of goat, at lils at at near Liverpool. A report that he had
died \v-as current the day before the steamer sailed ; but
it provoil iiiifoiiiidcd, and at latest dates bis lUl‘Ll.-llllp was
considerably better.

Anconaliad been captured, and General Lamoricieri:
and the garrison made p‘.'lS.OllCI‘S of war.

The 3i:zi‘quis of Norm-anby, in a letter to the London
Globe, cxtols the bravery of the Irish at Spoleto. and
shows that the despatches from good sources are not
worthy of credit, and expresses sympathy for the unfortu-
nate young sovereign of Naples.

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Landlord Tyranny in Connaught.

From the Connauglit Patriot.

To be evicted, immediately, from the Ballyfruit pro-
perty, Patrick and Catherine Kineavy. We have read
the notice served on Mr. Curran, the relieving officer of
the Headfort district. According to the notice the pro-
perty belongs to Benjamin Lee Guinness, Esq., Rev. Da-
vid Pitcairn, and Mary Jane Pitcairn. The farm occu-
pied by the widow Kineavy and her son is about five
acres, We understand there is scarcely any (ifat all
any) due on the building. The agent of this property, as
appears on the face of the notice referred to, is Mr. Wm.
Burke, 20 Belvidere place, Dublin. Winter approaches,
and we fear, with unusual severity. God help the poor
widow who, at such a season, has been noticed to quit
the fireside which she loves, and to go from under the
roof-tree up to which she was apt to look with fond re-
collections of younger days. Oh 1 who can paint the an-
guish of soul, the pain of heart and the ache of brain of
a poor woman, on the eve of being turned out on the
roadside as the winter snows are, we might say——just at
hand ?——Landl0rds have a right to the rents of justly ac-
quired estates, but they Ought not to be allowed to have,
or to exercise a right of turning out on the world peace-
able tenants, as long as they are able and willing to pay
their stipulated rents. The Rev. Mr. Pitcairn is, we un-
derstand, a clergyman of the Established Church, and
closely connected with the respectable Protestant family
of Mr. Benjamin Lee Guinness. The third joint proprietor
is Miss Pitcairn. We are, indeed, astonished that a man
of Mr. Guinness’s well known humane disposition would
give his sanction to any actof cruel tyranny. We cannot
believe that he will allow his name to be sullied as in
connection with so foul a deed. When, some months
past, we brought the case of the widow and son under
notice of the public, in our columns, Mr. Guinness wrote
8 note to this office to the effect that he was not, in any
manner, the owner of Ballyfruit—that he was never in it
—that he knew nothing of it—that he had no call to it.
At that time we said, in answer to his letter, that we
were delighted to find that he had nothing to say to the
attempted cruel eviction. But now it turns out that he
is the joint owner of Ballyfruit. We hope Mr. Guinness
will be able to reconcile this seeming contradiction. We
wish him to do it, as we have always looked on him as a
man of truth as well as of humanity, though we have
ever found him a devoted Protestant. Some would call
him a. “ bigot.” We do not think him such, as he is per-
fectly tolerant as regards those who differ from him on
religious matters. Mr. Guinness has been recognized as
a charitable man, substantially so, but there is no greater
want-of charity, than to turn out on the world a widow,
and “ to tear down the roof-tree” of the widow’s house.
He is fond of the Bible, and very justly. So are we, as it
is the word of God, and cannot err. Let him consul: it
for these words: “Times are not bid from the Almighty-.
Some have removed la.ndrnarks——have taken away flocks
by force: they have taken away the widow’s ox for a
pledge: they have violently robbed the fatherless, and
stripped the poor common people. ‘From the naked and
them that are hungry, they have taken away the ears of
corn.”—Job, 24th Chapter.

There is scarcely a text in the Bible which is new to
Mr. Guinness. We are to assume that the Rev. Mr. Pit-
cairn is not wholly ignorant of the word of God——nor is
his fair sister. It is Worse than idle in persons to say they
respect God's word, and yet to trample on its teachings.
B.y it we place them before the bar of public opinion.
By it we judge their act at Ballyfruit, near Headford, in
this county. It is a mockery to tell us thatthey are not-
ing according to the law of the land, which may be good
or bad, just or unjust. The law of God should be the rule
of action amongst men. We understand that the agent,
Mr. Burke, had been :in Headford a few days ago. We
now appeal to Mr. Guinness to guard his esteemed name
against the indignation that should. deservedly, be mani-
fested at the perpetratioii of the wicked eviction of the
widow Kineavy. If the infamous threat be carried into
effect we will do our duty. If Lord Derby was gibbetcd
in the press for his conduct at Doon, the Rev. Pitcairn’s
intended act in Ballyfruit shall be wafted to all parts of
the world in as strong language as we can command.
Since the above was put in type, we have heard that the
widow was evicted. .

