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r Bath, for in August, after his conviction, his lord-
I ship's arms and banner were removed by the heralds
with contumely, and kicked out of Henry Vll.'s
chapel in Westminster Abbey. His name was
likewise removed from the Nary List. Lord Coch-
rane declined to come forward previously to the
general election in 1818, having accepted the com-
mand of the naval force of the then new republic
of Chili. Having become " a sailor of fortune," it
was to be expected that by " deeds of daring" he
would maintain that reputation he had gained
in the service of his country, and which none
of the most bitter of his personal enemies could, in
their malice, deprive him of. He took the com-
mand of the navy of the new state of Chili, and
by his exertions and achievements finally secured
the independence of that republic. .His cutting out
of the Esmeralda, a large 40-gun frigate, on the sth
of November, 1823, from under the guns of the
castle of Callao, was one of the most daring, as well
as the most celebrated of his exploits. Subsequently,
he was, by the Emperor Don Pedro, appointed to
the command of the Brazilian fleet, and in 1823 was
by that monarch created Marquis of Maranham.
His lordship next gave his services to Greece, and
was employed in that country from 1827 to 1828.

the triumph of liberal principles at home restored
him to his country, and to the service he had covered
with glory. Nut with the best grace, but by inter-
mittent fits of tardy repentance, the men in power
atoned for the injuries which ti, eir predecessors had
inflicted. For 13 years tie victim of party rancour
has survived the wounds of calumny and injustice.
His latest years were devoted to his country, and to
the interests of the service he loved so well. Genius,
science, experience, he freely and faithfully devoted
to naval questions ; and at the age of more than
four-score years the latest theories of gunnery
or " reconstruction" were discussed by him with all
the buoyant zeal and far-sighted shrewdness of
early years. It is a happy thought that he had
finished the second volume of an Autobiography
which ought to. be a classic in every English
library afloat and ashore. He leaves us at a time
when the Navy is undergoing a tranformation
which has yet to be tested. But of this we may
be certain—no transformation of materials can dis-
pense with Nelsons or Cochranes, or replace them.
No substitution of steam for sails, of 10 inch
guns for carronades, can ever persuade British
seamen to play at long bowls when they can come
to clone quarters. Let us bear witness, then,
in the face of the world, by the honours we pay
to our national Captain, that his spirit still breathes
and. burns in every seaman that serves under the
British flag, and in every Englishman who love
sacred and eternal cause of liberty which counts
among its heroes a Cochrane, a Charles James
Napier, and a Garibaldi—kinsmen in courage, in
suffering, and in genius.

DEPORTED DEA
MATHRIO. OF .ALBE_RTO

Yesterday we noticed the rumour current in
Newcastle that our brave young townsman, Mr.
Alfred Gorringe, had fallen in the first encounter.
of the British Brigade before Capua ; to-day we
learn, by private letters from Naples, that Signor
Alberto Mario, the husband of Madame Jessie
White Mario, has also been killed. He was sent
by Garibaldi, at the head of a column of one thou.
sand men, to put down a reactionary movement in
Molise. The patriots were overpowered and cut
to pieces by a body of Neapolitan soldiers six times
their number. Only forty out of the thousand are
reported as being saved, and in that number Mario's
name does not occur. The encounter is said to have
been tremendous, the Garibaldians having fought
like lions, and against desperate odds.
Signor Mario was a member of a, very old Vene-
tian family who have lived on the same estates for
centuries, and have suffered severely from time to
time by the persecutions of the Austrians. He was
a barrister by profession, but in the siege of Venice
in 1848 and 1849 he fought under Manin. Although
he entered the service as a common soldier his skill
and courage soon raised him to a superior command
After the fall of Venice he retired to Genoa, where
he supported himself by writing for the liberal news-
papers and by teaching. In 1856 and 1857 he
took an active part in organising the expedition
which, under the brave Pisacane and Nicotera,
sailed for Naples on board the Cagliari. For his
complicity in this matter he was driven from Genoa
by the Sardinian Government. For a short time
he resided in Switzerland, and then came to Eng-
land, where he lived for some months, and then,
in company with his wife, went to America. He
returned to this country in the beginning of last
year, when he and Madame Mario went to Italy.
The Sardinian Government refused to allow
either of them to remain, and after having suffered
a short imprisonment as suspects, they were re-
leased by the urgent entreaties of Garibaldi, and
allowed to go again to Switzerland. They lived
there till the expedition to Sicily, in April last ,
when Mario and his wife joined Garibaldi. The
former took the charge of the military school,
organised by the Dictator in Palermo, while the
latter superintended the hospitals. When Gari-
baldi landed in Calabria, Mario was one of his
staff, and in that capacity continued till he was
sent on the fatal expedition which we have men-
, tioned.

