The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-17 00:00:00

ITALY.
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NAPLES, Dec. 10.
Fur the Wit week a report has been circulating in
various quarters is Naples that the Piedmontese
were shortly to march upon Rome. It 'rim,
aSMORPt the troops themselves, and on the principle
that the is no dust without a wind, I hare ender.-
touted to train it to its origin. Is it that some
umierstaadins is being arrived at between the
French and Piethacatess, and that the former, find-
ing that they caanot create a party by stirring up
eouf usion, are disposed to make a merit of necessity,
and are cowing forth as the friends of Italian unity
and iudependenco 1 That there is an approximation
between the two parties is evident, from the fact that
an armistice between the Gaeta royalists and Victor
Immanuel has been agreed upon for 15 days, the
prosecution of the preparations for the siege not to
be continued ; that in the interval the Impact
will use his hest services to persuade Francis IL to
evacuate Gaeta, and not succeeding will then with-
draw hie Beet and permit the siege to be commenced
from the sea.

I have been up to the Hospital of San Sebastian
this afternoon, and even there party spirit has
found its way. There is the Garibaldi director
still clinging to the office which has been given to
the Piedmontese director, and no good blood exists
between thew. In the English ward • clergyman, a
German, is performing service to a portion of the
invalids, who are seated around him. Two were
laid up with dangerous attacks of smallpox, and
why they were brought in here it would be difficult
to say. One poor fellow, called Campbell, is
in a hopeless state, and has been gradu-
ally declining ever since he Gann here.
" Are your triends anxious about you—shall I
send any letter for you I" I inquired. " I never
had any, sir, that I can remember," coat the sneerer.
It froze me. There are nearly 40 men in all in
the hospital, and they are admirably treated under
the benevolent and intkdatisable care of Signor
Anastasio, a Neapolitan, Amongst one of the
severe owes has been that of Captain L'lfetrange,
who has suffered a painful operation, but is doing
well. By • short cut through one of the Scour de
Charitd'a rooms I get into the Piedmont's@ deport-
ment, where I linger by the bedside of a young boy
who had been shot through the lungs ; he com-
plained of being robbed of everything by his atten-
dants and neglected, fur the discharge from his
wound required continual attention. In one ward
the dirt was caked on the ground, and the attem-
dauts were washing up crockery and kettles and
plates all round the bed'. We reported both oases
immediately, but heaven help them ! You may
as well tat to the winds as to these Neapo-
litans, they promise everything and do nothing—
there is no vitality in them either moral or physi-
cal: Almost at the extremity of the last ward is
as interesting man called Giuseppe Soriano, for-
steely in the 14th Regiment of Piedmont's*. He had
a ball through his leg, which he cannot yet place
ea the ground. His wife and child had just oonie
down to Had hiss On his bed I maw what I never
is my life before saw on an Italian's bed, a prayer
book and a Testament. " Yoe are a Protestant."
" Yee, a member of the Waldensian church. 1 was
Ilb years in the Piedmontsee service, gained my sub-
lieutenancy, and of right should Lave had my lieu-
tenancy. The colonel called me ow day and said
that I had been talking and preaching against the
Roman catholic church, and ordered me to be
silent. I replied that I had done nothing of the
kind ; I had read this book, showing the Testa-
ment, to my emnrades and officers, who were
much delighted with what they heard. Well,
said my officer, you must not do so any more,
Colonel, I answered, I have been a good soldier,
and have done my duty well, but this is an affair
et 00110381008, which has nothing to du with my
military duties. My lieutenancy, however, was
ant accorded to me, and having obtained my retire
went, I entered the service of Garibaldi, in which I
have been reduced to helplessness."
Lleuend Dunne is doing well, that is to say, no
unfavourable symptoms have shown themselves se
yet. The ball is still in hie body, sod his medical
attendant cannot detect where it L.. There wars
two men together, &timed as Garibaldini, one of
whom shot him, and as they fled the one called one
to the other " eomanclante." For two days
a major—a Sieiliao—had threatened Dunne because
he had refused him his brevet, and the police are
under the impressive that In, W3B the 8/388/ii

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Preparation* are making fur the election al depu-
ties, and the republicans are in the held. I mad
you their address:

TO Till CUMIN OP 000T112111 ITALY.

