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London, England, 1861-04-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, RAPIIRDAY, APRIL 13.

lir the Italians have been condemned for cen-
turies to languish under a yoke of severer ecclesi-
astical bondage than any other European nation has
known, their long-delayed redemption promises to
be in the genie proportion more signal and com-
plete. Little more than two years ago Central
Italy wee still afflicted with the intolerable misery
of a pitiless priestly despotism, upheld by foreign
bayonets. Some Catholic writers, indeed, had
not seetalad to assert that this wretched state of
things was just and aspaszy the misery o:
Italy, according to their opal and profane dictum,
being essential to the well-being of the world.
The facia of history were continually appealed to
in support of this appalling declaration. Gallant
efforts had been repeatedly made to eman-
cipate the bondsmen of Rome, but always
in vain. The most ardent friends of freedom
were disheartened, and began tofear that deliverance
was distant if not hopeless. That the prescriptive
victims of Papal despotism would speedily enjoy
anything approaching to full religions liberty
seemed the very wildest dream of the enthusiast.
Yet that dream is now realised. The greater part
of the Peninsula enjoys • larger amount of reli-
gious freedom than is found in any other conti-
nental State. In no oilier country has the true
principle of religions liberty been laid down
with equal breadth and distinctness, or carried
out with the same impartial sincerity. The
present Government of Italy has set • noble ex-
ample in this raped. Instead of evading the
difficulties of the religious question, it ham dealt
with them at once in the most simple and direct
manner. No one can reed Count Callous's
speeches on the subject without being struck with
their aingular courage and openness, or without
feeling sure that • policy so large and just in
itself, and so firmly yet temperately maintained,
must triumph.

Count Csvor it goes at once to the root of the
whole matter. lie desires to secure for the new
Kingdom of Italy the possession of full civil and
religious liberty. And all experience roves that
this can only be effectually accomplished in oue
way—by a total separation of the temporal from
the spiritual authority. Theone great truth which
history teaches with greater force and emphasis
than any other is, that the union of thew powers is
fatal to the best interests of mankind. When
the crozier and sceptre are held by the wane band,
endless disorders and confusion arise. Each
destroys the natural and legitimate influence
of the other; and in proportion to the close-
ness of the union, the ends of good govern-
ment both in Church and State are de-
feated. Religious truth is invariably corrupted,
and civil freedom crippled, if not altogether de-
stroyed. The Church invested with temporal au-
thority becomes indifferent to the purity and
strength of that spiritual power which alone it is
entitled to exert. Being able to command it
scarcely seeks to persuade, and mom by degrees to
relyon material insteadof nioralforce. The anarchy
and confusion produced by this united authority on
the civil and temporal aide, are equally conspi-
cuous. The tremendous sanctions ci religion are
introduced into the details of common life, and
things indifferent arbitrarily condemned or
forbidden, till all personal and civil freedom is
destroyed. " No greeter calamity," Count
Csvoca justly says, " can befall a people than
" the concentration of spiritual and temporal power
" in the hands of the government. When these
" powers are united liberty disappears, and the
" role of Caliphs prevails." The whole history
of Europe for a thousand years confirms the truth
of this statement. The cruel and bloody wars
that for centuries desolated the fairest used most
flourishing portions of middle and Sostemen Eu-
rope were waged between the Ilneenoe
and the Pore for the possenion el this
united power. lu these frightful eiroggles
civil order was broken up, law and justice
utterly disregarded, and all social right, for the
time being. destroyed. The effect on the Church
was, if possible, more disastrous stilL Religious
truth was well nigh destroyed, and but for the
periodical efforts of Reformers within and without
the Church,Christianity would have been trampled
to death by a mob of tonsured ruffians. Even
when the Reformation came the true antidote for
these evils was not adequately recognised. The
alliance between the two powers was still retained
in a modified form, and it still produced the same
fruits, only the union being much less absolute,
the evils were far lighter. But, as Count CAVOVIL
reminds us, full religious freedom is not enjoyed
even yet amongst the most enlightened Protestant
nations of Europe. NVherever there Ma dominant
hierarchy traces of a persecuting spirit still appear,
and acts essentially intolerant remain unrepealed.
And even where there may be nothing amounting
to serious religious oppression, the sinister effects,
of the alliance will be felt in • tone of repulsive
assumption, and a policy of petty superiority and
small social persecution. Still, since the time of
the Reformation, the progress, la all Protestant

