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from the shook to the ridden than from the actual injury to
say vital portion of the body; and the extent of the scald cannot
be generally secortainul until the body has become rigid,
when the exact edges of the skin can be accurately discerned,
and the extent of the bodily wound correctly de-
Anal. The face and body of every patient were
absolutely black, and many of them having long beards
the deformity was mush and horribly exaggerated. The
cheeks, end particularly the lipe,were greatly swollen, which,
with the oil shining on the soot-black surface, imparted a
bed aspect to the features of the living as well as to there
of the deed. One fine, muscular man, whose oonatitation
must have been like the iron ship to have resisted such an
awful am•elt on hie oiliest", was a ghastly-looking object,
and forcibly reminded me of the hideous plouses of
an imaginary giant In • cheep illnelrated volume of the
favourite nursery tale of Jock the Giant Killer." Poor
miser I be Is deco dead I Another man, of whom there Is
great hope of recovery, was incessantly striking out his
hands as if in the act of swimming. If he ley down to sleep
tee a few minutee, be no sooner awoke than he wee up in his
bed again, and ewlinniag away with all the energy of • dee-
PM* leis struggling in the wise for life after a shipwreck,
where ormredas and all had perished. I conversed
with him the next day, aid asked him if he adopted this
modes to cool his hands aid arms, to which he replied in the
effinanive, but the night before there mu not sufficient cos-
mologists= to reply. I shall never forget the gratitude of all
theoslients for any little attention they mealved to the day
of wise*. It has painted on soy memory a reflex picture
ce that awful algid, which will soothe many on boar an I
raced on the miseries of the scam.

Another we we. that of a poor fireman, very much burnt,
who owereed with no soon after he wee placed on his bed.
"Sir," mid bo, "I lan an unlucky men. I have only just
reeoasrad has the aback I had as board the Sarah Sends,
which we but but a abort time ethos, end now this bed
job boa hopping to me." It wee a melancholy illustration
of his fats I I then west from him to another and another,
and the exemplification rf patience sad saboolsoion in this
most excruciating agony may and doubtless hors had a parallel,
bat 'ever beyond It.
♦ few of the shiprostes sad ass of the *obit stewards were
the noses, sad the hospitals of London, of Englund, or the
world, ooald not hove toot a set of kinder-hearted ear more
&Illative and solicitous mialiters at a sick bed then they
WM.

