The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1859, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 8310. & Woman Killed by her susband in the Sixteenth Ward, ATT! MPT MADE TO DRSTROY THE BODY—ARREST OF ‘Tf: B MURDERBE, WHO WA8 SENT TO STATS PRISON SOME YBARS AGO ON A SIMILAR CHARGE, ‘Yesterday another sbocking and brutal murder oo- (eurred in the upper portion 0: our City, in which a Ger- Maan woman was beaten to death by her husband in a mest shocking manner, and an attempt made to burn the body. As appears, from what facts our reporter couldlearn last evening, that a German, whose name is George Meyer, residing in the rear of No, 222% West Beventeenth street, has for some time lived om rather unpleasant terms with his wife, they frequently ‘quarreling between themselves to such an extent that the police were competed to interfere on several occasions About even o’cieck yesterday morning the neighbors in ‘the same houre heard screams for help emavating from Meyer's room, and one or two were in the acto Tepsiring to Mcyer’s apartment, which is located on the Second floor, but just as they reached the staircase, Mra Meyer made her appearance at the door, and after re maining a few moments returned to her room again ‘She neighbors, believing all was over in the way of apy further quarre:, left, and in about ao beur afterwards Mrs. Meyer was ween emptying & pail of water im the yard. About ten o’clook, however, screams were again heard in Meyer’s room, ‘which continued for ome time; but upon again repairing to the room, all was found silent; sot even a whisper ould be beard within. Severe) parties, who had eard the polec and screams, believing something was "wrong, on finding neither of the parties would come ‘wut, repaired to their room about one o’clock and de- manded admittence. They could, however, obtain nore, ply, and fearing that Meyer hed concealed himeelf within, ‘and he refusing to give apy answer, they concluded to eall in the police and investigate the matter. OfMicer Fisher, of the Sixteenth precinct, being near at band, was soon made acquainted with tne facts, and at ence repaired to the house and demanded admittance; Bus he, toe, could obtain no reply for some time; but at ‘Jnat Meyer, hearing the officer say that he would burst the deor im wnless it was opened, replied that he was in bed and did not wiah to be disturbed. The officer, feeling con. ident that something was wrong, burst open the door, ‘when im front of the glass stood Meyer comping his hair, and as 2000 as he observed the officer he exclaimed, ‘She atrack me first,” and that he was about going to the sta. tien house to give himself up. A most horrible sight alee presented itself as the door flew open. Oa ‘the floor near the stove lay the body of Mrs. Meyer, per- feetly dead andcovered with blood; her body was also @evered with bruises, and from her mouth flowed a large quantity of blood; her nose and cars were also filled with wioed, and both eyes were blackened. Fer hair was found te have been cut off, and was discovered in the stove with ® pertien of her dress, no doubt placed there by Meyer ‘wih the intention of burning it. ‘There is also every rea- wen to believe that he contemplated to do away with body in the like manner from hs own » The floor was literally cover. @d with blood, and in several places it was found that Meyer hud’ been engaged in wiping It. Near the ‘Dody was a pail of water dyed with the blood, and 1a it a Fag which be had been using, in order, evidently, to re- Move the evidence of his crime. Meyer was immediately taken into custody by officer Fisher, and conveyed to the station house, followed by a large crowd of people, many of whom seemed aaxious to neh him. ‘The officer, however, succeeded in getting Rim Eafely to the station house, where he was locked up ‘to await the action of the Coroner, ‘On.exeminiog Meyer’s room, a smoothing iron and a gair of shears were found covered with blood, both of which he no doubt used to carry out his hellish 7 BOR " je parties are said to be poverty stricken, and dirt and filth were plainly to be seen in the room where the horrible murder was enacted. Meyer and hia wife have long been addicted to intem- find were constantly quarreiling with one another. Save } occasions, when Meyer was arrested for beat- ife, she would, in every inetance, intercede for band, and thus prewentea him from being punish. ed for bis offences. ‘Meyer 18 paid to bave served out a term of two years in ‘the State prieon for being concerned in the death of a man im Fish street, about ten yeare ago; he has two children ‘who hay been more or less cared for by the neighbors. ‘Meyer was visited last evening by a large number of people, and he secmed apparently in great sorrow. He stated that be bad legs out entity Sacarda night, i and did not ome unt te Sunday mornin; Shen hie wit Wega to abuso him, and called biim a d—<i ab—h.~- He then began to fight with her, gud Spally beat Be says that be does not recoliect anything about killing his wife, and knew nothing more watil arrested by the officer. He admitted to our reporter s he bac been a convict at Sing Sing. ‘Sarab Jane Taylor was the maiden name of bis wife. She has been married to Meyer avout eight years, and always Iaved unharpily. ‘A large crowd gathered around the scene of the mur- @er curing the day, anxious vo gain admittance to tho oom where the tragedy occurred. ‘The Coroner was s00D notified, and an inquest will be held to-day. Supposed Murder of a Lady. From Captain Parker, of the yacht Rosebud, we learn geome particulars of the fisding of the dead body ofa female yesterday afternoon floating in the water of tho bay, alittle this side of Fort Hamilton, under circum- @tanees which leave no doubt thata murder hag been @owmitted. The body was firet diecovered by Mr. Wes- terly, who lives near the place, and who went out ina ‘small boat to bring it ashore, in which he was assisted by Captain Parker, referred to above. There was a wound on one of the temples, and one eye was protruding from the socket. From the appearance of the body ft is stated that it could not bave been more than twenty- feur hours, or at moat forty eight, in the water. Another evidence of violence was the fact of the clothes, ‘which were qaite new, being all torn. The deceased ap- Pears to be about éighteen years of age, and hag auburn hair and a fair complexion, and about five feet two inches high. She bad on a biack siik dross, Diack lace veil, lace undersleeves, white and black straw boonet, a black ba- ege sbawi, a gold shawl pin,a gold chai and losket. ‘Bake also had on India rubber gaiter boots .aced in front, ‘aad a Capwn flannel potticoat. On her wedding ring finger sro three rings, one plain gold, one a black @name] diamond ring, and the third with six pearls @ad a diamond in the centre. On the littie tinger @f the left hand was another ring, a plain gold much worn. She had also two beautiful gs. Altogether, the deceased was well dressed, and there is little doubt that she came to her death by fou! means, The body had been left lying on the beach, and the Co- ronor sent for. It is to be hoped the case will be tho- Foughiy investigated. There is noclue, She had on ber person two likenosses of the same gentleman, one of tuem ‘With @ mustache and the other without. So far the aifsir fs involved in mystery. Tne deceased, judging from her dress, was a lady of respectable family. City Intenligence. ‘Tur Wearuar.