The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-18 00:00:00

MAZZINI AND THE ITALIAN CAUSE.

At a public meeting in the' City Hall, Glasgow,
on Wednesday evening, convened to hear an ad-
dress from Mr. T. D. Hodge, the following letter
from M. Mazzini to the chairman (Bailie MVidam)
was read :—" My dear Sir,—You are going to pre-
side to-morrow evening at the meeting in the City
Hall, in which my friend Mr. Hodge is going to
speak about the dangers arising from armed des-
potism to the Italian cause. lam glad to see your
name on the bill. I shall never forget what you
and your brother have done for our cause ; nor shall
I ever forget how the noble programme, Italy for
the Italians,' has always found its best echo
amongst the people of Scotland, and especially of
Glasgow. Their efforts have been unceasing ;
they have sent offerings to our national fund ;
they have welcomed my friends Saffi and Jessie
Meriton White • they have exerted themselves
strenuously in the Italian affair of the engineers
Watt and Park ; they have largely subscribed for.
the 66 Neapolitan exiles •, they have continuously
revealed the harmony of thought and action, which,
in our lukewarm, sceptical, indolent age, is so sel-
dom met with. There is now more than ever need
of an agitation for the national Italian cause. A
double, equally fatal, tendency has been of late
prevailing among your countrymen—a tendency to
view the actual, to the so-called non-interference'
doctrine, whatever takes place in Europe, and a
tendency to view the actual question, as if you were
bound to side either by Austria or France. The
first tendency is, to me, impracticable, harmful, and
immoral ; impracticable, because no nation can
pledge herself to a definite course of conduct
through an indefinite, unknown, unforeseen future;
harmful, because ' non-interference' proclaimed on
your side, without reference to what other nations
will- do, is merely self-abdication, and saying—
anybody may interfere for evil without any fear
that we shall interfere for good ; immoral, because
we are all sons of God and brothers, and it does not
become a nation to say, I shall stand aloof uncon-
cerned, whilst others toil, fight, and bleed. Neu-
trality between conflicting interests may be often
advisable ; neutrality between conflicting principles
is disguised, unconscious atheism. The second
tendency, prevailing in the official spheres, drives
you to choose between two despotisms, equally dan-
gerous to Europe and to the Italian cause, whilst
you ought to side by freedom and Italy. Between
Austria and Imperial France—the first fighting
for the state of things sanctioned in 1815; the
second—l have it as a fact—for her own aggran-
disement, and for the substitution of the question
of territory for the question of liberty. There is a
people numbering twenty-six millions of Italians
wanting freedom and national unity. England
ought to side by that people. England ought to
shrink from any alliance with Austria or France ;
she ought to prepare her alliance with the Italian
nation. She may remain neutral so long as the
conflict between the two despotic powers is pending
uncertain ; she ought to side by Italy as soon as the
internal question begins to be mooted, so as to leave
Italy free of constituting herself according to the
national will, and to oppose any new arbitrary dis-
memberment,and any establishment of anew foreign
dynasty. The danger for Europe and Italy is now
not so much from Austria as from French Impe-
rialism ; from an opinion growing in France and
in Italy that imperialism cannot be resisted, and
that a true independent national party would meet
with support nowhere. England's alliance with
France would naturally tend to increase such an
opinion. British agitation ought, therefore, to
take the opposite direction. The sense of all reso-
lutions ought, in my opinion, to be this---:that Eng-
land will keep watchfully neutral between the
combatants, so long as her duties, honour, and
interests will allow her to do so ; but that, on the
day on which she should be compelled to interpose
her power, she should do so for the sake of securing,
the right of settling their own internal conditions
against any undue foreign influence, to the Italians
according to free national will. Such an agitation
would strengthen our national party, and prove a
check to the self-aggrandising Bonapartist scheme.
Forgive this lengthy epistle; the subject is for
Italy one of life and death.—Ever gratefully yours,
" June 14, 1859." " JOSEPH MAZZINI."

THIS DArs MARKETS.

COVENT GARDEN.

