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London, England, 1853-01-20 00:00:00

ITALY.

demise. This false intelligence having been widely cir-
culated, we are authorised to contradict it. The state-
ment is unfounded. Everybody, on the other hand,
knows that the persons confined in the prisons of the
Grand Duchy are treated with kindness humanity, and
philanthropy."
The Genoa Mercantile Corriere of the 15th con-
tains the following :
" The Pontifical Government, at whose request the de-
cree expelling the emigrants from Tuscany was issued
has forwarded a list of them to the frontier authorities,
with orders to arrest them, should they attempt to enter
the Pontifical dominions. The circular was also sent
to the Government of San Marino. As respects the
latter, here is a less serious although curious fact. The
Marquis Guartavillani, of Bologna, honorary captain in
the army of the Most Serene Republic of San Marino,
preserved the hat of the brother of Napoleon 111., killed
at Forli, during the revolution of 1831. The Marquis
resolved to set out for Paris with that relic, but in order
to present himself to the Emperor with a more respect-
able character, he offered the Republic of San Marino
to go and recognise the new Monarch in its name. The
offer was accepted, and the Prince Regent of the Re-
public having written his letters of credence, M. Guar-
tavillani took his departure for Paris. The Grand Duke
of Tuscany has definitively declined to accede to the
Customs Union proposed by Austria. This course was
suggested to him by the bad effect the very mention of
the measure had produced in his dominions, and by
advice coming from abroad."
We read in the Roman Journal of the 10th
inst..—

"Twelve Roman ladies have executed with their own
hands 12 carpets, intended to adorn the staircase leading
from the Basilicon of the Vatican ally Confessione. On
Christmas-day those carpets, which appeared for the first
time, were much admired. They were woven by the fol-
lowing ladies : Princess Mary Aldobrandini, born
d'Aremberg ; the Marchioness Claire Antici Mattei, born
Altieri ; Princess Adele Borghese, born De la Roche-
foucauld ; Princess Theresa Borghese, born De la
Rochefoucald ; Princess Josephina Lancelotti Ginetti,
born Massimo; Princess Hyacinth Massimo, born Della
Porta Radiani ; Countess Amelia, born Ruspoli ; the
Duchess Theresa de Poli, born Chigi ; the Duchess
Arabella Salviati, born de Fitz-James ; the Marchioness
Virginia Spinola;born Patrizi; Princess Theresa, Torlonia,
born Colonna : the Duchess Frances de Zagarolo, born
De Nompere Oampagny. The 12 carpets are of equal
dimensions. In the angles are the armorial bearings of
the lady who executed the work, and those of her hus-
band."

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The Pope has conferred on the Bishop of Cahors
the title of Attendant on the Pontifical Throne,
and created him a Roman Count.

SPAIN.

The accounts from Madrid aro to the 15th inst.

The Gazette publishes four Royal decrees, coun-
tersigned by Count d'Alcoy, depriving MM. Satur-
mno Calderon Collantes and Francisco de Paula
Orlando of their seats in the Royal Council, and
appointing to succeed them General Fermin Salcedo
and M. Ventura Diaz, late Governor of the Pro-
vince of Madrid.
M. Antonio Benavides, Minister of the Interior,
had named M. Francisco de Cardonas Under-Secre-
tary of State of his department.
It was rumoured that M. Joaquin Maria Perez
was to be nominated Under-Secretary of State of
the Ministry of Finance, and M. Amblard Director
of Accounts in the same department.
Count de Mirasol was indisposed and had not been
able for some days to assist at the Cabinet Councils.
Queen Maria Christina had returned to Madrid
from her excursion to Tarancon.
Donna Maria of Braganza, Marchioness de Louie,
had left for Lisbon.
The B eraldo announces that the King of Bavaria
intended to visit Spain.
The Three per Cents. were done at 42a ; the New
Three per Cents. at 23 5-16 ; the Debt of the First
Class, at 10i ; and that of the Second, at sg.

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The Municipal Conncil of Genoa voted, on the
15th, its budget of expenses, and allocated funds
to maintain a suit against Cardinal Lambruschini,
who claimed certain rights as Abbot of San Antonio
de Prato.

The Imperial and Royal Council of War, sitting
at lUdina, pronounced judgment on the 31st ult.
against eight individuals—among whom were two
clergymen. ' Six were sentenced to from six months
to two years' imprisonment, and two were acquitted
for want of proof. They were all accused of having
concealed arms, with the exception of one of the
clergyman, who, being a parish priest, was charged
with having omitted to sing the Ambrosian Hymn
on the Emperor's birthday, of having celebrated on
that day an office for the dead, and committed a
disrespectful act towards the portrait of the Em-
peror of Austria.
The Tuscan Monitor, of the 13th inst., inserts
the following :
" The journal Opinione published some time ago an
article, copied in other papers, announcing the death of
the prisoner Madiai, in the penitentiary establishment of
Tuscany, and adding that his sufferings had caused his

