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in every syllable by the most malignant

has taken them ; still France gave a " valuable
consideration" for them. And it is, perhaps,
after all, chiefly the vile hypocrisy with which the
thing is done that creates the strongest feeling.
Italy never yet could prevent an army either in
ancient or modern times from crossing the Alps.
Gauls and Germans, uncivilised and civilised bar-
barians, have with equal ease forced her northern
mountain barrier, and poured themselves down
upon her sunny and fertile plains. the only diffe-
rence is, France can now walk into her neighbour's
house, while before the crowbar always gained her
admission.

terise

vituperation.

Mr. BRIGHT has won for himself the peculiar re-
pute, we can hardly say the enviable repute, apper;

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tamng to that one English member of Parliament
who can never, by any chance, open his lips for the
purpose of mentioning the name of the French EMPE-
ROR, without belavering the titles of his Imperial

MAJESTY with the most fulsome and extravagant
adulation! And who at the same time also can

never, by any chance, open his lips for the purpose
of alluding to the Free Press of England, without
talking of that Free Press in a strain certainly, to

It is, however, as we have said, the shabby
attempts to give the whole transaction a character

say the least of it, more befitting one of the hire-
ling censors in the pay of some continental despo-
tism, than a member of the British House
of Commons, or a citizen proud of his

different to its real character, which excites ntosl

unpleasant feeling. First the bargain was denied—
then put on the ground of '• natural boundaries,"—
then on that of military security of forty or fifty
millions of Frenchmen against twelve millions of
Sardinians,—then, and last of all, nothing was to