—During the last three or four days we ihave bad the most unscasonable weather. Instead of en- ‘Joying the warm, balmy breezes usually felt at this season of the year, we have been in the zenith of northwestera and rain storms. A fow weeks ago, when the streets of New York were reeking with filth, it was consoling to ‘think that the weather continued cool, as it operated in ‘m0 amall degree to prevent the germination of an epidemic in our over crowded city, which, at one time, it seemed almost imporsible to escape. But, since Mayor Tiemann has taken up the “hoe and broom,” and the faces of the Gobble stones have been released from the beds of darkness where they have been enveloped for the past six months im beds of mud, and their sight is no more a novelty, we ‘breathes freer: but expected in the advent of summer to feel the beams of “Oia S01” come dowa on terra firma ‘with ‘more genial warmth, such af 1s usualiy fett in th poe month of June, and to seo the trees and flowers Our city and suburbs shoot forth their soul {aspirin & cheering view to our business} oe Waste tang. But what bas been the actual state jot \ er for the past three days? Why, instoad of 8 ber nomen thoroughfare—Broadway—ililed wits ro People dreseed in summer habiiments, we fiad no- ur streets but those actually furced ou Sand cven ee hase incu baa rm and chilly winds, Overcoated up to thei: lorthwest win i a \ nceasingly, and the sun obacurea co ‘dikes on Diack fly \ ewer hsrosge when they passed over this ly bah’, would pour down thetr copious showers of in. Now and the scone was relieved by rapid feabes of lig.\tolng, and anon the thunder rotied and tus thunder bolts essing through their vivid forked courses, id strike tke earth and do more or less damage’ state of thing's appeared to cause a general gloom to e over Our citiasns, and Operated in no faconsiderable adversely to tne retail city trade. Broadway has parently been desested; the dry goods palaces lost ail attractions by the absence of the pretty and nimbie pers. But this unpleasant condition of the weather siagnation ion busincsy will not last loag, and has bawiy disappeared ; and, ty a few days, wo may expoct See things io the metropoln’ wear their accustomed ering KOd business like aspect, Naw York Hosrtat.—The following is the weokly re. tof the aiove institution to Jone 3, 1859:—Romaini ‘< May 27, 434; adwittod H Jane 8, 52; wtechargod cured Telwved, 44; died, }; remaming at °, 241; m, be Se da, ” es daw, 241; males, THE WAR IN ITALY, THE BATTLES OF MONTEBELLO. OPERATIONS OF THE OPPOSING ARMIES, Interesting Obituary of the King of Naples, THE NEW FRENCH LOAN AND BUDGET. THE LATEST Rey MARKET REPORTS Nery ae. We received our Duropean mr,ilz by the America, dated to the 2]st of May, with the iraportant news to the 26h of that month furnished by the City of Washington off Cape Race on Saturday, and pubdished very interesting extracts from the former with the telegrephic reporte of the latier in the Hxvam>-en Sunday morning. We give additional accounts from Italy, with the latest commercial quota ‘tions, this merning. The Oityof Washington wiil pro>ably reach ‘his port during to-day, bringing our papers and letters containing fuil reports of the engagement at Montebello. THE BATTLE OF MONTEBELLO WON BY NAPOLEON IIL--THE BATTLE OF MONTE. BELLO WON BY NAPOLEON I. Tho first battle ie at last fought between the French and the Austrians in Italy. By the steamship City of Washington we have telegraphic news trom Cape Raco that on the 2ist of May the first struggle took place, and was won by Napoleon Ill., at Montebello, where the French under Napoleon I. defeated the Austrians fifty- nine years ago, just after he had crossed the Alps; and, what is worthy of remark, neitber of the Napoleons was ‘at the battle, but in its vicinity. That a battle was won by the French on the 2lst ultimo there can be no doubt, for on this point the French, Sar- dinian and Austrian accounts agree. We have not yet ro- ceived the details of the battle. but the French represent the Austrians as fifteon thousand strong where the fight took piace, aud the troops of Napoleon as only six or seven thousand men, with a regiment of Sardinian caval- ry, at the same time stating that the Austrians lost from 1,500 to 2,000 men, besides 200 prisoners, while tho French lost 600 or 700, many of whom were officers. The prigoners were sent to Alessandria, and some of them had arrived at Marseilles. The Austrians were the assailants, and the fight occurred in this way:— It appears that General Stadion, an Austrian officer of distinction, with a strong force, attacked the advanced posts of Marshal Baraguay d’Hilliers, and was repulsed by General Forey’s division after 8 sanguinary combat of four hours. The allies carried the heights of Montebello, but did not purgue the retreating Austrians. The Austrian account mitigates the defeat by stating that General Sta- dion pushed forward by a forced march a reconnoitering body of troops towards Liglis and Montebello, but after a hot fight with a superior French force, retreated behind the Po in perfect order. Montebello is on the extreme right of the French lines, close to Parma on the east, and not far from Lombardy to the north. It is nearly in the direction of Milan from Ales- sandria,and @ little less than half way, the whole dis. tance being only sixty-five miles, It would seem, there- fore, as if the French were pushing on their right to strike at the capital of Lombardy. ‘While these operations are going forward on the extreme right, we learn that the left of the Sardinian army, at the northwest, under Chialdini, one of the Italian revolution- ary leaders of 1848-9, had forced a passage over the Sesia, near the Austrian frontier, and put the Austrians to flight, While still further woot and north, at the very foot o the Alps, on the very extreme of the allied lines,Garibaldi bad entered the town of Gravellona, on the Piedmonteso tide of the Lake Maggiore, which separates Piedmont from Lombardy, with 6,000 men, intending to advance into the Austrian dominions in order to kindle the flame of revolu- tion; and from Berne, in Switzerland, we learn that reyo- lutionary movements are reported in Lombardy, and no doubt the Swiss strongly sympathise with the revolution- ists against their ancient svemy, the House of Hapsburg. Garibaldi was, therefore, where the Swiss, Austrian and Sardinian frontiers meet. From this news it would seem that the Austrians are now nearly driven back over the Ticino into their own territory, whither the French would be sure to follow them. General Gyulai had removed his headquarters back to Garlasoo, almost on the yery frontier of Lombardy, and in straight line between Alessandria and Milan. It is quite evident that the Austrians are gradually rotreating to their own strongholds. The Austrian General, as if dceperate, had ordered the Sardinians to give up their arms on pain of being shot. Meantime Prince Napoleon was with a force at Leghorn, in Tuscany. It was rumored that six English men of-war had entered the Adriatic, but as thoy are neutral, the news oes not seem to be of much importance, even if true. By this arrival the first victory in favor of the French is the great and and important fact, and that against odds, which shows that the Gauls have not degenerated since the time the elder Napoleon led thom from victory to victory over the Austrian hosts, It ig a curioushistorical coincidence that the battle of Montebello was the first fought by the troops of Napoleon I, after croesing the Great St. Bernard