The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-05 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE PARIS.

An immense multitude of persons, including
many women and children, with a great number of
the Coldstreams and Scots Fusilier Guards, visited
the various parks for the purpose of enjoying the
exhilarating exercise of skating or sliding. The
appearance of the various groups, mingled as they
were with a sprinkling of the fair sex, had a very
picturesque effect. The promenades of th© different
parks and the carriage drives were completely
crowded with members of the nobility and gentry;
for the purpose of witnessing the scientific evolu-
tions of the persons who disported themselves upon
the ice in the various parks.
The thermometer at the Royal Humane Society's
Receiving House in Hyde Park during Thursday
night was as low as 23 deg., being 9 deg. below
freezing point. At nine a.m. it rose to 26 deg.,
being still 6 deg. below freezingpoint ; and at noon,
whilst the sun was shining through the fog, the
mercury only ascended to 29 deg., showing that
there were three degrees of frost overhanging the
metropolis.l At six o'clock last:evening the ther-
mometer had risen to 31 deg., an indication that
the frost was likely to break up, especially as the
barometer stood during the day at 30.24 deg.,
and the wind being N.E. Several accidents took
place, and had it not been for the active exertions
of Mr. Superintendent Williams, loss of life would
have occurred.

During yesterday 7,000 sliders and skaters ven-
tured upon the frozen surface of the river, and
amongst the number eight persons had their heads
severely cut by falling upon the ice, and one gen-
tleman had the flesh torn off his fingers by falling
upon the ice in front of a skater.
At a late hoar last night skating was carried. on
with fall vigour by torchlight on the Serpentine.
skate The
The Long Water in Kensington-gardens. was pa-
tronised by 3,000 sliders and
many members of the Skating Club. The Round
Pond had 800 gentlemen, but
.no accident of any
importance occurred. The ice in St. James Park is
pronounced to be tolerably firm and safe, but a few
slight immersons occurred, and 2,500 persons ven-
tured upon the ice. The Regent's Park had over
10,000 persons on the !co during the day, The ice
hero is four inches thick.

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But we cannot have One Italy without Venice;
and we have been officially told by Count Cavour
that it would be madness to attack Austria there,
because the European Powers do not wish for a
second war. We cannot have One Italy without
Rome ; and we have been officially told that it
would be madness and ingratitude to attack Louis
Napoleon's policy there. The Sardinian Govern-
ment have not found, within 11 years, one single
word to utter against the occupation ; and they
are now opposing through their press our petition-
iig it. We cannot have One Italy without our
availing ourselves of all the energies of our popu-
lation led by such men as Garibaldi ; and our
Volunteers are dissolved, our appeals for a general
military organisation are systematically checked ;
Garibaldi is ungratefully treated, dispossessed of
all power, and. driven in bitterness to Caprera. We
cannot summon up all the energies of our people
and put down reaction without proving to the people
that the change is beneficial to them, and nothing
is done towards that ; any suggestion of ours is
thrown back in distrust; every attempt at organ-
ising liberty is fought against, and even the sing-
ing of Garibaldi's hymn is forbidden ; and men
known like Nunziante as ready to sell themselves
to the King of Naples, to Victor Emmanuel, to
Murat, or Prince Napoleon, are placed again at the
head of our regular divisions.
We want to emancipate ourselves from the over-
whelming influence of Louis Napoleon. We know
his past intrigues in Central Italy, his present in-
trigues in Southern Italy, his decided opposition to
Italian unity, his dreams of a confederation with
the Pope—whom he holds under subjection—as
honorary president, his longing towards turning
the Mediterranean into a French lake, his inter-
ference, now strengthened and widened in Rome,
his interference at Gaeta, his theory of territorial
compensations, his usurpation of Nice and'. Savoy,
his actual active propagandism in Sardinia, his
attempts to do the same in the Genoese Riviera, his
compact with Cavour at Plombiers, his moi:e recent
secret com act with him at Aix in Savoy--and we
iiiow a UN7CftlirlaT nuL -prutEstra against the
Gaeta interference, and that he is paving the way
to the Napoleonic schemes by trying to have him
again in Italy as an ally in the future unavoidable
Venetian War. We want to Italianisc Piedmont,
to have a national compact harmonising the rights,
wants, and interests of all the Italian provinces ;
and Cavour wants to annex Italy to Piedmont, to
give to Italy Piedmontese laws, and a compact
which was, for the sake of avoiding insurrection,
granted twelve years ago, after twelve hours' deli-
beration, to the Piedmontese populations by Charles
Albert.

