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ol. XX., No. 9Ô9. LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1859. P p i p p /stamped, sixpence. A I l lv U i ---------------- --------------(UNSTAMPED. FTVEPENCE. Cable of Content»« LRY ....................................................................................... T IN TELLIGENCE........................... ........................... >N AND COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE: The War taly. India and China. Rome: The Pope a Captive; iinal Antonelli’s Circular. Naples: The K ing's clamation. Belgium : The Legacy Law. Tuscany: tor Emmanuel’s Proclamation. The German Confedera. The Grand Duke Constantine at Jerusalem: Turkey: eatening Attitude o f S e rv ia ........................... ............... •LIC IN TELLIGENCE: Diocese o f Westminster: Caril Wiseman at Bayswater; Dejeuner at the Crystal ic e ; Opening o f Margaret-street (Puseyite) Church. 2ese o f H exham : Opening o f a New Chapel (temporary) Jurbam. Diocese o f Nottingham: the Catholic Electors Leicester. Diocese o f Liverpool ? Laying the Founda-stone o f a New Church at Westby-in-the-Fylde; Conlation at St Augustine’s, Preston. Diocese o f Salford: Anne’s, Ashton. Diocese o f Beverley: Catholic Young l ’s Society, Wakefield; Lysmarie, SicklinghalL The itralian Mission........................... . . . . . . . . . . . . IR S : The Workhouse Question— Great Meeting on dnesday N ex t ; the W h ig D efeat; the W ar in I ta ly ; and and the “ Saturday Review ” ............... . .. ND : The King’s County Election ; Government Pa- 354 la g e ; the Independent P o licy ; the Phoenix Prisoners; Polling at the Kilkenny and K ing’s County Elections; ran Catholic Young Men’s Society; the O’Connell Fund; ,nted—Irish Reapers; Mr. Pope Hennessy, M .P . ; ResigLon o f J. B. Kernan, Esq., M.P. ; Murder and SuicideTn w a y ; the Ribbon Conspiracy; Her Majesty’s Visit to and; Fanaticism in the North; Phoenix Trials; Mor# il Changesr r T..v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W S : Savage America; Manuale Vitae Spiritualis 1SPONDENCE: Our Poor Children; Workhouse •selytism; the “ Great Liberal P a r t y “ Catholic” or oman Catholic ” ? . . . . . . ............... LLANEOUS: The Great Shrewsbury Case; the Case Mary Ann M ‘D onnell; Mr. Roebuck and Lord merston; the Handel Festival; Trial o f a Scotch lister fo r Bad Preaching and Bad Praying; Great orm Banquet A t Leeds; the Derby D a y ; the New -liament . . . ........................ . . .. . . . . . . . . . 358 J ^ u m m a r g . estimate which we formed last week o f the o f Montebello turns out to have been pretty t. I t appears that the Austrians kept possession teggio— a post in advance o f their present position some days. Since then a new movement has de- itself. The French Head-quarters have moved Alessandria to Casale, and from thence to Ui. The Sardinians have crossed the Sesia, a desperate conflict, the particulars o f which anting, and occupied Palestre. This position to have been made the object o f a very ms assault by the Austrians, who at one time r to have turned the right o f the Sardinians, 0 have seriously compromised the position o f nemy by threatening to cut o f f his commum with the French on the right bank o f the where the Emperor o f the French commanded in i. The Imperial Revolutionary General here his first essay o f arms by detaching a body o f res to defend the bridge and secure the threatened unications. This movement was attended with ete success. W ith a loss o f one officer and ten prikilled, and o f ten officers and tw o hundred privates led (so says the Franco-Sardinian telegram), Zouaves crossed a deep canal in face o f an ian battery, stormed the heights on which the were planted and hurled their defenders into the taking eight guns and five hundred prisoners, s account is either true or near the truth, it s that all we have heard about the excellent io n and high perfection o f the Austrian artillery near the truth. 1, after making all allowances for French and Sar1gasconading, i t seems certain that the Sardinians t with great courage and enthusiasm ; that their sustained the character o f his race for valour in the fighting and exposing his person like an orditrooper, and that the Zouaves fully maintained reputation. t as’ to the result o f all this fighting very is known. A ll that seems certain is, that the aians have forced the line o f the Sesia, main1 themselves at Palestre, and secured their com¡ations with the French. But i t would evidently been-impossible for the Austrian General to have nted an army o f 150,000 men at least from g a line 125 miles long, somewhere o r another, t he had hazarded a general engagement in army resting on Allessandria and Casale— two ■ate fortresses. This would have been moont madness, except in the case o f an overwhelming iority o f force. i.at is really important is, that the French and iiians have been driven to display their line tack, and to choose apparently thè road to l and Peschiera, So fatal to Charles Albert 148. Every forward step which thp allies on that line carries them further from their rces, and nearer to the fortified battle-ground ustria, whilst it extends their line and offers ie s for its being cut o f f b y the Austrians from , and Piacenza, who may also succeed, whilst hnperor o f the French is issuing an admirable tion o f his uncle’s bulletins at Milan, in cutting ìe railway communications between Genoa and indria. ribaldi, who seems (b y Sardinian accounts) to ireatening Milan, and bidding f o r the first in the Revolutionary Junta, nas been driven the northern Alpine Highlands. The Valtelline 1 to be in full insurrection. But this, whether >r false, will exercise no influence on the campaign. Saltelline will belong t o whichever party dio- the terms o f peace, ince Napoleon’s inroad upon Tuscany has not a complete success. The Tuscan army having ted from its sovereign, seems to have become ralised, , . , j ; ,, ose who remember the campaign o f 1848, when bulletin announced a signal victory over the 1 Tedeschi, will receive the bulletins from the nian head-quarters with suspicion, and will i the issue o f the campaign with some doubt, will remember that dearly-bought success in partial combats, which leave the strength o f the enemy unbroken, exercise but small influence on the ultimate issue o f the campaign. W e shall, no doubt, shortly hear something o f diversions from Tuscany and Venice. I t will far more than balance these, i f the old German spirit is once fairly roused. A very remarkable and eloquent article in the A llg em ein e Z e itu n g , entitled “ W hat are we waiting fo r ? ” taken in connection with the armaments which are going on in Germany, is itself a serious diversion, and i f this warlike appeal, put forth no doubt by authority, is responded to, Marshal Pelissier will be demanding reinforcements from Italy and Algeria. W e regret to say that whilst the accounts o f Austrian excesses have not only been contradicted, but even disowned by the French papers, the French troops are accused o f practising on the field o f battle the barbarities they have learnt in Algeria, and these reports are assuming the form o f consis' tency and are backed b y evidence which we hope to see met as successfully as have been the stories told to the disadvantage o f the Austrians. France is a great Catholic nation, and even under a revolutionary Emperor will not, let us hope, cloud her gallantry with unchristian and barbarous ferocity. — There have o f late been many and remarkable conversions to the views which have been long and steadily put forward b y the T ab le t, but who would have expected to find the T im es among the number ? Y e s ! the Tim es is our last convert. The Tim es has come to the conclusion that “ occasionally the inte“ rests o f the country are better served b y the absti“ nence o f a powerful Opposition and the permitted “ existence o f a weak Government.” The readers o f the T ab le t must be familiar with the sentiment. The Tim es announces that “ our institutions and parlia“ mentary practices are such that the Opposition are “ almost as much the counsellors o f Her Majesty as “ the Government itself. I f the Government has the “ initiative, the Opposition has, on the other hand, “ the opportunity o f criticism ; and though the frame“ work o f a Bill is generally the work o f the Govern“ ment, yet their antagonists are able to boast o f the “ transformations it has undergone and the perfection “ i t has acquired under their unsparing hand.” W e have often had to defend the principles o f Independent Opposition against those who argued that Opposition to successive MinigtriespmpUed, a resolution to make all Government impossible, and must o f necessity be factious, as it was only right to oppose one Government for the sake o f replacing it by another which would be entitled to support. W e f in d the Tim es now using language on this subject which it might have borrowed from M r. Lucas’s Memorial to the Pope, or from a hundred T ab le t leading articles. But there is more to come. H we have contended with unwavering earnestness against any one delusion, it has been against that great delusion o f the Great Liberal Party, that a place in the Cabinet was the birthright o f a W h ig Leader, and that to put the Whigs in office and to keep them there was the first and last duty of an enlightened politician. H ow often have we argued that the true place fo r the Whigs was on the Opposition benches; that they could be o f much use when in Opposition, while experience had showed that when in office they were simply an obstructing and a nuisance. For their own sake we have urged them to prefer the O p position benches, yet they would not hearken to our counsel. W i l l they listen t o the Times f “ People ask “ why Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston do not “ seek to win fresh distinction in the unexhausted field “ o f Opposition. Except duringjthe Dictatorship o f Sir “ Robert Peel they have not had much experience in “ the useful and invigorating exercise o f leading the “ Opposition benches. A nd yet what more noble “ career can be desired by the inheritors o f W h ig “ traditions ? I t may be said o f the party generally “ that the periods o f its banishment from office and “ Court favour are the most brilliant in its annals." W h y should the W h ig s be angry with us ? I f they will only believe the Times, we have all along been advising them for their own good, and “ Short has been “ the real,friend, not Codlins.” But what will the Irish Catholic Whigs say to what comes next ? Hear it, oh ye Catholic Whigs o f Ireland— it is the Times that speaks, and not the Tablet. I t is the greatest o f the Oracles o f the “ Great Liberal P a r ty ” that utters these tremendous words: “ There is, we cannot help thinking, “ a little o f the spirit o f ‘ fogeyism ’ in the Libera. “ Party. They art a little too tenacious o f the ideas “ and ,catchwords o f 1852. Now, the strongest and “ most venerable o f these is the presumed necessity o f “ *turning out the Tories.’ There are men amongst us “ the whole o f whose early life were spent in endeav o u r i n g to turn out the Tories. T o them Lord “ Derby is the representative o f a domineering class “ pledged to oppose Liberal principles, and to whom “ every good Liberal must be as incessantly antagonistic “ as Ormuzd to Ahriman. ‘ The first thing, Sir, is to “ ‘ turn out the Government.’ But a section o f the “ Liberals are, we cannot but think, somewhat unpre“ pared fo r such hasty measures.” This is a crushing blow to famishing place-hunters. Such language when the Tablet used it, was infamous, treacherous, mischievous, and ruinous. W e were sold to the Tories we were disguised Orangemen; we were madmen, fanatics, q petty pliqpe, the victims o f a hopeless “ craze.” Now the Tim es preaches our doctrine and in our words. What is the explanation? I t is very simple. The Tim es has been purchased by Cardinal Wiseman, and His Eminence has sold i t to the Pope L e t the R e c o r d and the E v en in g P o s t— let Mr. J . D . Fitzgerald and the Earl o f Shaftesbury ponder wel1 this memorable truth, and make the most o f it. — The greatest victory gained by the Great Liberal Party in the last election, to console them for their multiplied defeats^ was in the West R iding o f Y ork shire, in the return o f Sir John Ramsden and Mr. Frank Crossley. They made much o f it, and they were right in doing so, but the Leeds Banquet o f Monday has been a great damper to their glee. For it is the chosen member o f that choice constituency—it is the very man whom common fame had marked to second the resolution that was to turn the Tories out in the second week of the session— it is Sir John Ramsden who at this critical moment, when every Whig is supposed to be waiting in an attitude o f strained attention, ready at the word o f command to grasp his claymore, pull his bonnet over his eyes, draw a deep breath, and, with an aspiration to the First Whig (the Devil, i f Dr. Johnson is to be believed), rush upon the foe and scale the Treasury benches—it is the member for the West Riding who bids them stand at ease and think o f something else. He won’t lead the charge, that’s positive; and, as for fighting, now he thinks it had better be just let alone. “ Whoever proposes to dismiss a Ministry should see his way to “ the foundation of a stronger Government.” (That is unsound doctrine, by the way, but let it pass.) “ Now, gentlemen,” says Sir John, “ I must say, “ and I assure you I say it with the deepest regret “ that in the present divided state of our leadership, I “ do not see my way to any such result.” This is cold comfort. What must many an ardent Catholic and Irish Whig have thought when he first read these unfeeling sentences of Sir John Ramsden. There is Sir John Ramsden, with ever so many thousands a year, who can afford to wait till we are all mad with hunger and disappointment, and just as we were ready for a rush he turns on the tap and souses our fiery ardour with a deluge of cold water. Mr. Roebuck’s speech at Milford Haven, on Saturday, was as uncompromising as himself. “ We have “ to choose upon the 7th of June whether we shall have “ Lord Palmerston or Lord Derby for Prime Minister. I shall be in the camp of the people o f England, and that camp I sincerely believe to be opposed to Lord “ Palmerston. As an Independent Member, my con­ sideration is England, and for England’s sake, I may “ say for God’s sake, don’t choose Lord Palmerston.” By thewav,what will the Catholic Whigs do? What will those Irish members do who used to talk about Independent Opposition, Tenant Right, and the curse of Sadleirism, but who now tell the people that the greatest question of the day is Sir Matthew Barrington’s conduct as an attorney—that everybody had better wait for everything until the Ballot be got in a few years, when everybody will be able to get his own rights for himself, and who are particularly eloquent in their professions o f devotion to the Great Liberal Party, and o f hostility to those Irishmen whom they call the natural enemies o f the Irish people ? Their votes will be looked for with much interest. — That the best interests o f England, o f Ireland, and o f the Catholic Church are not inconsistent and incompatible with one another is our conviction—and it is on this conviction that the policy o f the Tablet is l. Should this conviction change, we should not change our policy; we should abandon it, and the Tablet would cease to exist, together with the policy for the sake o f which it is continued. Now, it has been evident to us that there are many English Protestants who hate the Catholic religion more than they love their country, and that there are many Irish Catholics who hate England more than they love their Church. W e find ourselves pretty constantly the object o f attack both by these classes, and at the present time this is especially the case. English Protestants attack us because they say that the foreign policy which we advocate is directed to the protection and defence o f the Holy See, and in the in terests o f the Catholic Church. They admit that our policy is advantageous to the Catholic Church, but they insist that it is disadvantageous to the prosperity and greatness of England, and they treat the second as a mere corollary o f the first. SECOND EDITION. T A B L E T O F F IC E , Saturday Morning. l a t e s t i n t e l U s e m r . — ...— ■ THE WAR IN ITALY. G AD IBALD I AGAIN VICTORIOUS. T ubin, Thursday, June 2.—This morning the Austrians advanced from Bobbio (R obbio?) towards the French outposts, but retired again after a short fight. This movement was made to conceal the retreat o f the Austrians, who had begun to evacuate Bobbio, carrying with them about 1,000 wounded. Garibaldi has surprised and beaten the Austrians at Varese, and the town is again free o f the enemy. Turin, June 3.—The Austrians have withdrawn to the eastern bank o f the Po, and abandoned Torre Berelli, and the surrounding country. Garibaldi re-entered Como yesterday evening at eleven o’clock. P aris, June 3.—Marquis Antonini, charged with a special mission at the courts o f France and England, has had an interview to-day with Count Walewskj. The Generals Laroncifere, Bouet, and Villaumez have left for Toulon. --------- Bekne, June 8 (P to France).—French officers of engineers have arrived at Infra, and are collecting all disposable vessels on the Lago Maggiore, for the purpose of crossing the lake with 500 men. The troops of General Garibaldi occupy Fort Michel, near Laveno. BLOCKADE OF VENICE. The Moniteur also publishes officially the notification of the blockade o f Venice. IN D IA . I ndia Office, June 4, 1 a.m.—The following telegram has been received v ia Marseilles From the Secretary of the Government of Bombay to James Cosmo Melvill, Esq., India Office, London, dated Bombay Castle, May 12. NUGGUR PARKUR. The towns o f Neeraoow and Nuggur, as well as the4 village o f Kaswa, all in the Nnggur Parkur district, were occupied by British troops between the 1st and the 4th o f May, and the Rana of Nuggur with his followers had fied to the Kalinwur hills, adjoining Nuggur, which the British forces had invested. THE L IBERAL PARTY. The following Circular was issued to the Members constituting the Liberal party in Parliament this (Saturday) morning:— “ A meeting of the Liberal Members o f the House o f Commons will be held at Willis’s Rooms, King-street, on Monday, June 6, at two o ’clock, at which you are respectfully requested to attend. “ P almekston, “ Hartington, “ S. Herbert, “ T . Milner Gibbon, “ Geo. Kino, “ J. Russell, “ F . T. Barino, “ Edward Ellice, “ T . E. Headlam.” And others. BURNING OF A TROOP-SHIP AND AW FUL LOSS OF LIFE. An awful accident took .place on board a transport ship at Spithead yesterday (Friday). The Eastern Monarch has just arrived from Kurrachee with a large number o f invalid soldiers, together with men and women, on board. By some unexplained cause the powder magazine exploded, and the flames extended with great rapidity through every part o f the ship. The soldiers, under the direction o f their commander, exhibited the most admirable discipline, but a panic seized the other passengers, and the result was the loss o f some thirty lives. The Colonel and the Captain commanding the troops were the last to leave the vessel. Had the accident taken place an hour or two previously before the vessel arrived at Spithead, the consequences must have been fearful to contemplate. On the ether hand, some Irish Catholics attack us because they say that our policy is directed to the pros jerity and greatness of the British Empire, and in the nterests o f England. They admit that our policy is advantageous to England, but they insist that it is disadvantageous to the Catholic Church and to Ireland. And they, too, treat this second as the mere corollary o f the first. Protestants tell us that, as Catholics, we are right in siding with Austria against France; but that, as Englishmen, we are in the wrong for doing so. Irishmen tell us that, as Englishmen, we are right in siding with Austria against France, but that it is wrong for Catholics or Irishmen to do so, But the best reason that the Englishman gives for his hostility to Austria is, that Popery is an effete superstition, and the best reason that the Irish objector gives for his hostility to Austria is, that England is the oppressor of Irish nationality. Each o f the objectors appears to us to give an answer to the other. R umoured Faction F ight.— It is said that an amendment on the Address will be moved in' the House o f Commons by the Marquis of Hartington, on the part of the Whig Opposition, and that it will be seconded by Sir Morton Peto, who it will be remembered, was created a Baronet by the last Whig Administration.—Standard. Cost of W ar.—The expenses o f the war are already enormous, and few Frenchmen have any conception o f them. Independently o f the money spent in France on the increased army and navy, the purchase o f provisions and stores, besides their conveyance to Italy, the reconstruction o f the matériel, making new equipments, buying horses, railway fares, and almost an infinity o f other items of cost, there are sent daily from Marseilles 3,000,000 francs in specie, or 120,0001, This makes 43,000,0001. annually. It is not likely that the exportation o f money to this amount çan last; but, if it should, we shall scarcely err in estimating the cost of the war at 80,000,0001. a-year. I f we remember that for every 69f, the State receives on loan it has to incur a debt o f lOQf., it would make the real expenditure 185,000.0001. a-year for France cannot pay the expenses o f war out o l the ordinary receipts of taxation .— Times Letter,. I THE GREAT SHREWSBURY CASE. The argument was resumed on Thursday, Mr. Rolt, Q.C., maintaining that the settlement was a compact between the Catholic and Protestant members o f the family that the Catholic members should take and enjoy, on condition that they would not alienate ; the Lord Chief Justice observing, that if Mr. Rolt was right in his argument that this is a private contract, and is the case of a private settlement, the public statutes cannot operate upon it. . , The arguments in this important case were resumed yesterday morning, and occupied the Court the entire day. They are likely to occupy a large portion o f next week. THE PRINCESS FREDERICK W ILLIAM . Her Royal Highness embarked from the Terrace-pier, Gravesend, for Prussia, on Thursday. Yesterday (Friday) afternoon a special court o f Aldermen was held at the Guildhall to present Sir John Lawrence with the freedom o f the city o f London. T he L ate Mr. J oseph Stcrge.—The Rev. D r. Carlile, who has been for many years associated with 'Mr. Sturge, in the Anti-Slavery Cause, intends to deliver a discourse on his life and labours on Sunday evening next. The service will be held in the Town-hall, Woolwich, Salem Chapel being closed for repairs. F rench Gunboats.—Five gunboats on a new model have been constructed at the dockyard of La Seyne, near Toulon. They ean be taken to pieces and again remounted. They are, it is said, intended to be used against the Austrians on the Lago Maggiore. l “ ey were shipped at Toulon on board the transports^Ariege and Sevres, which sailed for Genoa on the 23rd inst. Cancer Hospital.—The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new Hospital for Cancer at Brompton, nearly opposite the Consumption Hospital, was performed on Monday afternoon by Miss Burdet Coutts, in the presence of a very numerous company, including the Bishop o f London, the Yen. Archdea Sinclair, Dr, Conridge, St. Mark’s, the Revs. J. B. Owen, Thomas Pearson, N. Liberty, H . Stephens ; the Kev. Fathers BaUard and Bagshaw, Priests of the Oratory, Brompton ; Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. D . Mocatta, M Halswell, Dr. O’Connor, Dr. Cotton, Dr. Marsden, Dr. Knox, Mr. A . Marsden, Mr. W . Cooke, Mr. Cottrell, Mr. Beale Brown, Ac.