But ease of your larders may perhaps be anxious to know
sornethhag of the spiritual assistance rendered to these poor
dying anikrers. The relatives also of these who are deed
may wish kr mew acoonat of their departed frleads. as
the,, is no channel bettor thus the Agra* for the chew
lation of such soootutts, I wW readily tarnish you with what
I overheard. The Rev. Mr. Roberta, who was on board,
seed—oe your spertal earrerycedent. with those of Jassy other
Joureasle, recoatked—was present the greater portion of the
Wight la the infirmary, asking himself socially and
reG-
gieufy vestal. When he spas to the Bret man—(saya)
--owAng, se he roast have done, that his hours
veers numbered—on his religious stele of =bra, he
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(Boyd) expressed the deepest contrition for the peat, ob.
serving, "How little the men of this world regard the
eternity which 4 before than, and how fee can be prepared
to dle," and declaruig hie penitence for the past again end
again, he begged of God to release him from his extreme
misery and suffering. He repeated his request to see Mr.
M`Lennan, the chief engineer, who it appeared had
oonvased modernly with him on the uncertainty of
this life when be wigged his services for the Great
Bastes. The unhappy man lingered from a little before
NT= p.m., when he was Ant brought into the inibmiuy,
till half-past two a.m. the following morning, when he was
happily released from all the pap of that earthly ordeal
which ushered him Into eternity.
In the case of poor Michael hishony, who bad the mom's-
tastable Irish brogue neon his league, and the genuine
honesty and hairline's of the Irishman in his soul, no one
could help manifesting the deepest sympathy in his behalf.
The Rey. Mr. Roberts had at the Bret attended t r him when
110 medical man was M liberty, and had been the means by
the agency placed at his command by the medical authori-
ties of giving the poor fellow great relief. HL ease was
hopeless from the Bret, bat he lingered until Wee a.m. the
next weeping, and he than passed Into eternity. This was
the wooed death. For every sip of water he called on Mr.
Roberts to be Ms irked, and give it him, and when Michael
found that he was a clergyman, he wee delighted to enjoy
only a few words of religions consolation, the medical
' authorities forbidding open prayers, last their
utterance should alarm the other patients, and mike them
thick drat they also were about to die. But the die of life
was cast with hint. I will not, however, comment on such a
refute!. Perhsps it was wise in the world's seam. It was a
humane thought is the minds of the audited attendants, and
all their thought', hopes, end inane win for the recovery
of the afflicted so&ren. Poor Niched went ont of the world,
but not without • weed of his own to the minister
of religion. He had a widowed mother whom he oupporled,
for such we understood to be the ones. He was a generous
mailer. He wanted no one to leave the other @offerers to
come to him. Him agonies were painful in the extreme, and
whoa Mr. Roberts begged of him to lie still, se it would be
his only chum, he replied, " Sir, I cannot ; I must get up
and have one walk ; my pains are so great I shall die it I do
not." lie arose and the clergyman 'misted him, but
it was only the beat r ff.rt of reluctant nature, unwilling
to give up the struggle for the short-lived enjoyment of mor-
tality. Me was soon vanquished after that effort. lie lay
down again, never to ries until mortality shall assume ire.
mortality, and corruption, Interruption. But, Mr, I could
multiply in each cam these details of the deathbed scene.
Five out of the eight that lay there are gone. The dial of
human nature had a limited number of cyphers on Its surface
in the infirmary of the Great Eastern, and where the hand
of death pointed, the result soon followed, and time was
past! Bight were brought in alive, and flee of them were
soon numbered with the dead. The other three were taken
oaths hospital at Weymouth, and great as may be the atten-
tions they will assuredly receive, they cannot be greater than
those manifested on beard the Great Eastern."

NEW CLOCK TOWER AND DRINKING FOUNTAINS
AT HACKNET.-.-A magnificent clock tswer, with three drink-
ing fountains attached, is about to be erected at the expense
of some of the leading midgets of South Hackney, on the
hitherto unsightly piece of ground known ea " the Triangle •"
and from the designs exhibited by Mr. Owen, the architect,
to the District Board of Works, at its teat sitting, there is no
doubt that the erection will form is
_great improvement to the
locality. The building will be of Bradford-on-Avon atone,
of • highly ornamental character, in the style of the Bond
Gothic period. It will be 46 fen high, with three drinking
fountains, at alternate eagles, and troogba at a abort dis-
tance. The clock (presented by Kr. Fairer, a tradesman)
will have three illuminated dials, 4 fret in diameter. The
water will be supplied from a well, to be sunk immediately
under the centre, and raised In a most ingenious manner by
the machinery of the clock.
ST. Geortna's IN TUE EAST.—The Rev. Bryan
Hine, rector of this perish, la a letter to the guardians, for-
mally admits what has been often alleged, that he wee the
"Eucharistic vestments" which have given so much offence
for the mks of their remake with doctrine. He asp,:
" Were it true that I wee destroying the peace of the church
fir the indulgence of a mere antiquarian whim in the Mop-
Pon of obsolete vestments my conduct would be most highly
criminal; but surely there is a very deep prinelpie involved
is the use of the Escharistio vestments. You madam
will, I thlek, generally agree with mein the within that the
sacrifice of the Eucbstiet Is (independently of its other
&greets) preeminently the ogee great sad of Christian wor-
ship; whilst, on the other hand, there can be little question
bat that in the actual service of the church of England, this
greet act of worship has been practically placed out of sight,
and reserved, is a very occasional celebration, only al a kind
of loamy for the few. Now, we know that the church
teaches that this great sacrament is generally necessary to
the salvatke of all ; that in her own directions (and these
were iv-affirmed in the Knightsbridge Judgment) she hoe
giveo special proodaence to this Test sacrament and sacrifice
by prescribing the use of distinct vestments for the Mehra-
lien of that, alone of ell her IlleTiree. Now, I antfinnly con-
Mooed that if ever the heeds of our people are to be taught
the deep decided involved is the blessed mararnent of the
Eucharist, it must be mainly by means of ritual."
TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGY/LAIC—OR Tuesday
evening the Rev. William Edward Grego, who has recently
been appointed to Trinity Church, Lembeth, was presented
by the parishioners of Leo, Kent, of which place he has
been for five years curate, with • handsome silver inkstand
and a purse coreaining a hundred view: The Tempta-
tion took picot at the residence of fir. Hugh Lawrence, one
of the churchwardens, who la sa simmat and feeling speech
moveyed to Mr. Green, theespromion of the affectionate re-
gmd us which he was held by all who bad seen him engaged
in hie clerical labour,. Kr. Lammas's pints band was in
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AID FOR ITALY.

