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pated. The facts recounted by the Pontiff are too ' plomatical representatives abroad, and, amongst
notorious to be called in question even by the ad- them, particularly Mr. Motley at Vienna, and Mr.
vocates of the new order of things. Where such Murphy, the Consul-General at Frankfort-on-the- .
numerous classes of citizens, and those the most Maine, with the Government at Washington.
distinguished by their virtues, as well as by their
dignity, are thus doomed to every species of oppres-
After Mr. Seligman had refuted those dirty slanders
sion- and outrage ; whi I. religion itself, the great in a most sarcastic manner, he proposed three cheers
ligament of society is thus weakened, what for Consul-General Murphy and his amiable lady
vestige of order, or freedom, or material prosperity —who was also present—in which the whole assem-
can long subsist in a country ? Hence, even the bi
age most heartily joined. The fourth toast,—
Times correspondent, favourable as he is to the
"Our Army and Navy"—was responded to by
Italian
_Revolution, is compelled to admit that the
Major E. S. Wharton, of Philadelphia, one of the
quiet contentment and growing prosperity in the
little remnant of the ecclesiastical States contrast gallant combatants of our last war, who declared
most favourably with the excessive taxation, the that it was very easy for him to speak in praise of
discontent, the misery, the fiscal difficulties, the the American army and navy after the same had so
venality and corruption, the discords, the riots, gloriously and bravely spoken for themselves. His
the brigandage now reigning in the Kingdom of
speech was spiced with many lucky and striking
Italy. When the history of that saddest of all mo-
dern delusions, an united Italy, writes the Roman hits at the last German "seven-weeks' war,"
correspondent of a Catholic contemporary, comes and, the treatment of the city of Frankfort by the
to be written, the following statistics may be Prussian Generals during the occupation. The
useful. All over the kingdom there is murmuring Chairman next proposed, " Germany, an undivided,
and discontent ;. the people of the corn districts are
free, and independent Germany," and called upon
starving, and that Italy of which only twenty years
ago Massimo d'Azeglio could write :—A popular Mr. Augustus Glaeser, Secretary of the United
revolution meets withmore difficulties in Italy than States Consulate-General here, to respond. Mr.
in any other country; for the land is•so prolific of Glaeser cited the words of the deceased Henry
grain, that hunger, the great instigator of popular Haine, the great lyrical Poet :
risings, is a thing unfelt, is known no longer. The
Government has laid out 250,000,000 lires this "Itis an old, old story,
But ever is it true;
past year in.getting corn from Odessa and Egypt, And to whom just it happens, •
yet the 'condition -of •the land is truly miserable. It breaks his heart in two !"
One hears day after day some new cry of distress. He confessed that as a native of Germany, an
In contrast to all this and much more is the
adopted A • American citizen, and a Republican of head
state .of the little Papal territory. And to the
and heart, he felt double the heart-breaking suffer-
same effect the editor of the Monde, parodying
the famous words, " Italy is free from the Alps to ings of his beloved native country, which, in midst
the Adriatic," has observed that now " Italy of a critical struggle for unity, could expect only a
hungers from the Alps to the Adriatic." ' And such time full of trials and bloodehedding. He appealed
a state of things is only what was to have been •
to the patriotism of his American fellow-citizens,
expected. As soon as those great fountains of na-
particularly of the American ladies, to assist,
tional well-being, religion, justice, order, and
freedom are dried, or even dammed up, then ma- morally and politically, in the realisation of,
terial prosperity disappears. But, it may be said, the great aim of German unity and indepen-
how is the Emperor of the French responsible for dente, and proposed, " The American ladies,
this state of things in Italy ?. I answer that his abroad, and their charming influence in favour of
responsibility. is deep and manifold. First, why progress and freedom !" Dr. Townsend S. Brown,
,did he enter into such close alliance with a Power,
of Pennsylvania, tbauked, in his well-known, cava,-
like Piedmont, that, contrary to the sentiments of
the immense majority of its subjects, had for Tier-like and humoristical way, for the ladies, who
some years evinced such deep hostility to the were numerously represented by sweet and beauti-
Church ? Why did he attempt to further the in- ful faces, and elegant and dazzling toilettes. I
fluence and enlarge the dominions of such a noticed amongst them Mrs. Sanford with her charm-
Power ? Secondly, why, without any provoca-
, Mrs.Murphy,lady of
lug daughter •
tion, did he make war upon Austria—an empire
whose amity he was bound by every motive of General at Frankfort ; Mrs. Dudley, lady of our
religion and of policy to cultivate ? Thirdly, Consul at Liverpool ; Mrs. Webster, lady of our
why, not content " with crying havoc and letting Consul at Bradford, with her blooming daughter;
slip the dogs of war," did he let slip, too, the hell- Mrs. Dan. G. Mason, of New York; two Misses
hounds of revolution? Why did he aggravate
Hastings, of San Francisco; Mr:a. Hett, with her
the injustice of this unprovoked war on Austria .
amiable daughter, of Baltimore •; Mrs. Rosenfeld,
by the proclamation of revolutionary maxims ?
Mrs. Osterberg, Mrs. Rica, of New York, anc,l,
