The Express. — London, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

TEE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENIRG, MAY 10. 18* H ALMOXIUMS—XIW MODAL.—CRAXIII, =aut. sad A. Mk liffsfre•fa Zhc •xlrsgW. TO 00g111111701(1)1/111& At -••• umidd Wm/a Ile "Tat EA14.... - Landon It.. Vito Papa, mad to at taw CoSet. e. ',vane-end, vie 11 . 1 as do ay of peelkatia. ▪ ■, rn■ nart i sring 'Jet +sm. W. • • . weir. w ar m itteu alkiaL-Airi L...c • emmeatt at 7. t : , /tR at Tat • L nano. 171111101111 £ O r EN times J . Rom* IL 011,. •1... r • Siv in d Mr & rml Ma. I. 41.1. a I ... tit T .4.146 Oil u... Mr Mien& RIGA WATIA AT LONDO. MIDAS. T Tat . 14, 011111 ft 74 .1 1. 7. je=. 11'' 14. L(.IIZON. 11772AD4Y, MAT 10. M. lie PlastarT retteens to England as Preach Amtreader. Somewhat mere than • year has elapsed since he ceased to fill the same post at our Court. 'the affsir of the Conspiracy Wl', in which be played • conspicuous part, wee th cause no doubt of his retirement, though in what way pri de.); it rendered that act of self-abnegation neces sary the publie at large did not very distinctly under stand. Only one thing was at the time rrgarded as sirloin, namely, that the French diplomatist felt sod declared that he had been misled by the de dant:owe of Lords Dinar and M.ti.lll+4lsVßY while In opposition. and that he confidently nektited upon their Firsuieg when in power a coarse sae OW fuermaS'e to the wishes of his Imperial wader, than Leeds l'Atueesvou and CLAWIDON. The first ',nit of • change of Ministry proved that be had I..;:ter deceived himself or been deceived he did not ct to conceal his &agile; and in the Mane of a fe w weeks he relinquished the position be bad for some tine filled with to much credit to himself and advantage to his country, because be conceived that u%der the circumstances then existing he could mar retain it with diminished influence. A very general feelieg was manifested at the time that M. vet Psnr , IONT was one of the few persons who had bebased thoroughly well in the whole transaction; and the expression of this feeling was the more re mailiste'o, because nineteen out of every twenty ropier in this country considered him to have barn on the wrong aide in the international sap %Ole. We were very angry at being called upon tu change our laws of asylum at the request of a foreign Government; but our anger was directed less against the Sovereign of Fwtci who had ends the foolish request, than against the slavish Ministers of Ragland who had lured him into making it, and who had the inconceivable folly and meanness to set forth the demand they had encou raged if not invited, as the justification of their un patriotic attempt at legislation. But though M. no Pructoxv was in a peealiar manner idiot:fled with almost every step of the transaction, popular justice frankly dietherinehed between the honourable and outspoken real of the Ambeseados in the cause of the Itri.c• he eetved, and the impoliey and %infighting*. Sees of the cause itself. Nay, more. thv popularsamo et truth and honour favourably contrasted hie weed and consistent fidelity with the unworthy shirking and unconstitutional conduct of Lard CLAttxDoN and his col leagues, who, in as plain a cue as eccr existed, were neither true to their country nor to themselves. And thus it happened that whoa M. Di Paustoet's retirement became known, every one who valued the permanence of • good ender stanched between the two cesstries was toadied wiqi a swain/at et regret. ('‘nsaiona, tows and pro, has made a spirited btracinir with Its yellow" soldiering; sad dire we toles, that tks example will be followed all ant •ht smeary. It ie deeds. sad lammed,. to nee ...b meallstations, not only broom thy are s paeshme that as osnotry wield be well defemdad fa case of seesseity t nor brow the last:tatter of suleary •usreirs is • rant beset! to mead all nod, and esespatioas, fa aa age when tile raises, is t separate the arta of dolmas ter rarely bon ever ether el:cation; bet, above all, bottom ere may now emi ►ew peat las heels ear worms in t,b, r •y and rood girterusseat villa* had a sentery, fhb i'lghtset limninesse to the last oressinn of a• extensere formation of velem«r compealas gives trident* of so diffrrest a Tertian between firth, rernewint and the people from anything t►at diem: sent S ties has kerma, as ought tamale us de. voutly thankful for the benefits our fathers have woe fw sr. and heartily loyal in providir g for dr defrrre ea country tam such as amount of :deity r .vtitasd. I: shoal/ be remembered that at the opening of the reality, whoa England sad Wales were iaha bud by cooly sins millions of people, the dread of I enforced military or save! service hang over every I ati.e-bodied man in the kingdom. Besides ths militia of 200,000 use, roars than that camber a I rocrlits for the line had beam raised within eight yesrs—am gnomon, proportion of soldiering far a population of nine million who had a:so a navy to instals. Of those rimraits • fourth part had bus kiliod. and three-eighths were returned upon the country invalided; as that, between the widows, orphan • and invalids, the chirp capon the countrywas extremely burdensome, and the prospect of a wall ring of rasa as diaeousging u could well be. Oso would think that whim affairs looked darker still. and actual invasion was expected, 00TernEheaf waa.d have hailed every proposal for segmenting the dermal's force of the country, sad have mired rwrry opportunity for encouraging voluntary effort. We have heard from our fathers how far otherwise it was; and we meet with evidences in the rosesins of the political men of the timr. The Government spared no compulsion to obtain the greatest potable of men fur the army; but it did not the any so , dirring elsewhere. It wan, in fact, afraid to Vat the