The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-16 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

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(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE.
FLORENCE, Nov. 15.

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The Nmiuse of to-day says :—" The proposed
conference for a solution of the Roman question
encounters serious difficulties. The Pope has re-
fused his assent, or will only give it provided the
rights of the Holy See are recognised. England
and Russia are favourable to a solution adverse to
the temporal power. France, Prussia, Austria,
and Bavaria are believed to have divergent views
lon the subject. Portugal has refused to take part
in the conference, and Spain alone would support
' the demands of the Roman court, It is believed,
however, that France will not insist upon the as-
sembling of the Congress."

THE CRETAN INSURRECTION.

VIENNA. Nor. IL

The Presae of to-day publishes the following
telegram from Smyrna "On the 10th hurt., the
Cretan insurgents made an energetic attack upon
the Turkish troops, and a very serious conflict
ensued. Mohmed Pacha's corps were finally
forced to retreat. The Russian, French, Prussian,
and Italian consuls at Canes have addressed a de-
claration to the Grand Vizier and Omer Pacha
announcinr, the ill-success of their efforts to induce
the insurgents to accept the proposals of the Porte.
Omer Pacha declared, in reply, that he felt himself
now forced to adopt even the most extreme mea-
sures in order to overcome the resistance of the
Cretans."

' The New Free Press of to-day says : —"We learn
that Baron von Prokeech-Osten, the Austrian
minister at Constantinople, has received instruc-
tions from the government to assure the Porte that
the cabinet of Vienna continues to entertain the
most friendly sentiments towards Turkey, and
advocates the principle of the inviolable mainte-
nance of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire,
but that at the same time Austria feels herself
called upon to counsel the Porte to oppose no
obstacles to the establishment of an international
committee of inquiry into the state of affairs in
Crete, and to accept the decision of such a com-
mittee as final."

It is stated that a meeting will shortly take
place between Prince von Hohenloho and Herr von
Varnbuhler.

FRANCE.
PARIS, Nor. 15, Evesmo.

M. Peyrat, of the Arenir .National, has been
sentenced to one month's imprisonment and 1,000
francs fine for an article which appeared in that
journal on the 19th ultimo on the subject of the
intervention of France in the Roman question.

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 15.
The Padrelaudst confirms the news that the Da-
nish government has concluded a treaty with the
government of the United States respecting the
sale of Denmark's West India possessions—namely,
the islands of St. Thomas, San Juan, and Santa
Cruz. The three islands have been sold for the

sum of eleven millions and a half of dollars. A

reftriejiLACUre_ver. Mad4LOP _Maas Baut• Cruz,
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the mused of Prance being required. Should
want something pretty to look at, without minding a
little smoke and smell, and a little bending and running over if France not give her consent, the two other islands
the room should happen to be rather warmer than unusul, buy any .„
of the very transparent low quality Paraftine Candles now sold Will De given up for seven and a half millions of
freely everywhere at one shilling per pound : but if, along with dollars.
beauty of appearance, you require steady brilllanc) of light, and
freedom from risk of these little oreaalonal mishaps, tell your
dealer to supply }ou ith " PRICE'S GOLD MEDAL PALM 'TINE
CANDLES," which, though charged at a higher price per pound,
are really cheaper when the difference of quality Is taken into
account. They are believed to be the very best substitute yet
produced for real wax and spermaceti, now at such an extravagant
prim, and are being introduced in place of them In the West And
Clubs and elsewhere where excellence of quality is studied as
well as economy.

1 AMERICA.
(BT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
1 NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 6 P.M.
r Congress will meet in December, and the
session will be opened by a message from President
Johnson.
1 The City of Cork has arrived out.

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Closing Prices :—Gold,l4ol. Sterling exchange
on London, 1091; 5-20 United States Bonds, 108 f;
Illinois, 1301; Erie, 73i. Cotton: Middling Up-
land, 18.

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iig
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Petroleum (standard white), 26i.

THE MONITECS" AND THE ENGLISH PRESS.
The Nord of yesterday says :—" In its last weekly review
the Mondeur do Soir congratulates itself upon the sym-
pathetic attitude towards the French policy which the
British press has observed ever since the commencement
of the Italian crisis. ' The principal organs of publics opi-
nion in England,' says the small lifortiteur,' do justice to the
resolutions adopted by the imperial government in the af-
fairs of Rome, and recognise that it was impossible for France
to sacrifice to agitators, disavowed by their own govern-
ment, a treaty like that of the 13th September. The
English press unanimously expresses the desire that King
Victor Emmanuel should energetically maintain against
the Garibaldians the sovereignty of the l►w, and it ap-
preciates in their true light the anarchical projects of the
international revolution.' It is really strange (continues
the Nord) to see this official organ use language so dia-
metrically opposed to the truth. The eniutilutionnel
and the Monitrur itself usually devote considerable space
to the reproduction of articles from the British press upon
the event of the day. Now this department has been
singularly ill supplied in these two journals for the last
month—a fact which is very naturally explained by the
extreme vivacity with which the English papers, with
very few exceptions, have constantly expressed themselves
against the fresh intervention of France in Italy."

