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Thirdly, with the " Immediate reduction of the
duty on French wine to the extent of 2s. 9d. a
gallon, the duty at present being ss. 9d., the
new duty will only be 3s. a gallon." It being im-
mediately added, " A second reduction of this
duty from the Ist of April, 1861. The duty will
be a minimum of ls. and a maximum of 25., accord-
ing to the quantity of alcohol which the wines may
contain." Fourthly, there is to be a" merely nominal
) duty on corn, flour, and all articles made of flour."
Fifthly, a " reduction more or less important of the
duties on all other articles imported from France."
Sixthly, comes a generalised intimation that
" England reserves the right of allowing other
nations to participate in these reductions, as well
as of modifying hereafter the duties on wines
and spirits, if the changes in our Excise shall
render such modifications desirable" Then fol-
lows the announcement that " France on her part
undertakes to make the following concessions."
It is immediately succeeded, however, by the unwel-
come proviso," but nose of them NV ill take immediate
effect !" The interval of grace being, as we know,
just eighteen months clear—conceded meekly by
England to the French Protectionists ! And then
when it may have become perfectly convenient to
our neighbours we are to hope for a "reduction of the
duties on English coal and coke to a level with those
imposed on the same commodities of Belgian pro-
duce." We are to expect in due succession—" The
abolition of the duties on wool and cotton," a " re-
duction of the duty on iron and machinery," and
the " abolition of prohibitions, for which ad
valorem duties not exceeding 30 per cent. shall be
substituted." For which we are to pay down in
perpetuity an Income-tax of ninepence ! But
then we are reminded—All this wonderful Treaty
has been negotiated by a Free Trader—by the
first and foremost of Free Traders ! True, but Mr.
COBDEN is something more than a Free Trader.
He is a champion of the ignoble and prepos-
terous principles of Peace-at-any-Price. And this
is the price England is to pay for it according to
his thinking. It remains to be :seen whether the
House of Commons concurs with his opinion.
Let the constituencies throughout the country
be at once astir upon this subject of vital and na-
tional importance. Let them communicate at once
—before it is too late—with their representatives.
Let them say quite plainly and distinctly
—We will not have this permanent ninepenny
Income-tax imposed upon the country, just simply
for the advantage of the silk wearers and the claret
drinkers in England ! For the benefit—in the
name of Free Trade (!)—of the ignorant and obsti-
nate French Protectionists ! For the satisfaction
of Lord PALMERSTON'S inveterate desire to con-
ciliate the Imperial friend of whose hospitalities
his lordship has personally partaken at Com-
piegne! Lastly, we will not consent to pay this
price down to the powerful Emperor of the FRENCH,
at the head of his great army of 500,000 heroic
and victorious soldiers, merely to gratify the
wretched whimsies of those fanatical advocates of
the thoroughly un-English and miserably paltry
doctrine of Peace at any Price !

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 dustriara
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
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 bead 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 Governmeats 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 up his universal suffrage scheme for Italy,
and, seeing that the 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."