simple designation as an Englishman.
was remarked the other day, in commendation of
Mr. BRIGHT, by the chief monthly organ of her
MAJESTY'S Opposition, that whereas Mr. GLAD-
STONE never utters an epithet that is borne as a
" household word" in the popular remembrance, Mr.
BRIGHT, on the contrary, often says things that
long survive in the general recollection. In other
words, the phrases flung from him by the member
for Birmingham against his opponents—stick. So,
too, does mud—and the fouler the mud, the more
intolerably does it cling to whatever it has bespat-
tered. Right and left, moreover, whenever he speaks
of late years, Mr. BRIGHT is fond of squandering
about him, as it were broadcast, the meanest and the
most mendacious imputations. And he has not in
this the dubious excuse of uttering nis calumuluus
charges rashly in the heat of debate, in the
impetuous fervour kindled by the rage of disputa-
tion, For whenever this might possibly be ima-
gined from the grossness of the accusation, he
avails himself of the very earliest opportunity
for the purpose of reiterating his monstrous
assertions deliberately. It was only very re-
cently, for example, that he referred in the
House of Commons to one of our contemporaries
—with whose opinions generally we ourselves
by no means coincide, and of whom we may there-
fore write here quite dispassionately—Mr. BRIGHT
was not contented with designating it as a paper
noted as a mixture of piety and ruffianism,
but he went the outrageous length of insinuat-
ing that it venally sustained that character
as the hireling organ of the exiled princes of the
house of Orleans ! The misfortunes, one might
have thought, of that illustrious family, the digni-
fied withdrawal of its members, one and all, with-
out a single exception (during all these twelve
years of exile) from all political warfare of any
kind whatever, these and a hundred other generous
considerations, one might have imagined, would have
shielded the Orleans Princes from the outrage of
being thus wantonly assailed by a member of the
House of Commons, within the walls of that the
popular branch of the Legislature. The tempta-
tion to say a smart thing (no matter how coarse)
was too great, however, for the member for Bir-
mingham. By uttering it he would administer a
two-handed blow to the right and to the left with
his oratorical bludgeon. He could accuse the Free
Press of England, as he has so often accused it
before, of venality, and of venality in this instance
of the most infamous character, a venality leading
to a systematic blending, in a hireling cause, of
—" piety and ruffianism." And in the very act of
doing this he could imply that the secret employers
of this execrable instrument were those exiled Princes
who might not unnaturally be presumed to regard
with covetous eyes the throne occupied by Mr.
BRIGHT'S one particular idol and paragon, the
Emperor NAPOLEON 111. Scarcely were these
coarse and flagitious imputations cast from the
lips of the member for Birmingham, than a finger
of scorn was pointed at the man who had had the
consummate effrontery to give them utterance, by
the hon. and gallant-hearted baronet the member
for Tamworth. Shuffle and quibble though he
might there and then under the scorn of that point-
ing finger, what was the course pursued by Mr.
BRIGHT in regard to these very imputations,
recently (on Thursday evening) towards the close
of his boisterous harangue, before a thoroughly
congenial audience down at Manchester ? Why
that Mr. BRIGHT had the still more consummate
effrontery to reiterate those same identical
imputations. We give the very words in
which they were reiterated, together with
the significant plaudits interjected. "Do you
read," asked Mr. BRIGHT of his ecstatic auditory
"Do you read certain newspapers ? I mentioned
one to you a while ago. I mentioned it in the
House of Commons the other night in no com-
plimentary term. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) I
said it was a paper noted for a mixture of piety
and ruffianism. (Laughter.) Well, the very
next morning, so admirably did the cap fit
that the editor put it on. (Laughter,) He said
that nobody could doubt what was the
paper to which allusion had been made ; and
he rebuked me for hinting at such a thing
as that parties contending for the throne of
France influenced by unworthy means any portion
of the press of England. Well, I only know that
that has been the course which all persons contend-
ing for thrones have taken heretofore, and I have a
theory that, although men will labour for years, or
for their whole lives, for nothing but the reward of
doing good, and in doing something which is evi-
dently good, yet that men don't do evil for months
and years for nothing." Now that we have got
Mr. BRIGHT in the full glow and passion of his
almost unparalleled powers of vituperation, we
must yield a moment longer to the temptation to
cull a Jew more of .his favourite flowers of rhetoric
—flowers of rhetoric which, if they are to be culled
anywhere, itcan certainly be nowhere else than from
the kennels of Billingsgate. "The Times newspaper,"
continued Mr. BRIGHT, at this point—[it is usually
observable, by the way, that whenever any one is
particularly enraged with the chief of our morning
contemporaries (an incident certainly of no unfre-
qinumenotyocacsur7rehnece) for some occult that reason it would
notptpi
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alo tagoehs fathom,
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rhthere
it is always spoken of, not
Times, but as " The Times News-
," as
t
.
"The Times Rewspaper,owne3r_e some mysterious depth
I said, followedftlGllTin/Othewak—e
of the Morning Advertiser—not with the same
(what I call) brutal scurrility, but with a malignity,
if possible, more :atanic. (Hear, hear.)lshimlten.
is
not patriotism ; it is not love of Englishmen.
You don't find article after article, thunder after
thunder, peal after peal, in favour of any great
measure of justice to Englishmen, but you do find
from week to week, and from month to month ar-
ticles of the character I have described—one day in-
sulting France, another day alarming Germany, and
another day exciting England. (Loud cries of
Hear, hear.') I say that there is something at
the bottom of all that which is not patriotism.
(Loud applause.) It may be some bitter, rancorous,
worse than thaasn
if it
pbueit.sontahle asw
hostility,consequences
nseq uaennclees nothing
are
were treachery of the blackest and 2nost
criminal dye." At which that exquisitely sym-
pathetic audience down at Manchester
broke forth, the reporter tells us, into—
" (loud and prolonged cheering.)" This may be
oratory in Mr. BRIGHT'S estimation and in that of