The Mowiteur of yesterday announces that the
Emperor will open in person, at one o'clock on Monday
next, the legislative session of 1868, and will receive the
oaths of the members of the Senate and Corps Legislatif
who have not yet taken them.
SUICIDE OF A MAN UNKNOWN AT CAMBRIDGE.
On Thursday, at noon, • gentlemanly-looking man, name
and address unknown, who, it is auppoeed, arrived in Cam-
bridge the previous evening, and put up at the Lion Hotel,
was found dead in bed, having died by his own hands from a
bullet wound in the temple. When discovered a small pistol
was found by his side, and on the table were some caps
and powder, showing the act must have beenpremeditated.
The deceased was about sft. 7in. in height, had sandy-
' auburn (curly) hair and beard, and slight whiskers. He
was apparently about 26 or 27 years of age, and dressed in
a walking suit, black coat and waistcoat, and striped mix-
ture trousers (Angola, grey ground with narrow black
stripe). He was an Englishman. His clothes were
disposed on chairs, as an ordinary person's might
Ibe. In the candlestick were the remains of papers
recently burned. The only mark on his clothes was on
one of the stockings, which are grey ribbed lamb's wool,
"J. 4," the number being underneath, marked in
pink cotton. There was an empty leather pocket purse
with elastic band in one of deceased's pockets, and a cut-
ting from a newspaper of Manini's late proclamation and
circular. The only money found was one half-penny, in
one of the waistcoat pockets. In the trousers pockets
were the key of a French latch and two smaller keys, and •
watch key on a ring. On the dressing table there was a
I copy of Bradshaw s (one shilling) Anglo-Italian phrase
book, with some pieces of blank note paper and envelopes
in the front of it, and one postage stamp. There were also
some papers relating to ships sailing from Liverpool for
America in November and December. The hat was apple-
ready nearly sew, short crowned, and much turned up
and then flattened at the edges; the maker's name,
J. Shiptoa Harman, 27, Edgware-road. The scarf was a
black silk demi scarf, stamped "Cricket bat scarf—
Patent." The jury appeared to think that in case of idea.
tificatioa they might probably learn something of the
deceased's antecedents, showing his state of mind of late ;
and the inquiry was adjourned to Monday. The remains
of the denes have been photographed, but will remain
unburied until after the adjourned inquest.

ROYAL COLLEGE OP StrROZONS OF ENGLAND.—
The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary
examinations for the diploma were admitted members of
the college at a meeting of the court of examiners on the
14th mat., viz.:—Messrs. Walter Greene, Southampton-
baildinp ; Benjamin Neale Dalton, L.R.C.P. Lend.,
South Lambeth ; Robert John Shepherd, Plymouth ; and
George William Smith, Castle Donnington, students of
Guy's Hospital ; Charles Henry Stanley Stevens, Ken-
sington ; Thomas Knight Salter, Mount-strtos, Grosvenor-
squeze ; Richard Wilson, Chelsea ; and Charles Lake
Parr, Cambridge-street, of St. George's Hospital ; George
Henry Roque Dobbs, N.B. Abort, and L.S.A., New-
port, Isle of Wight ; Richard Howell Stevens, M.B.
nb„ Eton College ; William Alsept Richards,
LR.C.P. Lond., Redruth, Cornwall ; and Osman Fin- ,
cent, Camden-square, of King's College ; James Bradley,
Pensnett, near Dudley, of the Birmingham School ; Jobs j
Wesley Allies, Islington, of the Charing-cross Hospital ;1
James Tennant, LS.A., Sleaford, Lincolnshire, of the
Edinburgh School ; Albert Ryan, Dublin, of the Dublin
School ; and Robert George Fendick, Bristol, of the
Bristol School It is stated that eleven candidates out of
the sixty-eight who have been undergoing their examina-
tions during the past three days failed to acquit them-
selves to the satisfaction of the court, and were conse-
quently referred to their hospital studies for the full]
period of six months.
MIL W. DAVENPORT BROMLEY, M.P.—We are
authorised to state that the rumour circulated lately in
several of our contemporaries to the effect, " that it was
the intention of Mr. Davenport Bromley to withdraw him-
at the next election, from the representation of
North Warwickshire," is without foundation.—Ccrentry.
Sandral.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

ROME.