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LRY ....................................................................................... T IN TELLIGENCE........................... ........................... >N AND COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE: The War taly. India and China. Rome: The Pope a Captive; iinal Antonelli’s Circular. Naples: The K ing's clamation. Belgium : The Legacy Law. Tuscany: tor Emmanuel’s Proclamation. The German Confedera. The Grand Duke Constantine at Jerusalem: Turkey: eatening Attitude o f S e rv ia ........................... ............... •LIC IN TELLIGENCE: Diocese o f Westminster: Caril Wiseman at Bayswater; Dejeuner at the Crystal ic e ; Opening o f Margaret-street (Puseyite) Church. 2ese o f H exham : Opening o f a New Chapel (temporary) Jurbam. Diocese o f Nottingham: the Catholic Electors Leicester. Diocese o f Liverpool ? Laying the Founda-stone o f a New Church at Westby-in-the-Fylde; Conlation at St Augustine’s, Preston. Diocese o f Salford: Anne’s, Ashton. Diocese o f Beverley: Catholic Young l ’s Society, Wakefield; Lysmarie, SicklinghalL The itralian Mission........................... . . . . . . . . . . . . IR S : The Workhouse Question— Great Meeting on dnesday N ex t ; the W h ig D efeat; the W ar in I ta ly ; and and the “ Saturday Review ” ............... . .. ND : The King’s County Election ; Government Pa-

