilmitay
west door
I. the afternoon hor lisjorty again drover wt to the
of the am Valt, accompanied by the Primal Bard, sad
attended by hoe Omen the Dachas of Wellington.
The royal dieser party in the inoladed the
Dasher of Hut, dm Prism, Amalie of Bohoolobi
liagfont, Lady Avoids Bran. sad Lord Janos Murray.

Derpatehes we Noshed at t►e CoWahl-adios yesterday
from the Gelman °Mew Zealand. Despatches were feat
to the Gammen of the West Indio Islands.

TEE FRENCH COURT.

BATOIfXII, Barr. 80.

Their Majesties left at half-past 12 foe s«deaax•
Preei Mardis le the remises et the railway the people
hid .enabled la mewls elan their rate, tretifyleg by
their dedoestradose the affoeties they bare their Majesties,

sad Ike wet tiay Mt at soda' thou; depart. -
BORDEAUX, Bas. 80, A u.

Their Majostile the Emperor sad Empties, with the im-
perial prises, strived happily it Borden: at thirty-Eve
mimeos pelt 4 this stemmas.

Her R2yal. Higbeess the Duchess of Kent leaves
Aherneldle Castle es the Bth Odober let, etc Bellatas,
Aboyne, sad Basehory Hallway,
Her Majesty wee to have opened the new bridge
at the Lisa of Dee oa Toads, Int, bet the enferoarable
maths: mused a postponement of the eletwasay, wig& will
set sew take plass Ibis year.
The Duke and Dodson of Beaufort are =rounded
by a Asap sends at Dedattates.
TM Marquis and Marshiest., of Aboraorn have
taken a lamming at Drigletom sod are expeoted to arrive
there in the mates et the meant week.

'rho Earl of Ellenb;roagh arrived at Answer
Hotel co Zooids, sight, hoe Gleueeetseeldre. The noble
earl west petards, to Peashust, to stlisd the faseral of
the late Vhasonot Hardier, retaralai to tows imsomaisa.
The mortal INNIS@ of the late Vimonat Hardier
WWII petards, depolted la Ike family vault. at Fore:oohs
Chsroh, war flostli.purk, Posobarst. The feaerel Arse
staid, prints. la oddities to oho lioatedlate lanahers of
the family, the Earl of Nfirabownilt, sad a few other st-
eadied persona Maids of the deemed, Wooded the oho-
quiet.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Id.P., and Ws.
Damn, kayo strived at asibeadea What. Bark*.
The Hon. Justice thitherto's, author of " Sam
Wok" sad Me. Holibutoa, hive mind at the Closea's
Hotel, tipper Norwood.
The amber of foreigner ht Moscow daring the
pot math bee leas tee kaadred sad tweet, thessaad.
The Jarred do Eit. Peterstnirg of the 23rd alt.
quota from the ellkial 0112111* as Rosman* do Pobps se
follow.:—" Hie Majesty the Naperer taking late outside-
ntioa the feet that the ktvidea of Pelvid sow posoesses
a eallaiest amber of eatsbikuateste of 7014 isassamion,

la whets a lisowledge of We Part Insane esd liters:
tare, sad oho the elsessale of jarisprwisses, is esaveyed,
hes deigned *pant to the madras aids, Maiden. the right
W sates the Berries be ewe, pest of the empire, wit swept
leg the governments of the west, awl et prolog from eel
neplogassat or Womb of the sorties ts mother, simply
ebsertiag the riles established by the general law epos lath
manse."

The Clishseadan Ifsesegur says, " There has bees
neon SUMS lac the len an dam to the elect that
the btembeat el Obeiteabeat nee likely to be acmiasted
ei the demo, el Mane. We ben aot bona able t
nese Pie mew to say mtheatie ernes, thresh melt ea
appnanuat Todd aily be . Altai unsewlediseat of the
rev. neatlonea's metalline I. the an" sad his laboan fa
ini man a suasion."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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FRANCE.