pimple with arms. There was no with standing the fervour of the middle dames whoa the pesos of Amiens came to an and. When the Livery of Loudon off. rcd money, and Lloyds insti tuted • had for the heath.. of the woundad and arlasad sad the reward of bravery. the Governawat could sot bet permit military training while accepting pecuniary aids. Drilling went 00, therefore, Lisa round London, to the discomfort of minlsterialserves; bla discouragement, wow thrown in the way of 'Writ) . • is who lived further off, Of IffTO of any other quality thee soastry gestlassea. la Temple► gsrdeus the lawyers might pierce am another'. mato with the bayonet, or trip one another up is the march. or kill themselves and wound their each hours (as olio gentleman did) by firing a masa* with *ix cartridges is it; bat the •• lower ardor's' is the provisoes must be satisfied with pure, a 10 per min , . property tax and Wag drawn for the Militia. a , Iniervo that the krt. VICCA:IIIIN( at the Catch, dge monist, has had his daub:, 'boat slow udents handling the rifle. The &abbe, are happily got rid of, or we might refer Wait the budlike' of University zeal 56 years ago, when the students drilled in blue jacket, black gratin, &a, as told in the cbrcuicles of the time. They trusted— the students, their tutors, the lawyers of the Luis, the Loudon Livery, the merchants on 'Change —that they were doing good, not only by making themselves soldiers, but by setting an example which the country would follow. But the country was not allowed to follow it. When Mr. Purr brought forward his Additional Force Bill, it was for the purpose of compensating for the failure of all—even the most expensive-- methods of recruiting ; things-having now arrived at such a pus, according to the Minister's own declaration in the House, that of 30,000 balloted, net more than 2,000 ar 3,000 appeared to serve. Yet, under these desperate circumstances, the dread of allowing the people to handle arms, disguised some times under an exclusive deference to the principle of a standing army, nullified the grand resource of • domestic volunteer force. The militia was drawn from the north to the southern counties, so as to leave Hull and other ports defenceless; and yet the Yorkshire and other people were snubbed, or pat off with vague thanks, when there was not a day to loss in preparing to defend their coasts and towns. The excuse was a deficiency of arms ; but no effort was made to supply the want. The larger were the county meetings for the purpose of organising plans, the more uninformed were Lord-Lieutenants and other authorities sore to be about the wishes and intentions of Government; so that nothing was done. Colonels of Yeomanry Cavalry, who had spent ranch trouble and money on their troops, were mortified with refusals when they offered their ser vices to Government. Proposal/ of volunteer service were left unanswered, or tampered with till they WTI withdrawn. There was plenty of boasting, probably for the edification of the French, of the noble spirit of the nation, shown in volunteering; bat if the French had come, they would have found oar fathers armed with hedge-stakes, scythes, or pollen, if :at all; for the paternal Ktho and hie Ministers were literally more afraid of seeing them with arms in their hands than the enemy. The whale subject was gone into before long, and partly in consequence of the perplexity of that time which had brought out two parties, each with its doctrine about military defence. Mr. PITS had set ea foot an inquiry into the reasons of the failure of reuniting, the result of which was that prodigioas ahem were discovered (and some punished), and that it was found practicable to obtain more reunite of a higher quality on lower terms than hitherto. This was • new resource to the enemies of volunteer defesee. They declared that to improve the condition and prospect of the soldier was the true way to Improve our security. It would spare as thegreat evil of competition with the army as a state mubine, whose function could not be in terfered with without calamity. The opposite ar gument, urged against PITT and WINDHAM, was the same that we seem to be all agreed upon now; that if our emantry and its institutions continue worthy of our love, and we are brought up to value them drily, we shall not willingly consign them to the protection of a standing army, the bagmen of which lies mainly elsewhere than in our own island ; hat shall qualify ourselves to defend them by our right arms, as weU as by political action. Such wee the controversy in WINDHAM'S time, a time when nothing was so formidable to Government as the motion of the people meddling with their instilla tions, or taking personal charge of them. Great indeed is the change. There may be still— s. there always will be—eonse jealousy in military queens at every proposal to diffuse the art of de fuse, at least wider military forme. Prellsaiesal *Wier* will never believe that anybody ontside of their body sea learn soldiering in any effective mar nor, and will never cordially seaatimanse nay experi ment of the sort; but the time is past when the authorities can deprive is of the mass of trying oar own experiments. The oil bugbear of the denier of trusting the elitism with arms is disposed of, unless indeed there be sense minded moireor superannuated general who retains such a soweeption of the people of England. The whole manes is attached to its Sovereign ; and, if net wholly satisfied on all matters of law and polities. aware that the right way to improve them is through a farther reform of Parliament. W• Mee been roused by the late war to perceive that the long pewee had impaired our military habits and physical training, though not our sol dierly spirit and qsatity ; and we are ready sad eager now, while under no