 

.g.
The Irish Brigade in Action.

 

 

The following is the substance of a letter received by
a gentleman in Dublin from a member of the Brigade in
Italy 2

Perugia was attacked by two columns—one of 20,000,
the other of 25,000 Sardinians. The garrison made a
heroic resistance, but was overpowered by brute force.

Gen. Schmidt was wounded and made prisoner, A
company of the Irish Brigade shared the fate'of the Gene-
ral, and the two officers who commanded, Blackney and
Luther, have been carried, it is reported, to Piedmont.

The column of the Pope’s army, commanded by Colonel
de Carten, has covered itself with glory. It numbered
about one thousand men——Itali'ans, Belgians, and one com-
pany of the Irish from Ancona. The Colonel set out to
relieve Pesaro. Finding Fossombrone occupied by the
Sardinians, he charged them at the point of the bayonet
and drove them like a flock of geese before him. Find-
ing the Sardinian army that was attacking Pesaro, too
strong, he made a most masterly retreat, cutting his way
through a. body of 6,000 Piedmontese that thought to in-
tercept him, and bringing back to Ancona. in safety both
men and artillery.

At Perugia. there was very severe fighting before it
surrendered, and one of’ the grandsons of the celebrated
De Maistre was either killed or wounded.

We have had as yet no details of the losses of the Irish,
who fought with their usual bravery. Spoleto——tha.t is,
the town-was easily taken by the Sardinians.

Major 0’Rielly and some of the Irish threw themselves
into the citadel, and sent a message to Rome that they
would blow up the fortress rather than surrender it to
the Sardinians. Monsignor Merode, however, seeing that
the garrison could not hold for a long time, sent the
most positive orders to Major O’Reilly to surrender, and
he and his company were thus made prisoners.

Mrs. O’Reilly was with the Major in the fortress.

Terni and Narni have also been occupied by the Sar-
dinians.

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Ni-iw mail arrangements are in contemplation at Wash-
ington, by which letters mailed in N. Y. and Boston, by 7
Ian. will arrive at the other city as si}; in the morning,

T H E P H (E Ni ii .

Loss of the Conuaught.

Mr. ll. Whittell, of New York, a passenger in the
Cbnnaug/it, furnishes the following statement as to the
loss of that fine steamship :—

~’- Passing the circumstances of the voyage from Gal-
way, which port we left at 5, I’. M., on the 25th ult., until
ab0l1t 3. I’. M., on Saturday, the 6th inst., while heading
westwardly, the wind blowing a northerly gale, the ship
began to roll to the larboard with a singular motion,
going far down, and keeping that way a long time, which
caused some alarm. Meantime, the captain was heard
giving orders about steering, manning the pumps, &c.
Firemen, under the lea of the paddle-box, were observed
whispering, and there were other manifestations that
something was not right. Considerable water was ob-
served through the gratings. The engine soon after
stopped for a while. After strenuous exertions by Capt.
Leitch and crew, the ship righted, and the wheels com-
menced turning. when the passengers becamemore com-
posed. The sca was rough, the wind blowing what sailors
call an ordinary full gale. Most of the passengers turned
in, but passed a restless night.

