The Express. — London, England, 1859-08-12 00:00:00

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The French Government may ley down as many new ships se they plesse—may ear. out any number of soldiers sr seders—may cast any camber of rifted cannon, but it any other govern ment or people discuss the groends of sash prepara tions, or speculate epos their probable object, they are et once &weaned by Imperial doxologiste, and even by some of their own countrymen, as nervous or ill natured roisehietalakers, who desire to bring en a war. About a year ago took place the peat Cherbourg Ikea. Many injudicious persons in this , couatry objected to that isaagaratioo, and declared that it was impossible that harbour and its fortifica tions could be Untended for any but offensive pur poses. The French Governrr.ent vigorously protested spinet say such interpretation being put upon the completion of a dawn which had been long in pro per , and the more sensible portion of the British nation ocquieeosd in that view. They maintained that France bad r much right as England to a powerful Beet ; and to show the sincenty of public opinion, the QUI.IN and her Minister accepted the Frisch Er envie. invitation to attend the Cberhearg f#tes. The Furth joarnalists of that day were justified in resenting the assumption that a powerful Beet and a powerfal army are aecee eerily intended he attack. Yet it is strange how soon they have forgotten their owe teaching. France, indeed, is to be allowed to make herself as powerful and secure as she pleases. bet no other nation roust procaine to de the same thing. To talk of the national defences tithe country against a foreign invasion I. to mosso foreign powers and to provoke attack. It be sot denied, indeed, that the *yetis of defense for these Islands should be disarmed, bet, arieordin g obscene politicians, the quarter flees whisk &lager may arise nest never be mentioned, so that of wane the noun of defence may be es little as pedble organised to meet the particular peril which threatens. Happily. however, these views find little favour. The public are determined to place the country out of the reach of danger, ■nd that without reference to any individual rulers, or any transitory circumstances. They claim the same right to organise their means of defence as the Emperor of the Farecu or any other potentate mist justly claim'. They have too much common sense to be deceived by the weak fallacy that any King or Emperor, however power ful, will for the Brat tiros resolve to attack his neigh bour, simply becalm that neighbour chooses to dis cuss the various (loaners from which aggression may possibly come. If such a supposition were credible there would be the most urgent necessity to hasten the preparations for defence. To allege any each mason for invasion would be conclusive evidence of a foregone conclusion. Nor do we believe that any man in Europe, however exalted, would coodescend to so wretched a subterfuge. At the same time it is a little awkward to observe that the intention of the Belgian Government to , strengthen their national defences has again given Mee to the imputation of an insult*. France. In a eignificant article, signed by M. °IAMBS on CAS IIAGNAC, Imperial ready-writer, and Deputy to the Corps Ugislatif, (wham Providential function appears to be to discharge those heavy ink-drops which sometimes precede a thunderstorm,) obviously implies that the Belgian Government by this project of enlarging the fortifications of Antwerp is guilty of en offence to France. It is indeed notorious that for more than ten years this same project has been debated in Belgium, and various commissions bare been appointed to consider the matter. Only a year ago, the proposal made by the Government for this purpose was rejected by the Chamber—though, indeed, it was rather the spe cific plan them its general object to which dissent was a:premed. At that time, the least official of the French journals declared that the Belgians were quite jue titled in taking such precautions as they deemed ne- cessary for their protection. Nor can it be doubted that it Belgium is really to enjoy that independence to which she is entitled, she is perfectly justified in discussing the question of her national defence. But this year the project, which has been dis cussed year after year, hag, it seems, as sinned a new importance. M. °RANIER has discovered that England is at the bottom of the , whole plan, and that the real object is " to convert " Antwerp into a trte•de.post where the English " troops may disembark and overrns the Continent." What other object, M. GRoliti asks, can there be? Belgium is guaranteed by the Great Powers, and therefore a continental enemy is an impossibility— chimera. Wherefore, then, should Belgium im prove her defences? it can only be, according to M. Oriente, in order to become an English province. Foe the French Government to tell the Belgians that the real object of their pretended plan of self. defence is in order to submit themselves to England, seems a strange mode of cultivating those good rela tions in which the French Government declares it self so deeply interested. Nor is the allegation more *assistant with those notorious facts which render it utterly impossible for say English Ministry to carry any such 'chimera' into str ee t ; B et , we n d, t h e argument of the I epo'y to the Corps Legislalf p re y, s too much; fa. if Belgium is so absolutely ',cum what need, as the Indlpendarace Beige happily ask', of any army whatever' It is vein to stop at objecting to the enlarged for& fiestioss of Antwerp; the first course is to call upon Belgium to destroy atl her other for tunes*, and to disband all her troops. Tim Belgians me t►is molt, and have not failed in their public join:isle to expels, their ideas with sufficient empires oo the subject. They know, indeed, that they ars a small Power; bit they are proud of their freedom of