Ws have great pleasure in publishing the follow-
ing letters : . _

1, Leinster-terrace, Hyde.park, Sept. S.
My Lord,—The sympathy evinced, by the English
nation for the Italian cause, and more especially for
the question of Central Italy, has given to the
undersigned the ides of rendering this feeling, far
which they have the most lively gratitude, efficacious
by the formation of a committee, at the head of
which should stand a name of great authority in
England, and the name which immediately pre-
sented itself to our minds was yours.
We ask for this name, my lord, and we place our-
selves under your guidance in every respect; be
good enough, therefore, to undertake the formation
of this oommittee, in which it is our wish that the
Baglish element should preponderate.
It is natural that Italians should interest them-
selves for the emancipation of Italy, but it is
generous for Englishmen to show so warm a sym-
pely, and it would be of mob service to the
Italians that this great nation, which has preceded
irrmy other in the path of all liberties, should make
it felt in an efficacious manner.
We trust in you, my lord ; allow us to keep this
Must.—We are, my lord, very respeetfolly, your
most obedient aervants,
G. F. Aviiaani. B. Fansmoorn,
G. Dimas= .1011 N B. Rocca.
L. Balm.
To the Right Hon. the Earl of Bhafteebary.

I St. Gila Roues Cranbourne, Salisbury,
Sept. 12, 1859.
Gentlemen,—The letter which I have received
from you has conferred on me the greatest honour.
If I could take the same view u you do of my
position and influence, I should not hesitate even for
a moment to accept the poet that your confidence has
offered to me. The claims—nay more, the just
demands—of Italy on the sympathy and co-operation
of Englishmen are such that it seems impossible for
anyone, be he great or be he small, to hold back any
support that it might be is his power to bestow. Your
case and our own an very similar. We lug and
ardently desired the blessings of civil and religious
liberty. To obtain them we got rid of our obnoxious
rulers i chose those who should succeed them, and
established a form of government differing as little
as possible from that to which we were habituated.
And all this was done without bloodshed, without
violence, without rapine, without confusion, or even
disturbance of the order of daily life, and simply
by the will of an united people determined to be
free.

Your oourse has been the same. But great as wu
oar conduct, yours has hitherto been far greater. We
had long enjoyed the form and oftentimes the
exercise of free institutions; the principle and prac-
tice of them were familiar to us. But liberty came
upon you like a thunderclap, and yet she found you
as orderly, peaceful, ready, as alive to the blessings
she gives and the duties she imposes, as though you
had been trained to them from your very cradles.
So intense is the effect that simply the love of
rational freedom can produce on the understandings
and the hearts of men