"Sunday, 8,11. M.—The ship began to roll again with
that shaggy motion similar to the evening, previous. The
captain could neither tack.nor wear the ship. Soon after,
the engine stopped, and steam could not be raised in the
boilers. The ship rolled frightfully to the larboard, and
the pumps were manned, and gangs of men commenced
bailing with buckets. At ten o’clock it was reported that
the water was not gaining, but that, on the contrary, the
-pumps and the bailers were gaining on the leak, and, if
the wind should stiffen, we would reach Boston that night;
but these hopes were soon changed to extreme terror,
when the word was passed around in low tones, ‘ The slizp
is on fire!’ accompanied by the smell of burning wood.
The fire appeared between the decks. Gangs were imme-
diately formed with pumps and buckets to extinguish the
flames, passing up the water from the sea. As the
fire gained, the bailars began to slacken work, all eyes
staring around the horizon in hopes to see some means
of safety. Several false reports of a vessel in sight were
made ; but at last we discovered a sail to the northward,
and, soon after, anothei to the westward, both very low
down ; but it became plain at one o'clock that both were
nearing us, and the vessel standing north had three masts,
and the one west only two. We soon found out that the
latter was passing, while the other still neared without
showing any sign that she noticed us, which kept us in
extreme anxiety and doubt until she bore directly for us,
evidently showing that she observed the steamer’s flags
of distress, which had been hoisted since mid-day. We
then commenced to steer away and launch boats, which
was a. very difificult job, the ship lying almost on her side
in a. trough of the sea. By this time, the fire had cut off
all communication with the saloons. The first quarter-
boat lowered was struck by the counter and lost, which
caused hesitation about launching the others. There was
no chance of remaining but a-short time on board, the
fire making such progress. The flames were momentari-
ly expected to burst out’ and sweep the ‘decks. the fire-
gangs having given up all hopes of extinguishing them.
but continuing to apply wet blankets, &c. The side of
the ship was then so hot, that when she rolled, it hissed
in the sea-water. The gallant little Yankee brig sailed
alongside and hove to. Captain Leitch made all haste to
get us into the boats, which was extremely difficult, being
lowered, one by one, with ropes. Captain Leitch stood
by all the time, commencing with the women and chil-
dren ; but with all the exertions that could be made, when

the sun went down, only 200 had been got on board the
brig. Several of the boats’ crews, on reaching the brig,

refused to return, when Captain Wilson determined to
approach near to the steamer, and take a hawser from on
board. Said he, ‘ I must get every one from the wreck.’
This he did, which had the effect of giving confidence;
and by great exertion, all were got on board the brig by
11 o’clock at night. Captain Leitch and his first officer
remained on board, until almost surrounded with flames,
and until every soul was saved. Captain Wilson then
sent alongside to beg him to come" away. The flames
were shooting up the masts. Captain Leitch reached the
brig just atrmidnight. Scarcely a ‘parcel of luggage was
saved. even the money. of the cabin befngleft below in
the first confusion and alarm, after which communication
was cut off by the water and flames.”

Mr. Whittell speaks in the highest terms, as do all the
passengers, of the energy and kindness of Captain John
Wilson, of the brig .«lIz'miz'c Schijfer. He was from Malaga
for Boston, with 9. cargo of fruit.

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The French Steel-plated Frigate “ La Gloire.”

 

The Moniteur de la Flotlc gives the following account of
the performance of the steel plated vessel La Gloire :—

“ The first steel plated steamship, La Gloire, has just
taken possession of the sea. She is a magnificent vessel,
77 metres long and 10 metres large (250 feet by 51 feet
English). Her aspect is imposing by the severity of her
lines and by the mass of her iron cuirass. At the height
of 1-82 metres (barely six feet) above the water, she pre-
sents a battery of thirty-four guns of the most powerful
effect; on the forecastle two long-range pieces; on the
quarter-deck an iron redoubt to protect her commander
at his post during the action. The reduced masts and
the wide funnel indicate that the vessel is not intended
to go to a distance from our ports, but that she is made
for operations in the seas where henceforward the great
dliTL‘l‘€DCCS of European policy will be settled. The fri-
gate has been thrice to sea, and it may now be said that
she  gloriously terminated her trials. In calm wea-
ther slie parts the water without shock, and it may al-
most be said without foam, showing thereby how per-
fectly her proportions have been conceived. Her speed,
measured on a fixed basis of nearly eight kilometres,
reached 131-10 knots, which is the finest result ever as-
certained in a ship of war. In a ten hours’ trip her
average rate was 12 41-100 knots, with all her fires light-
ed, and 11 knots with half her fires. In a. rough sea she
behaved perfectly. She pitches very gently, and rolls
with a regularity that leaves nothing to be desired. The
engineers’ programme is therefore in all respects carried
out—carried out fully, but not exceeded ; the whole does
the greatest honor to his skill, and gives the measure of
the precision of his intelligence, of the certainty of his
foresight, and consequently of the confidence the country
may place in him. One understands now how he dared
to take the responsibility of laying down several vessels
of an entirely new type, without having waited the trial
of the first; and the reproaches oftemerity which were
not spared to him now recoil upon those who ventured
them, In 1850 the “ JV'apoleon” engaged the navy in a
new phasis; it extended its destinies by assuring hence-
forward its assistance to the army, to escort its convoys
of troops, to protect their landing. to reach in good time
a. hostile fleet, and all that at a given moment, so as to be
able to figure in strategical combinations without risk of
delay. Thus it was that in the last Italian campaign,
while the army marked its march across Loinbardy by
the glorious stages of Mageiita and Solferino, the steam
fleet of Admiral Romain Destosses cruised in the waters

