The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-27 00:00:00

FRANCE AND ITALY,

TURIN, March 22.
The Unzta Italiana publishes the following letter
from Mazzini

" Friends,—The popular instinct has revealed a
danger to the Piedmontese provinces of Italy. This
danger is well founded. There exists in the Mini-
stry of Foreign Affairs a scroll of eight pages of
English cartridge-paper, bound with blue silk. This
scroll contains a secret protocol appended to. the
Convention of the 15th September, 1864. The
protocol states as follows The Italian Govern-
ment undertakes to abstain from any enterprise
upon Venetia, and to energetically resist any
such enterprise that might be attempted by
the party of action or others. If unforeseen
events, more powerful than the obligations under-
taken, should give either Rome or Venice to
Italy, a rectification of frontiers will take place
between France and Italy, commencing from
the River Sesia, which would be considered
as the frontier of France.' The protocol bears
the signature of the Minister Visconti Venosta, and
and another person. None will require, I presume,
that I should reveal the source of my certain infor-
mation. But I ask Italians to recollect that I re-
vealed a year before the cession of Savoy and Nice,
and that I transmitted to the Unitci Italiana the
substance of the Convention of the 15th of Sep-
tember before it was even so much as suspected in
Italy.
"By a nation educated like England to liberty,
such a protocol—and it has not been destroyed by
the present Ministry—would incur a charge of high
treason and death on the gallows for the men who
did it. Opposed as lam to the penalty of death, I
only see one reply worthy of Italy, and particularly
of the little country at the foot of the Alps, and
that is to tell the foreign Emperor :—'Sire, you are
mistaken. We shall have Venice, and you shall
not have Piedmont.'—Yours,

" GUISEPPE MAZZINI.

" 13th March, 1865."

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the illustrated London News.)

The will of Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville,
Esq., of Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, was proved
in the London Court on the Ist inst., by the execu-
tors, W. Henry Greville, Esq. (his brother) ; Capt.
the Hon. Francis Egerton ; and Harvie Morton
Farquhar, Esq., of Brackley House, Northampton-
shire. The personalty was sworn under £25,000.
The testator was the eldest son of Charles Greville,
Esq., and Charlotte, daughter of the third Duke of
Portland, K.G., and was formerly Clerk of the
Privy Council, from 1821 to 1859. He died, in
January last, at the age of 71, having executed his
will in 1863. Among other bequests, he has left to
the Earl of Clarendon his Emperor's cup, won at
Ascot Races, 1846, by his horse Alarm. To George
Payne, Esq., of John-street, Berkeley-square, he
leaves all the shares he jointly held with him in race-
horses and thoroughbred racing stock ; and to Chas.
Mills, Esq„ of Camelford House, some other like
shares. A few other legacies are left to personal
friends ; and his brothers Algernon and Wm. Henry
Greville, are appointed residuary legatees. To his
valet he has left £l,OOO ; to his coachman, £2OO ;
and to his groom, £l,OOO.
The will of Edward Ward Walter Raleigh, Esq.,
late of Pall-mall, a retired officer of the Bengal
Medical Staff, and an honorary Fellow of the Col-
lege of Surgeons, London, was proved in the prin-
cipal registry under £140,000 personalty. The
executors and trustees nominated are Sir Edward
Cholmeley Dering, Bart., M.P., his nephew, and
Charles Vine, Esq., of Queen's-gardens, Hyde-park
(his nephew's uncle). The testator died in January
last, having executed his will in April, 1864. He
has bequeathed to his sister, Mrs. Caroline Ames-
bury (widow of Joseph Amesbury, Esq.), and to
her children, the sum of £20,000, free of duty.
There are legacies to other of his relatives. He
directs his property to be invested in freehold landed
estates in England, and to pay therefrom to his
nephew, Edward Walter Raleigh, son of his late
brother, Major Frederick Raleigh, an annuity of
£5OO, the remainder to accumulate and be laid out
in the improvement of and in adding to the said
landed estates, for the benefit of the male issue of
his said nephew ; and in failure of such issue, then
to his nephew, Walter Raleigh Amesbury, the eldest
son of his said sister.