in 1800. It was one of the bloodiest and flercest ever fought. In disparity of numbers the resemblance is also remarkable, Napoleon I. bad then only 16,000 men, two-thirds of whom wero new soldiers, who had never seen a shot fired; and with these he was to arrest the desperate march of an army of 120,000 veteran Austrians. It was necessary for him to divide this little band to save it from being cut to pieces before he could receive reinforcements. With characteristic rapidity he moved from point to point through Lombardy; with lightning glance his eagle eye perceived the movements and combinations of the enemy under Melas. He knew that a groat and decisive battle must soon take place, for Melas was rapidly concentrating his army from all pointe, To Lannes and Murat he issued the following brief but remarkable order:— Gather forces at the ri or 9th at the lntest, you will Dave en your bane 1b GON 18,000 Austrians, Meet them and cut them to Pieces; it rl. be so many enemies less upon our hands on the day peste battle expect with the entire The prediction turned out true. An Austrian force 18,000 strong advanced and posted themselves strongly on the heights of Montebello, with batteries planted upon the hill sides which swept the plain. It was of the great- est moment that this boay should be prevented from com- bining with the other vast forces of the Austrians, Lan- nes met them with only 8,000 men. Yet they rushed on the foe with a shout of enthusiasm. Their ranks wore swept with a storm of grapeshot. Said Lannea, ‘I could hear the bones crash in my division like glass in @ hail. storm.” For nine hours—from eleven in the day till eight at night—the carnage continued. Again and again the mangled columns ef the French rallied to the charge; and it was not till three thousand of their men lay dead on the field that the Austrians broke and fled, also leaving three thousand dead behind them, with six thousand prisoners Napoleon, hastening to the aid of bis general, arrived Just in time to see the battle won. He rodo up to Lannes, surrounded by the dying and the dead, his aword dripping with blood, bis face blackened with powder, and his uni form soiled and torn by the long strife, Napoleon smiled in silence, but did not forget the heroism of Lannes, whom he afterwards created, from this battle flold, “Duke of Montebello” —a title. which has descended to his family to this day. 1t was the same hero who had before saved the Aight on the terrible bridge of Lodi, when the French wer mowed down by the Austrian cannon like grass, and Napoleon’s generale said it was impossible to advance, “Impossible is not Freneh,’’ said Bonaparte, as he seizoda Standard and rushed furward shouting, “Follow your general.” Lanpes, however, was tho firet to cross the onidge, He dashed past his leader, pluoging his horee into the very midst of the Austrian ranks, and grasped Ne of their banners. At that moment his steed fell dead beneath him, and half s dozen swords glittered above his head, With Her- MORNING EDITION—MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1859. culean strength and ugitity he extriested himself from bis fallen steed, leaped upon the horse ef aa Austrian behind the rider, plunged bis sword mto the body of the rider, and buried ham from his saddle, He fought his way back to hte followers, having slam six of the Austrians with bis own hand. The bridge and the bate were won. For this deed of terrible energy Napoleon promoted Lannes on ths spot. The battle of Montebello was not witheut its influence onthe tmmortal victory of Marengo, which was fought immediately after (Jane 14), and was closely connected with it. There 20000 Frenchmen under Napoleon met 40,000 Austrians, mcluding 7,000 cavalry and 200 pieces of cannon, which irresistibly swept Napoleon’s troops before them tik Desarx, s0 anxiously expected with nis reserve of 6,00¢ men, arrived, and charged when the bet te was deemed lost. The tide was turned. The Austrians were overthrewn with terrible slaughter, Twenty thou sand men of beth sides lay dead on the field, Desaix, the greatest general Napoleon ever had, was amoog them. The First Consul wept, and said the battle was dearly bought. No doubt another Marengo or am equally sao gvivary and decigive baitie of some other name will soon de fought, when we shall probably know something of the qualities of Napoleon ILI. asa general. OBITUARY. Ferdinand I1., King of the Two Sicilics and of Jerusalem, de. Among the items of intelligence brought by the steam- ship City of Washington, and telegraphed from Newfound- land, is the announcement of the death of the King of Naples. The date of his death 1s not given. His son, Francis the Seoond, had assumed the reins of government, and diplomatic relations were about to be renewed with Naples by the governments of England and France. Ferdinand of Naples was the most unpopular monarch of modern days. His name was the synonym for cruelty; and his death, which was preceded by a Jong and painful sickness, will awaken no feeling of sympathy wherever the news is heard. He lived hated, and died unlamented. With the exception of the reigning Queen of Spain, Fer- dinand of Naples was the only one of the family of the Bourbons left in poesession of a throne. His full name was Ferdinand Charies. He was in the fiftieth year of his ‘ge, baving been born the 12th January, 1810, On the 18th of November, 1830, he succeeded on the throne of Naples his father, King Francis Jannarious Jo- seph, His title was Fedinand Il., King of the Two Sicilies and of Jerusalem, Duke of Parma, Plaisance and Castro, hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was also a proprictary Colonel of the Austrian Twelfth regiment of the Ublans, or Croate—a wild semi-barbarous division of troops, who are to the Austrian gervice what the Zouaves are to the French. Ferdinand was twice married, and leaves eleven chil dren. He was first married on the 2ist of November, 1832, to Marie-Christine Caroline Josephine-Gactane Klise, daughter of the late King Victor-Emanuel, of Sardinia, (uncle of the present King). She died the 8ist of January, 1886; and on the 9th of January, 1837, Ferdinand espoused in second nuptials Marie Therese Ieabelle, daughter of the late Archduke Charles of Austria. The issue of the first marriage, Francis-Maria Leopold, is now on the throne of Naples, under the title of Francis T., im spite of the intrigues and machioations of his Austrian etep-mother, who tried to prevail upon the deceased King to name as his successor bis ejdest son by her—Prince Luigi Maria, Count of Trani, born 16th of January, 1886, The other children by this marriage aro Prince Alphonso Maria Joseph Albert, Count of Caserta (18); Princess Maria Annonciada Isabella Philomena 8a. Dazie (16); Princess Maria Immaculate Clemintins (15); Prince Gaetano Maria Frederic, Count of Girgenti (13); Princess’ Marie-des-graces Pio (10); Prince Pascal Maria, Count of Bari (7); Princess Maria Immaculate Louisa (4), and Prince Gennaro Maria, Count of Castel Girone. The baptismal names of his children evince the pious senti- ments of the parent. Each one of them bears the name of the Virgin, and twoof them bear testimony to the Im. maculate Conception. With such a tendency woward re- ligious things, how could Ferdinand have earned for himself the title of the Nero of the Nineteenth century, and the nickname or Bombay and yet strange. meonsistencies are not uncommon. This prince, lik» Louis XI. ef France, showed how the vilest cruelty and