of V enicc to ensure the disembarkation at the first signal
of another corps cl‘a2-nzm which was to take the Austrians
in the rear; and already previously, during the events
in the Black Sea, the “Napoleon” had passed the Darda-
nelles, while the English fleet. detained by contrary winds,
remained at the entrance of the Straits, an impotent wit-
ness ot' our success. England was moved at this, and
soon her dockyards were seen full of steam line-of-battle
ships, pretending to the utmost speed. But hardly had
she followed us upon this path of progress when, behold,
arises a new maritime element much more formidable
than the “ Napoleon,” a terrible ship, which could of itself
alone confront a whole steam fleet, the steel-plated steam-
ship, whose glorious trials we have just exposed. Again,
then, a new era opens for the navy. It is no longer
only wooden citadels that the fleet may attack ; hence-
forward it may brave with impunity the most powerfully
defended coasts. No granite fort exists that can resist
the destructive effects of the new artillery, and our steel-
plated ships will carry this formidable artillery under the
enemy’s fire. It is a complete revolution in the destinies
of maritime powers. Thus, twice in ten years our proud
ally, England, has been vanquished in these pacific strug-

gles, in which the efforts of genius alone contend, but in V

which the blood of victims is spared, and in which the
resources of nations, far from exhausting themselves, do
but increase——increase to the point of rendering war im-
possible between them by the threat of the terrible disas-
ters it must entail, increase to the strengthening of the
ties of the great nationswhich seem called to combat to-
gether for the cause of civilization. Let us do homage
to the Sovereign who has raised up those glorious victo-
ries of peace, and to the engineer whose sure and elevat-
ed views have thus borne the materiel of the French navy
higher than die even the genius of Sane. Let us hail
these admirable floating citadels, more terrible than the
fortifications of Vauban E”

 

Oo.>¢

The Queen’s Speech in’France.

.—._

We feel much pleasure, says the Irishman, in translat-
ing for our readers the following leader from Le Constitu-
tlonnel, unimpeached—as it is, in truth, unimpeachable—
even by the falsehood and audacity of the English
press:—-

“ One passage of the royal speech, lately delivered be-
fore the prorogation of the English parliament, had
special reference to Ireland. Her ministers made the
queen appear to say that she was confident ‘ that the acts
to regulate transactions between landlords and tenants in
Ireland will put an end to fruitful germs of dissension.’
From this, one might conclude that some great act of
justice had been accomplished to the benefit of Irish far-
mers ; that the latter should henccforthhave no cause to
complain ; that no longer would we hear of families
evicted and forced to emigrate or starve——-in short, that,
by a liberal system of legislation, one of the principal
grievances of Ireland had been redressed. And all those
who, even before this act, did opine that the Irish were
very wrong indeed to complain, did then get them ready,
without doubt, to utter more vigorous reproaohes against
their ingratitude, if they did not this time acknowledge
that they were satisfied.

“Nevertheless, the royal paragraph, or rather the act,
which originated it, has not this eife'ct.‘- We will go fur-
ther ; we believe, upon again perusing the bill, discussed
and voted in the late session of parliament, that there has
been no radical change in the position of the Irish‘ tenant
with respect to his landlord. We will even add, that the
nature of things is opposed to the possibility of the culti-
vators of the soil in Ireland obtaining from the English
parliament what they persist in asking of it.

“ In a case like the present, everything depends upon
the point of view. In Ireland the mass of the people
persist in looking at all which concerns them. from an
Irish point of view. Are they wrong? In England, on
the contrary, when there is queston ot' ‘ that part of the
United Kingdom’ still called Ireland, everything is looked
at from an English point of view; it is necessary. Hence
it happens, that one party rejoices whilst the other 19.-
ments ; that if on one side of St. George’s Channel all is
proclaimed excellent, on the other side complaints are
redoubled. ’

“ We shall only make one quotation to exemplify our
thought more clearly. Letus take the i‘é‘.'Il:ll'l.iI(£l.|lt“. fact
of emigration statistics. The following are the numbers,
as given in the discussion upon this very bill mentioned
in the royal speech: On the 30th lllarcli, 1851, the popu-
lation of Ireland amounted to 0,550,385 inhabitants
(before 1840 it had attained, and even gone beyond,
8,000,000); in this same year. 1851, there were 170,572
emigrants. During 1859. emigration ‘carried off‘ 80,590
people, and on New Year’s Day, 1800, the population had
diminished to 5,988,820. Thus, during the ten yearsjust
elapsed, the Irish nation, instead of increasing according
to its natural rate of increase, has diminished by 563,505
souls~that is, by more than half a million!