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la g e ; the Independent P o licy ; the Phoenix Prisoners; Polling at the Kilkenny and K ing’s County Elections; ran Catholic Young Men’s Society; the O’Connell Fund; ,nted—Irish Reapers; Mr. Pope Hennessy, M .P . ; ResigLon o f J. B. Kernan, Esq., M.P. ; Murder and SuicideTn w a y ; the Ribbon Conspiracy; Her Majesty’s Visit to and; Fanaticism in the North; Phoenix Trials; Mor# il Changesr r T..v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W S : Savage America; Manuale Vitae Spiritualis 1SPONDENCE: Our Poor Children; Workhouse •selytism; the “ Great Liberal P a r t y “ Catholic” or oman Catholic ” ? . . . . . . ............... LLANEOUS: The Great Shrewsbury Case; the Case Mary Ann M ‘D onnell; Mr. Roebuck and Lord merston; the Handel Festival; Trial o f a Scotch lister fo r Bad Preaching and Bad Praying; Great orm Banquet A t Leeds; the Derby D a y ; the New -liament . . . ........................ . . .. . . . . . . . . .

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J ^ u m m a r g . estimate which we formed last week o f the o f Montebello turns out to have been pretty t. I t appears that the Austrians kept possession teggio— a post in advance o f their present position some days. Since then a new movement has de-

