The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-07 00:00:00

(Stamped, V, Additional.) [TWOPENCE

it would be ten thousand fold greeter to them. There
was one man, and only one man in France that could and
would prevent a movement of that sort—that man was I
the Emperor Napoleon. (Applause.) He believed the
Emperor was heart and soul for the alliance. If it were
not foe the Emperor he did not think that it would be long
before they would have a row? The French army and
people were 'restless and ambitious. The wounds rankled
in their breasts. He meant not only the wounds of
Waterloo, but the wounds of Cressy and Poictiers. Those
wounds wets inflicted by the cloth-yard shaft of the
English archers. He thought now that they had an arm
that would put the cloth-yard shaft to shame • he had
seen the shooting at Wimbledon lately. He bid before
him just now the practice of a gentleman at 200 yards
range ;he made 18 points with ;nine shots. (Hear.) He
thought that would tell a little against any enemy who
might come here. (A laugh.) They had a country here
(Cornwall) which was one of the finest in the world for the
of volunteer defence—for guerilla defence.
rCulipeecTse.) They could not suppose that volfuiteers would
stand in line the same VA old troops ; they could not be
expeded to do it, neither would they be wanted to do it.
(Hear.) After alluding to the personal bravery of English-
, men, Colonel Peard went on to say that Cornwall was
one of the best countries that could possibly be for
volunteer defence. In it the volunteers might defy
I any army that could be brought against them. They
would defy any army to pass through such a country.
He didn't care how strong they might be in cavalry or
artillery. Volunteer rifles who knew bow to stand
together in fours, sixes, tens, or dozens, with the artillery
volunteers occupying the passes, would defy any army to
go through this county. (Cheers.) They had no plaids for
amain, to act. As long as they stack to their small enclo-
sures, they Deed not fear. He could speak a little about
volunteers himself—(Yes}—became for the last two years
he bad himself been a vekstest with volunteers deer 1859.
At that date,' as their worthy chairman said, he went as a
volunteer with General Garibaldi in Italy. They had
opposed to them the oldest veterans of the Austrian army.
They (General Garibaldi's cores) crossed the Ticino with
3,600 men. They threw themselves acmes the river into
the enemy's country. flatboat twodays aftertheyfell in with
about 6,000 of the enemy, with artillery and cavalry. Well,
what did they do? They went at them ? (Cheers.) They
attacked their artillery with their bayonets and put them
to flight. They heard no more of them that day.
Of the cavalry they saw but very little. Of these men
(Garibaldi's) none had been enrolled two months, sod some
not more than three weeks! (Applause.) They shivered
these 6,000 foes. They pursued them more than four miles,
and some of them retreated as far as 20 miles. The following
day they fell in with 10,000 of the enemy, whom they like-
wise put to flight. Why ! The volunteer was fighting for his
home, wife, child, mother, and sister. The others were the
paid soldiers els tyraanoua house. (Hear.) How would they,
Englishmen, like to have this country parcelled out, and
foreign soldiers put in possession! (No.) How would
they like to be-tortured and imprisoned!—(indignant cries
of " No "1
—not only they themselves tortured, but those
sewed and dearest to them tortured? (Shame.) That
was the case with the Austrians in North Italy. But
there was a certain excuse for them—they were foreigners,
and did not care what they did with the inhabitants. They
made the Italians pay for the sticks with which they beat
them ! After they had flogged them they sent in the bill to
the family. (Oh!) But when they came to Southern Italy,
under what was called the Italian stock, the house of Bour-
bon, they exercised the most abominable tyranny. With
one exception—the Pope's government of Rome—they were
the worst governors in the world. They sought every
opportunity to torture and imprison the peoou They were
the old Bourbons. Thank God they had got rid of them.
They were at an sod. They would be shocked if he were to
tell them of the horrible barbarities which they practised. At
Palermo they had iron caps and screws with which they tor-
tured. They were bounden iron chains, and pans of heated
charcoal were put to their (the victims') feet ! One
of horror.) This was to extort confession. One
act of torture was specially savage. It was performed by
Monescalco, the bead of the police at Palermo. He wanted
to get some information with regard to the males of the
family. He took the mother and a child, put one on one
side of the room, and the other on the other side of the
room, and then told the mother that if she would not con-
fer she should see the child die before her eyes.
(Oh.) Yet when Garibaldi got possession of Palermo
this Idouescalco actually came to him and begged of
him that he would protect him. He thought the general
was too good a man. He did protect his life. This
Monescalco put on a red shirt to screen him, and he
was taken to the fortress. He (Colonel Peard)
was no admirer of revolution, though Le had done his best