The tears& de t says Tiot Baptise sad
Itteprese 4111 probably arrive st;Conalliges between
the 10th aid 16th hist. It is mut thetthe snits of the
illtspree will be very nameroes. It is also expeeted
that some illostrione visitors will take part to the

The Valetta. with the India Mail. mind tble
morals, at 9.20. The awl loam this mains at
10 o'clock.

imperial hunts, at the

won."

the autumn

M. Boobs; the Ministir of Public Works, has
returned to Paris from his visit to &Weitz sad

Count d'Appony hes arrived in Paris, from Baden,
Prince Gortobekors diplossatio circular is com-
mented on by the ansiitstionnel at some length•
It would seem that our contemporary is of opinion
that the groundwork of the Russian sircular is per-
haps authentic, but it questions the corracteces of
the fain in which it hu ken rendered public. With
this ream our contemporary, altar remarking on
the singularity of a arum& undertaken against the
principle of intervention in foreign states by a power
which hu attained its runt vast proportions only
by a judicious adaptation of that very principle, thus
continues :

By what right, sight we 'squint, can the Bonin pours-
meat offer t• Judge the raided of the OM powers
towards the Lap of Naples ? What CA authorise It to
judge prematsrely sets whisk de ass exist, latendens which
have perhaps sot heat tonged, sad with the certainty of
which it cease, be sequainted 2 How sea it talk of • pros.
sure exercised ea • sonar* t The allGd powers have
sever istended to interfere with violas,' is the Internet
affairs of Naples. Briglead sad Treace have offered
sonata reprematutiras la the same of crstreged
humasity sad la the view of Deltas tranquillity.
Asada bolt part is these represestatkaa and par
actress& is the seise efforts. Whoa Bowe Walewshi, in
the last eittlnip et the .s.pr at Part., Mad his veto.,
sad called the Wattles of Zerspesa goverameats to what
wee parilas at Bowles, the representatives of Rada did
aet paetsst. Be, they inelatelaed Misses, ea if the moto-
rises aharester of the foots had sossieeed this. The ha-
rms tow attributed to the Basdea goverment, thaw
faro, appease Se se laseassivable. The ease ratan also to

the is iehe ea Onset. Rhea her waters were gives gp to
piatenethea the whale wasery wee a prey to the toed I pedal
Woodsmen, see the measures adopted by the Weans
Pewee dinned by SesYresetasadtyi &Maybe weld
dare seadast 'P&p the 411110111=1 Sara peedesed by these
siessons lbsewealey onl lie nhabileals t U would nem
gese be onnemliany were the Benin Revennut to
lallein to 11th gasedea at a neassat whim sinawateeess
meat tillased, gad whoa the protest's; powers an about
te deans% ea the sitanlas of this state. ineh are the
andon whisk lead es ho Insigne Im wantiag as asthenia
the &gni attributed to Prises Gorteliakeff ; it night be
added that sash a deauleat wend be rather
at the Wens mast whoa the repeeriatatives of the
allied powers an the gusts of him so wigs, sad whoa
so nun &bran sad swim have bees heaped by
One is their knew alvenery. Bat if, la elite of
its soapiness appanage, this &canon is at the bot-
tom nest, whet is to be esagadal ? That Bans
has renewed was of In preensiess, sad wen
suer the tranquillity of the reel° This we anarally
do set beitew. Neither the lone an the bossing of a
daemon nut be engagreled whin is addressed by a
units? le Mows eats, sad was babas' an destind
the publWty ghee te It. We shell, however,
soca be node asiniated with the tree salon of this does-
nest, sad the goveraneate el Frame mad lealead will
an fail to reply to it, if aessnery. I. the sessawhile we
would fail balm that Bessie, a win gad skilfel power,
his set adopted fewer& two gnat dates, which de set M-
end to weigh with fens is say pow's, • ton of MILKS
whisk is I. no way insulated to nuns the proven &B-
eattie'.

—Th. reessfaise jaw's', contain no politioll leading
adobe.

The Three par Cents. dosed at the Paris Bourse
yesterday at 87f. 800. for the end of the month ;
the Four-and.s-Half per Cents. at 90fr. ;
the New Loan at 67f. ; Orleans Railway shares,
1,290E1 Great Northern, 960 f. ; Strasburg.
886 f. t new shores, 799 E 600.; Peril and Lyon..
1.967 f. 600. ; Lyme to the Mediterranean, 1,746 f.;
Western of Nance, 899 f. 600. ; Bordeaux and Cate,
696 f. ; ditto new 'hares, 705 f.; Great Central of
France. 830 f. ; Lyon. and Geneva, 730 E ; Bank
of Credit Motilkir, 1,680 E ; Avail= Railways,
792 f. 70e.

