The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-09 00:00:00

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SIX THOUSAND POUNDS additional
%11-I'AL required tot the ortenske of a proatiMe
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V:ING CLASSES for POOR MOTHERS in
SI., I to. ALkatus —ln order to assist poor mother u
1,11 •.- m employment during the present distress. we
.t.l n, tommenee a SEWING CLASS for BO to 10, persons, 1
a• ,!, • mptoy ed for four hours daily in mending old cloth-
t • In Kirr,u away when mended!, for whlth they will
T. .1, t...trut teedl payment daily, and aloe be Instructed in
I 1111 troths. We shall feel deeply thankful to any who will
1.1 Oils crlort, or send no clothing. however old and
lair • r any Ilrheriptlnn of working material, for the dam.
Ai, 171, will he welcome who feel disposed to visit the
11,:.4 11. 11 nod school, at 4.4, Old Castle-street, where they
I:4r tar, taller lorticulars.
W JANNIS.% Derbrromi, Victoria-park-med. N.E.
h. 311.'N.K0, 20, Baolsollutptare, HacUmy-road,
Superintendents.

MUNCH, Jai. I.
I recollect being greatly amused, some years ago,
at the astonishment and dismay of an elderly
countrywoman, who, having come to Florence to
enjoy the benefits of a mild and sunny clime, was
terribly taken aback by the spectacle which pre-
anted itself to her gaze, when, the morning after
her arrival, she looked forth from her windows in
the Gran Bretagne, on the Lung Arno, and the
first sight that met her eyes was that of a party of
Anglo-Florentines skating away most vigeroualy ea
the glittering and frown stream. "And it is for
this," she ruefully exclaimed, "that I have WC
Aberdeenshire." A like disenchantment has fallen
to the lot of those countrymen and countrywomen
whom the hope of soft Favonian teases has this
year attracted to the south. Snow high in tie
street--cow interrupting all railway cessianni-
cation—snow keeping imreisoned all over the
country those members of families who bad
gen to spend New Yearli-day ualor the.
paternal roof--snow retarding ministerial combina-
tions, and keeping General Menabrea fretting for
the arrival of the letters which shall assure him
that Senator This or Deputy That will support his
reconstituted cabitiet—newpaper editors at their
wit's end, because not a single post from northern
Italy (and consequently from all northern Europe),
came in for three days—such is the state to which
we are all reduced by the inclemency of the coldest
January that for many a year has chilled end be-
numbed Florence. Tolerable enough for those
who need only order "Tom to bear logs into the
hall," and the logs are straightway borne ; but for
the thousands of wretched creatures who must
crouch ahiveringly over their " saldini," or little
pots of wood ashes, a sore and sharp time enough,
and one forcibly ecalling to our minds, by the
effect of contrast, the truth of the Italian saying,
" Blessings upon summer, the mother of the poor !"
But not all the snows of Apennines or Alps will
chill or extinguish those fierce fires of party strife
which may be expected on the reassembling of our
senators and deputies next Saturday to break forth
anew in the Hall of the Five Hundred. They will find
themselves provided with sufficient fuel to keep
alive those fires, in the documents respecting the
late Garibaldi= movement, and the participation
of Rattazzi in the same, which Onalterio, the
Minister of the Interior, and Mari, the Minister
of Grace and Justice, laid on the table of the
Chamber of Deputies at its meeting of the 20th
December, and of which the printed copies have
only now been distributed to the members.
Not the least amusing parts of the corres-
pondence are the reports transmitted to the Mi-
nistry of the Interior from the Prefect of Lucca,
and delegate of Monsummano, concerning the
speeches made by Garibaldi to the people of those
districts when he was staying at the baths of Mon-
summano for his rheumatism, in the end of June
and beginning of July. Referring to the centenary
festival of St. Peter, then taking place, tho illus-
trious general appears to have lost no opportunity
of lifting forth his views of church history, which
are evidently much in advance of those hold by
the critics who call in question the sojourn of St.
Peter at Rome, for he dwells, with an edifying
iteration, on the statement that St. Peter never
existed at all.
It is easy to imagine what copious materials
for invective and recrimination these documents
will afford. Meanwhile, General Menabrea,
after various unsuccessful attempts to strengthen
his cabinet by the addition or substitution
of those statesmen, whether from the " Per-
manente," or the " Right," whom ho would have
preferred, has come to the conclusion, which one
would suppose he might have reached • fortnight
ago, that a minority of 100 agreed on all the more
essential questions of a common national policy, is
in reality stronger than a. majority of 201 made up
of the most contradictory and antagonistic elements.
As the immediate result of this conclusion, ho now
intends to present himself again to the Chamber,
and demand from the same that it vote the supplies
for the year 1868. The refusal by the Chamber of
Deputies of that demand would add not a little to
our political and financial complications, as
parliament, before adjourning, voted the conti-
nuance of the provincial taxes only for a
month, and the month would certainly
?:\ pin:, before a general election could take place.
Plated between the dilemma of a definitive resig-
nation, with no one party chief in the ranks of the
opposition strong enough to replace him, or an im-
mediate dissolution before the supplies have been
voted, the general and his colleagues have probably
taken the wisest course open to them in again
facing parliament, even without having the cabinet
reconstituted, or having effected that reconstitution
only in a very partial manner. But, I repeat, all
the reasons for such a conclusion existed in equal
force on the evening of the memorable vote of the
22nd December, and it can only be matter of regret
that they were not appreciated as correctly then as
they appear to have been since.

Blear trr.vo von rug PIPE.—We read in the
D. bola:—" The Pump:do of Naples wives from Rome a
letter in which it is affirmed that a plan has leen con-
ceived at the Vatican to augment the mereenary legions,
so as to be able, in cam Italy should tad herself at war
with a neighbouring power, to pass from the defensive to
the offensive. According to this oommunieation fresh
troops are to arrive at Rome, ed for the mort part
of Dutch. We do not know whether these eisertions are
correct. But the increase of the Poctifiera army semen-
Mrs unforeseen difficulties. The Vienna journals told us
last week that for numerous reasons, both political and ad•
minietrattve, the Austrian government wee preventing the
recruiters of that army from enlisting mines be Iserieory.
The Carlarethe Gazette pabibbot a solo on lito arm mlect
That journal points out the establiehnient at
at St. Lewis and
Birsaborg of enlisting offices tor the Names aersh
atoms of which are esdeameging to Weep the yewsm gra
et Baden to take mere ender the Psi flag. In gm
mews of these attempts, the ellisial=ealls atisuffith
to Art. 40 of the code of to • fine et
100 florins end four montrit4eisimment any preen who
shall amp, himself in the Grand Deity with offeasisig.
without the angst:Magma el the pererament, agehmente
tart he account of any foreign may. It lipPlart beldam.
that the young Bedews° vie mews little tune back &-
fired theme/keit* be seduced by soak mores, ham lied
no mem to rejoins in the result, as greed et Ors Uwe
sines entreated their novornintat to intemene ter the pm
pose et obtaining to their femur • distraint and • prods-
eke to return to their bunitios."
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bee made arrangemenb fee do learatte streells te New
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