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LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 8.

risrenunten has shown that the Metropolitan
Board of Works has too much to do. It is this
conviction that leads many to object to the ill-
judged effort to enlarge the sphere of its functions
and its powers, made last 84111111/011 by the Bill of
Mr. Tire, and contemplated by the reintroduction
of that project in the course of the coming year.
Nobody object& to • Central Board of Sewers.
Main drainage can only be carried on efficiently
by some such body, or by • Government depart-
ment ; and between the two there cannot be a
doubt which is to bo preferred. The imperial
administration meddles a great deal too much as
it is in affairs that are not imperial ; and as far
as we are concerned we shall never advocate under
any plea the further increase of its power.
Centralization, which had its use as a
civilizing specific against the anarchy of
feudal barbarism, has served its turn, and
now threatens to become a cause of para-
lysis in the social system. We are sick of
the parrot chatter about uniformity and assimi-
lation. We do not want to see all our counties
and towns forced to become counterparts of one
another, or all transcripts of some molten image
of expressionless propriety, forged in a bureau in
Whitehall. Anything, we are persuaded, would be
better than that. But neither do we want to see
the centralizing hand applied to the numerous
parishes and great distinct cities which are em-
braced within the limits of the Metropolitan Act.
For purposes of sewerage a Metropolitan Board
may be, and we think is, useful, from the very con-
ditions of the case ; and in certain instances the
conflicting views between contiguous parishes and
districts, may make an appellate jurisdiction to
that body desirable. But the very idea of
a Central Board of Works and Ways is
a mistake, the consequences of which the
public is now beginning practically to perceive,
and which it must be the duty of Parliament to
obviate rather than intensify. If the forty beet
men in London could be got together in Greek-
street, and kept there from Monday morning until
Saturday night every welik in the year, with no-
thing else to do than to hear and determine the
arguments for and against the countless questions
of thoroughfares, buildings, nuisances, ratings,
penalties, compensations, and what not, that are
incessantly arising in the hundred and one parishes
that make up what we call the Metropolis—they
could not perform the preposterous task decently,
not to say well. With the purest intentions, they
would be betrayed into injustice at every turn,
and with • most indefatigable zeal they would ne-
cessarily grow weary and dull when overwhelmed
with such inordinate work. Sooner or later
the whole thing would break down. An
impatient and indignant public would rise up some
day in a towering rage, and insist that the entire
concern should be handed over to Government :
and before the disunited and distracted protests of
independent localities could be heard, the great
imperial cormorant of power and patronage would
have made its rim of the spoil. This is • cata-
strophe we would gladly avert—a danger but too
real and imminent against which we would guard.
Yet it is in the direction of this danger that un-
wise counsellors are urging the Metropolitan
Board ; and therefore it is that we raise our
voice in earnest and candid remonstrance. Thu
experience of the last four years incontestably
proves that it has already • great deal too
much to do. Its direct action ought to be con-
fined to • few general matters such as sewers ; all
local matters, including therein new streets,
ought to be remitted to local bodies ;
and if one locality wants an improve-
ment to which the neighbouring pariah or
district objects, an appeal might be left to the
Board, whose judgment should be final. But the
initiative ought in every possible case to be re-
stored to the vestry or municipality, on whom the
responsibility ought to rest, and in whom the dis-
cretion should invariably remain as to the mode of
execution and the finding of ways and means. It
is no use telling us that things would sometimes
be done clumsily, tardily, or improvidently by the
local authorities. Very likely; but it is • thou-
sand times better that a vestry architect should
occasionally blunder or • municipal council occa-
sionally err than that the life of local administration
should be lost. And lost it will assuredly be if the
:3,000000 people who dwell in London and its
suburbs are handed over to the practically ins-
sponsible government of a score i.r two of gentle-
men who, if they gave all their time and intellect,
could not do the business properly, and who now
do not profess to devote more than a few hours in
each week to the superhuman task.
The true thing to be done, we repeat it, is to
44i.tiiis!i, not to augment, the powers.and functions I

