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are, with one exception —we hope an ap-
parent one only—as much as could be asked
as things stand, and, if they can be carried,
Italy will soon finish her own work. Absolute
non-intervention; another vote in regard to an-
nexation on the part of the emancipated territo-
ries ; Sardinia not to interfere in the taking of this
vote, but to be authorised to accept it if favourable;
France to withdraw her troops from Rome and
other parts of Italy; and " Venetia to remain
apart from all negotiations concerning new territo-
rial arrangements, and to remain under Austrian
rule."

This last clause, we may hope, is an Austrian
version of England's proposal ; though Lord JOHN
RUSSELL'S statement in the House last night
was by no means satisfactory. Strictly construed,
it would implicate us in supporting a barbarous
foreign despotism in Venetia, which all accounts
show to be as much detested there as it was in the
States now happily free from it. All Europe, and,
of course, England's Ministers, know that the
bayonet and the stick, arrests and imprisonments,
are the regular course of things in Verona,
Mantua, and Venice ; that the state of siege,
foreign soldiers, and rifled cannon are the reliance
of Austria, not for defending, but for governing
its Italian subjects. Austria occupies, does not
govern, south of the Alps, and the phrase should
have been, " that Venetia is to remain under the
Austrian yoke." We will hope, however, that it
is all a mistake. In 1848, Austria would have
surrendered Lombardy if England would concede
to her Venetia, but Lord PALMERSTON then would
not sign away Venetian liberties. We hope he
I will not now.

We hope so the more, because the other points
appear to be unobjectionable. • The demand, indeed,
for a second vote of annexation appears to be a
little intermeddling. It is, of course, proposed to
satisfy the Emperor of the FRENCH and to save ap-
pearances for him. He wants a second and more
formal discharge from the obligations incurred at
Villafranca, and ratified at Zurich. A second
vote will be an irresistible proof that nothing but
force could reinstate the Grand Dukes in their
Duchies, and the POPE'S Legate in /Emilia. Espe-
cially, if that vote be taken by Universal Suffrage,
will the double point be gained; that Louis NAPO-
LEON will have a good pretext to cease from oppo-
sition to annexation ; and that he will stand for-
ward in European history as the inaugurator of a
new idea—that of the popular voice, as opposed to
legitimacy and Divine right,—being the avowed
foundation of Royal and Imperial rule. A dictator-
ship voted by the plebs, is his principle. In the
Italian States, however, it will be a Constitutional
Monarchy—does he relish this ? !Does he hope, in
time, to leave his throne to his son, to have con-
verted France again into a constitutional monarchy?
His present discipline is not the one, apparently, to
train citizens to the free exercise of their political
faculties ; unless, however, he leave him his cun-
ning, as well as his throne, he can hardly hope that
the lad would keep it a year except as the head of
free institutions.

Count CAVOUR'S circular seems to know nothing
of ;this appeal to universal suffrage. It states dis-
tinctly that the elections are being organised on
the Piedmontese model; he says, indeed, that it is
with the view of carrying the annexation into com-
plete and definite execution, the Governments of
Central Italy have conformed their mode of elect-
ing delegates to that employed in Piedmont. We
presume, therefore, his Majesty of France will,have
to give vp his universal suffrage scheme for Italy,
and, seeing that tho people there prefer another, to
yield to facts as best he can. The Count's circular
to the Sardinian agents at Foreign Courts is alto-
gether a very decisive one, and seems to show that
Sardinia has made up her mind to palter no longer
with so weighty a question, and one which, in
truth, concerns only her and the States who appeal
to her. The KING, he says, has done all he can to
induce the States to wait and accept the decision of
Europe, but Congress seems not likely to assemble,
and " his MAJESTY has no longer the power of
arresting the natural and inevitable course of
events."

But France is to withdraw her troops—of course,
still maintaining that if Austria ventures beyond
the Quadrangle, it will be a casus bell for the
Liberator of Italy. What is to follow P All the
States of the Church, including Rome itself, throw-
ing off the temporal yoke of clerics "persecut-
ing" POPE and Cardinals, as Archbishop CULLEN
would call it, by relieving him of the pleasure of
plaguing his subjects, and bidding him keep his in-
fallibility for spiritual matters. Then, he of
Naples, not having enough on his hands in keeping
up a system of Police Government as bad as that
of the POPE himself, is said to be marching his
troops to the frontiers of the dominions which the
POPE still calls his. But, there is the King of
SARDINIA on the other side; and if an English fleet
would not throaten his shores, we may be pretty
sure a French one would warn him to mind his own
business and let the POPE and the Roman. alone.
In a word, compel Anstria to keep, where perhaps
her own beggary of funds will keep her, north of
the Po and east of the Mimic), and Italy, to the
very extremity of Sicily, will soon reckon with its
oppressors—not impossibly form one great king-
dom—and buy or kick Austria out of Venetia, if
the Hungarians have not compelled her to sell it
long before.

