The Express. — London, England, 1859-07-28 00:00:00

HARMOIM7IOI-3111W MODEL-CRAMKR, am" all ON lspordraic go* •xiarso keile 1 . 1116 iM ..r be at the Ole., 10, Dasywiranst, by Two ea 1i• ty of palitioades. 1.0 *• SAVAMMIIIT-TISS 00 LAM b.llooooWiiii E. 43 3 = 21 I°L 1271 Wrila Crala ll "° /1111101111.11. ...."I=.l7.wcu Trot Nravo•• • la grain ; ?be laislbes 41.1g1w1 . & ; UMW Era 111111,- M l is l i s s a tivra KA • irei. SION warn AT 101101011 MIMI& r eie gzz:l 4.l... enen. et. Ai...........hamena. ft aft 11. 115..........a11e5ms LAO& LONDON. INUNIDAZ JULY 28. Witsr en o.d writer calls " boirybodynees" is &wipe a vice and often a crime. In axial life produce., indeed, fez more mischief and misery than those more violent forms of offence that are the direct objects of penal legislation. The voluble social meddler sows broadcast the elements of un foonded jealousy and suspicion, destroys the good andentandieg between neighbours, separates friends, and creates coldness and distrust, if not active and bitter hoetility, where but for such malign intl.' larvae* all might have been ocesoord and poem When the mischief is irreparably done, it is small coneolation to know that it has sprang from trivial or accidental causes, that those who have brought it about had so expressly evil design in the prophetic air they assumed, and the groundless suspicion' they industriously cir culated. The vice of evil-speaking is often the result simply of an irritable fancy and an unbridled tongue, of constitutional restlessness and vanity, and an overwseeiog sense of self-importance. But whatever the cause, the effect is equally fatal. Here, as elsewhere, mere t►oughtlessness and folly end in crime. And a wise ma, kaewiag this, wou.d arrest the evil at its source. From a natural feeling of pride and self-respect, be will decline to hear the " important facts" and timely warnings which the mischief-makers, who trade in stispi- ekes, are anxious to communicate ; or, if they reach him, will neither accept nor act upon them till confirmed and justified by the fullest evidence., Ne knows what is due to his character and position, and oan protect both from outrage without the as sistance of those candid friends who are little better than amateur informers, if not incendiaries in dis guise. Unfortunately, the vice of " busybodynees" is not confined to private life. There are political busy bodies as well as social ones, and the evil which the former may produce exceeds that within the power of the latter, as the nation does the individual. These political busy bodies stir the dormant jealousies of rival but friendly peoples, and sow suspicion and distrust between allied States, just as social meddlers do between mutual friends and acquaintinces. Every crisis or commotion in public affairs brings them forth, 0 Suspicions," says BACON, " among thoughts are •' like bats amongst birds, and ever fly at twiiightt When the political atmosphere is darkened, forth they fly, and disturb the air with their alarmed flut tering.. These mischief-mongers are busy now on both sides of the Channel, and threaten to affect the good understanding that has so long existed between France and this country. The real facts constituting the raw material of this thriving but most injurious trade are simple enough. France has brought her fleet into a state of efficiency unknown before, and, so far as we can judge, beyond the actual need. England, on the other hand, having left the management of naval affairs to the ordinary course of official routine, has fallen much below the ordi nary average in ships and men, and is now making vigorous efforts to supply the deficiency and to raise the fleet to a point of numerical strength which the country as • first-rate maritime power requires. No doubt the increased and continued activity in the French dockyards has acted as a etimalu—has helped to rouse us to a fuller consci anuses of this admitted and serious deficiency. But it has operated as the occasion rather than the cause of use lammed attention to the national defences, and especially the stair of the navy. A mere com panion of the navy of France, which is sot a purely maritime power, with that of oar own country, which i s, was quite sufficient to show how far we had f•llen behind in the cardinal point of naval strength. It opened the eyes of the country to a real and serious need, which for the sake of its in wrests and its honour ought to be at once supplied. And we are increasing oar nary now, not tiosease we expect to be invaded, but because it is absolutely necessary in order to meet the ordinary defensive requirements of the country. All this is industriously perverted and misrepresented by the law, bodies oc both sides of the water. to this r oomy there are candid friends, both in Portia limiest sad the preen, who assume a bellicoee and &dam tone in speaking of the national deffiscao and would hare us accept their bluster and menu as I magnet proofs of patriotism and peeetratioe. They profess to be perfectly intimate with the aadlealged purposes of the French ENIPLIOI, with the meet designs of France, and find both hostile to this country. Their prophetic eye is filled with visions of invasion. In some cases, '• the sunset of lite giros this mystical lore;" in others, the sagacious and infallible reading of an inscrutable character ; in others again, • profound and philosophical interpn tattoo or history and curtest events. Whatever may be the cause, howeve►, we protest against the result. lt doss not contribute to oar national dignity and self-respect for the organs of opinion to adopt a tons of alternate NW pinion, menu*. and alarm. We decline to entertain gratuitous suspicions of a friendly Power. We have our opinion with regard to the character of Lunts NAPOLE ,y, and have never been slow to express it. We read history and interpret current sweats. BM neither the one nor the other justifies as in treating mere itlipiCiool LI realities, or acting au presumed intentions as ascertained facts. And to call on the country to arm because it is sere to be Invaded, is simply a rode and mischievous appeal to aatienal prejudices and antipathies which an nappily is them day s almost if not altogether extinct. It is Isorionaer, a thorough misrepresentation of the case: calculated, if not