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MANIN AND THE FRENCH PRESS . [ The illustrious Daniel Manin has recently addressed the following letter to the principal journals of Paris , without distinction of party . It has been inserted in the Presse and the Siecle , and , in the former of those journals , it has been very strikingly and significantly commented upon in an article by M . Alphonse Peyrat . We shall take an early occasion to treat it as a text for considerations on the hopes and prospects of Italy . ] " Pari 3 , December 10 , 1855 . "Sir , — The tivo essential conditions of a complete national life are independence and unification . " I think it superfluous to demonstrate a proposition so evident to every sincere man . Only consider what would become of the French nationality if France ceased to be independent and one .
" The Italians aspire to conquer the enjoyment of a complete national life . Therefore they must desiretherefore they do desire — the independence and unification of Italy . But a pernicious prejudice practically interrupts their efforts , a phantom blocks the way , adding to the numerous real difficulties , imaginary ones , and chilling the ardour necessary to the success of great enterprises . It is pretty generally believed in Italy , that France and England are , and always
will be , hostile to the unification of Italy by reason of paltry considerations of rivalry and envy . I feel certain this is an error . In their great and legitimate pride , France and England , those leaders of European civilisation , must be and are inaccessible to any feeling of envy or of rivalry towards any other nationality whatsoever , and in their manly intelligence they must understand—and do understand—that their greatness and their prosperity can only gain by the prosperity and the greatness of their neighbours .
" My own conviction on that point is fully made up ; but it would be powerless to destroy the error I have noted , if it were left unsupported by the organs of public opinion in England and in France . " Upon the appearance , last September , of my letter , addressed to the editor of the Siecle , in which I clearly defined the formula of the national aspiration of Italy in two inseparable terms , Independence and Unification , the English journals of all shades of opinion , from the Times to the Leader , declared themselves favourable to that formula , and accepted with equal sympathy the term of unification and that of independence . "An analogous declaration on the part of the French periodical press would be an immense service rendered to the cause of Italy .
" The question I submit is this : —Whether , if , in an early or remote future , by the use of the means which Providence may put within our reach , we should succeed in accomplishing our object : if Italy , ceasing to be a simple geographical denomination , should become a political individuality , powerful and prosperous , could suoh a result be dangerous , or hur tful , or simply disagreeable to France ? 1 think that , putting aside all disoussion on the probability of the hypothesis , an intelligent and skilful writer might , without inconvenience , treat this question from a general abstract , and elevated point of view , having regard to the permanent political and economical interests of France , superior to , and independent of , any transitory interest , and of ull preoccupations of party , of coterie , or of persons .
" The evidence of sympathy which , on many occasions , you have given to my unhappy country , bids me hope , Sir , that you will kindly answer to my appeal . I offer you my acknowledgments in advanco , and pray you , at the same timo , to accept the assuruuee of my distinguished consideration . "Manin . "
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* I soy unf / ltation , » nd not union or imitj / , bocuutio tho word unity would upponr to exclude tho 1 ' oilovu . tlvu form , and tho word union would nppoar to exclude tho unitary form .