itself. The French Head-quarters have moved Alessandria to Casale, and from thence to Ui. The Sardinians have crossed the Sesia, a desperate conflict, the particulars o f which anting, and occupied Palestre. This position to have been made the object o f a very ms assault by the Austrians, who at one time r to have turned the right o f the Sardinians, 0 have seriously compromised the position o f nemy by threatening to cut o f f his commum with the French on the right bank o f the where the Emperor o f the French commanded in i. The Imperial Revolutionary General here his first essay o f arms by detaching a body o f res to defend the bridge and secure the threatened unications. This movement was attended with ete success. W ith a loss o f one officer and ten prikilled, and o f ten officers and tw o hundred privates led (so says the Franco-Sardinian telegram),

Zouaves crossed a deep canal in face o f an ian battery, stormed the heights on which the were planted and hurled their defenders into the taking eight guns and five hundred prisoners, s account is either true or near the truth, it s that all we have heard about the excellent io n and high perfection o f the Austrian artillery near the truth. 1, after making all allowances for French and Sar1gasconading, i t seems certain that the Sardinians t with great courage and enthusiasm ; that their sustained the character o f his race for valour in the fighting and exposing his person like an orditrooper, and that the Zouaves fully maintained reputation. t as’ to the result o f all this fighting very is known. A ll that seems certain is, that the aians have forced the line o f the Sesia, main1 themselves at Palestre, and secured their com¡ations with the French. But i t would evidently been-impossible for the Austrian General to have nted an army o f 150,000 men at least from g a line 125 miles long, somewhere o r another, t he had hazarded a general engagement in army resting on Allessandria and Casale— two ■ate fortresses. This would have been moont madness, except in the case o f an overwhelming iority o f force. i.at is really important is, that the French and iiians have been driven to display their line tack, and to choose apparently thè road to l and Peschiera, So fatal to Charles Albert 148. Every forward step which thp allies on that line carries them further from their rces, and nearer to the fortified battle-ground ustria, whilst it extends their line and offers ie s for its being cut o f f b y the Austrians from

, and Piacenza, who may also succeed, whilst hnperor o f the French is issuing an admirable tion o f his uncle’s bulletins at Milan, in cutting ìe railway communications between Genoa and indria. ribaldi, who seems (b y Sardinian accounts) to ireatening Milan, and bidding f o r the first in the Revolutionary Junta, nas been driven the northern Alpine Highlands. The Valtelline 1 to be in full insurrection. But this, whether >r false, will exercise no influence on the campaign. Saltelline will belong t o whichever party dio-

the terms o f peace, ince Napoleon’s inroad upon Tuscany has not a complete success. The Tuscan army having ted from its sovereign, seems to have become ralised, , . , j ; ,, ose who remember the campaign o f 1848, when bulletin announced a signal victory over the 1 Tedeschi, will receive the bulletins from the nian head-quarters with suspicion, and will i the issue o f the campaign with some doubt, will remember that dearly-bought success in partial combats, which leave the strength o f the enemy unbroken, exercise but small influence on the ultimate issue o f the campaign.