SPAIN.

The Marii Gladis of the 27th alt. =tales a
royel deems, heed ea the report of the Minister of
Grace and hake, which masts that in order that
the suet seeribnions meloolesties may be chosen for
the higher saes of the char* mosimations of dig-
nitaries shall be made from a list drawn up by the
Chamber of Royal Patronage. The Ike dwtoproJ.,
a rsmi•ofsial ceps, deolaree that it is not tree es
has hems reported, that the state of siege is to to
raised ea the 10th of the pretest month:
All Assn ci the army residiag at Madrid who
did not Rama themselves to the authorities in the
mop Mat of the 14th July, and those who hemp
promoted themselves do not pesos property or
families in the 'spiral, hays been ordered to have
Madrid arid to reside at a dietaries of twenty hooks
from it.

Prises Lads Luisa Bonaparte had visited Bilbao
to mete philologisal research= Tweeting the Dh-
ow= idiom. He afterwards left for Datum Erma,
Aspeitis, sad Zuni, where he is to mks
rasearelies.

The Bpows says:—" The Madras beim= the
Spanish "'blast and those at Fracas and deed
meld not be more cordial and satisfactory than they
era The Ministry of Foreign Afthias hae received
very satisfactory replies from Berlin and Vistula to
the despatches mat by oar governmeat on the moult
political changes is Spain; they congratulate the
gormand on its sosailiatory, moderate, sad firm
*kV'

A lime Mr:-11 The sequetratics oa the pro-
perty of Qom Cbriethsa hes hen removed by royal
ordinasee."

Th. Grand Council of Neufchatel has voted, by a
majority of 42 talil, the dimolution of the bourgeoisie,
the creation of a municipality, tie expulsion of the
oewpronleed any, and the dismissal of ralehtle who
had secretly or openly aided the late ineurreetioe.
Swords of honour hate been voted to (Mosel'
Denzler and Girard.

A letter from Berlin of the 26th ult., in the
Nuremberg Correspoudent, says :—" We learn that
the replies of all the powers which signed the pm
Weal of London of 1862, to the despatch et the
cabinet of Berlin relative to the affair of Neufchatel,
have been received, with the exception of that of the
Russian government. According to what has true-
pired of the nature of these replies, a general con-
viction is Mt of the amenity of settling the ques-
tion, and it is believed that negotiations to that effect
will be opened at the next meeting of the conference
of Parts."

The aciabwease at Vireos, convened to prepare the
been of a sow wear/ system in the whole of Getaway,
ass soadembel las lebeen. and the molts be..boos JEW.
witted wile mine peemseisate represented.
The Paris see eNpoodest et Its Nord asserts that
Goma items; Maw babe Paris he Madrid, ..and
the ew4leeee Obrisibe that be wean hellions her men
ts &wk.
Oa the Slit of Mast the Rodeos at lisheatepel
esiehreled wash sop the WesiquesGee et a arms
meat
lesessis e. armed apes Ihe tomb et NwiateneM issaislic sod
•
At the late with which the Uoivervity d Menem
seleteeted the sereastioe, a greet number et essays sad
peens is the Smoke, Greek, sad Latta leagasies We
reed.