speech and scones. Even when a freeman is son to be overpowered therein some dignity in dying after a struggle. To erect a ovastitatioaal kingdom, Allied with vigorous citizens, and to forbid them to say how they than defend themselves, is a position to which no one with self-respect would deign to submit. A free conotry, if it is to be of any vales, mast at all events have the right to adopt such nsea. Nurse of defence as it may deem right-.evea although the means may be vain. Bet indeed then is no reason to suppose that the plea of sanoeadiag Antwerp with an entrenched camp is so idle a project as some may imagine. Antwerp la an admirable strategical point. The harbour is exiselleat; it teems an maenad best of opsratioas against Holland or the provinces ef the Rhine ; it is the most advantageous point at whisk any force might disembark to aid Belgium in ass it MITIMIOD ; above all, it is placed at a sufficient distance from the frontiers to enable the Belgian force to coocentrate. Its importance in this respect has been recognised for more than a century, and by none more thoroughly than by NAPOLEON I. The principle of entrenched camps already eomnisnds the suffrages of Europe, and the defensive works of Verona the other day may have had more to do with the pease of Ville. frees& than it would be easy to estimate. The principle, however, is, above all, important where the surrounding country is in favour of the be- sieged. Within the forts to be raised round Aatwerp might be collected 100,000 men, and it would take not less than 150,000 to invest them, besides an army in the field. In fact, it is calculated that out of the Belgian population of 4,600,000, there would be no difficulty in having a regular army of 60,000 men, and 300,000 National Guards. Even at present the army numbers 60,000, and the National Gouda 190,907. With these troops there would not be the slightest difficulty in keep ing an army of 250,000 at bay, until the allied forces came up to the rescue. Without arti ficial means of defence, however, it would be as impossible for the Belgians to resist a hostile army as it would have been impossible for the Mike of WILLINGTON to have withstood 31ASMINA without the lines of Torres Vedras, or General WILLIAMS to have withstood MOURATIETP without the lines of Ran. It nowt be admitted that the money 'pent upow the Belgian Army and Militia is money thrown away, value they can manses to resist an invader until aid arrives, or diplomacy interferes. Ripe risme proem that the entrenched camp, such as that which is eacommended, woald raise the limited num bers of the Belgians to an equality with much more powerful adversariao, and therefore it is clearly for the interest of the Belgian people, and of those who have guaranteed their independence, to take each mea sures as will render their resistance in cesi• of inva sion most effectual. Hitherto these views have been bet partially adopted in Belgium, bat it see= that late events have converted popular feeling, and that conversion will no doubt be singalarly confirmed by the warnings of M. Owl= DI CASSAGXAC. CDc Court. OSBORNE. Areorr 11. ml Qom drove oat yesterday, with Prisms .Uke‘ Prism Bekaa, ma Princes flabeakats. L air teeadrs are to Ilerrobroasss of By tad Capella Da Plat. Olead Dan Osasandlas of Raids, sod Priam mad Prisons Lialap Masi with km Majesty la as rrealai. me thread Dohs use stbesad by Causer Pelee' Haa• nurite, L Cbseslullss Gsloutiao, Colossi Gretg, sad Captain Boyce, A.D.C. TG &mar party alto lacladal Lally Augusta Bruce, Sw (harp Casper, and the Has Mes. 3. M. Dieldalph. A &rustics os the subject of the parr/stir of re. leesats ia Arta had an taterrisw with Lad Jobs Rase& r i zedey, et tho Foreirroace. The deputems teas Saw Tissue' litratleed de Roach& eM the Hos. IP. H. W. G. Caltborps M.P. The Rev. Jere Darla we et Us INCTiarke of the Evaagaboal Atbaesce, stated the yar d:era. The following were aim priest . —the Roc J. Chap sea sad Colonel Dawes (essetaries of ths Cheri &catty), Dr. tleadreeki Omsk wissiasazy tram J=T, Dr. Crawford (hos. ow:eery), rod the Rem lb. Jars (eaetary of the Matta Preaserest Callow), the Rev. Pre. Beer Hopper, F.H.8., Rev. Dr. Fry ( eirt Tows), Roy. B. H Cowry (seaneasp of the llveheal Cestruttal Stroty), Rev. Dr. Ats Mr. Jure (abalneas of the Prase' Arociatre), Rev. George Dawes, Rev. W. D. resit (searary of the Jeerers Drover Mrsicorry road), sa d Us See. Mr. Lewd. _ • iipotatkot boa tho Ddby Locol Board of Hoak had ea larrwolow with Air O. C. Lewis yesterday, at Ow Romp °Moo The &wows woo moolocod by Mr. H. B. Sao& dr, 8.?., aao acootolod d Mr. Moo (inflate (eimlnwo of too bad), Mr. Joao Aiwa (olminow ths oorwars mud pale work* anudtwo), Ur. Wm. H. Brooke Nat to the Word). owl Mr. Joh& lam= (aorveyor to the Mad). Despatetios wars nor Mod et the Colospal•Alos pesadv, from the (Joys.,. of Gibrolow, Malta, the Soot:aim maw Iwo, the Mom omo. awl Now Zoolowl. Tb. Qum sad the Prisms Consort embark this 'mai ma lewd the Violetla sad Albert royal yacht far as moron he a bre days et sea. Is all probehillty her Ma jesty sad her IllatMleas Nowt will, daring the =be, visit the Cbssael Wends. Os Wedna+day ageniag the Prim* of Wales and Penes Alfred, attended by their mites. visited Profener Lyon Playfek's 'amatory at the Edicbrugh University, where they heard exploitations of the chemical phew:awes connected •ith the procaine of calico printing and dyeing. In the evening their royal highnesses visited the Qesea's Theatre. Mr. Herbert Fisher, the eldest son of the Rev. Cesar Fisher, the rector of the pariah of Pouliot, Wy k hes bees appointed private tater to his }Loyal Ifighaiee the Prince of Wales, during his sojourn at Orford. His Royal Highness Pnnce Alfred will arrive at Backfathom Palace this morning from viaitiag the Pies of Wales at nolyroed Pekoe, on his way to join the Qui aad royal family at Osborne. The Marchioness of Westmiaster and Lady T. Groarowor loft Grodvenur BOUM 3e,terday for Neatewebe Beams, Waist. TM Earl and Counter of Mount Edgecumbe hare weird to town hoes Mount Edgteuenbu Deno. The Earl and Counter Fitswilhem leave their *out in Irulsatt the week Wear sent foe Wentworth How. Torkohinu Lord and Lady iVenlock gave a grand fete at &crick r..