Mario was about 32 or 33 years of age, active,
and of a fine soldierly appearance. He was an
ardent republican, and a devoted follower of Maz-
zini. His literary attainments were considerable,
and he was a regular contributor to many of the
first-class continental magazines and reviews.
Garibaldi had a strong personal attachment to
and he was one of the few men to whom the

Dictator was understood to be at all communicative

respecting his military or political projects. lie
was in the neighbourhood of Newcastle for some
rime, along with his wife,in the spring of 1858, and
his untimely death will be a source of great regret
to the many friends he made while here.
Madame Mario follows the camp of the Gari-
baldians, and has the chief command of all the hos-
pital arrangements. Her energy and good-
lieartedness have won her troops of friends, even
amongst the partisans of Carour, who look with
horror on her political opinions. Shs was married
shortly after her release from prison in Genoa, in
1857.—Netecastle Chronicle.

DEFENCE OF PORTSMOUTH.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—Vice-Admiral Sir G. Sartorius, in his letter
to the Times of the 24th inst., exactly reverses the
views of the late sub-committee, which he errone-
ously styles the sub-committee on " National De-
fences," and he mistakes " what the Government
wished to know from them."
He implies that " a recommendation was made
that a complicated work of booms, chains, nets, and
innumerable anchors should be spread over so large
a space as Spithead at a cost of £500,000, like a
net for catching tunny fish ;" and he expatiates on
the difficulty of keeping all this cumbrous compli-
cation in working order in winter and storm, and on
the enormous inconvenience of embarrassing this
important roadstead with all this mass of materials.
So far were the committee from recommending
anything of the kind for even the passages to Spit-
head, that after dwelling on the enormous cost of
floating barrier between the Horse and
Land shoals, to enable it to withstand
weather to which it would be subjectiel4
that at high water there would
passage of sufficient depth for
between each of the shoals and
would render the barrier useless;
their report states that such
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then dreamt that the suggestions were his own ;
but how he could have imagined that
_be and_ they
had arrived at opposite conclusions, while adopting
their very arguments, cannot thus be accounted for.
This enigma—and not the views of the committee
—must henceforth be placed " amid all the incon-
gruities so abundantly occurring during and since
the Russian war in public matters, particularly in
military or naval matters," and which have " ex-
cited the smiles" of the gallant officer.
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Maitland, the cha;.r.
man of the committee referred to, is now in com-
mand of the Pacific station. In behalf of him and
his 2olleagues I trust to your usual fairness for the
insertion of this communication.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your very obedient servant,.
G. GARDINER FISIIBOURNE,
Senor of the
referred to.
Captains on the Committee
London, Oct. 31.
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REPRESENTATION OF Minvlotraf.--The writ
for the election of a member of Parliament
bter for the
o fill the
vacancy created by the death of 'the late ember
borough of Dartmouth, narthledg, and liingswear was re-
ceived in the borough on Sunday, and proclaimed in duo
form on the following day'' The Mayor has fixed the noini
nation for Friday next, and as there will most probably bo
a contest, the polling will take place on Saturday. The
and Mr. Charles Seale Hayne, (Liberal),
Cur-
candidates are Yr. John Ilardyt(Conservative),llr. J. Cur-
ling (Liberal),
LONDON, CIIATIIAM, AND DOVER, RAILWAY.
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