The Express. — London, England, 1859-05-28 00:00:00

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A COILIM.FONDIUIT at Oxfed seeds us to-day some facia which LAIMPTTC, and will obtain, the serious attentiou of all who value either the peace and hap pineal; of families, or the Protestantism of the national &arch. The circumstances disclosed is the letter signed M. A. tisonionoia" are k n own to several of the most eminent men in that University. where they hare excited divot and indignation —u assuredly they will do wherever they are published. The story, though painful, isnot long. A young and gentle lady, whom nature and parental tenderness had striven to make a blaming to society, who wu diffusing a grace through her fatheis household, and was destined, in the expectations of two families, shortly to adorn a new and happy home, goes to Oxford, where she o n eonn . ters some members of one of those sisterhoods without which, it seems, the designs of a certain section of Anglican Churchmen ciusnot be accom plished. These sisterhoods omelet of persons who have come to think that there is a piety above that of fearing lion and keeping his commandments, . . . . and look down from a superior height upon the crowd of Christians whose wisdom it is to seek the path of humble duty, and walk therein. Their piety, proudly pretending to soar above the law of which we all fall short, affects • bfe of supererogatory merit. It seems strange that in • Reformed ('harsh we should meet with pretensions so far removed from the cardinal doctrines of the Reformation ; but we live in strange times. To a sisterhood of this character the young lady was introduced. What arguments were need we know not ; but we know the result. The affec tionate daughter, thew ife in expectation, was induced to renounce her family engagements, and take • vow of perpetual virginity. Of course the influence by which this resolution was brought about was not exclusively feminine. A " spiritual adviser " had been at work. " Direction "is not unknown in the Church of England. This man, called to account by an indignant father, only answers—" Peace, "peace! The vow is beyond human question. " Why fret yourself about that which is " fixed and irrevocable." The father feels that he his been wronged and outraged by this intermeddling of a stranger in the affairs of his family. But what are his mere natural feelings or his amassed natural rights that they should be weighed against the " counsels of perfection " of a spiritu►l adviser? We an not about to disease either the wisdom or morality of vows. There are churches—the Church of home fur instance—which adopt voluntary engage ments of this kind into their system of teaching, and we should no more think of discussing their elect in these columns than we should think of argutcg the dispute about transubstantiation. Those who are born in that church are brought up in fami liarity with the induceme•ts which lead men and women to sow themselves to celibacy, poverty, or voluntary obedience, and they judge them at leisure. Their views of life and sentiments of duty are all formed with reference to the principles and ideas upon which engagements such as we are considering are founded. Par different, however, is the situation of the young Protestant who hears for the first time, per in a secret interview, the mysterious exposition of • novel or romantic vocation. The imagination Is fascinated, conscience is !surprised, and soder the domination of • powerful and novel impression a resolution is taken, not always instantaneously, which affects for good or evil the happiness of more than one life. Are we always to live exposed to the machina tions of traitors is the bosom of the National Church For the conduct of this clergyman in achising a young Protestant lady to take the vow of virg otty we are ail more or less responsible. As ion, as the Chareh of England re mains established every Ene.shman is compromised by whatever is done by her authority or supervision. The nation provides the 'racial positio■ from which three '• spiritual advisers" carry on a war against society, and may therefore fairly demand that that positires shall not be employed is a manner inimical to its interests. We have a right to insist that mem who eat the broad of the English Church shall not, by their teaching, whether politic or private, omit reSections upon the " honourable estate" in which oar mothen lived chastely according to a Divine ordinance. It may not be generally known that a vow of this nature is recommended by Mi x:eters