young man , who was at that time fully occupied v his literary labours . Nevertheless , despite the t < absence of proof , and despite the steps taken by family , Mr . Rane was detained in prison at the de of the Prefecture de Police . Several months had thus elapsed without the soner having been able to procure either a trial or liberty , when , some few days since , a commissarj police called on him in prison , and imparted to Id ; decision which the Council of Ministers had comi respecting him , in vir tue of which Mr . Rane wa not to receive his liberty , but—to be transported the penal settlement of Cayenne . Mr . Rane , senior , who was then at a distance of hundred miles from Pai-is , was informed by the t graph of the decision arrived at with respect to son . He returned at once to Paris , and applied to of the Ministers to obtain a repeal of the senter but finding their decision irrevocable , he begged t his son might be transported , not to Cayenne—a tant settlement wit h a deadly climate—but to Alge a nearer and more healthy colony . The Minister fused , alleging that " Africa , like France , was infec with secret societies , and that the Government left off transporting thither . " The father thereu ; beseechingly implored that his son might not transported , but merely banished to America . Minister replied that banishment to America wo be granted to Mr . Rane , jun ., in commutation of sentence , if he would consent to write and sigi declaration renouncing his republican opinions . The father transmitted these conditions to his i who nobly refused to give this declaration of aposti In consequence , the order is about to be execw and Mr . Rane , a young man twenty-four years . of i is to be transported-to Guiana . The ship which < veys him is to leave the port of Toulon between 15 th and 20 th instant . I am informed that sev . other persons , arrested at the same period , are ab to be similarly transported , without trial , to Cayeu
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THE TURKS AND THE ALLIES . [ We have received from a private correspondent Pera some details of interest with reference to position of the Allies in Constantinople . After m tioning that the Turkish authorities p lace every stacle in the way of the English commissariat ofli at Schumlr , in -providing for the irregular cavs stationed there , our informant proceeds : ] The letter of the Times correspondent at Const * uople , which appeared in that publication of the 2 , ult ., is . I am sorry to say , but too true . of this pit It is not safe for foreigners to go out after dark , un . in parties and well armed . The streets are m a ti fully dirtydarkand unpaved state
, , The ill-feeling existing between the Turks and French is not likely to be allayed but augmented such conduct as I witnessed on the part of two ¦ X rei soldiers ( privates ) bo permitted . 1 was confined the house during the whole of the morning by a he fall of rain , which ceased about one p . m . About i p . m . I sallied out , passing down Pera street town a in the main street which runs parallel to the E phorus , and leading to the SultanH new-palace b shouting Jt
attention was attracted y someone Anglaisef 2 ' icr / c no bono ! " This proceeded . f two French soldiers , rather the worse for drink , \\ were shaking riands with some English sailors eta hiR in tho street . The two soldiers then marched shouting " Twh no bono 1 " thrusting every li they met into the middle of the street , and Btnk some with a large stick .. I attempted to wmonate with them , but got no reply but « Turk noboi English bono / " In a minute or two two * w » officers came up , who stopped theso disgraceful i
oecdingB immediately . News from tho Crimea will m all probabilit ) delayed for some time to come , as thoro w a luuit tho cable between Varna and tbe Crimea . What that foult is we arc not yet ablo to ascoitt fonr * are entertained that it is a break in the onu if so , it may bo n ecessary to send to ^» S . , ™ new one , as it will bo almost impossible to li » u a again .
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CONTINENTAL NOTEh . A SWEDISH AIXIANCK . Stockholm , Dec . 18 Tiik King of Sweden lian ratified a treaty with E land and Franco . ., Tho two Allied Powers guarantoo tho torntoi integrity of Sweden , and tho lnttor ongngou not alionato any part of its territory to ituBSum . The high contracting parties engngo to comuu cato , mutually nnd reciprocally , all propositions oc ing from Ituflflin .
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¦ Da ring Bubglary at Pobtsmouth . — The shop o f MWs EnSuuelT jewellers and goldsmiths , of PortenSuth ' hSbeen broken open , and robbed of a considerable amount of valuable- property , apparently under the eye of the police . The premises of Messrs . Bmanuel are fronting the harbour , and close to the dockyard-gate , where a strong police force is always on duty . Last Sunday morning , between one and two o'olockf about an hour after the family had gone to bed Mr . Ezekiel Emanuel was awakened by a noise in the lower part of his house . He got up and looked out but , as he perceived from the window of his room that there were lights in the opposite houses , he imagined that the noise he heard proceeded from one of them , and therefore returned to bed . At the expiration of half an hour , he was again aroused , and again got up and looked down upon a glass cupola which lighted the sitting room adjoining the shop ; but , not seeing any light there , or anything to cause suspicion , he still supposed the noise to be the moVing of the neighbours about their houses , and once more went to bed . The thieves were evidently at work during this period . About half-past seven , the maid servant went down to the sitting room , on entering which , she was