►, Vutkaitss, ea the 23M icat. TN, Catkin and (Ilc•aatees - --- atiiondy have left Orllwa'a Claraidoa Hotel toe Park. Mr. and Lady Henrietta Riddell have arrived at Edwatdd's Hotel ken Harrow's's. Lady Rose Ira arrival at the Queen . .. HotaL Upper Norwood._ _ _ ileums Carly* &q., and lady have LA du nslghboarbood of Aleodur, and en et print realdri Allenwood fleas, lb, art of Jame Ltdiell, En. Tenday Us marriage of Sir James Ferguson, iitharan, Bart., with u. Lady Bildt Christian Bars, arand itaglirr af u. Marra of Darer., wee edsu• nisei et Wheels Gotha Ilia errmo■, was parker.* by the Vary Bev. Dean array. It me rumoured (says the WsltiAirt Independent) that Itar Arthur Zhou and Bit Henry Heats bays emend ice. scannas, and grill i,Ser themselves at the neat peed elation far East hateetest. A letter from Rome of the 9th lays:—" Mr. Ode Roman wails from Cirita Vecchia to-morrow incasing far Idaraallaa, and will akrwupany Lady Willis Hord) to Pests. On the eapwaLkin of hid brief lea's of shames Yr. Ode Rama •ia retool to hie diplomatic poet is the Lama City public fountain cnorernent, whit& has beat so swesmaful s Efigland, la n unfelt sr Beam, bet tM &shows bare reined it. Oa all the open places *la pin little otructoi,a of wood, painter •hit,, and more et lava gilded, ►ate bean put op Th•:y are about maw ion by eight. Behind a narrow counter, adiread with water pleats, tea maidess aerie out to the shinty poblw g .Llett of rata-doer at the mall charge of a halfprestay. They h■re many reatoorr, sad the Li en...at optaderer id doing a lucrative Waimea. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1859. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, FRANCS. I PARIS, psuney MORNING. The Nowitowr of this 'morning oontains a demi* imisaing a medal to bs strack in misimessaraskm of the Italian campaign, to be awarded to all those soldiers and sailors who have taken part in the said campaign. THE CONFERENCE AT ZURICH. ZURICH, /Loom 12 The diplomatic banquet hu taken place here. Speeches were made by the president of the govern ment, M. Dubs, Count Colloredo, and the federal vice-president. M. de Bourqueney has invited the diplomatic corps to a grand banquet for the 15th instant. The Grad Duke of Baden will be present at the opening of the railway of %lamina, and will arrive at Zurich on Tuesday next TUSCANY. PLOBENCII, Ammo? U, 6 P.M, 0/7ICIAL DISPATCH. The ministers and deputies went this morning to the cathedral to implore heavenly benediction. They were cheered at the opening of the Assem bly. A great number of the population were pre sent. The opening message of Signor Riess°li was much applauded. The Assembly was occupied with the examination of the election of the members. The whole town is covered with placards ending with the words, "Vin Vittore Emmanele it nostre Rh" PARMA. VIENNA, TIII7IIIIDLT, ♦rovii 11. The official Austrian 07;respois4riscs of this even ing oontains private intelligence. dated Parma, the 9th instant, stating that the Piedmontese had been driven from the city. The red republic' had been proclaimed. Property holders and the friends of order were taking flight. BOLOGNA. TURIN, TarnaDAT, AVOUST 11. Advices received from BOlogoa state that a decree of the government has convoked an assembly to he elected by the inhabitants, in order to express the wishes of the population. Several agents of Mazzini had been arrested and expelled. It is asserted that the conference of Zurich has prolonged the armistice indeemitely. The French troops have suspended their departure from Italy. TURKEY. TRIESTE, AUGUST 11. Advice. have been received from Constantinople to the 6th inst. Elie Sultan has returned from his journey. He bag sanctioned the double election of Prince Conza with the condition that Priam Couza is to Dome to Constantinople to render homage to the Sultan.. M. de Thoavenel has arrived here. It is confirmed that the town of Erzeroum bas been entirely destroyed by a fresh earthquake. News from Smyrna of the bth inst. announces the death of the General Governor. HAMBURG. HAMBITILO, TxuliDAT. Today the ci.izene of Hamburg representing all the parishes voted for the modification of the con stitution as proposed by the Senate, which was adopted by 678 aping 163. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. (IT EL3CTRIC TILIORAPIL) MON 001 OWN OOIILMITOIDINT4 SOUTHAMP roN, FRIDAT. _ _ The Teem has arrived with the Penin;nlar nails; 7,5001. in specie ; latest dates, Lisboa, 7th, Oporto and Vigo, Bth. She passed the Sultan with the outward mail. Lisbon exchange on London, 52f to I ; Paris, 542. A railway contract hu been provisionally ratified between the Portuguese government and Don Sala =um, the Spanish f.nancier. Sir Morton Peto's staff and people are all leaving Lisbon. Count de Stange is dead. Accounts of the vine disuse in Portugal are unfavourable. THE UNITED STATES. LIVIMPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING. The steam-ship City of Wa.hiogton, from New York, via Queenstowo, on the 30th, has arrived. She brings nearly a million and a quarter of dollars in specie. News anticipated. The King of Sardinia visited the military hospitals at Mils. on the Bth, distributing crosses end medals to the wounded. Ilia hliyesty, cat his return to the palace, re. calved the visits of the most distingniabsd Fersonagin of the city. Tide WOll followed by a rand dinner, illesseadro Illanzoni beteg one of the gusts. The King end Prince Carignan conversed • long while with the vissimistile post. I the evening the city was splendidly illuminated; the Corso presenting the most brilliant appearance. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa smarts that t h e piton who have lost their thrones fa Italy have sent seared malseerice into their respective states to Lams disorder and distributes money among their adherents. "Owing to the interest excited by the entrance the troops into Paris on Sunday," says the Sport, "several persons have bind window, of houses en the line of web to telet to spectators. &,®e of than semen have, It Is edge slated, grained large sums; one of theca., for eransple, hired SACO whelped at an average pries of 30fr., sod be hes let them for 60fr., thereby soaking a clear peat of 90,000& TLs anesber of houses on the lice to be tare by the Imps is 813, and they have about 16,860 windows ie a 8; suppesieg that each window be occupied by only Ms specteton, there will be in those houses 101,160 ponces." A lit. Petersburg letter says .—" The imperial dimity embarked on the ren alt. on baud t h e Studer' yacht, and lift the roadatead of Peterhoff for Hapset. Oa folloeisig day, whoa off the Isle of Woratt, the likaadert wee ,rotarid by the °ergs steamer, hawing on board the Beredilary Grand Duke, ths Greed Duke Alexis, and the Grad Duchess Maria Alereadromm, who hat come to join their 111oeulons readers. The Emperor, the Emmett, and the Greed Dukes Alezmdm sod Vledimir then went on board the Onega, which me slier anchored tff Raped. As immense crowd bad amenabled at the landing place sad reortved their Majeatier with loud seclarnati ice The impe rial family cia laitireg peoceeded to the howled the Marquise da la (ladle. Their /kerne§ will return to the (spies' os the 6th Angeat." MILITARY DISTURBANCES AT FRANIEFORT.—A Frauktort letter of the Stn says:-" Yesterday the and sad miluary authorities took severs! measerse to prevent a recur rence of the military riots. Amon petrol.' parka the town —posts of gendarmes were emabliehed—the gets wag domed, and the sidles went forbidden to approach retain pants at the ',abate promenades; bat the rely elloadoas rareae—to condoe the soldiers to barracks sad Mean. them —were sot taken. The consequesee was that some ma salacity escouaters occurred in reseal plane. The warm were at the holkeethems Gate sad All &rue Geis aM last the Pruseiane took by storm etc. ral Users, sad when a strong mind petrol come against mem with Azad keywaets they defended theamalree, sad tan oeuieurader or the penal, a Frankforter, wee mortally wounded. It is said that cur tain civiliana bane issiised the 'Metiers, end memoirs...ins hare been alerted on the charge. Tin sorntag, the Aus trians end Berries* have been gseiveiling. It is difficult Li let at the troth, Wanes public amen szeurerste • eery- Wog, and It le sr oafs to go and re for ass's v 41,68 tee soidaos re walking the streets treed is herd. Se hear that two toes her bees killed, end then In the twenty te tLirly wounded is the Logitekt." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. BANK OF FRANCE. • (IT SCNKARINI AND lAMBS TILNODADK.4 PARIS, FRIDAY KOIMMO. The /donator pnbliahee the monthly returns of the Bank of France to yesterday, Aug. 11. We give the most important heron, with the oorrespondmg of lasi month en regard : July. Cols arid bullion, Paris 274,T8,761 .... 210,066,155 Ditto ditto branch basks Bali discounted, Paris 207,871,900 245,285,860 Ditto branch banks Notes la circulation, Paris sad brewer — 735,894,725 .... 733,983,675 Treasury depoeits Private deposits, Paris 181,306,261 „. 265,836,800 Ditto branch busks Advanced oa publie ssouritiss 27,080,200 28,123,200 Ditto by branch beaks Advanced oarailway aecurfties 62,094,688 120,198,869 Ditto by brunch beaks This return presents changes of great importance —including an increase of 21 millioas sterling in the bullion, a decrease of 2,800,0001. in the private depo sits, a decrease of 2,760,0001. in the bills discounted, and s, decrease of 2,700,0001. in the advances en rail way securities. The circulation is almost stationary. (71011 001 01K 001 PARIS. THURSDAY BURNING. I have heard from a good source that the Emperor intends to publish a general political amnesty on August 15. Continental amnesties, miscalled general, are frequently clogged with so many excep tions as to amount to nearly nothing. But, if lam rightly informed, the one now about to oome out will be altogether unrestricted, and will, fee example, enable General Changarnier, Colonel Charms, Louis Blanc, and even Ledru Rollin, to return to France if they think fit without any conditions. The hope that the Zurich Conference would sign a definitive peace this week seems to be abandoned, for I hear that their first act will be a prolongation of the armistice. We learn by telegraph that there was no sitting to-day, and it appears that in the previous sittings the Sardinian plenipotentiary took no part. The report that the Emperor would head the troops on Sunday from the St. Maur camp through the Faubourg ht. Antoine is again contradicted, and the programme, according to which he will go as far as the Butille to meet them, is revived. It is said that immediately after the filing past, which, as announced from the first, will certainly take place in the Place Yen dime, the troops will return to the St. Maur camp, and there be regaled with a monster banquet at the expense of the city of Paris. The Press, draws particular attention to the offen sive paragraph in M. Granier de Cassagnac's article in the Pays which I translated yesterday, and cha racterises it as one little calculated to do away with " the susceptibilities and apprehensions which were for a moment soothed in England." Almost all the English papers, morning and even ing, were detained at the Net-office today. Up to 4 o'clock they had not been delivered at any of the reading•raoms. I have since heard that the Times has been released. Probably some of the other papers were impounded on the same account, and have been released also. I do not suppose, however, that the revocation of the edict of confisca tion will