“Now, what are the sentiments of England and Ireland
with respect to this fact? Ireland mourns—she beholds
with grief her children leave her to give place to the
cattle of English landlords; for she knows, that if left
to herself, she could support thrice and even four times
her population. The miserable huts of the tenantry are
thrown down by the hundred thousand ; but there is no
need to build new houses in their stead-——the tillage ground
is converted into pasturage ; fewer men are needed ; Ire-
la nd thus becomes less Irish. and she complains. England.
on the contrary, rejoices. Emigration, in her eyes, is a
bcneficent thing, and advantageous to the United King-
dom. In one word, in Ireland they think of the people
and of the preservation and prosperity of the Irish, whilst
in England they care for Irish lands and their produce.

“ Let us now return to the bill upon which the queen
felicitiites lierself. We shall spare our readers an analy-
sis, for it contains 100 sections, and is very complicated ;
it will sufiice to quote the testimony of impartial wit-
nesses to make our readers appreciate the restricted, nay,
negative, character of the bill with respect to the pea-
santI'y.”

 

The talented writer then proceeds to quote the opinions
expressed by The O’Donoghue, Messrs. McEvoy, Blake,
Maguire and Butt, and Lord Fermoy.

“Such, then, is that act of parliament, on accountiof
which the English ministry have thought proper to flatter
themselves that it ‘ will cause the fruitful germs of dis.
sension between landlord and tenant in Ireland to dis-
appear!’ - '

“This object may indeed be obtained, but not in a
manner desired by the Irish people. We are of belief
that, if things proceed as at present——namely, emigration
on the one hand, continuing to depopulate the country ;
on the other, the suborned and (so—called) national schools,
sowing in new generations their expected influence, and
etfacing from their souls the susceptibility and decided
feelings peculiar to the Irish race——we are of belief, we

-say, that the English government will, in the end, attain

its object in Ireland.

“ Then, truly, there will exist no longer those ' fruitful
germs of dissension_’ Then farmers and landlords may
come to a placid agreement, because of both parties en-
tertaining similar sentiments, and there being then, no
distinction possible between Irish and English ; bee. use,

in fact. the diminished population will then be—1ike the
soil of Ireland confiscated of old—an integral portion of
England.

-‘ No longer then shall be found in the British parlia-
ment even onc member who would protest, as The 0’Don-
oghue has lately done, when a newspaper, reporting his
speech, would make him include Ireland under the term
of the ‘United Kingdom.’ '

“ Then, at last, the English government and the parlia-
ment of England will have no need to propose and vote
a law, such as the one which, having been in vigor for
the last twelve years, has just been renewed and adopted
for another period; we mean an act about which the
royal speech is silent, and which bears this oflicial title :
‘An Act to amend the Act of 1856, havivgfor object the Pre-
servation of the‘Pazce in Ireland,’ but which, in French,
we would more simply name, ‘ A Law authorizing ' the
Proclamation of the State of Siege in Ireland.’ And in
reality, by virtue of this very law, the slate of siege does
actually exist in several of the districts and counties of
Ireland. “ H. MARIE MARTIN.,,

 

<40»
England and Sardinia.

 

The Cologne Gazelle publishes the following as the text
of a despatch addressed by Lord John Russell to Sir J as.
Hudson, British Ambassador at Turin, under date of
the 31st of August last :—

Loxnox, August 31, 1860.

S1n,—-Although Count Cavour’s note in reply to that
you were requested to hand to him did not give a state-
ment of his intentions as precise and complete as the go-

vernment of Her Majesty might have desired and ex- "

pected, it nevertheless did not think it necessary to follow
up the matter further.

It considered that in substance that note put aside all
idea of attack upon the States of the Emperor of Austria
or upon those of the King of Naples, and that at the
same time it obliged the King of Sardinia to renounce
the cession of any portion of the Italian territory, natu--
rally comprising the Island of Sardinia in that public
engagement. I say a public engagement, because in his
note Count Cavour refers to a speech made by himself
in the name of the government of the King in the sitting,
of the Chamber of Delegates of the 20th of May.