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ter—with one who had been accustomed to call her
mother—is most unsatisfactory and repugnant.
Esmond and his wife retire to some Auierican
estate belonging to the family, and there the
ColOnel pens this history of his early days. One or
two passages we must quote as specimens of Colo-
nel Esmond's style. The first speaks of his visit
when abroad to the grave, in a convent cemetery,
of Sister Marie Madeleine, the deserted wife of Lord
Castlewood :

" MY MOTHER'S RESTING-PLACE.
" Esmond came to this spot in one sunny evening of
spring, and saw, amidst a thousand black crosses, cast-
ing their shadows across the grassy mound, that particu-
lar one which marked his mother's resting-place. Many
more of those poor creatures that lay there had adopted
that same name, with which sorrow had re-baptised her,
and which fondly seemed to hint their individual story
of love and grief. He fancied her, in tears and darkness,
kneeling at the foot of her cross, under which her cares
were buried. Surely he knelt down and said his own
prayer there, not in sorrow so much as in awe (for even
his memory had no recollection of her), and in pity for
the pangs which the gentle soul in life had been made to
suffer. To this cross she brought them ; for this hea-
venly bridegroom she exchanged the husband who had
wooed her, the traitor who had left her. A thousand
such hillocks lay round about, the gentle daisies
springing out of the grass over them, and each
bearing its cross and i'equiescat. A nun, veiled in black,
was kneeling hard by, at a sleeping sister's bedside (so
fresh made that the spring had scarce had time to spin
a coverlid for it) ; beyond the cemetery walls you had
glimpses of life and the world, and the spires and gables
of the city. A bird came down from a roof opposite,
and lit first on a cross and then on the grass below it,
whence it flew away presently with a leaf in its mouth ;
then came a sound as of chanting from the chapel of the
sisters hard by ; others had long since filled the place,
which poor Marie Madeleine once had there, were kneel-
ing at the same stall, and hearing the same hymns and
prayers in which her stricken heart had found consola-
tion. Might she sleep in peace !—might she sleep in
peace ! and we, too, when our struggles and pains are
over. But the earth is the Lord's, as the heaven is ;we
are alike his creatures, here and yonder. I took a little
flower off the hillock, and kissed it, and went my way,
like the bird that had just lighted on the cross by me,
back into the world again. Silent receptacle of death !
—tranquil depth of calm, out of reach of tempest and
trouble ! I felt as one who had been walking below the
sea, and treading amidst the bones of shipwrecks."
The next is of a very dissimilar character, and
gives a sketch of some of the foibles and virtues of
Sir Richard Steele

"The gentlemen ushers had a table at Kensington,
and the guard a very splendid dinner daily at St. James's,
at either of which Esmond was free to dine. Dick

Steele liked the guard-table better than his own at the
gentlemen ushers', where there was less wine and more
ceremony, and Esmond had many a jolly afternoon in
company of his friend, and a hundred times, at least,
saw Dick into his chair. If there is verity in wine,
according to the old adage, what an amiable-natured
character Dick's must have been ! In proportion as he
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took in wine, he overflowed with kindness. His
talk was not witty so much as charming. He
never said a word that could anger anybody, and only
became the more benevolent the more tipsy he grew.

Many of the wags derided the poor fellow in his cups,
and chose him as a butt for their satire ; but there was
a kindness about him, and a sweet playful fancy, that
seemed to Esmond far more charming than the pointed
talk of the brightest wits, with their elaborate repartees
and affected severities. I think Steele shone rather than

sparkled. Those famous beaux-esprits of the coffee-
houses (Mr. William Congreve, for instance, when • his
gout and his grandeur permitted him to come among
us) would make very brilliant hits—half-a-dozen in

a night, sometimes—but, like sharp-shooters, when
they had fired their shot, they were obliged to retire
under cover, till their pieces were loaded again, and wait
till they got another chance at their enemy ; whereas
Dick never thought that his bottle companion was a
butt to aim at—only a friend to shake by the hand."

