The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

After summarising Irr. Hunt's speech on the Budget,
the Times remarks : When Mr. Hunt sat down Mr. Glad-
stone rose. He began with the paradox that it was not
for the Abyssinian war the committee were asked to
consider how additional taxation should be raised, and it
appeared, when he explained his meaning, that he attri-
buted the necessity of raising further supplies to the
increase of the expenditure. The slightest reflection
wid show that this statement is fallacious. Had the
addition to the estimates to which Mr. Gladstone called
attention not been made, there would have been a
remission of taxation, and it would have been as
necessary under such an hypothesis as it is now
to consider how additional taxes should be imposed.
It is impossible to suppose that two millions would have
been left in the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and the same question as now would have had to be pre-
sented to the House of Commons. The real vice, however,
of such remarks as Mr. Gladstone made leads him further
than this. Estimates are brought forward, are discussed,
and are approved, and some months later a member rises
in his place and declares against excessive expenditure or
" bloated armaments." Mr. Disraeli did this when
he was in Opposition, and when Mr. Gladstone was
Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Palmerston's
Administration, he occasionally intimated that he
dissented from the scale of expenditure he assisted
to support. On Thursday night, however, Mr. Glad-
stone and those who echoed his complaints did
not fix upon any special point of condemnation. The
estimates are rising. It is true. We wish it could be
avoided, and so we suppose do most Chancellors of the
Exchequer. But is it not the fact that the nominal cost of
government all over the world is rising in consequence of
the change in the prices of commodities ? Can any part-
nership or company deny that their expenses of manage-
ment have increased materially in the last ten years? And
if, in addition to this, a necessity has arisen for recon-
structing an army, for providing it with anew arm, for im-
proving the condition of the soldier, for changing the
organisation of our fleets, additional expenditure must be
recognised as inevitable. Confining our attention to
the proper subjects of the debate, what do we
observe ? In the first place, an estimate of the cost
of the Abyssinian expedition only too palpably
imprudent. It may be sufficient, but it is unsafe to reckon
upon it. In the next place, a determination to throw the
whole burden of it upon the income tax. Nothing that
was said last night removed the obvious objections to this
They were rather strengthened. It was
urged that it would be unwise to disturb trade by a modi-
Ecation of the import duties, but this plea would cover all
urgent necessities, and we are landed in the conclusion
that the income tax must always supply the means of any
occasional outlay, however fanciful or unnecessary. We
protest in the strongest terms against the pandering to
immediate popularity which induces both sides to consent
to this fatal course. There is a third remark to be made
on the financial statement. It is proposed to borrow a
million. It is true that a tax is designated to repay it,
utilis:sell the security that it will be available for the pur-
pose is imperfect. But be it as sure as it may, there is
no justification for the loan, when we are at the same time
gratuitously repaying a portion of our debt. Let the
repayment by terminating annuities be suspended, and if
the income tax prove available it will make good the year
during which the repayment has been omitted. Mr.
Fawcett and Mr. Hubbard joined in recommending a
coarse against which no cne had any reason to urge. If
ono we ^le far an explanation of the anomaly that

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cioui counsels will apparently be adopted by default,
the reason for it is perhaps to be found in the fact that
the mischief may be ultimately traced to those who occupy
the front Opposition bench, and that the Ministry sue-
cr.‘e,ling to their places have inherited the consequences of
their errors.

The Pose is alto ether dissatisfied with the Budget. It
Ties not approve either of the additional income tax.
Actual experience has proved the income tax to have in
very great measure lost its elasticity, and to have dimi-

niched seriously in productive power. For years--ever
since, in fact, Sir Robert Peel imposed it twenty-eight
years ago, when the Whig Government lost itsj position
from precisely the same kind of mistake that Mr. Hunt
appears to us to be making now the income tax
has always made a return to the pressure of the
Finance Minister in excess of estimate and expec-
tation. The November Budget exhibited the first in-
stance of its failing to answer to the call. The Chancellor
of the-Exchtquer and those who advised him on making
the estimate allowed what they conceived an ample
margin for the depressed state of trade, and their pressure
has realised less than one-half of their expecta-
tion—less than one-half of the amount which
pressure. would have produced at any time within the last
twenty-five years. The Post is surprised that such a fact.
suggests no reflection and conveys no lesson to the present
Chancellor of the Exchequer. It does not believe that
the increase to sixpence will produce anything like the
sun, he anticipates. The Government and the public who
wer," relying

