The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-23 00:00:00

THE KINGDOM OF ITALY.

The following is the protest made in the name of
his Majesty Francis 11. against the recognition of
the King of Italy by Russia :
" Rome, Tilly 1, 1862.

" Excellency,—The news published in_ all the
journals of Europe mentions as having been con-
cluded an arrangement in virtue of which his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of All the Russias recognises the
title of the King of Italy in the King of Sardinia.
"If, as the fact would make one suppose, that
assertion is true, his Majesty our lord wishes your
excellency to protest in his Royal name against an
act which sanctions in a certain manner the usur-
pation of his states and the iniquitous spoliation of
his rights, His Majesty having no force to rely
upon but that of justice, is not the the less decided
to preserve intact for the future his rights and those
of his people.
•' His Majesty ought not to conceal his opinion,
that of all the nations that have made or could make
such a concession to triumphant revolution, the last
from which he had reason to apprehend such con•
duct was Russia.

" The extent of that empire, its resources, the dis-
tance which separates it from Italy, do not permit
foreign influence to exercise any pressure upon its
government, whilst being under the sway of an ab-
solute monarch it is not, like other powers, under
the necessity of yielding from a forced condescen-
sion to the interior pressure of Chambers.
" The acts of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg ap-
peared to correspond completely with these ideas
and with its poAtion in Europe. The Emperor of
Russia was the first sovereign who, on learning the
news of the unheard-of offences committed by the
Sardinian government in the centre and in the south
of Italy, as became his dignity and his character,
condemned in the most complete manner the ag-
gressions of Piedmont by immediately recalling his
legation from Turin and ceasing to have any rela-
tions whatever with a government which, inspired
by a desire for illegitimate aggrandisement, broke
all treaties, violated all rights, and at once showed
itself to be the slave and the accomplice of Euro-
pean revolution.
" These precedents inspired the King with the
most unlimited confidence in the policy of Russia,
which was augmented by a personal, and, to speak
with greater precision, a dynastic consideration. No
person is ignorant of the strict bonds of intimacy and
friendship which united the two last Sovereigns of
Russia and the Two Sicilies, and all the world could
witness, that, during the critical vicissitudes of the
war in the Crimea, King Ferdinand, placed almost
in the path of the allied powers, urged to join them
by their natural and incessant exigencies, preferred
risking the enmity of two great and victorious
powers to departing from the most strict neutrality,
and permitting in his states the least act to be done
to the prejudice of the noble monarch whom he
called his friend. No reason of political convenience
could sway the King from his good faith. The
consequences were soon manifested—the recall of
the legations of France and England, the attitude
of the two powers in the Italian conflict, and the
departure of the dynasty of the Two Sicilies cannot
be considered unconnected with the loyal conduct
of King Ferdinand during the war in the Crimea.
" Whatever may be the reason which may have
decided the Imperial Government to depart from
its traditions, to renounce its policy, to forget its
precedents, to consider as proper and honest one day
what it judged to be prejudicial and iniquitous the
day before—all this remains a mystery to the King,
the more impenetrable as the condition of Italy has
not changed its character, and as the work of revo-
lution does not appear more durable to day than it
did yesterday. Discontent and misery everywhere,
extreme parties menacing and hostile, the civil war
which for the last two years has desolated the
Neapolitan provinces, blood shed in torrents, and
the destruction of the unarmed population—these
cannot have afforded reasons for the determination
of Russia to adopt this unexpected resolution.
" But the King—whatever may be his situation,
decided and resigned to all, undoubtedly confiding
in the future and in Providence—feels that his
duty imposes on him the task of :preserving at
whatever cost his rights, those of his successors,
and of his people—for this purpose charges your
excellency to protest in his Royal name, and to
read and give a copy of the present despatch to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
"LEOPOLD DEL RE,
"Minister Secretary of State, charged
with the portfolio of Foreign Af-
fairs of his Sicilian Majesty.
"His Excellency the Chevalier G. C. Diregina, &c.,
St. Petersburgh."

CIM'3IO.RNE GARDENS.

DINNER TO MR. E. T. SMITH.

Last night a numerous company of gentlemen,
representing almost every class and phase of Eng-
lish society, metropolitan and provincial, assembled
in one of the largest rooms of the Cremorne Hotel,
for the purpose of expressing their sympathy with
Mr. E. T_ Smith, proprietor of the Cremorne Gar-
dens, on the severe illness he has lately passed
through, and at the same time to make up, as far
as they were personally able, for the unavoidable
and unfortunate circumstance of two " benefits"
having taken place on evenings when rain, light-
ning, and thunder prevented the usual large atten-
dance at the gardens.
Mr. 'EDWARD HUGGINS, the eminent brewer, oc-
cupied the chair, and after the removal of the cloth,
and the usual routine toasts, he stated the object
of the meeting, and his warm, sincere, and un-
affected sympathy in that object. They all knew,
as well as he did,the worthiness, the indefatigable
spirit, the generosity—the free, frank, courteous
spirit in which Mr. Smith carried out every enter-
prise upon which he embarked. (Cheers.) They
likewise knew the gloom and sorrow he had
lately experienced, and that, too, when he had just
embarked in the working of a large esta-
blishment, which, looking to its extent and its
varied attractions, was undoubtedly the greatest
and the most perfect of its kind in the world.
(Loud cheers.) Mr. Smith had been long known
to him in his private as well as his public capacity.
In the latter there were, he was happy to see, many
gentlemen who could testify with himself to the
striet manner in which he fulfilled every engage-
ment, and to the ability with which he bore every
burden he took upon his shoulders, either there or
elsewhere. (Cheers.) In the midst of difficulties
which would have broken any other man's
heart, he always met them with a noble spirit ;
that which would have crushed any other man only
buoyed him up—(cheers)—and he trusted that
as an old friend and their representative on the
occasion, the company would allow him to take Mr.
Smith by the haed, express their sympathy with
him in his illness, their regret that the season had
not been more prosperous, and to express their
heartfelt and cordial wishes for his health, happi-
ness, and prosperity.
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