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PRINCE NAPOLEON'S ARMY.

(From a Special Correspondent of the Times.)
- HEAD-QUARTERS, PARMA, JUNE 27.
Had I the pen of Xenophon or Count Segur I
could describe an expedition fully as slow and tedious,
though not actually so disastrous and tragic, as the
retreat of the Ten Thousand or the awful break up
of the great French Army of Russia from the Mos-
cowa to the Beresina. We have been travelling at
the rate of 10 short Italian miles a-day. The Tus-
cans had lost much time, from their revolutionary
movement of the 27th of April to the lauding of
Prince Napoleon at Leghorn on the following
month. More time was lost by the Prince in tra-
velling from Leghorn to Florence, and tarrying I
knowhnisotfinheowdimviasiny days
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ding
longwithhim. Fresh loss of time occurred in recalling the
detachments, both French and Tuscan, from the
Filligare and Abetone Passes, where they hadbeen
sent both by General Ulloa and the Prince himself
without any serious thought that they should cross
the Apennines at those points. Still greater waste
of time was occasioned by the slow march from
Florence to Parma, which even by the circuitous
route the troops have followed might have been
got over in six days, but cost 11 or 12 days' march.
Both the French and the Tuscans cry out that their
etages at all times used to be at least double, and
they upbraid each other with being the cause of
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fulfil. What that mission was the world may not
have been able to make out as yet ; but the world
must wait. That two months have been wasted in
Tuscany by the Tuscans, and one by their French
allies, is a fact. Explanations will be given to
whom it is due. Meanwhile here, at last, they all
are, or are hourly expected,—the Prance since the
27th, two divisions with him or after him, by the
Pass of La Cisa; the Tuscans from Pistoia, across
the Abetone Pass, and through Modena and
Reggio ; and the Othmar Division and other forces
from the fields of Lombardy, where the Imperial
conqueror at Magenta, and Solferino may well spare
them.
Now, what has the sth Corps been here as-
sembled for? It is said it will remain here or here-
abouts for three or four days; bat even those
will pass, and then it will have to proceed to the
theatre of war. Now, the theatre of war may be
safely laid on the right bank of the Mincio, as the
last victory at Solferino must to a certainty have
swept the Austrians off the open field, and shut
them up in their famous quadrangle ; on the other
hand, it is difficult to say whether or not the Allies
will be able to make further progress before the sth
Corps has had time to come up with them. The sth
Corps will have to cross the Po, and, as there is no
bridge on the Po nearer than Piacenza, the rumour
has spread that Prince Napoleon will lead his forces
thither, and hence to that part of the field which is
most immediately laid out for his own share of the
warlike operations. From Parma to Piacenza is a
distance of three or four days' march. As many
days again, or ten in all, will bring the Prince from
Piacenza by Codogno to Cremona, and hence by
Piadena and Bozzolo to the ' neighbourhood of
Mantua. From Cremona, again, there is a direct
and not long road to Brescia. It certainly seems
an awkward thitig for the French troops, some of
whom, such as the 6th and Bth Regiments of Hus-
sars, were at Voghcra and Casteggio, consequently
very near Piacenza, to have to ride almost from the
gates of that town all the way to Genoa, to sail
from Genoa to Leghorn, and hence ride again to
Florence, Pistoia, and-Lucca, from Lucca to Sar-
zana, Pontremoli, and Parma, again to find them-
selves before those very gates of Piacenza,
which they could have entered a month ago. Their
murmurs are both loud and deep, I can tell you.
Men and officers both express their minds in no
measured terms. They grumble that they nevcr
were meant to see the enemy ; that the Prince's life
is too precious in the eyes of the Emperor; that, in
order to screen the Commander-in-Chief from harm,
the corps under his orders is marshalled and pro-
menaded about out of the way of all mischief, and is
meant to come in at the close of the war, bringing
up, as the Italians have it, " it soecorso di Pisa ;"
that is, arriving on the battlefield just one hour
after the fight is won.
I hardly think this would be justice to the Em-
peror Napoleon. He must surely know full well the
extent of the struggle in which he is engaged, and
must be too well prepared for all contingencies,