countries, has been steadily in one direction. The
growth of opinion has been more and more in
favour of religious freedom, as well as in favour
of the explicit recognition and practical adoption
of the principle on which it rests.
Italy is now even more fortunately situated in
this respect than the Protestant countries of
Europe. Having suffered for a longer period and
in a severer form than any other country, all
the evils of that hated alliance between the Church
and the Crown, it is prepared to abandon it at once
and for ever. The union, moreover,; having en-
countered no check or hindrance, has wrought out
its worst results. It has, in fact, hopelessly
destroyed itself. In every country the union of
the temporal and spiritual authority in the
Government has been justly regarded as a
conspiracy against the rights of the
people. But elsewhere this union has
often been tempered and modified by popular in-
fluence, if not to some extent placed under popular
control. In Italy, however, the alliance retained
to the last its true form—that of determined, un-
mitigated antagonism to the rights and welfare of
the people. It was quite certain, therefore, that
on the first day the voice of the nation could be
heard, the hateful union would be dissolved. Now
that their political emancipation has come, no one
has a word to say in favour of perpetuating the
ecclesiastical tyranny. No attack on the temporal
authority of the Purs is needed. When the foreign
support which sustained it is removed, it falls
naturally of itself. "A power,"saysCount Csvota,
" which does not rest on a national basis, which
" necessitates an absolute antagonism between
" the people it governs and itself, has no longer
" the possibility of existence." There is another
respect in which Italy is favourably situated for the
adoption of the policy of complete separation which
' Count Civet: e announces. Whilst the people
unanimously oppose the temporal authority of the
Port they are at the same time to a great extent
Catholics. "There is in Italy," as the Prime
Minister of Italy suggests, "less antagonism
" than almost anywhere else between the religious
" sentiment and the spirit of liberty, because the
" liberals there are more catholic than in any
" other country, more so than in Belgium even."
All the great authors of Italy have applied them-
selves to the solution of this very problem—to
reconcile the Papacy with the nation. This will
at length be accomplished by the severance of the
temporal and spiritual power. Count CAVOIM
justly anticipates the triumph of this just,
patriotic, and truly Catholic policy. "By
" persevering firmly and resolutely, with-
" out disturbing ourselves about momentary
" misunderstandings or possible perils, we shall
" soon win over the best part of the religious
" world to recognise the loyalty that inspires us.
" It will be recognised that what we propose is
" the only means of ensuring the legitimate in-
" flueoce of the Church in Italy and in the rest of
" the world. In a short time, I hope, voices will
" rise from the midst of Catholic society and will
" tell the Pore Accept the terms which libe-
" ' rated Italy offers you, for they restore freedom
" 'to the Church and add to the lustre of the
" Holy See ; accept these terms, and the Italian
" ' nation, while completing the work of its libera-
" ' tion, will remain the most faithful of all to the
" ' genuine spirit of religion.' "

The French Exhibition will close o the 20th
somewhat earlier than usual, males ream fee ma ex.
Whitton of royal pictures—that is to say, Mr. Phillip's
Marriage of the Prisms Royal, sad Mr. Wisterhalter's
portraits of her Majesty sad the PrieesComewt. Two Dew
pictures by M. Franc have been added.

The improvements at Netley Abbey are now
completed. The aerie and modern brickwork, which cos-
coded Bone patios of the besatifsl uthitsentre of the
abbey, have been removed. The base of the mien= end
the pavement of the chased of the chapel an sow also
=pot= to view. About 3,0C31. has been expended on the
improvements. The Rev. Mr. Kell and the Mesas. Skelton,
local antiquaries, ware pemtitted a few days since to search
for the crypt, and they employed persons to dig a consider-
able depth under each of the altars, but then was no sign
of what they sought for. The soil they dug into was slimly,
and probably was t►e 01010 that no crypt wee built, or it
might have been frees the fact that the spot ea winch the
abbey MY built it bat little shove high-water mark. A
small charge will in future be made to visitors, to pay for •
custodies of the ruins.