pressure of immediate peril se defiance, to see the eppartaniiy of • warlike stir in Europe to train ourselves to the most active and inspiring of atisen duties, that of holding our ground, not only metaphorically, as before the eyes of all nations, but literally, under our own feet, keeping our territory sacred from the tread of an invader. We do not, as oar readers know, apprehend invasion, or other war fare, if we can but render Government a true expo nent of the national mind ; but we are not behind the wildest alarmists in desiring that every English man's arm should be able to keep his head, and that en should enjoy the educational advantage of • mili tary training, inspired by a patriotic purpose. The very circumstance that each • training is now fees fruit obstacles indicate* a state of political and as thma security so profound me to render the institu tion of our Volunteer Co' mpanies, under their various samea, a high Wield. instead of the desperate, dark sad discouraging afftir that It wee half • cos tar] ago._ Ma. VW:MISR? AND Till WML--An address— certainly st • viry Angeles klod—res dander at ever tor is the Mars Mall, Iltersinet, Medferryner, est do revel war to Italy, by Kr. David Unothert. Mr. Gawp Crewel's', who wee In the air, Inderessi Ms berm te the erre. Miro Mr. tsarist Imp • aerelsg err perry) •4 respied aroly ea her Is very reashirs seat st U..., nod divines( rower en Fogliod, ore% wee tisserib.d se • erste roe, orb( ler wither sey err or retro. sod readalog every Nogish.. tar ride by Intornetlesd haw, to be pat to rota en the territories of Ms Chimer As Ten, ass rho rslord. he l r weeded In so equally wild sod es esosseted eraser to near the elrendrosess not of reeli the wen ha holy arose. It ea re ear omen noir rto ro metre tern wee • dialo., "darts( way one le ✓eek if do real object of the roar war to hely " Mr. (Ashen enewitiorbly rendered it oar iin d t iw doyens lkitised to hie obsened mer le re reel ober et the war. Bat le rid &deed, at eregb, tt apperery, with Austria se as error ea re Or baud, sad lISTIOIS add lessee to topmost to the ether ma who fly went to war As ea net /sr Art hid Uwe* bed we ire more prto ex Oar wettest. At re ire Mr..Urgallbut ✓id that the war had been reamer by " gory,' •by people W Ant haft; tit of Ante thr the or hod from the RIIIIMOT of Nears hobbles ep Ito had and user. " Now the is. hes ea®o Len wee " sod 6! roe wen • wen; sad at a rid tine be arid thst Rare en Or or head whir led arm se the rare of Immo tbl. war , fer easels err '.dried ell re crimes at Europe, sad wen esedelleoly esoehdes reser& os the Costient. Is the rest or Gerry ago n't wenlllardialt is tr torrovit vas .1 c neFirwors, sad therm of ye{ oreparsey Midhsto been r asing oa it was to loan till will!' ere is the here of Ore wen sedentood to ho the rile peter of tl. Isentre, est=f 4 not losemprereethie to Mt. tivelierthe kirk wee es, at leret, to es. Aire mad of the leery Mrselort• proper as en writhe gabber as a fern 1.1 *overt to asy robree, berg prod, so was profoundly terrine off in poilVe s se se g A VOW of tbwalia t 4 Mr. Urethan sad the shirr creed the protiriap. gbr traun. Bar Majesty sad the Yrutee Consort, aonampanied by the Primer Alice, tcel• on horseback yesterday inotakag, attended by 111411ov. ble.mx Bt.niey, Lord Chaim Fer al Colonel Biddoloh, mad Lfeat.-Culusel Ponsooby. The Qum, accompaaied by Prince Arthur and the Pria m@ Aber, ~.iced the Das... of Kent, at Clereaewbonee, St. lassee'e, la the eftsewww. la attendsoos were the Hens. Slnutor Stealer, Lord Char:as Fitzroy, and Calms! Bid hur lteirs , y sad the Prime Ceased, asseesceated by the Prtacesase Altos and Bekaa, basowed the yertenasare at the Primate's lheabre with their premiere last event's. The royal snits consisted of Lady Meldepald, Hon. Hiesaor Stanley, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, Lard Cherie* Fat roy, sad Lkmat.-Colocel Poneonby. TM Primates Helene and LOW*. and Prince 1 'Wed the Dacia.. of beat ye e twdey Tbe Prisows7: ld ry of Cambridge paid s boil to the royal 'duchess. at Clatencw , haws, St. Jame's, in the afternoon. Deotatches wore root from tbs Colootal-offlos yotecttay to the Goveracicr of the Co!oaks os the West Coast of Africa, .114 of Heliiolaad. MU N 4113778 nur iv Till 1074 L ACADIII7.-(111111 DAY.) This !amnia( her Majesty and his Royal High s... tie Prime Consort. aecunspaniel by Prisons Alice Nand Mary, dr Prise os Helene, Princess Louisa, sad Prince Alfred, .visitad Use Royal Academy, whams the illadriese party Were received by the president, viol-proident, secretary, and other waded:al ci ens, and ocducted over the building. . In attendance on her Majaity were lAdy Mendoza Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Hon. Horatio Btopfzed, Lard Charles Fitz roy, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell. Llentanint-Cokmal Por.- away, and Colonel Biddulph. Her Majesty woo loudly cheered by a Imp 0011001112118 of parsons who had asmaahled in trait of the academy. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is ex pected to arrive at Buckingham Palace early in the eeseleg week from Gibraltar and Italy. The Oeboree, sehkds Wt Portsmouth on Sanday, ham gum to Gibraltar expressly Is army the heir appateut to the British crown home. Els royal highneen ditanobarked on Sunday at Airtime. Her Royal Highness the Dachas of Cambridge hes bees searing from the effects of a violent cold, which prevested Ira royal highbrow atteadiag the confirmation of the rr:noese Alice at Wiedeor, sad also the Qaesn's Drawing-room cm Seurday. On Sunday her Majeety sad the Prince Consort, mailed the Machete at her ruidence et Kew. Their Serene Highnessee the Prince and Princess Edward of Sue-Weimer arrived at their mansion in Port hind-pleoe, on Sunday evening, from a tour on the Conti nent. His Excellency the Count Persigny is expected to only. et Albert-gate Home from Perim to-marrow, to annum hie cliptemetie duals ma repromitatme of the Imperial Preach Court. His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Made= Van de Weyer have arrived at the residence of the Legation, Par.lascl:plmms from Windsor, for the masa& The Hight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mn. Incision* are peyleg a visit to Oxford University, sad an the prim of the Warden of All goals' College. The Earl Cowley left town yesterday for Paris. The Earl and Countess of Al almesbary enter tained at dinner last evening, at their incidence is Whitehall gardens, a mlset ands, inclading the Countess 69 Plater, Fisid-Matatial Viscount and Viscountess Comb/mare, Count W. de flallsyl, Count Joan do HaUwyl, Lord std Lady Ossalston, the Right Eon. Sir John and Lady raking km, Lord Edward T►ynae, Sir John Lateness, Mr. sad Mrs. Hammond, Mr. Sidman, Mr. Barrington, to. Lieutenant-Cieneral Sir William Codrington, H.c.8., left Lnitton cm Sunday foe Gibraltar, to anise lags Ida appointment as seeeraor sad aomenandes-is-oldsl data' Wand and garrison. The mortal remains of the late Doke of Legge were removed at en only hour yeatmday rworabg to Kivu. tom for intermeat. The duchess, accompanied by Mr. IN Lase Fon, am Mr. Pelham, and other members of the f mild, lalt towa yesterday to attend the ftuteral, which will Mks pima on Thursday sett. ALARMING COLLISION OP RAIL war num IN 4 TUNNEL. (From the Lode Memory. AY Amyl As strident of as alartakei Mare emearred on Mb, aftwnoon bast, la the tassel ea the Lawathin sad Tubelike Railway, between Braised sad Low Moor. It swam that • few ablates after the 3.26 parry, traia lilt Bra&herd for Mandamus, it was followed by is empty truth whore deaths* Ws wee Low Moor. Oa the letter teeth sonata the Lew Meer tanael, mead of bathe sigaelied to halt at the top WM Ks Orel teals had pared Woo" the aagiardrivet we enewel to go m, sad the ewesqwwee wee that the empty Ink ran into the Mestabamer testa st • met about theca Madrid yards treat the other earl of the thane', which is • mile in lemph. The Mthehmter treat eamisted of one ant, sad two emend lee eserithes, • sin, sad the engine and team. Oth of the second dam earrieges wre driven whist Me them vita each free that the hiders wen meshed, end • pieties el the front of the carriage the teethe, while the bodies of the other aseelthes were all dished treat desk heath. Israel Roils, the seglawdriier of the presseager trigs, ma throws dews, and the gnarl, Jamph nth, wile Wee waled he his boa at the math tat the aolilehes, had his had forest quite through • window. Beth men, however, mesped with only • few sentare. Them wire shoat forty paimagen he the train. They vele them viehaily spirt Gael ether, mi, as may he sap pond, were la • Stale Mewed them e whisk wee based the darkness it the twat sad the eareleity es le the is,. sad attest at the thechief. The we de. wind trots tlie carrier, nest to k ee l the bet Me driver immediately moppet it, the *Abe the empty ash bertha been Ms e stopped, the wide lei was soon brought to • mend. Nola et the swinges bad bias throve et the lias, sad by fastening the issie w • her af the heaths earlege the twit wee taken termed te la w Mee. lb. Todd, the station muter si Law War, end the weleurdeiver el • Linda min which vas wahine then bed Mrs te inspect that ea eitebhsa had him plea, In emir =the kleatereise Was beteg about ma Mouse its time, sad the eppearaace of the train verified slab sorplass. Mr. Todd sad the thrthata of thee:Repay et the maim seethed the passe re from the mew, sad bath that thy led sU mired am or lees Wary. With the exception of one gesitewiaa, \mem they were all this to proceed on their peanny, end Kier t delay of about twenty mister, went terweed la enadm trift, sake the ahem* of the gaud, driver, sad Mane of the di abled the. The gentleman reamed to Is Mr. Maeda, prithith of Brad ford. His upper lip tree severely eat, sable whole bean was **vial, sham, but nose of Ole beam were Mohan Some friends who were running he leekhed by • wain whisk me op some time eberweede leek drupe of Ida et the ration, and he wee rammed to the Commerellel Iha, Bradt.rd, where Kr. Itheie, same" waged Mier whet he wee esamiyal le his own bus. Oa inquiry yesterday oar Paperer wee lishormed that Mr. Maude had era-red cons demble pith shoat his shealdere, and let sem, end wee seal wiry unwell, but eta the *jades Mhr received are set thoaght to be of a I dr peer eherseeir. Kr. Seed cantiness s mead and he hes Ma besa visited • andieel amulet:Ban mite, 64 by the Leacialeire by ant Teekeure Co.. pry. Knew the ethlawdriver he the wear of the easy testa which ma into collides with the paean. Pain seemthed say injury. TM ardent wee entirely maw tot breach of the nth laid dews by the ralway =l, which requires that may _Weis sabring the Maud see passed quits through it Mame mater Is allowed le Asir. A sign,' ass I. 