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',wn them are committing, a serious niistake

'ital miscalculation,

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1111:_;11 an;lority on financial matters, would

have 1,1.c:fe1...LA tat in substitution of a, portion of the
prop,sed income tax, and concurrently with it, an addi-
tion should have been made to the duties upon articles of
general consumption, not, as we understand him, because
he objects to meeting a special and temporary charge by
an increase of the income tax or by an issue of Exchequer
Bonds, but because he fears that this increase of the in-
come tax will be made a precedent, and doubts whether
the bonds will be paid off. The Herald. points out, how-
ever, that Mr. Hunt had declared with great distinctness
that if he. had not felt that this addition. to taxation was
to be only temporary he would have proposed to increase
indirect taxation. Believing the necessity to be but a
temporary one, he was unwilling to cause that disturbance
to trade which always results from an increase of duties
upon articles of general consumption. Mr. Gladstone
found the mode of meeting the charge adopted by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer simple and sound, and the
opinion of the House was almost unanimously in its
favour.

'l9►e Standard points out the laborious duty which Mr.
ITummt had to perform. He performed it creditably. The
move made by Mr. Gladstone was clearly and solely
factious; it could have no honest end, no crediiable
m five ; and in the existing state of European affairs, and
of our American relations, it was calculated to do infinite
harm. The security and strength of England are not to
be made the playthings of parliamentary faction ; her
safoty is not to be risked upon the issue of a party vote.
Nothing could be worse timed or in worse taste than this
attack, which simply goes to prove that if he cannot crush
the Ministry under the ruins of the Irish Church, Mr.
Gladstone is prepared to attack them through a breach in
the national defences ; that no danger to Church or
State will outweigh with him the paramount object of
turning Mr. Disraeli out of office, no matter how.
Mr. Gladstone has always protested against extravagant
expenditure, and the Daily News trusts that he is now
resolved to enforce retrenchment. The nibbling at details
will do little. The House of Commons has not the
patience for this kind of work, • nor the administrative
k mowledge essential for its proper discharge. The only
way in which it can effect sensible, reductions is by
reducing the lump sums which it votes for the several
services, and leaving it for the Government to find in what
points retrenchment can be effected without interference
with efficiency. One of the two functions of a great finan-
cier—that of lightening taxation while actually augment-
ing revenue—leas been successfully accomplished by Mr.
Gladstone. The other—that of reducing public expendi-
ture without impairing the efficiency of time public service
—remains to be performed. The country has confidence
in Mr. Gladstone's earnestness, and in his capacity to
aecomplilth this necessary work. It will welcome the
pledges contained in his speech, and will give him its
ungrudging support.

Aim Justice, one of the prisoners now on trial in the
Central Criminal Court, has been practically acquitted on
the capital charge ; and the Telegraph believes that all
who have paid attention to the evidence will he gratified
with that result. The truth is, that although the woman
JuNtice has lived on very intimate terms with the persons
who organised the attack on the. gaol, the Crown could
not produce any facts showing that she was in any
way connected with the conspiracy. The evidence
adduced to implicate her failed utterly, and at the
jio only went to show that she was faithful to her
friends. and did not desert them in their trouble.
But, known to have close relations with them,
when arrested on the spot she was detained, and her
name was naturally included in the indictment. It was
the Lord Chief Justice himself, who, at the close of the
case for the Crown, interposed the remark that Ann
Justice had not been shewn to be in any way connected
will the plot. Still firm in her friendship, the poor
woman, on quitting the duck, kissed Barrett and
whispered in the car of Timothy Desmond. Her hope of
immediate freedom, however, was dashed ; for, although
discharged from the dock, she is still detained because
theo arc-other indictments against her. But the deten-
Von iA only a matter of form, and whatever may be the
fate of her friends. she is virtually free. Her cause was
perfectly safe in the liands of Mr. Montague Williams,
who had been retained to defend her ; but her acquittal
is a testimony to the rigid fairness of our courts and the
unbiassed temper of the bench.
-I,lOJc more than two mom:as ;Igo Ear; 1-Zlv:sell ldressed
first letter " to filo IZiLbt Ilan. Chic!!ester Forteseue,
11. P" on the, state of !reinrid." The call: attention to
Lerdltu,;,;ell's seeoml letter on the same subject, iyhichap.