of the Central Board. Instead of grasping U
new authority, and seeking to become the makers
and collectors of rates throughout the varies,
metropolitan boroughs, and trying to raise a veal
revenue by the appropriatio♦ of old taxes and
new penalties (all which imply a vastly increased
staff of officers, and a vastly augmented expendi-
ture in salaries, fees, and establishment charges),
Mr. Tawarrsa and his colleagues ought to ask
Parliament to relieve them of many duties they
are now unable to perform, and to permit them to
concentrate their undivided attention on the great
work of general drainage, which is assuredly more
than enough to occupy their undistracted thoughts.
We have never been disposed to goad them into
precipitate action with respect to the great and
costly works of sewerage which they were specifi-
cally organised to superintend : and we are willing
to make great allowance for the inherent diffi-
culties with which every portion of that most un-
manageable subject is beset. We do not want to
have fault to find with their administration in this
respect. We do not want them to break down,
because we do not want Government to have an
excuse for taking their place. But that is pre-
cisely the reason why we expostulate against their
vain and ambitious schemes of aggrandisement.

We know too well what it will end in ; and for
the sake of the Board, as well as for the sake of
the localities upon whose independence they
would covetously encroach, we must protest
against the reintroduction of Mr. Trre's Bill. In
place of provisions enabling them to usurp the
power of making and collecting rates, and of
buying and pulling down houses wherever
they may fancy • new opening is re-
qaired, we should like to see a statute enacted
enabling each parish, district, or borough to under-
take improvements at its own wet and on its own
responsibility, which at present it cannot do for
want of certain legislative enactments. There are,
for instance, many cases in which private individuals
would gladly contribute a considerable portion of
the expense, if the locality were legally enabled to
deal with them, and to defray the remainder. At
present this cannot be done without the wasteful
coat of obtaining what is called a Private Act ; in
nine cases out of ten prudent people shrink from
this expense, and the work is not done. But it is
simply ridiculous to leave the adjudication of
questions so intensely local to • body of men nine-
teen out of twenty of whom cannot possibly know,
and cannot possibly find time to inquire, whether
the work proposed would be really an improve-
ment or not.

Ri►t.varloits by FRANCt3 11. on leaving Gaeta
would be much better reading if accompanied by
the news that he was really gone. This continual
threatening to go. seen side by side with an
obstinate persistence in useless bloodahodding, is
less calculated to impress the world with that
dignity which, according to the protest, is a
distinctive feature of his august family, than to
recall a scene that has been celebrated in song—
" He fitted the halter end traversed the cart,
And often took leave, but was loth to depart."

It would be interesting to know who are those
Sovereigns of Europe who are said to desire that
the defence of Gaeta and Messina may be pro-
longed, and why, instead of imitating the Empe-
ror of the Fasiren and giving his Majesty some
effectual aid, they leave him and his Ministers to
concoct circular despatches announcing the hour
of surrender as inevitable.

It is quite in keeping with the whole career of
this Knso in • corner, that having done more than
any man living to discredit monarchy and endanger
thrones, he should consider himself wronged by
the Sovereigns who have simply let him alone ;
that having, in the foolish pride of power,
announced in diplomatic form his intention to rule
without law, he should now profess himself anxious
about " public right ;" and that having, by
incurable folly, lost his own crown, he should un-
dertake to teach other kings how to save theirs.
We, who do not know what are the reciprocal
obligations of King Femme to his royal brethren,
are incompetent judges of the severe charges
against the Sovereigns of Europe to expose which
Signor CASTILLA has taken up his official pen. But
we do know the causes which rendered it quite
impossible for those Sovereigns to do more than
give the Km advice and useless expressions of
sympathy, when be wanted effective seamen and
soldiers. It was not indifference to the interests
of dynasties, nor any want of jealousy of
the growing sense of popular right, as
the E.t.a's/a Minister suggests, but the
fear of becoming in any way identified
with • Government which had scandalized the
world at first by • cynical profligacy, and after-
wards by the facility with which, when it found
itself in danger, it adopted, and even exceeded,
the extremest measures of the Italian revolu-
tionists. How sincere the KING was in his
offers, when he was ready even to declare war
against Austria and give GARIBALDI ships and men
for an attack on Venice, we may gather from the
earnestness with which he now invokes the prin-
ciplui of the Holy Alliance.
In his depth of sorrow one sunbeam cheers the
heart of the unhappy Kum. The conduct of the•'
Emperor of the Faseca inspires him with gene-
rous emotion. He alone "gave the example of a
" generous desire to leave the state of apathy "
into which the governments of Europe had fallen,
and took " the sole risk in the magnanimous en-
" terpriae " of sending the French fleet to the
waters of Gaeta. Let nobody ask what that
potentate would have done had any other power—
Austria, for instance—followed his example. Louis
NAPOLZON has well deserved the gratitude of
Fusser' II.; let then this despatch remain to show
that when the Neapolitans had freely chosen their
new Kisu, it was the " elect of the French people,"
the only monarch in Europe reigning by universal
suffrage, who earned the heartfelt gratitude of the
last !lovelies ruler of that country by opposing
the effect of their vote. It is a touching relation-
ship, which should not be disturbed.

