The Express. — London, England, 1859-06-30 00:00:00

GUMS-NEW MODEL.--CRAMKR. W a rd 06, Nt. ZOINI644Miii. O" I A vs. 1., pin Zr:ap Popften isi mom St 11. W X X X. rue eaxpreoo. TO CORRESPONUMITS. •Icartiaersoma Wooded for .Ths la=ide. .Lor "am ed. Elms( Paw, moat to at the Oima Lip No o'CA gaa the ley di Pakeallos. Thu C. 1M Tnr coNTLSTLD =MON. nem Omer MUM*♦ W Vanes. 1 otaine. "Loan. Orli. Non Q. N.110. , 0. ll.r Wr4ot.t -N 001111 , 40 TV *RAIL lixami MILO. Migisont..—Aad TUk WATS& •ITtaill.Onobnisla T. rat UMW& Two Itromme. KIX. UMW/ if! Ilk O. it rid 1114.. t. /Loa— AM I V TEO CAP itra—oammeat Mv a t it—,...T=s; AIL MAX use“'"D RIOS Waal/ AT MIND= AULDISI. urel—Vmelms. !IL Sh. Senisa. £OMDOM, 17111111 DAY. TILE REVENUE. Tar accoent for the quarter audio op this day is of a ♦ery favourable character—showing a general increase of about 200,0001., notwithstanding the loss ari.ieg frogs the fall in the rate of income-tax from 7d. to 6d. In customs the incr.:sae is about mom. The excise shows an inereaas of about 320,0001. Land and assumed taxes, Post-office, and crow. lands, will yield a small 'acreage of about 30,000/., on the whole. In " Miscellaneous Items" there will he an im provement to the extent of about 130,0(10f. Thu there will be a total increue in the above heads of revalue of about 760,0001. Against this, we have to report a falling off of about 120,0001. on stamps, and about 420,00e1. on income-tax; leaving a net increase on the whole account for the quarter of rather more than 200,000/. The account for the year now ending (June 30). shows some important resulh. Thus, on in ce:mate:, there is a lose of upwards of 4,000,0001., owing to the collection for the year being at en average of 6d. instead of boo., in consequence of the variations of the rate. In every other branch of revenue, the year's account yields increseed receipts, se follows: L 1,600,000 270,000 230,000 Customs Excise... Stamps Land and Assessed Taxes Post-office Crown Lands (about) Miscellaneous Items (about) 30,000 910,000 4,000 400,000 The above increases reduce the net loss on the year to about 1,200,1)001 , thus making up about 2,800,000/. of the loss sustained by the reduction of the income tax. THE new Ministry meets the new Parliament for the first time to-day. After well nigh three months wasted in contention, the business of the Session is at length about to begin. How much of promise and importance must of necessity stand over now till winter cr spring it is needless to say. If the pressing wants of the public service can be meetly provided for in the course of the next six weeks it will be as much as can now be done. The Estimates have yet to be pound, and the Ways and Means to meet them have to be considered and agreed to. A sense of the public exigency will no doubt entrain to some extent the disposition to find fault upon the part of the Opposition. Lord Denny has spontaneously pledged himself not to sanction any movement on the part of his friends that could justify the epithet of retaliatory or factious; end he is said to have already given one indication of his desire to earn at least the repute, in this respect, of keeping hies word. We know, however, by experience, Low soon fins gold of this kind grows dim, and how upon a sudden the smooth and harmless-looking surface of the political water' ruffles with rage and surges into foam. The late Government, having left their esti mates for the current year ready prepared, cannot in common decency oppose them, unless they be mate rially modified by their successors ; and as for the Budget, under existing circumstances there would seem to be but little room to choose. There are on both sides a large number of persons who we may well believe feel unaffectedly • fax deeper in terest in the well-being, honour, and prospe rity of the country, in its being kept safe from injury or bamiliatioo , and secure from harm to its (reedit or its trade, than in any transient triumph of party. All these will natu rally concur in facilitating the passage of such measures as are now indispensable, and in dis couraging undies, contention on theoretical or general grounds. Nevertheless, it must Le owned that • Government which has been brought into power by a majority of thirteen will require the exercise of all the tact and skill it con command, If it would get through the initiatory state of its existence this day commencing with credit to itself or advantage to the country. As yet Lord PALMERSTON has put forward no programme of his policy. Whether ha intends doing so on the occasion of his taking his seat for the second time on the Treasury bench in the capacity of Erne NI inieter, we know not. It is impossible to doubt t 1...• tt,e sally enunciation of sound and liberal views rewarding the issue of the pending struggle in ' , sly at the present moment be of infinite sane, comirg from one who occupies his position. Can any one believe that in similar circumstances or Mr. Csssisi, would have hesitated to define the true position of England, especially if her intentions bad previously been wrapped in 1160111 e natty and hal or imputed ambiguity ? Were all the members of the present Cabinet men whose antece dents justihed the world in ascribing to them the sentiments habitually entertained and exprened by the noble Sio ILTARI for FOREIGN Ai Ftllts and by Lord I' airriis Cox himself, then might possibly be less necessi.y for a distinct devlsration of foreign policy from tither. But it were idle to conceal from ourselves the fact that the present Administration has Into formed by a combination of diverse and discrepant elements, in which that of Consent. tism holds a large and prominent piece. Conserva tism at home his, ever since the time of Sir HONEST PILL, been undergoing • constant pro efts of thinning end lopping; and without ceasing to saris the purpose of • screen, its admires, boast that it km been so premed as to let any amonat of light and