By one account we ►ere told that France wanted
time to send the English proposals to Austria, but
from Berlin we were told that England had actu-
ally sent them already—she had sent them to
all three Governments. It told us also an amusing
bit of fun. England seemed to engage that Sar-
dinia should let Austria alone while the settlement
was going on. Poor Austria—beaten and bank-
rupt, like many individuals in the same plight—is
but so much the prouder. She replies, " She knows
how to defend Venetia." She might have added,
and to surrender it or lose it too. A blessed day
for Europe when the Jesuit ridden HAPSBURGS
cease to lord it over any territory but their own
little hereditary duchy; and, one would think, the
sooner those poor, patient Germans got a better
master the better for them too.

LATEST NEWS

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

VENICE, FEB. 6, via AUSTRIA.

The Commander of the Army has announced
that in future all climel committed against the
armed force of the State, within the district of
Venice and Trient, will .be judged by military
council (Standrecht),

MADRID, FEB. 7.

Tetuan has been taken by the Spaniards after the
battle which was fought on the 4th. 800 large
tents, forming the five encampments of the enemy,
the artillery camels, and all other equipage of the
Moorish army, have been taken. The brothers of the
Emperor took to flight. A summons having been
transmitted to the enemy to surrender Tetuan
within 24 hours, a deputation from the city came
into the Spanish camp to beg for mercy, as the
Mussulmans had commenced to pillage and
slaughter in the town. The division of General
Rios entered the town without opposition, and
was received with manifestations of joy. Immense
popular rejoicings are taking place at Madrid,
which is splendidly illuminated. The acclamations
are general, and preparations are being made for
grand public fetet.

VIENNA, TUESDAY.
The official Wiener Zeitung contains the fo'

lowing :

" At a bal masqus which took place on Sunday
evening last, in the Hungarian Theatre at Pesth,
the national Rakoezy dance was demanded. The
students of tho University took no part in the
manifestation. Three workmen, employed in a
machine manufactory, were arrested, and in conse-
quence of their liberation being insisted upon, a
body of soldiers, who had been kept in readiness,
were summoned, and restored tranquillity without
recourse to arms. Dancing was then resumed."

" TURIN, TUESDAY.
Signor Nigra leaves to-day for Paris. Signor
Farini has returned to Modena.

NICE (via TURIN), TUESDAY.
At the theatre last night the national song was
repeated three times, and was received with shouts
of " The King for ever !" " Italy for ever !'
" Nice Italian !" Perfect order prevailed.

PARIS, TUESDAY.
The Paris papers publish the following mes.
sage, dated Antibes, Feb. 7 :

" On Sunday last a spontaneous manifestation
took place at the French theatre, where the air of
Reine Hortense' was unanimously applauded."
Yesterday 1,500 persons were present at the
Royal Italian Theatre. A manifestation was pro-
voked by the performance of the " Royal Hymn,"
which had been announced in the playbill. 450
spectators, consisting only of soldiers and Italian
functionaries, shouted a great deal, but half the
audience remained silent. The boxes were empty.
The Pairs,' gives a denial to the rumour that the
13th battalion of the Neapolitan Chasseurs at
Avellina had revolted.

ROME (VIA MARSEILLES), FEB. 4.
It is stated that the Pope has received and replied
to a letter from the Count de Chambord.

The despatches from the French Government to
the Pope, sent by the last steamer, have made a
deep impression on his Holiness.
Great agitation still prevails at Ancona. The
French Ambassador gave a magnificent soirée on
Tuesday last.
Rome is quiet in consequence of the firmness
shown by General Goyon.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 28.

The Turkish police force being insufficient, Riza
Pacha has proposed to the Sultan the organisation
of a " Gendarmerie," to consist of both horse and
foot, and to number 60,000 men. A committee has
been appointed for examining this project, which
has been favourably received by the inhabitants.
A considerable number of the inhabitants of
Crete wish to become converts to the Roman
Catholic religion, in order to defend themselves
from the Patriarch of Constaatinople. The
Patriarch, informed of this, has sent a delegate to
the island.