be done without the full consent of the people o

Nice and Savoy, while yet, lest they should no
consent, the countries were to be directly ceded
to the EMPEROR by the KING, let the
people vote as they pleased. Never was there
such shabby tergiversation. The poor Xing of
SARDINIA was a perfect football. One moment
declaring that a vote of the population as fair and
free as that of the Romagna should be taken, the
next day having to tell his Chambers that a sacri-
fice was " necessary," that it had been exacted
by the Imperial SIIYLOCK, and exacted from the
parts " nearest his heart." Amongst other gems
adorning this transaction was the visit of the Sa-
voyard deputation,.deputed by no one, to EMPEROR,
EMPRESS, and baby, with the silly, fulsome adula-
tion, which turned the stomachs even of Frenchmen.
Even now it remains to be seen how the awkward-
ness of getting an unwilling populace to vote right
by ballot will be overcome. Our correspondent,
" An Englishment long resident in Nice," gives us
a picture of the facts of the case in that town,
equally in coliCidiction of French stories in the
Imperial press, and in accordance with all
that leaks out through unbiassed witnesses.
The Nicois are not indifferent, even, to
the decreed change of their nationality;
they are averse to it. Nothing but the presence of
French soldiers and sailors prevents demonstra-
tions against annexation. The demonstrations for
annexation are both got up and paid for ; and as
might be expected they are even then cold, com-
pared with those which spontaneously occur in the
promenades and theatres. We have seen how
the endeavour was made by a trick to get
GARIBALDI rejected at Nice--through a false
report he was deprived of the votes he should have
had on the first day ; on the second day, when the
scheme was detected, he received an all but unani-
mous vote. His presence and determination to
assert the rights of Nice in the Sardinian Cham-
bers seems to be a serious annoyance to CAVOUR.
Probably, however, this thorough but practical
patriot, seeing how the thing must go, will, like a
general, withdraw from a position where the enemy
is too strong for him, and if he cannot save Nice
will not aggravate its slavery. We confess
that we see no way in which appearances can be
decently preserved either in the Turin Parliament
or in taking the votes of the unfortunate territories.
No doubt both will be " managed," but the manage-
ment will be so obvious, every string and wire of
the puppets so visible, that it would have been far
better to have done the whole by the Imperial and
Royal fiat only.
The only party honourably and firmly in-
sisting on its claims is the Republic of
Switzerland, the little Republic of two mil-
lions of people surrounded by Empires with
fifteen or twenty times its population. A neutral
terrritory by the consent of Europe, it has still
the wisdom to be, as far as it can, the defender
of its own neutrality. The long but very inte-
resting letter which we gave yesterday exhibits
the Cantons in a very pleasing light. Though
unblessed with Royalty and Courts and Cabinets
in the usual sense of the word, they are not
without the blessings of common sense, of capacity
fully to comprehend their political interests, of ad-
ministrative ability to adapt their arrangements to
their wants, and of courage to fight, if needful, for
the inviolability of their fatherland. A standing
army like those maintained by the " great Powers"
is out of the question with so small a nation. But
a standing army they nevertheless have, which
could at least make an invader pause till they seek
external alliance and aid. The whole population
is trained to arms ; according to age, every
man has his place in the Cantonal or Federal
army. The drillings and trainings are conducted
in a way which at once saves the time of a busy
people, and yet makes soldiers of them who can
handle their weapons, and especially the national
rifle, with terrible efficiency. Woe to the officers
of an attacking army unless they can effectually hide
amongst their men ; and woe to Zouaves who think
to drive before them the stalwart Swiss fighting for
their fire-sides, :as they did the half-starved Aus-
trian recruits, fighting for the oppressions of a
despot Emperor.