We were told that you did not care for liberty,
and that you had not courage to assert it. We were
told that you were unfit for self-government, and
that Au►trian bayonets were necessary to save
your beautiful land from bloodshed, plunder,
and anarchy, by your own people. We were told
that your mutual hatreds and jealousies were each
that no one state, no one city, could be in harmony
with another. What, in fact, were we not told to
your detriment and dishonour ? Many believed
what they heard. I did so at one time myself, bat
who can wonder at it ? What precedent had history
afforded of so apparently sudden a fitness for the
exercise of the greatest of human callings,
the exercise of civil and religious free-
dom ? A nation seemed to be born in a
day—born, at once, in its fall moral stature with
all the powers of self-control, without which there
never was, and there never will be, any true or
lasting liberty.
Well, if such things as these will not stir the
hearts of the whole Anglo-Saxon race, in whichever
part of the world any members may be found, I
know not what will. But surely you have no
cause to dont. Yon know the sentiments, and you
have heard the eloquence, of many of our public
men; the people, speaking by the Press, show very
unmistakeable signs of their ardent sympathy ; nor
would they, if appealed to, pause longer than might
be necessary to consider in what way they could best
give effect and expression to their feelings.
You have suggested the formation of a eommittee
consisting of natives of both countries, in which the
" English element should preponderate." This com-
mittee would, I conclude, be empowered to receive
such contributions as the people of England might
be induced to give in aid of the efforts made by the
people of Central Italy to maintain their rights, and
defend themselves against every form of aggression.
This line is safe and just, for whatever misgivings
might have been cotertained before the late events
of the policy or hopefulness of struggling for free-
dom, the thing has been achieved; and the Emperor
of the French, true, as we hope and believe, to the
principles he has avowed and the issue he has
sought, must, if he be sincere, rejoice to see that
sound and independent action of the people whom it
is his glory to have liberated.
I see no objection to the plan—whatever might
be contributed would be received by the Italians
more as a mark of sympathy than as a material
help in the difficulties that surround them. Let,
however, the question of the chairman stand over
for the present. It is most desirable that one should
be appointed who would be best able to conciliate
friends among all classes, and to disarm opposition.
If, after due search, no better man can be found who
is willing to serve you, I shall then be ready, enter-
taining a firm belief that it will
.please God to bless
you endeavours with a happy issue, in accordance
with their beginning.—l em, gentlemen, your faith-
ful friend and servast, SIIAFfESBURY.
Messrs. Amami, Rocca, and others.

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND EDINBURGH UNI.
vansivv.—Before keying Edinburgh the Prince of Wales
desired to mark his recognition a the facilities offered him
for study at the Culver sty, sad requested to be registered se
a student. In compliance with the Prinoe's desire, Mr.
Alexander Smith, the reerstary to the University, went to
liolprood Palace on Friday, and, after obtaining the sig-
nature of the Priam to his obligations as a etudeet of the
University, delivered to him the usual matriculation ticket of
studesS-6cutsoran.
AltiltlCAS AND CANADIAN MAILS. —The Liver-
pool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's (s s. City
of Badmen sailed from the Mersey yesterday (Wednesday)
far New York, with the North American snd United Ste!»
mans, snd 310 pamengers. Yesterday, also the (s. a.)
North American left Liverpool for Quebec end Montreal
,
with the Canadian mails end 103 passengers. The next moil
despatched to America will be by the British and North
American royal mail steatites Asia, which leaves Liverpool
on Saturday next fur New York. The box at the Liverpool
Poet-office will be open on that day till 10.16 a.m., and en
the binding stage until 11 cm. The additional fee et the
landing stage, besides the usual protege, is one shilling,
which must be »opal is stamp,.
TIIE CASE OF DR. HUSIPH7tETB.—We (Ch el len •
ham Erautiorr) understand that the married lair who se-
compenied Dr. Humphreys in his flight from Ckeitenbam
his during the peat week returned to Liverpool, en nal=
having been secured for her by her fricnde. The position
and prospects of the doctor himself ore, it is rumoured, as
bad on his worst enemies could desire. He is usable to ob-
tain any kind of employment salted to his abilities, the report
of his evil deeds having everywhere preceded him. Tow h
a state has the disapponment brought him, that it
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that our men were slaaghtered helplessly as they
floundered with their dripping ammunitirminditehes,
or fell oa their teem la the mod. The at& was came,
no reiafoecements ooald be spared, .Asig awn was
no chance but to fall back and take Vs the beats. The
retreat under cover of the few r;ouboura that re.
utilised afloat was itself an °pent .on fall of difficulty
ea that treacherous ground, and under the gathering
darkness, but it was scoomplist•d with payout cedar
sad discipline. Hardly • .gunboat," says the re-
port, "was sot disabled," tad the most disabled
bad fought until they were stranded or sunk.
The disaster was ornapleto ; and the retreat we
may be rare was bitter. But we at home
know well that never was an action more
desperately fought, or more splendidly sustained.
At the same time we are bound of course to cast
about for whom to blame. The trea:hery of the
Chinese can hare taken no one by surprise, for Lord
Etztx himself had distinctly foreseen its probability
when he recommended that an imposing squadron
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confused stories of a message from the Imps-
&l Government haring been sent too late,
desiring the Aube: sadors to take another
channel which was afterwards found to be
inaccessible to ships; of the four having been cee-
riveted without the sanction of the Government by
a Sfongol chief to whom the EMPEIWE was ander
obligations ; of a friendly letter being despatched the
wrong way, and purposely delayed on the passage;
of the stakes and booms having been thrown across
the river by the local population against pirates;
all these Mirerable contradictory invention. are
mere Chinese moonshine, imbecile frauds, not worth a
mourn'. credit. But whether the reconnaissance