These, only these, are our grounds of dissent
from Cavour, and •it is astonishing to me how they
can be misinterpreted or abused as anarchical in
England. Are you not free ? are you not wanting
us to be one ? are you not antagonistic as muck as
we are to Bonapartist usurpations ?
Of course anything you will do towards helping
Garibaldi—when fighting for Venice or Rome—
with arms and money has my complete assent and
warm support. England has helped the emanci-
pation.of the South ; I do not see why she should
not do the same for Venice and Rome. The 'As-
solving of the Garibaldi Fund Committees seems
to me inconsistent and illogical.
But you ought at the same time not to neglect
another agitation—the agitation we are now initi-
ating in Italy for the withdrawal of the French
troops from Rome. That is the vital point for us.
Rome is now the focus of all our reactionary in-
trigues, and it is a base of operations for Louis
Napoleon towards the South, whilst his keeping
Rome in his hands suppresses any possibility of
unity for our country. It is, I think, high time
for England to see that the promises given in 1849
of a speedy withdrawal are at last realised ; that
the non-interference principle shall not be an empty
word, but a fact. Could you not suggest that
petitions should be raised for that object to your
Parliament and Government ?
Forgive this lengthy epistle, written currents
calanzo, and believe me, my dear sir, ever yours
gratefully, JOSEPH MAIIINI.
Mason Jones, Esq.

2HE SUSPECTED .MURDE.R NEAR

NOTTINGHAM.

On Christmas-day morning Samuel White, the
horsekeeper to Mr. Greaves, of the Rutland Arms
Inn, Bakewell, on going to his stable found a
female dead in one of the stalls, six horses being
in the place. She could not have been frozen
to death there, though the night Nyas
severe. Information was given to the pol,
and a surgeon called in by Superintendent Rust.tee
The body was removed to the
ion, and the
coroner takee
coroner sent for. A strict investigation will
anion,
that this female
but
tfrom foul usage.
place, as no doubt remains
has been violated and
obtained which it is
ddetaiedined at the Bakewell
Two navvies have been
lock-up, and a cluehapsai
hoped will bring this 131
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painful nl
case
sed in the town h this
to light. Great
ti
ersons thinking thisthrou femag le had
sseandsaaffaoin has been cau
affair, many
p
been brutally used and murdered, An inquest was
held on Thursday, before Mr. W. Bennett, the
coroner for the High Peak, when some strange re-
velations were made, implicating five or six men
living in Bakewell in a very serious charge. The
evidence against them being very meagre, the in-
quest was adjourned, in order to give time for the
police to thoroughly investigate the case. From
the medical evidence of Mr. Walters, surgeon, who
had made a post mortem examination of the body,
Superintendent Rust as to the state he found the
body, and other collateral evidence, no doubt re-
mains as to the brutality shown to this poor crea-
ture. Acting Sergeant Holmes proved her name
as given to him when she applied for a vagrant
relief ticket, as Mary Ann Wilson, lately coming
from Chesterfield, but of the Potteries, being a mar-
ried woman, seeking her husband, working in the
linie-kilns at Longstone or Buxton. On Friday a
special meeting of the magistrates was held at the
Town-hall, by Mr. R. W. M. Nesfield and Mr.
William Allcard, when Superintendent Rust laid
before them a statement of the case and the attend-
ance of Mr. Walters, surgeon, proving beyond
doubt the violence, and an information was laid
against some suspected persons who could be shown
to have been at and near this stable, and the per-
sons, together with one remanded, have been in the
custody of Superintendent Rust, and are now await-
ing further examination. The case will be thoroughly
sifted by the coroner's jury and the magistrates—
there being strong presumptive evidence against
the men in custody. At present the names of these
men remanded are withheld, five of them are Bake-
well persons, one being a navvy.—Nottivhara
Journal.