(nom OEM OWN CORIULSPONDZST.)

(1101/ MTh MI

PARIS. FRIDAY EVErlie.

ROME, Nov. IL

The government, after suppressing for several
days all telegraphic news from Italy, and thereby
encouraging the supposition that the agitation was
more serious than it really was, now publishes in
the diou;tesst a Florence letter dated Nov. 9, which
renews the satisfecit of France to Italy. It remains
to be seen whether, when the same correspondent's
letter of the 12th comes to hand (if ever it does)
he will express a like satisfaction with General
Monabrea's circular, published in the official
Gazette of Florence on that day, and which now
excites the indignation of the Paris semi-official
press. However, it suits the Muleitetir to
say at present that " the ministry which
General La Marmora represents at this
moment in Paris gives the best possible
proofs of its desire to pacify the country without
any weakness, and that since the kingdom of Italy
existed there never was a ministry composed of
men who united in such a consummate degree the
qualities of energy, honourable feeling, and poli-
tical good sense." Vinch compliments, whilelthe
only excuse for French intervention was the pre-
servation of the temporal power, and while Italy
even as represented by General Menabrea (who,
among his other heavy burdens, is now sad-
dled with the praises of the Bishop of Or-
leans) still makes continual claim to de-
stroy it, are extremely difficult to understand.
The only explanation I can think of is that the
Emperor while privately scolding Victor Emmanuel
as a naughty boy, thinks it expedient to keep him
on his legs, and with that view to give him some
public countenance. There is much reason to
believe that it was not so much love for the Pope
as hatred to Garibaldi and the republican principle
he represents which led the Emperor to try his
Chasaepot rifles at Mentana. Although M. Pinard,
the new Minister of the Interior, passes for a rigid
catholic, I still think the Emperor personally
has made up his mind that the tempo-
ral power must go. But as ho is the
only protector of it he naturally wishes so
to use the very considerable patronage as to get
some advantage for himself. Bourbonism and
republicanism in Italy are above all things to be
put down. The Roman question being kept open,
there will subsequently, whenever the apprehended
war with Prussia begins, arise a good chance that
France may purchase the alliance, or at least the
neutrality of Italy by the sacrifice of the Pope.
Italy is in fact an important piece, for which Bis-
marck and the Emperor are at this moment play-
ing on the political chess-board.

M. Peyrat, the editor of the Arenir National,
was to-day sentenced by the Correctional Tribunal
to a month's imprisonment, and a fine of 1,009 fr.,
for an article published on Oct. •19 against the
French expedition to Rome. President Delos-
vau.x, the judge who habitually does justice be-
tween "our Sovereign Lord the Emperor" and his
subjects of the press, again laid down a doctrine
of his own invention, which at no distant day
the government will find embarrassing. Pressed
by the arguments of counsel, he has been
locoed to adaiit.:eiste' Van' kiwi '1 right

not only to criticise but to " censure " the
acts of government. It follows, inasmuch as the
Emperor has arrogated to himself all responsibility
and ministers are only his agents, that the'press
has a right to " censure " the Emperor. But
President Delesvaux flatters himself that con-
sistently with this doctrine he assigns a sufficient
reason for the convictions expected of him
when he says, as he does in M. Peyrat's
case, and as he has done on many
former occasions, that he condemns the article
because it contains " assertions without dis-
cussion." It clearly follows from this ruling
that an ingenious writer has only to accompany
even "censure" with a " reason," although a bad
one, to go off scot free. The court does not venture
to say that censure must be supported by convinc-
ing argument. That would obviously be to pro-
hibit all censure whatever except such as the
judges might approve. All it calls for is
some " argument," and that the ingenuity of
writers will certainly supply in future. The
law as laid down is a mere question of
extra " copy " and superfluous paragraphs.
The same judge, Delesvaux, decided on Wednes-
day last that on Oct. 29, when the French govern-
ment had decided in principle to reoccupy Rome,
" Viva Garibaldi" was a seditious cry in Paris.
Some half-dozen students who raised it as the
Emperor Napoleon and the Emperor of Austria
were leaving the Hotel de Ville after dinner are
sentenced to a week's imprisonment, and one who
complicated his offence by " rebellion" against
authority gets three months.
The Bourse continues to present no salient
feature. Rento, after a momentary decline, closed
with a rise of 10c. and 5c