pears in the shape Of a pamphlet about half the size of its
pre.lecesor. The Irish question was, regardimz it from a
pae:iamentary point of view, simply in a chaotic condition
when Earl Russell wrote his first pamphlet. Is it WWl-
iterful that, under slleh circumstances, and consider-
ing the cluinges which have taken place since, his
second letter should be mainly occupied in correct-
irg or abamloninf; the mistaken propositions of
the first? Earl Russell's main proposal, in the first in-
stance, .was, as weal! remember, to divide. the rent-chaises
of the Irish Church among the Roman Catholics, the
Ppiscopalians, and the
,Presbyterians, according to num-
bers. Immediately on the appearance of the letter, the
impracticable, reactionary, and in every way objectionable
nature of such a proposal was pointed out. Earl Russell,
ia his present pamphlet, frankly abandons the project.
ITo still areiles that it had a logical and political justifica-
tion at the- time he put it forward. But, as the llomart
Catholics decline State endowment, there is, he admits, an
end of the matter. •

EARL BUSSELL'S SECOND P4MPTILET ON

IRELAND.

Earl Russell's "second later on Ireland, now published,
concludes with the following passage

In my former letter I had to notice a gross personal
attack made upon me by a Secretary of State before my
publication appeared, and I thought myself entitled to
return the blow. At present lam glad to have no such
attack to resent:- But I cannot forbear to notice that
General Peel, on April 2, made a biting jest on the party
to which I have the pride to below,.
" The Liberal party have been referred to," he said,
"as the engineers and pioneers who clear the road ; but
I rather look upon them as guide posts, which point
out the road—and a very bad road it often is—but who
never advance of e inch themselves." (Cheers and
laughter.)

General Peel is go honest and so good-humoured, that
one is always inclined to take in good part anything he
may say. But, lest his joke should be taken in sober
earnest, I venture to put to him the following questions :-
1. Was it not an inch of advance to abolish fifty-six
close boroughs sending 111 members to Parliament, and to
deprive thirty more boroughs of one member each?

2. Was it not an inch of advance to give representa-
tives to Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham, a conces-
sion which the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel
peremptorily refused?
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3. Was it not an inch of advance to reform the poor-
laws, a task which Sir Robert Peel professed himself
unable to undertake ?
4. Was it not an inch of advanc t 3 commute the tithe in
kind, in England, a vexation to the clergy and laity alike,
a task to which Mr. Pitt found himself unequal ?
5. Was it not an inch of advance to abolish slavery in
our colonies, a measure to which Lord Derby, in his better
days, so greatly contributed ?
6. Was it no gain to religious liberty to enable the
Baptists to register the birth of their children without
baptism in the Church, and the Unitarians to be married
without a blessing in the name of the Trinity, and to re-
lieve all Protestant Dissenters from the yoke of being com-
pelled to take the sacrament according to the rites of the
Chard] of England?
7. Was it no gain to freedom of trade to repeal the
navigation laws, to form a commercial treaty with France,
and to reduce the tariff from the large volume which Mr.
linskisson boasted of, as a digest, into a single page ?
Were not the financial plans of Mr. Gladstone an inch in
advance

8. Were not the introduction of poor laws in Ireland,
the commutation of tithe, and the Act for the sale of en-
cumbered estates, an inch in advance to that country ?
Lastly, was not the support given to the unity and
independence of Italy an inch in advance, in behalf
of the great cause of " Civil and Religious Liberty all
over the World," the old standing toast of the Whig
party ?

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I can imagine that this list, added to Catholic eman-
cipation and the repeal of the corn laws—measures of
which the Liberal party were the pioneers-,will grieve the
heart of many an old Tory, and that General Peel, on
reading it, will say with Macbeth—

" A fourth ! Start, eyes !
What, will the line stretc!► out to the crack of doom?
Another yet ? A seventh? rll see no more ; -
And yet the eighth appears, who bears A glass
Which shews me many more."

Yes, "many more !" The diseased mind of Ireland has
yet to be ministered to ; a "sweet oblivious anti-
dote " may yet induce her to forget her griefs, ancient and
of modern date ; the " perilous stuff " which weighs upon
her breast may yet be removed, and in her exultant
strength she may hail " the wearing of the green " as
the emblem of a new hope and the sign of a renovated
youth.