the most abject superstition cam be allied in the sams person. Ferdinand was the fourth of the Bourbons that occupied the throne of Naples. The first of them was Charles, tho third son of Philip the Fifth of Spain, by Elizabeth Far neso. This prince, seeing that‘his accession to the throne ‘was debarred by the issue of a former marriage of his father, raised an army, and aided by the wealth and in trigues of his mother, acquired for himself the kingdom of Naples. For twenty-five years he exercised dominion, and rendered his government extremely popular; but in 1769 he was called to the throne of Spain, and lett that of Naples and Sicily to his son, Ferdinand the First, then but eight years old. The first of the Ferdinands was even more unpopular than the second of them; and his wife, Caro- line of Austria, is represented to bave deen still worse than himself. The hanging of the Admira) Marquis Caracciolo— that stain on the bright escutcheon of Lord Nelson—was attributed to her influence and intrigues. The French drove him out of Naples and placed the dashiog hussar— Priace Jcachim Murat—on the throne. Daring his brief reign the Code Napoleon was introduced into Naples; and many of the monuments of French occupancy atill exist in the forms of government and the administration of the laws. In the meantime Ferdinand was rusticating in Sicily, and, under the influence’ of Lord Bentinck, who commanded the English garrieon there, a free political constitution was established for Sicily, as well as for Naples, to which be was restored on the downfall of Na- Poleon. The constitution, however, was subsequently abolished, and Ferdinand continued to reign with despotic violence, crushing out with an Austrian army tho revo- lution of 1820, after having sworn to observe the consti- tution, then sought to be re-established. From this per- Jury he was absolved by a special decree of Pope Pius VII. He was succeeded in 1825 by his son, Francis I., who, after « brief reign of five years, was succeeded by his eon, the subject of the present sketch. The carlicst outbreak of the revolutionary fires of 1848 ‘was manifested in Naples. Bat Ferdinand, with the crafty and deceptive spirit of his race, anticipated the revolution by offering his eubjecta a political constitution. Ho Pledged himself on the 20th January, 1848, to publish this charter of the people’s rights, It was promulgated on the 11th of February, and solemnly sworn to by the King on the 24th of February. As his grandfather bad violated the oath which he took under somewhat anala- gous circumstances in the Church of St. Gennaro in 1820, Ferdinand, feigning detestation of such perfidy, declined to have the ceremonies attending his oath Performed in that oburch, but went instead to the Church of San Anto- nio. He thus succeeded in disarming the revolution. ists, In @ few days the National Guard was or- ganized, the liberty of the press decreed, and men of liberal ideas were taken into the Cabinet. Perhaps after all Ferdinand was not 20 nefarious as ho is represented to have been in this matter, He may have really acted in good faith, and have intended to ob- serve his oath and maintain the constitution. But the fire- eating party of the revolutionists were not content with theae constitutional reforms. They wanted radical ro- forms. They modelled themselves into Political clubs on the style of those of Paris, and proposed the following terms as their ultimatum:—The transformation of tho Chamber of Deputies into a political assembly, the aboli- tion of the peerage, absolute universal suffrage, the send- ing of commissioners extraordinary into the Provinces and communes, the delegation of three plonipotentiaries to Rome to discuss thero the organization of the Italian confederacy, general reform of the wholo otvil, Judicial and military personnel (that is, the turn- ing out of all officeholders and the substitution of now incumbents, and finally the immediate departure of the army to aid Charles Albert in Lombardy in the war agaivst the Austrians, The King temporized. To some of these domends he Was inclined to accede, He showed himself inclined to yield the point of universal suffrage. Although he would not abolish the peerage, he offered thenceforth, m the nomination of peers, to select one ont of each three names Presented to him. And, regardless of the consequences of aiding Sardinia, he placed a division of his army at her nervice. The radicals felt that they had monarchy ‘“on tho hip.” The deputies of that party declived to take the oxtli to Maintain the constitution of the 11th February, dosiring constituent body. That question gave rise to an imsurrection, which broke ous om the 1th of The Kivog knew that the game was desperate one. His crown was at stake. He ro. sisted. A portion of the population of Naples took sides with the army. Ho also did the Nationa) Guard when the ories of viv: la republique were heard, The insurrection was ba oat Mido it fell the constitution. Between rally used to des! : mittee of Haly issued an address on tae 20th December, 1848, offering reward for his head, as folloxs:— Considering, said they, that - cattle ae penal ite Caan tevt, impossible tbe emenct people; and Pag rrney em teres epemy Of Malian indepe Ataiian people, the following reso u't m ie adopted, @athn, by al) possible meare in ae aS a reware of 100,000 ducais (about 600 U00) le af bin or them that wi) deliver italy from the abown named tyrant. wall be raised by subscription. i A prociamatien to whe Neapolitan army was at the same time issued by the Central Comaiitee, and waa circuialod Dy whousends ia the Kingdom of Ni It commenced by treating the Neapolitan soldiers as the braves (bravi) Of the most ferocious of despots and as Janisearios of the mavdest of all tyranw. Tu show their fidelity to the Nero of the Nineteepth century, and to consolidate his abborred sceptre on a beap of slaia, they had rendered their name more odious than the name of Croats. Toore was, however, still @ means ef purifying themeelves of the blood shed by them and of becommg incomparable citizens, and that was by turning their arms aguiust tois other Radetzaky, and purging the earth of tha: monster of imiquity. But yetthe King seemed desirous of evincing his res- pect for the constitution. The Chamber of Deputies hed been dirsotyed on the 17th May, but the fundamental law of Febraary 1} remained in force. A new Chamber was convoked for the ist of July following. The pessants and Lourgesiyic showed lstle re- gard for the parhamentary regime, and tho radicals ob- tained a majority in the Cozmber. fhey demanded more erages; abd the King diss yved it on the Stn September. en there was a pew mouarchial demonstration, to the cries of Vive le Roi, Down with the constitution.” The King made 2 third effort » February, 1849, wita n> more success than the two preceding ones. Ihe new Chamber epoke of re! 1g to vote the budget, and it was dissolved in March, 1849, Since then the constitu:ion of Naples has remained ipdedpitely suspended; but sor the the radicais are perhaps to be blamed even more than che late King. ‘With all wese revolutionary troubles, ana notwitnatanging the cruei character imputed to Ferémnand, it 18 @ remark. able fact, snd one which should not fai to be mentioned, that nei ber in Sicily nor in Naples did any political execu: tion take place. Even the lives of desertors who were taken wh arms in their bands were spared. The King iaid down the prin:iple, and had it observed, that not @ drop Of Disod