You are after a Wog tynuiThir cedied matc;;;;eiee wader
the empire el the 'Witte and el Victor Emesenell the
most important right which belongs to the ailisem el •
free state, that of theca* your neresseistivin. Yea
must warns' tt with the dignity of and ON freedom
el «times. The provinces of the linathor have eetseed
late, from form of circumetances, Into the development d:
the oatmeal heihmenoventent, must so much the axes mews
their fellow citizens by facts that they widerstaud seriously
the obligatious, earl intend senously to fulfil tarot. And
the obligatioas are en much the graver, that the
made is more saceptional by which they were
called os to unite themselves with the peat Italian
feed' ; tbeelector. and elected owe to God and their country
the clear sad solemn expression d the ietestions by which
they are animated; of the moral auditions with which
were one el us places his vote in the urns of the Plebiscite.
Theformula of the Plebiscite must direct us in the choked
our represeetatives. Let us vote for Italy, one mid
Victor
under the reign of Emmanuel. Thai
unity of the country was the condition of the annexation to
the other provinces of the Italian Kingdom. Your elected
should explicitly declare it in the name of all to the gr vern.
meat, and you must make it the inexorsble coalition of
your choice. But the affirmation of a bare principle is not
sufficient for a people who wish to be a nation. It
is uevetery, , in order to *void delusions, wavering*,
and long runtime for the country, that the re-
psmtation of the Italians shouLl work out the way
by which hely can be made. Two programmes lave been
made. The tint ileciered that the beet way to make Italy
is to proclaim aloud the national right to cell upon all the
enetipes 4 the nation to anthem it mad mutat' it ; to direct
it according to the inepiratious which dammed floes that
right, and to prosecute without interruptiou, and with
peculiar virtue, the enterprise which mast emancipate
Vance ail Rome, and bind thee in one. muter see
national act, in tins last metropditas city, all the popula-
tioea, sisters, from the Alps to the extreme sea of thinly.
The wood has declared in official ducumeate that the best
way ti create Italy is to depend on diplor.acy sad the
alliance of the foreigner ; that to attempt the conguest of
Rome would be a fault, that of Venice ardor to. And the
practical comminute* of that method was the motion at
Savoy end Nice, and the return of Garibaldi to apnea.
The filet programme is Untied by Garibaldi; the mood by
(lien ire The choice of these two ways closet be doubtful
for you, nor can it he for your elect. The tint solemn tes-
timony of your choice —thetimmy at men of petiole to
our liberator- -should be the election of Garileldi in all the
colleges. The second should lie iu the choice of the other
deputies to represent you. You should choose men, more-
over, of en ileprielent habit of laded. Maceessitile to the
seductions of pewee, honest, courageous. and declared
friends of the national programme of Guile' li. The gum-
thin of liberty in the wood to which you s:mi:4 attend,
a.el n, weure the qiiteces of it it behoves tl.e electors to
u ote in supportMe the teleran deliberations of a national
p.iuunreat in Home. The Sanlietan statutes which were
rote• to Piedmont in could not contemplate the rights
and interest, of other parts of Italy ; by the .iceoptance of
these coeilitions you will recognise the nice to whom you
should mire your vOiell• For the rest, let your conscieuce be
free. Electors of the southere provisoes, haiku to register
your mimeo. let is one fail at the lasi A..stioencewould
be sine me. and who does sot exercise his right is sot worthy
to pewee it. Pound electoral committees is every chief
town* of a prwriiii • or ilistrirt, Wad put all in eominueication
with tar. NV* will couusel and dlunnuate ea. ch other.
For the electoral coininitti
Prof. L it:err:era.
G. KRXIAJLDL
G. Li'n'eal.
No other party has published any addr.as, or I
wood send it.