Lieutenant-Colonel Palmer, on behalf of the
shareholders of the Northern and Eastern Railway Com-
pany, received their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Prinoess of Wales, the young princes and princess, at the
Stratford station on Thursday, at 20 minutes past 1 o'clock,
and escorted them to Wolverton, about two miles from
Sandringham-hall, arriving there at 4 o'clock p.m.
LEICESTER-SQUARE.—The Court of Queen's Bench
decided yesterday that the enclosed ground in the middle
of Leicester-square is private property,
dedicated to the publicois the Metropolitanfloard of Works
assumed when it lately gave notice that it would take pos-
session of the ground under the Public Gardens Protection
Act. Now that Mr. Tulk's legal rights are ascertained it
may be hoped he will talcs measures for at least preventing
the square from becoming a public nuisance.
THE QUEEN'S WESTNINIFLF.E. RIFLE VOLUNTEELLt
—The annual match of the seventh and eighth companies,
forming together the St. John's division of this corps, took
place on the 13th inst., at Wormwood-scrubs. The prizes
consisted of an elegant silver challenge cup of the value of
40 guineas, to be held by the winning company for one
year ; of a gold token value two guineas, awarded to the
member making the highest score on the winning side ;
and of three prizes for the best individual scores without
regard to sides. The ranges were 200, 500, and 600 yards,
seven shots at each range. Each company was represented
by five men. The challenge cup and the whole of the
prizes were won by the No. 8 (Broadwood) company, who
defeated their opponents by a majority of 64 marks. The
score of No. 8 company was 252 marks, and of No. 7, 188.
The gold token, value two guineas, and the first prize,
value five guineas, were won by Ensign Black ; the second
prize, value three guineas and a half, by Private Dyke ;
and the third prize, value one guinea, by Sergeant An-
derson.

SYMPATHY WITH THE POPE IN IRELAND.—A meet-
ing to express sympathy with the Pope was held yester-
day in Marlborough-street Cathedral, Dublin ; Cardinal
Cullen presided. Colonel Nowell, W. Barry, M.P., Sir
John Gray, M.P., Sir Jas. Power, M.P., and the Lord
Mayor of Dublin moved and seconded resolutions in
accordance with the object of the meeting. The requi-
sition convening the meeting was published In the Free-
Aide's Journal of yesterday, and the signatures appended
to it extended over thirteen columns.

The railway was re-opened direct from Leghorn
to Rome on Saturday. It had, however, been
possible for two days previous to make out the
journey by taking first a ticket to Orbitello, the
last station on the side of the kingdom, and thence
one for Rome. The line from Florence by Foligno,
Urni, and Monte Rotondo, is still, I understand,
impracticable, owing to the destruction of a bridge.
Even on tho Leghorn line, however, the travel-
ling is, as far as rapidity or punctuality are con-
cerned, the reverse of what one expects a railway
to insure. Our train was half an hour late to start
with, and it so improved this advantage that it
was two hours late when it reached Rome, per-
forming a distance of about 200 miles in the mode-
rate space of fourteen hours. This train, too, was
the express ; there was no change of carriages, and
the examination of luggage at the Papal frontier
was of the most nominal description, occupying not
20 minutes in all. No difficulty either was made
with regard to passports ; they were taken from
us at the frontier, and returned without comment
on wriving at the station at Rome. Our train
carried many Garibaldini, who got out at various
stations between Leghorn and Orbitello, and at
the latter station the train from Rome brought a
carriage full of their comrades, who had been made
prisoners, and were now being sent out of the
country. These last were a good deal cleaner than
those whom we carried with us on their way to
their Homes, and had apparently been well taken
care at. Both sets, however, comprised men and
lads al all aorta and conditions, not a few evidently
in therank of gentlemen, many apparently labourers,
some whom one might suspect of being not quite
so respectable. Most wore the red shirt—some
only a red cap—a very few had the regulation
trousers of last year's campaign, grey with red
cord, most wore trousers of any civilian pattern,
among which highland tartan, resembling the
Forty-eighth, was apparently a favourite. None
had lausketa or bayonets. They were healthy,
deter Mined looking fellows, and by no means
dispirited with defeat, for they shouted
and sang nearly all the .way. At Civita
Vecchia, by way of contrast, we took up a
company of Papal Zouaves, and the officers came
into* carriage in which f was. They were
Frenakmen, wearing beards, however, all over the
face, contrary to the regulations of the regular
Berrie, both in France and Italy, which prescribes
that whiskers and chin shall be shaved. The
notioit of an express train being two hours behind
time seemed to tickle their fancies exceedingly, as
they contrasted it with the punctuality of French
lines.. One may perhaps safely infer from this
that they had not been very long in the Papal ser-
vice.