'nerd at each end of the toad he mean the obiermsce tide re* Nth theegh they bosh anis...tit that they signalled peepeely la this irialwee, yet use te than matt certainty hare wieleseed Bey, or the eroidsat c Aild not lame happened. The two ms is in the service of the Orem Norther& Company. THE WAR. LATEST NEWS. The following official bulletin (we learn from Mr. Reuter) was published yesterday at Turin : " The enemy, to the number of 2,000, after having occupied Biel* for a short time, has again withdrawn. Austrian reconnoitering parties had advanced as far es Ivrea, but seeing the preparations for defence they withdrew. "The command of the troops for the defence of Twin has been given to General Sonnaz." A telegram from Berne says : "Marshal Canrobert directs the operations of the allies. His head quarters are at Alessandria. The French and Sardinians are supposed to amount to 120,000 men, and the Austrians 140,000. " A considerable corps of Croats have entered Como. The city has been placed under heavy con tributions of provisions, and a fine of 5,000 florins on account of the display of a tri-colour Bag before the chateau of Baravello." The position of the Austrian', according to the latest account', is thus sketched by the Brus sels Indervidance of yesterday :—" It seems from the last bulletins published at Turin that if the Austrian army has suspended its movements in the direction of Voghera, Tortoni, sad Aleseandria, its right wing continues to de ploy and to march onwards. It has reached Buroozo and Saltuisola ; they mention it also at San Germano, where it is raising entrenchments. Salussola is a station on the railway which leads from Bielle to Vercelli. &Immo is a little to the right ; by its occupation the troops at Salamis are joined to those whose departure from Vercelli, in the direction of Gattinari, we mentioned yesterday. More to the south the Austrians who have not been able to cross the Po at Frani netto, have attacked the head of the bridge at Came., but without succeeding in carrying it. While gaining ground towards the north, the Austrians compensate by the construction of en trenchment' for any danger which the extents' extension of their line of operations may offer. We hays said that they are raising entrenchments at San Germano ; they are constructing them also along and in front of Semis, in such a manner as to units to the advantages of a defensive position the possibility of an unexpected attack upon points that are badly guarded, and the benefit of living in an enemy's country. Under these circumstances, the allies who have profited by the time to increase their forces and to complete their material, cannot long delay assuming the offensive. The departure of the Emperor Napoleon is a sign of their intentions. Ws shall soon, then,recein important news from the theatre of war." The intention of the Duke of Chartres to serve in the Piedmontese army hu been overruled by the advice of the Orleans princes, his uncles, and he is about to leave Turin for England. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany hu re solved, it appears, to eater the Austrian army, and to MUM in the war. He is already nominally colonel of the Bth Dragoons. " It is afirmed," says the &dependance of Brus sels, " that the great powers will come to an under standing to guarantee the neutrality of the duchy of Parma, a neutrality which the Ductless herself is 'axioms to secure." The government of the Two &lollies has given notice by its agents at the different European courts that his Neapolitan Majesty intends to observe the strictest neutrality." Prince Nicholas of Nassau has jest taken leave of the Chambers, prior to leaving for the Austrian army. In his farewell speech he congratulated him self on being the drat Oerman prince who took up arms " for the defence of the common country." A Berlin letter, in the Elbfrfeld Gautte, says : " The last accounts from Hungary state that great agitation prevails amongst the Magyar and Bela- Tonkin population', anxious to recover the rights wrested from them ten years ago. Agitation also prevails in Galicia and in the Polish provinces of Austria." The Pisdasontese journals publish a circular ad dressed by the Archbishop of Genoa to the clergy of his diocese, recommending them to offer op public prayers for the Piedmontese army. The tone of this document is highly patriotic. The Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, in commu nicating to his clergy the circular of the Minister of Public Instruction relative to public prayers for the mass of the French arms, his addressed to them a poloral letter which concludes in these words: Amidst the grave circumstances in which Frame Is pieced, Ile Snot thought of the clergy is to tarn towards Clod, who belle to his hands the hearts of Kings, and who raises or seats down empties as he Owes. War, whatever may be the bens of glory to which it may raise a nation, it always a gnat essurge. We outwit regard the miefortanes it woe- Mons wit►out praying Divine Provides°, to abridge and pat as eni to them. Accordingly, deer brethren, we shall extend towards leaven supplicating band* to Implore Its succour. wall be obtain a prompt sad honourable pew ; rued we obeli imisat these words of the Minister of Pablo la stracties—" May God protect Frames and the Emperor I" Ivey Ileaday during the war the cloth Psalm, sad the pew far the Emperor sad his army (the lab in the labsal) shale amid after vespers; and the payer tee peace (the 42nd la the Kissel) shall be mid every day at mess. ... the enemy's fire with intrepidity. Major-General Chevalier Cieidiot, bearing the cannonade, hastened oat of Casale with the 16131 reginmet of infantry, two spriadrons of the Monferrsie light cavalry, and the 3rd field battery, to tho assistance of the troops in order to drive the enemy back from the river, had he succeeded in crossing ; but beton his arrival there, after nightfall, the enemy had 'Leidy ceased aring and retired. During the night, at about half-poet 1 cm., the enemy attempted to construct two pontoon bridges opposite Freesinetto, but being harassed by a brick An from our betterke, he renounced hie project and spin retired about 8 a.m. The reconneheanom made by the troops of Casale after the astmecorar, showed that the enemy had abandoned Bslzols, sad subeeqnsnay Terranova sad Villanoes. We have tv deplore the loss of 6 killed and . . . _ 27:araanded, all privataa and ACCIDNIT 70 4 LUGGAGE TRAIN. NARROW ESCAPE OF A PASSENGER TRAIN. (hen Os Manchester Seamliner.) About half put two o'cdook on Sunday attentooo, age eider) tr .1a free the meth to Londe was sperm lung the Le) load magas, ea the Learners NA Yorkshire lieu. way, shout four ellen to the south of Prete, the axle of ea of the "regimes bole down, renew the waggon to be' threes off t:e lie.. befog, the wage. could be atom.