Still, although Austria, France and England have ab-
stained from all interference in Sicily and Naples, there
nevertheless exists a fear at Paris and at Vienna that the-
annexation of the Roman and Neapolitan States may be
followed by an attack of the Italian forces upon the Ve-
tian possessions of the Emperor of Austria. It is clear
that such an attack could not take place without the as-
sent of the King of Sardinia.
taking a legal view of the question, the King of Sardinia
has no excuse for breaking the treaty of Zurich, recently
concluded and signed. The King of Sardinia was free
not to accept the preliminaries of Villafranca and the
treaty of Zurich; but, having renounced a continuation
of the war, after having given his Royal word to live in
peace and friendship with Austria, he is no longer free to
cast aside his obligations and direct a wanton attack.
against a neighboring Prince.

It is, mor , evident in the present case, that in-
terest go h » inhand with the pr “' tions of duty.
An attack again ‘ Austrian enem mped behind
powerful fortres ot an undertaking in which success
may '_be reason «expected. And if such an attack
should fail it would, perhaps, offer to Austria the desired
opportunity of restoring the Romagna to the Pope, and
Tuscany to the Grand Duke.

There is a good reason to believe that neither of these
acts would be considered by France as irreconcilable
with the treaty of Zurich; yet such acts would certainly
be most detrimental to the independence of Italy and to
her future tranquility. The King of Sardinia in gaining

Lombardy, Parma, and Modena, but losing Savoy,.Nice,.

and Tuscany, would no longer be able to resist Austria,
who would be fighting for a good cause, the preservation
of her territory, and the redemption of her military honor.
The only hope left to Sardinia in such a conflict would be
to bring France into the battle field, and excite an Euro-
pean war. We trust Count;,Cav_0nr will not give Way to
such ‘dangerous illusions. The great Powers are bent on
the maintenance of"pe‘ac'e,' and Great ‘Britain has inter-
ests in the Adriatic over which she keeps a most careful
watch. - I

The Ministers of the King of Sardinia may preserve
Europe from such a danger by following exactly the
policy laid down in Count Cavou1"s dispatch of the 30th
of May. The government of her Majesty does not
ask for anything more than a faithful execution of that.
policy.

The British governinentis willingto take into account
the sentiments and demonstrations to which Count Ca-
vour alludes as infractions of international law which the
limited powers of the municipal authorities cannot pre-
vent, although in the opinion of many Courts of Europe
this indulgence on the part of Great Britain has been
rather excessive. Under all circumstances without re-
gard to what nocturnal enterprises may be undertaken
under the protection of vessels belonging to villages
along the coast, it is quite clear that no army can at-
tack the Austrian frontier without an order from the king.

These observations seem to us worthy of the serious
attention of the Sardinian government.

You are authorized to read this dispatch to Count Ca-
vour, and leave him a copy. J. RUSSELL.

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SroLr:ro AND NAPOLEO.\.' III.—-In a leading article, the
London Daily News, of recent date, has the following bit
of reminiscences : A telegram, which we lately published,
informs us that Spoleto, which Lamoriciere quitted when
his adversary approached it, has already capitulated with
five or six hundred men. That romantic old city. which
is built, as they say, in the extinct crater of a volcano,
and precisely in the most central spot of the peninsula,
bestrides the Flainininn Way some eighty or ninety
miles distant from Rome, and rather more from Ancona.
Since it was the chosen residence of Gothic and Lombard
lords of Italy, it has experienced many changes, and,hoW
it was opened in 1831 to a revolutionary band from
Bologna and Modena, the Emperor Napoleon III. for one
is pretty sure to remember. ‘is own brother led the.
Roman volunteers through the neighboring forest, and
fought hand to hand with the centurions of Gregory XVI.
in the wild ravines of Terni. His own mother, when in
their retreat the elder of those two young men was dying
in the arms of Louis, hurried, in spite of every danger,
with the passionate anxiety of a woman’s affection, to
overtake them. He himself was the sworn comrade of
the very men who were then contending for Italian
liberty, as they are doing again now—~some of whom are
at this day members of the royal government at Turin,
and others are commanding the royal army sent into the
same field to achieve the same design. He himself then.
shared in all the hazards of their enterprise, in their
marches and conflicts through all those places where-
they have just passed in triumph, until the struggle was
over, and he lay fever-struck and hidden from the Aus-
trian pursuers in a back room at Ancona. Surely, the
Emperor Napoleon III. cannot wish to interfere with
what is going on in Umbria. and the Marches, when he
personally helped to set it going thirty years ago. For
what would history say, and how could even an emperor
on: are the contempt of the associates of his youth‘?

It is equally clear that,

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