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NEWCAXPLLIIPON•TYNE, FRIDAY NIGHT.
CiA3B3 OF THE POLL.

2,346
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Majority for Beaaatoat —B46

Wtanvnß CAKTLZ. DEC. 3. —This day had
audience of her Majesty :—His Excellency the Count de
Per.igny, Ambassador from the Emperor of the French, to
deliver his letter of recall ; and hie Excellency the Count
de Flaheult de Is Billarderie, to deliver his credentials in
the IMMO character; to which *ttem. the were re-
spectively introduced he the Right HOD. Lord John Russell,
her Majesty's Principil Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs. —o4:eftr.

Dow•rtru-ureter, Die. 6.—The Queen his been
Plowed to appoint Jobs Madcap, Esq., c. a.. to be Lieu-
tenant-Governor of the Territories of Itritish Kaffrstia.—
Gsulfe.

Foams-ernes, Dee. ;.—The Queen has been
graciously plowed to appoint Lisutecont•Coloael &heard
Stanton, C.a. to to b Majesty's Coasul.General at War.
saw.-oazette.

CRYSTAL PALACL Oxi SMILLINO DAT.
FkIDAT. IMt 7.—Adeduices OS psimpot, S4I ; ditto te
sesisia tickets, &A—Toy.' visitors, 'Ace.

THE EXPREBB, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8,

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WINDSOR cants, nßc. T.
There was ao addition to the Royal dinner party
yesterday.
The Queue, accompanied by Prince's. Albs and Prises
Louis of Hesse, drove out in an open carries. and four this
moraing, attended by Lord Charles Fits Roy.

The Prince and Princess of Leiniagen visited her Majesty
limn Progmore, and took luncheon.
Princess Helena and Princess Louise rode in the riding-
house.

A deputation from the Gas end Water Companies Asso-
ciation, relative to the amendment of the Sale of Gas Act,
had an interview with Sir G. C. Lurk yesterday, at the
Home-office. The deputation consisted of Mr. M. Nash,
deputy-chairman, and Mr. Townsend, secretary, to the
Bristol Gm Company ; Mr. W. Lucas, chairman, and Mr.
Harrison, secretary, of the Birmingham Gm Company ;
Mr. Cowin, mem:rector of the Sheffield United des
Company ; Mr. . , engineer to the Southampton Gee
Company ; Mr. osoew, engineer to the Glasgow
City sad Suburbia Ges Company ; Mr. Roper, engineer to
the Leeds Gas Company ; Mr. Hawksley, engineer to the
Nottingham Gas Company ; Mr. Grafton, engineer to the
Oambndge and other Gas Companies ; and Mr. T. G.
Barlow, engineer.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday
to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

The Cambridge Independent states that extensive
repairs and alterations are in pregame at the Hall, Masfing-
ley, which is to be the residence of the Hines of Wales
during the time be remains at Cambridge. Mammas. Bell,
who have received instructions to execute the necessary
works, are under an engagement to have the whole finished
by the end of January.

_ .
His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Counter Bernstorff leave town early next week for Broad•
lands on ► visit to Viscount and Viecaaster Palmerston.

The Duchess of Sutherland, who came to town
expressly to go to Windsor Cartle at ber Majesty's invita-
tion, left Stafford House yesterday to join her family at
Trentham.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury have
returned to town from a tour of visite in Peotland. The
noble marnule and marchioness leave town early next weak
foe Tottenham Park.