arising from unforeseen political complications to be
able thus to play at soldiers, and to wound the feel-
ings and to some extarAumage the morale of a fine
part of his troops by sending them thus on a fool's
errand in Tuscany, while their comrades are win-
ning bloody laurels on the Lombard fields. I speak
with officers and soldiers, who are certainly not in
the most placable mood, and who at every bulletin
announcing a fresh victory are ready to curse their
hard lot, and the four other corps of the army of
Italy, who seem unwilling to leave anything for the
sth to do. There is also no lack of men who rnott,er
something about the Crimea and the "white fea-.
tiler," words which I either do not understand, or
which I must interpret quite in a contrary sense to
which they seem to atts44 to it. If the Prince
really has objections to a wane of mane, it would
have been far from good palley to give the him
conimand of a o.o'ps d'armee never meant to meet
inustion has already given
the foe ; for the Prime's
rise to an immense amount of idle taM, 944 were
the matter to end as '11; has begun the Commander.
in-Chief would leave Italy tar more damaged in re-
putation even than he quitted the Crimea. Or if the
two Imperial cousins had made up thew minds that
there was any stain on the name of the youngest °
them which should and could be washed away, it
was matter of necessity that the hero to be regene-
rated sfiould court the foreniost danger, so far at
least as was consistent with a reasonable amount of
safety, especially as the Prince's own father-in-law
King Victor Emmanuel, shows himself lavish of his
life to an extent to curdle thehligi in his followers'
veins, and has in mat) than one instance " paid
with his own person" (pay de sa personne), as the
French have it.

If Prince Napoleon knows, as undoubtedly ho
must know, something about the character of the
French people, he must certainly be most uneasy at
a delay which causes such ungenerous comments on
his conduct. He is gracious and affable to the
Italians, many of whom have been won by his
manners; but the French, and especially the army,
are very particular about that most indispensable
requisite in a man's character—courage. The Prince
must show himself before the enemy, or he had a
thousand times better have stayed at home. And it
is of the greatest consequence to his future station
and influence in France that the new trial to which
his nerve is to be exposed should no longer be put
off. The Italian climate is prolific in fevers, agues,
and other ills human flesh is heir to. Better a thou-
sand times for the Prince to be seized by a conve-
nient fit, and either go home or make the Ducal
Palace in Parma his home, letting his troops go
without him, than remain at the head of a corps
whose task hitherto has been an idle pageantry,
whose object seems to be to shirk all earnest field
work.

All this T have written merely to convey to you

the state of mind of many of the thinking military
men in the Prince's corps. I repeat, although cir-
cumstances are decidedly against him, and much
time has undoubtedly been suffered to run to waste,
I am convinced, Prince Napoleon has only obeyed
his cousin's instrucVons, and these were dictated by
far different motives than that of screening King
Jerome's son either from harm if he seeks the
danger, or from worse scathe if he shuns it. I
confess myself unable to guess the Emperor's
reasons ; but since I have been in Italy I have
accustomed myself, with the Italians, to attribute
to Napoleon 111. something of Providence's own
far-reaching sight, and to mistrust my power to
sound his ends or question his means. In the
meanwhile it is still possible that the corps may not

have to go all the way to Piacenza, but may attack
the Austrians if they are still there, or come back
there again, at Brescello, Guo.stella or Bogoforte,
whence the passage of the river might perhaps be
effected by might of arms. The latter named places
are, so to say, the outworks of the fortress of
Mantua. Even the storming of those places might
be better work than either inaction here or a new
detour by Piacenza.