sir pass Omagh. In a certain sense Lord AMAMI]: wesjustilled in saying that ammwentim had become Liberalism, and that intelligent Libe ralism was little more than wise Conservatism. How real and deceptive much of this sort of thing is we know ; but, nevertheless, in home polities the s taying is a half truth, and not altogether delu sive. In foreign politics it is a very dif ferent matter. A Conservative foreign policy is a policy conservative of all the surviving evil of the status yuo establi.lhed in 1816. The tra ditions are those of the diplomatic elders who eat in Sanhedrin: at Vienna. The national !creep cove- Dented and guaranteed by the treaties of 1815 are its tavourite phylacteries, which on all safe and solemn occasions it delights to wear. Some ■mall scraps and shreds of them have, indeed, dropped off from time to time, as the pearls were said to drop from Prince ESTERHAZY'S jewelled jacket whenever he put it on. But, in the main, dynastic and diplomatic Conservatism continues to be what it has ever been, repressive if not retrogressive, incredulous of consti tutional progress abroad, if not openly opposed to it. For ten years of civil war absolut;am in Spain boasted the sympathy of English Conser vatiam. During the fifteen years of the Restoration in France the same sympathy was unm;stakeably shown for what called itself the party of order. As for Italy, it is painful to recollect bow consistently the statesmen and the journals of Conservatism in England have for more than forty years preached the duty of despair to that unhappy country, and defended the rightfulness of a ruthless foreign domi nation. Conservatism in foreign politics has been Bourbonism in France, Cali= in Spain, Ans trianism in Italy. It was the consciousness of this that, more than any other feeling, drove Lord DIZBY and his adherents from power; and the nation will not be fully satisfied that its self-vindication in this respect is complete until it hears distinctly from the mouths of its new rulers the profession of the opposite creed. We know that there are, indeed, in the present Cabinet men whose Liberalism of feeling and conviction needs no war ranty. Bat if they are a minority, as some suppose, it is but reasonable that the country should know whether their policy is to predominate or that of their colleagues, who have been brought up in a different school, and who have never, in foreign affairs at least, recommended liberal tenets. Nobody wants to set up a shibboleth, or to pry into the secrets of personal accommodation in the formation of the Cabinet; bat, as it is one avowedly founded in the spirit and on the prin ciples of Coalition, the public have a right to I know what is the net result, and to take care if the balance preponderates as they wish, that in any changes that may henceforth occur that balance should not be changed to their disadvantage. If philo-Austrians there be in the Cabinet, we have • right, at all events, to protest against their number being augmented. We prefer saying this before any individual case arises, because our desire is to enforce a principle, not to assert a personal prefer ence. There are thou who think the friends of a liberal foreign policy are already too few in Lord PALMERSTON'S Government ; there is all the more reason, then, that, whenever opportunityserves, their relative proportion should be augmented. THE Second Court of Queen's Bencb, at Guildhall, was yesterday presided over by Mr. Justice BLACK BURN. " Nonsense !" replies any member of the bar, who has just returned from Quarter Sessions, " There is no such Judge on the Bench." We beg his pardon, and assure him that we speak on the beet authority. After a week's deliberation, after nine years' opportunity of studying the qualifications of the whole English bar, the late Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, now the LORD CHANCELLOR, has commenced the exercise of the most important of his functions, by converting a very promising junior barrister into a full-blown Judge of the Court over which hi: lordship so lately presided. For the week past we understand thet the whole profession has been anxiously speculating upon the mode is which Lord CAMPBELL would prove hie metal on this occasion. It was acknowledged that he was in a great difficulty. Au embarrete de eiehesses is not the least of embarrassments. There were so many ways in which Use pupularity-hunt ing Chancellor might give feta to his first appoint ment, if he would give his party a lift, and at the same time appoint a well-tried M.P. and leading counsel—such men there are in Parliament ; would he, regardless of party and of Parliamentary posi tion, confer the honour of his unbiassed preference upon some other tint-rate advocate and lawyer, the names of half-a-dozen good men readily occur. Would he bravely and honestly depart from the narrow path of his predecessors, and carry out the Catholic Emancipation Act by at length granting the judgeship which has for years been due to the learning, the eloquence, and the high character of Serjeaut Suez? All these and a dozen more, possible and probable, solutions of Lord CAstriittt's difficulty were dis cussed and settled and uosettled, acid reported and contradicted. Any one of them would have found its supporters, and would not have greatly surprised erg one who gave Lord CAMPBELL credit for wish ing to avoid an insult to the profession by which he has risen to his present position. But the LORD Cumicauka is no ordinary man. He thought, perhaps, that he could not appoint any man having strong claims on one ground, without offending all than who had strong claims on other grounds. He met the difficulty by appointing a gen tleman who had no claim at all. His course recalls the old story of a famous parliamentary coon eel who, when he warn retained and instructed in every ease which stood for hearing one day before every committee of both Houses of Parliament, was