The Marquis of Bath is entertaining a ,ielect
circle at Loftiest. The party have had good shooting over
the preserves of his lordship's estate.
The Earl and Countess of Essex have arrived in
town from Cashiobtu-y Perk, where they have been enter-
taining company._

_ . .
Lady Jane Hay has; left town for the Continent,
to meet Sir Robert Ind Lady Emily Peel, who an on a tour.

Colonel and Lady Caroline Towneley and the
Nissen Towneley arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone,
on Tharsday,on their way to the Continent.

The Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert left
Belime-square yesterday for Wilton House, near Salisbury.
While out rabbit shooting in Hatfield Park the
Marquis of Salisbury was unfortunately struck in the leg by
soma shots. We are happy to add that no further result
is apprehended than a confinement to the house for a few
days.

Baron Auckland, Lord Bishop of Bath and
Wells, has collated the Rev. Montague J. C. Havrtrey,
rector of Rimptoe, Somerset. to a prebendal stall in the
cathedral church of Well., vacant by the death of the Rev.
Prebendary Edgell.

On Thursday last the Rev. Lewis Morgan, M.A.,
late chaplain to the University of Durham, was collated to
the vicarage of West Bradenhuo, in Norfolk, in the gift of
the Lord Bishop of Norwich, by virtue of his bishopric.
The will of Earl Heavers was proved in the
principal registry on the 3rd. The personalty was sworn
under 80,0001. The will is very short, being comprised in
two folios. It bears date the 24th of October last, only
three days previous to his lordship's decease, which occurred
on the 27th of October at his seat, Moresby Park, in his
eighty-third year, his countess having preceded his lordship
but a few weeks--namely, an the 7th of the preceding
month of September, her ladyship having reached her
seventy-fifth year. His lordship is succeeded in his title
and estates by his only surviving son, Sydney, Viscount
Newark, now third Earl Heavers, and to whom the testator
has left the residue of his personalty, after bequeathing all
his money equally amongst his son, the present earl, and
his (the testator's) two daughters, the Hoe. Mary Prances
and the Hon. Annora Charlotte ; and has left an annuity
chargeable upon the Thoresby estate of 100 guineas to
Louis Christin.

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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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DISTURBANCES IN NAPLES. ,
NAPLES (vu, )ILABaztusa), Doc. 5.

Reactionary disturbances have taken plaoe at
Caserta, occasioned by Royalist agents and a
portion of the inhabitants.

Her Majesty's royal paddle yacht Victoria and
Albert, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday ►t noon, on her return from conveying her
Majesty the Empress of Austria to Madeira. The health of
the Empress appeared to improve as the yacht approached
a warmer latitude. Much of her time was passed in one
of the paddlebox alcoves, attended by the Princess Win.
dischgratr, who suffered the least of any of the Empress's
suite from sea•sicknsss. The Empress herself wan forte.
nately entirely free from this distressing malady the entire
voyage, notwithstanding the boisterous weather. The Em-
press, prior to leaving the yacht at Itadeira, presented Cap-
tain Den maa with a magnificent snuffbox, set with diamonds,
with the Emperor of Austria's portrait in the centre. Com-
sander Chriatien and Dr. Minter, D. 1.0., received sash a
malaise ring, set richly in brilliants. To the crew el the
yachts the Empress left the munificent sum of 5001., for
distribution among them.

We (Press) are informed that a serious mistake
bee been committed by an official connected with the
War-offlce, whereby wrong ammunition has been sent out
for the Armstrong camas and short Enfield rifles of our
army in China.

These manifestations were followed by a serious
counter-manifestation.

The whole Garibaldian army hastened to the
spot to crush the movement.

To the six lectures "On the Chemical History
of a Candle" (adapted toe juvenile auditory), by Prof. Fara-
day, already announced as about to be delivered at the
Royal Institution in Allasearle-street, we (..4thearrem)
have now the pleasure to add the promise of "Twelve
Lectures on Fishes," by PM. Owen ; " Twelve Lectures
on Electricity," by Prof. Tyndall ; and "Ten Lectures on
Inorpsic Chemistry," by Dr. Edward Freak and. These
lectures will occupy the maim from Christmas to Faster.
The Rev. John Barlow, whose retirement from
the active duties of the secretaryship of the Royal Institu-
tion was lately announced, has been succeeded in his aloe
by Dr. It. Beene Jones.

