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that matter, do we rate very highly his nice sense
of honour as a patriotic statesman, His conscience
as such the world has seen to be particularly elastic,
de protested, in answer to the impetuous and
im-
passioned taunts of General GARIBALDI, that
inasmuch as he (CAvouß) felt constrained to yield
up Nice and Savoy, he suffered in the do.ng of it
, very poignantly. Yet, suffer however much he may
have done upon the occasion referred to—he did the
thing he grieves at nevertheless! Another occasion
might arise—common sense tells us that—
when Count CA your, might feel himself
constrained (suffering poignantly the while) to
cede Sardinia to France as he has already ceded
Savoy and Nice to her. He has an immense
capacity for endurance. He has shown that he can
bear a great deal for the sake of Italy, even the
dishonour of her name, even the selling (for so
much and so much) of her fair soil, of her ancient
territory. Therefore, again, we calculate not at all
upon Count CAVOUR'S nice sense of honour as a
patriotic statesman, any more than we count upon
his solemn promises, upon his formal and reiterated
engagements. It is rather upon his prudence that
we count for the rejection of the advances made by
the French EMPEROR, for the bartering, in return
for the canton of Tessin, of the fertile and spacious
island of Sardinia. Count CATOUR may be quite
certain of this, VICTOR EMMANUEL may lay the
same truth well to heart—that so surely as the
island of Sardinia follows suit with the provinces
of Nice and Savoy, so surely will GARIBALDI and
his patriot followers break from their Machiavellian
Government. There has already been something
too much of this concession to the territorial greed
of the disinterested Liberator of Lombardy—and
Tolerator, we suppose we must call him, of the
political emancipation of the more southern parts
of the Roman Peninsula. England gainpa n nth ing
in her prestige when she stood by, impassively
looking on, while France absorbed into her domi-
nions the provinces of Nice and Savey to the detri-
ment of the fume and fortune of VICTOR EMMA-
NUEL, and, we must even add, to the eternal infamy
of his unprincipled Government. It would be
impossible for that same impassibility to be main-
tained by England even with our Foreign
Secretary unchanged, supposing the attempt to be
made, however insiduously for the acquisition by
France of the Island of Sardinia, England must
then perforce interpose—she must then at length
through her Minister cry aloud, " I forbid the
bands !" Then would break away at last from the
Government of Turin the hero GARIBALDI, who
would inevitably choose by preference to make com-
mon cause with the hitherto disdained Mazzinians.
It is beyond mere vague conjecture—Anything like
an attempt to deliver over the island of Sardinia to
the greed of the French EMPEROR must result in
kindling anew and most disastrously the flame of
civil war in the Roman Peninsula. It is in our recog-
nition of this, it is in our conviction that Count
CAvouß and his sovereign must recognize all this
quite as clearly, as an unavoidable peril, certain,
absolutely certain to arise upon the instant, out of
any such proceeding, that we behold the true secu-
rity far Italy that her cause will be spared, at
least, this lamentable peril and this still more
lamentable ignominy,

The Popery of Protestantism is even more annoy-
ing to us than the Popery of Rome. With the
latter we hare no other concern than to defend its
perfect freedom of action in this country, and to do
what we can to moderate its intolerance in other
countries. But when English clergymen and
English bishops assume infallibility and treat
Roman Catholics with intolerance, we feel bound,
for the credit of our national faith, to pro-
test, and to protest firmly. Mr. HENNEss-sr had
fair grounds last night for calling attention to a
piece of what seems like Episcopal intolerance in the
case of the Bishop of 'tiros. We would not speak
too strongly, merely because we have not yet seen
the Bishop's reply, which, we presume, will soon
be given us either through the daily press, or in
" another place," though we cannot well conceive
that any reply can alter the main fact. The Bishop
it appears ordered the removal, from a graveyard, of
a tombstone which contained the request, so com-
mon in Roman Catholic cemeteries, for a prayer on
behalf of the departed. The family who placed it
there, of course believed that the prayers
of such of their own faith as might read
the inscription would be offered and be effectual on
behalf of their deceased relative. Now, why deprive
them of this consolation. If we must believe it to
be a groundless superstition, yet why deprive those
who thought it a reality, and derived from it

such consolation at such a time. We have
had occasion before to observe on the
strange insensibility of priests, when matters of
creed are involved, to those sentiments of human
nature which our Maker gave us long before any
church constructed its creeds, and which are at
least as divine and as holy as they. The sentiment
of sorrow for the dead is at least as sacred
as the article against purgatory. Nor can
we excuse the priest who, on the pretext of his
creed, shocks in the least these sacred sorrows.
His practical religion must in such a case be wrong,
however orthodox his creed may be. Yet, to-
wards Dissenters and Roman Catholics, there
are not wanting priests and bishops—we are
happy to say their number is small who
do not hesitate to do violence to their feelings on
funeral occasions. Sir ROBERT PEEL was quite
right in his advertence to Spain, and we are pleased
to learn from Lord PALMERSTON, that the Govern-
ment there is so much more tolerant than
the laws the clergy, and the ignorant
multitude who do their bidding ; but
we hope, for the sake of Protestants in Spain,
Protestant bishops here will not encourage funereal
intolerance by their example. In the freedom and
light enjoyed by England, to tear a gravestone
from the grave is, proportionately, as great intole-
rance as to refuse burial to a Protestant in Spain.

EXETER HALL.—Mdlle Titiens, it is announced,
will make her first appearance in the "Creation," in the
above hall, under the auspices of the "National Choral
Society," on Wednesday evening, the 22d inst. It is ex •
petted her performance will prove a greater success, and
create higher interest with the musical world on this occa-
sion than at the Crystal Palace, where she enlisted the
enthusiasm of an audience of 13,000 persons. She will be
supported by artists of known celebrity, and the fine chorus
of this society of nearly 700 performers will be conducted by
Mr. G. W. Martin.

MDLLE. ADELINA PATTI.--It has been generally
understood that Mdlle. Adelina Patti was originally en-
gaged by Mr. Smith for her Majesty's Theatre. We are
requested iby the friends of the lady to say that this is in-
correct. Mdlle. Patti came to London with the object of
singing at the Royal Italian Opera, having been in nego-
tion with Mr. Gye more than twelve months since.

It is said that the members of the United Service
Club, Pall-mall, intend to give a dinner to Lieut.-General
Sir James Hope Grant, early in June.
M. Mires has been removed from Mazas to an
1 infirmary (maison de Sante) on a certificate given by the
publisher hsloins Perrwiondh
ujna n
physicians.o has not yet been able to find a
book. to run the risk of bringing out his new

A of deputationconoert-hall proprietors trars-
at3L,euA business at the home office yesterday. The deputa-
don consisted of Messrs,
Sanders: Wilton, Villiers, Wil-
liams, Grimes, Stanley, winder, and Hobscn, secretary to
ill e provincial concer'c-hall and gardens proprietors. The
iteputation was accompanied by 4
r' T. S. Dtmcsuabe, M.P.,
I
Lill kir, V , 5 , butler, M.P.