PARMA, TUNE 28.
Lucretius delights to view a tempest-tossed sea
from a safe position on shore. lam here, in a state
_ _ _ _

of great ease and serenity of mind contemplating a
storm in a teapot. The Duchy of Parma has a po-
pulation striving hard to reach half a million. Its
capital boasts 40,000 inhabitants ; but when you see
the few loungers moving about its deserted streets,
as if anxious yet unable by their exertions to pre-
vent the grass growing under their feet, you can
hardly help suspecting that some mistake has oc-
curred in the census. Still Parma is, or was till
yesterday, a State, an independent community,
self-existing ever since Pope Paul 111. detached it
from the ecclesiastical dominions to which they had

Ivrea.

been annexed by Julius IL, and gave them in fee
simple to his natural son, Pietro Luigi Farnese.
This Pope's son was three-fourths a villain, and the
rest a maniac ; so that four of his nobles, revolted
at his atrocities, lifted him by his keels as he stood

looking out of a window iu the citadel of Piacenza,
and hurled him down into the-moat beneath, where

he lay a shapeless, motionless mass, never to rise.
Nov, it seems fated that monarchies, great or small,
should end as • they began. An Augustulus closes
a dynasty commencing with an Augustus.. The
late and last Duke of Parma, Carlo 111., was'nine-
tenths a madman and. one-tenth a monster; he died

by the hand and gimlet of a common workman,
one of the 500 persons of all ranks whom the Duke
had subjected to the ignominious punishment of
the bastinado. This free use of the stick, in a
eountry where corporal punishment had been struck
out of the
penal code, was greatly obnoxious to
the people here. A revolution has been effected ;
the patriots have carried their point. Parma
has ceased to exist ; one star has disappeared
in the galaxy of Italian States. King Victor
Emmanuel has accepted the sovereignty offered by
the Parmesans. Half a million of people have been
annexed to what is to become the Regno dell' Alta
Italia—Kingdom of Upper or Northern Italy.
Piedmontese carabbieers or gendarmes have been
trusted with the maintenance of public order, in-
stead of the Ducal dragoons or gendarmes, who
have been sent to Alessandria. The King has sent,
as his Governor-General, charged with the powers
of an alter ego, Count Pallieri, a man of great talent
for business, and of a remarkably firm though ami-
able character, the only Piedmontese who was both
obeyed and beloved by the stubborn people of
Genoa ; he has charged with the duties of Inten-
dente-Generale, or Prefect, Domenico Marco, one of
the most distinguished members of the House of
Deputies, a man gifted with considerable rhetorical
powers, no less than with a dignified and concili-
ating address, and yet, and for all that, there are
men here who are not quite satisfied—men who re-
gret that the great change should have taken place
with hardly any confl'a and positively no blood-
shed, who rage at the idea that the opportunity for
revenge should have been lost, in whose heart still
rankles the smart of the degrading bastinado. There
are not many who regret the loss of their importance
as citizens of a self-existing State; hardly any who
suffer from any excess of loyalty towards the per-
sons of the noble-minded Duchess-Regent, or of the
guiltless infant Duke Robert, heir of the throne,
but the scars of the Ducal cudgel are still on many
an honourable man's back, and not a drop of blood
has been shed to avenge the outrage on the minions
of the tyrant who lent a hand in the infliction of
the barbarous punishment. This is the secret cause
lying at the bottom of all the discontent of which
the symptoms are perceptible at the surface of this
still somewhat unsettled community. The tiger mul-
titude has been baffled of its prey. on the departure
of the Duchess, who released both civilians and
military from their oath of allegiance, some of the
officers in the little Ducal army, who knew that be-
tween them and the *pcople no reconciliation, how-
ever hollow, could ever take place, were improvident
enough to attempt to lead their soldiers to Brescello
and Guastalla, with a view to join the Modenese