designed, to mislead. We are enangthraing the defences of the country, not to meet a projected or expected inviuion, bat simply became they had fallen into a weak and inefficient condition. Let this important work be pressed forward with the utmost zeal and vigour. That we should have a naval and military force equal to the ordinary requirements of our home and coional pnesemious is indispensable to the dignity, safety, and honour of the country. But these purely de !inane worke need not be the oocas.cin of any ur.tat- .I'RE tog language in or est of Partagat- All thothiadof bluster is needlma, undlgaiftet, tai injurioas. A wise man will take emery reasonable precaution foe On protection e 4 kin prenakera; bet oily a fool would, b de replacing the rotten bars and rusty locka, noisily assert to the people around that he did this beams' he was certain that his neighbours intended to 'err him. Because we insane our house it by no means , cectrearily follows that we expect it to be imme diately burned down. This brings us to the busybodies on the other side of the water. They are evidently disposed to inter pret our simple and very moderate means of self defence in a hostile and regressive seine. This, however, is really too much, and must be compare duly harmless from its very absurdity. The figures on which this interpretation is made to net will not bear a moment's examination. In the first *or, es we have already hinted, they are worth less t sad in the second place, if perfectly trust worthy, they would prove nothing.. Seven years ago our fleet doubled that of Francs, and that is the serval proportion between the fleets of the two Gauntries measured by the fair requirements of each. We occupy an insular position, have a vast and widely scattered colonial empire, and the most extensive commerce in the world. France hu • comparatively smell foreigntrode,ffew colonies, and depends on her armies far defence. Our naval requirements are thus more than double theme of our neighbour. But after the eatrsordinary• exertions of this year, oar fleet will still be little more than equal to the French fleet. With what colour of reason or probability then can our efforts to place the defenoes of the country= a decent footing be construed into a hostile demonstra ties lied we suddenly raised oar army from 100,000 , to 400,000, then there might, indeed, be some ground far such an interpretation. But on the grounds al aged the suspicion convicts itself ea a =geoid= of that restless busylladyness that is the bane of social and national life. Mx Court. OBBORNi, JOIN if. - - Her Lied, and the Prince Consort embarked in the Fek .p ardeniey ationtem. sad steamed to Spltlimel, ac hy Memo Alice, Prince's Helens, Priam@ Lenity's, and Prisms Rohenlobt &mandamus were the Hoo. Cacho, Oimenthrdt, Colonel F. Seymour, sod Colonel th Rom. A. Hmdlzsge The Hoe. MM. T. Y. Diddalph end the Her. G. Prothere bad the honour of bed Invited to dinner. A Cabinet Connell was held yesterday at the official residers* of the First Lord of the Trea sury in Downing-mreet. The minicers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Rummell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hen. Sidney Harbert, Sir C. Wood, the Chan cello, of the Exchequer, the Dake of Somerset, the Earl of Elgin, the Right lion. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. ♦ deputation consisting of Mr. Hyde, M.P., Mr. le Miry. the Town Clerk of Liverpool ; and the Boroosk Easinew of Ltverpool, bed so interview with the Chewslier of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resident* in Demobs" eneet. - A dolphin= cessistfee of Sir Peter Parkin', Mayer of Leeds ; Mr. Richard Meson, Mayor of Pontefract ; Mr. W. Wood (Pontefract), and Mr. Ikea, Toss Clerk Of Leeds ; acorrapedded by Kr. R. Mose-Inca Mn..., M.P.. Mr, G. I. Radiate, M.P.. cad Mußdward Rainey, M P., had sa interv4w with the Right - Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the office of the Boyd of Trade._ the Privy Council at yester day. Lord Kluesdows pave judgments es as appeal frost Madra•—" The Eset ladle Company v. Kaataches Boy. ;" sad oa ma appeal toes Beagal—" Pesach Chowdry v. Rai:aroma Roy." Despatcher were recetred at the Cabala-oaks yesterday from to Governor of the Mauritius, sad the L,r.i High Commissioser of the balsa Limb. Oa Saturday. 'ming the Prince of Wales visited the Queim's nate% idiaburgh, attended by the principal member of his suite. A very elegant box was ta ttooed for his Royal Highness on the extreme left of (be deem circle, end though for the most part of the evening the prime sat with:a the curtained noels cootsale.l from the great body of the andleme, be took • more rrossinent seat during an interval of the performances, and wee weicomd with treat and cordial char* by the crowded audience. On Sunday be again attended Divine service in the High Chttrelmosad took hie emit is the Hume pew Mt sport for Royalty and its annual representative, the Lord High Cotorabsitiner. On Monday afternoon his royal highs's@ visited the recently opened National Gel tory. While his mance was vainly (tiptoed by, some 10,000 or 20,000 persons &mumbled at Orontes to aliases a grand regatta on the Forth, the young prince Iris canton, inspecting the works of the different, masters, ancesst sad modem, represented la this gallery of art. On leaving hie Royal Highness ermined hie high gratification with hie Ti!,a. which lasted above m hour and a half. The Counters Frances Waldegrave and Mr. liar ootat. 