Yes, " many more ! " To name but one : National
Education—a measure really national, pervading the whole
people, and leaving in the shade the meagre proposals of
the present Government —would clear the way for that
long and fair train of further reforms already reflected to
us in the glass of the future.
When we reflect that for twenty-six years Wilberforce
and Clarkson laboured without success to abolish the
slave trade, and that twenty-four years more elapsed before
slavery was extinguished by law—when we remember that,
although for more than a century the House of Stuart
have ceased to compete for the Crown, the grievances of
Ireland are yet waiting for full redress—that for twenty.
six years the cause of Catholic emancipation met with de-
feat at county elections while its leaders were ostracised—
we must acknowledge how slow and feeble is the progress
towards knowledge and justice, even of the noble-hearted
people of this free country, When we perceive how many
there are even now who fail to feel for the ill-used Irish-
man as their predecessors failed to feel for the enslaved
African, we must own that we still shrink• from the light
of clay.

" What from this barren being do we reap?
Our senses narrow, and our reason frail;
Life short, and truth a gem that loves the deep,
And all thim„N weighed in custom's falsest scale_;
Opinion an omnipotence. whose veil
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Mantles the earth with darkness, until right
And wrong are accidents, and men grow• pale
LeAt their Own judgments should become too bright,
And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too
much light."

-- I remain always your's faithfully, LussELL,

LAW AND I OLICE.

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE TAIINVOIITII SCHOOL—In
the Court of Chancery before the Lord Justices an appeal
was made against the order made by Vice-Chancellor
Malins, on the 13th of March last, whereby his Honour re-
fused an application made by the Charity Commissioners
that Sir Robert Peel might be committed to Whitecross-
street Prison for having refused to comply with an order
made by the Commissioners that he should deliver to them
two years' accounts of a school at Tamworth, which was
endowed with a sum of £1,003 by the first Sir Robert Peel.
The same questions were raised before their lordships as
when the case was before Vice-Chancellor Malins. The
learned counsel said that they only wanted to compel Sir
Robert to produce the books and accounts. The ease was
only partly gone into, and was adjourned to Thursday
next.

SACRILEGE AT LAMBETH.-1t the Lambeth Police-
court, George Harris was finally examined on the charge
of entering the church of St. Giles's, Lambeth, and
stealing a quantity of things therefrom. The magis-
trate said he had made up his mind to commit
the prisoner for trial. The accused said he
wished to make a statement. He left Newington
Workhouse with two men, and they asked him to meet
them in the evening, as they could put a shilling or two in
his way. He met them at ten o'clock, and they gave him
a bundle and asked him to put some articles round his
neck, and he consented, being, he said, intoxicated, and
soon afterwards the police stopped him. The constable
said the prisoner Was; sober. The prisoner said he did
not know what articles were in the bundles ; the men told
him they were theatrical dresses. The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial.

MERCHANTS CHARGED WITH FELONY.—At the Mansion
House Police-court Hermann Mayer and Edward Maude,
a "gentleman," were charged on remand with stealing
five dock warrants each for the delivery of a pipe of wine,
from Mr. T. F. Alford, of Anerley. The facts of the case
were reported when the case was previously before the
court, and the prisoners were now committed for trial.
Mayer was then charged with obtaining a large
quantity of goods by fraud. The prisoner carried on
business in the name Of Liddell and Co., first as a
diamond and subsequently as a commission merchant.
He had previously been in a City house, and whilst there
made the acquaintance of a young man named Hart. In
December last he induced Hart to give up his situation in
a large Wood street house, and told him to commence
business as a pawnbroker at Acton. Hart asked
him where the money was to come from, and the prisoner
replied that he could obtain goods on credit from various
City firms if he gave as a reference the name of Liddell
and Co. He instructed the young man to take a Louse
at Acton, and assisted him in obtaining goods of the
value of £76 from Messrs. Parnall and Co., £63 from
Messrs. Bousfield, £-14 from Messrs. I'. E. Smith and
Co., and £66 from Messrs. Dawe and Son. The plan
was for Hart to go to these houses, represent himself to
be a pawnbroker, and to give the prisoner's name as a
reference, the firm receiving afterwards a letter from
Liddell and Co., of Hatton-garden, giving a most
satisfactory account of Hart and his business. The
goods were then usually supplied, but the money
had never been received for them. Hart went down to
Manchester, Birmingham, and Coventry to see if he could
get goods upon credit (at the request of the prisoner), and
at Birmingham, where he succeeded to a large extent, he
was arrested, and kept in custody for some time. While
80 locked np the prisOner had induced Hart's wife to let
him sell all the goads is the shop and all the furniture,
which realised £4OO, which be himself kept. The prisoner
was fully committed for trial.