of the Church of England, not only to women but to men. In • tract which has been forwarded to us, and which purports to be issued by the '• Confraternity of the !holy Cram," men are told that although " a Min " may have wife and children, and yet be • great " saint ; " yet "it is lees likely that he will do this, ...if he has • wife and family, than if be has deter " mined to forego the p:easure of having them, that " he may be able to devote ail hie time andthoughts "to GOD'S service." Ani ju►t afterwarda it is ex plained that "all may practise this self-denial if " they wilt, through the grace which (ion will be. " stow upon them if they pray for it." We repeat we make no war upon dectri•es Is such. Only we protest against such teaching es this an the part of Ministers of the Church of England. It is antic social and unprotestant. It is not what the nation expects from the Ministers appointed to scree it, nor is it what it finds in its English Bible. There is nothing contrary to religious liberty in the require ment that the Ministers of our Protestant Church shou:d he Protestant. Let this be secured, and the itomanieers shall not hear *complaining word from as whi.e they " walk in the light of their own tire, " «td in !be @parka teat they have kiad:td." THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1859, REMARIABLE CONSPIRACY AT NAPLES. (Teem dry Deily Neirs.) The thick mystery which shrouded the death struggle of King FIZINNAND has been suddenly rent, lad we start back with horror at the extent of the toupiracy revealed. Across a wilderness of treasons, spree, from the criminal impulse of an unprincipled. woman, and only to be fostered in the tainted atmosphere of a profligate palace, FRANCIS 11. has had to climb the steps of his rightful throne with the stealth befitting a midnight thief. And, what is most awful in casting a horoscope for the new reign, the Neapolitan patriots have to hail this con stellation of crimes as the moat hopeful sign for pros medicating the ascendancy of a less malignant in fluence than has hitherto scourged their country. It is hoped that a nature too weak and too cold to warm to the action of generous sentiments, may yet not be beyond the emotions that naturally cling to man's meat inveterate puska—that of possession—with im emsequent, sad in marrow minds ferocious hatred stall who try to enereeek on it. The Qt EEN-IXIWAGIR perpetuated that IniEtentiOn of tamale ascendancy which seems to have become a mosseary ingredient in Neapolitan rule under every dynasty. Inferior in Frees of mind and person, bath to the wren-like LANOLINE of NELSON time, sad to the more illustrious CSROLINE, wife of the gallant but giddy Metier, Mew s IlteaeSA was not a whit behind them in personal ambition, although tor many years she did not attain to a conspicuous political influence. The man she had to deal with wee, by his obstinate stitfneekedness, at least proof against soft seduction, and it was not until disease came to her assistance by striking him down into a state of helplessness, that in the usurped autocracy of the sick-ward she ventured to unmuffie the am bition she had until then pent up within her breast. Her design was to deprive the legitimate heir to the Crown of his birthright, in favour of her own child. A plot conceived by a distorted passion of maternity was prosecuted with the vehemence of &eery, and a dying man's room was converted into a busy laboratory of mischief. But there were certain obstacles to be overcome. The heir apparent, though hardly known, and deficient in qualities likely to command attachment, was neverthe less the object of a superstitions popularity on the part of the people, through the veneration paid to the sainted memory of his mother, MARIA CAROLINZ of Savoy. And the popular in terest had been fomented by the Liberal party, who perceived in the coincidence between the Pied 'wattle origin and the saintly reputation of this lady a means for popularising the national idea, and engaging the young PRlNst's personal predilections in behalf of it—tactics which not improbably con tributed still farther to whet the Queen's passions by the incentive of political rancour. But, shot off completely from all free intercourse, relegated to the gloomy companionship of priests and spies, subjected without relaxation to an austere discipline worthy of the Escurial, the languid and feeble Duke of CALABRIA was per fectly content to vegetate, an automaton such as would have gladdened the paternal heart of PHILIP 11. The QUEEN had, therefore, little reason to fear