W e shall, no doubt, shortly hear something o f diversions from Tuscany and Venice. I t will far more than balance these, i f the old German spirit is once fairly roused. A very remarkable and eloquent article in the A llg em ein e Z e itu n g , entitled “ W hat are we waiting fo r ? ” taken in connection with the armaments which are going on in Germany, is itself a serious diversion, and i f this warlike appeal, put forth no doubt by authority, is responded to, Marshal Pelissier will be demanding reinforcements from Italy and Algeria.

W e regret to say that whilst the accounts o f Austrian excesses have not only been contradicted, but even disowned by the French papers, the French troops are accused o f practising on the field o f battle the barbarities they have learnt in Algeria, and these reports are assuming the form o f consis' tency and are backed b y evidence which we hope to see met as successfully as have been the stories told to the disadvantage o f the Austrians.

France is a great Catholic nation, and even under a revolutionary Emperor will not, let us hope, cloud her gallantry with unchristian and barbarous ferocity.

— There have o f late been many and remarkable conversions to the views which have been long and steadily put forward b y the T ab le t, but who would have expected to find the T im es among the number ? Y e s ! the Tim es is our last convert. The Tim es has come to the conclusion that “ occasionally the inte“ rests o f the country are better served b y the absti“ nence o f a powerful Opposition and the permitted “ existence o f a weak Government.” The readers o f the T ab le t must be familiar with the sentiment. The Tim es announces that “ our institutions and parlia“ mentary practices are such that the Opposition are “ almost as much the counsellors o f Her Majesty as “ the Government itself. I f the Government has the “ initiative, the Opposition has, on the other hand, “ the opportunity o f criticism ; and though the frame“ work o f a Bill is generally the work o f the Govern“ ment, yet their antagonists are able to boast o f the “ transformations it has undergone and the perfection “ i t has acquired under their unsparing hand.”

W e have often had to defend the principles o f Independent Opposition against those who argued that Opposition to successive MinigtriespmpUed, a resolution to make all Government impossible, and must o f necessity be factious, as it was only right to oppose one Government for the sake o f replacing it by another which would be entitled to support. W e f in d the Tim es now using language on this subject which it might have borrowed from M r. Lucas’s Memorial to the Pope, or from a hundred T ab le t leading articles. But there is more to come. H we have contended with unwavering earnestness against any one delusion, it has been against that great delusion o f the Great Liberal Party, that a place in the Cabinet was the birthright o f a W h ig Leader, and that to put the Whigs in office and to keep them there was the first and last duty of an enlightened politician. H ow often have we argued that the true place fo r the Whigs was on the Opposition benches; that they could be o f much use when in Opposition, while experience had showed that when in office they were simply an obstructing and a nuisance. For their own sake we have urged them to prefer the O p position benches, yet they would not hearken to our counsel. W i l l they listen t o the Times f “ People ask

“ why Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston do not “ seek to win fresh distinction in the unexhausted field “ o f Opposition. Except duringjthe Dictatorship o f Sir “ Robert Peel they have not had much experience in “ the useful and invigorating exercise o f leading the “ Opposition benches. A nd yet what more noble “ career can be desired by the inheritors o f W h ig “ traditions ? I t may be said o f the party generally “ that the periods o f its banishment from office and “ Court favour are the most brilliant in its annals." W h y should the W h ig s be angry with us ? I f they will only believe the Times, we have all along been advising them for their own good, and “ Short has been “ the real,friend, not Codlins.” But what will the Irish Catholic Whigs say to what comes next ? Hear it, oh ye Catholic Whigs o f Ireland— it is the Times that speaks, and not the Tablet. I t is the greatest o f the Oracles o f the “ Great Liberal P a r ty ” that utters these tremendous words: “ There is, we cannot help thinking, “ a little o f the spirit o f ‘ fogeyism ’ in the Libera. “ Party. They art a little too tenacious o f the ideas “ and ,catchwords o f 1852. Now, the strongest and “ most venerable o f these is the presumed necessity o f “ *turning out the Tories.’ There are men amongst us “ the whole o f whose early life were spent in endeav o u r i n g to turn out the Tories. T o them Lord “ Derby is the representative o f a domineering class

“ pledged to oppose Liberal principles, and to whom “ every good Liberal must be as incessantly antagonistic “ as Ormuzd to Ahriman. ‘ The first thing, Sir, is to “ ‘ turn out the Government.’ But a section o f the “ Liberals are, we cannot but think, somewhat unpre“ pared fo r such hasty measures.” This is a crushing blow to famishing place-hunters. Such language when the Tablet used it, was infamous, treacherous, mischievous, and ruinous. W e were sold to the Tories we were disguised Orangemen; we were madmen, fanatics, q petty pliqpe, the victims o f a hopeless “ craze.” Now the Tim es preaches our doctrine and in our words. What is the explanation? I t is very simple. The Tim es has been purchased by Cardinal Wiseman, and His Eminence has sold i t to the Pope L e t the R e c o r d and the E v en in g P o s t— let Mr. J . D . Fitzgerald and the Earl o f Shaftesbury ponder wel1 this memorable truth, and make the most o f it.

