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      Foreign Correspondence. Special, Lucerne...

      achievement * . As to the self-glorifieation of Lord John Bussem . and his satellites , about the wonders they , have performed with their " moral influence , " it is estimated in Italy at its true value . Whatever may be the case theologically , as a practical matter , ^ the man who comes in at the eleventh hour , when the labour is over and the battle fou ght and won , does not receive the same reward as fhe labourer who has home the heat of the day . It is in Fiance , tfhen . that the destinies of Italy have been decided . It is from France that those destinies most be directed for many a Jong : day to eome . So much for the past truth ; and now about the present one . It hardly seems to me that justice has been done at home to the Italian nation . My residence in Italy has raised my opinion of the Italians . In the whole of the last year they have had to play , as I have sought to show above , a secondary part ; but because their part was secondary , it was aione the less arduous . It is the fashion now to talk about' Italian astuteness—a new rendering-, I suppose , of the old common-place about Italian cunning . For my own part , I have seen little proof of any great acnteness of intellect . On the contrary , I thinlc that -the Italians , like all people who have been kept _ in political bondage for centuries , are deficient in intellectual qualities . They are poorly educated , little skilled in exercising their own powers of mind , " and subject to superstitious influences . The real and the sole secret of their success lies in the fact , that what they have willed they have willed simply and honestly . The one article of their faith is , that Italy from the Alps to tbe Adriatic , from the slopes of Switzerland to the shores of Sicily , must be . one nation . Whatever contradicts that one article of faith , they reject unhesitatinsrly , whatever supports it they accept blindly . It . is by virtue oflhat simple , unreasoning ' creed that they have succeeded hitherto , that they will . I trust , succeed eventually . This theory explains the striking fact , which all who have studied Italy cannot but acknowledge , that the revolution is not a social one , still less a religious one , but solely and simply apolitical one . Let Italy be once one country , under one political government , be that governmerit a despotism , a republic , Or a monarchy , and then social and religious questions will find their own solution , somehow or other . Then , and then Only , Italy will manage for herself , Till then , let all questions whiclV interfere with thei one great end be deferred , put aside , ignored , or suppressed . It is in the simple earnestiiessot this faith that I see hope for Italy . A nation who , after centuries of v oppression and foreign slavery , can will so firmly and so straightforwardly , —can sacrifice all private , all local , and all-temporary considerations to one sole object , will surely be capable of great " I things .. ' as . a free and united people ; -r-reversing the old saving , ; those who have been faithful in great matters may be trusted to be j faithful in little also . . I With regard to the future , I speak more , hesitatingly . It seems to nve , however , that the real solution of the Italian question will be found at Rome . The Italians , as a nation , have a positive distaste to all theological considerations , ; and ' would only be too happy to leave the priests to themselves , if priests would abstain from interference with secular affairs . Unfortunately , or fortunately , this is not possible . The instinct of self-preservation , common to —] WOTrt ^ r ^ oH-r > - ^»» -w 4 ml ^ fl *^ them to take part j with the foreign despots of Italy . Day by day the gulf . between the nation and the priesthood is growing wider . Up to this time the Italians have gone on flattering themselves with the belief that they can retain their priest-creed , and yet deliver themselves from priest rule . Sooner or later the impracticability of the idea will become apparent . Then the nation must surrender their freedom to the priesthood—or the priests must give up their power to the nation . On the whole , I think the latter hypothesis the more probable , but the struggle will be a long and a doubtful one . Of this much , however * I am convinced , that till the Pope becomes a , mere ecclesiastical dignitary , subject to the state , like any other Italian citizen , the freedom " and the independence of Italy will not be secured . When , or whether , that event occurs , time alone can show . It is in Bonne , now , not in Sicily , or Naples , or Venice , that the fate of Italy bus to be decided . I could go on for long 1 , drawing out thus the moral of my story ; but , if I may be allowed to parody the dying phrase of King Chahl : p 8 the Second , I have been " an unconscionably long- time in" ending . If , then , in these letters of mine I have inspired anything of respect for the great deed of'one nation , on whom we are apt to look jealously , and anything of esteem for the struggles of another nation , whom I think we regard too lightly , I bIiuII be content .

      596 The Leader And Saturday Analyst. [Ju...

      596 The leader and Saturday Analyst . [ June 23 , 1860 .

      B.Ecori) Of The Week. Home And Colonial....

      B . ECORI ) OF THE WEEK . HOME AND COLONIAL .. The Great Eastern sailed on Sunday morning last . On Saturday the new- Act fop refreBliiBtjnt-houses jqjicJI wine ... licences , which received the royal assent oii the " 14 th . imt . , was printed . It contains forty-six sections , aud the new duties are to commence " from and alter , the 1 st of July , 1800 , " so that the actiuil operation of the new law will be , on the 2 nd of July . For refreshment-housea the charge for a licenne whero the rent is under £ 20 ft year is 10 * . Qd ., and nt £ , 20 and upwards £ 1 1 * . To sell wine to ' bo consumed on the premises , where the reiit is under £ 50 a-yeur , the duty iu to be £ 3 ite ., and £ 50 and over , £ 5 5 * . To sell wine not to be consumed oh the preiniHCH , where the rent is under £ 50 the charge is £ 2 2 s ., and over £ 60 it is to be £ 3 Us . Tho houses are to bo projici'l . v conducted , nud ntitlier drunkenness nor gaming

