Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-11 00:00:00

GARIBALDI AND THE ITALIANS

We obtain the following curious document from
the Gazette de Liege. It purports to be a set of
instructions addressed by Garibaldi to the chiefs of
the National Society of Italy in the different Italian
States :

TO TILE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ITALY.
In the present state of Italian affairs the president con-
siders it his-duty to transmit to the society the following
secret instructions
. .

..,.„....
o trasi
Ist: commenced _ sooner have hostilities comenced between I.a ye barbarians, and altogether interlopers.nd `b . •
Piedmont and Austria, than you will at once rise in insur-
rection to the .cry of "Viva l'ltalia e Vittorio Emmenuele• among
the eliect of the earth, in which category
;they place themselYes. Theia.pariesesend some of
Out with the: Austrians !"
their head men to us on 'a mission of peace, amity,
-
. and goodwill, to extend the market for their man
• 2nd. If insurrection should be impoSsible in your own
town, all young men able to bear arms will leave it and pro-
'ready tures,. and to open a n field .
ceed to . the nearest town where insurrection has been a
grand
usage suite,_ t ei
h, _
throws
ufac-:
successful, or is likely to be so. Among neighbourin,,c, towns They will come with ewfor our commerce.
witha i- around
n nalld
you will chocise those nearest to Piedmont,'where all Italian the entourage that. Orientalaental
forces should be concentrated. . the iinniediate representativeS of the royal person.
3rd. You will make every effort to vanquish and direr- In they the East adhere
with remarkable tenacity
ganise the Austrian army, intercepting its communications, to all
the old forms, customs, and fuss and feathers
destroying its bridges and telegraphs, burning all depots "of of diplomacy,will
r and this be reproduced in our
provisions or clothing, and 'making prisoners of all imper-
tent persons in. the Austrian service. • . midst.. The sight .of the new commission will be
thegreatest
attraction of the day, and when it
4th. Do not at first fire on Italian or Hungarian soldiers,
but, on the contrary, endeavour to induce them to folloW arrives the Battery will present a scene which will
worth a day's walk to."
your own flag, and receive with open arms all who give way be
branch of business, has taken place in New' York
to your exhortations. A very marked revival of trade, in almost ever
sth. Regular troops who will embarrass the national York
cause will be at once sent into Piedmont. this Spring, one consequence of which has, been a
6th. Wherever the insurrection is successful, the man general demand 'for higher wages in most. descrip-
who stands highest in the popular estimation will assume bons of employment, more especially with mechanics.
military and civil Wages were lowered during
authority, with the title of Provisional considerably-
the panic
Commissioner for Kin.. Victor Emmanuel, and will main- 'of 1857-8, and they had not been advanced. There
thin it until the arrival of the commissioner .
despatched by has lately been a general turn
out amongst the
the Piedmontese government.
7th. artisans employed in the large establishments, from
The Provisional Commissioner will abolish the
taxes; on bread, Cern, &c., and in general all taxes which do which it was argued that things were wearing
not exist in Sardinian territory. prosperous aspect,: and that a season of unusual
Bth. A levy will-at once be made, by means of conscrip- commercial activity was .at hand, which is now
tion, of young men from 18 to 20 years of age, in proportion being:proved:to be the cage. The increase of wages
of 10 to 1,000 of the gross population. All men, also, from obtained. has
ranged froin 10 to 25 per cent. Many
20 to 35, willing to 1.,...- arms In aerAnce of the national ' a gocid mechanic can now again P 511.11 Ilia fur.
independence, may be received as v01uint.....-__both con- and a half dollars a-day in New Y •k
York—some, some? indeed,
scripts and volunteers being at once despatched ri.aniont. a good deal
more.
9th. The Provisional Commissioner will appoint a council ,
of war, with power to try and punish, within twenty four • The .usual result of brisk and money-making
bales 11,.....
hours; all Who may be guilty of crimes against the national not failed to appear, in the thriving state
cause, .or against the life or property of pacific citizens. of the various hi led of public amusement. There are
The council will make no distinctions of rank or class, but . now no fewer • than twecno -ocular licensed theatres
no person may be punished for crimes committed anterior en. in New York, night by night, and all of them
to the crowded—exclusive of concerts, shows,
insurrection. generally
. • .
- 10th. He will not allow of the establishment of political and the thousand and one minor exhibitions of the
journals, but he will publish a bulletin of all facts which it metropol The mixed ha
cracter of the population
is necessary to make public. '. ' - " • •• , of this city is strikingly indicated by the fact, that
11th. :He will dismiss froM their posts all magistrate's or there. are theatrical performances taking piace in no
officers who may be opposed to the new order of things, less than four European languages : English, French,
always -proceeding with prudence and caution. : German, and Italian. The lobbies of the Opera-
. 12th. lie will maintain the severest discipline; applying to .
house, on a full night, present a scene of rustling
all the laws suitable during a time of war. He will be in-
nationalities; and are made to ring with a jargon of
exorable to deserters, and give the strictest orders on this
subject to all his sub Ordinates. . foreign tongues, which no such places of resort it'
13th. lie will Send to King Victor Emnianuel a precise the old world can possibly surpass. Some idea may
description town theUrnis, ammunition, and money found in be formed of the rage ' there is in New York