found, at about two p.m., strolling in Hyde Park, and justified himself on the ground that he was treating ell hie clients with impartiality, and not neglcetiug the business of one by attending to the business of another. If it was necessary to pass over all the leaders of all the circuits, and to ignore all party claims, a dozen juniors, of standing and practice, might be lamed, whose appointment would not have shocked and outraged the whole Narration as this appoint ment has done. THE right-hearted and sound sensible speech which Mr. Contixx yesterday delivered at Liver pool on landing from America will increase the desire of hundreds of thousands of his countrymen to see him cordisPy co-operating in the re construction of the Liberal party by accept ing the Presidency of the Board of Trade. We shall respect the sense of responsibility which he expressed in his address, and not obtrude com mon-place considerations on his attention. Bet we may assure him that the sentiment. and wishes embodied in the addresss read to him by Mr. BIiOWNE are those with which the great body of his party regard him ; and we cannot refrain from cxpressing the hope that the otter so frankly and courteously made to him by the Premier may be accepted. We hays moon to believe that It ie not the inten tion of the Contervativse to oppose the election of Mr .. . Massey as Chainnea of Wiwi and Means. .-. GREAT NORTHERN HONTITAI, XINWS.EROHI. Nousher of pedalo for the ws audios Jaw 22, 1,127, od ild won am tem& THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1E159. Cbe Court. The Prince Coneort_presided yesterday at a rant , ing of the Council el the Dna, al Co nwall, Buoldnghan- Mte, St. James's-perk. Theme were also present the Chancellor, Lord Kingedown; Mr. Whitmore; the Attorney- Domani, Mr. Alexander ; the Tressurer, Colonel the Hon. Mr Chalon Beaumont Phipps ; the Duke of Newcastle, Lead Portman, and the fletretaty, Mr. J. R. Gardiner. Sir William Dunbar &Minded and took the oaths on his swointment as K Kee p er ad the Privy Seal, in the room of Mr. Vfkitmore, resigned. Mears. White and Hsakey bad the honour of submitting for her Majesty's impaction, yeeterday, the Great Welcome Mugge'," from Australia, weighing 2,200 oz., sad valued et about 90001. The Primo of Wales, attended by Colonel the Ron. R. Bruce and Major Teesdale, went to the Exhibition of the Royal Academy in Trafalgar-equere. The Duke of Oporto, attended by the gentlemen of his suite, went yeteezday mcouing to Onieriliittie. Hie Royal Highness returned to Buckingham palm, in the afternoon. The Queen pee last evening, at Buckingham-palace, a State Bell toe party of two thousand. At ton o'clock the Quin and Prince Cowart were eon ducted by Viscount Sydney, the Lord Chamberlain, to the ball and concert room. Her Melody mid his Royal High ness were accompanied by his Majesty the Kiog of the Bel gians, their Royal Highnesses the Prince or Wake, the l:rincese Alice, the Duke of Oporto, and the Count of Flan- The Ladies is Waiting, the Groot Officers of State, and the Gentlemen in watiog, were in attendance. The Queen woes a dives of lilac ailk covered with bouil tonna of lilac tulle, trimmed with white blonde, and bunches of green leaves oesem•oted with di .nrinds. Her Majesty's head dress was a wreath of green leaves ornamented with diamonds. The Prior... Alias WO2O n dress of rich pint (Lee, with bouillunnes of pink tulle and white rotes. The Princess wore a wreath of whits rodeo end pearls. The ornaments were dist:weds end pearls. Weippert's Quadrdis Band occupied the Orchestra. Governor Hunks had s interview with the Dabs of Newcastle yesterday. The Bishop of Graham's Town also bad an interview with his Grace at the Colonial•offiee. yi=";he, from the Governor of Heligoland went received at the Coaciniel-offios. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury in Downing-street. It was attended by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir 0. C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle. the Right Hon. Sidney Her bert, Sir C. Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Elgin, and the Right Hon. E. Cardwell. His Serene Highness the Prince of Hohenlohe left the Breneerkk Hotel, ferstmetreet, lest eight, on hie re turn to the Continent. Frances Countess of Waldegrave and Mr. liar court, M.P., astertalned at dinner last evening, at their samba in Carltoa•gardens, Ms Royal Highness Ma Count de Paris, the Margais of Hattiagtoo, the Earl Cowper and the Countess Cowper and Lady Florence Cowper, tho Counter of Desert, Lady Constance Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Harriett Ashley, Lird Stanley of Aldetlay, Lady Whatneliffe, Hoe. James and Mrs. Smart Wortley, lion • Arthur Kinnaird, Hun. Miss Lytteltos, Mrs Gladstone, Mr. Chichester Fortesoss, Mr. Are... Corry, &e. The Earl and Countess of Lanesborongh enter tained at dinner yesterday, at their residence in Great B , anhopestrost, the Marquis and Marchionma of Head fort, the Marchioness of Thormond, the Earl of Bellmore, Liettanant-Colonci Blackburn. ant Viscountess Hereford, Dowered lady Abioger, Lord and Lady Lamas, Lord and Lady Clermont, Mr. and Mrs. Lane Fos, Mr. and MN Herrick, Mr. Gregory, and Mr. Brindle, Nixon. The Earl and &ntes of Meath and family have arrived at the Oatlanda Petit Hotel. Lord and Lady Londesborough entertained at dinner, last rreeing, at their mansion on Carlton House terrace, the Doke and Duchess of Moutroee, Marla Marchioness of Aileebory, the Marquis of Csaynghato, the Earl and Coultass Stanhope, the Fart sad Cousins of fisaborough, the Countess Vane, Lord sad Lady Join Russell and Miss Rowell, Lord anl Lady Barnes., Hen. A. Egerton, Mr. Sykes, sad Mr. Athlone. We ara requested to digs that Lord sad Lady Loudesborougb are not staying at the Outlands Park Hotel, Walton-one Thames, Sir Alexander Cockburn gave a grand ball at Willis Rooms on Tuesday night. Between 800 and 900 members of the