We make some further extracts from the news by the steamer
Bremen, which arrived at New York on Tuesday inst:
[Correspondence of the London Times]
Town, April 12th.--Garibald it pursues his triumphal march throughout
Northern Italy, and the enthusiasm his presence excites gives onward signs of a bating.
From he traveled to Copal-Maggiore, on the
Poe, and thence visited.
from Cremon; he again crossed that river, and followed the line of the Æ Aston Railway as far as Stranells, where no again crossed over to
Pavia.
From this letter city he will again appear at
Milan, and thence proceed to Bargains and and probably to on the
Lake of Gorda, where he will be in front of the Austrians forces the borders at Poschiera.
Already the Austrian garrison along the shore of the lake have caught the alarm, and are everywhere on the watch.
The ever of excitement aroused by the hero wherever he shows himself, exceeds the description.
At
Cremona Garibaldi was on the most friendly terms with the priests, who with their good
Bishop Nova confers their head, warmly espoused the cause and declared against the temporal power of the
Pope.
As he was leaving
Cremona, a priest, a Ven asked him. When shall we go to
Venice,
Geraldine and a deep sign and answered, ‘"We shall go to
Venice, and soon, us unpay but what am I hit on man! '--‘ "On you're a thousand and hundreds of thousand"’ quoth the priest, clearly is all yours, as all her hearts and all her strength"’ replied G severely ‘"I you do not raise me so high, I me words at P rma, which I been imported in the spo of the Italy of the ages of and of our which is the age of
Victor Emmanuel — this part of my speech was omitted.
I am sorry of it. We are all with our
King and will all work with him to liberate and unite
Italy."’
In all other towns at Casals, Maggiore,
Paris, Stranelia and
Cremona,
Garibaldi took the greatest care to set up the cry, ‘"
Italy and
Victor Emmanuel"’ and at all banquets proposed the health of the
King,
Prince humblers, and the
Royal Family.
It is still confidently asserted that the
General will go to
Naples and
Sicily.
The official
Gazette contains a circular from Sigeer Rafizzito the Present of the
Italian Kingdom.
It says the policy of the
Italian Government is inspired by the ideas of national unity and of liberty.
While the walk of unification is being accomplished in
Italy, two political programmes are impossible.
The who succeed each other can differ duty as to the degree of liberty suitable for the country.
The Government will act with consideration, but will, at the same time, energetically suppress disorder.
A dispatch from Furin, of April 15th, says: ‘ To-day in the senate the
Minister of Justice proposed that all the landed property confiscated by the late
Dukes of for political motives, should be restored to the former possesses.
His proposition was approved in the Senate.’
The naval Revolution.
[From the London Times, April 14.]
The debate in the House of Lords on the question of the Spithead forts yields a valuable contribution to the information of the country on a subject which, as the
Duke of
Cambridge truly remarked, is engrossing public attention to an extent beyond all parallel.
Before, however, we discuss the views of Government on the point immediately under discussion, it will be necessary to correct a misapprehension which has tended to confuse two questions very distinguishable from each other.
It appears to have been imagined both my Lords Be
Grey and Lord Ellencerouge, and to have been, indeed, generally assumed, that the conclusion to which the public instinctively jumped after the
American experiment, was simply a that forts were because iron plated, ships could repel shot.
But that was not the case.
It was only by accident that the question of forts was introduced at all. What was concluded from the
American battle was that wooden ships, however strong or numerous, were barely helpless against even extemporized ironsides and that it was consequently within the power of any nation to construct in the course of a few months, and at a very moderate cost, half a dozen vessels which would be more than a the whole navy on which we relied for protection.
Of the entire active force of one hundred and forty-nine ships of war, two only could be regarded for the future as fit for fighting.--That was the effective strength of the
British navy, and though other Powers, no doubt were similarly circumstanced, yet, unless we availed ourselves of our superior resources to maintain our position, we might be overpowered waters at any moment.
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It is satisfactory to add that the
Government is awake to the real emergency of the moment.
Of course, we are in a perplexing position, for the conclusion of one day is upset by the conclusion of the next, and we cannot tell or a week together whether most reliance is to be placed on the impregnability of ships or the destructive power of guns.
But the
Duke of
Cambridge very forcibly observed that we could not afford to pause or spend time in expectation, for while we paused we should be defenceless.
It is of no good to say that we are in a state of transition." --That is true enough and a very troublesome state it is; but the safety of the country must be insured during this state as well as all others.
Lord De Grey plainly acknowledged the obligation, and admitted that it was impossible for us to stand still.
We have made one good step within the last week.
We have got a gun that will destroy any iron eased ship, though no other nation has got a gun which will destroy ours.
We shall presently have a gun, it is said, which would enable the efforts force at
Spithead to command every force of water between them.
We have fifteen iron-cased ships, the
Duke of Somerset against us, either built or on we have five wooden men-of-war receiving their plates and we have one, but it seems only one, cupola vessel actually ordered.
This is something, but the question of the navy is still infinitely more a gouts than that of the forts at
Spithead--Lord Vivian, indeed, in introducing the subject of the debate, made a remark which may be found hereafter to contain a most pertinent argument.
We are taking all this thought for
Spithead because of the stores contained in
Portsmouth arsenals, which might be consumed by the shells of a hostile fleet; but when small iron cupola vessels have been substituted for the old fashioned fighting ships, when metal is everything, and timber, masts, sails and cordage, have almost disappeared from our stores, will
Portsmouth be in so much danger from incendiary projectiles?
That is a question deserving some consideration.--What we shall have to protect is not the fleet of the present, but the fleet of the future.
The American question
[From the London Times April, 10]
In such a campaign as the
Federal army is now opening in
America, the movements must necessarily be slow and cautious.
The masses of troops to be moved are immense, their organization, in spite of the good will and natural quickness of the men, is far from complete, and the country to be traversed adds to the desolation of primitive nature the artificial desolation made by an obstinate enemy.
We must, therefore, not be surprised that April has begun before the
Federal army of the Potomac has entered into the campaign.
The latest news is to the 3d of the present month, and at that time the forces of
General McClellan and his subordinates were still in the neighborhood of
Washington, preparing for the great expedition which in to act against
Richmond from the sea.
The resolution to co-operate with the States desiring to abolish slavery has passed the Senate by a majority of 32 to 40 the dissentients being the representatives of the border States where slavery prevails.
While these schemes are receiving the attention of Congress the financial questions appear to be in complete abeyance.
Taxes have been voted, and it remains for the
Government to collect them, if it can. The sanguine expectations of the
North keep up the value of the Treasury notes, and, though the load of debt is increasing with frightful regularity every month, there is no thought of the financial morrow.
The whole soul of the
American people of both sections is now in this war, and the future is forgotten in the fierce excitement of the present.