The Swiss are now in earnest on the subject of
the neutral portions of Savoy adjacent to their ter-
ritory. The EMPEROR had intended quietly to
swallow them with the rest of Savoy. He had
purposed to make Lake Leman a French lake, and
to cover it with a French flotilla. But the Swiss
aro awake. They have both appealed to all the
Powers who have guaranteed their neutrality, and
begun to assemble an army which they could
increase, if need were, to 120,000 men, and on
an emergency to double that number. If the
EMPEROR wanted the slopes of the Alps
to secure his vast nation against little Pied-
mont, how much more does little Switzerland
need a military barrier against the ambition of
her mighty and unscrupulous Western neighbour
The " Great Powers" must assent to the fairness of
Swiss demands; it is, indeed, so glaringly
obvious that even the Emperor of the FRENCH
feels constrained to suggest some reasonable adjust-
ment of the claims of Switzerland. It seems, now,
not improbable that for the present the smallest
possible strip of Savoy may be ostensibly neutra-
lised, and that satisfied for the present with
LObuild-
ing frigates and liners against England, LOUIS
NAPOLEON may for awhile let alone the flotilla of
gunboats which was to keep guard over the liber-
ties of Geneva, and over the great road from
France into Switzerland. •

Mr. BRIGHT is fast becoming one of the most
foul-mouthed speakers in the United Kingdom•
Does any man differ from the member for Bir.
mingham, he is immediately assailed by that hon.

ourable gentleman in language befitting the lowest
purlieus of Billingsgate—he is reviled as dishonest
—he is accused of being actuated by the very basest
1 motives—he is charged with being scurrile in

terms themselves the most scurrilous—his views

are pronounced to be no better than the splenetic
ebullitions of a nature surcharged with the most
dastardly spite and the most envenomed virulence,
and are so pronounced in words themselves charac-

SUN, LONDON SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 14, 1860.

his more infatuated admirerk. But it certainly ap-
pears to us to require for its accurate definition
some of those particularly strog flavoured epithets
which are so peculiarly abunant in Mr. BRIGHT'S
own vocabulary.

On the same day as Reformers at Manchester
were listening enrapt to the eloquence of JOHN
BRIGHT, the Conservatives of llssex were applaud-
ing the clever orations of Mr. NACOCKE and of Mr.
DU CANE, the mover, it will to remembered, of the
main r' solution against the 'Treaty and Budget.
The speaking was certainly telling, as an after-
dinner entertainment, and not wanting in some good

points. Mr. Du CANE, on the present occasion, was
not oppressed by the certainty of a defeat in pros-
pect, and the awkwardness of speaking after a great
defeat on a technical motion wlich ought not to have

so far supplanted his own. On'te very subject of his
House of Commons motion he was, indeed, happier
in expression than he was in the house itself.

LATEST

"It had been well said," he observed, " that
dreams should always be interpreted by contra-
ries, and if this test were applied to one or
two distinguished members of her MAJESTY'S
present administration, one might almost say
that since 1853 they had been legislating for the
country in a state of perpetual somnambulism.
He would take as an example the most brilliant
and imaginative member of the Cabinet, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. In 1853 that brilliant
individual dreamed a dream, and prophesied a pro-

phesy, that 1860 was to be the period of our financial
millennium cuifla ebeaD necessaries of life for the
people, and no income tax. Well, 1860 arrived ; a
confiding public stood as a confiding public always
did stand, upon the tip-toe of expectation, with its
eyes fast shut and its mouth wide open. It waited
patiently for the realisation of the prophesy; but
what was reality it was called upon to swallow ?
Why, it found the war duties upon tea and sugar still
existing, and the income tax, so far from having
vanished was actually doubled in a time of peace."
But that is not all. It seems certain now, that
had the Savoy business been known to the House
before the treaty wall ratified, Louis NAPOLEON
would never have got his treaty, and Savoy and
Nice also. " This monstrous injustice (of the war
taxes on tea and sugar and the doubled Income-tax)
we were called upon to swallow, in order that we
might carry into effect the provisions of an unfair
and one-sided commercial treaty, to which he be-
lieved, if Lord JOHN RUSSELL had not been
either wilfully blind or wilfully dishonest
in the matter of the annexation of Savoy.
Parliament would have cut off its right
hand sooner than have assented. He declared
emphatically that he believed if her Majesty's
Ministers had been ingenuous and candid with the
house the majority of 116 who negatived the reso-
lution which he had the honour to move against
the financial proposition of the Government would
have been reversed, and the country would have
seen a baffled and humiliated Government take back
their budget and annul their treaty. What was
the enormous blessing which the country was to
derive from this one-sided treaty ? It was to have
dear tea and sugar, and to face a Reformed Par-
liament next year (as we are told) with an increased
income tax and an increased deficiency."
Mr. Du CANE of course earnestly denounced
Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Reform Bill. We are
sorry, however, that he should condescend in doing
so to borrow the clap-trap Conservatism of our
great morning contemporary, trying to frighten
people, as was done before the first Reform Bill,
with talk which soon evaporated in facts, of throw-
ing all the Government into the hand of one class
—as if any of the numerous classes from a £6 and
£lO franchise upwards, could ever combine to
overpower all the rest. If Mr. Du CANE really
fears that, we can tell him of a remedy which
in Australia completely broke up working-class and
priestly combination and intimidation, that remedy
s—the Ballot.