fashionable world were present. The fka waa kept up with great spirit until • vary late hoar, and passed off most brilliantly. Lady Howard's morning party at Craven Cottage will take peace this day. Mts. Washington Hibberea second ball will take place oe Iloaday next at kat 'voidance In Doweve,reet. - Mrs. Areedeckne's ball is postponed from the etla of July, to Thursday, the 7th prooltoo. Lord Carlisle, it Seems, not only requests that those shall be no addressee presented to biro, but that be shall be permitted to enter the city of Dublin in private, and that so public reception, either by the citizens or their repro @Mathes, shall be accorded to his excellent) on his re• assumption of the Mute of office. The farewell undress reception of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Eglintou, for both ladles end gentlemen, will be held on Mwsday next, the 4th proximo, at 4 o'clock, p.m.; and on Tuesday morning, at o'clock, his excellency will leave the Viceregal Lodge for the terminus of the Dublin and Drogheda Itaiilwa, en route to Eglinton Castle. A public dinner will be given to Sir S. Morton Porto, Bart., M.P., as a mark of poreonil respect, and in celebration of Ms return for Finsbury at the late general election, at the Freemason& Tavern, on Wednesdoy, the 13th proximo; Roger Cunliffe, Beg., pill preside. - The foilowiog letter bas been received by S. Morley, Req. Chatham-place, bine 24, 1859.-116, Lord Jobs Rowell Ilse directed me to acknowledge the re melts of yaw letter of yesterday's date written on behalf of a committee of liberal electors of the city of London favour able to vole by ballot, end to thank you for it. Lord lobo Rumen modulus to be of opinion that the evils to which in his view the ballot would give rise, would prove greater than them which at present exist.-1 am, air, your obedient servant, 01.0MOZ ROUELL. S. Morley, Eau." Tilf Dublin Morning News states that the pre sent Attothey.Genersi for Ireland hoe, to a large extent, &budged the prosecution is the case of the parties charged with comptichy in the ?hands onspirecy. Yesterday, several presentations were made to the Dean of Chicho,ter (Rev. Dr. Mick), in the Vidalia Hall, Leeds, on the occasion of the rev. doctor taking leave of the pariah over which be had presided so keg. The donations consisted of, in the tirst place, a sem of 2,000 guineas, en closed in an oak casket, and calm' by parcel contri bution; s silver centre piece, by the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows; en address from the Leeds Sunday School Com mittee ; another from t►e " Short Time Committee ;" and • timepiece and candelabra from the choristers of the Leeds Parish Church. A puree of 27W. was ales mewed to Mrs. Hoek by the ladies of Leeds. The Dew feelingly acknow ledged the mulles gifts after the presentations hrd been completed. Sir Peter Fairbaim presided. Property to the amount of between 30,000/. and 40,000 r. arse disposed of on Tuesday Infuse ledge Loneleld. The estates sold are situate in Clere, Sligo, Rosoommon, Dublin, sod Kildare counties. The Houton government have reopened their son9unt with the Bank of England, which was closed at the cestnencitutent of the Canteen war. and an anival of 160,000 f. in half-iceperialt from St. Pekraburg has been taken to that establishment. &MCI( LZGAL APPOINTNIENTS.—These appoin.- mats h.rn now bees compleiiil by the office of Solicitor- General of lkoibind boiog rgAin clisGrred oa Mr. Edward Mait'aed, who held it enter the lest liberal government. Mews. A. ii. Chrk. D. Mackenzie, F. M. lioniot, sod W. Ivory, have been chosen u Advmates-depu.s. Mr. MOS. erWaprewie his COMtill•PtiVll ea Loed Advocate to the Coast of Swim on Friday Wit. OXFORD MIDDLE-CLASS EXAMINATIONS.—WO are sathorisal to sta's that the result of tea racist middle-class ezwiaatiwis bald at Oxford, Condos, L?eds, Beth, Bir maingtun, &a t causal poesibly be made bowie estil after ths let at Attgaat next, whoa it is espected the division lists will be Issued. CLOSE Or ERB WESTMINSTER ABBEY SERVICES. —The Weetruinder Abbey *pedal Bentley evening services will be brutieht tt a rico° an the 10 h of Judy. The sermon at of Bends). (July 3) will be preaohed by the Right Rev. Dr. Piers Calvelcy Claughttin, Bishop of St. Illelowa.mt the last tennis. on the tall , iwing Sunday eernier, will be preached IT the Right Rev. Dr. Edward Wyndham Tuna, Bishop of Brisbane. PREACHING AT THR ROYAL EXCHANGE —W. ace (led to t oosbled to erste that the Rev. T. Roberti's)* locumboot of Sr. •nothqw, Sr. Genes East, sill, at thorn: quest .1 the R.,. W. Goo I*, M.A., the n t tot of tha pariah, on Sunday test, July 3, I . •••yare lb. Sunday afternoon airs MOM on tlb. slops 01 the Royal Exehane, Ty ourias will commence at Ralf-past b tr'ska.—City Prem. THE WAR IN ITALY. NEGOTIATIONS. A Berlin letter in the Hamburg News says:— " It may be considered as certain that the Prussian government has opened negotiations with England and Russia, in order to establish a common basis of mediation. Such a proceeding cannot but be ap proved of." THE ADRIATIC. We (Time') have received the following despatch from our correspondent at Vienna : "VIENNA, Wiwi CROAT NooN . " On the 28th the following French ships were at Antieari—Five ships of the line, eight frigates, six war steamers, thirteen floating batteries, nine gunboats, nine brigs, and two three-masters. " The fleet has many troops and enormous sup plies of provisions and ammunition on board, so that it can act independently of the mother country, should any other Power attempt to interfere. " Admiral Bouet is about to open sealed orders. "Consul Ilecquardt is in continual correspondence with Montenegro." THE AUSTRIAN ARMY. VERONA, Tr=DAT. (Via Trieste.) Count Ponesles has arrived here, at the head quarters of the Austrian army. LaybaCh has been fixed as the seat of the military and civil govern ment of Lombardy and of the employia of the government. . _ General Gyulai