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    Aprii 7, I860.] The deader and Saturday ...

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    Trill*, March 31, 1SGO. fllHE Prince of ...

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    Hanovek, April 2, 180Q. 1 N mv letter of...

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    Foreign Cohbespolsrdence, (Special.) V ;...

    qendarmes . The denial may be true or false , but the necessity for Sngit shows what the feeling of the French soldiers is known to have been . Be this as it may ,.. certain broad facts remam co « fised and undisputed . The Papal Government knew there wonld be a demonstration and resolved to disperse tlie crowd with armed force No attempt was made to prevent the necessity of violonee or to warn the inLcent against incurring- the punishment infl , cted on the guiltv . Without any adequate provocation , an attack was made on a niixed and helpless crowd , by the express -orders of the Government . Tn this attack many people were wounded , ami some received fatal injuries . The soldiers who executed these orders and inflicted these injuries , have been praised and rewarded for their conduct , even . bv the "highest" authority nrRome . The emit , if guilt there be , lies at the doov of the Priest Governors , who have Jladlv assumed the responsibility . " The lesson given yesterday says the Monde , " has profited , "^ how and to whom , time will show . Hardly I thinki at any rate , to the religion of mercy and forgiveness , or to those who preach its doctrines and" enforce its teachings by such lessons .

    Aprii 7, I860.] The Deader And Saturday ...

    Aprii 7 , I 860 . ] The deader and Saturday Analyst . 335

    Trill*, March 31, 1sgo. Fllhe Prince Of ...

    Trill * , March 31 , 1 SGO . fllHE Prince of Carig ^ an has met with the most ¦ flattering recep-- * - tion at all the principal towns on his route from lurin to Florence . At Genoa , the civil and military authorities met him at the station , and accompanied him oh board the Maria Adelaide , which sailed for Leghorn escorted by other vessels . The enthusiasm and cordiality manifested towards the cousin of . the king . ' . were equally intense at Leg-horn . The vessels anchored m- that port all j displayed their colours . The Enirli ^ h and French ships of war ; offered homage to the Lieutenant of Tuscany by repeated ^ al yos <> t \ artillerv and ' their captains went on board the Maria Adelaide to pay their respects to his-Royal Highness . Along the ^ aiKvay ^ line , ; from 'Leghorn to Pisa , the populace and the National Guard saluted the Prilice with the liveliest marks of respect . At Florence , every ¦ , preparation was lnade to give him an imposing reception . From the President of the Council of State , down to the directors of the educational institutions / and , the departmental chiefs resident at Florence , all the public authorities of every' grade assembled to " receive him at the railway station , and accompany him to the 1 lttl Palace . Here he received the Councillors of ¦ State and inferior and ; municipal authorities , after which he showed himself to the niunv " thousands assembled in the Piazza Pitti , and was saluted again and acritln with he-rty cheers and warm vivas by tljp rejoicing multitude . Central Italy now enters into a settled and established condition , after so maiiy months of uncertainty and of provisional direction . It co-ooerate . s in forming a State of upwards of eleven millions : ot inhabitants , is highly privileged as to natural advantages and ; position , productions and climate , and is susceptible ot rapid development in the way of peaceful progress and politu-al greatness . The union of Tuscany and the JlEmil-iau province * with the baidinian kingdom , while removing tho . danger of that antagonism wlm-n , must almost inevitably have arisen in the course of tune , at the same time strengthens . both their material and intello < -Uuil iorces , arid furnishes the elements of cohesion between the various peoples . If the union of order and liberty was ever necessary to an v State at . anv time , it certainly is-to Italy at the present day . Jhe fallen . . Governments have given it serious blow to t lie principle of authority . How could governinents so hated and despised by the people . hul to ; inspire contempt for sovereignty , and insubordination to iill civil rule ? Piedmont alone , during the past twelve years , of a 1 the Italian Governments , has boon the one to cause the principles <• order to be respected . Her work is not yet col ft pi v to ; . ' ¦ lie lias stiM to proceed with her labour of reconciling or « lur with liberty ,, and making liberty subserviont to public order . Wo are in the happy condition of freedom from absolutism , and of having nothing to ( cm- . from exaggerated ideas of liberty , . cither m theory or in practice . Twelve voars' experience of constitutional . / vy //^! the annexation . In this w » v , ' it . embraces a tolerably wido circle . Notfewer than twelve millions of Itnlinns must bo included in its aiinthomns , and it would be difficult to eulculute how many millions in other slates . Piedmont has done its , utmost to prevent LJpibria and tho Mnrohoa j from rising . It would have cost infinitely loss oflbrt to got up a j demonstration there in favour of union with Piedmont , Hum it has done to avoid such demonstration ; yot tlio Court of Homo hurls her excommunications n » nin « t tho power winch has iniulo most oxortion to guarantee the integrity of tho Papal Stoles . Iton . o has not tho oxciiho of heresy or schism U ) allege against Victou Mm * VMVkl . IU-ligion , in fact , had nothing to do with- tho question j diiroroncoa of faith nro wholly , qslrangcd fro . n it . The Komagnoso , nnablo to endure the bud govevntnont of tho Vow , hayo a ^ K-qd to , beroloasod from h \» tomnoral rule , nnd tho kuipr luifl pivon oar to thoiv earnoat prayorfl . Tho Popo , hnvin » » o toinpoml wonpoiiH with ; wliioh to proteot ' his temporal dominions , is obliged to have recourse to . spiritual ivrnifl , and prostitutes thorn to purposo ^ utterly nntitipirituiil . Tlio King ' s (^ uvornmont will , I Uoubtnot , bo lully ochhu to

