The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-21 00:00:00

SPORTING-THIS DAY.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
YORK RACES, THIS DAY.
LONDESBORORGII CUP.

Spicebox
North Pole
Recluse

Sixteen ran.
Arrived—Maritana and Cachuca.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
THE DERBY.
1000 to 20 apt Norroy (taken freely)

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—TEITS DAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter past ono
o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Berwickshire Railway Bill was read a third time
and passed. The following bills were considered and or-
dered for third reading :—Caledonian Railway (Leith
Branches) ; Eastern Counties Railway and other Compa-
nies Amalgamation ; Mid Kent and Addiscombe Railway;
South-Eastern Railway (Tunbridge and Dartford Lines).
The Lynn Valley Railway Bill was read a second time.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

—The following protest has been addressed by the
lonian Legislative Assembly to the Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian Islands:—
" FIRST SESSION OF THE T RELFTII PARLIAMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF THE lONIAN ISLANDS,
PROTEST ♦GAINST THE PROTECTORATE.

" Whereas the sth article of the Treaty of Paris of the
sth of November, 1815, imposed, simply for the fulfilment
of duties intrusted to the Protectorate, that Her Britannic
Majesty shall have the right to occupy the fortresses and
places of these States, and to maintain garrisons in the
same;' and whereas by the 6th article it was provided in
what manner everything which may relate to the mainte-
nance of the fortresses already existing shall be regulated,
which was done by the 12th article of the 2d section, chap.
vii., of the Constitution of 1817 ;

" Whereas, independently of various other large sums
expended by the lonian States for the maintenance and re-
pair of the existing fortresses, the sum of £164,000 was
paid to the Protectorate, in virtue of the 24th Act of the 2d
Parliament, dated the 19th of March, 1825, ' to restore and
complete the fortifications of Corfu and Vido ;' and by the
resolution of the Ist of June, 1833, of the 4th Parliament,
the sum of £15,000 in addition was granted for the same
purpose, under the condition, however, that as regarded the
entire sum of £179,000 in the first Session of the Assembly
Were should be submitted to it the accounts showing the
application of the sums so voted, and the uses made of them
in order to judge of their legitimate application; which it
would appear has never been done by the Protectorate;
" Whereas, by the resolution of the sth Parliament of the
14th of January, 1836, which was substituted for article 12,
section 2, chapter vii., of the Constitution of the year 1817,
the annual sum of £35,000 was fixed for the ' maintenance
of the existing fortresses;'

" Whereas, by the 28th article of the resolution of the Bth
Parliament of the 6th (18th) of December, 1849, this sum,
destined in part for the maintenance of the existing for-
tresses, was reduced to the annual sum of £25,000, which is
now paid ;

" Whereas the Protectorate, in violation of the duties
assumed by it for the preservation of the fortresses, has de-
stroyed fortresses which existed, has constructed new forts,
has undertaken, and continues to undertake, many other
works entirely contrary to the spirit and letter of the Treaty
of Paris, without the authority of the lonian Assembly;
" Therefore,—

" The Septinsular Assembly protests against the Protec-
torate for all that it has done, does, or may do in this
matter.

"The present shall be officially communicated to the
Lord High Commissioner as the representative of the Pro-
tecterate, in order that through him it may be sent to the
gracious Queen of Great Britain, reserving the exercise of
all other rights.
" Corfu, 17th (29th) April, 1862.

" ELIA ZEBTO JACOBATO, President.
"N. Lusi, Secretaries."
The G. Dv sm u•zi,ecretaries."
The following is the reply of the Lord High Com-
missioner :

"The Most Noble the Legislative Assembly has trans-
mitted to the Lord High Commissioner a document styled
a' Protest of the Twelfth Assembly against the Protecto-
rate,' in order that his Excellency, as representative of the
Protectorate, may transmit the same to her Majesty the
Queen of Great Britain.'

"The Lord High Commissioner declines to receive this
document from the Legislative Assembly. It is not within
the competency of the Legislative Assembly to address a
protest to her Majesty the Queen.

" The only constitutional and legal course for the Legis-
lative Assembly to pursue in approaching the protecting
Sovereign is laid down in chap. vii., sec. 7, art. 8 of the
Constitutional Charter.

" The Legislative Assembly exists in virtue of the Con-
stitution alone, and must regulate itself according to the
provisions of the Charter.

