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LONDON, nutur, NOV. 211.

Tee France of nor ley is certainly not a land
of fanatics or of It fists, and this is why we
take the liberty to suppose that to the vast ma-
jority of our shrewd sad sensible neighbours over
the water the actual position of the French Go-
vernmeitt in the Roman States must present itself,
as it dins to plain and practical people in London
and Edinburgh, in a CTO•11 light extremely unfa
vourable to good looks. Perhaps in the Neapo-
litaii States it is not much better; for there the
ambiguous action of the French Admiral, with or
without definite instructions, is prolonging and
exasperating a fratricidal war, and for the sake it
seems of an occasional complimentary paragraph
in the (Meta Gazette, permitting and encouraging
needless bloodshed, and sacrificing the lives of
hundreds of his fellow-creatures. The French
Admiral, it is true, has obtained at this price the
Order of ST. J•evartivs--that perspiring Saint,
whose gifts and graces, by some mysterious process
of royal transubstantiation, are enabled to be pre-
sent in the bottle at Naples, and at the same time
to be capable of " communication "at Gaeta. If
M. Le Bazaars are TINAN were not a Legi-
timist in principle, he could hardly receive
even the Order of ST. JANCASIUB without a pang
at the thought of doing so little to deserve it ; ex-
cept in preventing Admiral Pismo(' from
humanely and considerately shelling the Boca-
moo out of his last lair, and by a few well-directed
shots giving peace to a distracted realm. But
the " attitude" of the French Government in the
Roman States, towards the Papal government on
the one hand and the Italian nation on the other,
is even more embarrassing, equivocal, and—in one
word—false. We desire to speak on this delicate
subject with all the deference and sympathy which
our respect for liberal France inspires. We desire
to discuss it in no narrow or prejudiced spirit; not
as Englishman and Protestants, but from the point
of view which moderate, disinterested, and liberal
Frenchmen may occupy, without any slur upon
their patriotism, as heirs of the Revolution of 'B9,
and jealous alike of French honour and French
principles. We shall take advantage of our native
license of thought and speech to make one remark
only ; or ratherto hazard one suggestion. Is itoonosiv-
able that the Imperial policy, which is held abroad
to be the highest expression of the unity of a single
will, is sometimes diverted and carried away by
the eddies of opposing currents—the one flowing
from a Minister, and the other from the Sove-
reign ? This hypothesis may be for aught we
know as futile u audacious, but at least it would
solve some disagreeable enigmas, and account for
some painful contradictions. Be this as it may,
the phenomena we have to notice are not only
perplexing to any honest mind, they offend and
irritate both friends and adversaries of the French
floverninent. Take instances. The Ceastite-
timed, replying with evidently unfeigned moped
to the harmless protests of M. Di LAMM.
reale tux, who as a Legitimist is devoted bite
Pore, and as • Senator to the Empire, appeals
in a tone of injured innocence and unctuous sea-
prise to the fact that France has protected his
HoLIN ass for more than ten years, and protects him
still ; that France has never favoured the idea,
or aided the accomplishment, of Italian unity; and
that only the other day France regarded with
mover! displeasure the entrance of a Piedmontese
army into the States of the Church. And the
Comae :tionovt—deny it who can I—is strictly
and scrupulously accurate in these statements.
How is it then that his Ho resents the
protect:on, and treats the disploeure as so much
moonshine 1 Italy herself is more grateful
Turning to the Eternal City, what do we see
and beer 1 The telegraph (sometimes betrayed into
after-dinner confidences and confessions) reported a
day or two since that M. ms GOTON considered his
position untenable. This niceness of taste in the
G MICAL breaks out alter many years. We should
be guilty of gran injustice to M. DI Govint if we
could suppose that he had been insensible all these
years to the honour and glory of his unique com-
mand. In the whole French army it would pro-
bably have been almost impossible to find so con-
summate and typical a so/dut de Pape. If we are
not mistaken, M. us Clorox enjoys the rare fate
and c. it .ous theta uction—in a French army—of never
even • field of battle. Sven were he not
a Legitimist at heart, and a devout Catholic into
the Lorain, It would be difficult to replace M. Di
00TON in his command at Rome, where a mixture
of tact, urbanity, and devotion is more desirable
than mere military qualities. General DE GOTON,
km, iti:s received from rs*oi. 11. of Gaeta the
order of ST. JANI:11•11.4 ; and if it be correcUy re-
ported that be would fain have prevented the oo-
cupetiou of Orvieto by the Italian forces, that he
declines to give up the arms of the runaway
Bourbon soldiers, and that he is about
to occupy Terrains in order to keep out the
Piedmonts**, General cameos certainly deserves
all the favours which VIttNCIR 11. can bestow,
sod all the blessings which His HOLlNfatm
tea spare to • benefactor. Yet poor Pro Nose
—peevish sod esactuig as an invalid old lady, or
a petted child whose tyrannous weakness is the
terror of the household—looks askance on this
gallant defender, snap* up his neat little compli-
mentary speeches, and treats him altogether as
something neither flesh nor fish, neither gran nor
inaerre—something between • fib ds Voltaire in
purple stockings, and a sevaiost de Vial disguised as
a Capocin. We can feel for M. its °ovum in his
" untenable " position.
But what is the " attitude" of the Imperial
Goi eminent all this time towards Reim, Italy,
and Europe ? It ill becomes the dignity of a