31. P , hues returned to Carlton Carden from Straw berry Hill until Saturday. Tits Countess Cowper entertained a select circle at dialler as Tardy laat, at Haagh Aos L's, Kenaingtoe. - . Viscountess Palmerston has retnrneito Cambria", Homo from Broad hill. The Right Hoe. Sidney aad Mrs. Herbert gave a grand astertatureest last 'venial; to their Royal illinemes die Duke sad Ditchers (Ramie. The &Bowing wars la eded to Molt isle isysl Idshaseass —Ths Disks cif New male sad Lady darts Parma Chutes, the lei sad Casaba Clsemiles, Ks Hai eil. Oermass, tag Bishop at Ozdard. Trews Cession Wilegrave and Kr. Issesort, Lard and Lady Bony Vase, ash. Mr. sad Kn. J. Seri Wortley. Mr and Um Hol od, lbs. Lam in the ersieg Km. Her bert bad as assembly. The Peimis Rheims Kehossed and Prince Forme Beak was amen the early stank His Serena Highness Pries ?Mai& Rol 'tin and the Prince and Princess Clumsy and the Countess Claistey were sloe it west, -- !ir Moses Maatefiore, But., with his lady and mite, socompealed by Team Peeha sad mike, arrived st the Soya Andes Hotel, Fluseasie, as 'faraday aun!ng, Lord Pawnee, the Earl and Counties of Airlift likoneat Dusam, and Lady EFEtbsdb Dalrymple, see on a Mattel Owepedeens. N.B. Lord *mid bra taken. for the sporting season, Connives Lofts, a taw mike tram Balmoral. His lordablp astl • Imessens party ars expected to commence sport on Amass IL We (IVoretstersAire Chroloicle) regret to state th i s Ks. Mideat, M.P., has been for i soune time unable to attend is ►ts parlianxn•ary duke awing to severe indis position, This Row. Egerton Douglas Hammond has boa colleted to the Rectory of Bundridge, and the Rev. Richard Vitalist ham bees liciessed to the perpetual curacy of Crock barn-bill, Wreterhas& both is the toasty of Kent sad Meese of Csaterisury. The Lord Lieutenant and Chief Governor of the Tower Yield-Marshal Viscount embalmer& 0.C.8., has swilled Mr. Thom. Wake Ratcliffe, al Dean Cole. house, White Horsiodrest, Oesteeretel-rod, to be the aboard of the Court Lest sad Cowl of Itacianl within the precincts and .liberty of the Tower of London, sad as ark au ward to be comer for her Kojeity withia the asid precinct& . _ POLffic•f. HISALTEL—If a wise sad vary state phytheits we ealk4 la Jae now to feel the seeleani pal" red genera ea the state of the commits:km, IPS might be tebriably sere of the general moor of kb rower. The boort is Ogle; $ Food steady dew of bleed is tosenid thrwegb the thaw Fleecy of sew' ehemee hat base take, sad there le M hided of the red globale% The dal glow of youth ls prod, ta which all strata seethe halleteat ; bet the hill strength of thsabeed mashie, eel the paler is •thY 014 1thlt a seatimoseible. Th ere ere se fleithsetory r ythelessr, then which ore treated in the tier side of tbs Cbseed by the old end berboroes oohed of bind letibg. Time loss &halve otwitoilatklll, se Y 01111.11., an resent dory of Ohs vital powers. like eft Mali we all otiome is ear Othregit Mebane = welethear. No doubt the 'piton way beireerbzed , but we ewes(W Ms strength till it to tried. A moderato woontro will 1.017 develop its prmt:r Erl'a within are k.it at cheek by Footle excite ment fence In theme It on the orewity toe exorcise wittt brute all defter of apoplexy.—Goer/ern. TM:USDA INTELLIGENCE. T EVENING, JULY EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (7101[ 0111, OWN PARIS, WIDNIBDAY EVINING. The Univers aim in its money article says : ITALY. SARDINIA. There was to have been a council of ministers at St. Cloud today, bat, instead of it, a meeting was held of the Privy Council. This body, which was created only last year, after the Orsini affair, has been so little talked of since that the very name sound' strange. People have a mine idea that it mossista of men enjoying the Emperor', especial coo- Mama who would have a part to play in state affairs in case of a regency, but what are their attri butions under ordinary circumstances and whether in any case they have a mission to supersede a council of ministers ars points on which the public is quits in the dark. An impression, however, pre vails this evening that the Privy Council, which, if I remember rightly, bee never been officially assembled before, is now called upon to consider the relations between Frame and England. The Cor respotulance Belier, sent by this evening's post to all the provincial journals, gives out that the Em peror's government will probably demand, very shortly, loyal explanations from the English cabinet as to the attitude of England and the " affected alarms" which lead her to maks continual defensive preparations. Count Passim was present at this mysterious meeting. The Massager de Paris of this evening asserts that the Emperor will shortly pay a visit to England in order to re-assure Queen Victoria most completely al to his conduct and intentions. A rumour of this kind has been afloat for the last two or three days. Osborne House, it is said, is to be the theatre of the visit ; but I look upon the whole story as a canard. Many of the journals put a sinister interpretation upon the article in the Moniteur on the defences of England. The Pays says in its money article : . . _ Tie note bas been variotialy interpreted at the Bourse. Some people ew la ft sa Macedon of a general disarma ment, while by ethos it wu ocastrned as a symptom of discord between the two governments. It appears that the latter view was the prevalent one, slue the Rents fell. The only thing talked of was the article in the/61411W, sad the many opinkse expressed upon it; all agreed in this-- that the Italian question is net the only one now in agitation. The Gazette de France observes that the note " sensibly modified the dispositions of speculators." The Union says " it did not confirm the rumours of a disarmament, and chilled speculation." According to the &eels the " rumours of a dis armament were thwarted (contrarii) by the article in the Moniteur." Bat the most remarkable criticism of all is the following one, which appears in the leading column of the journal des Debate : The object of the sots in the Moasteur appears to be to meet the expressed wishes of oestain members of the Englhh parliament, that there should be a mutual agreement for a disarmament, by proving that there is now as much era geration about our maritime armaments as there was about our military preparations on the eve of the Italian war. The idea of a war between France and England seems to have attained a more rapid maturity at Madrid than elsewhere ; the Independence of that city exclaims, " The time is at hand when the taking of London will revenge Waterloo." The Boars. was exceseively inanimate all day. I doubt whether any instance is on record of so little business having been done. The usually crowded arena was almost deserted, and for many minutes together not a voice was heard in the parquet. The Rants was last quoted at 67fr. 80c. and 67fr. 96c.,with • fall of 6c. for cash and a rise of sc.for account. The Mobilise did not vary. Some of the railways were from 2fr. 60c. to 6fr. higher, bat many lines were not quoted at all. The Minister at War went to Vincennes