sboult be shea outside of the flvid of battle. But if be epared their hves, bere was vo other mercy shown to them. Those who were condemned for political offences were thrown lato nowome dungeons in the islands of the Bay of Naples, and were tbe: most cruel treatment, under which great numbers died. One of the charges formulated by Lord Clarendon against the Neapolitan government in 1857 was, it employed in the prisons the famous “cap of lence.” This cap—t inventor of id to have been knighted by the King- arranged with cords and screws a8 to produce a constric- Fer | tion of the head, ana 60 prevent the miserabie wearer from uttering acry when beated or tortured. The Nea- ohitan government, in reply to Lord Clarendon, abgovute- le denied the existence of such # modo of torture, and ao- clared that the story was a pure fabrication of its ene- mies. Let Ferdinand, now tbat the grave bas closed over him, have the veneti: of this denial. It is unceviadle, however, that the harshest treatment ‘Was used towards the unfortunate peopie who, for their politica! acts or opinions, crowded the dungeons of Naples. ‘Au English statesman has denounced the goverament of King Ferdinand as “ the negation of God erected unto a tysiem of government.” According to the calculations maue by Mr. Gladstove in 1867, there were then on the most moderate estimate, 13,000 political prisoners immored in dungeons ia that fair land. With these death ‘Was busy; but the pieces of those relieved by death were kept fied with new arresis. It 1s but a few months since some hundreds of them, of whom Poerio was perhaps the Wort couspicuous, were released from their dupgeons— only, however, to be expatriated. Tneir story is familiar. They were transported to Cadiz, and there placed on ap American rhip, which was chartered to convey tem to this continent. When they were «tees, and as soon a8 | allthe Bourbons, manifested iteclf in ulcers and absces- they bad parted company with the Ny ean man-of. war ‘Woich had «scorted them so far, tne jians provested against beipg brought to this country withou: their own consent, and forced the to Captain steer for the Briteh wslancs. They landed at the Cove of Cork, apd were immediately the objects of the liveheat sympathy. Public demonstrations were bal jn their bonor, and ® generous subscripuon opesed for their benefit. Their presence in Eogiand under such cir- cumetances must hav Brovg P Popular effect in favor of the cause of Italian indepen It was not from his own subjects alone that the late king bad trouble. On the 25:b of June, 1867, an attempt volution was ade on the island of Ponza by a smali bi of twenty-seven men, under the leadership of a for- mer engineer officer, named Charles Pisacane, Dake 0” San Giovanni. The force was recruited on the island, and the revolunopists again embarked on the Cagliari to the nomber of 823, and resumed their voyage, mtend. ing to make another descent at a place catled Sapri- On the way thither they began to cool down, on reflection, and they demanded to be brougnt back to Sarcinia or Genoa. The captain refused, because he had not coa! enough, and insisted on running into the Rearest port—tbat of Naples. Tne revolutionists had no choice but to pursue ther rash enterprise. They landed ‘on the coast, with cries of vive VIialie, Vive la Repillique; but the people did not choose to join them. They fled to the mountains, were pursued by the government troops, most of them killed, and others taken prisoners. Among the latter was Pigacane; but he soon died of bis wounds, Some managed to get back on board the Cagtiar!, and that vessel, having en seized by two frigates, was confiscated. The Sardinian government protested against this act, on the ground that the Cag. hari was & commercial vessel, trading between Geroa and Tuvis, and that her captain or owners were not cognizant of the object of the revolutionists. This aflair, which was supposed to have been instigated by partisans of the Murat family, led to a rupture of diplomatic negotiations, first with Sardinia, and eventually with France and England.. The Ministers of theee three Powers were withdrawn from Naples, ard ® portion of the allied fleet was sent into the bay to overawe the King, not only in regard to this affair, but to coerce him to re- form the abuses of his government. Tbe demonstration had a partial effect. The Cagtiart affair was settled. Some political prisoners were discharged. Bct diplomatic re- lations were Dot renewed with King Bomba. For most of this time he was stretched upon a bed of altkness, suffering excruciating torments, He is described in some of the Roglish papers as having been cursed with the doom of Herod. Scrofula, which taints the blood of ses. A recent Paris letter thus described his condition:— What we have just learned from Naples is to the foilowing effect:—The King bas been for ree monsha covered with ab- soerses which cause him the most horrible suffering. Never, saysone of bis d , did & victim of the inquisition suffer wich fearful torture. educed by the violenes of w constaat wer, and forced by exbaustion ody feed the disease. *The a1 palace at Onserta, and sees no one but the Queen, his ‘aod his servants, When, from time to time, ® surgical opera: tion lessens the sevei of Bis sufferings, and he receives, duripg ‘he short interval, either bis _brothere or some dignitary of ibe court or, fhe cane, the official Papers angowoe tne convalescence of 'y, and the prompect of a re. moration. the usual council of ministers then takes piace, presided over by the h prinee or by the eldest son o} the Queen. after the session, the ministers «re introduced into the apartment of the Kin; , Rise the band which he extends from the closea curtains of bis bed. ‘The court pewspaper then announces that hie Majesty predded at the ministerial coureiL All the affairs of Buyope, and even what passes in Naples, are all carefully concealed from the re ‘Thus you see that one of the many aifliculties of the present diplomatic crisis lies in the im Pui 0. the partl:ipation of ino Neapolitan goverament in the eedlerent'of the linia question, doctor, For weeks before his death he is said to have been ono horrid putrifying mass. Tho brain alone retained ite vigor. His physicians held out to him no bope of life, but he heeded them not. The Pope sent to bim—proba- biy in acknowledgment of bis hoepitable reception at Gaeta in 1848—some relics and a piece of blessed shirt, which were supposed to have miraculous gifte. The mo- ribund King clung to these as a drowning man will grasp at a straw, and would not believe that with these relics by bim, and with the masses that were hourly offerea up for his recovery, the King of Terrors could seize him for his own. Vain delusion! That pale death which with equal tread steps to the door of the and of the cottage, came and summoned from his sumptuous palace the second of the Neapolitan Ferdinands, and at that summong, who can stay? His wife, Queen Maria Therese, Was never absent from his couch, despite the loathsome character of the disease and Spared no , and have succeeded to perfection. is represented very aseidious in his practices devouion, his bed being completely covered with cruci- fixes, rosaries and amulets, and he pissing the eer art of the day in uttering rosters aud Ave Marias. Bind aud almoet shy in presence of straogers, ho kpows bo one and no one knows him. Tne royalists and the moderate hberais attributed to bim, nevertholess, the most excelent inieptions, and believed