The No►d of Bream& calla attention to the follow-
ing letter, dated Vino', Sept. 28 :
The esseation whisk I oreatiosed la ay resterdey's letter
'obeying bola awed by t►e sews of tke proziwata smut.
SIM of so allied eqsadtea ia the Bey of Naples ha resaewlat
sabeided to-day, tree the esavistlea satertaised la Gems-
meat circles that, if each a dersoastratlea Is Wended, at all

empa ts it will sot tam plasm jail sow. I think i say
mean you that IM diplomatic agents at Loaders mid at
Pale reatimil a tow clays elate west lastreedese from
Ocmat Mad is Were the Wasters Govessacals to adjeua
the eamatka of their merstima ,domeastsstioa whist
Lag Pardlasmd.
This Is ma nem to balm that the two great
Allied Peeress will thew oat elsat maideratioa for Lath&
who is more ow lees mimed la this deplorable wad* to
await Om nosh which on savoy to Napier, General
Martial, may seemed la obtain*/ from the Kiss of Naples.
Amordiag to a report which his bowa masas his for
some dap, the anther of ear amps la the Maus Lega-
tion fa to be esesidasably thoreassd, ertth as Ltd' delay sci
possible. It Is ems osid that two additivesl regiments of
sad woof cavalry, have shoofly 'stared the Le-
gations. Tbo proud for this is, that Priam Mein so.
solved to sowl gabbiest's* to her beeps at Roma, oar

sthety sail patisal Utmost, miss It osseous, ter us to
stroastlesallllllolTlS Is ties Legations.

Asregards eaffallf yi4o9 of sews. no Ws sorban leash
Is airealated at Views, I eanaot speak positively. It is sold
I the Pied/Bootees pveranwat has mangled to Paris and
Leaden its labialise of jcialas a swots= to that of the
two pest maritime Powers is the By of Naples.
I seal essreely tell you with what feelisp this news was
received by isir severesseat sail by t►e public; it is to be
hoped It, t►e poses et Italy that the active iaterforoase of
diplomacy will pietist the realisation of a project whit It
would shwas* implicate a state of Whirs already so
sash eadansored is the polka pudenda.

The Paris eonospoodmit of the Times writes,
seder date of yesterday Grain I as informed that
the draw demerit of Prime Gortahakoff was road yes
taday to the Moister of Forego Affairs by Baron Stamm,
bat I de see leers that a ropy was left with his, or
that it was daraded. As tf to show that as lads*
imparters had bees attired fa pablie to that dreamt,
ether topies were dimmer dads; the Interview, aal the
dream was treated among the last. • diereses is sought
to he ettablished herrn a okapis deeptteh eat to a deo-
retie agest,te be merely read bat set ell daily soramaisated
to the grasser to wbiali he Is seendited, sod a finial
astiliestlea Airway addressed to the sane g sent;
sad we as haferrod that it would be wroeg to attar the
same harietease to both. no preload paper is non.
ever, resat as aa 'spookier of the India pelley of the
Busies gerrassest for the beret of its own people,
rather than addressed to trigs powers, and a.'tblag
like sense to Ragland sad Fraaos Is straggly diasiiired.
Sash, wham is Mr view talus by the Russian ashore
der, sad the siqiimetime shoe en the 'abject ; whit faith
they le pled, sr hew they mere resolved, I tangos sly.
The National Bea of Belgium has, armeming to
the Ossetia a Ilia*, hosed masher make, desk*, that
It will is fetus eethesgeisid mreessaisme pletesmdem
Wear, at the nes of esig 114. et • hos of fit IL
se ewer Sam This seem, has ensiled Me psaloi die
anises esesisplthe ememsesiel data et the , and
petitions lase hese aiireemi eit the NUMMI of Neese
preying fre Its repel.
A letter item St. Petersburg of the MI tilt.neys
—" The Noise le& 'teaser, width ameba envoi' at
Cream" has bright as prestagest areal eerier seta.
Miklos Among these ars MM. Pastas Hettinger, sod
Buie& ell elf whom re interested is the railway ender
addle. efireeke."
As M. °Stilly, Sputa semi at Harry, was
Mies est ea fieefery et Ift Admen, hie hoses teshfrleht
at the eus-shadis ef toe lodise who mese st
ing alrft the
reed, sad sedieelytbgtote ems lemeMed titor,
hew fillimher Inn tam up, it
was feted thetradirs =IMAM

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1858.

AT HOME WITH THE PIEDMONTESE.

