The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-06 00:00:00

THE STATE OF NAPLES.

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The following information has just beeen brought. tot
a credible source, and is so important that, at the ri6tt,
being in error, we publist. it. " During the last 01,overiso
says the informant, " the King and the Hereditary .r`
have presided at frequent ecclesiastical conference '9O
which were present the Archbishops of N4ll.leLbie
Capua, Cardinals Riario and Cosersa ; the ArcL'u-;siieP
of Sorrento, Monsignor Apuzzo ; and the '0,40
of Isernia, Morsignor Saladino. These °id,
with the President of the Council, Cavallere itt
bad been engaged in drawing up a concordat 1141:1 10;
Court of Rome similar to that which was conele," see:
year between the Austrian government and the 001,60
Should this be true, it indicates also a political ae
tion and union between the thresl governments in Itit44
most interested in checking all progress and Inein:eiel_,
things exactly as they are ; in fact the king is so t 47' vs
of power, and his jealousy of the two border 'vs
strong, that nothing but some strong political metireditil
possibly induce His Majesty to accede to a sec 1e
of an Austrian Concordat. My information ther,-
true, is of evil augury for the liberties of Italy. , gePei
While on ecclesiastical topics I may mention that ap
ral mission has been ordered to take place among ',lgor&
_forces, both by laud and sea, to begin on the Bth of rd 1111
and terminate on the Bth of April. During that Pet'°f its
troops will have to attend regularly the preaching thelf
priests, and, together with their officers, go througu io
spiritual exercises. The priests remain permanent' 14
their barracks. The army and navy will, theref°,,ireiuti
sif ei yet more than they have hitherto been by the V
police commission. Of
Tuesday, the 24th of February, was the antiver6.9.:lol
i the King's swearing to observe the constitution "wt 0
name of the Omnipotent God, one and three, to whole, elq,
given to read the depths of the heart." Accord 1,.°;
during the night, notwithstanding the sleepless vig'l,3-,;e111
the police, tricoloured placards were attached to the a.lO
in all parts of the city, and dropped in the Theatre of "9,1
Carlo. They were collected by the soldiers on gnorci,det4,
intelligence of the fact was telegraphed to Caserta• SAPO
were returned to put the 2nd Regiment of Grenadier 000
Guards in arrest in barracks, with a view to institute
enquiries.

THE LATE FANCY DRESS BALL AND

CHARACTERS.

The Faacy Dress Ball of Tires fay night furnished Ina. 2.
example of that amazing fertility of imagination whic,ll,siell
remarkable a faculty of the average British mind, .and
usually furnishes the walls of our Art..-Union Exhibitil;foel:
[ladies of Harold, Judith, Malvolios, and Vicars of W' volt%
in exhaustless repetition. The revellers at our greal 'toe/
Dress Ball had a long time for preparation, and all the Iter:ele4/
history, and the nations of the earth from which tnigsia
costumes and characters. We have taken the trouble °rote'
carefully over the most authentic list of names and cha hsPet
each furnished by the individual personally, and wereoes
to gratify our readers with some of the results. °goo
Charles Lever's merry novels a modest English gentleto alt
encouraged to sociality at an Irish ball by being tnidst
right off to every one in the room, with the assurance A
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the young men there answer to the name of
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three fourths of the ladies are Miss Molloys. Our Intliar,,
might have been described in somewhat' of the same
style : half the young men in the room were 0:040.
and three fourths of the ladies were either nes?' title
or Greeks. We pass over altogether the number of root
men who arrayed themselves in military and naval 6'5 111°
as being quite too numerous for any special mention' of
number of Spanish costumes displayed at once in the.,ooll
amounted up to 109 ! An irresistible body of adventure•ricsll
- --surely have been here, when wo consider that ;wits'
Spaniards once attempted the conquest of Peru. of
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nnmerical importance came gentlemen in the costuolet-isi"
court of Louis Quatorze, or Quinze, of whom Pia3,ooll
paraded the ball room. Ninety-one " old English" George,
meaning thereby the costumes of the Anne and Ge°- din
and 2nd, days—diversified the crowd. Quite indeperaleat
these came the older English garb of Charles the nit vet;
Second, of which fifty-eight specimens were given• eoe
hardly be said that Greek met Greek tolerably often filela
an occasion. Nearly as many Hellenes as once 01 idol;
wooden horse stalked through the hall and the enttholAas,,,
fifty-seven individuals of this race formed a Pyrrhic saihl
on this occasion, or might have done so, the want af's
g
which always characterised those who wore the Creek
had not manifested itself here also. Turks were less
but still we think thirty-one Ottomans in even- jviSii:
despicable amount of ornamental furniture,
there were twenty-nine. That there were only ;10A°'
five Highlanders, seems to us rather a matter Of sa" thivy
considering that the kilt usually drapes at least "Tvlea,;J
of the limbs commonly in motion at fancy halls'
ladies were simultaneously struck with the happy an".,]°e °_„0"
thought of appearing as flower girls, and carried the 11,10,,
accordingly. Considering - recent events twelve forilil
Mandarins was not an extravagant number. Our old srK,
friends. the debardeurs, do not appear as popular ie 14„,%1
as elsewhere, there being but ten individuals who assn"
red
picturesque costume. The number of ladies who nPr-f fla"
gipsies was also rather limited—only nine. Six cePiea Cdri
Ccesar de Bazan roystered among the crowd. FllrooP„i%
Ravenswoolls were gloomy in black cloaks and "be fvo
feathers.', We have to congratulate our readers 121)°,,t'0
that only four Hamlets, perhaps the smallest nurnue;•:ier;
memory of man, made the hall dismal with their tot'', sli
sables and bugles. This may, indeed, be looked uP
symptom of reviving originality among our masquerviatoittel
rumour, indeed, prevailed through the day that the el b.;
expecting the usual run upon this favourite charande
_s :°a„i
-resolved that after a certain number of Rats-- OP-
-150 or so, ' had gained admission, any others aPP 1,000
must either retire altogether, or extemporise r 000's
cliange of dress or name, "to vary," as Box ot tbof
we do not know which, observes, " the monet°,,na. eon, al
proceedings." Four living portraits of Mary "'ore"
Scots were as unlike each other and the original, as orate°o
pictures, of the pen or pencil, usually are. Coternr,
literature was represented by four copies of Dickens palfsiif
Varden." We might go on at greater length with our a Dirk-
and tell of the North American Indians, Mont blenle;
of Buckingham, Neapolitan peasants, Venetian ..-b•alc
6ce. 'Sv., who met each other at every corner. We t„l'ir
have said enough to drew that no very great )I'ogra'rTeles°/
discovery of characters and costumes was made cn „aportm,.i,
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night. One lady, •indeed, is represented by a Cnce
as having appeared in a character which we 'lnuit FroL
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absolutely eriginal, and of the getting up of which
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form not the slightest conception. Our cotemporarl
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in type of unmistakeable' clearness that the lady in q
appeared as an 'a Italian Pheasant,"

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