Legations.

AMERICA.

Mr. PEACOKE, too, did full justice to the conser-
vative side of things—his advertence to Mr. COBDEN
did him much credit; and his picture of Englishmen
in the hands of the French EMPEROR was very
racy—" If there was one point in connection with
the treaty which surprised him more than
another, it was to see the name of RICHARD
COBDEN appended to such a reactionary measure.
He (Mr. PEACOCKE) had never been amongst the
detractors of Mr. COBDEN; he respected him for
his integrity, he admired his eloquence, and he
esteemed him for the unaffected kindliness of his
nature ; and it was, therefore, with the., more re-
gret and surprise that he saw Mr. COBDEN'S name
appended to a treaty which he must consider a
reactionary one, not in accordance with the prin-
ciples of free trade. He could only conceive that
the revels at Compiegne must have exerted upon
,Mr. COBDEN some of those intoxicating influences
which were known to have affected older servants of
the Crown.- Let Mr. Cobden be consoled ; he was
not the only person who had been over--eached by
the Emperor of the FRENCII. That monarch over-
reached the diplomatists of Austria when, quailing
before the impassable lines of Verona, he promised,
in compensation for the territory of Lombardy,
which they ceded to him, to restore the Archdukes
to their thrones ; and he over-reached the plenipo-
tentiary Britain, when he stated that
France
madeof
Greatw rn
idea, and not from any un-
derstanding between France and Sardinia for the
any portion of territory between France and Savoy."

IMPERIAL PRESENT TO THE ROYAL YACHT
SQUADRON.—The Emperor of the French has presented his
portrait to the Royal Yacht Squad':Orr; It is full length,
life size, in a splendid gilt frame. The Emperor is dressed
in the uniform of a marshal of France, and the likeness is
a very striking one. On the lower part are the words,
"Donne par l'Empereur." The frame is so large that they
have only one room in the castle—the library—that is high
enough to receive it, and that would not but for the ceiling
being carried up into the roof. For the present it is fixed
at the west end.
MAILS FOR NEW )(mc—The Africa will leave
Liverpool to-day for New York with a full cargo and about
75 passengers. The box closes at two p.m., but letters re-
ceived in Liverpool up to nine p.m, will be forwarded via
Queenstown. Telegraphic despatches may be sent up to
3.30 p.m. to-morrow (Sunday).
GREAT DECREASE IN THE MORTALITY OF LIVER-
rooL.—At the weekly meeting of the Liverpool Health
Committee, held yesterday, the medical officer reported that
in the number of deaths in the borough during the quarter,
compared with the average, there had been a decrease of not
less than 162.