Why did he talk of marching into Italy toestablish
her unity and her nationality? Did not this declar- others. The seventh toast, ~ Our Fallen Heroes,
ation strike- at the independence, not only of was drunk in silence, whilst the band played a
the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, and of the
Principalities in Northern Italy, and of the Nea- dirge. Whereupon Mr. Max Becker-Netsche, late
of Ne r wound
politan dominions, but of the Pall, State also ? w Oleans, up the series of toasts by
and
Since what period has the homogeneousness of
one in honour of " Generals Grant, Sheridan, e
race rather than prescriptive right, historical tra- Sherman," whose gallant and humane manner n'
ditions, immemorial custom, and the force of fighting and conquering he brought into a very
treaties constituted the basis on which kingdoms r
drastic contrast to the bearing, during the last Ge .-
and empires repose ? Again, at what period is man war, of commanders like Vogel von Falken"
this Italian unity found ? Does not that beau-
stein, Von Roon, and Von Manteuffel.
tiful land which, as Ariosto says, " the Alps and
the sea encompass, and the Apennine divides,"
As to the " gourman dish" part of the festival, 1
seem, like Greece, marked out by the hand of furnish those of your readers whO wish to enjoy an
Nature for a diversity of States? As soon as his- after taste of it by the "Menu," as herewith :"--
tory lifts the curtain over this lovely region we see Potage t 10. Reine, Sammon au Rhine en WO°
it possessed by Gallic Celts in the north, by fondu, Roast beef L la, broche Americaine, Ponunes
Etrurians further down, by Latins, Sabines, and de terre en robe du chambre et raiforts cru, Oh°, u
Samnites in the centre, and by Greek colonies
fleur, Pan equettes, C -i ts ,
in the south. And if for a time the sword of Rome ores de mouton aux pe}.
rOlgt
forces it into a sort of artificial unity, making her Dindouncau roti,. Salade, Compots, Plum-pudding'
the vineyard of her luxurious patricians, we see Maizena, Glace panach6e, Dessert. The dinner
i was, indeed, first-rate, and I must say that the
that as soon as that pressure is removed Italy
returns to her normal state of polycracy, or the ,-,
txrand Hotel du Nord of Mr. Lang, a very atten-
plurality of States. And has not this condition , ;10
rive landlord, can be well recommended to Anierie-
of things remained amid many vicissitudes down
to our own times ? When, then, Napoleon IR de.. and English travellers. eof
dared that he made war to bring about Italian na- Finally, I should not forget to state that on
tionality and Italian unity, he struck a blow at the gentlemen present told me about that cracked
all civilisation ; for if nationality is to be made al
fellow, M'Crackeu, that he remembered him Y ,
the standard of political legitimacy, and every race wellwhen he
is to have its separate government, then all great was loafing about the country las
the
empires, which without a plurality of races rarely summer, pretending to be a correspondent of
exist, must be disjoined and broken up into their New York Times and a Chicago paper, and thathet
several parts. But such a dismemberment would was in so broken-down a condition that be wen,..ccantrYbe, on the whole, fatal to civilisation, which, around begging of his travelling fellow
generally speaking, can reach its full develop-
men. The gentleman himself, who had his card 15
ment only in great States, or in a confederation ,
his o.sess.,
ion gave him few dollars,
of small ones. When the French Emperor, too, p - , a as he declared
deed, a
inscribed on his banner Italian unity, he pro- he had not had a dinner for two days. In
claimed a principle that, as I have said, was in- " mecrackedly" fine " model of an American no
with the temporal power of the Pope. man and of human perfection."
For, in despite of all his reservations and am-
biguous professions, the Italian Revolution would
be sure to carry out the logic of that principle.
Again, the, close alliance of the French Emperor
with the revolutionary Government of Italy is
shown in the injunctions sometimes sent to the
Catholic journals not to pass too severe strictures
on the policy of King Victor Emmanuel, the Im-
perialally. Lastly, the disgraceful Convention of
September, concluded between Napoleon 111 and
that ally, and without the privity of the Pope, for
the withdrawal of the French troops from Rome,
is another proof, if more were wanted, of the
close union between these two potentates. From
all these facts, the deep responsibility of the. E-
mperor of the French, for the present misery and
anarchy of the Italian Peninsula, may be safely
inferred. His responsibility ends not there. The
fatal doctrine of a politico-national unity has, in
Germany, been recently carried out by a Power
long noted for its schemes of aggressive ambition.
An iniquitous war, ending in the spoliation of
old German dynasties, and the subjugation of
German races to a detested yoke, has given a tem-
porary success to the arms of Prussia. But so
soon as the dissensions in Austria are allayed and
her finances are re-established, the Prussian
eagle shall -be-made to croak more harshly than
it did at Jena, its talons plucked, and its pinions
for ever maimed. May he, too, the author of so
many calamities to France and to Europe—who has
so sadly belied the promises he once gave—take
heed while Providence gives him the time. May
he observe the signs which forerun. the final de-
crees of Providence, and, observing, may he
profit by them ! . The' handwriting is not yet fully
written upon the wall ; but still we may observe,
as it were, the shadow of a hand:

COUNTRY MARKETS.

GAINSBOROUGH—TUESDAY. and
Our market was well supplied with wheat to-dBl,
t 11
last week's prices were maintained. Factors were r,.10,1
buyers. Barley is lower than this day week. Oats
beans in demand for seed purposes.

• HIILL.—TUESDAY.
of V
pglish
At our market to-day there was a good show
forelerstf
wheat, for which farmers asked an advance.
little business was done. Barley was in slow requkos
Oats, beaus, and peas without change. Liosuedu c6froici
rather quiet, but no alteration price. RaPe °
.£4l 108 to £42 r ton.
English whitepewheat, 60s to 66s • red, 52s to 62s ; T)6-,11*,t;
628 to ,6,
sic and Konigsberg, 67s to 72s ;' Baltic red,
650 to 0,-13;
Danish and Hamburg, 58s to 60s ; Russian,
Barley, English, 36s to 508; grinding, Mediterraue;,,
34s to 355,6 d. Oats, new English, 26s to 28s; Buss os
26s to 275. Beans old English, 58s to 60s; foreigvWiiito,
to 445. Peas, English blue, 42, to 448 Od ; foreign
44s to 45s ; grinding, 43s to 44s Od per qr.

UY.—TUESDAY. bort,
At our marketSALISBR to-day the supply of wheat Was s-ff abut the condition improved. Best qualities moved or to
last week's prices, but other sorts were dull and easie ,of
buy. Barley a slow trade, at a reduction in some cassod
is per qr. Oats were pretty steady in price, and beaus re-
leas likewise maintained their value. For flour tilt!
e° the
quirements were not large, and prices remained ral
same as a week ago. f•—d rog,
- The following are the quotations :—Wheat realts.
„,,,s 46
55s to 65s ; barley, 376 to per oats, 24s to 30s ; be‘-id to
to 58s ; and
bushels;a 40s to 52s qr. Tares, from 4, ,
56d per Best bread, 15d ; household ditto, 13J
per 81b loaf. Flour, 45s to 49s per sack.
--__—.
MONMOUTIISIIIRE—TUESDAY.
The various markets have been well attended, and thB.,
supplies of wheat were in fair condition. Quotations Oa_
tinned to show a downward tendency. For English be" 13,.;
which were scarce, there was a better sale, and there vflo
a slightly improved trade in foreign. The barley trrto
was moderately good, and both malting and grinding sc't,
maintained full values. A good demand for black n:
and in other descriptions a tolerably fair business W''"'
transacted. A.t. red,
The
toofllowing are the average quotations:—Whi fie
78 3d 7B 6d per bushel ; white, 7s 9d to 8s Od ; in'e—ind.'.
6s Ud to 6s 6d ; malting barley, 46s to 52s per qr hagr-270
ing ditto, 31s to 34s Od; beans, 44s to 50s ;
to 28s ; black ditto, 24s 6d to 25s 6d. white ,

