The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-14 00:00:00

THE POPE AND THE IRISH BISHOPS.

The Lord Primate and several of the bishops of
the protium of Maher, having been unable to attend the
canotdastion of the Japanese martyrs in Rome (says the '
Ulster Obserrer), sent to his Holiness au address, to which
they have received the following reply :
" Venerable Brethren, Health and Apostolical Benedic-
tion—Your exalted and conspicuous fidelity, love, and respect
towards ourselves and the chair of Peter breathe forth in
ezzdry line of the letter which you sent to us on the
day of the month of August last. For
when you could not, in accordance with your
wishes, be present with us on the occasion of the canoni-
sation of marry saints, solemnized by us on the Bth
day of June last, you fully declare in this letter that you
fervently adhere to everything that our venerable brethren,
the bishops of the catholic world, present in Rome on the
Feast of Pentecost, in the celebrated address which they
presented to us, openly mid publicly declared, and even
proudly gloried in. Animated by the same sentiments, you
too bitterly bewail our sorrows, and forcibly condemn and
abhor the wicked aod manifold conspiracies, the impious
and sacrilegious attacks by which the enemies of God and
man, following the ways of iniquity, wage an unholy war
against the catholic church, the apostolic see, and our
own persou and by which, discarding all laws, human and
' divine they seek to subvert our civil authority, and
deprive us of the principalities of our See. These exalted
sentiments have brought no small consolation to us in the
midst of our bitter trials--sentiments which, deserving of
the highest praise, clearly and openly demonstrate how
much you, venerable brethren, have at heart the cause of
the catholic church, of the apostolic see, and of truth and
justice. Wherefore, we are confident that you, relying on
the Divine assistance, and sustained by yourpiety and epis-
eopal seal, will not relax your exertions, and that, partacu-
Lally in this sad and trying crisis, you will, with renewed
alacrity and courage, fight the good fight, diligently eon.
gull for the well-being of your flocks, expose and refute
the dangerous fallacies and errors of designing men, and
courageously repel their unholy ooslaugbta. Continue
then, in conjunction with your clergy and faithful people,
to pour forth, without intermission, your fervent prayers
to God, that He may arise end judge His cause, and sup-
port us by His effectual assistance ; that He may sustain
His church, and, in the might of Hie omnipotence, humble
her enemies and the enemies of the Holy See, and bring
them from the ways of perdition to the path of justice and
salvation. Finally, we wish you to be assured of the special
affection with which we regard you: and of this let the
apostolic benediction be a certain pledge, which, from the
bottom of our hearts, we now impart to you yourselves,
venerable brethren, and to all the clergy and faithful laity
committed to your care. Given at Rome, at St. Peter's,
on the 4th day of September, in the year 1862, being the
seventeenth of our pontificate.. Pros, P.P., IX."

THE CONVICT CATHERINE WnHON. —A memorial
ham been promoted to Sir George Grey pea y*/ that the ice-
teuce of death pamed oyes Oatberise Whim Xr.Jostem
Byle• atithe last MilleioE of the General Wishes' Court may
be remitted, but, op to last night, no istillatiO• had how
received by the authorities of Newforec that her lit. will be
awed. Should no oilcial soomannicotion mach them the
Bifs will proceed to savvy oat the lame moteme of the
law upon the wretched woman mat Monday rearegag. Mrs.
Wilms, so far from ocerfeming beam guilt, perliela in the
statement that Mrs. %MM, for chose murder she has beat
etedleased, died a weed death.

