The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1872-03-15 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  IMPORTANT DEPUTATION TO THE NEW DEATH OF SIGNOR MAZZINI. VICEROY. On Monday afternoon a deputation waited upon One of the most prominent personages of the age Lord Northbrook at the War Office, to urge upon —Giuseppe Mazzini—died at Pisa on Sunday last. i i his lordship the impoitance of developing the comRe was tken ll an hour after the midnight of mercial resources of India. Sir Thomas Htzley, Siturday, and breathed his last, after just twelve hour,' illness, an hour after mid-day on Sunday. M.P., introduced the deputation, which was also joined by the following members —Colon .1 Grey His friends, who saw him just before he left this t and Messrs. T. P. Potter, Whitwell, Buckley, Pen. ;country in the early part of last year, will receive the news of his death with more regret than Burder, Iliundella, Dalgleish, T. B. Smith, M. Ilenry,and S. Henry • and the following gentlemen represented prise. He had for some time past been only the the Manchester Chamber of Commerce :—Messrs. shadow of his former self. He was broken in body Hugh Mason, J. Johnson, W. Evans, and Brown. though not in spirit by his physical ailments and by lag (seccetary.) The speakers unanimously ex- long years of danger, anxiety, and exile. His death Wiessed the satisfaction of their constituents with he nevertheless come somewhat suddenly. He had the selection of his lordship as Viceroy. Sir Thomas left this country in order to edit, from the borders Batley acknowledged that there had been great of Italy, a newspaper to be issued in Rome, to be impi °v. meuts of late in our commercial relations c tiled The Rome of the People. The first number of with India, but we were prone to send goods th,, new paper appeared on the 9th of February, to India in larger quantities than the natives IS7I, the anniversary of the proclamation of the could find the me,,ns of paying for imme. Roman Republic in 1849. diately ; and yet be was sure, that if the Signor Mazzini was the son of a professor of land of India were properly cultivated, and its medicine in the University of Genoa, but was himresources developed, the people could take o r man- self edmiated for the bar. His college career was ufactures to a greater extent than we hadibe power unusually brilliant; and he was distinguished even to supply them. India had but 6,000 miles of at an early age by the purity and devotion of his railway, compared with 15,000 here and 60,000 in life, (he severity and even austerity of his manners, America. He was sure that the results of impioved aid the sustained enthusiasm of his political con. communication in India would more than coin- vietions. His first literary efforts consisted in some pensate for its cost. Assam produced the best tea articles contributed to the journals of Leghorn and which was brought to this country; it also pro- Ge/109., in which he warmly supported the views of , duced silk and sugar. It was said to contain land Manzoni. The journals in winch he wrote were ' capable of producing excellent cotton that would be suppressed, and he then contributed some purely worth £50,000,000 a year; and yet the country was literary articles to a journal of Florence, and pub. comparatively paralyzed for the want of 120 miles lished them afterwards as a separate work. In 1830 of railway. In the cotton trade there were appre- he became a member of the Society of the Carbohensions lest the interruption of friendly relations earl, then a fashionable i onspiracy among the with America should lead to another cotton femme; Italian youth. His first arrest speedily followed; and the increase of the supply from India would be but after six months' imprisonment he was tried, of great benefit to that country. Water communi- In, quitted, and set at liberty, but was ordered to cation and irrigation were of the greatest impor- leave Italy. Having settled, like many exiled tams in developing the resources of India. A Romans of the olden time, at Marseilles, heat once memorial from the Manchester Chamber of Corn- set to work to found a new association, which be merce was read, and Mr. Hugh Mason supported it. called Young Italy. Ordered to quit Marseilles, , Admitting the selfishness of the cotton tiade, be be lived in secresy for nearly a year, regularly , maintained that its interests were identified with bringing out his paper, and, in spite of all the those of India. There was room for still fur- efforts of the police, securing a considerable ther improvement in the quality of Indian cot- circulation among the Italian people. In 1833 he ton, but the quantity, even to maintain its appeared in Switzerland, and launched a small present yearly value of £15,000,000, must be army against the Sardinian kingdom. The attempt 1 increased. In Lancashire there was a prospect failed, and he began again. In February, 1834, a