— The greatest victory gained by the Great Liberal Party in the last election, to console them for their multiplied defeats^ was in the West R iding o f Y ork shire, in the return o f Sir John Ramsden and Mr.

Frank Crossley. They made much o f it, and they were right in doing so, but the Leeds Banquet o f Monday has been a great damper to their glee. For it is the chosen member o f that choice constituency—it is the very man whom common fame had marked to second the resolution that was to turn the Tories out in the second week of the session— it is Sir John Ramsden who at this critical moment, when every Whig is supposed to be waiting in an attitude o f strained attention, ready at the word o f command to grasp his claymore, pull his bonnet over his eyes, draw a deep breath, and, with an aspiration to the First Whig (the Devil, i f Dr. Johnson is to be believed), rush upon the foe and scale the Treasury benches—it is the member for the West Riding who bids them stand at ease and think o f something else. He won’t lead the charge, that’s positive; and, as for fighting, now he thinks it had better be just let alone. “ Whoever proposes to dismiss a Ministry should see his way to

“ the foundation of a stronger Government.” (That is unsound doctrine, by the way, but let it pass.) “ Now, gentlemen,” says Sir John, “ I must say, “ and I assure you I say it with the deepest regret “ that in the present divided state of our leadership, I “ do not see my way to any such result.” This is cold comfort. What must many an ardent Catholic and Irish Whig have thought when he first read these unfeeling sentences of Sir John Ramsden. There is Sir John Ramsden, with ever so many thousands a year, who can afford to wait till we are all mad with hunger and disappointment, and just as we were ready for a rush he turns on the tap and souses our fiery ardour with a deluge of cold water.

Mr. Roebuck’s speech at Milford Haven, on Saturday, was as uncompromising as himself. “ We have “ to choose upon the 7th of June whether we shall have “ Lord Palmerston or Lord Derby for Prime Minister.

I shall be in the camp of the people o f England, and that camp I sincerely believe to be opposed to Lord “ Palmerston. As an Independent Member, my con­

sideration is England, and for England’s sake, I may “ say for God’s sake, don’t choose Lord Palmerston.”

By thewav,what will the Catholic Whigs do? What will those Irish members do who used to talk about Independent Opposition, Tenant Right, and the curse of Sadleirism, but who now tell the people that the greatest question of the day is Sir Matthew Barrington’s conduct as an attorney—that everybody had better wait for everything until the Ballot be got in a few years, when everybody will be able to get his own rights for himself, and who are particularly eloquent in their professions o f devotion to the Great Liberal Party, and o f hostility to those Irishmen whom they call the natural enemies o f the Irish people ? Their votes will be looked for with much interest.

— That the best interests o f England, o f Ireland, and o f the Catholic Church are not inconsistent and incompatible with one another is our conviction—and it is on this conviction that the policy o f the Tablet is l. Should this conviction change, we should not change our policy; we should abandon it, and the Tablet would cease to exist, together with the policy for the sake o f which it is continued. Now, it has been evident to us that there are many English Protestants who hate the Catholic religion more than they love their country, and that there are many Irish Catholics who hate England more than they love their Church. W e find ourselves pretty constantly the object o f attack both by these classes, and at the present time this is especially the case.

English Protestants attack us because they say that the foreign policy which we advocate is directed to the protection and defence o f the Holy See, and in the in terests o f the Catholic Church. They admit that our policy is advantageous to the Catholic Church, but they insist that it is disadvantageous to the prosperity and greatness of England, and they treat the second as a mere corollary o f the first.

SECOND EDITION.

T A B L E T O F F IC E , Saturday Morning.

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THE WAR IN ITALY. G AD IBALD I AGAIN VICTORIOUS. T ubin, Thursday, June 2.—This morning the Austrians advanced from Bobbio (R obbio?) towards the French outposts, but retired again after a short fight. This movement was made to conceal the retreat o f the Austrians, who had begun to evacuate Bobbio, carrying with them about 1,000 wounded. Garibaldi has surprised and beaten the Austrians at Varese, and the town is again free o f the enemy.

Turin, June 3.—The Austrians have withdrawn to the eastern bank o f the Po, and abandoned Torre Berelli, and the surrounding country.

Garibaldi re-entered Como yesterday evening at eleven o’clock.

P aris, June 3.—Marquis Antonini, charged with a special mission at the courts o f France and England, has had an interview to-day with Count Walewskj. The Generals Laroncifere, Bouet, and Villaumez have left for Toulon. ---------

Bekne, June 8 (P to France).—French officers of engineers have arrived at Infra, and are collecting all disposable vessels on the Lago Maggiore, for the purpose of crossing the lake with 500 men. The troops of General Garibaldi occupy Fort Michel, near Laveno.

BLOCKADE OF VENICE. The Moniteur also publishes officially the notification of the blockade o f Venice.

IN D IA .

I ndia Office, June 4, 1 a.m.—The following telegram has been received v ia Marseilles

From the Secretary of the Government of Bombay to James Cosmo Melvill, Esq., India Office, London, dated Bombay Castle, May 12.

NUGGUR PARKUR. The towns o f Neeraoow and Nuggur, as well as the4 village o f Kaswa, all in the Nnggur Parkur district, were occupied by British troops between the 1st and the 4th o f May, and the Rana of Nuggur with his followers had fied to the Kalinwur hills, adjoining Nuggur, which the British forces had invested.