- About 100 persons were arrested, and several
ringleaders shot.

Numbers of the inhabitants have taken flight.

It has already been announced that the
Horti-
cultarul Society. new garden will open in form on the sth
of June. We (Gardentra' Chronicle) can now state that
the arrangements for the exhibition then to be held are
nearly complete, and that there will also be a grand rose
show on July 3, a grand show of dahlias and other Bowers
on Sept. 11, and a great display of chrysanthemums and
fruit on Nov. 6. About LOX are, we believe, assigned to
these exhibitions for prises. In addition to them the floral
sad fruit committees will hold meetings twice a month,
aces to all fellows of the society, on a moat larger scale than
heretofore, the new Aloes at South Kensington affording
ample accommodation for such purposes.

The city of Aversa has also risen in insurrection
against the Garibaldians, who, however, remained
masters.

The Cardinal Archbishop having arrived at Naples,
manifestations against him took p!ace before his
palace. Some shouted, " The Pope for ever !"
and others, " Garibaldi for ever !" A riot
then ensued ; the mob besieged the palace, and
attempted to set it on tire. The disorder lasted
18 hours, and only terminated when the archbishop
appeared on the balcony holding the Italian tri-
colour flag.
King Victor Emmanuel is expected here from
Palermo.

It is rumoured that the government is about
to contract a loan on account of public works.

NAPLES, Dec. 7.
A reactionary movement has taken place at Sore,
but public order has been re-established.
A grand military review will be held to-morrow.
VIENNA, SATURDAY.
King Francis 11. has concluded a loan at
Vienna.

The Neapolitan army in the Roman territory
has diminished to 8,000 men.

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE
PRESS.
PAE.IB, fitruaDAy Moaramo.
. _ _

The Moniteur publishes a long circular addressed
by Count Persigny to the Prefects, explaining in
what spirit he intends to use the discretionary
power conferred upon him by the press law. Count
Pereigny examines the English laws, and points
out their severity for all attacks against the
crown and state. He also mentions the
great liberty enjoyed by the English press
of discussing all acts of the government.
M. de Persigny then says, "If all parties and all
writers, respecting the wish of the French people,
only desire liberty of the press to maintain the
prosperity of the state, they have liberty of the
press in France as in England, and the overtime-
ment law becomes a dead letter. Let abuses
in society or government be disclosed ; let
the acts of the administration be discussed,
and injustice be revealed ; but should parties
endeavour to overthrow the state and dynasty,
the law will not permit discussion, and the system
of warnings will tLen be enforced." The minister
concludes thus: "I declare that, although disposed
not to flinch before any responsibility in prohibiting
attacks by the press against the state, on the other
side I shall not consult any private considerations
in the resolutions which I shall take to encourage
the habit of free discussion in France."

SPAIN.
MPTF.D ASSASSINATION OF
GENERAL O'DONNELL.
MADRID, Dic. 7.

As General O'Donnell was leaving the Senate to-
day he was wounded in the left shoulder by a
pistol shot. The assassin, whose name is Imaz,
was immediately arrested. lie is known to be a
man of extreme opinions.

MADRID, FRIDAY.

The Correspondencia Autog►afa gives a denial to
the report of the organisation of 13 battalions of
volunteers in Catalonia.

The garrison of Tetuan will be replaced by troops
from the Peninsula.

The English version of Victor Masses La Reim
Topaze is in rehearsal at her Majesty's Theatre and will be
brought out on Boxing Night.

Mr. E. T. Smithie to open the Alhambra, in Lei-
cester-square, in emulation of Canterbury Hall, on Monday
next.

News for any Crcesus who loves and collects
violins, or plays upon them :—Spohr's instrument, a Stradi-
varius, we (AtAenrtunt) are assured, ahuort unique in
quality, is in the market.

" A very graceful compliment," says the illus-
trated London Neter, "to dramatic art has just beta paid
by two of the most eminent literary professors of the
art pictoriaL Messrs. Clarluon Stanfield, R.A., and David
Roberta, 8.A., in kindly remembrance of their old con-
auks with the theatres as scene-painters, have jointly
saaosmeed their intention of building a house is the Royal
Dramatis College, and adorning it with pictures from their
pencils."