The Queen's Speech has provoked a sympathetic
manifestation on the part of the Italian residents
here.

The Turkish Governor has commanded the sale
of 40,000 kilogrammes of brass cannon, to con-
tribate towards the withdrawal of the Caime from

circulation.

The return of Kyprisli Pasha to the office a
Grand Vizier is spoken of.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY.

The Imperial Government is said to be just now
quite as much occupied with the state of Turkey as
with Italy, or even Savoy. It is apprehended that
before long some catastrophe will have occurred, if
not to the Sultan personally, at least in Constan-
tinople. Under these circumstances it is considered
desirable to be on as good terms as possible with
England.

The Duke of Montebello is reported to have had
a warm discussion with Prince Gortschakoff, at St.
Petersburg, on the subject of the annexation of
Savoy to France, to which Russia is opposed.

THE BOURSE, Feb. 7.--The market has been
rather firmer, but with a limited amount of busi-
ness doing. Threes, after having been done at
67f. 45c., rallied to 67f. 60c.; Mobilier varied from
732 f. 50c. to 740 f.; Orleans, 1,347f.:50c. to 1,350 f.;
Lyons, 872 f. 50c. to 877 f. 50c.; Northern, 900 f.
to 902 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 540 f. to 542 f. 50c.; Au-
trian, 485 f. to 487 f. 50c. The following were the
last quotations :

1 per Cents..... 97 35 Credit Foncier 735 __
Do. end month .. 97 45 Belem 4} — 1--
3 per Cants. 67 80 Piedmontese (5)
Do. end month.... 67 75 Roman 79175
Bank Shares 2BlO Austrian
Credit Mobilior .. 742 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Acceunt ..... 740 Home Debt —

in an immense hall, where they partook of refresh-
ments. Here the Holy Father heard two short
speeches, one from the director of the establishment
and the other from Cardinal Barnabo. The Pope,
immediately succeeding the cardinal, replied in sub-
stance, that he was grateful for the thanks expressed
to him, but that his devotion to Catholicism was
only that of his predecessors. The trials which he
experienced, others experienced and remained
triumphant. One remedy alone existed against
the perverse doctrines prevailing in a portion
of the Christian world, and against the dis-
loyal manoeuvres which attacked the Church—
that remedy was constant prayer. What he
asked from the Catholic world, in making an ap-
peal on behalf of the justice of his cause, was
prayer, incessant prayer ; but he must add that
never was there a bitterer trial or the peril more
menacing. It was in Italy that the perversion of
men's minds was most to be seen : it was in the
Peninsula that a spirit of revolt against all which
is sacred found nourishment and support. The dis-
tinction between truth and falsehood was lost ; vice
became virtue—virtue was called vice. But neither
humiliation, nor martyrdom, nor captivity, could
shake the confidence of the Church nor the firmness
of its head.

" The words of Pius IX. produced a sensation
amongst the auditors, and subsequently in the city.
That, doubtless, which added to the natural effect
likely to be produced by such a speech was the ex-
treme animation with which it was delivered."

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY.

The Canadian mail steamer Anglo-Saxon, Capt.
Ballantine, from Portland Maine, Jan. 28, arrived
here at 4.30 p.m. She landed the Irish mails only.
The Teutonia and the Nova Scotia had arrived
out.

There was no sign of the America or Fulton.
'WASHINGTON, JAN. 27.

The Democrats united to-day, and Mr. Smith, of
North Carolina, only ►anted three votes to be
elected to the Speakership.
The Government of Peru has refused to liquidate
the American claims.

LATER NEWS FROM MEXlCO.—General Acapulco
states that only 2,000 men of the army of the
Liberals were engaged in the battle of the 21st
December, the main body having failed through
the treachery of General Cortinas who detained
them above Matanora plundering the Texians.
New York, Jan. 27.
Stocks dull and heavy, money unchanged, bread-
stuffs dull and also unchanged, cotton steady.

New Orleans, Jan. 27.

Cotton sales of the week : 62,000 bales, at 11c.
to 11c. for middling. Receipts amount to 84,000
bales, against 60,000 last year. Export, 88,000
bales. Freight to Liverpool, 9-16 d.

Mobile, Jan. 27.
Cotton firm, but unaltered. Sales to-day,3,500

bales.

Flour dull, and sales limited.

LITERATURE.

The _Little Beauty. By Mrs. Grey, authoress of
" The G3.mbler's Wife," " Cousin Harry," &c,
3 vols. Hurst and Blackett.