THE ALEEET 'MEMORIAL STATUE AT BLP.MING-
HAIL—The memorial statue of the Prince Consort, for
which a commission was given to Mr. Foley, RA., has
been unveiled at Birmingham by the mayor (Mr. T.
Avery). It is considered an excellent likeness, and a
very noble work of art. The Prince is dressed in the
costume of a Knight of the Garter. The statue was
paid for by private subscription, and presented to the
town. £1,00) remains of the fund, and with this
sum in hand some gentlemen think of having a statue cf
her Majesty as a companion to that of the Prince Consort.

THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCE HUMBER7.

(Front the Times' Correspondent.)
Tunnt, April 19.

It is pleaiant to see this ancient and dejected
capital resuming the holiday garb she so frequently
and willingly wore in her bygone days of pros-
perity. Tarin has 'always been a self-dependent
city; the consciousness of her worth upheld her even
in her darkest hours, and now, under the double
stimulus of pride.and old affection, she prepares a
hospitable and splendid welcome to the numerous
guests who gather to celebrate the nuptials of her
Sovereign's heir. And she does so the more wil-
-1 lingly because the bride is one of her own children,
the development of whose graces and virtues she
has watched from the cradle upwards. The ami-
lable and sterling qualities of the Princess Margaret
poWerfully contribute to the goodwill manifested
• upon this occasion. Cast down, without fault
of her own, from the proud position she had
valiantly won and honourably maintained as capi-
tal of the new kingdom of Italy, Turin has not yet
had time to recover from the shock or forget the
humiliation. Oblivion is the harder when she
notes the fruitlessness of the sacrifice. It was made
to promote unity, to propitiate those provinces
' (especially the Southern ones) which cried out
lagainst Piedmontese preponderance, and to get rid
of the French from Italian soil. Those were the
objects of which the attainment was announced as
certain to proceed from the Convention of Septem-
ber, 1864, and, behold, in April, 1868, the
French are at Rome, and Neapolitans and Pied-
montese combine in the Chamber to oppose the
policy of the party which made that convention.
The sole satisfaction the old capital has since en-
joyed has been to hear many deplore the change
who at the time applauded it, and to see how little
Florence has done towards effacing the memory of
Turin. In spite of past and recent discontent,
of heavy taxation, depreciation of property, and
workmen's strikes, the famous old Piedmontese
city thinks that now, if ever, is the moment
to cast aside cares and heartburnings, and
to pluck up spirits and make a supreme
effort to celebrate' splendidly a great event
in the family of her King ; and so the deposed
capital comes out, in all her former bravery, re-
solved it shall not be said that the marriage table
of her princes was coldly furnished forth by the
I baked meats of her own obsequies. The municipa-
lity has shown itself no niggard in providing the
ways and means of a great celebration. The ex-
penses of the festival have been estimated at
700,000 f., but I hear it is said they will probably
amount to a million—no small sum for this impo-
verished city. On all sides are evidences of outlay.
On a larger and more magnificent scale than I re-
member ever before to hare witnessed, preparations
are making for those beautiful illuminations for
which Turin has long been unrivalled. In Florence,
on such occasions, the river and the ancient build-
, ings of the city are employed with the happiest
effect. Thousands of lights are reflected in the
I •
smooth waters of the Arno, across which the bridges
form arches of flame, while the towers of the Pa.
I lazzo Vecchio and the Bargcllo are rendered seem-
ingly transparent by s skilfully disposed lamps.
1 Turin boasts no such buildings, and the
I'o skirts the city instead of flowing through
its heart, but of her long lines of straight streets a
vast deal is made by one of the most skilful and
Itasteful illuminators and decorators in Europe, the
Piedmontese Ottino, to whom other cities are often
glad to have recourse on such occasions. To-
morrow night will doubtless prove that he has not
spared his pains on this occasion. On no former
one do I remember to have seen such a display of
illuminatory apparatus. It is to be hoped the gas-
works have been warned of the full extent of the
demand to be made upon their resources, or we
shall risk seeing an untimely extinction of all that
part of the spectacle which depends upon their
! supply. Apparently the long line of the Via
di Po will, as on most previous occasions, con-