apply to poor Putsch, which the French police very seldom allows us to see. The Bourse opened with great heaviness, and the Rents went down to 691'r. 30c., but there was a sudden reaction in the afternoon, and the closing prices were 69fr. 36c. for cash and 69fr. 700. for account, being in the first cue a fall of 10c., and in latter a rise of 10c. Mobilier closed without change. Railways were from 2fr. 60c. to 6fr. lower. The King of Sardinia has sent the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Annamoiado to Count Walew.ki. "NOTHING NSW." An musing book, by M. Edouard Four nier, with the title of Le Vistas IVnEf, contains a number of illustra tions, collected with much industry, and grosped with con siderable ability, of Bolonsou'd proverb, "Nothing nee under the sun." There is no such thing, homy*, as au Invention ; every so-called discovery is but the revival otaaniethieg which bad been forgotten. Lida I VI., alter seeing at Versailles what be supposed to be the lint balloon, gave the brothers Montgolder pension. and decoration", and conferred hotAlby upon their father. But, 400 years before the Christian era, Archytda exhibited ea artificial pigeon which, "being flied with lighter air than that of the atmosphere, sustained Itself aloft and Buttered itd wings." In 1784 the Academy of Lyons awarded a prize to Lenormand for tie undisputed Invention of the parachute, but in 1617 F. Veranziu had written about a square canvas etrembed tight upon four pulps, by mean, of whioh a man might eddy throw humid from the top of the highest tower. The idea of photographic picpuree was ventilated ae early as 1760, by one Tiptiaigne, who published • volume of quaint reverted, entitled "La Gipbantie"—act anagram of hie name. Hero of Alexeadria was aware of the mechanic power of steam, and the Em peror Conizoodus had ea/Magee which kept account of time and distance as they ran, just like modern ragulatiag cab.. M. Fournier show, with patriotic unction that all the great disooverice for which • deluded world gives credit to Englidimen were in fact pirated from henchmen, who, if DM the true inventors (tor, as we have seen, his theory ulnae as each thing ea an invention), had at ell events a better title than thoed with whore names an unjust posterity bee associated the improvements in gumption. The brat railway In England waa wade about the year 1630, by a. Frenchman named Beaumont, who laid down a line of rails to transport coal from a pit in Northumberland. The English areMteet who built tie first iron bridge, in 1793, had bought the plan for a meg from an obscure end forgotten Lyees pointer sad Paster who had devised it in 1767. The Thames Tunnel was preceded by s tunnel tinder the &Ms, which win from the flue Saint-Pterre-anz- Deeds to the Duo do Foment, and which certainly existed an hefty as ibSO. Oar author sun thinks it might be found low. The bomb. which wee. brought out m England by Mr. Fens In 1811 were pirated from th• hooch postal. Espinasse, who had Invented Ohs word will thrust itself upon the author is spite of his principles) them in The ooagreve rocka• were invested by a InniMman named De Montgery, who found the recipe Er them in a manual of artillery by Louis Colisdo, engineer to Charles V. Eon ' castor's syrem of teaching was practised long before his time by the Chevalier Puget, and vaceication, which sn inacription on • statue to cleaner at this moment exhibited in the apace between the Pout des Alto and the Louvre, attributes, in common with universal belief, to Mat phy sician, was an idea stolen by the Empietunan from M. itabaut roomier et Matailarguce. near Leiner, who mentioned it to a Mr. Pugh, who wee a friend of Jeants'a. With obundsnos of each lestances, M. E. Fournier proves, to Ms owa utile faction and that of hi. French readers, that, in respect of Ins eution., a Frenchman is invariably the Chratopher Columba of the English Amalie Verpuccio. It is stated that the Grand Duke Constantine, on leaving Ride, will ey a visit to the Emperor Nap,leon et Bturits. The monster steam frigate boat in America for the &swiss governmest, on the lines of the United States frigate Niagara, has anived at Cron•til from New York. She is called the General Admiral, out of compliment tr the Grand Duke Cunstentise, who is at the head of the Russian navy, and is nut yet timed se s nhip•uf•wer with her formidable armanisst, but suede the voyage from &series freighted with a lame and valuable cargo of cotton, stresperlll4, and other predates of dm United Stem. She drew too much water to enter the Baltic by the Sound, and mom through the Great Belt, where the channel is considerably deeper, though more dangerous, from the number and extent of the esod-bestks among the Duluth Islands. ITALY. SARDINIA. (molt or& aricam. TIRANO, Avousr 6. " L'homme propose et Dien dispose," thus ram an old French proverb, which is today quite applicable to me. As I told yon in my last letter, I had made up my mind to go to Milan by way of Brescia. I could not, however, resist the temptation which was offered to me of visiting the different minor stations of Garibaides brigade, and hither I came with the intention of proceeding to Milan via Como. Under the escort of as intelligent guide I went through the mountain passes of the Alpine valleys, and I arrived here this morning after a fair share of trouble and fatigue. In spite of the hard march 1 have gone through, I am glad to lave performed my journey, for I am now in a better condition to send you a correct report of the spirit which is prevalent amongst these famous volunteers. You are already aware that in this singular corps the soldier generally belongs to the best class of Italian society. In consequence of this peculiarity each of this gallant band is a politician of the first class, and it is rather amusing to find that the common soldier is sometimes a better informed man than the epanletted cotn maodsr. The doings of our ministers