him to be kept down by the authority of the King and the hatred of the Queen, and forced, ike the ancient Roman, to play the part of a brotve until be ¢hail show himself to be a Brutus, | ‘They assumed iba! his exaggerated devotion was but a Jet to Gfarm sospicion, citing Various actions of firmncas apd bepevolence, and promise, in bis name, immediate ly em bis accession to the throne, the constitution and a genera! amvesty. Toe Paris letter from which we have quoted says:— them. The only Tnfinence s which the moat found apy hope fe that of the Duchess of ua- agg al ia bowen st trom’ the fir-t day Jatris, hie wife, It ia nolorinus i ge He gt | i 1 been only shoen by small fnsubordioats ren ‘and passion for pleasure, a taste for since we must teil all, mar oe broed daylight and ia the open ‘air. Bea held but againet reptoct end. Fences! hue that ehe can fa very affebie witb certain persons who are now at the bead ot the opposigcn—aiwaye tbe toad to power just befor Dew reign. The General Filangier\, for example, is one of Ber most favored friends It is, however, feared ll not be favorable to the Italian movement, by her youth and vivacity, the were like @ hospitw than the seat of hae alresdy tbe appearance of w ‘and biding trom al e,¢8 hte priests, ‘who br! relica acd mireculous restore the poor Bing, abandoved by the yalace recalls forcibly the gloomy scenes #0 pained by ®t Simon, ot Versailies, during the last days or Lows XiV. Now that the Duchess of Calabria is Queen of the [wo Sicilies, we will soon see the effect of ber influence on large scale, Will it be thrown im favor of Ausiria or of Ita'y? If ber husband ws as much under the influence of the’ priests as he is represented to be, Naples might be weaned from her neutrality, and made t6 declare in favor of Avstia. But then it must be recollected that by family ties the new King 18 closely allied to Victor Emanuel. The party of his stepmother is Austrian, and therefore ins owo feelbgs and sympathies must be, in very epite, Italian. The rine or ten miilions of people over whom he rules have too long groaned under the iron despotism of hig father and family not to be yearning for Italian imdependence. If he would retain bis throne he must cocciliate not only his people, but France. It has beea well known for some time past that part of Louis Nap> leon’s programme was to restore tue crown of Napivs wo the descendant of Murat. If Francis IL. should now throw bimeself and bia kingdom into the cause of Italian independence, that programme may ve modified for bis sake. If not, be would appear to hold his throne by a rather insecure tenure, for he would not only have to contend against the plotdags of bis stepmother apd her party, and agaiost the ltaao retolutionists, but aiso sgainat the intrigues of Prince Lucien Murat, backed by the Emperor of France. We see ‘Ubat England and Franve were about to renew diplomatic relations with Naples, and to send ministers to the Vourt of Francis II, This 18 an important featare in the news. What the effect of it is to be wiil depend apon the course of policy to be pursued by the young King. ci Mamet THE MARKETS. Consols wore quoted in London, on the 25:h of May, at 91% a 92, both for money and account. This was an ad. vance of one half per cent, the closing rates at 11 o'clock in the forenoon on the 2let ultimo being 91}; a 913. Money was geveraily easy in the market, with hitie doing in American securities, Cotton was dull in Liverpool, but the prices bad nct altered. Provisions were quiet, and flour unchanged in price. i royal patient, crow: m THE NEW FRENCH LOAN AND BUDGET. TRE TRICMRES AND LESSONS OF THE LOAN. ‘THE MINISTER OF FINANCE TO THE EMPEROR. [From the Paris Moaiteur, May 17.) fire—I hasten to render an account to your Majesty of the subscription to the loan of 500,000,000f. This opera- tion o,ened on the 7th and closed on the 15th inst., at five o'clock im the evening, conformabty to toe programme traced out in the mimitterial decree of the 84; it closed while a contiderable number of persons were still in wait ing, who were compelied to retire without being able to Subscribe, notwithstanding the zeal displayed by ail toe clerks employed. The following are the provisioasl re- sults ag yet known to the admivistratioa; they cannot differ very matcrialy from the definitive amounis which Soe have the honor of iaying before your ahe ber of sul bers will exceed 525,000, divided a8 10:10%8:—Paris, 244,129, de; if, 28) 000; for 20f. poten 876,000; for larger sume, 160,000 DI ; for about 760,C00,000r. The sums deposited in the larger sume, 2,227,000,000f. coflers of the freasury by way of we amount, without reckoning the sums paid by anticipatioa, wo 280,000,00Cf, The subscriptions of 10f. of rente, which are exempt from reduction, go little beyond 80,000,000. , 80 that more than 8-10ths of the loan—420,000,000f.— wii bave to be diviced proportionally among those who have subscribed for 'arger sums. Tt was your Majesty's di by the conditions of the present Joan to favor the smaii capitalists without discou ragivg any class of subscribers; that object will have been completely attained, as each will have his legitimate part, d that part will be a little less than the fifth of the sum subscribed Everything, Sire, is remarkable in this imposing mani. featation of public opinion, the number of subscribers ex. ceeding by more than 216,000 that of the last toaa, which Was itse\f #0 extraordinary ; the capital subscribed, which is nearly five times more than the sum asked for; toe national charecter of the capital, which is exclusively of Frenca origin; and the erormous amount of the sum paid ina few days, equalling almoet one-half of the loan, without any disturbance being thereby caused to the ordinary progress of commercial affairs. Such resul's, Sire, speak for themselves so loudly that it would be superfluous for me to comment on them at any length. Obtaioed uncer existing circumstances, and im. mediately after food, monetary, commercial and political criees which have dusturbed the world and caused the strongest positions to totter, they bring out in strong re hef the solidity of our financial system, the wealth of our country and ber power and patriotiem. They show to every eye the close union which exists between France and the Emperor, the entire coafidence of the nation in the force and wisdom of the sovereign who presides over its destinies, and the security inspired by the temporary power confided to the firmness and the exalted iatelligence of the Empress Regent. Iam happy in having results of such immenee importance to make known to your Majes ty. Iam, Bire, &. P. MAGNE. [From the Paris Patrie, May 18 } _ * « ' « What makes this result still more admirable is, that the period for which the subscription bad to remain open was shorter than on preceding occasions. Hostilities having commenced, every one understood, though the treasury could amply suffice for the first wants, that it was neces- ‘oceed rapidly. The number of subscribers, 80 J present known, exceeds 620,000; and how many Pereons have been prevented by the closing of the sub- scription from giving in their tribute. This noble emula tion proves the confidence of France, and the immense resources of which she disposes. The war we undertake we make with our own money; we do not, like Austria, hawk about our loan in fereign markets at the risk of seeing it refured; nor do we levy a forced Joan under a form more or less disguised. An appeal is addreased to the