mild measure, Not so the young and heedless
multitude, especially those ill-conditioned men who
are misnamed Democrats, who belong, in sober
truth, to the party of disorder, and who were orga-
nised in a sort of brotherhood of the dagger, and
perpetrated some of the very worst deeds of assas-
sination, both under the Duke and in the early
period of the Regency. 80 long as either Pied-
routes° or French troops are on the spot, there
is no shadow or a hay of mischief; but regular
troops are wanted in the fields of Lombardy, and
the town and State will soon be left to the care of
the few but trusty Carabineers and tli@WO
Guard. The National Guard—a very useless insti-
tution in France—is a very desirable establishment
in Italy, where it answers the purpose of spread!ng.
military tastes, habits, and rules of discipline among
an idle population, and may with proper manage-
ment be turned into an efficient nursery for the
army. The Italian people, in all their movements
since 1831, have recourse to arms on the slightest
chalice of a political change, awl here, on the first
flight ofthe Duel less, a national guard was organized
under the command of Giuseppe Gallenga, a man
deservedly popular with men of all classes and par-
ties. Unfortunately, however, the multitude at the
first outbreak rifled the Ducal arsenals, and the
,men breathing vengeance have the muslicts in their
hands ; they have secreted them in their houses, and
it will require no trifling tact and address to coax
or force them out of their clutches. Unfortunately,
again, the better classes show great remissness in
the service and pusillanimity, and there is no great
chance of mustering the habentes against the non
habentes. Between the patriots who mistake dis-
order for freedom, and those who think both,liberty
and order to be no husiness of theirs, the struggle
would hardly be equal. The Piedmontese Govern-
ment, however, and the men charged by them
with the reorganisation of the Statr,:are well aware
of the storms which may be brewing, and I have
no doubt they will be able to meet the difficulties

by which they are threatened, and to turn this
petty discrowned capital into as well behaml and
quiet a provincial town as Alessandria, Casale, or

I have been so particular in my description of this
Parmesan microcosm, because, with but little variety
of cause and effect, the state of Parma bears
close resemblance to that of Modena and Reggio,
of Massa and Carrara, and of the various emanci-
pated Lombard provinces. For the countries im-
mediately annexed to the Kingdom of Upper Italy
the Sardinian Government will be able to provide.
Its course is simple and straightforward, and it has
only to apply to them that political mechanism
which works very well at Piedmont and at Genoa.
But matters bear a different aspect in Tuscany,
where the parties of annexation and of municipalism
are struggling for mastery, and a still more sinister
look in the Romagna, where the population is
fiere and addicted to the use of the knife, and where
the somewhat unintelligible policy of the Emperor
Napoleon keeps men's minds in a cruel suspense.
D'Azeglio, who has been appointed Governor at
B'ologna, still tarries at Turin, as if loth to meet the
perils of the situation allotted to him. In Perugia,
as you well know, already deeds of carnage and
barlearous outrages have been perpetrated. The
Pope is as dangerous a stumbling block in the path
of Italian nationality as the Austrians, and Na-
poleon 111. still hesitates to remove him. To what
extent the farce of a protectorate which allows
the dismemberment of a protected State is to be
played out, I am unable to say ; but certainly the
Emperor will soon be driven to the alternative be-
tween sacrificing Italian nationality or suffering
the Papal temporal authority to come to an end.

The uncertainties as to the movements of the
Fifth Corps have ceased at last; Many of the
French troops marched off this morning towards

Colorno. The French pioneers are now busy at
the construction of a bridge of boats at Casal
Maggiore, over which the whole of the troops under
Prince Napoleon will travel into Lombardy, pro-
bably in the direction of Mantua. The Prince is ,
off to-day to superintend the work of the bridge.
The Tuscans under 111loa are to follow presently.
The Tuscan General Staff is to leave this on the
Ist of July.
Kossuth came to Parma on Sunday last, and had
a long interview with the Prince. He speaks as a
Potentate, like one who holds both Hungary and
the troops of that nation in the Austrian service in
his pocket, to be playa off against the Court of
Vienna whenever it may suit his purpose. lam at
a loss to understand what he can possibly want,
either from the French or the Piedmontese Govern-
ment. If he can effect either the revolution of
Hungary or the desertion en masse of the Hunga-
rians, why, he is master of the situation, and neither
French nor Piedmontese can help him in the mat-
ter, whatever benefits may accrue to them from the
success of his schemes. It reminds one of that
alchymist who solicited a reward from Pope Cle-
ment XII. for his discovery of the art of turning
stones into gold. The witty Pope gave him a very,
very long purse,- saying that a man who had it in
his power to make gold only wanted a purse to put
it in.