Our way lay during the whole time that daylight
lasteethrough the Tuscan Maremma, a wilder-
nessiii
fiat plains, broken by low hills covered
with ppio6 of oak and bushes of juniper. For
the t part the soil is evidently very
rich, d where the ditches show its section
it of illimitable depth. Nor is it so wet or
Do "tb iitin perfect drainage at all a difficulty.
But this is the fever district; it is nearly without
habitations, and with but scanty and imperfect
traces of cultivation. There is, however, no in-
trinsic reason why if drained and again cultivated
it should not recover its ancient salubrity, and
supply grain enough to feed half Italy, or to come
in aid of our own dear markets. And at a small
wayside station I saw an omen of what may yet be
brought about in this direction, and perhaps at no
distant date. It was a set of apparatus occupying
three trucks, shunted out one way ; on the first
was what to the astonished eye presented the
appearance of the drum and rope used for steam
ploughing ; on the next was evidently a steam
engine under a tarpaulin ; and on the third
was beyond a doubt the double plough itself. The
fact was put beyond a doubt when the advance of
the train showed letters painted on the tarpaulin,
and one could spell out the familiar name of Clayton
and Shuttleworth. It was impossible to help spe-
culating on a great future for Italy when this pro-
mise of the application of capital and science to the
redemption of her soil from fever and barrenness,
and its development into wealth and health, thus
unexpectedly came into view.
Here at Rome, however, we meet contrasts still
more curious, and if they could be permanent, as
fitted to inspire despair as a steam-plough in the
Maremma is calculated to give hope. Never has
the ancient city presented so strange a spectacle.
The calm repose of religion and art is put out of
sight, and war usurps its place on every hand. If
I were asked what is now the most striking feature
in Rome, I should be obliged to reply, soldiers.
It is soldiers everywhere. Outside the Porta del
Popolo, the main gate of Rome, the road is cut by '
a trench some fifteen feet wide, behind which, in
the gateway itself, is an earthwork of equal thick-
ness, pierced by embrasures for two guns to fire
clown the road. This has been commenced only
within the last few days, and the work is still deemed
ao important that yesterday, though it was Sunday,
and what is more, a giorno di testa, when no work
can be got done for hire, labourers were busily en-
gaged in finishing the slopes of the parapet, under
the direction of French officers of engineers. Inside,
in the Piazza del Popolo, two or three batteries of
French brass field pieces, with their ammunition
waggons, are parked, and the horses are picketed
under the trees above, opposite the public gardens
of the Pincian-hill. The wall of Rome,
which flanks the public gardens themselves,
dividing them from the Villa Borghese, has had a
parapet constructed of sand-bags, loopholed for
musketry, behind which French sentries keep
guard. In the city, in the churches, iu the
palaces, soldiers everywhere. Groupe of red-
breeched Frenchmen swarm up the stairs in front
of St. Peter's, and furnish a scale by which to esti-
mate the enormous size of • building which so
dwarfs the companions of its defenders. Inside
they wander about in twos or threes, some kneeling
for a moment before the altars, some looking ou
with more curiosity than reverence as processions
of black-draped priests wind among the marble
aisles on their way to some spot of solelmn devo-
tion. The Castle of St. Angelo, a work of imposing
middle-age strength, but against modern rifled
bolts, or shells, about as tenable as an oyster-
shell grotto, is guarded at the gate by a French
picket, supporting the blue clad Papal Zouave,
who nominally is the sentry, and from the walls
lbove peer down French artillerymen, French
Zouaves, French infantry of the line. At the

corner of • church a priest is preaching to the
crowd, some Papal soldiers are listening reverently
with their caps in their hands—more French sol-
diers are listening curiously with their caps on
their heads and their hands in their pockets. Up
the steps of the Capitol saunter more ofjthe blue
and red uniforms : here a vendor of cigars is
offering them to a half dozen round him, and ex-
plaining by expressive pantomime that they are
excellent tobacco and only a soldo a piece; there
a fruit seller is dispensing rosy apples or withered
grapes to the same interesting, and, I fear, much
cheated strangers : on the railings round the Arch
of Severn. are leaning some who seem to wonder
what the builders meant by putting up such
things there : in the Colosseum, as the
tender moonlight begins to pale the last
gleam of sunshine on the warm arches he
and the bate flit through the deep blue over head,
a merry French conscript leaps suddenly from
behind a broken wall and startles a comrade with
an unexpected slap on the shoulder. Back through
the Corso, where the carriages can hardly make
their way without knocking down some of the
crowd, and still in the carriages, in the crowd, in
the adds, in the churches, are French offiaers
and French soldiers, mixed up with some Papal
Zousves, and with a sprinkling of the civil popu-
lation of Rome.