THE L IBERAL PARTY. The following Circular was issued to the Members constituting the Liberal party in Parliament this (Saturday) morning:—

“ A meeting of the Liberal Members o f the House o f Commons will be held at Willis’s Rooms, King-street, on Monday, June 6, at two o ’clock, at which you are respectfully requested to attend.

“ P almekston, “ Hartington, “ S. Herbert, “ T . Milner Gibbon, “ Geo. Kino,

“ J. Russell, “ F . T. Barino, “ Edward Ellice, “ T . E. Headlam.”

And others.

BURNING OF A TROOP-SHIP AND AW FUL

LOSS OF LIFE.

An awful accident took .place on board a transport ship at Spithead yesterday (Friday). The Eastern Monarch has just arrived from Kurrachee with a large number o f invalid soldiers, together with men and women, on board. By some unexplained cause the powder magazine exploded, and the flames extended with great rapidity through every part o f the ship. The soldiers, under the direction o f their commander, exhibited the most admirable discipline, but a panic seized the other passengers, and the result was the loss o f some thirty lives. The Colonel and the Captain commanding the troops were the last to leave the vessel. Had the accident taken place an hour or two previously before the vessel arrived at Spithead, the consequences must have been fearful to contemplate.

On the ether hand, some Irish Catholics attack us because they say that our policy is directed to the pros jerity and greatness of the British Empire, and in the nterests o f England. They admit that our policy is advantageous to England, but they insist that it is disadvantageous to the Catholic Church and to Ireland. And they, too, treat this second as the mere corollary o f the first. Protestants tell us that, as Catholics, we are right in siding with Austria against France; but that, as Englishmen, we are in the wrong for doing so. Irishmen tell us that, as Englishmen, we are right in siding with Austria against France, but that it is wrong for Catholics or Irishmen to do so,

But the best reason that the Englishman gives for his hostility to Austria is, that Popery is an effete superstition, and the best reason that the Irish objector gives for his hostility to Austria is, that England is the oppressor of Irish nationality. Each o f the objectors appears to us to give an answer to the other.

R umoured Faction F ight.— It is said that an amendment on the Address will be moved in' the House o f Commons by the Marquis of Hartington, on the part of the Whig Opposition, and that it will be seconded by Sir Morton Peto, who it will be remembered, was created a Baronet by the last Whig Administration.—Standard.

Cost of W ar.—The expenses o f the war are already enormous, and few Frenchmen have any conception o f them. Independently o f the money spent in France on the increased army and navy, the purchase o f provisions and stores, besides their conveyance to Italy, the reconstruction o f the matériel, making new equipments, buying horses, railway fares, and almost an infinity o f other items of cost, there are sent daily from Marseilles 3,000,000 francs in specie, or 120,0001, This makes 43,000,0001. annually. It is not likely that the exportation o f money to this amount çan last; but, if it should, we shall scarcely err in estimating the cost of the war at 80,000,0001. a-year. I f we remember that for every 69f, the State receives on loan it has to incur a debt o f lOQf., it would make the real expenditure 185,000.0001. a-year for France cannot pay the expenses o f war out o l the ordinary receipts of taxation .— Times Letter,.

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THE GREAT SHREWSBURY CASE. The argument was resumed on Thursday, Mr. Rolt, Q.C., maintaining that the settlement was a compact between the Catholic and Protestant members o f the family that the Catholic members should take and enjoy, on condition that they would not alienate ; the Lord Chief Justice observing, that if Mr. Rolt was right in his argument that this is a private contract, and is the case of a private settlement, the public statutes cannot operate upon it. . ,

The arguments in this important case were resumed yesterday morning, and occupied the Court the entire day. They are likely to occupy a large portion o f next week.

THE PRINCESS FREDERICK W ILLIAM . Her Royal Highness embarked from the Terrace-pier, Gravesend, for Prussia, on Thursday.

Yesterday (Friday) afternoon a special court o f Aldermen was held at the Guildhall to present Sir John Lawrence with the freedom o f the city o f London.

T he L ate Mr. J oseph Stcrge.—The Rev. D r. Carlile, who has been for many years associated with 'Mr. Sturge, in the Anti-Slavery Cause, intends to deliver a discourse on his life and labours on Sunday evening next. The service will be held in the Town-hall, Woolwich, Salem Chapel being closed for repairs.

F rench Gunboats.—Five gunboats on a new model have been constructed at the dockyard of La Seyne, near Toulon. They ean be taken to pieces and again remounted. They are, it is said, intended to be used against the Austrians on the Lago Maggiore. l “ ey were shipped at Toulon on board the transports^Ariege and Sevres, which sailed for Genoa on the 23rd inst.

Cancer Hospital.—The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new Hospital for Cancer at Brompton, nearly opposite the Consumption Hospital, was performed on Monday afternoon by Miss Burdet Coutts, in the presence of a very numerous company, including the Bishop o f London, the Yen. Archdea Sinclair, Dr, Conridge, St. Mark’s, the Revs. J. B. Owen, Thomas Pearson, N. Liberty, H . Stephens ; the Kev. Fathers BaUard and Bagshaw, Priests of the Oratory, Brompton ; Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. D . Mocatta, M Halswell, Dr. O’Connor, Dr. Cotton, Dr. Marsden, Dr. Knox, Mr. A . Marsden, Mr. W . Cooke, Mr. Cottrell, Mr. Beale Brown, Ac.

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