the various s-and provinces; and- -he - will await corn- for puic' amusements, . among all classes, from
mends on this subject. :certainbl statistics . of their capacity, attendance,
11th. In Case*Of 'necessity he will make . requisitions for and receipts, which the Herald has recently
money, horses, carts, shops, &c., always giving.a correspond- given. "In accordance," it observes, " with
ing. receipt ;. but he will punish with the utmost rigour all an occasional custom, we on last evening despatched
who shall make requisitions of this kind without tie most reporters to the principal theatres and other places
pressing necessity, or without making a definite contract.
of amusement, for the purpose of obtaining estimates
15th. Until the time referred to in the first article of
of the attendance at the several houses. The result
theseinstructions, you will use every means in your power .
for manifesting the aversion which. Italy feels for the we_ give hereunto appended in a tabular form. The
Austrian domination arid for the-gOvernments dependant on first column gives the capacity of the theatres, with
Austria, as well as her, love for independence wilier confi- their'highest receipts Ut 'their present prices, and the
deuce in the house of Savoy and the Piedmontese gevern- , second the actual number Of persons present at each
meat ; but you will do all in your power to prevent place on last evening, and the amount of money
untimely or isolated movements. , , - • , taken at the. doors, as nearly as the estimates can be
For the President, • made from the best data that could be procured.".
. The Vice-Presldent; GARIBALDi. I need not trouble you with this table. Suffice it
Turin, Ist March, 18.59. to say, that it gives the account as regards twelve
theatres, the aggregate number of seats in which
is 26,000 ; the actual attendance on the night
.in
question was 19,780; and the receipts on the occasion
are estimated at 6,9t5 dollars—or nearly £1,400 of
FROM Otiß OWN, CORRESPONDENT.
English. money. But this was not a fair average
THE WASHINGTON TRAGEDY. AMICABLE SETTLE- night, it would seem, by any means. "It should be
MENT OF THE NICARAGUA DISPUTE : ATUTUAL remembered says the statement, " that the present
ENGAGEMENTS FOR PItOTECTION ; , IMPROVED week is one of the worst in the whole year for public
PROSPECTS. THE JAPANESE EMBASSY : Now ON , amusements, as it is the end of Lent, when the
ITs'WAY TO THE UNITED STATES; ANXIETY AS 1 Catholic portion of our population, as well as many
TO ITS ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION AT NEW YORE: ; I otherS, are absorbed in the devotional exercises
IMMENSE EXCITEMENT ANTICIPATED. REVIVAL appropriate to the season." it app es from
OF TRADE: ADVANCE OF WAOES ; CONSEQUENT the table given, that the aggregate receipts arare
FLOURISHING CONDITION OF PLACES OF AMUSE- sometimes as much as 11,925 doll. a night.
MENT ; TIIEIR POLYGLOT CHARACTER ; TIIEIR With all these outward signs and symptoms of
LARGE RECEIPTS. UNEASY FEELING IN THE prosperity, hoWever, there is still, I find, an uneasy
MONIED CIRCLES: FEARS OF ANOTHER FINANCIAL feeling in well-informed
certain .financial quarters,
„
CRISIS ;• RUNNING INTO EXTREMES. . arising from the dread, no doubt, of the consequences
It excites no surprise that Sickles has been of another financial inflation. 'lt is remarked. I see,
acquitted. This was foreseen from the first; and
. and certainly with only too much truth, that six
it is a result which is quite in harmony with millionsexports from New York, exclusive of
popular sympathy. He had received a wound in his specie, against twenty Millions .of imports, indicate
honour, and in his happiness, he who inflicted a very high pressure of importations ; for it amounts
which, it is contended, deserved death at his hands, .to an increase for the month of nine millions of
—and he received it. This, I say, is the popular imports, against an increase of a little over a
feeling. Of, its bad , effect upon society I can say half a million of exports as compared with the
nothing at present. The Court having decided corresponding month of. last year. "We seem,"'
that the defence might put in any evidence says the Hew York Herald,' remarking upon ths
that would go to prove the alleged prove- fact, "to be entering upon the flush times of 1853.
cation—namely, the adulterous intercourse between But let all parties concerned remember the revulsion
the deceased and the prisoner's wife, the country of 1857. 'The, old rules and regulations of banks,
has had •to be disgusted with all the bankrupts, corporations, trade, &c., still exist.
indecent details of their conduct, so far as it was Congress has neglected those general reforms, checks,
found possible to rake them together. It has been and balances, in our financial and. commercial affairs
observed- of this decision, that `andit created the so earnestly recommended by Mr. Buchanan so
greatest excitement at Washington, made a deep that the same wide margin remains for inflations,.
sensation throughout the country, and that, so far speculations, peculations, &e., which brought on.
as the common law of homicide is concerned, it the late collapse. ' Caution is the parent of
establishes a precedent which has frequently been safety.' Let us not be carried headlong into another.
raised, but which has never before been distinctly explosion." This is the great issue that is so, much
defined." I don't suppose that this course made any to be dreaded. There is so much running into
difference, as to the result, while it certainly must extremes. Men get drunk with commercial and
have had a demoralising
.effect on the community. financial success, and then undo all that they lave
The tedious, and at one time threatening Nicaragua I accomplished. The coach runs down the hill with-
dispute, is at length, it is hoped, in a fair way to be I out any drag upon its wheelsthe oonsequence.%
amicably settled. The point l f Iv t i a,e.,.,, kX, issue Iles been as experienw los, shown., ax often feart\AL

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