These Papal Zouaves, too—who but for the
French allies that seem almost to have driven
them out of Rome, would have, ere now, been
driven out in more effectual fashion—are not an un-
interesting element of the military pageant. Their
dress is blue grey with red facings ; and it is
itself singular enough to see the head of
catholic Christendom choosing for his personal
guard a body of men borrowing the dress of infidel
Moors. But there is an old proverb that beggars
mist not be choosers, and the Pope is so poor in
help that he cannot afford to refuse the support
that can be won from the looser spirits of catho-
licity by the temptation of a pair of baggy trousers
and the odour of a something in the nature of a
loose reputation, which in 'France was attached to
the wearers of such garments. And that these con-
verted infidels are derived from all realms in which
the Pope's authority has away is evident from their
speech. There is not much Italian heard among
them ; there is some French, a good deal of Ger-
man, and still more of a tongue to me unknown,
but which I conceive to be Belgian: There are
besides a few English, two of whom were killed at
Montana. But the polyglot corps is a very fine one to
look at. The men are tall, handsome fellows—
bearded, when Heaven has endowed them with a
a beard, and in many cases with hopes of a beard
when age shall grant it, for they are little more than
1,0:;!;: The arj9rit; arc fair; end liken** clean
a few are unmistakeably of gentle birth—and on
the whole they much more resemble the stuff of
which the ranks of a crack English volunteer regi-
ment is made up than the ferocious Turks to whom
it is their pleasure to assimilate themselves. One
does not wonder as one studies the faces that
pass, that a sort of boyish chivalry of devotion
should have led them to take service under
the persecuted head of their ,church;. but
neither does one wonder that the French
officers should have mat a .eauple og. Week own
regiments to take care of them when they marched
out to extirpate Garibaldi, or that they should have
been handsomely beaten, as undoubtedly they
were, by the rough, starving, shoeless levies who
charged in their red shirtson the slopes of Mentana.
Here, however, there is a firm belief that
Garibaldi out-numbered the Pontifical forces,
French included, by three to one. And your
correspondent, who knows better, does not in
Rome controvert the prevailing agreeable impres-
sion. The Pope held a service on Friday for the
souls of the Zouaves who were killed in his defence,
and they sayhe was so affected that he broke down.
Ido not know the precise rules of catholic belief
with regard to purgatory, but I should have sup-
posed that those who died in so holy a cause would
have gone straight to Heaven,, and that the masses
would have been more usefully bestowed for the
souls of those who, being killed in sacrilegiously
attacking the divine institution of the temporal
power, must be supposed to have gone straight the
other way. But in a city where one sees the
strange anomaly of 20,000 bayonets brought over
the sea to defend, not their faith, which nobody
attacks, but the right of their high priest to kill
and imprison the citizens of a certain district, one
must expect to meet with a good many other ano-
malies ; and for this letter I confine myself to
chronicling the most salient features of the life
which, under such circumstances, we find ourselves

living in the Eternal City and in the middle of the
nineteenth century•.

THE CONFERFNCE ON THE ROMAN
QUESTION.

The Debuts of yesterday says :—" Where will
the conference assemble I The Patric would like
it to be in Paris ; several foreign journals wish it
to be installed in Rome ; but first of all we ought
to know if it will meet at all. It is not enough to
send letters of convocation • the powers to whom
they are addressed must believe they can usefully
accept the invitation transmitted to them,
and nothing yet proves that they are of thi;ll
opinion. The Gazette of Northern Germany, which
ordinarily reflects with fidelity the impressions of
the Prussian government, refuses to believe that
the Pope will consent to renounce the temporal
power, or that the European powers are disposed
to guarantee it to hint. The Morostipost of Vienna
explain very sensibly that Austria can at
this moment regard the events of which
Italy is the scene like a dilettante witnessing
the representation of an opera without troubling
himself whether the piece will fail or succeed. If,
on the contrary, the Vienna cabinet adheres to the
congress, it would have to play the part of the
critic who renders himself liable to form enemies by
candidly making known his manner of thinking.
'Austria islnow no longer directly interested in the Ro-
man question, and she might remain indifferent even
if the llersaglieri of Victor Emmanuel replaced the
Antibes Legion. In a conference her predilections
would too easily clash with her interests, and her
traditions with the wishes of her populations.'
Finally, in Russia (adds the Debuts) 500 persons
have just presented a petition to the Em-
peror, calling win the government to ab-
stain from taking part in the confer-
ence, and urging it to concentrate all its
attention upon the affairs of the East. True, the
petitioners have been badly received; they have
been told that the right of petition just bestowed
applies only to private and not to public matters.
The better to impress upon their memory this
salutary distinction, the reply of the government
was transmitted to them on a sheet of paper bearing
a 500 rouble stamp, which the government took
good care to make them pay, at the same time
warning them that for a fresh offence a stamp of
five times higher price would be employed."