astonished to find several housebreakers' tools lying on the floor , and the doors communicating with the shop partly open . Having informed her master of this circumstance , he went into the shop , and found that it had been entered , and a large quantity of small jewellery , gold chains , rings , & ., to the amount , it is supposed , of at least one thousand pounds , had been stolen . An inspection of the premises was subsequently made by the Mayor of Portsmouth and the police ; and it was then discovered that the burglars had effected their entry of Messrs . Emanuefs houso by a most elaborate process , having in the first place broken into a wine and spirit merchant ' s shop , situated immediately in the rear of the goldsmith's . They then , by means of a ladder , climbed on to the roof of the store ; in this they broke a hole , . and then got out on to the roof of Mr . Emanuel's workshop , from which they removed a few tiles , and descending through the ceiling into the workshop , from which they did not take anything , they next crossed the yard which separates it from the main dwelling , and finally entered the shop through the kitchen . Considering the extreme publicity of the neighbourhood , tbe number of people constantly on the spot , and other surrounding circumstances , it is . wonderful how so extensive a robbery could have been committed with success . The police are taking active -measures to trace out the thieves . Alice Grey . —This woman was brought before the Wolverhampton magistrates on Wednesday , and committed for trial . She was jocose and eccentric as usual . She assured the chairman that if he was as prepossessed with her looks as she was with his , he would never send her to trial . A letter from Mrs . Morris having been read , stating that Mr . Morria ( her husband , and one of the witnesses ) was precluded from attending by indisposition , Alice observed , " Perhaps he is in love ; " adding afterwards , " I wish he had never come to the railway station — that ' s one thing . " The magistrates refused to take bail ; upon which Alice said— " It is a pity to bo on the lea side of want . " Railway Robberies . —Several robberies at different rajlway stations have been recently committed ; and various persons are now in custody on charges of complicity . The Great City Frauds . — Daniel Mitchell Davidson , and Cosmo William Gordon , were on Wednesday placed at the bar of the Central Criminal Court , on a charge of embezzling a portion of their estates , to the value of . £ 1 , 000 , with intent to defraud their creditors , and of seoreting money to the amount of £ 2 , 600 , with the same design . They wore acquitted upon a technical ground , tho acts imputed having been committed out of this country . They have sinoe been charged with fraudulently obtaining goods after their bankruptcy , and being found guilty yesterday , they wore sentenced to two ypare' imprisonment in the House of Correction . Thb Southampton Muhdjsr , —Abraham Baker has been tried at Winchester for tho murder , by ehootiug , of Naomi Kingawell , a girl to whom he had been engaged to bo married , but who had broken off tho match . The aot having been witnessed by several poraons , the only defence possible was that of insanity , wluoh woe accordingly advanced ; but the only thing suggestive of montal disturbance was a confession made by tho prisoner , in which , in a very incoherent ^ way , ho said his mind had boon affected by tho gUTtt inconstancy . Baker was found guilty , and was sentenced to death . Ho had dropped sonsoless during tho spoooh of his council . ; and at tho clono of the trial he was carried out of court in a holplo . sa state . Both judge and jury were visibly ftffeotod . Baker was a Methodist , and appears to have boon really attached to the girl . !| ? HB Bi / ttNorjriisu ) Murder .--Tho inquoafc oil tho body of Mr . Robert Stirling has alread y oxtondod over BQveral weeks , and is not yot couoludoil . Strong BUPpVuon attaches to a man nuined Cayno , who is now
in custody . A glass button , corresponding with those worn by this man , and fitting a p lace where one is wanting , has been accidentally found at the scene of the murder ; and Cayne , together with another man ( also in custody ) , was observed , about the time of the tragedy , near the spot .
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IMPERIAL JUSTICE . [ The following communication , signod " Britunnious , " appears in the Daily News : —] At tho period of tho attempt of Bollemaro ( who , it will bo romomborod , firod a pistol at ono of tho imj ^ erial carriages nonr tho entrance of the Opora Comiquo , and was , in consequence , pronounced mad , and confined in tho Hospital of Biodtro ) , tho Government , fearing that his attempt was the result of a conspiracy , ordered tho nrrost of a great number of young men , appertaining , for tho moBt part , to tho youth of tho public nohoolfl . Among those was Mr . llano , tho oldest son of a gentleman of respectability and position ; Iub father , a magistrate , having formerly boon jugc dc pai . v of the ditttriot of Poitiers . No proof whatevor was disoovorod aguiiiHt thin
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Pjkaok Pnosi'icoTS . —A cloud of minwtorial myot yot hangH nbout tho question of jioaco . A dospa from Vienna , of December 1 Oth , Hays : — < - ><>< Estorhaxy loaves to-day for St . Pcil . ornburg . u undorstood that ho in boaror of jnowt nnpor i despatches containing the propositions for a pnoin
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T H E L , E ADER , [ No . 300 , Saturday , 1218 . . . — ' ' ¦ ' *
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 22, 1855, page 1218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2120/page/6/
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