Mart of our linden must Man a lively reoollec. I
lion of that greet Review at Spitbead, at the close of
the Heenan wee, whoa every tree Briton woe unable
to disguise • feeling (which, indeed, was pretty
loudly expensed by many afloat end ashore) of die-
appetenseat at the fact that all this magnificent dis-
play was nothing more this the rehearsal of • grand
nastiest drama what was not to be performed.
Still, the exprietice wu worth all the petty miseries
of passing a sight in the streets of • seepert
town, aad the impossibility of getting ear-
thing to tat. For Mere was the array of
frst•rates end frigates covering four leagues
of sea ; there was the procession of steam
line•or battle ships led out to tea by Her MAJESTY ;
there was the sham fight, making pleasure boats
jump out of the water re'les away ; there tires the
feet of Gann steamers ; and above all there was the
gunboat squadron, which for weeks pest had buzzed
about the placid Solent, and made the anchorage at
Hyde a raging wasps' nest. These gunboats were
the terror, the wonder, the delight of the British
public, who took to the water with ell the hereditary
enthusiasm of an Island-people on that memorable
day of the Review. The figurative vocabulary of
Cockneydom was exhausted in epithets of
admiration and affection, as the excursionist
stand from sunrise to sunset at those rough-and-
ready, dare-devil, "varmint" secants of the waves,
with their long low bodies, their grinning eye-teeth,
their eager, restless look of mischief. One spectator
from the neighbourhood of Charing-arose compared
them to Hansoms for their reckless driving and neck-
or-nothing steering, backing, and turning sharp on
their keels, and ready to run over anybody or any.
thing without pealing to pick rip the pieces. A
sporting gentleman from a midland county declared
they were more like • pack of dwarf foxhounds than
anything in natur', and capitally whipped,
too ; but all agreed that they were " precious awk-
ward customers," and that 'twos a thousand pities
the game was up. The question was, not what could
they do, bat what could they not do ; handled
by men who could almost make them speak, sad pat
them through all the tricks of the "inside and
outside edge." But there were others who shook
heir heads, and declared that the gunboats could
never make a purge, and that they were only fit
for service on a lake. Well, by this time we know
what those little imps of mischief—with their tuned
up notes, and their hissing, snorting, kicking, and
plangiag satire= do, wh and wherever
they are wanted, all the world over. No muter
°orrice has ever been performed, even by British
hips, than by the pick of that gunboat 'qua-
drou, near and dear to the residents of Hyde in
1Q38; and whose very names spoke wooden
for the inventive genius of the Admiralty.
There are not wanting tolerable judges who believe
that naval warfare will become more and more an
affair of gunboats 111 the science of gunnery le
developed, and the: big slips will do racy little
more than represent their nation with dignity.
However this may be, the Chinni waters have suf-
ficiently attested during the last three years the
vigour tad efficiency of British gunboats, com-
manded by men in the prime and flower of manhood,
who never beard of such • word u difficulty, except
as something to be overcome, or of danger but as
something to be sought for, and u a prize of the hap-
piest fortune. Lord ELGIN'S Blue-book tells us here,
there, and everywhere, what these gunboats and the
pliant fellows who man them are made of. There is
literally nothing—from going through the eye of a
needle to engaging a line of forts single-handed—
which • gunboat will not perform. Will anybody
pretend that it is unseasonable to talk of gunboats,
jest when the disastrous tidings from the mouth
of the Pei-ho hive struck as with a sad
surprise, and indignation ? If there be any
objector so churlish, all we sea say to—
w@ pity him. For never was the pluck and
mettle of this particular service, in which the most
briniest of oar losing officers are trained up in the
way of glorious traditions more conspicuous than
is this terrible disaster at the mouth of the Pei-ho.
We will venture to say that neither our gallant
allies nor our cheery and helpful cousins are inclined
to hold British sailors cheap, attire witnessing the
exploits of the " Plover," the "Lee„"the"Opooram,"
the "Cormorant," and the rest. Gunboat service
in active operations, is nothing less than • service
of forlorn hopes, though to the gallant men engaged
it is nothing more than • game of skill tad dung,
with a pleasant dash of luck. We coolers we ere
an ',ions to insist on the high quality of this,
pert:ens service at • time when • signal calamity
has thrown a momentary shadow on our Rag. The
attack oa the forts of Take, and the toning of the
booms and stakes, the bars and chains, across the
river, by Admiral Hottr: squadroo, appears from all
amounts to have been one of the most desperate
actions on record. From daylight of Saturday, the
2.l'h of June, to the &neer hoar of the ship,' mini-
panic', the gunboats were clearing a passage through
these formidable barriers, and working, it should
be noticed, in • narrow channel with a strong ebb
tide. Some were aground, others towing off—all