This is a most painful story, and discloses some
sad secrets of domestic life. The authoress has dis-
played great skill in the peculiar delineations of
the persons described. At first sight some of the
events may appear exaggerated, but they are all
possible, and even probable in some cases. The
heroine was indeed to be pitied, and to her might
well be said, " Thou who hast the fatal gift of
beauty." Her mother was a vain woman, and her
father was most reprehensible in giving way to the
airs and graces of the consequential woman, who
carried with ker, into her humble dwelling, all the
absurd notions she imbibed in the great house where
she had so long lived. It is a poor preparation for
the toils of a labourer's wife to have been enervated in
that sphere of idleness and self-indulgence in which
the favoured servants of wealthy establishments so
often unfit themselves for everything. They gain
the faults of those they serve without their sense
of responsibility, to stem the storm of passion or
militate against the practice of self-indulgence to
an unlimited extent. Violet was a very weak girl,
but, indeed, no one else could have fallen into such
a snare as that prepared for her by the cupidity of
her mother, and the unworthy conduct of Lord
Victor Lyle. Few such atrocious actions are per-
petrated now-a-days it is to be hoped ; but those
mothers, whose every hope and thought is to make
their daughters contract grand or wealthy mar-
riages, would do well to peruse these effec-
tive passages in the life of the little beauty,
and to note how such wicked desires
may be realised in their children's anguish of soul
ana body, and to mark how the small beginnings
of petty plans of deceit to attain the desired end
will be consummated in tho perpetration of deadly
sins, which will weigh heavily against them in the
dread day of account. There is nothing more re-
volting and unnatural than a mother thus wilfully
purposing and deliberately planning the ruin of her
child. The circumstances of the case do not con-
fine themselves to the isolated instance here re-
corded, for had Violet been the daughter of a lady
her misery would have been the same. It is a posi-
tive relief when she at last escapes from the bitter
slavery in which she had been so long chained
down, and flies for refuge to her old and valued
friends. There are some individuals met with in
the story in the earlier portions of it that are a de-
lightful contrast to the darker scenes of strife and
misery that enshroud its conclusion. Mr. and Mrs.
Vernon, Sylvia, and Julian: are, in their several
ways, most estimable and charming portraitures.
The happy days of the young people passed
in that beautiful country retreat to which we are
first introduced must have left an indelible impres-
sion on their minds. With Violet especially, it was
like looking back from a polar winter on
the summer of some tropic clime. The spring of
her life was no meet harbinger for the after blight-
ing of the blossom. Well might she exclaim,
When May is gone of all the year the pleasant
time has passed." Her kind-intentioned friends
did very wrong in unfitting her so completely for
her after sphere of life. It is a cruelty and an error
even to raise expectations in the young that cannot
or ought not to be fulfilled, and for much of the
misery that afterwards ensued the family at Glen-
more House were to blame. Had they judiciously
and yet firmly repelled all intimacy save a proper
intercourse with their former dependents, had they
reproved her guady apparalleling of the child, and
insisted as far as lay in their power in pla-
cing the mother and child on the footing of the
father's occupation, not on the visionary founda-
tion of past luxuries and futuro fancies, all would
have worn a very different aspect. " One sows
that another may reap," was verified in the fate of
Violet, whose bitter harvest was such as few could
excel in terror and trouble. She felt it the more
from being so gentle and timid ; but at last even
she was roused, and no angry ebullitions or vehe-
ment attempts can crush the spirit of the meek
when once it is fairly awakened. Had she been of
a more fiery nature, there would have resulted more
serious effects from the treatment to which she was
subjected; but her quiet wretchedness of expression
broke the mother's heart, when she one day naught
a glimpse of her riding by in state. Her sufferings
wore fully deserved, and she merits no pity. The
end of the narrative is softened of its horrors, as
Lord Victor is killed by an accident, and Violet,
after some time, marries again ; but during the
exciting passages which chronicle her splendid
misery, ample evidence is adduced to prove the
false position into which she had been forced. Her
trouble, though severe, was brief, but there aro
many whose burden is not so effectually to be re-
moved. Death does not call away their oppressors,
and even if friends interfere, there may be their
children to detain them in their wretched homes.
The authoress could not have exposed the system
more-forcibly than she has done, and those who are
willing to learn might do so, and cull a moral from
the sad story of the sufferings of the fair young
girl, whose gentle nature so ill fitted her for the
rough usage she met with. This novel has every
chance of success from its powerful descriptions
and clever illustrations of character. The plot may
not be new, but the ever recurring incidents of
human follies in the promptings of vanity., and the
faults that are committed from ths -,tithience of '
passion, are exhibited in so striking a manner that
few can fail to be impressed. All who are actuated
by the motives of Mrs. Millet' will find some time
be-
foro their life is over that “11 around them is vexation
of spirit; „hilt; those like Victor Lyle, who despise
prinviplo, and trample feeling under their feet, will
meet, even in this world, with some limits to their
course, when even they must feel at last, and When
reflections
lisstory is Rill
the long pent-up tide of unwelcome
overwhelm their guilty minds. ,i
every way equal to its waessions, and the authoress
could not more entirely have illustrated her inten-
tins, in sonic of her sketclwa of hole scenes she