SPEZZIA,.OO7. 10.
It is rather ludicrous to witness the arrival here
of flocks of correspondents, own and special, now
that the interest of the imprisonment is over, and
Garibaldi free to admit whomsoever he pleaaes,with-
out the magical autograph of Urbane Rattami. Of
these purveyors for the world's gossip France has
contributed some specimens, who, like the character
in the play, are more eager to be circumstantial
than truthful. Of these the chief is a erne-
spondent of La Patric—the same who described
our col hem as in the enjoyment of certain
special privileges which enable him to traverse the
gulf in all directions with the "Jack Union"—elic
—at his mast-bead, gaining access wherever he
pleases, and obtaining the earliest information from
the authorities. Now, if the gifted writer of this
passage had been a reader of the " Coruhill Ma-
gazine' he might have known that it was not
exactly what is popularly deemed " a privilege" to
sail in the yacht alluded to ; she having certain
tendencies to turn keel uppermost, which I greatly
!inspect the oorrespondent of the Patric would
scarcely have any desire to explore.
It is this same intelligent contributor who in-
forms the Parisian public that King Victor
Emmanuel arrived one night here, and had a long
and secret conference with Garibaldi. Now, it is
often said that to every falsehood there is some—no

matter how infinitesimal—fragment of fact for
foundation. It is satisfactory to know that the
present case offers no exception to that theory, for
though it was not the chief of the state who came
down here to see and salute Garibaldi, it was the
" Capo dei Facchini," the chief of the quay-por-
ters of Genoa ; so that, after all, the Fairies cor-
respondent is not such an unscrupulous inventor as
the world takes him for.

Of what was the grain of truth in the story of
the " band( notes" (sic) given to Garibaldi from
Palmerston by the hands of " Partridge," I have
not the slightest conception. But really it is neither
fair nor reasonable to ask for accuracy from those,
of whose country even the most distinguished have
shown themselves little trammelled by the demands
of truth. After M. niers and his "History of
the Empire," it seems very poor fun to hunt
down such "small deer" as the writer of the
Patrie, not to advert to a want of knowledge, which
in Frenchmen of education and poeitiou is posi-
tively astounding. Witness the fact of the same
M. Tigers gravely assuring Gino Capponi that he
Lad always believed Ancona was on the Mediterra-
nean !

It was with no astonishment, therefore, that I
read the lucubration of the correspondent of the
Petrie, or saw how another of his countrymen,,
writing for the Independent, gave a description of
Garibaldi's room on the morning of his visit to the+
General.

"There he lay," said he, " on a humble truckle
bed, with the well-worn and battle-stained cloak
for a quilt—a, fit covering for the shattered limb of
the great soldier ; and beside him his sabre, that
faithful sword, companion of a hundred battles."
Now, I have seen the General a great many times
at Variguano, but I never saw the cloak
in question at all ; and I know that his
sword was taken from him on his lauding,
and deposited with the " commandaute " of La
Spemis, in whose charge, together with a stiletto,
the companion of a hundred battles has remained
ever since. These descriptive "tricks" are less
pardonable when played off at the expense of a man
like Garibaldi, whose real charm is the perfect
simplicity of his nature—the utter absence of all
stage effect and "get-up" whatever. Heaven
knows, there never was a sick room less conformed
to the picturesque. Nothing was done for effect,
very little for order. From the straw chair beside
the uncurtained bed to the rope line over
his bead, by which the wounded man helped him-
self to rise, was poor, common, and mean-
looking. If you asked him, he told you
that he wanted for nothing—the kindness of his
friends had supplied him with all he could ask for ;
and when you saw the gentle tranquillity of his look
and the air of patient repose about him, you could
not but believe him.

Nothing is more remarkable, however, than to
see that, while in all his surroundings there is
little to chronicle and lees to paint, nothing for
the paragraphist, and as little for the pictorial
illustrator, his followers—the men who are about
him every hour, and never leave him—are all im-
bued with a respect that amounts to actual rever-
ence : a feeling so profound that only the love they
bear him lifts it above servility. I own I never saw
such courtiers--so watchful, so observant, and so
proud of a passing notice. No matter who goes
forth at the head of armies, or may lead battalions
in the field, he is to his followers "Il Generale"—
the general par excellence.
This was very noticeable when the news of the
amnesty arrived. They were all deeply, intensely
interested in the tidings that told of liberty,
not the leas so that for them, unknown and
nameless, the world outside had neither words of
sympathy nor sorrow; and yet none ever ventured to
say one word of his opinion of the act till " the
General," who was sleeping, had awoke and heard
the news. So completely had he absorbed these
men that not a thought nor a sentiment was left
them save when it emanated from him.