to dethrone a monarch ; nay, he had done his best to
dethrone more than one. (A laugh.] But, said the
speaker, they were such monarchs that Le was proud to do
his best to dethrone them. He might be wrong. (No.)
There was a lawyer sitting by his side, sod he would set
him right If be was. (A laugh.) He thought there was a
mutual oompast between prince and people. (Hear.) They
bad done the same thing in England. (Hear.) Therefore
they could not blame the Italians. They (England) did it
in 1668. What was the result? (Cheers.) Why, they
had a government and a Queen of whom they might justly
be proud. They had their laws duly administered without
favour and without affection. The law was supreme ;
therefore they were free. (Cheers.) In Seuthorn Italy, in
the greater part of Italy, in every part of Italy except
Sardinia, there was no law, there was no freedom.
Col. Peard, after some further remarks, referred to the bri-
gandage which was being carried on is Italy. These were
not the regular bitgands, respecting whom the speaker re-
lated some amusing anecdotes, and into whose hands he
believed a former 11. P. for that county, Mr. Pendarvis, once
fell. These prompt brigands were the miserable creatures
of Francisco. They were characterised as cowardly assassins
Neal to any cruel work. They were guilty of every enor-
mity, and pillaged and destroyed what they could. But a
finer, honester set of brigands than those of Calabria could
Dot exist ! (A laugh.) After further observations upon those
"honest brigands" Colonel Paard proceeded to speak of
the King's government. It had been stated that it was to.
popular. He said that it was no such thing. He bad not
out of Italy two months, and he said that it was not
st all unpopular except in the case of a few discontented
men who had lost their employment because they were
I dishonest. These were the only meu interested in keeping
up dieturbaeoss. A more popular man than Victor Em-
manuel could not be, and if his government was nut althea.
Cher popular, it would be in a short time, when it had been
allowed to work. They must not expect everything to he
done in a day. (Hear.) He had often told them that in
Italy. He said that they expected too much. Let them
(Englishmen) look back to the days of the expulsion of
the Stuart,, and the time which elapsed before they
recovered their position. Sixty years elapsed. They could
sot expect that a country like Italy, where the people had
been kept purposely ignorant by the government, would
immediately right dealt. They could not expect that
Souther Italy, with such a largo population. would act as
cue mind—that every man would act as his oeii;hhour.
(Hear, bear.) Continuing his remarks, Colonel Peard mid
, that he had only one observation to nuke about the pope-
' larity d the late King of Naples, Francis IL Garibaldi
cameos distance of 150 miles to Naples, and he was only
accompaisied by eight followers. He had no soldiers
within ear hundred miles of him. The whole city
rose as one man to receive and welcome him. The
troops of the fallen dynasty were in the fortress,
looking through the embrasures. He (Garibaldi) went
through the city, under the very guns of the fortress, but
there was no hostile shot. All that was heard was the cry
of liberty. (Cheers.) They (the inhabitants) were worn
and tired out by the tyranny to which they bad been sub-
jected. He thought they (England) might assist Italy by
taking their produce. As a nation of shopkeepers we might
look to the Italians to give us an immense
deal of what we wanted. But Italy, they must
recollect, was not a manufacturing country. She again,
therefore, would take our manufactures-(applause) in re-
turn for the produce which we should take from her.
Colonel Paint then referred to Villafranca and Boileau°,
and the effect of the Villafranea treaty. For too many
years Italy had been split up into potty states. It bad
always been the policy of her masters to keep her divided.
He held it as the great safety of Italy fur the next three or
four years that they should not get Venetian territory.
They, did not like it, of course—(cheers)—nor would they—
(" No "—to have half of Euglaod, say from the west of the
Thames, over-run by foreign invaders and the rest free.
(Cheers.) Still he firmly. believed that that country being
in the hands of the Austrians was one great means they had
of consolidating the kingdom of Italy. (Cheers.) They
did Dot want at present to fight. That was not the object
of Italy. They wanted peace, that they might organise ;
they wanted, am he said, to have schools, to have roads, I
that they might communicate, to make the people ac-
quainted with each other ; they wanted to develop the re-
sources of the country ; they (the government) wanted to ;
improve the people by bringing forward and carrying into i
effect good measure*. (Applause.) After a few further
observations the gallant colonel thanked them for the pa- /
times with which they had listened to him-- (loud cries of
"Goon ")—acid for the honour which they had done him.
He wished them all health and happiness.)
Colonel Peard then resumed his seat amidst flesh de-
monstretious of applause, a loud, hearty cheer being given •
for Italy.
After some further addresses bad been delivered the pro.
reeding, terminated.