Our market has been well supplied with both fruit and
vegetables, and, in most kinds, a full average business has
been transacted; as follows :

FRU

a. d. a. d.
Pine apples, perlb 5 0 to 8 0
Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0
Grapes, per 1b.... 4 0 to 8 0
Foreign do. 0 0 to 0 0
Melons, each .... 2 0 to 3 0
Peaches, per doz ..12 0 to 24 0
Nectarines, per dzl2 0 to 24 0
Apples, per bush. 6 0 to 12 0
Pears, per d0z.... 6 0 to 12 0
Oranges, per 100.. 6 0 to 10 0
Lemons, per 100.. 3 6 to 7 0
Apricots, per doz 0 0 to 0 0

s. d. s. d.
Cherries, per lb.. 1 oti 3 0
Filberts, per lb .. 1 oto 1 6
Cobnuts, per lb 1 3to 1 6
Almonds, per bnoo oto 0 0
Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0
Fig-s, per doz... . 6 oto 12
Strawberries p ptl 0 4to 1 0
Gooseberries hfsv3 oto 4 0
Currants, per do. 3 oto 4 0
Plums, per do. .. 0 oto 0 0
Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0
Raspberries, prptlo oto 0 0

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:TABLES.
Shallots, per lb .. 0 6 to 0 8
Horseradish, p bn 1 0 to 2 0
Parsley, per ditto 0 2 to 0
Celery, per ditto 0 9 to 1 6
Beet, per doz. .. 1 6 to 2 0
Parsnips, per do. 0 0 to 0 0
Small salad, p. pn, 0 2 to 0 S
Mushrooms,p potl 0 9 to 1 8
Artichokes, pr dz 4 0 to 6 0
Cabbage letts, p d 0 9 to 1. 0
Endive, per score 0 9 to 1 6
Radishes, dz hnds • 6 to 0 9
Tomatoes, pr doz 3 0 to 4 0
Walnuts, per 100 0 0 to 0 0
I Chillies, per ditto 0 0 to 0 0
Capsicums, per do 0 0 to 0
Rhubarb, per bun 0 4 to 0 8
Asparagus, pr do. 1 6 to 4 cs
Seakale, per pun. L 8 to 4 0

Greens, dz bunch 1 6to 2 0
Cabbages, pr doz. 0 6to 1 0
Savoy do., pr do. 2 oto 4 0
Cauliflowers, pdz 2 oto 4 0
Brocoli, per bh 0 Bto 1 0
Old potatoes,p ton 90 to 140 0
New ditto, per cwt 12 0 to 20 0
Peas, per sieve 1 9to 2 6
Turnips, dz bunch 3 oto 5 0
Carrots, pr do 6 oto 8 0
Cucumbers 0 2to 0 6
Garlic, per lb
Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0
Spinaeh, hf.-sv 0 6to 0 8.
Brus. sprouts, h.s. 0 oto 0 0
Old onions, dz bun 1 oto 1 6
New do., doz bun 010 to 1 3
French beans, h.s. 0 9to 1 6
Leeks, per bunch 0 2to 0 3

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Turkeys, 4s Od to 7s Od ; poults, Os Od to 'Os Od each ;
geese, 4s 6d to 6s Od ; goslings, Os Od to Os Od ; ducklings,
2s Od to 6s Od; rabbits, is Od to la 9d each; wild do., 8d
to la 6d ; pigeons, 6d to is Od each; large Surrey fowls,
5s Od to lOs Od ; chickens, 5s Od to 8s Od ; barn-door fowls,
4s Od to 7s Od ; capons, 4s Od ; hares, Os Od to Os Od ;
grouse, Os Od to Os Od each ; pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ;
ptarmigan, Os Od toOs Od ; woodcocks, Os toOs Od ; snipes, Os
Od to Os Od ; teal, Os Od to Os Od; wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od;
widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Os Od each;
guinea fowls, 4s Od to 6s Od ; roasting pigs, 3s qd to 6s Od
each; Ostend fresh butter, Ild to is ld; English, is 2d
to is 5d per lb ; English eggs, 7s Od to 8s Od ; French do.,
Os Od to 7s Od per 120 ; leverets, 2s 6d to 3s 6d each.