"The Lord High Commissioner therefore returns to the
Most Noble the Legislative Assembly the paper transmitted
to his Excellency by the most Illustrious the President.
" Palace of St. Michael and St. George, Corfu, May 10.
By his Excellency's command,
"E. F. BARR, Acting Secretary to the
Lord High Commissioner."

GARIBALDI AND _ITALY.

Last night a very interesting lecture was de-
livered upon the successful revolution in Italy, by
Signora Jessie White Mario, in St. James Hall, the
large room of which was crowded. The chair was
taken by P. A. Taylor, Esq., M.P., about eight
o'clock, and when Signora Mario made her ap-
pearance on the platform she was enthusiastically
cheered.
The CHAIRMAN said he had no desire to detain
them for any length of time from the business of
the evening, as he knew they were anxious to hear
Signora Mario deliver her lecture. The ordinary
office of a chairman was to endeavour to obtain
a patient hearing for those who addressed a
meeting, a request which, on the present occa-
sion, would be quite superfluous ; or a gentle-
man of weight and influence might be appointed
chairman, with the view of giving importance to
the lecture ; but he would venture to say there was
not one man in the country whose presence there
would add a wreath to the chaplet which already
adorned her brow. (Loud chears.) She was a lady
whose intelligence, courage, and devotion had been
most conspicuous in Italy, and he had to thank her,
in the name of the Garibaldi Committee, for the lec
tures she had already delivered-50 in England and
Scotland. The lectures given in England had been
a great success, while in Scotland Signora Mario
had received a great ovation. (Cheers.) In one of
the battles she had faced a storm of bullets, and her
devotion in following the wounded to the hospitals
had earned for her the title of the Florence Night-
gale of Italy. (Renewed cheers.) In no battles
were so few of the wounded soldiers lost, owing to
the care and attention which had been paid them.
Those who repudiated as a dream the idea which
ten years ago were entertained of Italian unity and
independence, were now compelled to acknowledge
what had been accomplished by the sword of Gari-
baldi. (Cheers.) It was known to many now that
Joseph Mazzini a as not only a patriot and an exile,
but a prophet and a seer, and it had fallen to the
lot of few men as it had to him, to write his name
on the accomplishment of Italian independence.
(Cheers.) Rome, they all knew, was essential to
Italy, for it was the capital in which all the tradi-
tions of the provinces were centred. The question
of Rome was the pressing question of the day, not
only as regarded Italy, but as regarded all Europe
—(cheers)—because the only security for the peace
of Europe was the unity and independence of Italy.
(Renewed cheers.) He believed that Mr. Disraeli,
in some remarks he had recently made, mistook the
temper of the people, as he did the temper of the
House of Commons on the Italian question. (Hear,
hear.) The chairman concluded by introducing
Signora Mario, who was greeted by a perfect storm
I of cheers.

Signora MARio then proceeded with her lecture,
and, except when referring to some documents, she
consulted no notes. In the late struggle Italy, she
said, seemed to be awakening from the sleep of
ages. So recently as 1856 a statesman observed
that the unity of Italy was a bubble, and the
expulsion of the Austrians a chimera ; but in 1862
the Premier of England said that the union of Italy
and foreign occupation ceasing in Rome were facts
which must soon be realised. (Cheers.) Let them
do justice to the living and the dead actors in the
drama of independent Italy. The first man who
spoke of united Italy with Rome for its capital was
the great Italian poet Dante. Another distinguished
man observed that Italian unity could not be ob-
tained with Rome for its capital, except by the abo-
lition of the Papacy. She then referred to the
Period of the first French revolution and to the
hopes which were entertained in Italy upon the
hopes
were of the First Napoleon, but these
were not sustained by him; quite the contrary,
and upon his downfall Italy was parcelled out into
small duchies. The revolutions, she said, in 1821
and in 1831, in several parts of Italy were protests
against such partitioning at the treaty of Vienna.
She then very zealously defended Mazzini from
what she termed the unfair and unfounded charges
which had been levelled against him. He had lived
in exile and poverty, labouring to lay the foundation
of Italian unity, and to no man was Italy so much
indebted as to Joseph Mazzini—(cheers)—and he
saw that when the Italians were one for all, and all
for each, they would accomplish Italian liberty. It
was owing 1,3 the Italians themselves that Mazzini,
in coming and going in his visits to Italy, was
protected when a price was Fact upon his head. The
mission of Mazzini was entrusted to the glorious
Garibaldi to carry out. (Cheers.) One of the mis-
takes committed by some people in this country was
a belief they entertained that Mazzini and Garibaldi
would have sacrificed everything,and that they would
sacrifice all for the establishment of a Republic. But
the letter Mazzini had written to Charles Albert,
and which she quoted, was proof to the contrail',