      is to be permitted therein . The houses are to be opened to police officers , and in the license the parties undertake not to mix any spirits or drugs , or to adulterate the same , under penalties . The wine not to be consumed on the premises is to be sold " in reputed quart or pint bottles . " When , sold in bottles the licenses . are to terminate on the 1 st of April in each year , and the houses are not to be opened before five o'clock in the morning or after twelve o ' clock at night . The Act is not to extend to Scotland or Ireland . The recent dreadful loss of fishing boats belonging to Yarmouth and IiOwestoft has cast a great gloom over the eastern fisheries . Several boats have , however , succeeded during the ]> ast week in taking- 600 to 700 mackerel each , and these have been sold at 40 s . to 45 s . per 100 . Tbe late awful destruction of fishing boats was attended with the loss of about 200 men , and meetings have been held at both Yarmouth and Lowestoft to promote subscriptions in aid of their destitute widows and orphans . A very disastrous fire occurred at Beverly , in the East Biding of Yorkshire , on Friday inorning last , upon the premises of the trustees of Mr . W . Crosskill , a celebrated agricultural implement maker , & c . The whole range of buildings covered an area of about four acres , and afforded employment for upwards of 300 men . The whole of the machinery , and upwards of 10 , 000 spokes in the adjoining ' building , the wheelshop , have been entirely destroyed . The entire damage is estimated at £ 25 , 000 . Two material defects in the new Refreshment and Wine Licenses Act have been discovered , and an Act will be required to amend them .. The houses are not to be opened before five or after twelve in the section , but in the license in the schedule of the Act " four " has been placed for " five . " In the 27 th section , where the hours are mentioned , the borough of ¦ " Finsbury " has been omitted from the other metropolitan boroughs and cities . The new duties are payable from the 1 st of July , and a short Act will probably be forthwith introduced . A deputation , consisting of the Right Hon . Milner Gibson , the Earl Stanhope , the Right Hon . Win . Cowper , Sir John JBoileau , and Mr . Hay wood , h * id an interview yesterday morning with his Royal Highness the Prince Consort , and obtained his lloyal Highness ' s consent to become president of the proposed International Statistical Congress . ~ General Sir John Bobert Harvey died on Monday evening , afc his residence , Moiisehold House ; near Norwich . The death of . the gallant officer causes a vacancy , in the colonelcy _ of the 2 nd West India regiment . A parliamentary return issued on Wednesday shows that during the session of 1859 the cost ofthBrep 6 rts , ^ sc . printed for theTIome Office , was £ 4 , 005 ; for the Foreign Office , £ 1 , 912 ; for the War Department , £ 1 . 085 ; for the Colonial Office , £ 1 , 302 ; for the Treasury , £ 2 , 042 ; for the Board of Trade , £ 3 , 612 ; for the Admiralty , £ 2 , 707 ; for the ' Irish Government , £ 1 , 855 ; for the India Office , £ 1 , 084 ; the total being £ 19 , 706 . This " is exclusive of the cost of printing ordered by the'two " H 0 . us . es of Parliament , of job-work printing , and of all printed work not laid . bejore Parliament , and not paid for by her Majesty ' s Stationery Office . Mr . Baring and Mr . Labouchere , the latter for the firm of Hope and Co ., at Amsterdam , during their recent sojourn at . St . Peters-•*~ BTTf 7 g ^ lTn ^ € ^ CTtin ^^ ment relative to the realisation of the lust abortive loan of £ 10 , 000 , 000 . . " ¦ ' ¦ . The deaths in London , which had fallen to 969 in the first week of the present month , rose to 1 , 0 ( 51 in the second week , that ended last Saturday . For the weeks corresponding with last \ veek _ in ten years , 1850-9 , the average number of deaths , after correction for increase of population , will be found to be 1 , 070 , with which estimated result the actual number , . of deaths . in . last week very . ¦ nearly agrees . Last week the births of 879 boys , and 873 girls , in all 1 , 752 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-9 , the averjige number was 1 , 495 . A public subscription has been opened at Berne to send arms to Garibaldi . It may be remembered that in the course of the war in Morocco , General Buceta , who coinmnnded at Melilhx , had sv combat with the RiflianB , which ended in a severe check for his troops , and that he was afterwards p laced undor arrest by Marshal O'Donnell for having engaged in the combat contrary to orders , and for having misconducted himself in it . He has just been brought to , trial on those two charges before a court-miirtia ! sittingat Granada , and has been condemned to two years' detention in a fortress . The Rev . P . Jacob , Canon of Winchester , has been appointed by Lord Pnlmerston to the Archdeaconry of Winchester , vacant by the promotion of Bishop Wig-ram . The Rev . M . Cooper , . rector of Braniahaw , has beon appointed to the living of St . Mary ' s , South " ainpton . On Tuesday last , Mr . Elliott ; the presiding- magistrate afc ... Lambeth police court , delivered judgroont in the toll case , nrgtiflrt In-fore him on that dny week , against the volunteers who claimed the right to exemption from tpll . It is , intended to take the ouso to tho QueenV Bench ' . " Tho commemoration at ; Oxford of I 860 was celebrated during the last week with tho utmost onthusiusm , nud Buccesa . The officers of the 3 rd Regiment of Scots Fusilier Guards gave a dinner on Wednesday to the non-commissioned officers and men at the Crystal Palace , in celebration of the 200 th anniversary of the raising- of the regiment .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1860, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23061860/page/16/