of these booms and staker, of these mud forts, and '
above all of the banks of the stream, had been suffi-
sent to enable our forces to act with discretion and
decision ii another question which at this moment,
we confess, we are not prepared to answer. Lit us
rather for the moment, while the wounds of
this lamentable though not inglorious night
are still fresh and bleeding, and while the re-
tribution that must come is still far off, do
justice to the brave old Admiral, who, twice
wounded, and with two gunboats in ancosseloa
all but sunk under him, still gave his orders as he
lay upon the deck ; let is do homage to the old
undying heroism of our darling service; let us
avenge the fallen, reward the survivor., and pay a
tribute of recognitioa and respect to our brilliant
souirades under the tri-colour, and to the hearty
goodwill of our American kinsmen.

Wa are glad to be able to report to-day the first
steps that have been taken for forming • Com-
•ittee to serve as a centre and medium of that
active end warm sympathy which Englishmen feel
in the cause of Italian freedom, and in particular in
that of Central Italy, lammed from so =soy points
at this moment. The offers of generous insistence on
, the part of individual Englishmen which we end
oar contemporaries have recently published would
have justified the Italian patriots who have
taken the business in hand in moving in it before;
bat they have been restrained by en honourable deli-
cacy. Every one of the gentlemen whose names
are subscribed to the letter to the Ea'! of Stisrres-
SUIT has established a title to represent his country's
cause. Signor AVCSANT, we may mention, received
the capitulation of the Austrians at Venios in 1848.
The noble letter in which Lord SHAFTESBURY
approves their proposals will fled an echo
throughout England His lordship was among
the first io this country to recognise the
immense importance of the emancipation of Italy
and was the steadfast friend of her cause et a
@Asia when, owing to an unfortunate combination of
circumstance*, her real friends were few. In the
attitude and demeanour of its people In the actual
possession of freedom, sack es he hes drawn them, he
and all who 'toed by Italy now find theirjestification
and reward. We hope to be able to publish imme-
diately a list of the proposed Committee, so that no
time may be lost in utilising the resources which
await its appeal.

sot bat stud; no to Ito ant

jammed up, as it were, into a eciener,and ocaroely able
to turn. Meantime on shore the mud forts,all screened
and silent, made no sign of threat or warning, until
the Ai,NittiAt. himself in the Plover was close within
the second line of stakes; and than, in a twinkling,
the mats fell from the embrasures and a tremendous
fire hegan. These mud forts were constructed and
tbees eurtaieed batteries worked with a skill and
rapidity, a weight and precision unexampled, and we
cannot be surprised at the sodden exclamation of
the sailors that these Chinese guns were served by
foreign adventurer', " Ronehiana,"er Yankee out laws.
It was not until more than half our squadron was
ashore, or sunk, or disabled, that the enemy's fire
siarkvned, and the order was given wind and storm
the forts. But hers it was that so many of oar
brave min were dawned to fall. Whether
the 'wend had beta fairly reconnoitred, or
so', vihather no securer landing plane was avail-
able. it appears that oar forces bladed on • beach of
*huh they seek knee-deep under a mur-
&mu. bter it ;plicate !hit.t neither the Detain
IftWara MO the !attire weld be got to the frost,

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dark, rhea Palmas' Ow lug, the reline or the arerier
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cated that rhos.