r and the answer he received fo that letter was
an order to quit Italy. He then went to Mar-
seilles, and he there founded the Society of Young
Italy, of which Garibaldi was one of its first mem-
bers. Having traced the history of the efforts of
teo of the
bythat society from the year 1834, she referred to the
sad fa
the brothers Bandiel a, whose letters
were opened
an English statesman, and upon
the information communicated to the King of
Naples these brothers were arrested and were
taken out and shot. She referred them to the con-
duct of Republican Prance, under the Presidency
of Louis Napoleon, in sending 30,000 troops to put
down the revolution in Rome, and though England
in her churches preached against the Papacy she
then raised no voice to protest against the attempt
to force the Pope upon the Italians. Her descrip-
tion of the wonderful exploits of Garibaldi in effect-
ing the liberation of Sicily was most graphic; and,
although that liberation has been of so recent a
date, and people are mostly familiar with all the
principal details, she managed to make her narra-
tive full of interest and completely chained the
attention of the audience, who occasionally inter-
rupted her with enthusiastic cheers. Her lecture
occupied an hour and a half, and was admirably
well delivered by her. She reprobated in most
severe terms the unworthy intrigues of Louis Na-
poleon in Italy, and she expressed- very unfavour-
able opinions of Count Cavour, who was mixed up,
she alleged, in these intrigues. He sold to a
foreign usurper the birth-place of Garibaldi, and
where rested the ashes of his mother. She added,
" I have nothing to say of these facts. They speak
for themselves." Louis Napoleon would have re-
stored the expelled Grard Dukes to what they
called their possessions, and here it was that Eng-
land stood the able friend of Italy. Lord John
Russell checkmated the Emperor, like an able
general. The Grand Dukes, he said, might be re-
stored by those who expelled them, if the people
ohose to do so; but they must not be restored by
foreign aid. At the conclusion of the lecture she
was again enthusiastically cheered.
The personal appearance of Signora Mario is
prepossesing, and her figure graceful. Her counte-
nance is very expressive and animated, and she has
a finely modulated voice, which adds much to the
charm of her delivery. She appeared not to be
at all wearied at the close of the lecture. Her se-
cond lecture will be upon Naples and Caprera, and
will be given on Tuesday next.

SERIOUS BOILER EXPLOSIoN AND

LOSS OF LIF.E AT GREENOCK.

An accident of a most serious and alarming cha-
racter,•arising from the bursting of a boiler at the
large iron shipbuilding works of Messrs. Scott and
Company, Cartsdyke, took place yesterday morn-
ing, and resulted in the death of at least one man,
end serious, if not fatal, injuries to about a dozen
others. We give the particulars so far as they
could be gathered by a personal hurried visit to,
and inspection of, the scene of the unfortunate
event.

The works of Messrs. Scott and Co. are situated
near to Garvel Park, exactly where the main street
of Cartsdyke runs into East Hamilton-street, pro-
ceeding on towards Port-Glasgow. The main
thoroughfare there forms an obtuse angle, in the
very corner of which, and on the north side of the
street, stood for more than a century and a half, a
little, old-fashioned house, with rook-stepped
gables, the southern corner of whish jutted out a
few feet on to the footpath. It was originally known
by the name of Garvel House, and enjoyed the re-
putation of having been the halting place for one
night of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Preten -
der, in his way up the Vale of Clyde. It became a
roadside public• house, and continued so for several
years. It belonged to a Mr. Murdoch, who, when
Garvel Park Fused into the possession of Mr. C.
Scott, the respected senior partner of the present
firm of Scott and Co., and when that enterprising
firm set down their works there, sold this antique
house to Mr. Scott. The jutting corner was removed
to improve the street, a wall erected on the new line,
and the old house, joined to other interior erections)
formed a boiler•house and blacksmith's shops.
In the same house, extending within a few feet
of the street, stood the boiler which burst,
and which supplied steam to a horizontal
uncondensing steam engine, which propelled
the machinery at the works, at the south-
west extremity. The boiler, which is tubular,
is about 25 feet in length and 7 feet in diameter.
The explosion took place exactly at three minutes
to six o'clock, immediately before the time at which
the steam was to have been let on to propel the
engine, and therefore at a time when the pressure
would in all likelihood be at its maximum. The
part of the boiler that gave way was the internal
flue, immediately over the fire, and the rent ran
almost the length of the boiler. The steam, in thus
bursting out, would meet with some resistance from
the furnace bars which were at the inside end, and
this accounts for the greatest pressure being out-
wards to the main street ; but at both ends the
escaping steam must have been impelled with the
force of a shot from a cannon ; in fact, the boiler,
which has never shifted from its seat, presented the
appearance of a great cannon fired off at both ends.
The inside, running due east from the furnace
mouth of the boiler, out of which the immense pres-
sure of steam squirted, pointed towards blacksmiths'
shops. It first threw down a wooden partition,
deeply indented a wooden crane upright, carried
away a vice bench, shattered a Dundas hammer of
about 10 cwt., and threw down and scattered
about a rubble wall. It was near to this wall that
the body of James Finnie, one of the workmen, was
got, shockingly mutilated, and G. M'Donald, an-
other, is supposed to have been impelled through
this wall, while James Russell was found there near
to his fire.