" At length," Bays the Army and Navy Gazette,
"we are able to announce to our readers that an issue of
100-pomace rifled Armstrong guns has been made from the
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, eleven of which arrived on the
11th instant at the gm wharf, Portsmouth, in the Bala.
lam tramport, far the use of the Mips. The carriages,
both ea the revolving Bile end truck principle, are ready
for the gum and they will be issued without delay as fast
m the Mips are ready to receive them. We may also
look for a reemtpdos of experiments from the Excellent
against the lraa•platsd dike of the Sirius and Griper,
brought to an untimely done by the stripping of the
grooves of the gun ea a former occasion."

A letter front Biarritz states :—" During the peat
winter several English families hare made their home at
this pisesset place, the community seldom numbering less
thee IC3. Biarrita is w Li known in summer as the resort of
gaiety and fashion. It is now likely to be well frequented
during the winter, mainly by those who seek a quiet and
eironamieal place of residence. Some time ago an applica-
tion was made to his Majesty the Emperor for aid towards
the Greed= ci an English church. On Easter Sunday the
ehaphin resolved from him a donation of 2,000 franca. An
address has been forwarded from the English residents
through Mr. Graham, the British Consul at Bayonne, and
Lord Cowley, thanking the Emperor for his liberal contri.
indion--• fresh proof of his Majesty's good will towards
&g•"

" Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde,"
says a letter from Toulon, " are, it is said, about to visit
this piece, where they will remain a week, the genie of
Admiral Bouct-Willanmes, at the Maritime Prefecture. It
is sot thought that they will p to Italy till after the new
Italian kingdom lies been recognised by the French govern-
ment. The object of the prince's journey appears to be the
inspection of the maritime improvements in progress at
Tadao."

REFAVOMTATION or TYNEYOUTII. —Mr. Hugh
Taylor isesiell ao eddrom to the electors laat right, resigning
bls oat. He misuse hie seat because of his brother. (Mr.
Thome John Taylor's) death. Mr. Nathaniel Grace Lam-
bert, of Durham Hall, Uxbridge, • coal miller and liberal.
je wakes of as a candidate, but • meeting of the electors
waif be held on Mooday eight, when the names of several
gelatinmises, it is anticipated, wall be submitted to their
&oh

11LanatAos WITH • DECI•AID Wlreld SISTER.—
The following are the vesolutioas adopted at the meeting
yesterday at Wid Rooms :—" That this meeting is con-
vinced that any alteration in the marriage law which per-
mitted marriage within the prohibited degrees was fraught
with great danger to religion. morality, and family life."
" That this meeting will endeavour to promote be. every
means in its power effective resistance. to the bill before the
Howe of 4 'ommone for legalising such marriages." "That
the aseertitm that the working chimes desired such en
alienate is the wrings law as is proposed, is not foomided
on feet."

Bcridmrw 3(tirrrmt roes Tea vuo-txn
Tosiday—Stadistiall, 8. "lediscritniaating income Tax "
Mr. Warburton. Royal Institatioe, 3. " Fishes." Professor
Owes. Regimen, 8. " Flostiog Railway at Forth, he.,"
Mr. BaU. Etbanlagical, 8. " halite Tribes M.N. of
imadall Um." Dr. Hector mad Mr. Vass. Wed-
nesday Society of Arts, 8, "Coates Supply," Mr.
Crawford, Netaaeriogkel, 7, Comae. Thanulay—Lis•
was 8, " Ciroulatros of Blood la Pegea ;" " PAW Risme.
of 11;aelliomala," Mr. Maalonall Mewled, 8, "Elmer,.
city and Gunpowder," Professor Abel. Royal Inetantioa,
•'• Electricity," Professor Trodall. Royal, "Effect
produced on Deviation of Compare by Length and Arrange.
meat of Compass Needles, tad es a sow Mode of Corms•ting
the Quadrantal Deviation," by Memra. Smith and Erma*.
Anticywrim, 84. Friday—Royal Inatitution "Tree
Twigs," Mr. Ruskin. &turd:iv—Royal InAitution, 3,
Somme of Language," Professor Max Midler, Asiatic,
3, " Native klublory of Kingdom of Burn,"

sit doun.