    the occasion , prove its strength by its moderation , and still cause its laws to be . respected ; in spite of the threats and exorbitant pretensions of Rome . I confess to some curiosity and impatience to knovy tlie manner in winch this lorig-talked ^ of excommunication would be given to ¦ the world . It has been said that it was to be announced in Saint Peter's , the church to be hung with . black , and that fhepi-esenee of all the religions corporations of the capital of the Catholic world would be invited . I doubt , however , that tilings would be carried to this excess . Such a scene at Rome could not fail to excite the indignation of the populace . At present , the French soldiery are the only suppoi t of . the Pontifical Government , and it would be rather too " inconsistent that they should be called upon to quiet a tumult who . se origin must be ascribed greatly to the encouragement given by Napoleox III . to the peoples of Central Italy . IlTstory encourages us to hope for the best . The Italians have cheering domestic examples as to the way in which-. the thunders of the Vatican -have been received by princes and their subjects . All the Italian Governments , and Venice above . all , as being the nearest to Rome , have utterly despised them , nn . l obtained the support of the people in opposing them . Let the Piedmontese Government put a bold face on the matter , and it will have the nation with it . The people of the Peninsula , for many ages , have hated and despised the Governments which have huihbled themselves to Roine , and , on tlie other hand , have always been ready to stand by those who have opposed energetic resistance to the pontifical pretensions , and guarded the rights of the civil power . In the present question , in which the liberty of the people is opposed by tlie Court of Eome , tlie excommunication is a weapon as impotent as tlio lncrt-ehary troops called together by that Caurt . The executioners of Perugia ^ and , still more' roceivtly , " of the Jloman City , can have no hope ot exciting alarm by tlieiV spiritual arms , employed in the service of an anti-national and detesU'd cause . . . . . The situation of Nice is at present very deplorable . A very large partv remains faithful to our King , and should . surely merit the ' sympathy of France on this account , as being likely to . prove devoted - subjects " when circumstances compel them to ¦ submit to a change of sovereigns ; They are , howevei-, exposed ta insult , contumely , and . even personal viulence . I . am far from blaming the French Guvernr incut and have no wish to m & ke . it responsible for the violent deeds ; of ' those-who assume to be its agents , and ¦ ¦ who , while calling themselves Nice , separatists , are known not to be inhabitants , or at least , not natives of Nice . By their tumultuous proceedings , and the ¦ offensive and injurious language which they employ they provoke ¦ reactionary ' tendencies , and endanger violent party collisions , llns . . state of thino-s should be put an end to . , It is neither safe n « r dvg--nified for either the ; French or Piodmontose Government , and it . is most proi . iflicial to the . material interests of the town itself . IN ice is a Citv ' uhich coninins n large foreign population , attracted thither bv the " salubrity and mildness of thu climate , and who have hitlierto enjoyed niiiuterruptod repose in the midst of a population rcinarkably" pacific and obedient to the laws , ^ o \ v , the aspect ot afbiirs is totally eliang-cd , but , I trust , only temporarily . . . The affairs of Naples are purs . mng the same melancholy course as heretofore A new ministry has been constructed , but no one knows anything of its programme . It-matters little , however ; at Naples who the prime minister may be , or what the system ot goyernincnt professed by the ministry . The life and sou ol the . ! s eapolitun Gov « . rm »« JB . tis the police . It is the police whurhnioyes all the wheels of the machinery upon which the exercise of justice , by courtesy so called , depends , and which essentially emboiheH the policy of ' the Government . Aioss . v , the head ot the police m Naples , and MANisrM . o , in Sicily , are oniuipotont . Arrests political persecution , and discontent , have arrived to huoIi a height that it scorns as if open iiisurrocti ^ n iniyht bo looked for fron . ) day today . Francis II fronWus l . » imself little i . ibout this threatening stute ot afl'n . ira I 3 . it , t'ven if lie wished to clian - jre liic course , and givcaome attention to tho wullbuing of his subject * , lie would ¦ inevt witli no little dmicultv , summndf . d as ho is by Austrian agents and clerical ' b > ots . Tlu / fnllnwiug list , obtained through a high rlmmborkin ot the Court of'NupUis , will show how completely the Court , and all the chief advisors of tho king , . wo in tho hands of the Jesuits , who monopolise c-onfussion in tl « o . ltingdom of Naples , and Uiub . olloct , direct the policy of the Government : —Monsignor t * M * iA > , tho conft-rtRor of tlio king , Geneva ) Aciostino , Colonel bicviuuno , and Chovnlior 35 knon , tl > o kind ' s . private HocroLanort . as also tli « mupstors l \ IuiU ' 'NA and Sfonz * all confess to Father Coht . v . J Uo iiuoon . Consort confesses to Father Lubtks ! , who wmx > from Aquisgranu on purpose , tho C ,, nto d ' Aquim , niut tho . Conto ux T « ani -to l ^ i her Luljano ; tho princes and pri . icossos rohitod to | tho lung , O « ii onl LaTouk . mid Gouoml « cai < ktta , ouptiun of tho buly guard , to Father Ocrci ; General Feuhaua to Father ok Kosa , Go . ionil djb Sanoko , profuct of tho police of tho royal pulacc , and Count Lu dcjli ., « to Fnthor Vigu-antk ; finally , the Princo Bibionano , ' »•«•>«>»;»;• to Father Vinci . This li » t is a sufficient uxphuiation of tlio c * tiaordinary protection neoorded by the Nuapol . Um aovenununt to the Company of Jbsus , which society onjoys the d » rcctiou ot all the prisons and colleges of tho kingdom .

    Hanovek, April 2, 180q. 1 N Mv Letter Of...

    Hanovek , April 2 , 180 Q . 1 N mv letter of last weok I oallod attention to the equivocal tuotics 1 of tho jonrnala , tho aoknuwlddged organs of tho Wuhhiuii or Solavonino propagatuln . The , noro probable a breach botwoo the two groat WoHtorn PoworH bocomos , the more rabid aro tl ohc inoudaS ( SiB liiroliiiKH against England , twd tlio more bonovolontly inoWtoS Tho distinction is bo glaring , tho falsehood bo

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 7, 1860, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07041860/page/19/