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London, England, 1859-01-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 4.

WHIN the patience ota People has been thoroughly
exhausted, and they have made up their minds to
parley no more with oppression, it signifies nought ,
what motives inspire the casual acts of those in I
authority, or how intrinsically inoffensive those acts
may be : they are distrusted, becauee their authors
are looked on as enemies, and because nothing is
neatest in civil war. Tho accounts that reach us
daily from Italy are full of graphic details illustrative
of the inexorable hatred that prevails towards the
despotic rulers of that distracted land. The minute-
sees of some of these details, like those given
us in photographs, brings to the mind irre-
sistible conviction of the literal truth of all
the rest of the picture. It is easier to ,
distort or even invent wide-spread conspiracies,
symptoms of intended outbreak and sanguinary col-
lision between the troops and populace, than a num-
ber of isolated manifestations of inarticulate national
feeling betrayed in the various peculiar forms of
social life. The Archduke MAXIMILIAN is one day
reported to have wished to give a Christmas ball,
but to have failed in obtaining the attendance of a
sufficient number of persons of condition. As he
passes through a public place, accompanied by his
youthful wi'e, a nobleman attached to his
household fails to make the usual obsequious saluta-
tion; whereupon the nobleman, notwithstand-
ing his shortness of sight and profession, of
regret for the inadvertence, is ordered into
temporary baniehment from the Court and city. The
Viceitoe appears in his box at La Scala; many of
the audience rise and endeavour to quit the theatre,
bat are not permitted to do so ; whereupon they re-
turn to their seats, refuse to applaud the pieces
though the work of a Piednionteee composer, and
the moment the curtain falls, pot on their hats as
the only means in their power of showing their dis-
affection. Madame RIsToP.I, whose magic utter-
ance of a few patriotic lines in the part of Judith
caused a sensation so electric among her Venetian
audience last September, was engaged with other
eminent artists to appear at Naples during the pre-
sent month. Whether for the purpose of punishment
or prevention her passport was refused at the last mo-
meat, while the rest of the company were permitted
to wend their 'southward way. Mantua has, ever since
1848, been undergoing successive courses of massive
incrustation in the shape of defensive works, and of
internal demolition and reconstruction with the like
view, until the place has become at length one huge
fort, and its ordinary life reduced to that of a bar-
rack. Such is the spot where the de-popularised
Archduke MAXIMILIIN has ordered suitable apart-
ments to be prepared for his residence without delay.
In several of the old Lombard cities the civic palaces,
which have hitherto been considered the property
of the Government, have been offered to the muni-
cipalities on the payment of a certain price, which
it is understood must not be refused. The Alll•
trians remember how utterly unable they were in
1848 to do more than hold their own at
one or two points, and they thus prepare betimes
to diminish the number of those that, in nee of in-
surrection, would be left defenceless, and which, if
regarded as Government buildings, would certainly
not be spared. Pavia, the principal seat of higher
instruction, has been declared in a state of collegiate
siege. The students have for some time been sus-
pected of rebellious designs, and the violent death of
• veterinary surgeon, who had long been unpopular
on account of his opioioes, and who was said by
some to be a spy. has recently led to the wholesale
ostracism of all the students whose families do not
belong to the town. Practically, this amount*, for
the time being, to the suppression of the Univer-
sity. The fagots are no longer bound together in
one place; but having become ignited, are !scattered
throughout the country. Finally, there are never-
ending quarrels between the native populace and the
German soldiery on the hourly recurring subjeot of
smoking. This favourite indulgence has been all
but universally renounced by the Italiens, while
their gaolers as universally persevere in it. Taunts
and gibes are heard at every corner, and they are
not unfrequeutly accumismied by still more pro•.
yoking gestures, and even by blows.
How long is it possible for such a state of tension
to last We ran readily imagine that the youthful
but feeble Vti root does sincerely what he can to
adminieter petty emollients, and tries to hope against
hops that the impending crisis may he indefinitely
deferred, if not altogether averted. But it is pitiably
palpable that efforts like his can have no appreciable
effect is stilling the mute passions and inveterate
enmities of an incensed people. The very atm,.
Owes is charged with the fatal element, and son
ran tell the moment of explosion. Assn, do ma
magicians that infest every court of sodas tines.
as they did that of PliAllAoll of old, pretending
Snow the secret of thine terrible signs that in reality
are neither wrought nor dispelled by their enchant-
iambi, we are told by diplomatists that as long as
the Freneh EN; prima pleases ha can restrain the