--•--
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
residence of Viscount Palmerston in Piccadilly. The
ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll,
Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the
Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles
Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. C. P.
Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Ayrion, M.P., with the
Sub-Treasurer Chairman, and Secretary of the Amex-Wien
for the Repeal of the Mums on Knowledge, Mr. R. T.
Rawlins (RR 'rexham), Mean. Baldwin and Wright (Bir-
mingham). Mr. /timber, and Mr. Thomas, had an iaterview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his
edictal residence, in Downing-street.
Lord Hotham, M.P., Admiral Duncombe, ILP., Mr.
James Clay, M.P., Mr. Joseph Samos, M.P., Mr. T. B.
Horde& /LP., Mr. J. C. Evart, M.P., Sir Matthew W.
Ridley, M.P. the Hoe. Mary G. Liddell, M.P., Mr.
Somerset A. Beaumont, M.P., Mr. W. Jackson, M.P., the
Right Roo. T. B. Headiam, M.P., Mr. Buchanan, M.P.,
Mr. Welsh, ILP., Mr. C. Ewing, M.P, Mr. Bouvet*,
M.P., Mr. Denim, M.P., Mr. Merry, M.P., Mr. D. Sey-
mour, M.P., Lad Ashley, M.P., with deputations from the
eorporatioos of Hull and Newcastle ; from the Trinity-
houses of Hall, Newcastle, sod Leith ; from the Tyne Im-
pt Commissioner., teem the pilots of Liverpool end
=l2e, from the Carebree Light Trustees, and from the
Clyde Navigation Trustees, had an interview with the Right
Hoe. T. Milner °Nam and the Right Hon. W. Hatt yes-
terday at the Aka of the Board of Trade.
The Committee for advising her Majesty's Commiesioners
for the International Exhibition of 1862, in matters cou-
nseled with the fine arta, met at the rooms of the Society
of Arta, in the Adelphi, yesterday. Present : Earl Stan-
hope, in the chair ; Earl Somers, Lord Llanover, Lord
Taunton, Lord Echo, 1L P., the Lord Chief Baron, Sir C.
Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy ; Mr. Frederick
Taylor, President of the Society of Painters in Water
Colours ; Mr. Henry Warren, President of the New Society
of Painters in Water Colours ; Mr. Thomas Ashton, Mr. &
Field, Mr. Tom Taylor, and Mr. Le Neva Foster, Secretary.
The Cloremiseionere for the International Exhibition of
INS held a meeting at their offices in the Strand yesterday.
A deputation respecting the Loodoo Wine mad Cal
Duties Continuance Bill, and other bills, Mr. /fowl:may,
M.P., Mr.Sornereet Beaumont, M.P., Mr. Baines. M.P., Mr.
Liddell, M.P., and Mr. Ingham ; and a deputation of Goal-
;wows, ernsiating of Mr. Wood, Mr. Philipson, Mr.
Mot, Mr. Booth, Mr. J. W. Day, Mr. Hewlett, °MITT
Knowles, Mr. T. Knowles, Mr. J. B Pope, Mr. H. Morton,
Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Day, with Mr. James Dixon, Mr. W.
Page, and Mr. W. Milner, of the Coal Exclaims; and Mr.
Parkes, parliamentary agent, bad an interview with the
Right Hon. Sir G. Corsewall Lewis, yesterday, at the Home.
*Sm.
Dispatches were seat yesterday from the Ooloaial-office
to the Ooversore et Goads, the Bahama, and to the Lord
High Oossaidower at the keine Labiate,