are sensibly discussed in these bivouacs, the last speech of Lord John Russell is closely commented on, and the con clusion which is drawn is that all the hopes of Italy now depend on the attitude which England shall take in any forthcoming Congress. A great many of these volunteers have long resided in our country, as artiste, literary men, or professors, and they are quite familiar with our politics and with the names and lives of our leading statesmen. The café of Tirano, therefore, has been turned into a regular assembly of politicians, where the great questions of the day are as freely discussed as they would be at the Temple Forum, or at Wylde's Reading Rooms. One of the orators his perfect faith in Lord Palmerston, another puts forth the name of Milner Gibson, and describes to his listeners the cordial hospitality he received at Wilton-crescent during his stay in London. A third speaks highly of Lord John's liberal speeches. In one word, all their thoughts, all their sympathise are now with us, and it oar Ministers know how to manage matters well, there is no doubt we shall get beck the influence we had lost at the beginning of the Italian war. There is of course some incorrectness in their judgments as regards our press and institu tions, but one thing is certain, that they speak highly of our country, which they know is always ready when there is a noble cause to defend. It is not therefore to be wondered at if, with all the Anglomania which is now prevalent in Garibaldi's camp, the only Englishmen who is amongst them has become the Icon of this singular corps. In my former letter I had occasion to speak of Captain Peard, the gentleman in question. He comes from Cornwall, and belongs to a militia regiment, whose uniform he wears with a decidedly martial bearing. He is a mac of a tall and colossal frame, nearer 80 than 80, and is considered the best shot of the party. Although he has been attached to Garibaldt's staff, ,he makes war at his own expense, and he was always to be found in the thick of the fray. It seems that his only object was that of getting a good shot at the enemy, and whenever he bad killed an Austrian he was seen to mark him down in his pocket-book. A few days ago I met Captain Peard at Brescia, and he was kind enough to show me his book, from which it was apparent that twenty-five Austrians were killed by him daring the campaign, besides ten who were under the heading of " uncertain." I was greatly amused at the unpre tending manner in which our eounuyman spoke of his rather curious propensity for such a murderous game, for he assured me he professes the utmost in difference to the cause of Italian independence. He is like oos of those Italian condotrieri of the middle ages who made war for pleasure, vrithoet inquiring whether the cause he served was the wrong or the . right one. Such is Cap tain Peard, who is now anxious that war should begin on the Arno or on the Termite, in order to have a few score of Swiss soldiers to add to his list, under the headingof "really dead." There are also with Garibaldi two rather eccentric young Frenchmen, dressed in a peculiar costume of their own, who are members of the Paris Jockey Club. These two gentlemen have been so charmed by the gallant general that lam told they will abate his fate, whatever it may be. Five American citizens and a few Germans are going to do the same, together with a Chinese, who, were I to believe what he told me, is one of the few who escaped the slaughter of Commissioner Yeh at Canton. Most of Garibaldi's officers belong to the upper classes of Lombardy, and have borne arms with him either in South America or in Rome. The chief of his staff, Colonel Carrano, was one of the most distinguished defenders of Venice in 1848 and '49, and he is the author of the military history of that war. Although the taste of the French painters has clad Garibaldi in a sort of medicerol costume, the general always wears the Piedmontese uniform of his rank. The only difference to be noticed is in the trimming and the colour of the cloth. His manners are exceed ingly kind and unpretending, and he speaks more like an Englishman than a man of the south. On my arriving here I found all thee. young volun teers desirous to go to Tuscany, where they hope to find good work for their rules. Count Giovanni Arnvabene, a well-tried friend of the general's, who only the other day got the epaulettes of sous-lieutenant, told me that Garibaldi hopes to be allowed to go to Central Italy. If he succeeds in doing so, with the influence he exercises over the Italians, there is no doubt the peace and the security of those provinces will be sewed at once. He will find there an army of 80,000 volunteers, and with such a force he can easily rout the mercenary troops of Austrian arch dukes, should they be bold enough to attempt the conquest of their lost thrones. On the other hand, he will be able to restore internal order, should any attempt be made to disturb it. AUSTRIA. The Frankfort Journal, in a letter from Vienna of August 6, says, " We are assured that the imme diate cause of the Minister of the Interior's resig nation is the following. Shortly after the Em peror's return Baron Bach received his Majesty's command to draw up a memorial representing the necessity of reform. The minister lost no time in complying with this desire, and made propositions of reform on the very widest basis. He proposed for instance, it is said, to dissolve the council of the em pire, to create provincial representations with an electoral scale fixed by law, and lastly to subject the yearns's to the control of the tribunals alone, by treeing them from the censorship of the police and administration. Baron Bach declared that if these proposed plans were not adopted he should leave the ministry. There is no doubt of our having a new Minister of the Interior before long. The Emperor has ordered the formation of a special committee for inquiring into the abuses committed in the Commis ! lariat." BELGIUM. The baptiam of the Count de Hainanlt took place at Brussels on the Bth inst. The ceremony was per formed in the palace by the Archbishop of Matinee. Don Ferdinand, King et Portugal, father of the reigning King Don Pedro V., represented by the Count de Flandre and the Portuguese ambassador, was the godfather ; and the godmother was the Archduchess Sophia, represented by the Countess de Lannoy. The young prince's Dames are Leopold Ferdinand. It rained hard during the passage of the cortige from Laeken to Brussels, but the sun broke out just as the royal carriages arrived at the palace, which fact was regarded by the crowd as • happy omen for the young prince. In the evening the King gave a grand dinner at the palace. SOCIETY FOR TIIE PROTECTION OF Youto FE mAtes.