The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-12 00:00:00

MAZZINPS PROCLAMATION.

The following proclamation was posted all over Milan.
and has been spread in other parts of Italy :
" ITALIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

" Italians ! Brothers !—The mission of the Italian
Committee is ended : your mission begins. To-day the
last word which we, your brothers, utter to you is In-
surrection ;' to-morrow, mingling with the ranks of the
people, we will aid you to maintain it.
" Insurrection ! The moment matured, panted for
for three long years, has arrived. Let us seize it. Be
not deceived by appearances ; be not misled by the
cowardly sophistries of lukewarm men. The entire sur-
face of Europe, from Spain to our own land, is a volcanic
crust, beneath which sleeps a lava which will burst forth
in torrents at the upheaving of Italy. Four years ago
the insurrection of Sicily was followed by ten European
revolutions : twenty European revolutions will follow
yours--all bound by one compact, all sworn to one fra-
ternal aim. We have friends even in the ranks of the
armies who rule us there are entire peoples whose
alarum-cry will answer to yours. The national demo-
cracies of Europe form one organised camp. Vanguard
of the great army
initiative
the people, fear not isolation. The
initiative of Italy is the of Europe.
" Insurrection ! Sacred as the thought of country
i
that consecrates t ; sqong in will and in concentrated
energy as its aim, which is justice, amelioration, and
free fraternal life for all ; let it rise, and convert
martyr.
dom into victory. The thousands of victims who have
fallen with the sacred name of Italy on their lips, deserve
this at our hands. Be it tremendous as the tempest on
our seas. Be it obstinate, immovable as the Alps which
surround you. Between the Alps and the extreme
Sicilian sea are 25,000,000 of us, and a hundred
if foreigners. It is the struggle of a moment f you
do but will.

"Insurrection ! Let the grand word leap from city
to city, from town to town, from village to village, like
the electric current. Arouse, arise, awake to the crusade
fever, all ye who have Italian hearts—ltalian arms.
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" Remind the people of their unjust sufferings, their
rights denied them, their ancient power, and the great
future of liberty, prosperity, education, and equality—
they may conquer at a bound.

" Remind your women of the mothers, the sisters, the
friends who have perished in uncipsoled weeping for
their loved ones, imprisoned, exiled, butchered, because
they had not, but desired, a country.
" Remind your young minds of thought outraged and
restrained, of the great traditionary past of Italy which
they can continue only by action, of the absolute no-
thingness of the state they are now in—they the descend-
ants of the men who have twice given civilisation to
Europe.
" Remind the soldiers of Italy of the dishonour of a
servile uniform which the foreigners deride, of the bones
of their fathers left on the battle fields of Europe for the
honour of Italy, of the true glory which crowns the war-
rior for right, for justice, for nationalit
",soldiers, women, youths, people let us, have for the

moment but one heart, one thought, one desire, one cry
in our souls, one cry on our lips, We will have a coun-
try ; we will have an Italy ; and an Italy shall be.'
" Attack, break at every point the long and weak line
of the enemy. Prevent them from concentrating them-
selves by killing or dispersing their soldiers, destroying
roads and bridges. Disorganise them by striking at
their officers. Ceaselessly pursue fugitives ;be at war
to the knife. Make arms of the tiles of your houses, of
the stones of your streets, of the tools of your trades, of
the iron of your crosses. Spread the alarm by watch-
fires kindled on every height. From one end of Italy to
the other, let the alarm bell of the people toll the death
of the enemy.
" Wherever you are victorious, move forward at once
to the aid of those nearest you. Let the insurrection
grow like an avalanche, wherever the chance goes
against you ; run to the gorges, the mountains—the
fortresses given you by nature. Everywhere the battle
will have broken out ; everywhere you will find brothers
—and, strengthened by the victories gained elsewhere,
you will descend into the field again the day after. One
only be our flag—the flag of the nation. In pledge of
our fraternal unity, write on the words God and the
people I' they alone are powerful to conquer, they alone
do not betray. It is the Republican flag which, in '4B
and '49, saved the honour of Italy ; it is the flag of
ancient Venice, it is the flag of Rome—eternal Rome,
the sacred metropolis, the temple of Italy and of the
world !

" Purify yourselves, fighting beneath that flag. Let
the Italian people arise, worthy of the God who guides
them ! Let woman be sacred ; let age and childhood be
sacred ; let property be sacred. Punish the thief as an
enemy. Use for insurrection the arms, powder, and
uniforms taken from the foreign soldiers.
"To arms, to arms ! Our last word is the battle cry.
Let the men you have chosen to lead you, send forth to
Europe, on the morrow, the cry of victory.
(For the Italian Committee,)
" Josirn MAZZINI.
" Außzuo SAW'.

gc manrizio Quadric, Secretaries.
" Cesare Agostini,
February, 1853."