has, in the capacity or colonel, assumed the command of the regiment which belongs to him and bears his name. THE MASSACRE AT PERUGIA. BERNE, WEDNESDAY. On receipt of the news of the massacre at Perugia the Swim residents at Milan were ill-treated by the populace, but the police interfered. The Federal Council has addreseed circulars to the Swiss consular agents in Italy, in which the Council protests against denominating regiments composed of foreigners as Swiss regiments, and requests that use may be made of the circulars in order that this sub ject may be put in its proper light before the eyes of the public. ITALY. BATTLE OF SOLFERINO. (PROM OUR brECIAL COR.II7.IMONDENT.) CASTENEDOLO, JC NE 24, Evvox°. I had just posted my yesterday's letter when an officer of the general staff told me of intelligence having arrived from Peechiera that the Austrians in tended to attack our lines on the following morning. I therefore made up my mind to follow the Piedmontese army as soon as Victor Emmanuel had left Lonato for the front. I was, however, obliged to change my plan, for the simple reason that the horse I had obtained at Beanie was lame, and therefore, unable to follow the staff even at a distance. As it was quite out of the question to get a horse in Lonato, I wu obliged to accept the kind offer of an American gentleman who follows ex amateur the operations of the allied armies. He was fortunate enough to be in possession of a carriage, and I hastened to take the opportunity thus offered to me. At first I thought we should drive on the Desenzano road, but he said he had some reason to believe that the French army would be first engaged, and that he had decided on starting for Moutechisri. Although I thought this decision rather eccentric I could not succeed in persuading him to give it up, so we left Lonato at about nine o'clock in the evening. The night was beautiful, and the camp fires scattered all round on the hills produced such an effect as I could not have imagined. We were driving towards the plain alorg a narrow road ; the hills on our left presented a sharp outline against the starry ground of an Italian sky. Now and then a distant village clock or the barking of farm-dogs broke the silence of the night, adding to the solemnity of the surrounding scene. It was about 2 o'clock in the morning when I arrived, with my companion, at Mon techiari, at which place the head-quarters of the Emperor have been established since Tuesday last. The place was all confusion, for the troops were already in movement towards the frost. Being well acquainted with the country, I advised my companion to leave the main road, and we made our way through the stony ground of the Campagna towards Castiglione dell Stiviere. We had not yet arrived in the town —which is celebrated as has lug given birth to St. Louis Gooiest, and the name to one of the most illus trious faits eremites of the Napoleonic campaigns— when the report of field guns on our right gave the signal that the fight had begun in the direction of Medals. And so it had, for when we reached the town of Castiglione we found that the Imperial Guard was already marching in haste towards that direction. Our horses were too tired to fol low the movements of the army, so I thought it was better to proceed at once to the Monte del Belvedere, an elevated bill from which one can overlook all the Campagna of Medale, a large plain, only circumscribed by the far distant horizon. Once arrived at the Roccolo Reschi we could distinctly are the smoke of field guns and muskete—in a word, all the operations of the army. The French body which was first thus engaged was the corps d'armte of General Niel, which since the preceding evening was marching on the direc tion of Medal,. The advanced guard of General Niel had met three divisions of Urban 's corps, at &farm house called the Casa di Maioraltice, and was obliged to make its way amidst a tremendous fire of musketry and artillery. As soon as Marshal Canrobert was made aware of the enemy's attack, he ordered his troops to throw aside their knapsacks, and with all possible speed hastened to the scene of action. After an hour's fight the action be came general all over the plain, and the arrival of the Emperor soon converted it into a regular Pitched battle. Marshal MacMahon was soon en gaged on the left, and the distant report of the artillery, which was carried by the wind blowing from the Lego di Garda, apprised us that the Piedmontese army was equally engaged somewhere near Rivoltella and Peschiera. It was about two o'clock in the afternoon when the Piedmontese, pro , Deeding from Rivoltella, succeeded in making their junction with the French army. The French centre had been compelled by the tvents of the day to concentrate the mass of its forces towards the hilly village of &Merino, where the Austrians were disputing the ground with an energy unprecedented in the present war. Th. battle became then a tremendous one. The Pied monteee, led by the King, really performed wonder,. The let and 2nd Regiment of the Guards emulated the %curry's to such a degree that • French officer told me it was impossible to imagine anything more grand and heroic. Generals Durando's and Fontes divisions took position after position at the point of the bayonet, till they succeeded in routing the enemy, which wu obliged to fall back on Cavriana and Volta. This back movement was soon stopped by the enemy's reserve coming from Gaidizzolo, Cerlungo, and Goito, so that the conflict was renewed, and lasted till night. Of coarse it is impossible for me to send you • correct account of this great and bloody struggle in which the Austrians mus tered not leas than 140,000 men. The allies had u many as that, though not until nearly the close of the day. The losses on both sides have been tremendous. The Sindaco of Castiglione, a Doctor Poli, told me half an hour ago that he thought the two armies had not less than 40,000 hors de combat. Field pieces, prisoners, flags, I hear, have also fallen into our bands, and I saw myself batches of prisoners sent to Castiglione and to Brescia. At about 8 o'clock in the evening, the smoke which had enveloped for more than ten hours the hills which stretch away from Castiglione as far as Volta, was gradually dispersing, so it was clear that the great struggle was drawing to a close. I descended from the Monte del Belvedere, and, almost exhausted by the sleepless night I had pissed, came back to Casti glione, which I found all in confusion. Thousands of wounded were arriving at every moment, and it would have been useless to stay in such a place at that time. In the confusion which prevailed I had lost my companion, so that I was obliged to walk on in the direction of Montechiari. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon a tremendous hurricane came on, which must have greatly added to the fatigue of the fighting armies. The heavy rains and the fatigue of a long walk had harassed me to such a degree that I was obliged to come back to Cute nedolo on a small cart belonging to a farmer, whom I met on his way home. When I get further particulars of the result of to-day's fight you shall have them; but I hope you will not underrate all the difficulties I have to surmount in order to get proper and correct informa tion. Our lines are now so long that it is almost impossible to get news on which one can really I depend. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now ors owx cowawirownsirr.) PARIS. WEDNEEDLY EVF-VINC). Notwithstanding the great satisfaction felt at the news in the Noniteur that the French army is cross ing the Mincio without resistance, the paucity of the details given by the official journal about the battle, of Solfetino occasions in the public mind an impa tience for further intelligence which perhaps is more intense than reasonable. No doubt the general views of the French government with regard to publicity are open to exception. But in this particular in ' stance the success of the French arms, as admitted by the Austrian bulletins, was so decided that there can scarcely be any leading facts relating to the battle which the French would care to conceal. It should be remembered that the Emperor is his own reporter. The sketch of the battle given in the iloniteur to-day must be considered as his representation to the Empress of those bro►d out lines which were principally impressed upon his own mind at the conclusion of the combat, and be fore he became acquainted with those details which he can only know trim the reports of his marshals and generals. Oa the occasion of the battle of Magenta the casualties on the side of the con querors turned out to be mach more numerous than the Emperor had supposed them to be at first. It is, therefore, very natural that, in order not to be obliged to correct his estimates a few days later, his Majesty should abstain for the present from giving figures. The reason for withholding the names of the generals wounded is not so ap parent. It was reported in several salons last evening that General Auger had died of his wound. This bril liant artillery officer was at one time a political friend of Colonel Charms and an ardent republican. He did not immediately rally to the coup d'etat, bat he thought it his duty to recognise the popular vote of Dec. 20, 1831, which conferred upon Louis Napoleon the mastership of France. Besides the three generals mentioned by the semi-official papers, ' it is stated by the liidependance, professing to speak on the authority of despatches sent to relatives, that Generals Levaillant and Douay were also wounded at Solferioo. It is communicated to the Patrie that the Duke d'Abranteo, the head of General Fai staff (Niers corps), was severely wounded, but he is doing well. Cuuat de Lsrochefoucault, of the 3rd Chasseurs d'Afrique--a well-known member of the Paris jockey club—riding too far before his men, wu surrounded and made priaooer. The same fate, as I hear, betel the Count de Gramout. A Tariu despatch says that the Sardinian losses at Solferino were very heavy, and mentions among the killed Generals Mollard, Perrier, and Arnaldi, Colonels Beretta end Pernot, and Captain Palley i cini, of the bersaglieri. General Fontes division greatly distinguished itself. It is said to be a peculiarity of the Emperor that on the field of battle he never puts his horse out of a walk. I hear that in a letter to the Empress he mentioned that this was his habit, in order that he might be able to remain on horseback for a very long time without feeling fatigue. An aide-de-camp twists up little cigarettes and passes them to him every three or four minutes. The Bourse was very favourably !acted upon by the news of the passage of the Miticiowithoui firing a shot. It was not doubted that the Austrians must have retreated behind the Adige. The Route rose to G2fr. 760. There was, however, a very sharp and r►pid reaction at the end of the day, for which no particular reason was assigned. The c!o,ing prices were 62fr. 50c. and 62fr. 40c., being a Tie, of 40c. and 20c. from yesterday. 