This is the triumph of leadership. The man who
can thus remain a hero to his intimates must
assuredly have great elements of ascendancy in his
nature.

It is not without surprisethat I hear many express
themselves dissatisfied with the amnesty, and saying
that they regard it as a dangerous precedent, and
full of peril to tho .monarchy. This is all the
stranger, because while it was yet doubtful, the tone
of the press and public opinion were certainly in its
I favour. Nor is it very clear what these people
wish for. They certainly did not calculate on the
acquittal of Garibaldi ; and yet to push him to
1 a conviction might have bad other dangers fully
las momentous to the country as to him-
self : so at least his followers declare.
But no suck menace, so far as I have heard,
ever fell from himself. Indeed I know nothing
11111 finer in his manly, generous nature than the dig-
nity with which he has restrained himself from any-
thing like reproach or reflection upon hi opponents.
Not a harsh wool—not even an impatient one--has
escaped hini, ender circumstances when the very
warmth of the tempers around him might have be-
trayed him into a momentary act of forgetfulness.
1 I half suspect that his spirits are lower since the
news it the amnesty arrived. It seems as though

Italy is certainly in a most unquiet state. The
condition of uncertainty which prevails is fatal to
all enterprise and injurious to all trade. The
duration of the ministry is most doubtful, and
yet no one presumes to say who are to replace
them. The painful conviction is on every mind
that the fate of Italy is not entrusted to Italians,
but rests with him whose policy takes a wider
sweep than the space " between the Alps and the
Adriatic," and whose ambition will never be
thwarted by any consideration for a united Italy.
There is a rumour that a special obligation binds
him to the present Pope, who was Bishop of Forli
at the time of his elder brother's insurrection and
death near that city, and some assert that there
exists a written pledge of his gratitude which would
make any cession of Rome during the life of Pio
Nono an impossibility.
It is useless, however, to speculate on this, even
though seduced by the example of the Patrie's cor-
respondent, who gravely assures us that the English
intend an occupation of Sicily as a counterpoise to
the French in Central Italy.
To-day Garibaldi is not so well ; a gouty affec-
tion he has long suffered from has given him an
uneasy night, and increased his fever.

(VILON OUR OWN

TURIN, Oct. 10.

The officers of Garibaldi's staff are still incar-
cerated in the fortress, notwithstanding the am-
nesty. A remonstrance, signed by Guerzoni, An-
tongina, Corte, &c., has been sent to the government,
and will be printed in the newspapers. The pri-
soners complain in this document of the delay of
ministers to give effect to the royal decree. They
declare they would not have asked for the amnesty,
but once proclaimed it ought immediately to take
effect ; for it cannot be pretended that the excep-
tions mentioned in the decree have any bearing
upon the remonstrant'. It is ' s 'adjoin fact that
' the first name appended to Obi ptotest is that of
' Guerzoni, whom Thipeotis chess tot his private
secretary when hellascauseXiscister of Public Works.
Depretis played. the part. of an oppoaitionist for
fourteen year". with a view to become a minister,
bpi having ,Secured that position he has put off the
qid Adam.
General Girolamo Ulloa, after having been
successively a republican' a constitutionalist, a
apoleonist, a Muratist, and a Bourbonist, and
after having gone to Rome with the Bourbon, has
written from that very place to General Carrauo,
second in command of the National Guard of
Naples, who was his companion in the defence of
Venice ; and for what purpose has he written 1 To
ask him to obtain for him, Ulla', a military
pension from the King of Italy !
Consmendatore Nigra, who was here on leave of
ace,. returned two days ago to his post as
I minister at Paris. He has orders to inquire
wh her a visit of Signor Rattazzi to the Emperor
would
be well received. Rattaszi has need just now
to d ert public attention in one way or another, so
that without his doing anything his friends may be
ableto promise, and get people to believe, that he
will preseutly do great things.