yester day to select a place for the encampment of the troops expected from Italy during the few days that they will have to wait in the environs of Paris be fore making their triumphal entry on Aug. 15. M. Marc Foamier, the manager of the Porte St. Martin, went to an enormous expense to get up a grand military spectacle, called La Vde Sao*, or Les Btapes de to Guerre. The number of supernu meraries engaged to represent Austrian soldiers run ning away in the most approved fashion was quite un precedented. Bat the piece had only been represented three or four times when, as a consequence of the' treaty of Villafrance,the Emperor gave orders that all public entertainments in Paris of a nature too dis agreeable to his imperial brother of Vienna should be prohibited. The theatres which were affected by this interdiction applied some time since for com pensation. The question was considered a difficult one. The justice of the managers' claims was obvious under the circumstances, but it was feared to create a bad precedent: I now hear that M. Fournier is to have a contract for the illuminations of Paris on August 15. What, if any, indirect means will be devised to indemnify other individuals in the like case I have not learned. Preparations are being made for a grand illumi nation at Milan, to take place on the arrival of the Xing of Sardinia, who is expected in a few days to visit his new Lombard capital. The rumour lately circulated of the recal of the Sardinian Commissioners is confirmed by the Opt nione of Turin, in an article headed " The Duchies, the Peace, and the New Ministry." That journal declares that orders relative to the recal have been already despatched, and are in course of execution. While warmly regretting the me sure, the Turin journal affirms that the conclusion must not be drawn that all hopes of the annexation of the Duchies to Piedmont are at an end, or that the re- Moration of the old sovereigns is certain. The Piedmontese journals have turned their atten tion at present to a curious article which appeared in the Verona Gazette, of the 14th, that is two days after the meeting at Villafranca. M the article is headed " QaartiereSuperno," it has all the authority of a " communicated " article. After stating that the Emperor hes concluded peace in order to put a stop to the scourge of war, the writer alludes to the Emperor's complaint that he had been abandoned by his old allies, and remarks as follows : " The sacrifice of Lombardy is great, no doubt, but we find consolation in the reflection that what is momentarily ceded is not always lost. Influences change, fortune will not always be against ns. Sooner or later we shall cross the Mincio in order to reconquer the tombs of the heroes of Somme and Custoza—that land soaked with our blood shall still be mire. God promises it to us from the heavenly regions, through the voice of the white-haired Radstzky. Austria is obliged to make peace; but we must not forget that while she retains the quadrilateral of the fortresses, she may still con sider herself, in a military point of view, as the mistress of the whole valley of the Po. She only leaves the Lombards to the intemperance of their political feelings—the end of the drama we shall see presently." REDUCTION OF THE FRENCH ARMY AND NAVY. to 110/1(.1111311 AND lIILMSK risuesaarx.) PARIS, TNOLIZAT llossugo. Th. Monitetor mimeo that tb Emperor haa derided that the landgusd eta foillPshall be again placed on a pesos footing with the least possible delay. Yesterday the Emperor presided st a united sitting ci the Privy Council and the Councl of Ministers. , • THE PRELIMINARIES OF PEACE. A telegram from Munich dated the 26th eaym-- " The Count de Itsehberg has just trans mittal to all foreign governments the text of the areliminaries of the peace of VWaftensoa. The Ca et of Vienna has also communicated to the foreign governmante document* calcolated to justify the words of the Emperor Fronds Joseph in his manifesto after the conclusion of peace•" THE POPE AND THE ITALIAN CONFEDERATION. A talegraphie despatch from Marseilles says:— We have received news from Rome to the 23rd inst. The Pope has received the Doke of Orammont in an extraordinary audience which lasted two hours. Private letters aware ns that the honorary prod dewy of the Italian coandsration offered to the Pope has been accepted, in a conference at which Fix cardinals were present. The majority were favourable to it. M. de Menne val was to set out for France the next day. M. de Hubner would immediately proceed to Vienna. REAULT OF THE VOTE IN TUSCANY. TURIN, JOLT 27. According to a telegram received from Florence, the Tuscan Waists' of the Interior has published an official report. The result of the deliberations on the question of annexation of Tuscany with Piedmont hu been made known from 141 plums, including Leghorn and Florence. This result shows 809 affirmative against 16 negative rotewresenting the wishes and inte rests of 1,136,86 abitants. The result of the elections of members of a special amiably is also favourable to the independence of Tuscany. 'When the assembly shall have received the members from the other towns it will give its vote. ABDICATION OF THE GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY. Leopold 11., Cirand Doke of Tumany, haa abdi cated in favour of his eon, Archduke Ferdinand, born on the 10th June, 1836. This prince married a daughter of the Bing of Saxony, who has left his a widower with one child (a daughter), born on be 10th January, 1868. SARDINIA. TURIN, WYDNIIIIDAY, JULY 27. The official Piedmotitea dinette publishes a cir cuter of the Minister of the Interior to the governors' and intendants-general of the provinces, of which the following is a summary : The change of Cabinet does not produce any serious variation in the character of the policy of Sardinia. The new ministry will continue to favour as largely as possible the development of the great principles which are the basis of our public right. The Minister goes on to ask the support of his subordinates in the tranquillisation of discouraged minds, in strengthening belief in the right to liberty, and in preparing the annexed provinces for liberal institutions. fip" The circular concludes by promising reforms in the extension of communal and provincial liberties." THE