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London, England, 1861-09-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19.

TO OUR RKADER&

SPOIiTING INTELLIGENCE.

A late iJitiuu nf the lixpreas it published even
erentsg sturin4 the racing meason, containing the
familia ut tbo ki.tr's races.

Tut " Minister of Foreign Affairs" of his ex-
Majesty of the Two Sicilies has, it seems, indited
a reply to Bans' Itiessou's recent circular di.,
'patch. To whom this reply is officially supposed
to be adilreoeil is not stated ; probably to the
dipluniatio agents accredited to the Court of
FRAN* is 11. at Rome by the Powers which have
not yet recognised the Kingdom of Italy. Tim
published version—for it professes to be a version
only- appears in a Legitimist journal at Paris,
and the effect this tremendous document is likely
to have upon public opinion in Europe is only
comparablo with the effect which countless me-
•ale on the National Debt, drawn up by po-
litical economists in Bedlam, have perceptibly had
on that tenacious institution. The " Minister of
Foreign Affairs," however, is betrayed by his
feelings into disclosures somewhat damaging to
his cow, if it were a cause susceptible
of damage or of redemption. He claims all the
exploits of the " brigands" as proofs of irrepressi-
ble loyalty and devotion to a " paternal" If. wooer
dynasty, and he lays stress on the fact that these
robbers, assassins, and incendiaries invariably
begin their operations by smashing the portraits
of YmeTsot I.:ilium-Et and GsanisLoi, and the
escutcheon of the House of Savoy. FRANCIN 11.
gave sip Naples and Gaeta only to save bloodshed;
indeed, had it not been for the sudden withdrawal
of the French fleet, the siege of I:atta would have
been raised by a national insurrection. At pre-
sent the beloved subjects of FRANI is IL are suffer-
ins; all the horrors of a dark and sanguinary op-
pression, and sighing for the restoration of the
liberty and happiness they enjoyed under their
last two fatherly sovereigns. King FRANCIS IL has
always discouraged and disapproved insurrec-
tionary movenients in his behalf, and deprecated
useless bloodshed. Nor has it ever entered into
his mind to make a hospitable refuge the basis
of his military operations. But he holds himself
in readiness to fulfil his duties to his people at
the first favourable opportunity.
Such is tho sum and substance of this highly edi-
fying docune-iit. Baron Iticasott has only to
point to the behaviour of the people of Naples
during thous two days national rejoicings in honour
of Oriatassoi and in commemoration of the ex
pulsion of the Bombes. Five hundred thousand
people making festival, without a moment's riot-
ing Cr disorder, twenty thousand National Guards,
picked battalions of the Italian army, all united in a
Imams joy, °Diffidence, and pride. The tumul-
twos cheering that hailed the King's Lieutenant,
the victor of Ga.:to and Castelfirlardo, and which a
Colonel of the Pontifical &saves, arrested as a con-
spirator, ass invited to witnans--General Cisunst
needs no other justification. It was not cheering
that amid be beught and drilled ; it was tbi
welcome of a great city and an entire population
to the champion of a free and united Italy.
If the Court and Cabinet of Faarcrs 11. are at
a loss to account for this perversity of the people
of Naples, let them take a look at Leghorn and
Florence. Certainly if the reception of V 1.14.11
Eximiiever. in Central Italy is a sign of the suffer-
ing and oppression of the people, the Two Sicilies
under the Bourbons must have been a Paradise of
speechless loyalty and content. The enthusiasm
of the energetic citizens of Leghorn at the pea-
sage of their K tau through the town is described
by eyewitnesses as more like an outburst of per
and familiar gratitude and affection than the
distant homage of a people for a Sovereign. Leg-
horn is famed for its fierce democracy, yet
nowhere is the presence of a Klee who has staked
his crown and life on the battle-field against the
Austrian nu:, welcome or more dear. Leg-
horn has no: forgotten the tender mercies of an
Austrian garrison, the present from its honest
and benevolent liRANI) DIAL.

The object of Vii-roa Eturioi tires present visit
to " the Athens of Italy," the gem and flower of his
Kingdom, is itself an earnest and a visible proof
of that national unity which purblind pretenders
and their parasites affect to deny. This unity,
the dream of great and wise Italians in past cen-
turies, and the scorn of petty statesmen in our
own, was to be a gage of battle before it could be
a growth of peace. Foreign dominations and
divisions mast be cast out before the nation could
enter into the full enjoyment of its indivisible in-
heritance. It wu the policy of Austria and of
the satraps of Austria to fester a spirit of muni-
cipalism and isolation, and to prevent the name of
Italy from becoming a fact. Against this system,
public spirit, art, science, genius, and all the forces
of civilization were silently contending even at •
time when the King of Ptetmowr was an Austrian
dependent. lint unity remained the consoling
vision of martyrs and confessors : the Italian
nation was pent up and parcelled out in strips
and patches of artificial States. Italy was carefully
and ungenerously deprived of self-consciousness,

and forbidden to believe in its own existence, ex-
cept on the map. This was what the ancient
rivalry of flourishing cities and glorious republics
Lad come to under the auspices of modern tyrants.
Aud thus the Italy of to-day was a geographical
expression thirteen years ago. It is now a first-
rate Power. If it be to the bravo and
hardy Subalpine people that Italy owes the
first place in her gratitude ; to Tuscany
belongs at least the second. What the calm
audacity of C•vona initiated, the resolute and
lofty temper of RICAAOLI completed. Florence,
at one, a temple and a monument of the majestic
reminiscences of the past—the tomb of that proud
Subalpine poet, whale life andgenius were prophetic
of the common destiny of Piedmont and Italy—
Florence, by a bloodless and humane revolution
persistently maintained, made the false and frivo-
lous stipulation* of N'illafranca of none effect,
ratified the inikpendence of Central Italy, and
opened the way to the emancipation of the South.