(aux an 000AsiosaL yousseomage.)
CABULLAMONTE IN CANAVESE,
t PIEDMONT, Sam Pk
I have been carrying a kaapesek for more than
Weight *boat these moenteing of the Guava.
Is Val &Aosta, Val Gressoney, and in the dis-
tilling of Biel', and have become more than
ever seavinoed that it is impossible to become inti-
mately acquainted with this or any other country
without traveling over it on foot. I was tolerably
sonvenant with the beauties of these, valleys before,
having made excursions morose them in every dire.-
tion,bot was always travelling as a &Moe kigmes—a
kind of dull, proud, repulsive animal the people here
are !sightly shy of—a beleg they are greatly prose
to admire even beyond his tisserts,hut of whom at any
they
rate they are in great awe, and is wheueosousestly
seldom opa thek byes, sever thek heart.
This year I had one see two barn of ktrauslies,
sabstituted an Italian banditti hat he the Meglish
asp, and found myself t. at hems with the Pisikags-
too." So astonishingly great is the hospitality of
this sabelpine people, that by virtu of Ohms two
letters I was able to travel for two weeks and some
days without ever, exempt m me ocessisa, geeing the
=ids a an inn. The beak the %entry are generally
of the meet wretelied dosmiliden, hoses the eagerness
of the people to au the traveller from the miseries of
thek assommedatiss, ban the readiness of the
teethe to wain soromay, and accept kindly what is
kindly eared. The beepitahie medially of the
Pianist= sever belied Roil, so far as I am con-
cerned, at least; and I am at the present moment
staying at a hoses where they 14 took me in " for one
day, and now coolly propose to prolong my stay for a
mos&
Ualionaded, generous hospitality is, you will say,
amestorktio of all thriving agricultural countries.
Thom wbe gather from a plentiful land the fruits of
the math most imeasdiately contributing to man's
uuetesmam are always, especially if their export
trade doss set hasppaee with their production, glad
to airs with and guestb those bountirs of
1110,11.89 which woad otherwise be wasted—and
elegy am is well sequiated with the outburst of
gessemligy of that puma girl who pressed a king to
eMeemespdge, emadeglibethat what be should leave
▪ weld 'sly lie gime is the pip." The feet, how-
ever le, that Plet for the last six or seven years
hes begs asythisir bat the land of plenty, sad your
bats, Mel meaved, freely give you aist they can
."7/6
upon too Meseeseives. The Valley of Aosta,
those the Orem el the Own and flub, en above
all wimp wimpewleg sembiss, and kr the last six
Msisikusithar lbws sae say of the elle provisoes of
Ulm, Ouse, sad Mendael, ner any part
of 160111,1mM Ones, ban had 'drop of tries. The
leads of Asti mad Muttonst have to some =Mat been
free husibiepat mourge of the grepe's Moms% and
last year y sold at a very high pisewhat other
people This year there wee all ever Pied-
mont—bat unfortunately not in Genoa—great hop
that the ilium was at an end; and truly it hums&
its appearance only her. and there; the grape has
ken sound, though souse, and the vine has rcoo.
vend its fresh, healthy appearance. The vintage,
however, is of the very ectentiset, and the most
blooming districts of the °amuse and Bielless have
bei about a month ago, visited with such a terrific
wind and hail storm that the country still boars
a look sf utter desolation. Tou who live in dull
rats Lipka hardly know the effect. of the war
that the demean wage spinet man and his work,
in thus meg calling ocanteiss. The Alps as dm
Italian side, and I am sorry to my on the other side
also, are defined of all the gloriqus tinkle whisk
seed to clothe them almost witbia rasa of sass's
memory; but the m=eqseelally at Piedmont, are
luxuriant with the vegetation. Everywhere
along the mountain elope, at the outlet of tit/ valleys,
and halt wee down to; ie plain, you have such wal-
nut sad cheskat trees as need fear no comparison
with the glorious English oak or the proudest
New Ragland elm. Weil, all along the
road, whiell they hare call "IA stack della
Bern," from Tures to Bak, I have seen hundreds and
thousands of nisguifiesaf tress, chiefly walnut trees,
lying on the ground, tern up by the roots, and
crashing vines and Indian oars fields under their
weight, the wreck and havoc of the whirlwind and
storm I alluded to. 'bogie% there is scarcely a
boom barn, or chunk in -the Skilless that has net
boon ia seed of a essistc sew roof, every tile el the
