The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-23 00:00:00

FRANCE AND ITALY.

We are enabled to publish the original English
text of Lord Palmerston's letter quoted by Com-
missioner Alinghetti in his speech of the 14th of
December :

" Broadlands, Sept. 25, 1864.

" My dear Azeglio,—l was much obliged to you
for your letter, and I rejoice at the arrangement
which it announced. The difficulties of the case
were great, and the agreement which has been
made is a good one, and I must own far better than
1 had biieved to be possible.
It is an object of first-rate importance to Italy
to get the French troops out of the country, and if
that is fairly and faithfully accomplished in two
years, you need not grudge the delay. I certainly
did not expect so early an evacuation of the Roman
territory.
" The traditions of history no doubt point to
Rome as the propel.- capital of Italy; but, setting
those traditions aside, Florence is in many respects
better suited than Rome to be the head-quarters of
the Italian Government.

" The engagements taken by your King as to not
attacking Rome, and not allowing volunteer bands
from other parts of Italy to do so were of course
unavoidable, and will no doubt be kept. And if
the Pope gets a good army of Frenchmen, Spa-
niards, and Belgians, and gets money to pay them,
he may for a considerable time keep down the dis-
content of the inhabitants of the country governed
in his name.

" But, unless his system of administration is
essentially improved, village after village, and
town after town, will fall away from his rule, and
the priests will have a bad time of it even in Rome
itself.

. "On the whole, I congratulate you very sincerely
upon what may truly be deemed a great event.
" Your Prince. seems to have inherited his
father's activity, and has in a short time seen more
of London and its neighbourhood than many Eng-
lishmen see in the whole of their lives.
We should have hoped to have had the honour
of receiving him here if he had embarked at Ports-
mouth or Southampton. But Dover is certainly a
better place from which to cross the Channel.
" Yours sincerely, " PALMERSTON.
" The Marquis d'Azeglio, &c., London."
* Prince Humbert, then in England.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF PROBATE.

(Before the Right Hon. Sir J. P, Wilde and a

(Special Jury.)

END OF THE GREAT WILL CASE.-YOUNG V. DENDY.

This extraordinary will case, which has lasted
longer than any suit ever tried in this Court, came
to an end this morning. So important did the
learned Judge Ordinary think it that it should be
concluded this sittings, that the Court sat this morn-
ing, a circumstance wholly unprecedented since
the Court was instituted. The learned
Judge, in summing up, first alluded to
the question of insanity. He said if an
allusion to any circumstance produced hallucina-
tion, it must be taken that the person was insane,
for if not they would never know who was insane or
not. They had to consider the hallucination as to
Mr. Young being a god, &c., and to consider
whether that was consistent with the testatrix cor-
responding with and transacting business with him
iu his true capacity. He must direct their attention
to two points of law. It was in "Ready v. Ready,"
which was the true law in the case, that the plain-
tiffs must prove the will. They had his evidence
before them and that of the defendants ; if they had
any doubt about the plaintiff's case they must fins
for defendant. If they considered testatrix's mind
diseased they must findagainst the will. The learned
Judge then reviewed the evidence, and the jury re-
tired to consider their verdict.

CHARLES DICKENS IN AMERlCA.—Private letters
fram Mr. Dickens, says the London Correspondent of the
Liverpool Albion, speak of his reception in Boston as
being extremely cordial and complimentary. You
are aware that, by publishing every unflattering re-
mark on the Americans to be found in his works, ono
of the leading New York papers endeavoured to get
up a demonstration against him in Boston, where his
readings were to commence. This effort has boon
a complete failure. I know that the friends of Mr.
Dickens awaited with much anxiety the account of his
reception at Boston, and of what took place at the first
night's reading. Many of them wore not for his going,
because they apprehended that a row would be got up the
first night, and that his failure wouli thereby be secured
by his enemies. All, however, concurred in thinking that
everything would depend upon the manner in which the
first reading went off. I believe Mr. Dickens expects to
realise over £20,000 by the tour—a very good thing for a
pleasure-trip of six months. To him, after so many years
of practice, reading his own works is no labour.
According to the London Review, Agassiz, Whit-
tier, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Norton, Whipple,
and Fields were present at Charles Dickens's first reading
in Boston. It seems that the first words of the reading
—" Marley was dead to begin with ! That was certain !'
- settled the question of success. Vociferous cheers, and
unmistakably genuine shouts of " Welcome !" greeted
" Our Mutual Friend" ou his first appearance.