His &opal Klemm the Pantos CONSORT trek the ober
amidst sathewisatio applause,. Tbs chin bash( subsided,
his royal blihusis bens his address as follows :

Gentiorsea,—Your kind Invitation to DM to undertake
the allot of year presidoot for the enlea'ag year owl('

-The Wei

Faiths mishit wham occupies—this mot aumber of a -
tbireilheli MN who labour in the sacred win rid whom
sthieveamis, while spreading inamorata* Imendts, justly
attract the admiral/a of mankind, ocednatri grengty fa
my mind with the conscious*s of my own ktedgnificesees
In this respect. A simple admirer of science to asks the
piece of the chief spokesman of the eaientillo men of
the day, assembled in (urbanism of their important
objects—the thing appeared to um Impossible; yet, on raise-
tics, I came to the conclusion that, if not as a enntributor
to or director of your labour., I might still be useful to
you, useful to science, by aceeiting your oiler, remembering
that this 'emaciation is not a secret co-fintwalty of men
j,atously guarding the mysteries of their potashes, but
inviting the uninitiated--the public at large--to join

them, having as one of Its obj:cts to !Teeth dews
those imaginary and hurtful barriers which mist be-
tween man of science and so-celled sees el preetice; I
felt that I could, from the peculiar position In which Provi-
dence has pieced me la tide country, appear ea the rape-
'mutative of that large public which prodta by end admires
your exertions, but is unable actively to join le them, that
my election waa an act of hineity on your part which to
reject would have looked like fold humility—orat Is, like
prlds—on mine. (Warm apple's's.) But I maenad further,
end saw in my acceptance the met, of which neeseserliy
so dm are offered to her Majesty, of testifying to you through
the instrumentality of her husband that your labours ere
sot unappreciated by your eon—(lised appkase)—
and that she wishes her people to know this se wall es yew--
salve'. Guided by thee, redsolione, my shako wee
speedily made, fur the path of duty Lye straight
before me. (Cheers.) His royal rgheaes then geld
a high compliment to Professor Owen, dialling to the was
field for study, more particularly to the geologist, the north
of Scotland afforded, remarking on the beseticiel and ha-
portant induances of science, end the consequent good a
meeting like the present conferred on human kind. Alts
pointing out In eloquent language, which drew forth fre-
quent applause, the objects end advantages of science, the
prince noticed the gratifying fact that the arsociation bad
met with the liberal patrcnage of the public, and 'expressed
hie satisfaction that these should exist bodies of men who
brought the wants and claims of science before the public
sad the government, who will even hand round the begging-
box, and expose themselves to refusals and rebuff. to which
all beggars are Uable—(Lughter)—wah the mull-ay, be-
, ales, of thing coasidered great bores. Please to recoiled
(said his royal highness, amid renewed laughter) that this
specie" of bore le a mod useful unreal, well adapted for the
ends for which nature intended him. Having noticed the
great genius and labours of the great Humboldt (the
anniversary of whose birth, by a dopier col-tcidencs,
happened that day) his royal highness thus concluded :
Philosophers see not vain theorists, but essentially men Of
practice; not osnceited pedants, wrapped up In their
own mysterious Importance, but !ramble Inquirers after
truth, proud only of what they may have achieved or won
fur the general use of man. Neither are they daring end
presumptuous utthelievers—a character which ignore ice has

LeT:

INTELLIGENC]

ITALY.