Here, again, is a specimen of power displayed
in a portrait of Marlborough
" Our chief, whom England and all Europe, saving
only the Frenchmen, worshipped almost, had this of the
godlike in him, that he was impassable before victory,
before danger, before defeat. Before the greatest ob-
stacle or the most trivial ceremony ; before a hundred
thousand men drawn in battalia, or a peasant slaugh-
tered at the door of his burning hovel ; before a carouse
of drunken German lords, or a monarch's Court, or a
cottage table where his plans were laid ; or an enemy's
battery, vomiting flame and death, and strewing corpses
round about him—he was always cold, calm, resolute,
like fate. He performed a treason or a court bow, he
told a falsehood as black as Styx, as easily as he paid a
compliment or spoke about the weather. He took a
mistress, and left her ; he betrayed his benefactor, and
supported him, or would have murdered him, with the
same calm”ess always, and having no more remorse than
Clotho when she weaves the thread, or Lachesis when
she cuts it. In the hour of battle I have heard the
Prince of Savoy's officers say, the Prince became pos-
sessed with a sort of warlike fury ; his eyes liglited up ;
he rushed hither and thither, raging ; he shrieked curses
and encouragement, yellin6 and hooting his bloody war-
dogs on and himself always at the first of the hunt.
Our Duke was as calm at the mouth of the cannon as
at the door of a drawing-room. Perhaps he could not
have been the great man he was had he had a heart
either for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or regret or re-
morse. He achieved the highest deed of daring, or
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deepest calculation of thought, as he performed the very
meanest action of which a man is capable ; told a lie, or
cheated a fond woman, or robbed a poor beggar of a
halfpenny with a like awful serenity and equal capacity
of the highe.t and lowest acts of our nature.
" His qualities were pretty well known in the army,
where there wee parties of all politics, and plenty of
shrewdness and wit ; but there existed such a perfect
confidence in him, as the first captain of the world, and
such a faith and admiration in his prodigious genius and
fortune, that the`dry men whom he notoriously cheated
of their pay, the chiefs whom he used and injured (for he
used all men, great and mall, that came near him as his in-
struments alike, andtook something of theirs, either some
quality or some property—the blood of a soldier It
might be, or a jewelled hat, or a hundred thousand
crowns from a king, or a portion out of a starving
sentinel's three farthings—or (when he was young)
a kiss from a woLian, and the gold chain off her
neck ; taking all he could from woman or man, and
having, as I have said, this of the godlike in him that
he could see a hero perish or a sparrow fall with the
same amount of sympathy for either. Not that he had
no tears—he could always order up this reserve at the
proper moment to battle ; he could draw upon tears or
smiles alike ; and whenever need was for using this cheap
coin, he would cringe to a shoeblack, as he would
flatter a minister or a monarch ; be haughty, be humble,
threaten, repent, weep, grasp your hand, or stab you
whenever ho saw occasion ; but yet those of the army
who knew him best, and had suffered most from him,
admired him most of all ; and as he rode along the lines
to battle, or galloped up in the nick of time to a battalion
reeling from before the enemy's charge or shot, the faint-
ing men and officers got new courage as they saw the
splendid calm of his face, and felt that his will made
them irresistible."
Notwithstanding such evidences of undoubted
ability we must confess that we have perused
Colonel Esmond's revelations vithout pleasure ;
and we are afraid, we must add, without profit also.
A similar feeling, we are confident, will be expressed
by the majority of those who, like ourselves, have
turned eagerly to the book on account of the double
authorship. We are confident they will exclaim
with us--" Hold ! enough. No more of Colo-
nel Esmond ! But as much as he pleases of Wil-
liam Makepeace Thackeray."

The First Lieutenant's Story. By Lady Catharine
Long, author of " Sir Roland Ashton." 3 vols.
Hurst and Blackett (successors to Colburn).
The motto of this work is taken from " Prover-
bial Philosophy :" " Take care that the standard
of thy soul wave from the loftiest battlements."
The object of the authoress is to carry out this
sentiment in her story, and she succeeds : the high-
est principles are laid down and the best feelings
inculcated. Yet there is this objection to be made :
there are too many.solemn discussions and gloomy
reveries described. The character of Captain
Normanton is, it is to be trusted, unnatural ; for a
greater wretch could scarcely be imagined. Melan-
choly is the pervading spirit of the tale. After
all enemies are defeated and all troubles apparently
ended, the principal actors retire to Italy, the birt
li-
-1 place of the heroine. But peace is not to be their
I portion, nor can they find repose. The resistless
enemy appears, and sweeps away the mother and
child from the long-sought, dearly- valued home.
The hero, Wilfred St. Clair, returns to the duties
of his profession—" his march was o'er the moun-
tain wave, his home was on the deep." Many
years subsequent to these tragic events, he is sup-
posed to relate his story to a young friend in the
silent watches of the night. It was a fitting hour
for the recital of such sufferings ; the ocean rolling
around was a true reflex, in its rage and restless-
ness, of the troublous scenes he had passed through ;
while the starry firmament above imaged, in its
majestic serenity and repose, the calm which reli-
gion had shed over his spirit. The subjoined con-
versation exemplifies St. Clair in his most favour-
able moment :
"The pang that shot through me, as a suspicion of
The truth all of a sudden flashed on
ny mind, I cannot
describe. If there was a being in the world I loved,
next to Mary, it was Bruce—if there was one in the way
of whose happiness I would not for worlds have stood, it
was he. Yet here all of a sudden I found myself, as I
thought, between him and his best wishes—him and his
love ! I stood looking at him in consternation for a
minute. Then, incapable of saying another word, I left
the berth.
" I sat down at the foot of the companion, and tried
to arrange my thoughts. I was always rather given to
day dreams—things which, if often of dangerous ten-
dency, are not always without their use—at least I have
found it so. In my reveries I had often liked to fancy
myself in such and such situations, and to think what
would be my feelings and course of action under the.
Amongst other things I had tried to fancy what I should
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do if ever I found Mary liking any one better thhatnmmoe ,
re
or if I saw any one liking her whom I though
1 worthy of her ; and in both cases I bad imagined myself