his ability to counteract her machinations—all that seemed important was to forge some plausible pre tence to be flaunted before the eyes of the world for the intended usurpation, and to prepare efficient agents for practically carrying it out. It was deter mined to declare the Mike of CALABRIA IlinppOlititiOnS child, an unmasked pretender, virtuously stripped of his false plumes, when, in fact, he was to be the victim of a foul plot. A device so altogether out of all keeping with right and probability carries us across the whole interval which separates us from the age when a PERKIN WARBECK and LAMBERT SIMNEL could walk abroad and convulse a realm. And yet it was put in the way of execution by this unscru pulous woman with the direct complicity of many who had long figured amongst the prominent agents of the Klee, As her chief accomplice and working organiser, the QUEEN selected a certain MuRENA, a leading member of the /lien's police and the depo sitary of much of his confidence. This man, long noted for unscrupulous venality and profligacy, ap pears to have entered thoroughly into the Q u a m 's i proposals. Bringing to bear his ntimate acquaint ance with all the secret springs of the executive, and with the emissaries and agents of the police, he organised a conspiracy which counted amongst its members courtier', officials, and soldiers of all ranks, and seemed to have secured the whole machinery of power. Nothing can give a more lively conception of the corrupt material of which the late KING deliberately composed his ad ministration, than this large desertion to a caws of unmitigated Amory and crime. Meanwhile, beneath the same roof with the sick chamber which concealed the threads of this dark treason, there existed the intended victim of these machinations—a man only in virtue of hie year.— receutly endowed, indeed, by his parents' kind gene recite, with the gift of a young wife—ostensibly in stalled as Vicar of the Realm, but in point of fact a mere infant in the seclusion of a nursery. It was hard to make any impression on one so feeble and so dull ; appeals to assume the initiative which was his right were heard with listlessness. Reasoning was not intelligible to the benighted vacancy of his unedu cated mind; and the exhortations fervently pressed by men grown grey in has family's service, nay, even by some of his nearest relative'', fell bluntly upon the PRINCE'S impassible stolidity. Bat at this mo- went there occurred as explosion which effectually electrified the only larking fibres of vitality in his frame. The QCRIN'II conspiracy had been observed and tracked, and the positive assurance of its nature was conveyed to the PRINCE by those who wished him well. He ryas told exactly who possessed the whole direction of the scheme, and how it rested with him, by an exer cise of the powers delegated to him, to satisfy him self of the truth. The shock overcame every hesita tion, and that same night, on a warrant signed by the PRINCE, NICREN• wan arrested in his house, in which were found, papers confirming the informa tion, and it is affirmed directly implicating the QCEEN. What an overwhelming glare of terrible perception must in that instant have flashed upon the dim discernment of this poor youth! One cannot help dwelling with pity on the thought of what he must have felt that eight in the gloomy chambers of Caserta, as bit by bit the irrefragable evidence of incredible perfidy met his bewildered gaze, and he found himself Hung, weak as a child, out of the cradle of blank contentment into the full bitterness of domestic malice and treason at the hearth. Bat would he have been able to continue the same boldness which caused the arrest of Mt its', Would he not have quailed before the QULEN ? Happily he was spared an effort to which he would probably DOI have been equal. Before the QUEEN could deal the heir to the throne a de structive blow, her husband's death had stripped her in a moment of all power. Such are the incidents which in the year of our LORI) 11119 have actually attended as ordinary succession to the Crown in the Kingdom of the Two &clime. It is not unnatural to think that the shock thus rudely given may have iastilkd into FRANCIS 11. a hatred against hie stepmother, likely, in his slender stock of ideas, to outweigh all other impressions. Now, the Austrian interest is identified with her, while the men who through their services have ap proached the KING person mainly incline towards a more Italian policy. It is probable that he must, out of sheer necessity, have recourse to their