ANNIVERSARY OF AMERWAN INDE

The 83d anniversary of the Declaration of the
Independence of the United States was celebrated
last night by a public dinner at St. James's-hall.
General Robert B. Campbell, United States' Consul
at London,-presided on the occasion, and was sup-
ported on his right by his Excellency Mr. Dallas,
and on his left by Mr. Bright, M.P. Among the
guests, who were upwards of 170 in number, we
particularly noticed .Mr. Digby Seymour, M.P.,
Captain O'Connell, Mr. Philip N. Dallas, Secretary
of the American Legation, Judge Pascal of Texas,
Mr. J. R. Croskey, General Vandenburgh, Mr.
Thornton Hunt, Colonel J. L. Chester. ])r. W. R.
Ballard, Mr. N. S. Dodge, Major J. B. Wheelock,
General Campbell, Mr. J. Shapter, Captain E. G.
Tinker, Mr. Cyrus W. Field, Mr. J. G. Drake, the
historian of the American Indians, Mr. Rarey, Mr.
Alpheus Billings, Mr. J. F. Cropsey, 'and Dr.
Browning. The hall in which the banquet was
held was decorated most tastefully with flags,
among which the stars and stripes and union jack
were pre-eminent. At the lower end of the room
the portraits of General and Lady Washington,
painted by Rembrandt Peel, an American artist,
were hung, while Winterhalter's portrait of the
Queen, which was most kindly lent by her Majesty.
for the occasion, overhung the chair of the Presi-
dent. The galleries surrounding the hall were
filled with ladies, whose various coloured dresses
added great brilliancy and animation to the scene.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the first toast, said
that sunrise this 83 years ago dawned on 13 States
and 3,000,000 people, subjects of a foreign King,
but before the sun had set these subjects met, and
declared the independence of the Americal colonies,
and left George 111. not one subject in America,
from the water meadows of Florida to thle mouths
of the St. Lawrence. Since that time the United
States had advanced at a pace unparalleled in the
annals of other nations ; they had grown with more
than a giant's growth and more thania giant's
power—a power which he was proud to say had
' never been abused, but used for the most beneficent
ends. While, then, the firmness and decision of

homes—its recurrence will cause emotions of exult-
ing patriotism to swell in every bosom. At this
moment yonder beneath our setting—there yet
meridian--sun are 30,000,000 delighting to recall
the ennobling characteristics of the national anni-
versary. That is the domestic hive, and there they
are, our bustling, joyous, sympathising brethren,
clustering in multitudinous masses, and summoning
the echoes of every forest and valley to answer to
their salvoes and shouts. But on what part of the
earth's surface may not our countrymen he found
Aud how inspiring it is to know and feel that white
we are here pledging to the proud past and the,
glorious future of our native land, that pledi'e is
simultaneously uttered by millions of hear is encir-
cling the globe! Well, gentlemen, wiedout indulg-
ing in a word of unkind retrospectio.:,, we have just
'.
cause for perpetuating the celebi;ttion of the 4th of
Jul 7, 1716. It was the birthday
,of a free nation,
which, in 83 years—the. measure of a single human
unexariOna celerity of progress, has
placed her;o4,, in all the attributes of intellect,
Ingritlif% religion, power, and honour, on acknow-
ledged equality with the most ancient and the most
civilised. It was an epoch signalised by a rare, if
not unsurpassed, combination, upon the scene of
public action, of virtue, wisdom, and valour. It
was that era, "in the course of: human esoits".
which dreNi together and permanently clusteied
from infant and widely separated communities such
towering models for universal reverence as Wash-
ington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hancock, and Adams.