old one being sicatessed to fugmsatn by the phase
hell. Therels hardly a guess but Las to be ailelp.
Use restocked with new pleats, es the few old else
which are left standing us se scorched and hided
as to allow no hops ofseeseary. With all this de-
strewth" however, the awry beers yet a Amin
look, and every home-dem is open, and every pee-
mnt greets you with a merry face. Yon can
scarcely enter a dwelling is all Piedmont where
the good man or the good woman will not bid
you be seated, and forthwith produce the noted cob-
webbed flask, and—sot ask you whether you will
drink, but fill the gleam all round, and bid you drink
es a matter of mane. Morning, noon, or night, makes
no difference, nor does it matter whether you are a
friend of the hoom or as utter stranger. "Amy
friend of a friend is a Mend," and in lees than two
minutes you find yourself hobnobbing and glass-
gigging with a man you sever have men
hokum, and never is all probability will are
spin, but who very earnestly drinks " your
better acquaintance." Women and young girls,
with eyes as sparkling as the ruby liquor before you,
give you the encouragement of their smile end their
example; for no me ohms wise, nor end any one
dread the house, gouda% hormlese, though generous
liquid. With all the disease, and the scarcity and
dearth, there is wine still in the country, and you
may still have, at any inn by the wayside, a bottle,
chiefly of Meademat, for 24 sou (12d.), a very high
pries here; but in meet private houses you have the
relics of old vintages, from 1789 upwards, chiefly of
that of the year 1848, which was a famous ace'; and
although the stock has dwindled to the very last bin,
although the Piedmonts's stints himself in the bever-
age which is as necessary to him as the air he breathes,
still, no sooner does a frigid or stranger's figure darken
hie door than the old wise must be forthcoming, se if
the very honour of the country might be endangered
by the mere fact that any sun mat with a dry wel-
come on the threshold of a Piedmont= thraieg.
Little will it avail you to shirk the wine, for then
your entertainer will ply you with was, liqueur,
&0., and allow you no peaos till he has found an
answer to his inexorable, " What will you take °"'
Open-hearted, earnest, and eves, if you will have it
so, obtrusive as the Piedmonts always are in their
hospitality, there is something in their heassyr this
year which =keg them more than ever friendly
and obliging. Materially speaking, indeed, they see
worse a than aver this season. The oorn is a
dead failure. The wheat has yielded scarcely
more than half the average crop. The Indian or
Todd. h eorn-maise or melee, the staple food of all the
North Italian peasantry, is almost entirely burnt up
with the drought. The chestnuts are extremely
meaty ; there is a rot in the walnuts; this deems
that so hog ravaged the grape has extended its
havoc to the potato fields and the orchards, ms that
trait of every description is both very scanty and very
inferior in quality. Then have been cruel frosts in
the spring, freshets and hailstormss in the summer,
and now an obstinate drought in the autumn. The
masons are out of all reams and reckoning, the winter
bitterly cold, the summer fearfully hot, the spring
rainy and foggy—all this, as the priests never came
to urge, ever since the statute. or constitution, was
promulgated. The very climate and sky has scene-
thief/ heretic—English—in it, like the body politic;
even the olive, palm, lemon, and orange trees of the
Riviera of Genoa have all been killed by the northern
blest, and whole forests of agreed, or tropical plants,
have ban lost last winter, as if the keen air of freedom
rendered even this part of Italy too rigid a region for
them.
Nevertheless the Piedmootese keeps up hie spirits,
for hope is strong at his heart, sad hops is by far a
greater comforter than actual enjoyment. The wine-
press, which has been standing idle for the lest six
years, his at kat ems son some into use; and
although the 'endows', tells you he shall only have
three breeds, or barrels, where once he used to gather
forty carloads of grapes, yet he tells you in the seine
breath it is something to have a vintage at any rate;
and he firmly thinks this will be the !set year of the
grape disease; and se be mere hailstorms, why, with
those be has long bus hisilier, and he knows how to
take them as Clod lob thou. It will require two or