But the greater number of persons appear to have
been injured on the street outside while in the act
of passing to their day's work. The explosion
westwards in that direction threw down the wall
which separated the house from the street, filling
the Main-street with a mass of ruins, and we are
told of many hairbreadth escapes made here by men
passing to their work—one being immolated, and
his companion escaping unscathed. The debris was
propelled westward along the Main-street of Carts-
dyke for upwards of 200 yards, dashing the fronts
of the houses on the south side with mud,
splinters of wood, stones, 8,1-c. A two-storey house
on the south side of the street, nearly opposite to
the boiler-house, has had the window dashed
to atoms, the houses filled with wet mud, and
splinters of wood. bricks, and heavy iron, tools have
been projected into the houses, the interiors of
which have been completely devasted, and the in-
mates narrowly escaped (severe injury. One bed
in one of these houses had just been vacated, when
the debris came dashing through the window
frames, some of the missiles making deep indent
man, who
and knockedstartled
tions into the wood and plaster. in indenta-
tions of the
houses, Colin Ross, painter, an old
an invalid, while sitting at the fire, was was
with the smashing in of the window
down ; and in another house, James Brown, a la-
bourer, when the window was smashed in, shut the
shutters and held his back to them, but he was
forced to the other end of the apartment, and was
considerably injured about the
of his feet cut. The whole f body, and had one
o
pre-
sented a complete scene of d this tenement
ev
been under water, and left devastation, as if it had
stones, and other debris with a deposit of mud,
The following are the .
to be injured, so names of the men reported
faras could be gathered in the
early part of the
were day, and the majority of whom
conveyed to the Infirmary Jam or bolt
James ... v•nni ie, smith :—
man, screwer, an elderly
unmarried, residing
near Ladyburn, with a
sister,
killed
outright•
, his body, in a shockingly
mutilated condition,• being dug out of the ruins in-
side immediately after •
M.Don the explosion. George
'M'Donald, a holder-on, married, found inside, arms
and legs broken ; not expected to live. Henry
Scullion or 'Mulholland, a striker, found inside, se-
verely scalded, and otherwise injured. James Rus-
sell, a blacksmith, has a wife and family, found in-
side, some ribs broken, and otherwise injured; not
expected to live. Malcolm Paterson, carpenter,
found outside, severely scalded, and otherwise in-
jured. Francis M'lnulty, aged 14, a rivet boy,
bruised and scalded. Charles M'Donald, aged
16, apprentice-plater, found outside, do., do.
Samuel Patten, elderly man, a striker, head
and face scalded. Peter M'Culloch, aged 20, engi-
neer at Blake and Barclay's Works, injured in pass-
ing to his work. Neil M.lnnes, a striker at Blake
and Barclay's works, also injured in passing: Wm:
Raeside, aged 17, apprentice joiner, slightly injured
outside in passing. Hugh Wllvenny, a labourer
with Caird and Co., injured about the face on the
street outside. Peter M, Callum, joiner with
Messrs. Lang and Aitken, injured in passing out-
side to his job, mostly about the head and one of his
legs. Several others are reported to have been in-
jured slightly.—Daily Nail.