With the very best intentions in the world, the
noble lord the member for Colchester gained very
little by his motion last evening, for leave to bring
in a bill enabling the Court of Divorce to hold its
sittings with closed doors. Leave to do anything
of the kind was refused by a clear majority of 185
in a house of 351-83 having voted for and 258
against the proposed bill's introduction. Added
to which Lord • JOHN MANNERS was either
coarsely sneered at or grossly reviled during the
progress of yesterday's discussion, having, besides
this, his abilities depreciated, and his views in
many respects, we believe, misapprehended,
upon the morrow, in the printed comments of more
than one unsympathising journalist. The hon.
and learned member for Sheffield facetiously and
pitilessly raised the laugh against the noble lord by
protesting that, to his mind, the motion appeared
to verify the dictum of DEAN SWIFT that " the
nicest people had the nastiest ideas :" adding that
the whole project seemed to have originated in a
state of feeling analogous to that which possessed
the American fine-lady whose sense of modesty was
outraged by the naked legs of her pianoforte. The
house laughed, of course, at the pert and
almost impertinent comparisons—although the
' comparisons were surely in themselves ridi-
culously false or inappropriate. No one ever
had nastier ideas than SWIFT himself,
who was anything but a " nice" person—save to
Mesdames STELLA and VANESSA in their hours of
erratic hallucination. And as to the filthy details
that Lord JOHN MANNERS would fain keep as
much as possible out of the glare of publicity—it
is simply preposterous, of course, for Mr. ROEBUCK
to compare these, save in a moment of thoughtless
waggery, to the naked legs of a pianoforte !
Derision like that is simply absurd and flagrantly
disitgenuous. Again, whew the Times observes this
morning "Lord JOHN MANNERS did not urge the
hardship of women being obliged to state revolt:ng
details in pablic"—the assertion is directly con-
tradicted by the Parliamentary reports of the noble
lord's speech of last evening, in the course of
which he particularly directed the attention of
the House to the Attorney-General's objec-
tion last year—when the honourable and
learned gentleman remarked " how a young,
innocent, and pure-minded wife might be
compelled, by this system of enforced publicity, to
come before a court crowded, as this court notoriously
was, with the most abandoned of both sexes, and
before the recording penman of the public press of
England, to give evidence of the most painful and
excruciating character !" The failure of Lord
JOHN MANNERS' motion of yesterday, appears to us
in truth, to have arisen out of the exceeding diffi-
culty of the subject-matter discussed, and in re-
gard to which he would fain have courted the in-
terposition of the legislature. The mere possibility
of publicity being given to foul and revolting de-
tails of depravity and licentiousness is surely to be
right-minded Christian
regretted by every
gentlemen. But while this isin indubitably
gitishiel
fact—we have all of us,
land of ours, from time immemorial, a peculiar
abhorrence of justice being administered anywhere
under any circumstances with " closed doors "
before a secret tribunal ! Rather than resort to a
course so peculiarly obnoxious to the great mass of
Englishmen, we are prepared to take our chance
of the evil consequences. As it is, however, we
believe that the gentlemen upon whom devolves the
painful duty of reporting the proceedings in the
Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes already
use a wire discretion very frequently indeed in
suppressing much that must otherwise have run
the risk of outraging public decency. If the prin-
cipalsv,,ise co
reinthese disgusting causes will not follow the
mmendat;.on of the Great NAPOLEON—if
they will not consent upon any account to wash
their dirty linen at home—their's is the chief
odium of public decorum being outraged by that
foul stream of the r
cl.I ty rinsings dribbling out to
public view from the newly-built laundry.

But France is to withdraw her troops—of course,
still maintaining that if Austria ventures beyond
the Quadrangle, it will be a castes belli 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 caPs his. But, there is the King of
SARDINIA on the other side; and if an English fleet
would not threaten his shores, we may be pretty
sure a French one would warn him to mind his own
business and let the POPE and the Romans alone.
In a word, compel Austria to keep, where perhaps
her own beggary of funds will keep her, north of
the Po and east of the Mincio, 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 were 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'

lowing :

After all, then, England is to have some hand in
the settlement of Italy. The " Five Points" to
which she has reduced the controversy

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1860.

N E S.

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

VENICE, FEB. 6, via AUSTRIA.

The Commander of the Army has announced
that in future all climes 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 fetes.

VIENNA, TUESDAY.
Ths official Wiener Zeitung contains the fol-

" At a bal masque which took place on Sunday
evening last, in the Hungarian Theatre at Pesth,
the national Rakoczy dance was demanded. The
students of the 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 Paine 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 Popo, sent by the last steamer, have made a
deep impression on his Holiness.

Great agitation still prevails at Ancona. The
Ftench Ambassador gave a magnificent soirée on
esday last.
Rome is quiet in consequence of the firmness
stown by General Goyon.

AMERICA.

Flour dull, and sales limited.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 28.

The Turkish police force being insufficient, Riza
Paella 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 Constautinople. 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.

LITERATURE.

3 vols. Hurst and Blackett.

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

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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."

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 wanted 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, Jai. 27.

Cotton sales of the week : 62,000 bales, at 11c.
to 11 c. 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.

The Little Beauty. By Mrs. Grey, authoress of
• " The Gambler's Wife," " Cousin Harry," &c,

This ii 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 her, 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
and body, and to mark how the small beginnings
of petty plans of deceit to attain the desired end
will be consummated in the 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 future 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 caught
a glimpse of her riding by in state. Her sufferings
were 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 are
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 wretehed 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 deseriptiees
and clever illustrations of character. The plot may
not be now, but the ever recurring incidents of
human follies in the promptings of vanity, and the
faults that are committed from the influence 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. Miller will find some time be-
fore their life i 3 over that all around them is vexation
of spirit ; while those like Victor Lyle, who despise
principle, and trample feeling under their feet, will
meet, even in this world, with some limits to their
course, when eventhey.must feel at last, and when
the long pent-up tide of unwelcome reflections will
overwhelm their &uilty minds. This story is
in
every way equal to its professions, and the authoress
oould not more entirely have illustrated her inten-
tions. In sonic of her sketches of home scenes she