WILL 01 ran LAIII Docaaae or ICIMS.—The
will of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kest was proved
in the principal meshy on the lid of this smooth by the
Prisms Consort, the sole executor. This will, smarting
from so distinguished a parmesan as the mother of her
Majesty, will, we (Illtuinaid News) are assured, be read
with peat interest by all dame. Ceder this conviction we
give the document entire :—" This is the lest will and testa-
ment of me, Victoria Maris Louise, Duchess of Heat and
Strathern. I hereby revoke all other wills and codicils
made by me at any time heretofore. I give, devise, and
bequeath to my dearly-beloved daughter, her Majesty Qom'
Victors, all my rod and personal estate whatsoever and
wheresoever whereof I may be seised, possessed, interested
in, or entitled unto at the time of my decease, to bold the
woe unto my said daughter, her summers, and assigns
absolutely. I appoint my dearly-beloved son-in-law and
Nephew, his Royal Higbee.. AIWA of Semi-Coburg and
Gotha, Prince Consort, sole exelatter. Is witness whereof
I have hereto set my hand this 90th day of March, 1860.
Vicromt." "Biped and declared by her Royal Highness
the Cachou of Kest and amities) as and for her last will
and testament in the premises of us, who, in her pre once
(all being present at the smash at her request, and in the
presence of each other, have subscribed our names so wit-
ness.. —G. Cooper, principal equerry to her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Rest, Frogmore ; Ramsay H. Cooper, clerk
in the Wer-ollek residing in Frogniore." The will of her
late Royal Highness exhibits • pufect specimen of beautiful
penmenship. It is written in a style of remarkable neatness
and perspicuity, and is so exceedingly brief as merely to
occupy a portion only of one side of foolscap paper. The
personalty was sworn under 10,0001.

His Excellency the Brazilian Minister, Madame
do Gansll2o Mersin, sad family lava left Caveadiak-square
km Park

Lord Colmlay has left Fenton's Hotel for Edin-
bulb.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stonor arrived
in Hertford-street yesterday from Sown Park, for the
seems.

The Hon. Thomas Howell-Thurlow, Attacbd to
ilia &Whiney the Earl of Elgin, has arrived at the Bruns-
wick Hotel, Jermynwirest.

Lady Moleaworth entertained at dinner, on
Thursday evening, his Royal Highness the Comte de Paris,
the Austrian Ambassador and the Coaster Apponyi, the
Duke of Newcastle, Vireciant Falkland and the Duchess at
St. Albans, Lady Diana Boatlark and the Duke of fit.
Albans, Maria ilarchlonese of Ailarbury, the lifarchieoese
of Claaricarie, Mr. Harcourt and Franca. Countess Walde-
grave, the Earl and Countess of Clareadon, Loed sad lady
Herbst* of Lea, Lord Colville, Hon. now Stoner, Mr.
Lumley, and Mr. Hayward.

Sir t. Ruabout, Bart, has arrived at Fenton's
Hotel, horn Seziseot, Gloucettersbire.

We (Somerset Journal) hear that A. E. Way,
&q., M.P., has returned to England, and is sufficiently
canvalmont to take carriage exercise.

The Lord Chanoellor has appointed Mr. M. J.
F. Brickdale, of the Middle Temple, to be one of the con-
veyancing counsel of the Court of Chancery, in the place of
Mr. Bellenden bet, resigned.

The weekly meetings of the Royal Society were
resumed on Thursday bat alter the Faster recess. General
Baia% treasurer and rice-president, occupied the char;
sad a paper was read, "Oa the action of a plate of metal
oa an inclined plane wheel dilated and contracted, and upon
the ascent of 'laden,* by the Rev. H. Moseley, Canon of
Bristol, F. R. S.

A new apropos eketeb, the joint production of
Mean. W. Breath and A. Halliday, will be produced at
the Adelphi on Monday evening. It is entitled The Census.

Mr. Mullett advertises the re-opening of his
singing chums, which will aseeceble in the Kunio Hall,
Siore-strast.