The will of Mrs. Mary Wright, widow, formerly
of IVlauldeth Hall, Lancaster, and late of Tunbridge
Wells, was proved in London under £60,000 per-
sonalty—the executors and trustees being her
cousin, Henry Houldsworth, of Oak Hill, Lancaster;
William Henry Houldsworth (his son), and Philip
Richard Falkner, Esq., of Newark-on-Trent. The
will is dated September, 1854. To her daughter,
Mrs. Mary Hooper, she leaves the interest of
£lO,OOO for life, and appoints her two children, the
testatrix's grandson and granddaughter, residuary
legatees. Legacies are bequeathed to others of her
own family, and those of her late husband ; to the
Rev. Theophilus Bennett, M.A., of Whittington,
and W. Richardson, M.D., of Tunbridge Wells,
each £5OO ; to the Irish Society Missions to Catho-
lics, £5O ; to the Church Missionary Society and
Manchester Infirmary, £2OO each.

AN AMERICAN BALL-ROOM, as graphically de-
scribed byMr. A. G. Sala :—There are two delightful
characteristics in all American social gatherings of a sala-
tory nature. Everybody dances, and all the ladies can talk.
There are no gentlemen qui font tapisserie, or perform the
part of wall-flowers,' lounging against wainscots or door-
jambs, ogling the dancers anclirritating the belles who want
partners.lUnder penalty of ostracism, they must all plunge
into the mazy, and foot it. They foot it trippingly. Danc-
ing here is dancing indeed. There are as many reverences
dropped in a quadrille as in the Minuet de la Cour—that
noblest and most delightful of dances to those who have
seen Taglioni as the gentleman, and Fanny Ellsler as the
lady. The chief fiddler calls out the names of the figures,
and claps his hands, and calls out Address'—whatever
that may mean—quite in the defunct Yorkshire Stingo
style. When the gentlemen—l am speaking of the hops,
—dance, they jump ; when the ladies revolve, they make
cheeses. You find no line-of-battle-ship matrons laid up
in ordinary, so to speak, on settees, covered with the dock-
yard paint of the toilet-table, befanned, bejewelled, and
speechless. You find no desolate spinsters partnerless,
glowering through their eye-glasses balefully, and nosing
the atmosphere with supercilious snuff. The matron's foot
it as trippingly as their daughters. The spinsters find
partners. In a country where none are fat, all dance. In-
dulgence in the poetry of motion would• not seem to .be
tabooed by any professional etiquette. Clergymen on active
service, and not being Shakers, adjure the light fantastic
toe ; but, as almost every educated person in America who
has not been in dry goods, or in stockjobbing, or taught
school, or done lawyer's work, or kept a grog-shop, has been
at some period or another a clergyman of some denomina-
tion, I will not go so far as to say that the cloth are
wholly strangers to the allurements of the mazy. As to
the military, they are fanatics ;in their addicted-
ness to the dance—to say nothing of that distin-
guished Union general in Louisiana who has been a danc-
ing master. The legal profession would all seem to be dis-
ciples of Sir Christopher Hatton ; and it is a very beauti-
ful and edifying spectacle to see a judge of the United
States in a swallow-tailed coat and a moustache quite
Napoleonically spiked, advancing in the cavalier seul. I said
that all the ladies can talk. A flow of sharp, shrewd, in-
telligent, and, as a rule, well-chosen and correct language,
is the shining attainment of all American ladies, from the
school-girl upwards. And the school girls themselves talk
with an ease and volubility that would astonish the super-
intendents of many ladies' colleges at home. There is no
hesitation, no blushing, no stammering, no twiddling of
the fingers, no plucking at bouquets, or nervous unhem-
ming of handkerchiefs. The vapid inanities that pass be-
tween partners at an English ball would be here scouted.
To be shy is to be unpatriotic. The American young lady
goes straight to the point, and has a great deal to say upon
it. ' How is your health ? How long have you been in
. the country ? Do you like it ? Have you had a good
time ? What do you think of the action of the nation in
the present struggle ? Are you not struck with admiration
at the deeds of valour performed by the nation's armies ?
Have you read Longfellow's " Wayside Inn ?" When is
Tennyson's " Boadicea" to appear? Was not England con-
vulsed with enthusiasm at the apparition of the Rev. Ward
Beecher ? Don't you think the room wants oxygen ?
.Are
not the monitors triumphs of mechanical construction ?
Have you been to Niagara ?' These are a few of the queries
she rattles out. You are at first delighted, then amazed,
and at last puzzled; for the intelligent and well-read young
lady continually addresses you as ' Sir,' and every now and
then she asks you a question so naive, so artlessly ignorant,
that you pause to inquire of yourself whether she can be
more than six years old.
MR. FOLEY'S STATUE OF BURKE IS said to be
nearly completed.