great Power to hear all the
the dupe T What credit or
protracted oocupation of the
PETEe bring to Prams, or to '

went I It is no looser to countervail

epos of Austria Oa Prance _
was the Asa of the Osleanista, whose enlightened
selfainesi soceseded so we➢ abroad and at
home, and whose present devotion to the
Papacy is so worthy of all respect. Austria
in 1880 is nowhere--as an influence ; she is
everywhere, as an overhanging cloud of war.
Does the French occupation of Rome satisfy
the Catholic party in Prance ; that is, the con-
spiracy of defeated factions and discarded Ministers
who We the defence of Catholic ideas a cloak
for impotent political hostilities I It does not
even satisfy the miserable Government which it

protects. The Pore resents it as an insult, and
bewails it as a persecution. The Cardinale groan
tinder it, and the hierarchy in France, who take
their orders from Rome, get up a conspiracy of
prayers, and pence, and pastorals against the pro-
testor. The Emperor of the nixes has only to
keep his eyes and ears open to decide whether he
would make a single new enemy to his throne or
person by frankly leaving the government ad-
ministered by Cardinal AwrossuJ to the
natural consequences of its feeble obstinacy

and malignant infatuation. He must know
whether the representatives of the national will in
France—the men of intellect, enterprise, and in-
dustry ; the merchants, the manufacturers, the
speculators, the employers, the agriculturists, the
youth of the schools, the elite of the working
ohms, the army—demand or desire the =sante-
memos of the temporal power of the Papacy by the
arm of France. The Kniparor of the Fames is

perfectly aware that the expedition to Rome was
not his own act, but the act of a re-
actionist majority ; in an Assembly dominated
by a party who are now handsomely re-
warded for putting down the liberties of the
Romans by losing their own. The President
of the Republic executed the instructions of M.
DS SONTAL MUER; but he also wrote • letter
demanding reforms which the government of
His HOLINIIIR stall laughs to worn. The
programme recommended in that famous letter
was a revolution to which no Papal government
ever will or ever can consent. Neronsow will be
faithful to the earliest associations of his public
life • to the declared purposes of the President
of the French Republic and the conqueror at
Solferino, if at length he summarily and decisively
absolves himself from a thankless and irksome
task. This Roman question, in its relation to
France, was &lingua difficulty, and is fast becoming
• disgrace. There is but one way out of it—and
that way is now open. Let the French occupying
tinny (which by its admirable discipline and
exemplary conduct under trying circurnstanoes has

ecincifiated the esteem and affection of the Romans)
retire from Italy. Let the Emperor of the
rsaNCH invite his ally to take the place which, by
right of his Kingship and the national will,
belongs to the King of ITALY. An Italian army
will enter Rome amidst the grateful acclamations
of an entire people, and will offer its respectful
homage to the Head of the Church. Vim'
Extu.sacm, albeit technically excommunicate,
will be proud and happy to offer the protection of
his shield to the sacred person of the successor of
BIN Pmts. Ile will guard the Eternal City from
the assaults of anarchy, and surround its churches
end monuments with the veneration and affection
of a free and loyal people. The increasing revenues
of emancipated and prosperous Italy will furnish
an ample establishment to the Supreme Bishop.
Neither poverty, nor humility, nor any other pri-
mitive apostolical virtue, but simply a contented
mind, and resignation to a solely spiritual aupre•
many—these are the fair conditions on which M. DB
MONTANO'S/AT% latest ideal, "a free Church in
a free State," can be realised at Rome. Delivered
at length from that body of death, the temporal
sovereignty, and purged from the dross of loans
and lotteries; dependent no longer on one
monarch's capricious sympathy, on another's sar-
castic protection, on another's heavy-handed patro-
nage, the Church of Rome will rise from the cor-
ruption and mortality of its temporal power like a
Christian soul released from its prison of clay. Is
this a dreamt We sincerely believe that many of
. the most ardent and disinterested Catholics are
beginning to desire that it may prove a reality.

Ebe court.

WINDSOR CAME, Nov. 22.

Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included
Prima Alfred, &Moos Alice, rod the Princes. of Lanier%
We Hereditary Prime mad Prisms of Holstein Auguataa-
tha Feel mad Ooestoss of Chi:sedum the Lady is
Wallin to the Hrawritery Prisons, Lady Corolla* Lbw.
einem ; Major•Gasoral the Hoo- C. and &a Grey, the
Hos. &a Wellsoley, the Has. Mn. F. H. Biddalph,
Capita O. N. Memoir, N.N. ; Wier Cowell, R.& ;
Hajar Elphiaseaae, ILL, and Mr. Woodward.
The following had the Maur of being lay ited altar
dinner The Rev. LOINI mod Lady Wriothelley Bane%
Mae Nam% Oohed the Has. A. N. mod Lady Mary
Plod, His Head. NageoGesaral and Lady Emily &yaws;
yr fleyeawar, wed Lady &saint*.
The WA of the Rook Fusilier G muds played dorlag
Maser.

Her Majesty's private Iliad afterwards performed ia the
drawias•room.

Ms Queen sad Prises Consort walked and drove in the
Berle& this monist•
Prioress Alice, Priscers Rehm, sad Princess Louise rode
es horseback.
Prince Leopold took a remises drive.

The Prises and Princess of holstein Augustanbourg took
leave of her Ilajsety sad the Royal Family, and left the
Castle. Their Hersey Highnesses visited the Dasher
at Kent, at Programs, and afterwards quitted Windsor.
The Read and Coustees of Cterendrui. and Captain U. H.
Srparser. C. 8., R.N., kayo Wan their departure.

• deputation oo she &pied of Newitate.market had
en interrisw with Sir Gimp C. Lewis, yesterday, at the
Memeeilles. The depedelien consisted of Sir James Duke,
Merl, M.P., Mr. Homy loseruse Taylor (eitairsea), Mr.
Dspdy Herrison, Mr. D•Jeresy, Dr. Roes, the Teen Clerk,
the Benecobreocer, the Solicitor, and the Architect

The Right Hoe. W. Hatt has ►rrived In town.
Despatches for the Governor of Canada were sent yester-
day from the Colosielkeee.

Their Serene Highbrow; the Hereditary Primo
►ed Prisms Hortele,togaseaboarg h►ve returned to
Howeitin's Hotel from ► visit to tte Queen at Windsor
Castle.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian, sis-
cogasaaied by the lady °tetrad. Talbot, have arrived is
tows from lageetre Hall, ea thaw way to the south of
Frame for the winter.

The Marquis sad Marchioness of Londonderry
ars especied Wimps is a feet dap from Ireland.
The Earl end Countess Howe have arrived at
oiesam Bars bees Osman Hall, Leimetershire.
The Counting of Caledon, on leaving Windsor
Conn penman le the Grove, near Watford, on a visit to
the lArl and Onesiann of Clarendon.
Viscount and Viscounts.. Stratford de Hielclig•
mid the Roe. Nunes Ginning arrived at Sitar maiden's is
Gromenorequsr• hint evening from Scotland.
I Lord and Lady Calthorpc have left Perry Hall,
on • visit to Lirtl sad Lady Higdon, at their
meat in Cl...taut.

_ the Mika Use
Omit cis Fred», who by
bit arrived far Braes& sure
be bears, sad who scampered her Majesty to
limp poet" where reamer bad bre prepared for bar
MOO, ari suite. At an early bear or the following
=as Kling dthe Belgians meshed Antwerp from
IBA with the Duchess de Brabant and the Count
da liras, arompanied the Empress on board the royal
Bostii yield Osborne, sad remained with her to the mo-
nist of her departure.
The Independance Bilge says : "The Empress is •
women of noble bearing, with rich black hair, bleak eyes,
fastens strongly marked and highly distinguished. She
looked very much fatigued. She wore • trek velvet hat,
with jet ammonia ; • vary fine black veil aver her face, a
black thus, • velvet cloak of the same colour, with rich
furs. Her Majesty spread to sailer little. She carried
Mr heed erect, and saluted with much grace the persons
gadded round the imperial carriage."

(ET mantic

PLYMOUTH, IPIUDAT, 10 kat.
The royal yacht Victoria ad Albert, with the Lwow of
Austria on board, was in eight at 7.30 am.

The Osborne arrived an hoar later.
The Victoria and Albert had the Austrian standard at the
main.

As eh* etaanted round the breakwater, the citadel, and the
rowels in the Sound, H.M.S. St. George and Sanepareil fired
a royal salute.

I mmediabely after her arrival the Port Admiral and of
proceeded on board to pay their responds to the Emprtea.

The Victoria and Albert went into brims to OcsiL As
she entered the ships in commission find • royal sehte.