- The coursing meetings for next week are Spel-
thorn. Club, on Tuesday and Wednesday ; Burton Agnes
(0), on Wednesday and Thursday; Inc. Blundell, on Thurs-
day ; and Sudbury, on Thursday and Friday.
The i'ress, of to-day, says it is in a position to
announce that the Austrian government is about to annul
the concordat with the Pope, and to establish full liberty in
Austria. The sense paper asserts that the Austrian govern•
meet is willing to ads Venetia to the now united kaiak=
of Italy. The plan at present toootad is fee Austria to
receive in exchange a portion of the territory on the Lower
Danube which is at present under the nominal suzerainty
of the Port., but the population of which evince as strong
a repugnance to the Ottoman rule as the Veurtiaus do to
the swa of Austria.

'W.
EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The speedy dissolution of the Corps Legislatif is
considered very probable, and some people sup-
pose that the concluding paragraph of M. de Per-
aigny's circular to the prefect. alludes to measures
to be taken on the occasion of that event. A re-
laxation of the draconian laws of the press is also
thought to be " in the situation."
It appears that the protectoral promises that no
government candidates would be put forward at
the elections for Savoy and Nice have not been
kept. At all events the Count de Cesaole, who
had announced himself as an independent can-
didate upon the express understanding that there
was to be no government interference, retires from
the contest upon the alleged ground that his per-
sonal dignity will not allow him to go to the poll
under existing circumstances. At the same time
he disclaims any idea of systematic opposition to
the Emperor's government.
In the case of Leymarie v. the Moniker, Debar,
and Prase, the Civil Tribunal, presided over by
M. Benoit Champy, decided this morning that the
official reports of debates in the Corps Legislatif
being drawn up by a legally constituted commis.
sion, the journals that republish them are not re-
sponsible for the contents, and cannot be called
upon to rectify any misstatement of facts of which
private individuals may complain. This decision
was expected, and I do not think there is any fault
to be found with it.

The murderer of Judge Poinsot has not yet been
arrested. Some soldiers quartered near Noisy-le-
See, at which point he must have jumped out of
the train, depose that they saw a man running
across the fields at the hour at which the train
went by that station. The funeral of M. Poinsot
takes place to-morrow. It has been proposed that
all the judges of the Imperial Court should attend
in their robes, but inasmuch as the deceased was
not killed on the bench, or in consequence of any
act done by him in the exercise of his judicial
functions, it is said that etiquette is opposed to
such a demonstration. There can be no doubt,
however, that most of the judges will follow the
corpse as private individuals, and that to-morrow
will be a dies non at the Palais de Justice.

The Bourse is in a state of utter stagnation.
This dulness is very remarkable at this time of the
year, for it generally happens that business is more
lively in December than in the preceding month.
It is a curious fact that, notwithstanding the
vaunted national prosperity, the conciliatory atti-
tude of the Emperor, and the reiterated proclama-
tions of a policy of peace, the French funds are
nearly 2 per cent. lower than they were at this
time last year, when the country had scarcely re-
covered from the shock of a costly war, and a
loan of 750 millions had not been definitively placed.
On December 7, 1859, the Throes, ex div., were
quoted at 70fr. 75c., and to-day they are only
89fr. 10c. This latter, which is the closing price
for account, represents a rise of sc. from yester-
day. For cash there was no change. Mobilicr
fell Mr. In railway shares there was next to
nothing done ; Eastern fell 2fr. 50c., and Southern
lfr. 25c. ; in the other lines there was no change
whatever.

GENERAL GARIBALDI AND THE LADIES'
GARIBALDI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.

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The following letters have just been received from
Caprera, in reply to a communication made by Mr. Mont-
gomery Stuart, as honorary secretary of the " Ladies' Gari-
baldi Benevolent Association," to the illustrious general, to
the effect that a further sum of 500/. had been remitted to
Naples for the benefit of the sick and wounded volunteers,
and that another contribution would shortly Le forwarded
for the benefit of the widows and orphans :

•' Caprers, Nov. 30, 1860.

" Dear Mr. Montgomery Stuart,-1 beg you to coin.
mtinicate to the ' Ladies' Garibaldi Benevolent Association'
the few lines here enclosed.