A commission from the Treasury is now sitting
(says the Army mid Nary Gazette) in the southsweet
district, for the purpose of examining the system of w-
omen in the civil branches of the service, with a view, we
believe, ultimately of centnilisiug the payments entirely in
the hands of the commissariat, or the bolders of the mili-
tary chest, very much on the lame principle as has long
been in vogue in our colonies and other foreign possessions.
Metiers. Hurst and Blackett are preparing fur
publication —" The Court and Society horn Elisabelh to
Anne, illustrated from the pipers and portraits at Kim.
hellos," edited by the Duke of Manchester; '• The Okavango
River; er. Plantes of Travel, Exploratico,and Adventure,"
by Mr. C. J. Anderson ; "The Life and Correspondence
.01 Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.K, from hie Private
Papers," by Major,Deneral K. Napier ; "The Life of J. M.
W. Turner, A., from Original Letters and Papers, in the
pceseseion of his Executon, Friends, and Fellow Academi•
clans," by W. Thornbury ; "A Saunter through the West-
End," by Leigh Hunt; "The Life of the Rev. Edward
Irving," by Mrs. Oliphant; "Henry IV. and Marie de
Medici," by Miss Freer, 2 vole., with portraits; "The Re.
creations of a Sportsman," by Lord William Leeson; "The
Secret History of the Court of France nailer Louis XV.,"
by Dr. Chalice ; and "Sketches from 11111.14" by Lady
Charlotte Pepys.

At the principal telegraph stations the state a
the weather and the direction of the wind throughout the
kingdom at 10 ►.m. daily, is now 11.1101rb. Oa a large map
of the United Kingdom, hung in the lobbies of the Mafiosos,
a circle about half an inch in diameter eurreuods each wa-
wa sod principal city, on the circumference of which cir-
cle names expressive of the different kinds of weather,
and also the initials of the different points of the
compass, are printed. Two small watch heals,
one red and the other white, are ioserted in
each circle. By msans of the lianas the state of the weather
and the direction of the wind throughout the country is
indicated, and the progress of ships known to be on our
rust can be pretty accurately guessed at from day to day.
It is expected that these maps will become in general use
amongst pereoni interested in shipping, who ma ham the
hands in the circles regulated by Use telegraph enamehy
every day.

at sight, 98. OQ Madras, 30 days' sight, 97 to 97i. OD
Chime, 60 days' sight, 211 r. to 212 r.
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Fright to London.—Cotton, 3/. se. ; seeds, 21. 12s. 6d. to
21. 15.. To Liverpool.—Cetion, 31. 2s. 6d. to 31. se. ;
seeds, W. Ts. &L ; to China, 14 rupees. Money tight.
Government securities, Four per Cents, 78 ; Fives, 94i ;
Ftsrands-Half per Cents, 100. Bank rate of dimwit on
private bills, 13 per cent. Loans on government securities,
11 per oent. Males opium, 1,690 rupees.

COCHIN CHINA.

SINGAPORE, MARCH 9.

Letters have been received here from Sagon up
to the 28th February by the chartered steamer
Granada, announcing that on the 24th February
an attack was made by the French and Spanish
forces (the latter only 200 men in action) on the
Annamese ; and, although the allies came off vic-
torious, it was a much more serious affair than
was expected.
Five forts were taken, and also a fortified camp,
with a large quantity of ammunition and arms.
The lose of the Anuamites cannot be ascertained,
as they invariably carry off their wounded.
Twenty prisoners were only made.
_ _

The lo:usof the French is stated to be Lieutenant-
Colonel Tesard, and Midshipman Le Regniere killed.
The general and five officers wounded, and 300 rank
and file killed and wounded. Spanish loss, b killed
and 36 wounded. A Spanish colonel also wounded.
The day after the steamer left a new expedition
was to be organised to follow up the success, and
it was hoped that part of the country where large
quantities of grain were stored would be secured.
Meanwhile, rice had advanced to 1 doL 136 c. Next
mail will give particulars of the engagement that
was expected to come off on the 29th ult.