sume no gas, and rely upon other means of en-
lightenment ; but the nearly equally long Dora
Grossa is spanned from one end to the other, at in-
tervals of about 30 yards, with double arches of
gaspipes. . At the end of the Via Nueva, where it
debouches into the great central square, known as
the Piazza di Castello, a triumphal arch of enormous
height has been erected immediately opposite to
the King's Palace, and overtops the loftiest of the
surrounding houses. It is solely for nocturnal pur-
poses, and by daylight appears a mere skeleton of
wood and wire ; but there can be no doubt of i s
brilliant effect when lit up, for the gasburners that
cover its surface are but just wile enough apart to
allow the coloured glass globes to be placed over
them. Although the poorest in antiquities of all the
great Italian cities, Turin is certainly a very hand-
some town, with much of the air and style becom-
ing the capital of a kingdom. Florence has fine
palaces, picturesque buildings, a grand cathedral,
I numerous striking monuments, and possesses, more-
over, a charm and a fascination which all must re-
I cognise, but she has scsrsely a street of dimensions
I superior to those which may be found in any pro-
-1 vincial town. Here, in Turin, are three magnifi-
icent lines, all terminating in the Piazza di Castello.
I The Dora Grosse, 1,000 metres in length, is closed
at one end by a distant view of the magnificentliuc
lof the Alps, now much more thickly snow-covered
than is usual at this season, while at its other ex-
tremity stands Vela's spirited statue of a Piedmon-
I tese standard-bearer defending with drawn sword the
national banner he grasps in his left hand—a gift.
from Milan in 1857, a time when all the hopes of
I Italy centred in the courage and stanchness of the
little sub-Alpine kingdom, and when those hopes
had recently found fresh aliment in the share taken
by a Sardinian corps in the Crimean war. The
background to the statue is formed by a facade of
the Palazzo Madama, one of the oldest buildings
now left in Turin, and parts of which date from the
beginning of the 15th century. Another side of
that palace faces the extremity of the Via di Po.
This street, including the spacious Piazza Vittorio
Emtnanuele, which terminates it at the other end
and is bounded by the Po, is somewhat longer than
the Dora Grossa, and altogether a lighter and hand-
somer avenue. The third line, also about 1,100
yards long, is that of the Via Nuova, which has at
one end the King's Palace, at the other the gar-
den
and fountain of the Carlo Felice-square, above
which towers the handsome glass front of the rail-
way station, while midway in the long vista stands
one of Marochetti's most spirited works, the Duke
Emmanuel Philibert curbing his charger and
sheathing his sword after his famous victory over
the French, under the Constable de Montmorency.
The Carnival, of which the amusments have been
kept up with much spirit by the Turinese even since
the change of capital, annually draws many stran-
gers to this city, but certainly since the spring of
1365, just before the flitting to Florence took place,
Turin has never been so full as at the present mo-
ment. It will be fuller still to-morrow, and proba-
bly on Tuesday the last of those who mean to come
have arrived. One is reminded of Turin's most busy
and brilliant days by the crowded state of the Por-
tici di Po, which are to the Piedmontese capital
what the Italian Boulevard is to Paris, the Unter
den Linden to Berlin, or the Puerta del Sol to
Madrid—a great central place of passage and a fa-
vourite rendezvous and strolling-ground. There,
and under the arcade of the Piazza Castello, the
throng was asgreat as ever yesterday afternoon and
evening, and the shabby old Cafe Fiorio, for some
reason or other long the chief resort of Turinese
fashionables, vt as as full as in days of yore.
Whichever way one turned, his eyes encountered
portraits of the sposi reali, the Royal bride and
bridegroom—photegraplis, lithographs, woodcuts,
plain and coloured—side by side on one sheet,
like two turtle doves on the same perch, stand-
ing in cars drawn by butterflies, with Cupid for a
driver, grouped with the King and the Duchess of
Genoa " and the rest of the Royal family," as in a
toast at a public dinner, receiving the benediction of
Italy, personified as a beautiful woman with a head-
dress of turrets--in short, in every imaginable atti-
tude, combination, and costume. On all sides one
saw Humbert's heavy moustache and somewhat
defiant air, contrasting with the .gentle be auty and
sweet expression of his charming cousin. It is un-
necessary to say that only in a small rOilloritY of