"The contributions for my wounded comrades had better
be remitted to General Birtori, at Naples. It only remains
for me to thank you with all my heart for the kindness you
have shown and the trouble you have taken about our
wounded men.—l am, with gratitude, your most sincere
"G. GARIBALDI.

" To J. ➢tontgomery Stuart, Esq.,
"Secretary to the ' Ladle.' Garibaldi Benevolent Association
20, Cockspur•atreet, London."

"'TO THE "LADIES' OAPJBALDI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.
" Caprers, Nov. 20, 1860.

"' It in in the hour of need that one knows one's red
friends. It is in the midst of the tempest that the suc-
couring hand of the generous•minded renders the greatest
service. Albion! in the vicissitudes inseparable from the
human race, in which men and peoples all traverse various
stages of fortune, whatever may be thy lot—whether pros.
perous or adverse—ltaly will regard thee as a sister. Italy
can never forget the chivalrous bearing of thy sous, who
in her season of trial and of danger spent both their gold
and their blood in her defence.

" ' And ye, lovely daughters of the land which has so
often proved the refuge of the poor Italian exile, in what
language can I express all that I feel of admiration, of
gratitude, and of affection towards you? You, who have
evinced an interest, so touching and so delicate, in my poor
wounded comrades ! May God bless you, and may He
furnish to those whom you have helped an opportunity of
showing how deep is the gratitude which they cherish
toward' their highly-prized and highly-revered benefactors.
—Yours, for ►ife, " ' G. GLIUBALDI.'"

Pius IX. has just written to Cardinal Morlot to
ask him to resign his place as Grand Almoner, and member
of the privy council, or at least not to take the trouble to
convoke it in future. The cardinal has replied that he was
weary of rank and honour, and that if he resigned his civil
offices he would resign his see also ; as if he made no dis-
tinction between that which he holds by his consecration
and investiture, and that which was conferred upon him by
a stroke of the Emperor's pen. But in view of the danger
of having a Coquereau on the chair of St. Denis, the Holy
Father ceased to insist. The Abb.:, Maret has offered his
resignation to the Emperor, who replied that he should
make uo fresh appointments till Rome had accepted this.
No later than yesterday the Bishop of Versailles, relying on
the devotion which he had shown to the Emperor, went to
him to try and make him feel the woes of the Church, and
to remind him of the end of his uncle. The Emperor lis-
tened to him patiently with his cigar in his mouth, and at
last raid, "Monseigneur, your distress does you credit, but
the temporal power is no longer compatible with our civili-
zation, and we must pet an end to it, as I put out my cigar."
Mgr. Mabille was not much edified with the cynicism
of his Charlemagne.— Wectly Register (Paris correspondent).
JESUITS AND NUNN AT VIENNA.--Should there be
a revolution in Austria in the spring, which God forefeud !
the disciples of Loyola, Liguori, fie., will be in great
danger, as the middle and lower classes attribute
to them very many of the misfortunes which have
recently befallen the empire. It is generally be-
lieved that the " regulars,' who have been imported
into Austria during the last ten years, are in the
habit of sending a part of the large sums which they
raise to Rome, and for this reason they are objects
of suspicion and dislike. In the course of the ex-
aminataon into the abuses in the hospital on the
Wiedeu it has come to light that the " Gray Sister.," who,
as members of the order of St. Francis of Arcissi,
are not allowed to hoard money, have been enrich-
ing themselves at the expense of the patients. Each
of the 126 sisters-84 onus and 42 novices—receives
her hoard and MM. aye r, but the rations of the patients
Lave been . tly
that ing might be saved for religious purpose,. The
reduced in quantity and quality, in order
evidence given hy the medical men also proves that there is
one great objection to the introduction of nuns—if not
regular "Sisters of Charity—into hospitals. They
objecetvetryorherfre inorre‘fuoirredth,e,f
hospitalme nurses. loins Bur.
sex those duties which
are
geese once complained to the imperial inspector of prisons
of the great want •.f cleanliness of the Gray &sten (who
of the body siguifie, little."--evrrespcilett of the Eehanytelethmaie rcrPlirsnicihen"t of
lfthalle the Austriansouli prisons),
tarredand t
the state
Ie
at Vienna,