OPENING OF THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS.
SPEECH OF KING WILLIAM.

BKRLIN, Nov. 15.
The Prussian Chambers were opened to-day by
the King of Primaia in person. Els Majesty de-
livered the following speech from the throne :

Idustr:cats, Noble, and Honoured Gentlemen of both
Howes of the Diet,—To-day I salute for the first time
in this plate the representatives of the new territories
which have been united with my kingdom by the events
of a great epoch. I renew with confidence the ex-
pression of my conviction that the inhabitants of
those territories, inasmuch m I accept them with my
whole heat as my people, will also on their part devote
themselves with honourable fidelity to me and to their
extended fatherland. The full power which the national
representation conferred upon my government to prepare
the way for the entry of the new provinces into the con-
stitutional state of things existing in Prussia has been
taken advantage of to establish a preliminary equilibrium
in those territories, where it appeared to be absolutely re-
quired by the common interests of the state. In the
new territories after the views of the principal
inhabitants had been ascertained, district and pro-
vincial constitutions, connected as closely as pos-
sible with the institutions already established, and
which had become dear to the population, have been
called into existence--conatitations which on being ended 4
out and further developed will be calenlated to revive the
interest of the inhabitants in the regulation of their 'acne-
mical affairs, and to prepare the way fat the much to be
desired autonomy of the larger and communal coTora-
tams. While the military institutions of the North
German Confederation have by the Federal constitution

and by the law on liability to 'military service been 'stab-
balled on the approved basica the Pruden institutions, •
the organisation of the military fproes of the entire •
fatherland has been completed in in principal feetaree.
The ground for the united efforts of the repre-
sentatives of my whole monarchy having been pre-
pared, our joint, and, please God, unanimous
exertions will succeed in making that ground
fruitful. The lonian of the budget for the year 186 S,
which will be laid before yon without delay, differs essen-
tially from previous budgets. While on the one hand it
comprises the territories newly united with the monarchy,
on the other, important categories of revenue and expendi-
ture have been separated from it, and have been passed
over to the budget of the North German Confederation.
From the bills on the budget you will see that the revenue,
which has been carefully estimated, will not only provide
the means to cover the current expenses of the adminis-
tration, but that it has also been possible to satisfy the
fresh and increased demands whisk have aria* in many
departments of the administration of the state. While
premising that the present condition of tbs.fimincee will
teds:y you, I, at the sae time, trust to obtain your wil-
• assent to the increased expenditure which I consider
for to maintain the dignity of the alma under the
altered circumstances which have arisen. Several bills