THE ROMAGNA.
The following letter ham been received in Paris
from Bologna, dated the 9th inst. :
"The illuminations the day before yesterday re-
sembled those which took place the day of the
opening of the assembly of the Romeo States,
but the programme of the ftte was more complete.
Twelve musical bands were placed in the public
squares or at the gates of the town. They were
surrounded by the population bearing torches, and
they played till midnight. They subsequently united
on the grand square and formed a monster con-
cert. Yesterday, seeing tome hundred persons rush
into the oonrt-yard of the government palace, I
placed myself at the tail of the crowd. Shortly after-
wards a post-carriage, which had arrived a few
minutes previously, drove away amidst enthusiastic
cries of Viva Garibaldi r It was, in fact, Garibaldi.
Signor Valerio, the Sardinian deputy, who has been
for some time here, took his seat beside him, and the
carrage took the direction of Ferrara. Garibaldi goes
to inspect the troops at Ferrara, and will probably
remain there some time. The coincidence of the ge-
neral's departure with the despatch of the Chasseurs,
of which I lately told you, and with the return of
the Marquis Migliorati before the closing of the
Assembly of Bologna, had given rise to unpleasant
suppositious.. My information enables me to say that
nothing has taken place at Ferraro, and that the
Aettrians do not appear to meditate an attack. Gen.
Fend arrived taday; he has been definitively appointed
to the command of the Central Italian league. He
will sleep here to-night and will start to-morrow for
Catholics, also on a tour of inspection. He was
cheered like Garibaldi, and a great many persons
remained for several hours in the court of the palace
in order to see him. The government here Plods on
the defensive, but I know that at the first movement
of the Papal troops on the territory of the Legations
it would sesame the offensive. Garibaldi would then
throw himself towards Perugia, and he believes him-
self able to make his way to Rome. On the other
hand, we have learnt that the Court of Rome hu
made choice of Cardinal della Gangs to go to
Bologna as representative of the Holy See, in case its
troops should be victorious. Cardinal della Gongs
formed part of the commission of three cardinals after
the capture of Rome."

The following telegrams have been received at Mr,
Renter's office this morning :

somehmas offered to them, who would, like the Titans, storm
heaves by placing mountain upon mountain, till hurled dows
from the height attained by the terrible thunders of outraged
Jove ; but rather the pilgrims to the Holy Lend, who toll on
In search of the accred shrine, In search of truth, God's troth,
God's laws, as manifested In his works in his creation. (Loud
and continued applause.)
BtrßveaAwtN Booms thee Ina few words moved, and the
LORD PROVOST briedy seconded, a vote of thanks to His
Royal Highness the Prince Consort, wbioh wee beattily
gives, the whole company rising and cheering. The address
=spied an hour in delivery.

PARMA,

PARKA, fiErr. 14.

The National Assembly in its sitting of to-day
unanimously veld the conetmation of Signor
Parini as Dictator.

The Aresably further resolved to take into con-
sideration a proposal to authorise the Dictator to
contract a loan, the amount of which remelts 0 be
fixed.

SARDINIA.

TURIN, Sirr. 14.

The deputations from Parma and Modena are
expected here to•morrow. The members of the
Modenese deputation ere : Advocate Muratori, Count
Ancini, Professor Zini, Advocate Brizzolari, Doctor
Sacerdoti, and Professor Belmi ; and the Parmesan
members arc—the Marquis Muachi, Count Banvitale,
Maestro Verdi, Professor Fiorrozi, and Marquis

The National Guard will be under arms to welcome
the above deputations.

The Ifunicipality of Como haring informed
General Garibaldi of thei- intention of erecting a

nonument in

of the battle of Ben

Fermo, the General het replied at follows, from
Modena:

The engsgementt which took place in May last in your
town and neighbourhood are worthy of being recorded.
Greet, indeed, wee the bravery of the riflemen of the Alps,
most of whom belonged to your population. now ma I
'apnea my gratitude towards you ? For the little I have
done you hays held me op to the edema of Italy and eves of
distant nation. Ten years ago, when I had the honour of
fighting on the soil of Lombenly, I covered the national
banner sub crape, became it had bcen forced to yield to
the memoir of the foreigner. That act weighed out my
heart for ten years, while I homed to return and fight again
on your fields. May God, who hoe fulfilled these hopes,
bless the thankful and religions people that has suffered so
much.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Tim FISDAY.

The Imperial Law Gazette of Tuesday announced
that the premium on the interest of the National
Loan falling due in the months of October, Novem-
ber, and December, 1839, has been fixed at 15 per
cent.