MISCELLANEOUS.
The ex- King or Naples.—The ex-King of Naples is at Borne, accompanied by the Queen and royal family, there to create more troubles under the wing of the Vicar of Christ. The Sardinians are now in Gaeta, and occupied in assisting the sick and wounded. A despatch says: —"We found the greatest desolation and misery; but have been received by the King's troops with enthusiastic gratitude." The Government journals of France are by " superior orders" all in love with Francis 11., late of the Two Sicilies, now a guest of Pius IX. at Rome. The little Bourbon is called a hero; the defence of Gaeta a most gallant, nay heroic act The ladies of Paris sentimentally talk about Francis 11. as " an innocent victim of revolution j" they do not add revolution of his own creating. On the tables of the salons of the Faubourg St. Germain you see the simpering, halt silly photographic portrait of this unhappy prince, and the priests have taught the ladies to read therein devotion, benevolence, constancy, courage in a face which Nature has made—forgetting the attributes of intellect-r-a mere blank ; not offensive, simply emptiness. Instead of maikng a hero of Francis 11., how much more honest sympathy his friends might create if they were to state a few homely truths.
Russia.—A Warsaw letter states:—Public opinion, which is here generally very silent, has been recently aroused by a fact which is somewhat important in a local point of view. Colonel Leuchte has been sent to the fortress Zamosk, to be imprisoned for several years. He killed jin a fit of passion, several of the peasants on certain property the State had made him a present of. In the time of the Emperor Nicholas he would only have received a simple veprimand; but the Emperor Alexander views these affairs in a different light. His Majesty ordered the Colonel to be brought before a Military Tribunal, and the Court having shown itself too lenient, he ordered a fresh trial, which ended in a condemnation.
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Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 371, 14 May 1861, Page 4
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338MISCELLANEOUS. Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 371, 14 May 1861, Page 4
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