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

MAZZINI AND THE ITALIAN CA USE.

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 M'Adam)
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 'ltalians,' 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 toleave
Italy free of constituting herself according to the
national will, and to oppose any new arbitrary dis-
memberment,and any establishment of a new 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-
lutionsought, 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,
against any undue foreign influence, to the Italians
the right of settling their own internal conditions
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."

TIIIS DAY'S 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 :

FRIJIT.

s. d. s. d.
rine apples, perlb 5 0 to 8 0
Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0
Grapcs,per lb 4 0 to 8 0
Foreign do 0 0 to 0 0
Melons, each

s. d. s. d.
Cherries, per lb.. 1 oto 3 0
Filberts, per lb .. 1 oto 1 6
Cobnuts, per lb 1 3to 1 6
Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0
Figs, per dos .60to 12 0
Strawberries p ptl 0 4to 1 0
Gooseberries hfsv 3 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, pr ptlo oto 0 0
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Peachei, per d0z..12 oto 24 0
Nectarines, per dsl2 0t024 0
Apples, per bush. 6 oto 12 0
Pears, per d0z.... 6 oto 12 0
Oranges, per 100.. 6 oto 10 0
Lemons, per 100.. 3 6to 7 0
Apricots, per doz 0 oto 0 0

VEGET
Greens, dz bunch 1 6 to 2 0
Cabbages, pr doz. 0 6 to 1 0
Savoy do., pr do. 2 0 to 4 0
Cauliflowers, p dz 2 0 to 4 0
Brocoli, per bh 0 8 to 1 0
Old pot atoes,p ton 90 to 140 0
New ditto, per cwt 12 0 to 20 0
Peas,.per sieve 1 9 to 2 6
Turnips, dz bunch 3 0 to 5 0
Carrots, pr do 6 0 to 8 0
Cucumbers 0 2 to 0 6
Garlic, per lb 0 6 to 0 8
Sorrel, per sieve 0 0 to 0 0
Spinach, hf.-sv 0 6 to 0 8
Old onions,
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00 two 01
(05
New do., doz bun 0 io to 1 3
French beans, h.s. 0 9 to 1 6
Leeks, per bunch 0 2 to 0 3
NEIVGATE AND

.BLES.
Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 8
Horseradish, pbn 1 oto 2 0
Parsley, per ditto 0 2to 0 4
Celery, per ditto 0 9to 1 6
Beet, per doz. 18to 2 0
Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0
Small salad, p. pn, 0 2to 0 3
Mushrooms,p potl 0 9to 1
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Radishes, dz
dozeh 0 6to 0 9
Tomatoes, pr 3 oto 4 0
'Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0
Chillies, per to 0 oto 0 0
Caps ditto
do 0 oto 0 icums, per
Rhubarb, per bun 0 4to 0 8
Asparagus, pr do. 1 6to 4 0
Seakale, per pun. 2 6 to 4 0
LEADENHALL.

Turkeys, 4s Od to 75 Od ; poults, Os Od to Os Od each ;
geese, 4s 6d to 6s Od ; goslings, Os Od to Os Od ; ducklings,
pigeons, Gd to is Od each; large Surrey fowls,
2s Od to 5s Od ; rabbits, is Od to is 9d each ; wild do., 8d
.s'; Odl to
s 6d
;10s Od ; chickens, 5s Od to 8s Od ; barn-door fowls,
4s Od to 75 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 to Os 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 6d to 58 Od
each; Ostend fresh butter, 11d to Is ld ; English, is
to is 5d per lb ; English eggs, 7s Od to 88 Od ; French do.,
Os Od to 7s Od per 120; leverets, 2s 6d to 3s 6d each.

NEWPORT.
Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s Od ; mutton, 38 Od to 4s 2d ;
lamb, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; and pork, 3s
4d to 4s 2d per 81bs