It was the spring time, and the spring fountain,
too, of great principles of social and political ame-
lioration—in fact, of an entire government system
.whose expansion attests its exeellence, and of whose
quiet, deep, widening, and onward current I may
be pardoned ferr saying " labitur et lohitur in oinni
rolubili rzvo !" There is, sir, a regenerative stimulus
for homogeneous populationS in the .very word
" independence." It is at present infusing fresh
life, and rekindling energies which have lain tor-
pid for centuries in one of Europe's fairest and
most interesting regions. The sound harmonises
with inward and upward aspirations. and is there-
fore almost magical in its effects. Where ideutitv
of race, of language, of literature, of sentiment, of
thought, of manners, of faith, of traditions, of cus-
toms, is the product of ages, there, union and inde-
pendence ought .to be, must be, irrepressible hopes.
Such was our case in '76, and such is Italy's now.
I avoid allusion to the merits of this recent war, or
of its origin, or of its actors, referring to it only as
resembling our colonial contest in its fundamental
and soul-renovating wish for national independence.
Many and mournful differences in the two situa-
tions may doubtless be shown, but among these
differences lot us not rank the seemingly inconsis-
tent and dangerous aid accepted from an arbitrary
monarch, for America can never disclaim the gra-
titude she owes to that same France, under the
rule of a Bourbon, whose succours in blood and
treasure are now, under the rule of a Bonaparte,
being similarly lavished in the plains of Lombardy.
Independence, then, has lost none of its attractions
since July, 1776. Why should it not be frankly
recognised as still, for incipient nationalities, how-
ever weak or however strong, the chief necessity
and blessing ? Fortunately, too, in the order of
Providence, it never fails to be, like Mercy, " twice
blessed, blessing him that gives and him that takes."
It is unmixed good. Who now doubts that this
vast empire of Great Britain has immensely bene-
fited by the conversion of her western colonies into
sovereign confederated States ? Who doubts that,
since the fierce passions of revolutionary strife have
died away, a keen yet generous competition in the
pursuits of commerce, ofscience, of art, and of renown
has enriched and elevated the peoples of both coun-
tries? Yes! the country in which we are enjoying
communion and hospitality, and the country to which
we give our allegiance and love, may well unite in
grateful eulogy of the Declaration of American In-
dependence. In the spirit of these desultory
remarks I offer in conclusion this sentiment :
National independence ! success to it, whenever
and wherever naturally desired and honestly pur-
sued! (Reiterated cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The Health of
the President of the United States," a man who in
every capacity—and they were many—in which he
had been employed had been always found " par
negotiis." (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN was sure that the next toast
would be received with pleasure and respect by all
those who were seated at this board. The toast
which he was about to propose was the health of
the First Lady of England, in whom prosperity
and elevated rank, which placed her above all
human resposihility, have not developed a single
vice or blemish ; whose high merits have enshrined
her in the hearts of all her subjects, and have gained
her the applause of all nations. Placed in the
exalted station which she occupied, she had been
the " cynosure of neighbouring eyes," and had set
an example as a daughter, wife, and mother worthy
of universal imitation. (Loud and enthusiastic
cheers, the whole audience rising, while the band
aved " God save the Queen.")
The next toast was to the " Memory of Washing.