nation, and in a few days the capital subscribed is hve times greater than the sum demanded. Let people abroad now say that the war in Italy bas not all the sympaihics of France. We may be justly proud of such a result, tor it ig a great moral victory, en aiendané others, (From the Paris Siecle, May 18.) . ‘. * * . * It is to be presumed that the greater part of the sub- scriptions are for the Three per Cents. In fact, they leave a wider margin for a rice than the Four and a Hats, since both stocks are redcemabie at 100 fr. Most people are aware that the former have risen as high as 87; the Eng- lish Threes have even been at par, and are now at ‘The conversion, already effected, was also calculated to reassure the speculaiors, who may apprehend that the seme operation will sooner or later be accomplished on the other stock. It is also to take into account the incontestable influence of the government. Its credit is evidently interested in the success of the Three per Cents, ana it is important that they should become popu- lar. These financial explanat ons may appear rather vech nical and somewhat arid, but, when more than five bun- dred thousand persons bave taken part in an operation, every remark calculated to explain it is certainiy desery: ing of notice, This loan is another proof of tha vast ro- that was ted eating him up. It was not alone asense of outy to ber busband that made her consent to oreathe the atmosphere of the sick chamber. That may have had its influence on her. But her principal motive is repro- septed to have been the gratification of an ambitious wish to have her own gon placod on the throne of the Kiogdom of the two Sicilies. This rou, the Count of Trani, is, as we have sbown, in bis twenty first year. He is allied to tae house of Austria—bie mother being a daughter of the Iate Archduke Charles, She wanted the King to name him as hig successor ; but, whether because he did not believe in bis approaching ‘death, or because be would not ‘deprive of his rights the legitimate heir to the throne, she seems to have been unsuccessful; for the same despatch that an. nounces his death says that Francis Il. has assumed tho ress ot government. The ssme Paris letter from which we have quoted above, in speaking of this intrigue and of the rumors connected therewith, says that it is certainly true that the young Count de Trani (she Queen’s Bon) is deep in the affairs of goveroment, that be sits at tho Board of Miniaters with, and in spite of his eldest brother, and that a large party is formed against the legitimate heir of the throne, who do all in their power to discredit bit in the pudlic opinion, and accuse him at once of o% sipacy, Weakness and ferocity, id that these intriguce confuse ana trouble public opinion, aud are mot wituout their 1/1 effects on the dynasty, to reserve the right of transforming the Chasaber into a A® to the }’rines himseif—now Fravois T.—he sented ng being then leading a very eecluded | kept ab @ distance, vated from court, ant, above all, from theciy, He wes wawhed like & revo. sources of the French empire, which is not, like Austria, compellea best a begins Verritories which she hopes to retain forever, but w! she may very possi. biy lose at an early day, (From the London ‘Times, May 19.) Even in these days of wars, revolutions aad elections, we bave pot seen anything so amazing as the report of the French Minister of Fivance on the subscription to the new . Unless itwere the railway mania of 1845, when scrip was igsued apd accepted to tne nominal amount of several hundred miilions, we have had nothing uke it in this country. The figures are incredible bus for the au- thority ; unaccountable except on the strangest sapposi- tions. The loan to which subscriptions have been 1avived ig confined to $20,000,600. This, even to our experienced eyee, seems avery largesum ; and, i France has to begin with such a demand, we ask, naturally, now log is it to go on? Indeed, it will be remembered that within tbree years France pleaded exbaustion for wish- ingeto bring the Russian war to the quickest porsible end. The Emperor said be could get no wore money out of bis people. No doubt, he ead the troth, Averse as all nations are to be taxed, the Froncn seem to reach the bourds of their evourauce quicker than others. Yet what do we now hear? Subscrivers have ayieen out of tho earth. The whole pation subdseribes, The whole pation is found to be overflowing with wealto, and a rusty lemp brings to light the treasu of Golcouds aod the mines of Peru, For a week suv T2 poured in; tho clerks were overworked, and, do what they could’ when it sirucé Cye on the 16k0 inmant, there remamed the entering tor 10f., or 88, of rente, aud the subscription. amounts to £3,200,000. The subscribers for larger emounts were 160,000, and the amount they subscribed ic £89,000,0C0. It is evident, however, from the tact of there being so many subscribers for the very small amount of seribers for larger amonpts, but still notions. claeses of tbis country have very few investment, one is jet in wonder at Pvpulation only one-third larger than sooulc subscribe out of its labor and p: Proportion of 80 enormous a sum a8 It mus; be admitted that suca figures Tiavce with any preconceived opinioos, ubout France. ben French fiuanciers lenged for thetr protective duties, and did Lot foliow our example, and emnsacipate tbe ebelter of a good income tax, the answer poor country, and could oe, 100, looks Her acd villages look unkempt and untidy; her bai slovenly, her byroads bud, and one weldom Deat clipped hecges, or smooth foot MmAbY ® mMue €ven our own There are few forests, at iesst few that ted to grow to a@ natural size and form. ‘| national taste for dress, few French women class appear to spend half as much upon it lish women of correspondimg rank. Oue sees few gevtlemen’s carriages or horses; no hounds; any evidence of what we call styie. French amusements are generally cheaper than ours, unless it be > ‘We cost of which cannot be essimated. Even the 5 re ; i i git heel g 6 BE 5 fl i i i be eRee i , BBURAZE, APpies and vin J fave the expenditure of 86 or 48 for dinner at the table @héte. Bot, of course, these merce, They can make orn~meats, for which, of ‘emand. We they do not fina @ regu” i” The servatne — the Btate are paid. There are, it is true, an Bumber of employés, bat the stipends are ridi. pag — foc -reg tm r= rivalry. army ie i . by! things, except the Court and with the highest functionaries, mee Min) au aoe is Sarees consaiee Set ‘ance mi ns rays her poverty; & See mgenes uosbing: ane tan Samant [i to that amount, and hes guarantee more than £9,000,00. We bave to account for the fact. Nobody who has pete apy rat of Frenee, mnaipcese arse or iD lepartmenis, wil at 8 y 5 lich residents always bring enolic ana aes sunny deposited pod Gufurion of weaith, or rather a general boardin; all our notions. Jf you Inve in the country, the small prictors all about you have thousands, ‘which they only confess to on an emergency, when @ house or & but of land is to be sold, They speiuk generally from pecuiative investments, even if suco olfer are Wing to buy the land they reut, to get rid of a or to buy their brothers out of toe patrimony. bave there gear Jong game of this sort in hand, meapwhie, with two or three thousand pounds perbaps iu the bank or their stropg box, they uve worse than our Engitsh jaborere. Of couree, with such a climate they can live worse, and not be the worse for it. Bach we conceive to be the great substratum o; weaith which has been opened by this new loan. fhe Emperor has tapped the spring that flowed before, ana finds it yield more abundaotly than ever. True, rentes are iow. ‘With three per cents at 60f. 86c., this isa good time for in- vestments, Perbape, woo, the classes woo constitute the chief contributors to th’s joan do not suffisientiy consider that there may be another on more favorable terms to the public tp the course of unis very year, or early im tha next. past ‘pro As little, oo, may they bear in mind Wat the dividends on ‘this new loan must be paid out or an increased revenue, ano that thus every franc they lend to the State invo:ves #p weresse of taxation. Borrowing most have its limits. How, then, is the dividend then to be paid, by lay- ipg on some new tax, certain to be odious? Wah the of £92,000,000 the Emperor is likely wo draw deep. Hie Mimeter encourages bim to do 80. He will be at Oret, contenting himself with the £20,000,000 asked for. But the war will soon exhaust thatsum.’ An of 150,000 men cannot be maintained, with ail their reqe sites, in Ogbting condition under £20,000,000 a year, end this will not be the only expense of the war. Sean? while many sources of industry and profit will be wholly or partially dried up; and the revenue will suffer, while the ‘ezpenaiture is increased. We bave email hope thas these coveigerations will row have much weight. France is bent on yi and conquest, and she is ready for the Present to pay for her whisue. THE FRENCH BUDGET FOR 1860. ‘The report of M. Devinck upon the general badget of the receipts apd expenditure of the Yiovch Exchequer for 1860 bas been distributed. Accoraing to the estimates, the ordipary and extraordinary expenses amount to 1,746 8.7,481 francs; and the receipts, ordinary and ex- traoroias y, to 1.8( 0,664,879 francs; showing a balance of receipts over expenaiture of 5,286,898 francs; but by va- rious adaftivnal charges the government proposes an in- create of the expepses amountirg to 2,546,227 franos, thereby redacing the surplus to 2,940.671 fraccs. The commission of the budget has made, however, a certain bumber of reductions in the estimates, amounting in alito 2,986,090 francs. Tors sum, added to the above surptus, balance of 5,838,601 francs. The commission pro- poses to take 6 (60,000 francs of the surplus, which 20,C00,000 francs of the sinking fund, will farnin the ne- peers — for paying the a the new loan. us the cefin tive exeess'of receipts over expenditure for the buoget of 1860 witl be 896,601 trance. THE AUSTRIAN FORCED LOAN IN LOM- BAKDY. {From the Loudon News, May 20.) News has just arrived that the Emperor of Austria hes determined to inflict on the sarge towns of Lombardy the beavy cbagtisement of a forced oan, amounting to sevea- ty five millions of florins. The Augsbutg @azee, in an- nouncing this exueme measure, couples it in true Baya- Pap fasbion with an insult to the wretched victims of Im- periai cppression. ‘They are to be heavily fined, and Drought to the bripk of ruin, not for their words or acts, bat tor their ‘sympathies.’” fhe citizens of Lombardy baving Italian biood im their verhs sympathize with the eflort's made by the neighboring States in the great and common cause of national iadependeoce. That is the crime, accoraing tothe Austrian organ. which ie about to bring upon these cuies this-heavy punishment, The forced loan is to fall exclusively on the towns. whose sympathies,” says the Augs- burg Gazette, “with Piedmont have brought oa the war, “and who must now pay the piper.” Tne whole of the tax is to be paid in siiver, as the bankrupt government refuses to take its own paper. It migot perhaps have been thonght that considerations of prudence and poi woulo have prevented such a wanton outrage on the a. zeus of Lombaroy at such a moment as the present. But Austria 18 alreacy deperate, and the reign of crueity and terror bas evidently set in, She would surely never otherwise attempt to recruit her exhausted exchequer = = expense of the impoverished townspeople of mbaray ‘The condition of the people on whom it is laid, as Well ag the object of tns forcea loan, make it a measure of peculiar and even refined crueity. During the Jast ten years the tnhaviapts of Lombardy have been subjectea to a series of fices, taxes and forced loans of the most oppressive ahd imiquitous kmd. In this reapect they have, in fact, been treated as slaves, bavipg no right whatever to the produce of the soil i tuled, but ony at most to @ bare sucsigtence, just to perpetuate the round of hopeless iavour to which were condemned. The land tax, for example, in this pro- vince, being more than double the amount levied in other parte of the cimpire, absorbs all the pros arising from the cultivation of the soil, In one year alene, in additien to the exteting land tax of firty per cent, an extraordinary tax of 70,000,000 and @ forced Wan of 120,000,000 of Aus- trian Jires were laid on the people of Lombaray. What ‘bas been the natural resait—a result not only known, but Rotorious now throughout Europe? The land is gradually going ous of cultivation, Multitades, both town and country, have not onmiy been im- poverisbed, but absolutely ruined, ag the annual umber ot forced or ** distress”? saice proves. Many citizens once well 0 do bave died a migerabie and lipgering death, while masy others lengthen out = wretched existence by the tule of family jewels and heir- looms aimost dearer than lite iteelf. Tho real character of Austrian Oppression in Lomoardy may be gathered frem the significant tact that the taxes, rarely lees than forty per cent, cometimes rise 16 the enormous proportion of seventy per cent. Yet this is the province 0a which the Austrian Government, in its paternal mildness, to ay the heavy burden of ine present war. fa isa piece of wanton tyranny which it will tax the friends of Austrian rule in this country to soften and extenuate 80 ag Ot to revolt their reagers, und shock the Lauonal sense of justice amongst the Engtisn peopie. But the object of this forced loan makes it still more nd cruel. It is avowedly an act of , (ilepring of impotent mance against feeipgs which vodie abd patriouic people cannot help cherianing. They cap no more beip hating tyranny and injustice, ‘they can no more help longing to be free and inaepen: than tbey can belp breathing. The only they have are those of memory and hope, but these constitute the springs of @D incestracuble nacional vitality, uever forget the past, free and independent ere only begining to emerge from ies oy oa have ore pobler mage than the Austrians ever knew, that ot naa! . dence—and they cberieh the mg bition of regaining it, That feeling of patriotism Austria justly regards a8 @ crime of the biackest dye—justly, Decause it 18 in reality bigh tresson against avsoiutem, Ivm the Greek fire whicn will eventually consume the Gark and fatal machinery of deeputem from the face of the earth? Austria cov her utmost tv stamp out this sacred flame in Lombaroy beneath the brutal bool ef her reaklets solaiery. She is mustering her forces for a tresh aba more resolute attempt. Add wito a retlocment of cruelty, Worthy even of a Hapsburg, calis on these miserable peopie to support the army which is to tread ibe last sacred spark ot freedom and Dope from toeir be- jovea soil, Lord Derby may call this, as he recently called We o ber wrougs woica Lomoardy had endured, @ “sentimental grievance;”” our Austrian sympathisers may tweat it lightiy, ag an ordinary incident of war, and it wil) Lf