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is very superior in her efforts, and altogether the
history of " The Little Beauty" bids fair to be a
favourite among the fictions of the present season.

Travels in Eastern Africa. By Lyons M‘Lood,
Esq., F.R.G.S., late her Britannic Majesty's
Consul at Mozambique. Two vols. Hurst and
Blackett.

The author of these volumes lately filled the
dignified but unenviable post of British Consul at
Mozambique. He is a staunch adherent to the
abolitionist doctrines, and willing to uphold his
principles rigidly, by the most self-denying and
inconvenient practice. He was therefore admirably
qualified for his positionjiad he been supported by
the proper authority ; but to allow him to remain
there without any other assistance was to expose
a British subject to a succession of insults and an-
noyances, and to bring the British flag into con-
tempt. The Portuguese slave-holders main-
tained a system of persecution, refusing to let the
Consul have one of their houses, servants, ormedical
attendance ; sending troops of their slaves to make
a disturbance under his windows at night, and in-
sulting and thwarting him by every means in their
power. If Mr. Macleod's narrative be not greatly
exaggerated or extremely biassed, the prime movers
in this affair should certainly be called to account
for their treatment of a British Consul. It is a farce
for Great Britain to send an envoy to such a lo-
cality, if the Government which he represents does
not insist on proper respect being paid to his posi-
tion. The governor of Mozambique was dismissed
from his post for slave-dealing, and the new corner,
Colonel Almeidas, at first showed every courtesy
and attention to the representations of Mr. Mac-
leod ; but finding that ho was quite unsupported,
especially after his desertion by an English ship in
the harbour, he paid little heed to his complaints
of personal ill-usage or to his information respect-
ing the nefarious traffic in slaves. The account
given of the Charles et Georges affair will be read
with interest. Mr. Macleod does not write
with the skill of a practised author. He sometimes
attaches undue importance to trifles, and is occa-
sionally diffuse and extravagant in his style. But
his object does not seem to have been to write an
attractive book, so much as to set plainly before his
countrymen
.the immense extent to which this
shameful traffic is carried on under the very eyes of
their representatives, both openly by the Portu-
guese slave-owners and secretly under the disguise
of the French free-labour emigration scheme. To
this latter plan the author is strongly opposed,
seeing in it only a modified form of slavery, and
asserting that the same cruelties are practised in
entrapping and securing the so-called free emi-
grants and in bringing them to the French vessels,
as are carried on by the regular slave ships. An
American in Mozambique told Mr. Macleod that if
Great Britain permitted France to continue this
system, vessels would soon be found there from the
Southern States of America authorised to purchase
slaves and call them American free labourers. The
determined hostility to the English Consul shown
by the Portuguese residents at Mozambique, prove
the large, gains they make by their secret slave
dealing, while the cruelty with which their unfor-
tunate slaves are treated is strongly denounced
by the author. Of the climate itself he speaks
highly, giving quotations from some good autho-
rities on the point, and asserting that the extreme
unhealthiness of the Portuguese settlement in
D& Lagoa Bay is entirely owing to the situation
chosen for the town. " There is a slimy mud-
bank between Waterloo and Southwark bridges
on the Thames, the occupant of a hut built
on that mud-bank, would, in the height
of our summer, be nearly as liable to marsh or putrid
fever as the inhabitants of Loureneo Marques."
His work is dedicated to the merchants of Great
Britain, and a great portion of it is especially
directed to them, for the author treats largely of
the resources of Eastern Africa, and its capabilities
in a commercial point of view. The slave trade he
regards as a great drawback in every respect,
but his opinion of the fertility and vigour of
the soil, if properly cultivated, is most encouraging.
We commend his volumes to the attention of all
who are interested in the extension of our commerce,
and in the effectual extirpation of the slave trade
in all its branches.