MEDI JULY 27. According to advice. from Malta Admiral Fan sham left on the 18th inst. foe Naples, with five men of war and one frigate. Rear-Admiral Mundy has left with one ship and one frigate. The ship Creasy and two gunboats have also sailed. TURKEY. MARSEILLES, JLLT 27. Adxioes have been reoeived from Constantinople to the 20th. The settlement of the question re specting the double election of Prince Conza hie been deferred until the urival of M. de Thouvenel. PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. The National Gazette supplies u with the follow ing circumstantial details of the negotiations at Ber lin at the commencement of the war : Oa the 14th of April the Archduke Albert strived bore, for the purpose of inducing Praia to take part immediately in the mama, sad of effecting an agreement about the military 111•Warle. He samouseed that Austria would mad without delay as ultimatum demending a disarmer:war, sad that after the !ejection of that ultimatum, which rejection might be looked upon as certain, she would invade Piedmont imme diately. He added dist Austria only attached a secondary importance to the war, and that she would soon bring Pied mont to her senses without sayged display of form. That which chiefly megeoref his attaition was the war on the Rhine that was so mane forthwith. Austria offered for this war 200,000 mat who wen to operate beyond the Upper Rhine with the ' fade al Corp.r of Southern Oar miry. under the command of the Archduke Albert. With the Peoria= corps and those of the northern Mates, an army of the berth would be formed on the Lower Rhin, and Prowls was to take the command. To facilitate the natty of motion a Sliml gesandieskno via sot to be sppothes• bet the Oath= was to proofed from general head-quareirs, where perm Fraud s Joseph and the Prince Bogen wend palseallp deckle what the operations Were to be. Amnia iwasif then sektowledged that the military ainstilutka of Oa DIM was impracticable, and the proposed combatant was be suspeati it ; h is of special importance to nodes this feet, ea account oldie sumacs, protests occasioned by the Ptom ain proposnon of July 4. For the rust, It appears that *War protests bad been already made egoism the Arch duke Albert's s ossiag that Boyars, ler insteam, Inastad en ea c o mmend. From the coescenco sarist of the the Preesiaa govonamen bad elated kseeeii to prevent the two Herman powers from n from through the meat agent motives, Russia eitosemed a that time to less very armegly on the side of France ; It seemed the MOM prudent, thereikes, not I to reemmes too basely the conatorpoise aimed by nob • triple althea, aad sot to man it to tweak up reams latiglsners propoiale of mediation bound Austria fa so rupee, as is kaoline, to yield la the matter of the brass of ISM ; those proposal@ mansion be, poseassicas, m ended all isderiwnee with her internal straits, and was atonal spirt the special trestles done. The Promina pennon completely admitted this Loris, and teas not at eft dispessd to Isunch derataty precipitously into so An mho ma itodast Frans in order that Austria In the star Yee Sight make short work of it with Piedmont, and over throw the last barrier opposing ha dominstiollin lady. The idea of entering on the contest beyondlhe Alps in • most arbitrary manner and contrary to the traaaes, then to bring the Rhine into the van and to make it beer the whole brunt of the war, this ides found no favour with ne. The meet pressing ra;mentation were mole to the Archduke Albert what this unceremonious despatch of an ultimatum that wouH be sure to mortify Enlace' eancially, and almost Mdse. bra to go over to the enemy. The Archduke Albert apperal to to also convinced of it, and on the 20th of April, whim be quitted Berlin, it wee thought that the adventuroue pAna of the moment were postponed, and that steps were being taken for omoing to an egreenstat respecting the &tun cm several Important pave. But sumo holm after hie departure a telegraphic despatch was received from Vienna, that the ultimatum had just ban salt. The ONO she w on 'ooosakeed by this intelligence. The himself was hardly lees affected. we have been armee{ opts receiving It at Deaden ; and, in fact, daring his whole Nay at Bolin be had behaved with the most per fect 10 7 1 A7. The Pia!ional Gaudio thea compares the mission of the Archduke with that of Prises Windischgratz, without, however, stating any new fact about this second mission. A campaign on the Rhine for the status quo ante, and all at once the conclusion of a peace at Vii Ithaca, painfully surprises the prince. There must be (aye the National Onsette) in the relations between the Cabinet of Vienna sad our own some radical defect, since all the coolidential overtimes, tree those where the bemere act is perfect good faith, end after all in such Illusions. THE DUCHIES. On the 23rd the headquarters of the staff of the Tuscan divieion was moved to Modena. The govern ment of that town has passed a decree summoning the National Ounrd to famish immediately detach ments for the defence of the provinces of the State, and authorising the formation of volunteer Corp.. By a decree of the government of Tuscany the electoral lists were to be posted up on the 23rd, and to remain so till the day of election. Copies of these S 1859. lista were to be egg dialog the two days that they remained poked up to the municipal officers of the different towns. Letters from Florence announce it as probable that Butincompagni, the Sardinian Commissioner Extra ordinary, would quit that town at the time of the elections, that there might be no shadow of suspi cion that the Bardinisn government wished to exer cise the slightest influence on the popular will of the country. The following proclamation to the Tuscan army was published at Florence by the pro visional government on the 22nd inst. : Soldiers of the Tuscan Army—The government joyfully welcomes the day of your entombing return. If eaten has &Ma to your velour the perils of the strife end the re ward' of victory, she will open to your discipline another and not lass hosourable field in Tuscany. Mire your °sentry awaits your arrival to give additional majesty to the solemn cosulleatetion of its wishes. Your arms will aot have to subdue interest seemies. The °m ooed of the tilde.', which, flunks