% the • &fie we. dragged • ooelderebis member of (sole. 'legible( up the lie, mei del ledge errend sleepers le Its mires. Four or gee tther weirs* ale loft the metals, lad were *ewe mole the down Ilse of me It we. weedy seitht o'clock the reesei Woe the lige geld be eland. Let the seeklest bappesiag o 0 Beaday did not ecosokei soy rest ebetru.tios to the tell:, fe • tame* oar the be ea Sundays. • peerage Vet trTee a teecheer bed e seem Nam haves cal( jut pea el the It germ use wee the esideet te the hirer t oh pima. THE LATE ENGAGEMENTB.-SARDINIAN REPORTS. The Bing of Sardinia hes issued the followleg order of the day, dated from his head-quarters at Aleesandria, May b: On the bid attd 4tie the seermy attempted to pare the Po oppodts Prasetastes sad Valenz e. The troops of the 17th regiment, the Bth battalion of 13:maglieri, the let, 17th, and 18th batteries, entrusted with the defence of that stood the enemy's fire with intrepidity and !rearmed his attempt. His Majesty the King, highly nastiest with the firm sad praiseworthy be. harbor displayel by these troops, and with the intelligent maw is which they were commanded by their chafe Colossi Boasoli, Major Voipsilsadi, and Captains SAwero, Dha, sad Hobert!, has gives order. to the undersigned chief of the staff to inform all the corps of allermy thereof by the present order of the day, hi. Majesty being coavinced that is first await will he Mowed by other greeter ones, which will Increase the repatatlon and glory of the Piedmon t less army.—By order of his blelerl7, Ll;ot.-6.e. Chief Of tie Staff DeLLA RoccA. The Piedasontese Gazette publishes • short ac count of the cannonade of Valeast, on the 4th, st►ting the number of wounded at 10, boaidas Cspt. Roberti and one man killed. The latter, • corporal of Bersaglieri (or riflemen), namod Albini, being mor tally wounded, nevertheless crawled to a hillock in order to have on. shot move at the enemy. The operations of the enemy near Fraaeinetto are officially described as follows: After soma ineignikant eacountera of cavalry daring the first days of the war, and in which our troop painted the enemy's oared, we have now to measles bete of greater Importance. Os the 3rd of May, abate treaty Ideates pest 4 p.a., the enemy is comadorable brae root nattered the left beak of the Po, oppoite Proadootha, with an attempt is... over to the right beak. The easesy's 61C4111 WON darn up our Terranova, protreted by the dam of the river, arbeace they opened a berry ere of eaaaketry sad roali;he whist our allvaatod poets. Tho imps of the 17th taglease with the 171 k battery, 'WA wire Me. lewd tbut f t .1) 4 fence of that *M t heel AUSTRIAN VESSELS IN SARDINIAN PORTS. The following is the article of the Pieanzontese Gazette, making public the decision of the govern ment relative to Austrian vessel' in Sardinian ports Hie 111e,lady's government would have willisgly, during the pretest wee, proclaimed those liberal principles, accord ing to whilst, the mercantile vessels of the enemy are allowed a certain space of time to leave the pone of the mete without moksiation. The government has been unable to do so, because the territory cf the Mate is invaded by a powerful army, which appease the occupied provinces with acts of violence of every description, thee disobeying both the rules al the law of negate end theme of humanity mortised la our present state of civilieetion. Orders have therefore been given to lay an embargo on the Austria' meals lying in the port@ of the:state. This measure of precaution and security wee im periously called for by circumstances. And ellhough the enormous requisiUons and extortions of all kinds practised by the esemy on our territory, to the injury of the unarmed populallos, justify even now an order of capture of the said vetwels, nemertheless the government still reeerres Its decision to that respect. Meanwhile the government baskets to no tify to all whom it may canteen that the property of neutrals that may be on board the sequestrated vessels shall be Imme diately restored to their owners, conformably to the dealers- Cons in favour of neutrals signed by the high powers at the Congress of Paris la 1866. The application of such pita ciples can naturally only be invoked in the case of such yawls IA shall scrupulously observe strict neutrality. THE MERCHANT SHIPS OF GERMANY. In a Hamburg letter, dated Friday last, we read : I " In the possibility of the armies of Germany being called upon, sooner or later, to take an active part in the war against France, our senate has deemed it prudent to beg, through our minister at London, the English government to take under its protection the numerous merchant vessels which sail on every sea with the flag of the three ports end free Hanseatic cities. The official reply has not been long coming. Lord Malmeabitry has informed our senate that if the Germanic Con federation should, by the torn of events, be brought into a war against France, England would not be able by any international treaty to take under the the protection of her fleets the merchant vessels of the German states forming part of the confedera tion. This resolution of the English government, which became known to-day at our Bonne, has caused a profound sensation amongst the ship. owners." BELGIUM. The Belgian Moniteur publishes the following note in its official part : "Belgium has adhered to the principles laid down in the declaration of the Paris Congress of April 18, 1868. This adhesion was published, conjointly with the declaration of the Belgian Moniteur of June 8, 1866. The mercantile community are informed that instructions have been addressed on this sub. l 1 ject to the judicial, maritime, and military authorities. Every person subject to the laws of the kingdom, who shall take part in privateering, or in sets contrary to the duties of neutrality, will expels himself on the one side to be treated as a pirate abroad, and on the other to be prosecuted with the utmost rigour before the Belgian tri bunals." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE EMPRESS APPOINTED REGENT. A telegram from our Paris correspondent informs of the appearance of a decree in this morning's Moniteur, appointing the Empress Eugenie Regent. Mr. Renter's telegram gives faller particulars. The Moniteur says:—" The Emperor having the Intention of placing himself at the head of the army of Italy, has resolved upon conferring the title of regent on the Empress. The Empress (says his Majesty) will swab* the functions of Regent during our absence in conformity with our orders and instructions, which will be tran scribed into the great book of the state. The Prince Jerome, the presidents of the great bodies of the state, the members of the privy council and the ministers will take cognisance of these orders and instructions, and the Empress will not be able to depart from their tenor in fulfilling the duties of the regency. The Empress will not be able to pro- claim any other senalus eonsultum than these now actually existing. The Empress will take the advice of the Prince Jerome on the resolutions and decrees which will be submitted to her." Another decree published by the Moniteur ap points M. de Thouvenel senator. The Mositeer also announces that a statue of Alexander vat liamboldt will be placed in the mums of Versailles. (mow ova ows )INT.) PARIS. MOXDAY EVINIXO. A communicated note in theorising papers statue that the Emperor will leave Paris at 6 o'clock to morrow (Tuesday) evening. The grand mum to pray for the success of his arms will be solemnised not at the church of Notre Dame as previously stated, but in the private chapel of the Tuileries. The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, assisted by the grand almoner, will officiate. The imperial family and household, the ministers, and great officers of state will be present, but the ceremony will not be of the public and imposing character which was at first contemplated. There is no vows whatever of importance from the theatre of war. Thu Doke of Malakoff had a long private interview with the Emperor this morning, and afterwards was present at a ministerial council. The Bourse has been dull, with very little bail nem doing. The Rente fell 20c. for oseh, and 154. for account, closing at 60tr. 900. and tiOfr. 85c. Mobilier left off moo Saturday at 617 tr. 50c. Some of the railways were better: Eastern rose 10fr.; Lyons and Western, 2fr. 50c. each. Orleans fell 21r. 60e.; Northern, ltr. 25c. ; and Southern was without change. Letters from the theatre of war hare hitherto been so rare that you will perhaps think it worth while to print the following extract from one received In Paris to-day from a private soldier; the only fact of importance stated in it, namely, the capture of 14 Austrian guns by the Piedmontese, is probably an unfounded camp rumour, but there is a certain coulter locale about the communication which is interesting: Italy, May 3. I lave not been elAe t writa before s'ton we left Pads. We went sleight to Mantilla by railway without a halt. At Marmake we only rested two boon, and then embarked for Gatos. There wa received our war equipments, end were mat on the march with ell speed. To-night we are all going to sleep in churches for want of other accommodation, sad to -morrow we start for Alexandria. The Austrians want to cut off our commtmicationa, and in all probability the day will not per without an engagement. We expect to fight in the very plats in which Napoleon fought the bot tle of Marengo. Ws are at this moment only about three leagues from that battle-geld, which lies between Novi and Alexandria. I shall give you no =r agtime about Italy sow; we an too much taken up with the thoughts of to-morrow. As soon as the affair is over, I will write to you again. I am sorry for the Austrians, and should not like to be in their skin. I forgot to say that the Piedmontese had an engagement with the Austria= yesterday—gave them • good licking, and took fourteen guns. I have no doubt we shall have equal good luck to-morrow. This letter confirms the telegraphic intelligence that an engagement was expected near Novi. It did not take place in consequence of a change in the Austrian tactics. The announces that the long de bated corn-law question will probably be settled shortly by the "pure and simple" revival of the sliding scale of 1832, there being no time to consider during the present session the various amendments proposed of a legislation which the protectionist journal admits to be defective. I am afraid that this news is bat too true. The pro tectioniats seem to be the only class of men in France powerful enough to thwart the views of the Emperor. Many warm debates on the sliding scale have lately taken place in the financial and commer cial sections of the council of state, and I am told that in spite of all the efforts of MM. Baroche and Rouher, two of the most able members of the government, a great majority of the council conti- flues to uphold the most ultra-protectionist doctrines. M. Michel Chevalier, the FrenchCobden, strives in vain to dispel the darkness which clouds the intellect of hie brother councillors in regard to this question. In their eyes the agricultural and commercial inte rests of France repose mainly upon these two corner stones of industry, Prohibition and Protection. In the last number of the Revue du Deux Hendee M. Michel Chevalier states the startling fact that Francs