CONVOCATION OF THE CLERGY.-ADDRESS
TO THE QUEEN.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, accompanied by the
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford, and several
other prelates connected with the province, together
with the Very Rev. Dr. Peacock, Dean of Ely (the
prolocutor); the Dean of Norwich, the Dean of St.
Asaph, the Dean of Salisbury, Archdeacon Harrison,
Archdeacon Hare, Dr. Spry, Dr. Wordsworth, and
other members of the Lower House of Convocation, will
wait upon her Majesty the Queen, by appointment, on
Wednesday next, when the following address will be
presented
" Madam,—We, your Majesty's faithful subjects, the
archbishop, bishops, and clergy of the province of Can-
terbury, assembled in Convocation, most humbly ap-
proach your Majesty with respectful assurance of loyal
affection to your Majesty's throne and person. And we
desire to add our sincere congratulations, that since the
last occasion when we enjoyed a similar privilege, it has
pleased Almighty God to bless both your Majesty's
Royal family and the country at large with a measure of
prosperity which demands our warmest thankfulness.
" Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to state
to your assembled Parliament, that your Majesty has
received assurances of a disposition on the part of foreign
powers to maintain those friendly relations with this
country which have already been prolonged beyond all
former example. And never, perhaps, was there a time
when the inhabitants of this land were more generally
prosperous, more willingly obedient to the laws, or more
loyally affected towards the throne. It is our earnest
prayer to Almighty God, that he will continue to our-
selves and extend to all nations the blessings of peace
and unity.
"Here we earnestly desire to assure your Majesty of
our deep sympathy with the sorrow which your Majesty
has so graciously expressed, a sorrow which is even
shared by foreign nations, for the loss which the empire
is now mourning in the death of that great warrior and
statesman, to whom, above all, it has been owing under
God's overruling Providence that we have enjoyed this
long and unprecedented peace and prosperity. We as-
sure your Majesty that we prize above the splendour of his
greatest exploits that high sense of duty which led him
to devote all his faculties to the service of his Sovereign
and his country, and to value his most glorious victories
chiefly as they secured a lasting peace.
" The subject, however, on which your Majesty will
expect us to feel the deepest interest is the state of re-
ligion in this land. And here there is much to encourage
whilst there is also much to lament, and much that we
hope gradually to amend. Great exertions have been
made during the last 30 years, with the desire of pro-
viding the means of spiritual instruction of a population
increasing beyond all former experience. Much has
been done by the awakened liberality of individuals, as-
sisted by recent legislative measures, towards enabling
the Church to fulfil the ends of her Divine mission.
Much, however, still remains to be done, and we assure
your Majesty that our heal Liest endeavours shall be used
to relieve, wherever they exist, the spiritual wants of
the population. We feel a confident persuasion that
these our endeavours will be seconded by the pious and
ready co-operation of our lay brethren in the Church. In
connection with this subject we cannot but observe, that
although the population of England and Wales has been
doubled in the last half century, the number of English
and Welsh bishops remains nearly the same as it was
three centuries ago, a state of things to which we beg
respectfully to invite your Majesty's consideration.
" We trust, however, that if the Church has been un-
able to accomplish all that might be desired, it has yet
given no slight proof of activity and power. Fewer
churches were built during the whole of the last century
than are now consecrated to the service of God in every
successive year. Inadequate as are still the means of
providing Christian education for the increasing numbers
who require it, we thankfully acknowledge that great
efforts have been made for its extension and improve-
ment.

" And great and pain: al as are the privations of many
of your Majesty's poorer subjects in our crowded cities,
it must be a peculiar source of satisfaction to your Ma-
jesty that tinder the continuous and active encourage-
ment of your Majesty's illustrious Consort, institutions
have been formed, and are daily forming, to increase the
comforts of the labouring classes, and to improve their
moral and social condition ; and as all true charity has
its origin in religious principle, we trust that in this in-
stance also proof has been given of the influence of that
faith which it is the duty of the clergy to inculcate and
maintain amongst the people committed to their charge.
For whatever has been done or intended of good we de-
sire to give God the glory, through our Lord Jesus
Christ, being deeply conscious of the imperfections of
all our endeavours.

" In thus referring to the subjects which appear to us
especially to concern the well-being of the Church, we
cannot omit to speak of those deliberative functions of
this Convocation which many members of our Church
desire to see again called into active exercise.
" We do not, indeed, deem it advisable at the present
moment to petition your Majesty for your Royal licence
to transact such business as we may not enter upon
without it, but we think it our dirty respectfully to ex-
press our conviction both that its legislative assemblies
are an essential and most important part of the constitu-
tion of the Reformed Church, and that the circumstances
of the present day make it alike more imperative to pre-
serve, and as far as possible to improve them, and more
particularly that the resumption of their active func-
tions in such manner as your Majesty, by your Royal
licence may permit, may at no distant date be productive
of much advantage. We know, indeed, that apprehen-
sions have been entertained that in such a case Convo-
cation might address itself to the discussion of contro-
verted questions of doctrine, and a spirit of strife and
bitterness be thereby engendered, fatal to Christian
charity, and dangerous alike to existing institutions and
to our visible unity ; and we, therefore, feel it to be
our duty humbly to pray your Majesty to receive this
our most solemn declaration of our hearty acceptance of
the doctrinal formularies and liturgical offices of the Re-
formed Church, and our assurance that we regard them
as inestimable blessings, and are resolved, by the help of
God, to transmit them unimpared to posterity. And
further, that we not only recognise, but highly prize,
your Majesty's undoubted supremacy in all causes,
ecclesiastical and civil, over all persons and in every part
of your Majesty's dominions, as it was maintained in
ancient times against the usurpation of the See of Rome,
and was recovered and reasserted at our Reformation.
In connection with this grave subject we feel that your
Majesty may expect from us the expression of our solemn
protest against that fresh aggression of the Bishop of
Rome by which he has.arrogated to himself the spiritual
charge of this nation, thereby denying the existence of
that branch of the Church Catholic which was planted in
Britain in the primitive ages of Christianity, and has
been preserved by a merciful Providence to this day, as
well as against many which have preceeded it ; and we
desire on this, our first occasion of addressing your
Majesty since its occurrence, solemnly to protest in the
face of Christendom, and to lay this our protest before
your Most Gracious Majesty."

ROWING MATCH IN SCOTLAND FOR £loo.—lt is said
that a rowing match, in four-oared 27-feet gigs, has
been made between the Perth, Leven, and Glasgow
pullers, to come off in the Gareloch, at the end of June
in the present year, for a sweepstake of 1001., for the
championship of Scotland.
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