to your own, his never been distal:4d, will be named more secure, sow that, fa order to make the peace lasting, it Is desired to cookie ear lot to a sceptre which shall not be Amelia& bra mamma. Whoever should dare to offend the =pity of the which is providing in freedom for the anselloratica i lt future, whoever should threaten our hastier@ would be re pulsed by you se the greatest of our enemies. Bsymtfeg from you this great service with catildestoe and esctloa, the whole country honours you greatly, bemuse it recogebes fn you the intrepid guardians of its solemn calmness and its wise liberty. Soldiers, the government meads' to yea, as well es b the National Guard, the protection of Tomenes most mond right, that of pronouncing freely as a soversipty, national, constitutional, and of a nature to presrve to her her ancient civiliestion, sad to secure for her 6es6 independence. (Signed) C. BIJONCOMPAONI, Co-' ltandODlr Estracedlnary of Victor Emmanuel during the wee of indepmdmos. Ittoesetz, and others, Mmisters. It is stated that the Grand Duke of Tommy has expressed his intention to renounce the throw in favour of his eon, the hereditary Archdale. The dread Duke intends, it is said, to reside in Bohemia, when he bee great estates. A Paris letter in the Nord says : It is not °onset, as certain journals have Mated, that say of the Preach troops an to amen the duchies. Those only who me at Some will remain, the !present, wheel In are. Nowhere alas will ther e, be any military interveation 'S teeper letter in the same journal says I have already spoken to you of a eemUtsm which wsald give Tammy so the Deohess of Panne la mss that should be celled for by the people. TM drama, primers refuses, it is said, to accept that 1)0111plelladlle, an lass there be a voluntary remodel= me the part el the Cof Austria and Lorraine. Bat the Grand Doke old 11., in abdioatiag, has transmilied his rights to his sou, so that the plan falls to the grand. The latter patios. it Is mid, has engaged to give a censtitettos *Tunny, sad ' the Duke of Modena and the Dubose of Parma mks the some promise,. By mesas of these cenessions some hopes are entertained that the pe ople in abs decades will In she end Molds on receiving them. - In the plan of a confederation fur Italy. all the states will have the Italia Sag. THE PAPAL STATES. The Monitore of Bologna, of the 20th,publislies the following decree of the Council of State : "There shall be instituted a Council of State com posed of fifteen councillors chosen by the Commie siooer Extrsordinary from names submitted by the provincial juntas. This council shall be presided over by the Commiseioner Extraordinary, or one of the =angry of the governmental section whom he may appoint. The council shall meet ordinarily once a week, and on extraordinary occasions as often as the commisaionerxhinks fit." _ _ _ The same jcnrnal states that henceforth there is for the Italians only one Italy and one flag—" bide pendenos, liberty, and law." LOMBARDY. The Governor of Lombardy has issued a decree, dated the 20th, establishing a customs' line be- tween Lombardy and Venetia. The line, commencing from the Ekelvto Peas, on the confines of Tyrol, descends to the Maderno, on the Lake of Garda , ppisssssing through Tousle, Bsgolino, Lavenone, and Idro (leaving the lake of that name outside the line), and crossing the ridge which separates the valley of Degagna from that of Toscolano. From Maderno the line follows the banks of the lake as far as &Mans, passing through Salo, San Felice, Gardone ' Padeughe , Desenzano, and Rivoltella. From Serviana the line leaves the lake and proceeds in a straight line to Monzambano On the right of the Mincio, which it follows as far as Riven*, near the Lake of Mantua. Thence it fetches a circuit to reach Cutellnechio, and arrives at Scorzarato, on the left side of the Po, passing through Gabbiana and Cowie. The line then crosses the Poto Monteochiana on the opposite bank, which it follows eastwards, passing through San Benedetto, Revere, and Sermide, and ending at Quattrelle, where it meets the Papal frontier. There are strong reasons for supposing that this line is only provi sional, and based on that fixed by the articles of the armistice ; since in the upper part of wins times coincides with the old frontier of Lona hardy, and sometimes does not ; Lake Idro, for example, has always belonged to Lombardy, as well u the bank of the Lake of Oards, nearly up to Rica; and in the southern part we find the singular anomaly of a long strip of land, not exceed ing four miles in breadth at any point, being left to Sardinia along the Po. This strip, on the other hand, lying between the Po and the Duchy of Modena, would strengthen Sardinia considerably if she were to retain possession of that duchy, which, for the present at least, appears very doubtful. LOMBARDY AND TEE AUSTRIAN DEBT. The Oat Deutsche Post of Vienna publishes an article on the subject of the part of the Austrian debt to be taken by Lombardy : The nagotishare of peace will have to fix the amount. To calculate tt accoiding to the p.pulation would not be fair, inasmuch u the populations of some proYlllCei 10 ALMA& ate richer than others, and that of Lombardy le one of the most so. The best way would be to take the amount paid in salsa, if it Dodd be fluid in each province; bat, in Austria, indirect taxes are the principal source of revenue, and they are not always paid in the idioms In which the articles on which they ere imposed are teamed ; so that taxes would not be a completely equitable basic There consequently remit no other means of settling the matter than to estimate the amount of taxes which Lomb tidy it capable of paying, sad to base thereon in round figure* her share of the public dab , . The mode of paying the amount, whatever it may be, is of great interest for the creditors of Austris. Lombardy, far example, may take her stare of Austrian securities, and fulfil the ob ligetions of them, either by fixing by lot those which are to be reimbursed, or by putchasing Austrian paper on different exchange*. Or Lombardy may pay suns ally into the Austrian treasury a fixed sae for interest and sinking fund, or she may pay at cues a lied ' capital,'which the could obtain by leap, and which the Ans. trisn government could throw into its awn