assistance ; for where else is he to find servants on whom he can rely? The Monarch finds himself in a world of which he knows little more than that it is full of inane ; his brothers face him as so many rivals ; his stepmo•her haunts him as his vin dictive persecutor; and his Court he has discovered to be a nest of perfidy and treason. What, then, more likely than that he should resign himself to the guidance of the men whose troitwotthinese he has tested? Still we feel considerable hesitation in abandoning our selves to confident hope,. His QtELY ought to be Austrian in sympathy : all that we positively know is that she is a young and dashing woman, who from the very first shocked the austere languor of the Neapolitan Court by her independent, o► as it was termed, irreverent demeanour, completely set ting at nought all the trammels of demure etiquette. It can hardly be doubted th►t the int :Knee of this yeturg lady 091 her husband viii be great. We may therefore reckon on seeing the traditiooal Egeris el a Neapolitan palace not fail this reign; and one hops moat be that the anger against the Austrian Ms= Thames, which for once quickened the feeble pulse of Pumas 11., may in conjugal sympathy likewise hie° a ff ected the young lady who is condemned to pass her days in the society of a simpleton. Cbr Court, The Queen and the Princess Alice visited the Duchemi of Keet yesterday morning at Clarence Howe, St. James's. The Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited the Princes Frederick William at Buckiagham Palace. The Quote end Prince Consort, the Prisms Frederick William, and the Princess Alias, paid a visit to the Duchess of Kest in the afternoon. Her Majesty also took a carriage drive. The Equerries in Welting attended on horseback. The Queen end Prinro Consort, aorompanied by the Prin cess Frederick William end the Princes' Alice, honoured the performance at the Haymarket Theatre last evening with their presence. The Royal sults oomisted of the Duchess of nth.,ll, the Cormier Perponeher, Lord Crofton, Count Per. poria.r, Lord ensiles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Colonel Pon sonby. The health of the Dueller of Kent la greatly improved. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street. The ministers present were the Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Sotheron Eitcoart, the Earl of Malmesbnry, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakingtoo, and Lord John Manners. Despatches were test from the the Governor of Cartada. yesterday to His Excellency the Ambassador of France has left Albzrt•gats House for Paris. His Excellency the Danish Minister has left town to pass a short period at the bathe of Mekern, Worcester shire. The . larchionese of Salisbury has issued cards for an assembly on Monday. the 6th of June, at the family mansion in Arlington-street. Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly Ale evening at Cambridge Hones, Piccadilly. Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe have arrived at their mtasioe, Grosvenor-square, from the Continent. Miss Coutta has arrived at her mansion in Strat toa•street for the season. The eccond ball of the " original subscription" of Almack's took place on Thursday evening at Willie's Rooms, and was attended by • brilliant circle of fashionable com pany. There sere several ladies patronesses present—the Duchess of Richmond, the Countess of Belton, Ledy Ayala/A, and Lady Egerton, striving with large parties. The conipany present numbered 360 persons. Cooto's fell orchestra was io attendance, and was kept actively engaged until nearly 4 o'clock. In consequence of the success of this r. union, which is said to have revived the memories of the " good old dons," Mew,. Willie have bean requested to get up a fourth subscription before the clove of the present season. Vinconnteem Feilding gave birth to a eon and heir at Donning, North Wets, on Thtusday. The Heiti Maatership of King Edward Vl.'a Grammar School, Norwich, has been conferred upon the Rev. Augustaa Jessopp, M.A., of St. John's Collage, Cam bridge, late meter of Holston Grammar School. and Mrs. William Longman entertained at dinner yestenisy, in Hyde-park-square, all the contributors to the week just brought out under the suspioes of the Alpine Club. The introduction into the world of " Peaks, Passes, and Oleciers," was also inaugurated bye soirie and concert, at which upwards of 400 persons, including most of the literary celebrities of the day, honoured Mrs. Longman with their company. Auguste Balms, tho well-known