Glasgow Courier. — 1861-09-26 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FRANCIS IL AND RICASOLI'S CIRCULAR.  The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the ex-King of Naples has replied to Baron llicasoli's circular relative to the insurrectionary bands in the Neapolitan provinces, by a memorandum, in which the Baron's statements are declared to be a tissue of untruths. The document terminates in these words :-" Has such an epoch of destruction, ruin, and murder existed under the government of the Bourbons? Does the last half-century show a number of capital executions approaching that of the persons shot in a single day by the Piedmoutose? The times of Attila are thrown into the shade by those of Piedmont. The brutal force of the most monstrous conquest aims at subjecting the intelligence of a nation which upholds its dignity, which struggles to shake off the yoke of a tyranny introduced under the mask of liberty, and afterwards developed with the ferocity of the assassin. The people of the Two Sicilies, rich in all social resources, proud of those geniuses who were the glory of Italy, a people numbering about ten million souls, possessing great and powerful cities, could not, cannot, and never will become a province of Piedmont, deprived of everything which constitutes the grandeur of nations. The people of the Two Sicilies, therefore, combat spontaneously, Rod hitherto without any impulse from without, in order to recover their former greatness ; they claim the return of that splendour imparted 0 their country by the immortal Charles M., who raised it from the state of a province to a kingdom ; they demand the preservation of the religion of their fathers in all its purity, of which intrigues, cowardice, and treason have sought to deprive them."  The Homo Secretary, Sir George Grey, addressed a social meeting at Bedlington on Friday evening. The principal topics of the right hon. gentleman's address were the rapid advancement of the coal trade, the utilisation of steam-power, and the progress of popular education.  M. Alfred do Vidil, sentenced to imprisonment for contempt of court, was released from Newgate on Wednesday. Several relatives were in attendance to receive him on his discharge. He looked pale and in ill-health. The Bardn, still an inmate of the House of Correction, is employed daily in picking oakum. Pbymorrrit Ebscriotr. —Captain Dalrymple Hay, R.N., haa been solicited by the Conservative electors of this borough to stand for the vacant seat. From the gallant captain's well-known popularity in his profession and amongst all classes, he will prove a formidable competitor to any opponent.  The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ie engaged in supplying an immense number of Prayer Books for distribution in Italy, there being now free access to the Bible and general literature in the new Italian Kingdom. The distribution of the Prayer Books will be undertaken by the Continental Society for the Reformation of Italy.  An impression is said to be entertained that the question as to the wine duties is not yet finally settled. Recent advices from the Continent, more especially from the South of France, allude to the probability of the matter being reopened next Session with a view to a readjustment of the present rates, so as to make them more favourable to wines of French production. It is not stated if Mr. Gladstone has consented to this, but the tone of the writers, notwithstanding the improbable nature of the proposition, would almost imply that a pledge of sonic kind has been given. With regard to the annoying and objectionable operation of the alcoholie test the trade appear to be unanimous, but they at the, twee time recognise that the way to remedy that evil is not by giving facilities to one country over another.