slaking fund. The third plan is Indisputably the best for both parties. By adopting it, Austria would receive a large amount of ready money, and would thereby be better able to guanines the interests of her creditor,, as with that sum she could meet all her engagements with the National Blink, her principal creditor, and so enable that bank to reimburse its notes—a mature which would chock the depreciation of AIMS= Se ' cordial. Neither the purchase of bonds by means of a sink ing Wad nor any other financial operation of the seise kind would secure the creditors of Austria advantages comparable to those which would be produced by the re-establishment of the value of 'markt'', and by the circulation of sprit; and, betides, no measure is more calculated to restate promptly and durably the credit of the State." THE APPROACHING CONFERENCE. Austria does not want a congress, and her journals even refuse to admit certain very natural conse quences of the engagements undertaken at Villafranes by the Emperor Francis Joseph. For example, they combat the ides of an Italian confederation as impracticable, and they oppose themselves to all re forms in the Venetian territory which may have the effect of " Italianising" that province. The Ost Deutsche Post, after stating that the Emperors of Austria and France will establish " exclusively be tween themselves" the conditions of peace, and that the negotiations of France and Piedmont will be a subsequent and separate affair, observes : This method of proftedies, which places exclusively in the hands of the great powers all that really constitutes the peace is evidently a conaraorace of Austria's having elided her rights over Lombardy to the Emperor Naprilera; so that he nets in possession of these rights till Sardinia shall have accepted the condition on which the territory ontopeered by France is ceded bark to him. Lombard) not pass iato the power of the King et as a matter of course, as that Prince, who Is so reedy to lens decrees of annrastion, imaginer. He will only receive It after bevies totalled the preliminary conditions which France claims from him as the price of the assist see she has rendered him, and of the twee= to him of the conquered territory. These conditions may be of various kinds; =din any core they will be eu.b that Sardinia may not become • daveroun ntighboat for the French system and the policy of France in hely. HER MAJESTY'S SLOOP HERON. SAFETY OF THE MATE LED PART OF THE CBE vit we have just received the following gratifying intelligence from the Admiralty: _ _ _ "ADICIRALTY, Jvcr U. 'Ms Athena, Cape mail packet, hoe arrived at Devonport. She left the Capeon the 21st of Itute,and Asomeion on the 4th of July. The captain reporta that Mr. Blain, mate of her Majesty's late sloop Heron, and 39 men, of whom 25 are Europeans, have been picked up, and are believed to be now on board her Majesty's ship Vesuvius." LORD JOUR RUSSELL AND THE PEACE OF VILLAFRANCA. The felkndng letter has been addressed to the Time. by Lostilehn Renoir. secretary : " TO TIIII TOMOS OF TES TUtU. " remits in your paper of to-day's date, founded on a report of a speech of Lord John Russell'', in which he is sup posed to have stated that he thought the conditions of the peace of Villafranoa just,' lam authorised by him to inform you that the report is altogether inac curate, and he has given no opinion in parliament on the peace of Villafranca. I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, " °sown RUSSELL. " Clseaham-plaoe, July 27." THE 11E1210E8 07 INDIA. Them has been issued this morning with the other parliamentary papers a return relating to the public debt, the expenditure, and the review of India in continua tion of that issued about the same pedal in the seseion of 1868. It includes an " antidystion sketch satinets for 1869- 63" betted from the Fort Wtlltem Timetial De partment. Calcutta, dated let April, 1869, and signed C. Hugh legew wi t s eeretary to the Goversumet ot is an abstract from this stares of the gall eried remanee and cheeps of ladle he the pees 1858-59 sod 166940;-1868-69. Territories and under the immedles control of Use !reseal of FITIIIO6II, 2,66,85 lines.; ebargel 92,879ra. Beige; mecum, 11,93,311 1 11te. ; Aeries, 1 Ws. Are, 'stema, 6,041,26, ; deep% S, Peojeb, menus, 2,88,01,300 r e.; ishergem I, tloOrs. Madras, revenues, 6,63,31,500 m.; charges, 7,06:061i, Bombay, revenue, 1ie:36660m. ; ete, 7,49A,A0re. Total revenue, 67 • total ehmges, 41,06,61,064 n. Indian di; 7,38,16,06er5.; boos Merges, 6 92,44,412ra. ; deficit, 13,30,00,478m-181900. Territories end do is under the Immediate control of the goverement of revenues, 3,21,90,391 rm ; charges, 17,06,96,665 re. Bengal, revenues., 12,46,67,100 n.; theme, 4,17,46,607 m _ AIM mellows 6,49,00.600 n.; charges, ;19,00,000m Pnajeb, revenue, 2,86,53,000ra. ; charges, 1,63,66,000 m Madras. revenues, 6,76,24,000ra ; charges, 6,09.14.070 m. Bombay, 'misuse 6,38,79000 m.; charge% 7,37,16,730 re. Total revenue, 36,19,03,491 re ; total charges, 39,13,38,073ra. Indian dr licit, 2,94,34,682 m. ; home charges, 4,29,96,6671 a.; deficit. 7,24,31,249 n. A table is annexed exhibiting an estimate of the gross revenues on the one aide, and the entire Indian charges an the other, with the estimated Menem or decrease under each heed in 1869-60, as compared with 1858-59. The aggregate receipt& from land revenue in 1859.60 are estimated at 18,27.29,600 rupees, being an improvement to the extent of 72,67,080 rupees, as compared with 1858-59, for which year the land revues ha been estimated at 17,54,62,420 rupees. The increase of 67,60,060 rupees in Oa& ha been estimated on the suppoeition that peace will be tally mimed in that province. The in oreate of 19,60,000 rupees in the north-west provinces it attributable partly to the expected reelisstion of a large amount of arrears, and pertly to the collection of 10 lace of additional revenue from oonflaceted estates. The demean of 1,41,000 rupees in the Punjab is looked for in the Delhi territory, consequent on the great of lands rent free, as rewards for faithful or loyal services. Under the head of Customs, exclusive of ialt,whichwill be noticed separately, there is an expected improvement in the receipts for the whole of India in 1859-60, es compared with 1858-59, of 1,06,06,100 re. The revenue