time year, asetainly, we the vino have attained
their former luxuriance, and more than ten years
ere the cellars are replenished to the amount
et the happy years gone by ; but in ten,
pats we shall again have wine that may be termed
M"N, and then we wiU better attend to the making of
ili'and enter into comptition with France and Reg-
lad, and we whether or not we can find a market
for the pure j nice of the grape in the London Docks.
Not the least melancholy feature in the picture of
this scanty Piedmoatese vintage is the dreadful hurry
in which it is carried on. The grapes are gathered
is snips, mid are ears to yield sour wine; but the
ovum are sexism to b. log them in, for the poor, who
have seen no grapes for six years, are frantic for them,
and are not to be kept off by any amouot ot vigilanew
Anything mere striking than the calmness, sober.
Dees, and earnestness of them kind, good, generals ,
people, I have seen nowhere. They have a serious,
sillst, modest, docile, and somewhat shy look,
whisk seems to me greatly akin to what I know of
the Naglith character. They are by no mewls loud,
bat thoughtful, and, at any rate, no talkers or gee-
demisters, like the rest of the Italians. They have a
tiem, reelped, patient air—the air of men " fit to
rile ever the ware They take you over their
garden and vise/ads they show you the spot
where the great cedar, or cypress, or weeping willow,
Bladed their house—where the arbour threw its
impenetrable shadow over their garden walk. There
is no murmur or peevish despondency over the loss
they have sustained. It is only sad, solemn, patient
regret, suit as might be felt by one pointing to the
deed body of a beloved persoo. It is not beanie
the destruction of the vineyard leaves them poorer
by a year's mome that they mourn, you would say,
it is Ware Nat vineyard was part and parcel of
thole hem anal bee" an object of family love and
psl of whisk wealth never, and time only atter
ekes lapse of yogi% Gan make up the bereavement.
You must remember that although Piedmont is
essentially an aviculturel country, and the calami-
ties of the last sax years have greatly impoverished it,
yet these mountain provinces are comparatively
wealthy, and scarcely can be made absolutely poor.
The whole of the male population of these valleys
emigrate yearly. All the Belles. are masons. The
Oanavesans are carpenters, the people of Val Selig are
hews painters, those of Val Gressoney, and other
parts of via d'Aosta and Val Basis, who are hall
Germans, travel to Germany and engage in bade,
sometimes even in banking business, and attain
ultimately very considerable wealth. All of them,
however, come back for the winter to their,
native homes, and there is hardly an instance
of a Piedmont's° mountaineer settling perma-
nently abroad. Their industry, frugality, and
native ingenuity, enable them, in many instances, to
realise very conspicuous fortunes. There are impre-
Sari.ol as they are called, or builders, in the Bieuleee
valleys, who can boast of having reared up thole fine
blocks of buildings which embellish modern Turin,
and have carried off with them to their mountains a
very fair and well-earned per centage of the money
that has been invested in those buildings; and that
nosey is always spent by them in their native country,
generally for the benefit of their country and country-
people. After working in the construction of houses
for other folk, the Biellsee builder is especially anxi-
ous to frame a house for himself. Anything like the
neat, stately, substantial, comfortable, and elegant
houses you see about these valleys is sot to be found
even in the most thriving districts of Germany or
Switzerland. There is a gentleman at Guittengo,
in Val d'Aadovino—to quote one ease amongst many
—awes the mountains of Bells, who was the chief
digester of the works for the great tunnel of the Giovi,
on the Apennines, above Genoa, at the time ot the
esastrasties of the great railway there. Well, the
rasa has now retired to his native village, still in the
prism of life. Hs is scarcely forty years old, with a
veree fortune, and eight children. He has
for several years more than 200 of b's
giGr—villagers to convert his father's hut into a
palace, and his father's hare rocks into a garden. He
has built and sumptuously furnished hie hove
entirely by the mesas of native labour and with the
materials of the country, and there he speeds his life
in deeds of beneficence, in the exercise of hospitality,
in the education of hie children, for whom he has pro-
cured German, Tuscan, and other tutees and
governesses. I have spent 24 boars with him, and I
111101/ you his house exhibits all that refloement and
luxury—Rowels, books, made, and social enjoyment—
an do to enliven a rather dreary though sublime and
in summer even lovely mountain solitude. Murray has
already told you that in Val Gressonev are to be toned
boors who, for halt the year, are at Vienna barons of
the holy Roman empire. The same phenomenon is
to be met with in almost any one of these yel-
ler. The fortune and rank to which one of
these mountaineers may rice in foreign countries by
no means interferes with the footing of perfect
equality and independence with which he is treated
at home. These people seem to look upon each other
very much as brothers of the same family, or at the
utmost melanoma of the same tribe. The good luck
attendant upon the exertions of one of them gives
him no right to look down upon those of the same
kith and kin, but rather empowers these to look for
their own just share of the good things their
townsman has come by. He is expected to make
the best use of his wealth, and that means to render
it accessible to his countrymen by some enterprise in
which all or most of them may bear a hand. Pro-
perty is here greatly divided and subdivided, and
every man has a true mountaineer's love of land. Ar
acre of thin pasture, or even of barren rock on the
hill-elope, sells much higher than the deepest and
fattest field on the plain. I have seen the most
extravagant offers for utterly useless land—nay, for
the veriest stones and gravel—obstinately rejected by
men brought with their families to the verge
of starvation. There is no importance of rank,
no power of wealth, no bond of gratitude,
that will induce these mountaineers to part even with
six feet of land they once get bold of. My friend of
Guittengo showed me some patches of very meagre
heath, breaking up hie own estate here and there. He
has been soliciting the owners, bribing them by all
deeds of kindness, tempting them with the most lavish
offers, but they cling to their own. They will give
him their lives it he need them much sooner than their
forefathers' acres, or bits of acre.
A considerable deal of industry is, besides, flourish-
he in these countries. There are the silk-spinning
rift bud, every water stream ; theta is a large cotton
11111111fimeary at Pont, in Val d'Orco, in Canavese, and
No.as orerous wool manufactories in the valleys of
is the Biella mountains. The owners travel to
Hungary awl the East for the purchase of their
Meals, sod temp to thrive, although their mills lie es
seis the hollow of the valleys that they can have
idegeslde rosds, and their goods have to be
eared on mule back. They manage to thrive owing
'to the wonderful plenty of water power and the
great cheapness of labour. Piedmont is only now
awakening to the importance of industry. It is only
for the last five or six years that full scope and
development is given to it; and these valleys sad
mountains, which have never been inactive in the
worst of times, will now take the lead in the general
movement, and make hay while the gnu shines.