Te. weather is rainy.
It is uncertain yet whether the Emprems will land.
It is expected that her Majesty will leave for Xadelza
this evening.
l'he Osborne is in the Sound coaling.

I am happy :to say that the question of the
southern army disbandment has been satisfactorily
settled since my last., Count Cavour, who is at
once a clever politician and a man of justice, saw
directly the blunder General Fend had committed
by publishing an order of the day, which was
tantamount to a peremptory disbandment of
Garibaldi's army. Fanti, although a clever gefteral,
baa brought from Spain all the harebeese
which distinguished the Spanish generals of
both the Carliat and Christina parties. Fall of red-
tape notions, he seeki to apply to exceptional cir-
cumstances the rules which would be adopted in
calmer times. Hence the decision which he per-
suaded Victor Emmanuel to take. An opportunity
had been thus offered to the opposition party, and,
as the fact proved, it was not slow to seize it.
Better counsels have, however, prevailed at Turin ;
and, as I told you before, the quads of
this small but brave army will be kept
as the nucleus of a corps around whose
liar will gather the volunteers who shall be
called forth to fight the last war against Austria.
Now that publicopinion has thus settled thisimat-
ter, it is to be hoped that the general who won the
battle of the Volturno, and gave Sicily and the
Neapolitan kingdom to Victor Enunanuel, will be
induced ftoj leave !hie retirementat Caprers,tasd
come here once more:smitid his tbrave coinpanioas
in arms.

Enema.
the

JIM 011

4191.rtis at Pera—that rotting and decaying Turkey
has found people in Paris simple enough to
ad-
varice DO millions. 11 good stroke of -businens, be
observes, in that it outbids England, but, Snail-
, oialli speaking, one of the worst conceivable. Of
course, as to the commercial value of the affair, a
good deal will depend upon the terms to be written
in the bond. For the simplicity of the Parisian
negotiators, Israelites without guile abound not on
the mart of Paris more than elsewhere. The
ilassiciers in question are men quite able to take
cars of themselves.

The announcement made by the Giornale di
Roma that the collectors of Peter's pence are to be
constituted an " order " is thus commented on by
the ilierle
Title is the crowning of the pontifical edifice, the founda-
tions of which were so laboriously laid in Frame.
And yet there are people who have the effrontery to
tell us this collection of Peter's peace is not a political
question, nor one of a hierarchic organisation, bat simply
as attempt to preserve a liberty, that, namely, of giving
aline. Is there any necessity to demand this right!
After observing that where any real ease of
charity is in question, men of all religious denomi-
nations are ready and anxious to give, the objects
of the new confraternity are thus enumerated :
What is really Wooded is to rouse the catholic' in
favour of the reestablishment of the temporal power;

te raise an army is lien of that which has just bees de-
stroyed, dtsperied ; to provide with arms those Neapolitans
whom FM0111126 already been accused of wishing to motors
to their coonta7 ; to make war against Italian nationality,
Marty, and the sovereignty of the people ; to bring about
a motion against the PraDoo-italian policy, and the inevit-
able results of those solemn words, "Italy must be free
hots the Alps to the Adriatic."

It is difficult to lend credence to the recent
decree published in the Official Gazette of Venice,
commanding all parents, on pain of fine, to bring
back their sons from any foreign land in which
they may be pursuing their education. This
monstrous and abominable edict is worthy of the
worst days of protestant persecution under Louis
XIV. It is one of that class of governmental acts
the most calculated to goad a maddened people to
overt insurrection, and yet it emanates from a
government which there are yet partisans found
to denominate as "paternal."
The Queen Mother, widow of Ferdinand 11., is
at the Quirinal at Rome, with her younger chil-
dren ; the young Queen remains at Gaeta. The
reactionary movements are assuming a serious
aspect. We learn that at Fuori-Grotti, near
Naples, a party of royalists, as the Bourbon parti-
sans call themselves, attacked the national guard,
and that on the arrival of troops from Naples these
disturbers of the peace had dispersed, leaving in
their place a bevy of the fair sex, who received the
" regulars" with a volley of abuse, and cries of
" Long live Francis IL" At A vezzano the pro-
prietors were attacked by the peasantry, and when
General Pinelli quitted Aquila with the troops he
had there to quell the riol, disorders broke out in
Aquila itself.
The Council of the Bank of France met to-day,
but at the close of the Bourse the result of its de-
liberations was not known. The general belief is
that there will be no rise in the rate of interest—
some people even talk of its being lowered : this
Deems highly improbable. Speculation at the
Bourse had in general a downward tendency. The
Route left off at 70fr. 15c., both for cash and the
account, being a fall of fro. Cribdit Mobilier was
766 fr. 25c. cash, and 767 fr. 50c. account.

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