will be laid before you, having for their objects to regu-
late the public debts of the newly-acquired territories, to
complete their budgets for the year 1867, by grant-
ing the supplementary assent which had been re-
served, and to lay down rules for the treatment of
the accounts drawn up in accordance with those budgets.
As soon as the High Court of Appeal shall have been in-
stituted as the Supreme Court in the newly acquired ter-
ritories, a bill will be prmented to you to ea* a union of
this • court with the high tribunal My govertimmffillie
giving its epeeist attention to the further development 'of
the district and provincial constitutions, and they will, so
soon as the requisite preparations have been completed,
lay before you the bills relative to this abject. the
harvest this year has unhappily, in one portion of the
country, not been equal to the general requirement,
so that in some especially afflicted districts it has been.
or will be, necessary to take extraordinary meanies.
—mese sk...veernment Mee ./.',l Pell to
facilitate importation by lowering the ?away Left, sw,
by promoting the construction cf roads and kuprovemena
to create labour and remuneration. The pressure of un-
certainty which, resulting from various causes, now chieflY
removed, weighed upon commerce, will, as I confidant*
hope, in consequence of the mote peaceful aspect of the
state of affairs in Europe, make place for an animated re-
vival; the more so as most important alterations have been
made in the interests of the advancement of trade and cord-
merce by the renewal of the customs union with the South
German States, together with an appropriate alteration of
the internal organisation of the Zaverein by the entrance
this day of Sableszireiff inriethe WSW mid My
notable reduction duce, and other
weighed' uparda 'ffoieduked acts; trititty
National unity, which the !maim parliament sift sal left
upon to sanction by its vote, has now become a matter of
fact. If you have consented to transfer a portion
of your privileges to the North German parliament,
already does the testimony of history bear witness
that you have done the right thing at the right time.
By the organisation of the North German Confederation
the Prussian people have acquired additional pledges of
security, and an enlarged field for organic development,
whilst at the same time, in conjunction with our fellow
countrymen of the South German States, the community
of all social interests and an effective protection of all the
highest blessings of national existence have been assured.
The treaties upon which the community of interests rests
have recently attained a still greater importance, from
the fact that, whilst under discussion in the diffe-
rent parliaments, the national spirit victoriously
maintained itself. The relations of my government
with foreign powers have not undergone any change
in consequence of the new conditions in which
Prussia is placed in the midst of the North German Con-
federation. With the friendly character of those relations,
the personal interviews with the majority of the reigning
sovereigns in Germany and abroad, the opportunity ler
which waroffered me last summer, perfectly harmonise.
The peaceful object of the German movement is recognised
and appreciated by all the powers of Europe, and the
peaceful endeavours of the rulers are supported by the
swishes of the peoples, to whom the increasing develop-
ment and amalgamation of spiritual and material interests
make peace a 'amenity. The recent anxiety respecting •
disturbance of peace in one part of Europe, where two
great nations, both most amicably connected with us, ap-
peered to be threatened by a serious complication, I may now
look upon as having disappeared. It will be the endeavour
of mygovethment, as regards those difficult questions which
in that quarter still remain unsolved, on the one hand to
respond to the claims of my catholic subjects, and to
evince my care for the dignity and the independence of the
bead of their church ; and on the other hand, to satisfy
the duties which increase for Prussia in consequence of
political interests and the international relations of Ger-
many. In neither direction do I see, in fulfilment of the
tasks which are laid before my government, any danger to
peace. Let us then the more confidently undertake the
task of the solution of our internal development, and ma
your labour for the welfare of the state be richly blemed.

CAPITAL AND LABDI:R. —At the close of Mr. E.
Jones's lecture at St. James's-hall, Piccadilly, on Thurs-
day, Mr. Samuel Morley, who was in the chair, mid he
had listened with the deepest interest to the address
which they had just heard. (Hear.) It had given them a
good deal to think about until the time of action came.
He understood Mr. Jones to entirely disavow any
interference with the rights of property. He merely
asserted that property had its obligations and respon-
sibilities as well as its rights. There were thousands
of the population living in a condition which ought
to excite the sympathy of every friend of humanity.
(Cheers.) He could take them to parts of this
city where numbers were living at the verge of
starvation. The condition in which some of the people
were living was a question the conaideration of which
ought not to be much longer delayed. (Hear, hear.)
As regarded strikes, be ne. er had the slightest mis.
giving as to the right of the working classes of the country
to combine and to determine amongst themselves as to the
price at which they would sell their labour. (Hear, bear.)
They had as much right to meet and determine these
questions as their employers had. (Hear, bear.) He had
also a tine oonviction of their right, if they pleased, to
strike—(hear, hear)—but at the same time he held that
strikes were to the social world what wars were to the
political world—they became crimes unless they wens
prompted by absolute necessity. (Hear, hear.) He had
had largely to do with working men, he felt that they
were his friends—(cheers)—and he desired to act towards
them in a kindred spirit. The result of his forty years'
close observation was that strikes Lad inevitably gone,
as an average, against the working men. (" Hear, hear,"
and cries of "No, no.") He had known the most un-
speakable misery produced by them—(hear. hear)—and
many instances had occurred in which the men had had
to resume work on the same terms as before the strike.
About two years ago he saw the termination of the
great strike in the iron trade, and be scent into a
number of cottages to find the truth about this matter.
He found excellent, upright, working into lying, when
they retired for the night, with their wives and children
on straw, their houses three months before having been
full of the best possible furniture. These men had to
return to work without having derived ary benefit from
the strike, and Laving largely lost by it. Strikes tended to
alienate masters and workmen for years. At Nottingham
courts of conciliation had been established in connection
with the hosiery trade, and he was glad to say that great
advantage had accrued from their establishment. The
court was composed half of workmen and half of warders,
and the two classes were thus brought into immediate con-
nection with each other, for the diacussion of questions
relating to their mutual interests. lie desired to see these
courts established in connection with other branches of
trade, for is might be found, as in the case of Nottingham,
that they had gone far to solve one of the most difficult
problems of the present day.

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