THE lA7'2 COLLISION BETWEEN THE MAIL AND
EICILIIIOR STlAmsas—ln referees, to the late collision
between the ahoy. -mentioned steamer., a very lengthened
report, by Mr. Mansfield and Captain Schoenberg, hasjust
been mods to the Board of Trade. The substance of this
report is embodied in the following concluding paragraph :
' l satin, we have the haircut. to report, for the fa.
fee:c
a tion of the Board of Trade, that the collision of the
Mail with the Excelsior is to be attributed to the neglect of
the pilot of the latter, first, to keep to starboard of the mid-
chasm I of the Mersey; and, secondly, hie neglect to port
his helm when be saw the reset-head light of the Mail;
that the effect of the collision might have been ler serious
if the Mail had taken the precaution which she should have
does to reduce her speed on anteriog the Mersey ; and that
the collision would not have taken place if the lights of the
Mall had, according to the regulations of the Admiralty
node*, been placed in such • position as to be all three
visihlis when she was end on to the Excelsior."
IMPUDENT BURGLARY AND EXTORTION.-111 few
nights slaw Mi. Wilson, law statiouer, in flarewood•plam,
Oxford-street, had his pricelesssnared by burglars, who
envied off a gustily of legal documents oily of valise to
the reel owner* several pounds worth of stamps, end other
property ; 1001. worth of parchment stamps was found in
the peerage, which the fellows had dropped in their Eight.
Mr.lVilios foetid is • morning j an advertisement
referrieg to his lost property, with an Intimation that on
the receipt of 801. all that had been stolen would he given
up. An answer by the same scores was requested In the
initial " Q," Finding it as impossibility to obtain paran-
oias of hls property by any other means, Mr. Wilson hal
replied to the advertisement, offering 81., but at present no
answer has been given.