—Tbe annual edttatttosel exatalastios of the obit droll, and filertitr, of the Meads connected with this @Gaiety, took plaor on %Foamed', at the eeyluos at Tottenham. The ezemination wee in via,' respect oatidactory. THE DOVER POSTAL CONTRACT. Th. Select Committee on Packet and Telegraphic Caducei, 1869, has agreed to the following report " 1. The attention of your committee, daring the short time which lass elapsed since they ware appointed, has been Welly directed to the postal packet rake. for Dorm. t. 2. ♦ contract, dated Ist of April, 1854, 100 continue until Ist of October, 1858, was entered into with Mows. Jewitinge and Chnrehwerd (who had offered the lowest terms by public tender), for conveying the moils between Dover sad Calais and Dover and Ostend. " 3. An agreement was signed on or about the 20th of Jose, 1865, substituting for the above contract another, esteeding the term from the Lit of October, 1858, until the Nth of June, 1863 ; this extension, which was agreed to by the Admiralty, without previous coundtatios with the Treasury or the Post-office, does not appear, from the evi llest., laid before this committee, to have been made with due ern and 000sideration for the public isterest. " 4. On the 26th of April, 1859, an agreement was en tered into, again substituting another contract, farther extending the term until the 26th of April, 1870. Your committee hare failed to discover suffie.ent public grounds to justify this exterviion, which appears to have been con ceded by the Treasury on the recommendation of the Admi ralty, but in opposition to the views of the Postmaster- General, end, as appears to the committee, without etifficient inquiry into the grounds upon which the claim for the ex- Medal of the contract wee preferred. "5. It is in evidence before this committee that Mr. Churchward, one of the contracton, on the eve of the last general demos, at tbs time when the extension of his con tract was under oomideration of the Treasury, volunteered his rapport as ea influential elector for Dover to the Hon. Captiin Carnegie, one of the Lords of th e: Admi ralty, if he should become a candidate for that borough, on the expectation that his contract was to be extended, and expressed his intention, if required, to vote for two government candidates for Dover• though the committee think it right to add that the reseiral of the eon !act bad been recommended by the Admiralty to th e Treasury at Mist six weeks before . the date of the &averse tion referred to, and that it appears to your committee that the officers with whom the decision of the question rested, that neither the Admiralty nor the Treasury were influeeced In granting the renewal of the contract by any corrupt or political motive. Your committee consider that the con duct of Mr. Murray, the private eecreiary of the First Lord of the Admiralty, wee open to grays oeneure; but they hem not sufficient evidence to show that any member of the goriest:met was cognieant of the conversation between Mr. Knew, Mr. Charcaward, and Captain Carnegie. 6. While most anxious for the fulfilment of all engage ments entered into in good faith Wetted the government and individuals, the committee submit for the consideration of the house whether Mr. Churehward, in having resorted to corrupt expedients affecting Injuriously the character of the representation of the people in parliament, has not rendered it imposable for the House of Common's, with due regard to its honour and dignity, to vote the soma of money necessary to fulfil the agreement to extend Mr. Church ward's contract from the 20th of June, 1863, to the 26th of April, 1870. ' 7. Although some evidence has been taken reelecting the general management of the postal packet service, the committee abstain, in the present incomplete state of their inquiry, from offering any opinion on the subject, beyond the expression of a desire that the important ranters referred for their investigation may be again brought under the notice of a committee at the earliest opportunity." The community at Hoeg-Kong seemed displeased at the manner in willed Albert Smith has taken then off in his book, "To China and Back." The Deily Prost has the following remarks ea the subjects We regret, how ever, having to record oar conviction that Albert Smith has not only given way to prejudice, but has departed from voracity. Thus, the individual alluded to u • the Inde pendent clerk, a Hong-Kong swell, in Lindsay's the beakers,' was never guilty, we are mire, of sub a departure from courtesy and politeosse towards Mr. Smith aside. Smith has bean towards him ; and right sate are we, if Mr. Smith were to pay a second visit to We colony, that he wield and independent clerks and heavy swelth where before he found courtesy and jolly good fellowship. Again, we utterly deny the Imputations oast upon the young men cf Wainer here, who are described is losing about the club with cigars in their mouths all the live-long day, never allowing the billiard-balls to rest a moment. We do not like the Mu of placing a Clintaman'o word against that of a man is Mr. Smith's