Washington's Birth-Day at Frankfort,

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Feb. 25

On Friday last the Americans residing in this
city and. neighbourhood celebrated Washington's
birthday by a splendid dinner at the Grand hotel
du Nord. The festival commenced at 7 p.m, and
turned out in every respect worthy of the occasion.
The large saloon was brilliantly decorated. In the
midst of a forest of banners and flags, flowers and
evergreens, was hung the full-length portrait of the
" Father of the Fatherland," painted by the well-
known painter Angilbert Goebul, and crowned by a
fresh laurel wreath in red, white, and blue ribbons.
Over it a copy of the Declaration of the Indepen-
dence and the Constitution of the' United States,
and right and left the portraits of Abraham Lin-
coln, Andrew Johnson, Seward, Sumner, Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan, and others. The excellent
music band of Director Spintler was in attendance,
giving all the American national airs with masterly
perfection, and even towards the end of the
festival enticing the younger portion of the
party to a dance. The first regular toast—
" To the memory of George Washington"—was
introduced by the Honourable William Walton
Murphy, United States Consul-General at Frank-
fort, who was in the chair. He gave a short review
of the history both of the great Champion of
Freedom and of the origin and development of the
young Republic, that critical time, so full of deter-
ring trials and bloody conflicts. In response to a
later toast, " Our whole country," Mr. Murphy
treated more fully, and in a very enthusiastic man-
ner, on the present political and financial condition
of the Union , and her fast and flourishing progress.
The second toast, " To the memory of Abraham
Lincoln," was drunk standing and in silence, the
band playing " Lincoln's March." The Chairman
next gave " The President of the United States,"
and called upon Mr. Henry Seligman, of San Fran-
cisco, to respond, a task rather difficult at the pre-
sent time for a loyal American. But still Mr.
Seligman discharged his duty most ably and
eloquently ; he very strikingly pointed to the rising
of Andrew Johnson from the lowest order
of society, to use that expression, to the
highest and most honourable stage, which
a free man, elected " by people's grace,"
could arrive at ; he described our last bloody
struggle for unity, independence, and equality ;
praised the blessings of a free press and free speech ;
and then very dexterously turned to the calumnia-
tions by which that " promising youngster,"• Geo.
W. M'Cracken, had of late endeavoured to de-
nounce and injure almost all our consular and di-

COAL MARKET.
Price per ton at tae close of the market. a.
IN
s. d.
Walls End Haswell 20 3 Eden Main ............ 181 0
Caradoc l9 6 Repier Grange .........
17 , A 3
Russell's Hetton...

Harton l7 3
Ships at market, 21—sold. 20.
TI: OS
REPRESENTATION OF WORCESTER CITY.---J-w
stated last week that Mr. Sheriff'Lycett has issued All 64;
dress to the electors of Worcester as a candidate for tilt'
city in the Liberal interest, in anticipation of the Otre;
went of Mr. Padmore, one of the sitting member it 10
been resolved to nominate Alderman T. 13,. gill as ""0
Reform League candidate. No Conservative candidate hA
yet been announced.

Births. of *
DORMER--On the 4th inst., the Hon. Mrs. Dornier,
son.
EARLE —On the 4th inst., at 28, luverness-terrace, 0:1;
sugton-gardens, the wife of Henry E. Earle, terraces of
son. i 001.
NlcuoisoN On the 4th inst., at Gibraltar, the wife °
L. Nicholson, C. 8., Royal Engineers, of a son.
ros d
I Ft.
PLUMPTRE— 0 n the sth inst., at 15. Belgrava- tre, Erb ~
John's-wood, the wife of Charles John Plualp

barrister-at-law, of a son.
Marriages. ~,,ureb,
SANFORD —HESKETH— On the sth lust., at St. Paul's 1./.yal
Southampton, George E. L. S. Sanford, CaPtaiobt•
Engineers, to Hamilton Maria, second daughter 01
Hesketb, Esq., of Southampton. ;„ 01!
WALSRAM—SCARLETT—OR the sth inst., at ter or
Church, John Waisham, Esq .+ Second Seeretarybter
H.M.'e Legation at Madrid, to. Florence, only dBtir'rey,
of the Hon. P. C. Scarlett, C. 8., of Parkhurst,
H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleiri;l°l.tell-
tiary at Mexico.

Deaths.
BLA.cx.—On the 4th inst., at Boston, Edward Black, 'l.(l'
aged 66. unr0
COPE—On the 3d inst., at Bramshill, R.
D.
11.
ths. Cope, 9°
son of Sir Wm. H. Cope, Bart., aged 7 mon t• 3.
-
COCHRANE—On the 3d inst., at 46a, Pall-mall, Cap
"
Cochrane, late 91st and 19th Regiments.
atheW, .. -v.,," Of
IdATHEW—On the sth inst , Nathaniel Di
Wern, Carnarvonshire, aged 30.
POLLOK—On the sth inst., at Pollok Castle, 31earne, 117e11.
frewshira, Sir hew C. Pollok, of Pollok, Bart., aged . a
WILMOTT—On the sth inst., at 14, The Terrace, B:ensinir
ton-park, James W. Wilmott, Esq., aged GG.
tevor,
~,,:ideu: Lanced and eubasne.l Oy %V IL lAL&ftilli.s V.,— 02.
of No. tl2 1.
, r.and, Printer at Tun ~(1,4n
tile vi•ec
Co"iY of
Strand, in the Freotaat of the Savoy, i'
Diiddleverm—Thursday, Idirch 7, 1567.