MX GT.RYAN FLAo.—A letter from Berlin of
the 3rd says :—" During the last few days public opinion
has bees occupied with the question as to whether, at the
fêtes of the gymnastic societies, which are shortly to take
place is this capital, the German flag will be allowed to be
hoisted. All doubt on the subject has been removed. The
King has jjust addressed a letter to the Minister of the
ID-
terior, enjoining on him nut to throw any ebetscles in the
way of patriotic manifestations of the societies."
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DIOCESE OF LONDON.

The Bishop of London has addressed the follow-
ing letter to the laity of his diocese:—"Sir,—Notwith-
standing the great efforts which have for acme years put
been made for the extension and improvement of elementary
education throughout the kingdom, the metropolis. con-
sidering the vastness of its population, is still so deficient in
the number and quality of it. schools that the committee
of the London Diocesan Board have requested me to briag
the subject before the laity as well as the clergy of the dio-
cese. The great object of the London Diocesan Board of
Education is to enable schools in poor localities to qualify
themselves for receiving government aid. The operations
of this board have extended over 22 years, during the whole
of which period it has laboured uneatentatiously, but zea-
lously and effectively, to promote the religions and social
well-being of the rising generation. Within the last seven
years it has annually inspected upwsrde of 200 schools, and
has succeeded in raising upwards of a hundred
from a state of lamentable inefficiency to a stan-
dard high enough to satisfy the Queen's inspector
and obtain the valuable aid afforded by the state. The efforts
of the board are rendered more necessary by the
reliant diminution of the government grants, and the
committee are continually receiving urgent and importunate
applications from the eastern and other poor districts of the
metropolis for aid in building, enlarging, or repairing school-
rooms, in securing competent teachers, and improved school-
books and apparatus, as well as in eetablishiug evening schools
for young persons whose education has been neglected. It
is to meet these numerous applications and to being elemen-
tary education into a state more worthy of this metropolis
that your cortributions to the funds of the board are now
earnestly requested.—(Signed) A. C. LoNDON." His lord-
, ship has commended an appeal for missionary curates and
school churches in the crowded districts of London and its
suburbs made by the eomratttes of the London Diocesan
Church Building Society to all who are interested in the
1 welfare of the metropolis. They ask the public for suffi-
cient funds to enable them to build or adapt eppmpriate
rooms, and to establish missionary curates, if picrsible' in
all the poorest parts of the metropolis. Appended to the
appeal are the general arrangements by which the object
sought to be accomplished is to be carried out.

THE GREAT NORTHERN AND WESTERN (OF
IRELAND) RAILWAY.

The eighth half-yearly ordinary general meeting
of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday at
one o clock, at the offices of the company, 36, Parliament-
street. The chair was taken by the Earl of LOC. N.
The CHAIRSIAN read the report, from which it appeared
that, after paying the working expenses of the line and in-
terest charged to revenue, there was a balance of traf-
fic receipt. for the half-year which when added
to 2,1621.75. 9d., the balance at December 31, made a total
of 4,8971. 9a. The directors proposed a dividend of V. per
rent., less income tax, upon 200,0001. called up on the ori-
ginal shares, and 44,555/. called up on the Castlebar Eaten-
sine shame, which would take 4,891!. 25., and leave a balance
of 6/. 7.. in hand. Considering the competition of the Tuam
line, the directors thought the traffic receipts satisfactory,
and they trusted that such competition would be put an end
to by the opening of the line to liallyhaunia, which would
, take place on the 15th inst.
The report having been adopted,
A resolution declaring a dividend of 2/. per cent, in accord-
ance with the directors report, moved by Mr. L Simpson,
seconded by Mr. John Smith, was carried unanimously.
The third resolution, "That the directors be and they are
hereby empowered to exercise the borrowing power of the
company to the extent of 33,000!., as authorised by the
Great Northern and Western (of Ireland) Railway Com-
pany's Act of 1859, as soon as they deem it expedient to do
so, in the manner and upon the terms they may consider
most advantageous to the company," having been moved by
the chairman, and seconded by Mr. John Smith, was carried
unanimously.
Mr. N. Davis (of Racklands, Castlebar) and Mr. L. Simp-
son were then appointed directors, under the terms of the
act ; after which the proceedings terminated in the usual
manner.