position, but let the markers of the table be asked, sad they will state Net the young men whose idle ness shocks Mr. Smith's ideas so much have vary little chance of playing billiards at all, the tables being almost . continually required by the ofloers of the array and navy." A New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, speaking of a new novel, " Walter Thootley," just published by Masers. Harper of New York, wys °lt le written by Mrs. Bedgeick, the mother of Theodore Sedgwick, Esq., a distinguished lawyer and public man of this city. Kra. Bedgwitk is ferrety years old, but as fresh ant vigorous la her intellect as she was at thirty. I was shown her manuscript this morning, and prom:gum it the most faulilwely elegant specimen of celigraphy I ever beheld—the lettere as clearly and perfectly formed as if they had been cut by the hand of an tmgraver." - - - Dr. Paul B. Du Chaillu, of Philadelphia, whom letters from Africa, lately published in the New York Tri bune, have excited much attention in the United States, is now in Africa for the second time. Within the bat three years has travelled more this 4,000 milts, mainly, If not altogether, south of the equator, both on the coast and in the interior. From the native tribes he has scarcely ever met with anything but kindness and hospitality. His object la principally the study of natural history ; and during his gre ase visit babas collected more than 2,500 specimens of dal erect bird', and name than 250 of diffesent quadruped., including many very curious species before unknown. The greater part of them, helms sent to the Philadelphia scadewy of NativelSclencee. DEATH OF SIR GEORGE STAUNTON.—We have to record the death of Sir George Thomas &mimics ' Barb, which occurred on Wedneeday at his town neidenee,Ns. 17. Devesehireescreet, Puttlead-plene. The deemed baronet was bat at Milford-house, near Salisbury, Is 1781, sad succeeded hie father, the first baronet, in 1810, aid was ode. Wed atTrieulty College, Cambridge, THE MONUMENT TO GEORGE STEPHENSON...is This long-expecUd ornament a now so far oomplete that the model loss bete prepared and decided oil by the commit tee. Oar pedestal, truncated et the sides sad pyramidal is form, wands the gresunt engineer, dressed is the usual attire of our day, but with • plaid amid so throws over him shoul ders end about hit- chest se to furnish all the requisite dra pery. The difficult problem bee sow for the lest time been oucupletely solved; there is no going heck to Rome for • toga, or to Greece fore ohlatoya; but George Stephenson ' as an 'Englishman, wears az Ictly what en Englishman would wear, while at the earns time the burtenem and wretched pinny of a frock end condonation" is so avoided that we wonder booth., difficulty was ever telt et all. The attitude is wanly and oommending, the pose of the head indicating deep thought. It is thebeed and taco of • • worker as well at • thinker. At the base of the principal stuns, and re clining against the pedestal, in Canes Irbith give areas and harmony to the whole group, are four agorae. Here Mr, Lough has emancipated himself from convendonalism. We Lave no &booed bringing bock of obsolete Landes ; but we havo the men who worked with him, and through him, and for him. kechcorner of the pedestal will be occupied by • bronze figure : a pitmen, • navigator, • smith, on , wor.—Literary °ozone._ Clinton CHURCH bCIIOOLB TIMAT.--The children of Cnriet Church Schools, St. George's-in-the-Rest. to the swam of 1,200, with many of their parents and friends, were taken for their &actual 'scum= yrster. day, by the incumbent of the district, the Rev. G. B. M. Gill, the churchwardens, and teachers, to Leighton, fa Erma. Large quanUdes of provisions, 320tte. of beef 400Ibe. of mite ; 400th.. of broad ; 60 gallows of ; 2 bunk of brer given by Messrs. Banbury and Co., were pro vided fur thew entertainment. A variety of prices were also &tribute', and all erseeentel mined to dative mach plea sure tram the day's proceelmes. These schools, which are tbe largest at the tail end of London, are doing much for the mom] and spiritual improvement of the neighbourhood l l to which they are situated. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, BROMPTON. Yesterday the Quarterly Court ot the Goveroors of this In rtitution was held in the beard-room of the hospital, Bramp ton, Sir P. V. N. Pole, Bert., presiding., and amongst those present were Sir J. Purim, Mr. J. T. Briscoe, M.P. lc. The raport—es nal and unanimously adopted4ested that the charity was steadily pursuing its estate el urefulneem, sad the building geserally had been fully occupied. The committee thankfully acknowledged the p. runiery help re ceived, which has affird,d them so large an amount of read. sad much valued aseiatante hod been rei rivets trout the dew li in preaching sermons on the Wulf of the fund,. The oar mi tt hope that they may losk • forward to increased cespiration from die clew. The following legseiet bed been ennotinced sin!, the last court, vie., the late B. I. Tustin, Esq., 1001. ; Miss F. Moors. 101. • C. D. &islet. E. 1., 101.; Mise B. 11.11, 5001.; 0. Oth'he, Li, 1001. • Baroness Stricture, 600/. ;C. Beard , Esq., loot. Tit; number of In-pitient• &twitted 16100 the 26th Idsy wee 138 discharged more ar less neieved, 184 ; died, 25 ; hombre of new outepeihnis, 1,043. The committee ',nand the governors and pubis, that et this prriol of the year the contributions sew compaetireiy few, and that shortly provision will have to be made to newt the increased expezers of the winter, when this hospital m more thee ewer a• end to the poor, and when It is Parroted that the lint 44.mile:sate will be greatly sortnented, and thenifom it is hoped ea appeal for funds wilt not be made in rain. Mr. J. T. lir4oue. Ear J. Forbes, and uttu s r teotlr men, haring wade tome remits in moving the adoploa at the report, the proceedings tenni/Wed with thanks to the chases. :3 - r