to be derived from salt sales and duties, after deducting advances and charges, to estimated at 3,13,56,000 ratites, being 14,72,000 moms in MVOS of the ascent esti mated for 1858-69. la Beegal a diminution of 3,06,230 rupees in the amount realised from the male aril Is expected to be more than met by an increase of 5,00,000 rupees in the duty upon importatioam 7 he osmium from opium are estimated at 6,28,84,000 mem being 41,73,660 rupees In eacesa of the receipts estimated foe the anneal year. The ordinary and extraordinary receipts from the public works have been assumed at 60,66,100 rupees, being 2,51,101 rupees in excess of the estimate of 1868-69. Toe misrelhmsona receipts, deducting the receipts apper taining to the mints, show a probable improvement is 1859.60 of 9,52,966 rupees. The aggregate anticipated improvement under the prin cipal heads of revenue Is 2,42,96,832 rupees. It is chiefly contingent on peace being maintained, and on the delive ries of opium at Bombay, and the exports and imports by sea at the several Presidencies not being diminished in conwpienos of the additional duties Imposed upon them; bin the prospect is on the whole encouraging, and it is probable that the general results will be much more favourable should it be determined in the course of the year to introduce the measures now under comiderstion ' of a tax on tobacco, a stamp duty on checks and receipts, and an enhancement ci the salt duties at Madras and Bombay. With regard to the charges, it is observed the total charges expected to be incurred in India in 1859-60 amount to 89,13,38,073 rupees, being 1,91,95,981 rupees less than the charges estimated for 1858-69. Of them charges 1.34,71,100 rupee' appertain to the brawls@ of Nagpoor , Pegs and Manate, Temeserim and Oade. Tee ordinary civil charges are estimated to exceed those of 185859 by 181e,960 rupee, airily in consequence of an in crease in the exposes on amount of deputy magistrates and the criminal marts, police eatabliehments, and revenue surveys in Bengal, and the charges of the Pasant Commission, police establishments, revenue survey', and wicovenanta deputy-collectors in Madras. The civil charges extraordinary (general, judieial, revenue, Sze.), show a &cream compared with 1858-69 of 18,32,850 rupees. In the departments under the immediate control of the government of luta, the decree's is estimated at 9,31,600 rupees. The military chi ad and ex tr aordinary, exhibit an estimated decrease of 2,32,01,N0r5. Under the head of " Intertat," there is an estimated in cre am of 48,86,200ra., the bulk of which is under India. The expenditure for public works during the year is mama at 4,38,20,997 re. After giving a tabular statement with regard to the debt as well, besides recapitulating the receipts and disbursements, the document, in Its concluding paragraph, says .•—" From them results it will be seen that a cash balance 011,39.66,539 rupees le looked for on the 30th April, 1860. This cash balance is dimly 60,33,481 rupees below the amount (12,00,00,000) which it is thought desirable, nadir exulting circumstances, to have at command in the treasuries throughout India at that period of the year, ROYAL COSHlit9lONl3.—This morning parlia. mentar) returns were lamed showing the number of royal oommissions issued sine the let of January, 1858, to the latest date, with the date of each and the of ject for which it wee appointed. There is a rote stating that the return does not include any royal commissions which may hive been lined from the office of her Majesty' Principal Secretary of State for War. The commissions which have paned the Great Beal en as follows . May 11, 1858, for inquiring into the law regulating the payment of prosecutors. witnesses, end other persons in criminal proceedings,. and also the pay ment of the expended of holding coroners inquests ; June 6. tin inquiring into the . beet mesas of manning the navy ; June 30. for inquiring into the present state of po , puler education in England; July 2, for inquir ing as to the beet means of abolishing turnpike tolls and toll ban within six miles of Charing-crown July 22, for inquiring into the @Woof municipal Zaire in the bwough of Beirut ; August 14, to complete an inquiry in the terms recommended in the report of the select com mittee of the Hone of Commons on harbours of refuge; April 21, 1869, for inquiring into the expediency of bringing together in one place all the superlorcourts of law mid equity, and into the eluting means of providitiksites and erecting suitable buildings; April 21, for inquiring into the civil, municipal, and ecclesiastical laws now in force in the island of Jaren, the ccunitution of the tribunals by which they an administered, the state of the prisons, and the ad mislatration of the public charities in the said island. The following le the return as regards the Home Depart ment :—Doe. 8, 1868, commission to inquire into the condi tion and management of light., buoys, and beams on the coasts of the United Kingdom. !?or Scotland the reform la: —Dr. 2, 1858, for /NW/ UM into mitten relating to the public roads im Sootland ; April le, 1859, to inquire into the laws regulating the sale and oonstunption of excisable liquors is Sootletid. _ _ . . WESLEY AN METHODIST CONPERENCE.—At the meeting of the conferense held yesterday morning, In the Old ham &spat, Ileacbeeter, the Legal Hundred was completed by the selection of the Rev. W.Horley Pomba°, and Molter. G. Boon, formerly reissioeary is Stockholm, simply by ekctlon, tied of five others by seniority. The Rev. Samuel Dorelend Wieldy was then Mead president for lbe year by 311 totes, no ether candidate receiving more them twenty. The con ference would proceed. Mat evening, to the election of mar eery, end anbeequently to the inririee into character. THE PHCENII TRILLS.— fhe Cork Szaminer of Tuesday evening says:—. To-day, before Mr. Justice Keogh, the prim:tars. Jeremiah Donovan, Rowe blotto, Moyne, end William Oliteme, were "adamant. The former plea of not guilty was withdrawn, me sae of puilty eubsti toted. The some coarse los adopted at Cork as at Treks with regard to the prisoners, via., to allow than to be dis charged nn entering into their ows recognisance', and ap pear fur juinment when called on, on inning a reasonable notice through their au:miters. 1