ton," the light of whose fame, the Chairman said
was more pure and brilliant than any shed by any
other individual either in sacred or profane story.
The toast was drunk in solemn silence, the band
playing the " Dead March in Saul."
Mr. DALLAS then briefly returned thanks for the
toast of " The Diplomatic Service, and the Health
of his Excellency, Mr. Dallas," which was proposed
by the Chairman in a highly complimentary
speech.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the subsequent
toast of " Non-intervention, the true Policy of Free
Governments," coupled with it in highly eulogistic
terms the name of Mr. Bright. (Cheers.)
Mr. BRIGHT, who was received with loud and
prolonged cheering, proceeded to acknowledge the
toast. He said that he felt grateful for the way
in which they had received the name of one who
was almost a stranger to all in the room. • (Cries of
" No, no.") He was here this evening because he
felt profound sympathy and profound admiration
for those broad principles of equality and human
right on which the American constitution is
founded. (Cheers.) He was a citizen of a country
in which monarchy had endured for centuries, and
in which it had never been more respected than at
the present moment—a country in which a mixed
constitution existed, but which he took the liberty
to think was not quite equally mixed—a country
in which were laid the foundations of that freedom
of which they (the American people) were so justly
proud. (Cheers.) In connection with the toast
with which his name had been coupled he gave it
his heartiest and his strongest assent. That toast
practically meant that non-intervention was the
true policy of the United States and of England,
for there were few governments in the world which
were free except the Governments of the United
States and that of the United Kingdom. To the
people of America the doctrine of non-intervention
was not new. It was as old as their independence,
and took its origin on the same day. A legacy
which the prescient mind of Washington had be-
queathed to them was never to entangle them-
selves in alliances with foreign States. But
that which has been a settled faith in America
has unhappily been repudiated as foolish on
this side of the Atlantic, and the results of the
different policy pursued by the two countries was
visible in the fact that our Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer would soon have_ to ask for the financial
wants of this country five times as much as the
financial minister will ask of the people of the
United States. (Loud cheers.)
of policy the
question. On this great
people of this country were
as children, to whom at length a ray of light had
been given after having been the victims of a
phantom fraught with the greatest danger. Mr.
t" Bri,,ht then proceeded to contrast. the different
policies of the executives of the two countries, and
said that there was no fear of the President
between the sessions of Congress plunging the
country into an expensive and disastrous war.
There was no tradition in the United States that it
was necessary to keep up a large fleet to make their
weight and counsels felt in the various European
Courts. Had the same policy, which Washington
enunciated 80 years ago, been pursued in this
country no man would be now speculating on the
probabilities of Lord Derby, or Lord Palmerston,
or any other Minister dragging England into the
struggle in Italy. (Cheers.) The whole question
was one of sentiment, and sentiment alone. Be
was glad to believe that an increasing feeling of
the folly of such a policy was springing uP thin
England, and rapidly assimilating itself to e
feeling in the United States. (Cheers.) • The

She has large capacity for cargo, and her ac-
commodation for passengers is on deck, in
large, well-ventilated deck-houses. The, hull is
divided into many water-tight . compartments
by means of longitudinal and athwart ship
water-tiglAt bulk heads and all the wood-work,
includ;:ag deck house's and cabins is ,of
Eatt India teak, no expense having been spared to
'render her'in every way complete and fitted for the
required service. The engines are a pair of 90
horse power, 180 horsepower collectively, and are
made as well as the boilers, entire at the.Birken-
head Iron Works ; they will be fitted with all the
latest improveinents, patent feathering wheels and
lignuna vitae bearings the boilers to have brass
take,. and adapted for burning wood or coal ;
they will also-- -be fitted with superheating
apparatus that has been found to save 25 to
30 per cent of the fuel. The vessel's speed is
expected to be twelve knots, or about 14 miles
an hour, loaded. The Tapajoz, a sister vessel, sent
out in 1855 to the Amazon by the same builder,
has been most, successful, and a smaller one, the
Guagara, that went out about twelve months ago,
equally so.
In recording these particulars, and wishing suc-
cess to the new pioneer of the mighty Amazon
river, we cannot refrain from noticing the
services rendered to his country by Baron
Maim, so created from his hiving projected and
carried to successful 'Completion a railway of that
naine, which still staiids the test of time, and is,
we.believe, an excellent little work. But the Baron
did not confine himself to a little experiment of
that kind ; he pioneered the way to other great in-
ternal railway systems, which are gradually being
brought into play amid no ordinary difficulties •,
he lighted the immense city of. Rio Janeiro with
gas, supplied it with excellent mountain water,
established banks and public institutions, as well
as the great Amazon Company, to which we have
already made allusion. Indeed, no man has con-
tributed so much to the peaceful development of
Brazil as the Baron Mana.—Birkenhead
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