The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-03 00:00:00

MOW 001 OWN

TURLN, TRUILSDAY.

First of all, to repair an omission, when a lady is
in the cane, I ought to say that Garibaldi's daughter,
Teresina, with her husband, Major Stefano Canzio,
has been welcomed by the Genoese, amongst whom
she will reside, in a very cordial manner. The
marriage took place last Sunday in the general's
private chamber, in bin plain farm-house at Caprera ;
it was the vicar of the neighbouring isle of Mad-
dalena who performed the nuptial office. The happy
couple sailed next day to Genoa, where an acclaim-
ing populace greeted their lauding on the quay, and
six young girls, in the name of all their sex in that
cityy, crowned the bride with flowers.
io-day is Corpus Christi, one of the four major
festivals and most sacred annual functions of the
Roman catholic church. From this day will be
dated throughout all Italy the first public and for-
mal sign of a coming practical separation of church
and state. I told you that the magistracy had been
ordered, and the municipality had resolved, not to
take part officially, or in their corporate capacity,
in this or in any other religious ceremony, excepting
of course the Mace and the Te Delon which,
in some of the Italian towns or parishes,
the local clergy way voluntarily contri-
bute to the national festival of Sunday next.
In that instance there would be a mutual and un-
constrained rapprochement between the civil and
ecclesiastical dignitaries, but tho limitation of their
authorities would remain distinct ; and even for
that measure of deference towards the religious sen-
timent and its ministers the logic of liberalism has
found the government policy very much to blame.
The Minister of the Interior, while be recom-
mended the syndics and communal councils to in-
vite the clergy to join in the new political festival
on Sunday, gave them no directions about joining
themselves as heretofore in the old religious festival
of Thursday ; but the Minister of Justice addressed
to all the judges, and the Minister of Public Inatruo-
thou to the rectors of all the universities, au order
to abstain from walking in the usual procession of
the Host.

I steed in the Via Dora Grossa this morning,
when the procession, starting from San Giovanni's
Church, was passing by without the wonted ac-
companiments of temporal authority and rank ; I
assure you that the oomments of the people I over-
heard were expressive leas of regret fur the
diminished pomp of this spectacle than of satisfac-
tion with the principle thus asserted. " Render to
Italy and to her King," it seemed to say, " the
things which are of civil institution, but refer to
the individual conscience alone the things which
belong to the worship of God."
So the procession, this time, had • purely reli-
gious character. The sisterhood of nurses in the
hospital, and the little orphan girls, in their clean
white muslin, each with her little cross, her book,
and her fan—the men enrolled in other charitable
associations, such as those who take care of the in-
sane in the lunatic asylum% and those who bring
the drowned back to life—these mere lay agents
of Christian beneficence led the way. They were
followed by about • dozen confraternities of the
several parishes, each with its crucifix, or pictured
• saint or of • Madonna, borne aloft as a standard
between two enormous candles, blazing high
above the heads of thecrowd. Every man or woman
—2,000 or 3,000, perhaps, in number altogether—
had a burning taper, and the dropping wax was
greedily collected by a swarm of street boys, who
harassed, like flies hovering along a team of oxen,
the aides of the procession, and even audaciously
nibbled at the clotted tapers in the bearers' hands.
The members of these parochial societies, wearing
for each au uniform of serge or canvas, are persons
mostly of the working classes, who assist for a
small payment at funerals or other ceremonies,
under the direction of their curate. Then came the
friars, two or three different orders ; the bearded
Capuchins, in rough brown frocks, who inhabit a
convent romantically situated on the hill beyond the
river ; the Dominicans, more daintily arrayed in
white with black scarfs ; then came the young men
from the Training College, where they are brought
up to the clerical profession ; then came the parish
priests of Turin, and lastly the canons of the cathe-
dral, in their proper robes or vestments, with the
Vicar Capitular, under a lofty and sumptuous
canopy, holding the symbolic object of this demon-
stration in both his hands. Forty or fifty gentle-
men, as private persons, walked behind, and a
I picket of the 45th Regiment, merely to preserve
order, brought up the rear. Last year, and in
former years, am told, the court, the ministers
of state, the senate and chamber, the civic body,
the magistracy, the military, and the university,
were either present or directly represented on this
occasion, epd four of the Pielmontese nobility
sustained the canopy which sheltered the chief
ecclesiastical person in this diocese the Archbishop
of Turin, as you are well aware, being Monsignor
Franzoni, a rebel to the kingdom, and therefore
now for some years past resident in France.
In the Chamber yesterday the question of
Irecoguiniug military grades conferred by sundry
provisional governments iu the year of abortive
Italiarn revolutions, 1848, arose again, out of
• discussion on the bill to provide retiring
pensions for those army offices who threw up their
commissions in the Austrian, Neapolitan, Papal,
Tuscan, or Modenese services, for Italy's sake.
The point was to determine whether, for example,
an officer who bad been captain or lieutenant in
some regular service, till he got appointed
major, colonel, or general by the dictatorial
government of Venice, Lombardy, or Rome, should
have his pension reckoned according to the lower
or higher degree of professional service. Career
agreed to an article propertied by Teochio, fully
ladmitting the claim of all Venetian slicers who
came forward to serve the royal and national go-
vernment in its war for the whole of Italy two
years ago. But he would not consent to esta-
blish as pensioners on the existing Italian king-
dom any men who, after serving under the
Triumvirate at Rome in 1849, stood aloof in 1839
front motives of republican opposition, when Victor
Emmanuel summoned the Italians to the field. I
wish you to observe this distinction, because an
effort has been made by the ultra-democratic party
to cast some odium on the prime minister for his
treatment of the defenders of Rome. lie frankly
adopted a resolution, declaring that those who
fought for Rome (against the French, re-
member) had deserved well of their country;
and he promised another bill to provide for such
of them as hued since offered their swords to Italy,
in the last war. The upshot of the debate yestiw-
day waxen "order of theday,"riroposed by General
Biel% that the Chamber should take note of the
minister's declaration, and that all who hail ever
fought for the national independence were worthy
lof public esteem. An article was also agreed to,
I specifying the case of those Neapolitan Lacers in
1 1848 who, alone with General Pepe, chose to dis-
obey Ferdinand's order of recall, and to march on-
wards against Austria for the deliverance of the
Venetian provinces : the survivors of that exploit
are to be aired fur in their declining age.
Those paltry German courts are giving themselves
very considerable airs—l don't mean in the affairs
of their owu Federation, which the Daily N•tr' has
lately disclosed, surprising many of its mailers
here.
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ing in Mecklenberg, whose title in the Ahniiiia,h Je
Gotha I can't remember. probably a Grand Duke.
also declines to riser a passport or a docket bear-
ing record of the sovereignty of 22,000,000 souls !
Wherefore the consuls of those German princes
are now deprived of their e.erglititter in the kiugulom
of Italy, which may probably not have to welt
much longer fcr its diplomatic recognition by Itupssis.
and France.

The Prussian Gazette announce* that the King
of Prussia, on hearing of the late duel, ordered the militar"
authorities at once to commence a court martial INS
General Maateuffel, and the Minister of Justice to prooreute
M. Tweston.