exports annually four hundred millions' worth of those very articles, the absolute prohibition ' of which from foreign countries is considered by the protectionists essential to her manufacturing exist ence. In the same publication M. Chevalier charges the protectionists with being the systematic adver saries of the English alliance, because they know and feel that prohibitive laws, which were originally adopted as war measures against England, must in evitably fall to the ground if the English alliance becomes intimate and permanent. The prospects of free trade in France are certainly worse at the present moment than they were two or three years ago. Nevertheless it is certain that if the Emperor chose to make the abolition of the sliding scale a government question, the Council of State and the Corps Legislatif would register his good pleasure on this subject with that alacrity which. they ever display iwhen made to understand that opposition will not be tolerated. But it pleases the Emperor, while exhibiting a certain personal lean ing in favour of a liberal commercial policy, to affect extreme deference to public opinion on this one point, and it cannot be denied that public, opinion in France is not yet sufficiently enlightened to comprehend the doctrines of free trade. THE WAR IN ITALY. (PROM ♦ 001111/IPONDINT.). The positions occupied by the belligerent armies are now pretty clearly defined. The Austrians oc cupy a line drawn obliquely across the north of the peninsula from Anoona to their posts in advance of Pavia, not keeping the current of the Po between them and their enemies, but, on the contrary, with that broad river in their rear, and occupying a series of towns and fortified places in front of it. Their chief force is evidently thrown out from Pavia and Pismo's, =occurring on both banks of the Po, and threatening thus to break the line which their allied antagonists occupy from Genoa to the valley of Soma. From Piacenza eastward the Austrian troops at Reggio, Modena, Bo- logna, and Ancona extend along a country and a spew offering few facilities for defence, and in which the intervals between the garrisons offer every ad vantage and temptation to an enemy's attack. It may be that the Austrians occupy this region solely for the sake of feeding upon it as long as they are allowed to do so, and that they do not intend eventually to contest these fertile plains. Their ob ject, however, for the present seems to be to deter the French from detaching any large portion of their army in this direction, m which case the Austrians, massed between Pavia and Piacenza, might fling themselves on Piedmont, and severely punish both it and its King. It is probable, however, that the French will avoid any serious conflict, if possible, in Piedmont. Their aim it, no doubt, to attack the weaker and more eastern parts of the Austrian line, in which I attempt they can reckon upon the aid of the popula tion of the Legations. One French division landed at Ancona, and another advancing from Florence, would, it is expected, easily drive the Austrians be Ihind the Po, and, by crossing or menacing to cross that river e astward of Croutons and of the line of the Adds, completely turn the Austrian position at Pia ' cenn, and at once transfer the war to the Adige, leaving Milan to be occupied by Victor Emmanuel That a battle would be fought to defeat, or to carry out, snch • purpose is highly probable; and on the result of such an engagement of course an immensity would depend. That such are the intentions of the French, we augur from the circumstance of the large proportion both of troops and artillery which have been sent to Genoa. All the Guard went thither-14 batteries of artillery, numbering 84 guns, were landed there in the first week. Moreover, the revolution in Tus cany must have taken plum in concert with the military operations. Two divisions of Chaloupes Cannounieres are under sailing orders, both no doubt for the Adriatic, and one of these under one of the smartest officers in the French navy, Bonet Wi Bourne'. With them gra • military division, under the nominal command of Prince Napoleon Jerome. We are not aware of the state of the fortifications or the strength of the garrison of Ancona. Austrian ac counts state that it has been greatly reinforced, and its garrison between six and ten thousand men. But the French have no doubt that it can be blockaded and taken. If • French division should land on the Adriatic coast, it is clear that it cannot be left unsupported or exposed to an overwhelming attack of the Austrians. Consequently, other French divi sions must advance upon the line which extends from Parma to Bologna. And thus the central Duchies, net Piedmont, will be the seat of war. When the Austrian government sent its peremptory summons to Turin and menaced instant invasion, it must have expected that the strength of the French army would be coming over the Alpine passes, and that after the occupation of Turin the Austrian arm 'mkt have met them as they descended through the valleys. The abandonment of North Pied mont by the King of Sardinia, and the bulk d the French landing at Genoa, must have dismanirted these projects, and compelled the Austrian general to change his plan and await his foe in the vicinity of Pavia and Piacenza. The ex cursions which Gyulai has made towards the Seals and the Tanaro are surely not serious. Nor probably will he now venture any attack towards Aleasandria and Casale. For the French and Piedmontese having full possession of the railway, whilst the Austrian general has nothing of the kind, the former can concentrate on ally given point aquantityof force far greater than the itustriei oriald'eolleci by mere marching and counter-marching. Indeed, if the two armies shoald come or continue to be concentrated