6tobilier rose 6(r. 25c. The Orleans railway rose lofr.; Northern, 6fr. 75c. ; Eastern, 7fr. 60c.; and the other lines about 2fr. 50c. It is mid that the extempore fireworks in the streets of Paris, on Saturday night, occasioued several accident,. The prefect of police has pub. lished a notice prohibiting each manifestations of rejoicing in future under severe penalties. The Pays has a paragraph contradicting the now very old news that Count Pourtalds was going from Berlin to the respective head-quarters of the two Emperors in Italy. It adds that he is expected shortly in Paris. The ambassador has been " ex pected," but expected in vain for a very long time. The following remarks on the system of holding) be lc news proceed from a very friendly ten, fur they are pub:Whed in the Nord :—" It is no wood. r that a fevutish anti. ty ab.ut the news should be prevalent, and that the niutiam of the administration ahould give rise to the most conflicting conjectured. Moreover the mode of publishing official Intelligence is hr from being regular or satisfactory. It ice , no doubt, req tight that the government about I select frees every despatch such parts se it thinks lit to be imme diately made publi but in order to be consistent it should take care that the news which it means to reserve should n. t be known, in one way or soother, by sll Patio. When people beer news in (Raters which they have known to be well informed on former comaions they naturotly repeat it, sad dm great mistake are sometime. mode. Nobr.dy knows to what minister to apply for the earliest infomiatierh, and it la generally by chance, in the drawing-rmm or the street, that one fled haws el Important hots." THE UNITED STATES. The following important letter had been sent to A. V. Hofer, of Cincinnati, by Secretary Casa: Department of State, Washington, June 14, 1659. S4,—ln answer to your letter of the Bth Met, I have to inform you that the hid letter from this department to which you refer, dated the 17th May last, and admired to Mr. Felix Leclerc, wee in reply to an application for information, and was principally intended to recommend caution to our naturalised fellow-citizens, natives of Fresco, in returning to that country, as the operations of the French COW acription Law were not precisely known here, and might bear injuriously upon that class of American citizens. Moat of the continental European nations have a system of military organisation by which their citizens are compelled to serve in the army by conscrip tion, as in France, where the duty is designated by lot, or by draft, so in Pr,misia, where every person is required to take his turn se a soldier. The condition of American saturalieed citizens, returning to their native country, when the system of compulsory service prevails, and who had left before per forming such service, has frequently been the subject of dig. cumion wilt some of the European powers. Quite recently It has arisen between the United State. and Pillage, nnl the temmeotative of this country at the court of Berlin has brought the matter to the attention of the Prussian govern inset. In the Instructions which were sent to him, dated May 12, 1859, it wee explicitly stated that this government Is opposed to the doctrine of perpetual allegiance, and main tains the right of expatriation, and the right to form now political ties elsewhere. Upon this subject it is observed, that In this age of the world the iche of cohtrAing the citivn in the choice of a home, end binding aim by a mere political theory to inhabit for his lifetime a country which he con atantiy desires to leave, can hardly be entertainel by any government whatever. The maiden of the United States, as communicited to the minister at Berlin for the intormation of the Premien government, is, that native born Prussia= neenrelised is the United States, and returning to the country of their birth, are not liable to any duties or psealtise, except such se were existing at the period ot their emigration. If at that time they were In the army or actually called into it, such emigration and naturalisation do not exempt them from the legal penalty which they Incurred by their desertion; but this pretty may be named against them whenever they shall :voluntarily piece themselves within the load jurisdiction of their nation, end shall be pro mead egainstaocordieg to law. But when no present liabi lities' exist against them at the period of their emigration, the law of netions, in the opinion of this governmt lir, gives no tight to any country to interfere with naturalised American citizens, and the attempt to do so would be I considered en act unjust in itself and unfriendly towards the United States. This que>tion catirot of cross arise in the case of a naturalised damn who remains in the United States. It is only when he voluntarily returns to dandier, country that its local laws can be enforced against him.-1 am, sir, your obedient servant, Lewis CAW The Board of Education in New York, by a vote of 26 to 16, had passed a by-law to compel the reading of the Bible in all the public schools. ZINO'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL. The twentieth anniversary festival of this insti tution was held last night, in the hall of King's College, Somerset-house; Dr. K. B. Tom), F.R.8., in the chair. There were nearly 160 gentlemen present. It appeared from • statement recently issued, that in the year 1868 there were entered on the books 31,262 patients; and since the year 1839, when the hospital was first opened, no less than 393,573 patients have been admitted to the berotite of the charity, of whom 23,848 were in-patients, 362,010 out-patients, and 7 917 poor married wowen attended at their own homie. This root amount of relief is edministered at a rest of about 6,0001. a year. The annual imbeeriptione some what exceed the sum of 1,5001., so that the charity le every year dependent for the sum of nearly 4,5001. upon the tree gifts of friends. The usual loyal toasts having been duly honoured, the chair man propoeed the tout of the evening, Prosperity M the King's College Hospital, its early completion, and its early endowment." It. them entered into the history of the foundation of the institution, and the difficulties which bad to be encountered. Within the first year they collected 11,0001. ; and on the 22nd of April, 1810, their Bret three patients were edmitmd. The meeting would gather from the statistics put forward by the committee how large an amount of good in the way of relieving the pain end distress of the poor had been conferred on the metropolis by the bospital ; but there was another point of view from which it might be regarded, and another light in which its claims were still more striking. It wee