VOLUN TEEM RIFLEMEN AND GRAND JURIES.— On
the Bristol Grand Jury being sworn, the other day, Capt.
Taylor asked the Recorder to be excused from serving at
the sessions, inasmuch as, being captain of one of the com-
panies of British Volunteers, he was engaged with members
of his company in ball firing at &Loyd-park. The Recorder
assented to his exemption.
HORRIBLE SUICIDE AT HIGHGATE.—On Thurs-
day afternoon, shortly l'efore four o'clock, as some under-
takers were returning from the Highgate Cemetery down
Swaine's-lane, they were suddenly alarmed by a tremendous
report of firearms, and, on looking in the direction whence
the report came, they saw the body of a man lying by the
side of the road with his head literally shattered to atoms,
no single vestige of feature remaining. Near the body lay a
large horse-pistol, the barrel of which had exploded. It is
believed that the unfortunate man had loaded the pistol to
the very muzzle, and then discharged the contents into his
mouth. The body was placed in an undertaker's hearse and
brought down to the dead-house of St. Pancras Workhouse,
where it remains for identification, which can only bo
effected by the clothes and articles on the deceased's person.
His dress consisted of a black surtout coat and wrapper, the
outer of petersliam or beaver cloth, with black velvet collar,
black cloth double-breasted waistcoat and trousers, black
patent leather Balmoral boots (nearly new), a blue figured
and crimson stock. The shirt is of the flannel material,
striped black or brown and red ; a white linen collar,
marked "C. Crane, No. 10," and white socks with blue
stripe, also marked "C. Crane, 3." On his person were
found a card, with an address at Chelsea; four duplicates,
one for some trifling article pledged that morning for a
shilling near Golden-square ; a knife and razor, percussion
caps, powder, bullets, &e., but no money. The body awaits
an inclueot, ,

NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, APRIL 14:

The Moniteur announces that the Legislative
Body has agreed to the contingent of 100,000 men
for the present year by 238, against 16 votes.
The Opinione Nationale publishes a private mes-
sage from Marseilles, which announces that an in-
surrection has taken place at Messina.

MARSEILLES, FRIDAY.

The Meandre has arrived, having touched at
Messina ; she brings news which confirms the
rumoured popular movement at that place. An in-
surrection of a serious character broke out on the
evening preceding that of the Meandre's arrival..

A French postal agent and three sailors who ac-
companied him were exposed to a fire of musketry
while returning to the steamer from the consulate.
One of the sailors was wounded. The party, how-
ever, were, fortunately, able to regain the steamer

by swimming.
During the night, from the Bth to the 9th, the
fire of guns and muskets was incessantly heard.

ROME, APRIL 13.

A great manifestation took place yesterday in
commemoration of the anniversary of the return of
the Pope in 1850. In the morning the Pope, so-
companied by a crowd of persons, went to the
church of St. Agnes, beyond the walls of Rome,
where his Holiness celebrate,' MAWS mad gave the
communion to 500 persons. On the return of his
Holiness to the Vatican he was received with ap-
plause. In the evening the city was illuminated.

TURIN, APRIL 13.

It is officially settled that King Victor Emma-
nuel during his tour in Central Italy will repair
from Florence to Bologna, and will visit the

MADRID, Arum 13.

M. Thouvenel, it is asserted, has despatched a
note to the Queen, congratulating her Majesty on
the happy termination of the rebellion.
General Cabrera returns to London.
Senor Carrion has been shot at Palencia.
Senor Tristany is being vigorously pursued in

Catalonia.
The trial of Ortega has commenced.

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 4,

The Sultan, acting upon the advice of Capitan
Pacha, has recalled Omer Pacha from exile, and
intends to appoint him to the command of the army
in Roumelia, with a view to the events which may
take place in the Slavonian Provinces.
Numerous protests have arrived from the inhabi-
tants of Bulgaria, and from the Greek clergy.
The Representative Assembly of the Roumain
Provinces is about to discuss proposals relating to
projected railways, to the Commercial Bank, and
to loans on landed property. The proposals refer-
ring to the two latter questions have been favour-
ably received by the people.
It is certain that the Ulemas have signed petitions
in favour of Morocco.

GALWAY, ARIL 14.

The Atlantic Royal Mail Company's steamer
Circassian, from New York and St. John's, has
arrived here.