a clinical boegitel for the investigation of disease; and he looked back with a proud satisfaction on the work it bad done during the last twenty years. In fact, he would boldly assert that during that interval there was on col lege in London from which greaten c din ibution. had been made to medical silence. The toast waa drunk with touch entbuilonn, and subaetiptioas and donetiona amoun.ing to the mundi.ent sum of 3,0001., were after/raids announced. POPLAR HOBPITAL. The third tunnel festival in aid of the above young but most important sal valuable institution was celebrated yesterday at the Brunswiek Tavern Iliackwall, wider the auspices of Seurax GUILMEY, Eaq., 31. P. Amoaset the company were Italian' Green, Esq., Mr. Ayrton M.P., H. N. Forma, Esq., Messrs. C. Reynolds, Dr Buie, C. H. Pelly, J. Hobert* ri, C. Capper, Rev. Frost, Mr. Samuel Brown, resident surgeon, Poplar Hospital, M. Brownfield, Req., Ste. The Poplar hospital was established is the year 1835, pieci pally through the exertions of the late Mr. Simnel Gurney, asaisted by the principal ship-owners, merchants, and trades men of thn neighbourbccd. A suitable building was found In the old Custom house, neer the East and Weed India Dock', but being in a very dilapidated condition, a large sum had to be expended in repairs and alterations to tit it for its present purpose. Tiers are twenty-eight beds to the hose • petal for Kittens accident uses, braides which, those who suffer from injuries of a lighter description receive pronto attention as out-pntionts. Stsce the foundation of the hospyal, no less than 5,067 cares, iacluding fractures, disloustionn,contasioce, in eh et, every description of injury likely to occur in a great port of commerce, bare been treated, sad the detriends upon Its resources increase every day. Of the ' sbove 1181 were in-patients, and the remainder, together with 6,484 poor ;avow in the neighbourhood, were prescribed for as out patients. It would be im;etiosible to give • clearer Woo of the value of the institution in • district studded wilt. docks, warehouses, moss, wharves. vessels loading and tp unloading, sad where the working population are cousewolly expose d to the moat severe and sudden accidents, Mom by • recital of the above facts. Yesterday and on Monday a fancy fair in aid of the Dispensary for Consumption and Diseste of the Chest, 26. Margaret-gime; Regent•stree*, was hell at the Hanover square Rome. KING's COUNTY.—A correspondent of the Daily Expreu writ s:—t• A petiti'm has been presented against toe return of Mr. J. Pope Hennessy, on the grounds of treating and disqualification. In the evo nt of ha befog no. easeful Mr. Blond will get the act, bur It to Holy that after having secured a seat Mr. Hentessy will not give it np without • hard simple. I believe there is no ;wash lity al the within sold to be entered spinet Mr. O'Brien being proceeded with. INAUGUAATION OF TIIE GLASGOW STATUE 11l HONOUR Or San. HOIIERT PELL—The Mass in honour of Sr Rabat l',el, ureter' In George-tomtit, was inaugu rated on Tuesday afternoon. The Lord Prov.ar, eases trate., and members of town council, were present, as also Mr. Bbeeiff Bell, Mr. Sheriff Strathere, Mr. Robert Dal eisb, M.P., Mr. Walter Buthenan, 81. P., Sir Andrew Orr, and a number of other influential citiane. Those who took part in the ceremony marched in ;duration from the roencalchambere, preceded by the band of the 12th regiment aad a number of pallor. The square in the vicinity of the roue sae crammed, the crowd exteeding as for ad Denthepetre et. In banding over the statue to the care of the oorpotati..n, Mr. Delgliol expraeed a hope that the cnin maw would have no canoe to regret having 'steered the altar 1.12 of rho alarm to • Glasgow inlet (Mr. Mommen). The Lord Provost having made an apt roprlate reply, the assemblage alwrstrel. A dinner was at erased, held in the Queen's Roth. which sae attended by • number of the loading citizens. RELIGIOCS PROCESSIONS AT MARSEILLES.—Yes lertLl (Sunday) occurred the first of the annual religious proormiuns which have bees revved within the hut few year*. The statue of Notre Dams de la Garde, which Is Is-Id in greet vesdrxtion by the Marseol'ais, wee brought from the church of the same name, sod paraded through the rivets at an early hour,. end de; oohed in fire Hotel de Ville for the di. But the chid procemitdi to: k place in the arr. moon. At about 6 o'clock • number of penitents—black, whlte, and blue—wearing hoods drawn down over the fare, monks, fri , es Cho teens. and ecclesiastical dgaitaries left the church of Martin and walked down toe Ciure Bebnance, the Ceonebline, and slang the clime. They were accompanied by fi'es of tooldicrya Lands of music (some playing on deems end free of the moat peniitive kind). freemen, and the oneporetions of law ' yore. dectore, end tnalts. The footure Shot appeared to ht ' tatet the people most see a bull earning • child to pee -1 sooty 8.. John, which was revived obis year for the first tiros. The penitents carried 'mown us banners, on tibial were inscribed the cartes and intogea of the ' mists and holy personages they had atleolvd tor patrons. The banner-Warm. were sunlit,, end one walked over the stoner barefoot d, but others were edam tably shod, and mine wore Hide gloves, which formed a orange tontroost to [ the grub of peidteeie. The appearance of tbo monks clothed In heat y wo Urn gon.eals, and with tbt it shaven heads ea ' revered Ist Dealt too burring rays of the sun, was • novelty. Many f Onto were remarkably handoomv ).meg men, who evidvauly belonged to the upper elves of &Hely. The Archlrenop of Marseilles bore the lloly Socramtr.t beneath • rich d*o o. The stree's were crowd:d with the Inhabitants of Moro-11. and the vieini•y. Flogs of saints and martyrs t were suspended between the houses; and from tho windows ' hung draperies., curtains., and theme that bed previously served the most homely uses.—/efier from Marseilles.