Chansons' guide, to whom the Royal Society have just ;To wered 20 guises', for the assistance he hss rendered to scientific explorers of Mont Blanc, wee also present. Mr. Beaumont, M.P., WU at Turin on Wednes day, returning from Rome. John George Smyly, Esq., Queen's Counsel, has been sprinted to the ollles at solicitor of excise in Ireland, vacant by the retirement of Mark A.Baurin, Esq. The Dub lin •/ complains that this situation has been oonferred upon a gentleman whose support of =sanative principles has been of the most sparing character; and also that It has not been given to a solicitor. Milli Louisa Vining, formerly well kaowo as the Infant Sappho, ins marrie4 on Monday to Mr. Sharp Hey wood, of Herwiagtoa Park. Mr. Knowles, of Manchester, has purchased the Ha Theatre Royal. We (41theneram) understand that a private meet ing of members of the musket profemion has been called Ly the Society of Arts for Friday seat, June 3, at 1 o'cl.,ck, to consider the enbject of Pitch, and the effect of the mead French alteration on musical art. Dr. Whewall, Master of Trinity, will preside. Most of The eminent musical men now in London are expected to attend and take part in the con ference. English artists have declined sending pictures to Paris in the present unsettled state of Continental affairs, and the English public seem to have declined buying any pictures out of the Royal Academy Exhibition. "For years," says the Illustrata Tistn , "no sack stagnation barn been known. It is reckoned by than knowing in each matters that generally, on the day of the private view of t h e academy, from eight to ten thousand ponds' worth of pictures is sold ; and this year it is not imagined that me thousand pounds was on that day invested in the purchase of works of art." Mr. Millais has sold two out of his three— " Tbe Vsls of Red" to Mr. Wind.., and the "Love cf Janice the First" to Mr. Gantbirt. This last-named gat tkmen is also the purchaser of Mr. Rankley's Lain Sermon." TDB FASHIONS FOR JUNE. (From the Laid Treasury.) Among the most remarkable novelties in the &shims of the present sewon we moat notion the adoption of birds u trimmings for hats sad bonnets. On a rant ovamion the Empress of the French wore a bonnet of white crap, with a humming-bird placid on a spray of bloc. And on riding-hats birds of conekterable sizs are placed u ornaments, and none but those wha hare seen It can imagine the pretty tercet of the cock pheasant In Its glorious plane■ at the side of a ridiag-hat. Among feabionshie staffs printed cambric' hays many admirers. The new fashions ia this material are remerkatle for elegance sad dmplki y. Many of throe are made in small checks, of various chained', is a white ground, the the narrow striped and checked taffetas; and it la on this account they are called penal.: mf forms— in plain English, centric samenet. 'him new mate rial has a very good effect la sea green and nankin ; it it also very pretty in pink and blue, and in various eltedea of lilac one white ground. To those among our readers who wish to units elegance with economy, we pmticalarly recommend the percale taffetal. The actual taffctes, of coarse, itiA remain in favour. Of these taffetas some of the newest have small Pompadour trcchee dowers on a white ground, inclosed In checks, formed by a very fine coloured line. Dreams of this material should ba trimmed with bows of ribbon, matching, or at lent in hariiciny, with the cDlour tf the stuff. Same of the Mil/mats taffetas are in triad striped violet, green, or brown, in two diodes. A. relates to the make of dresses, it is s known fact that there baa been an attemit restore the fashisn of skirts with the breadths cut narrow at the waist, and painally widening towards the bottom; but we shall be much sur prised if this faabion pins ground. Sleeves are made dat at the top of the arm, and open frau the bottom to the elbow, ►hoeing the full tulle or muslin under-sleeve, or the thicker muslin one is a wonting dress. There is another style of sleeve in vogue, made eery wide and open, lined with ma, and trimmed round the inner edee with quilled til.bos. This sleeve is suitable in warm weather. Bodies of drawee are mid. either pantel before and !m -aid, or round. The Own shirt Le not awarded, but it maw be wore very full end long. In the way of trimmieg, • .. " ' " Tam have ditappetrel t batapplicatims of darker tae- terial than that ottnpoeicg the erase have a very goad tffrtt in deriening the corsage, and !naiwiog the (Eruct of the bnepte. THE WAR. RISING IN PARMA. DIICLARATION FOR SARDINIA. GARIBALDI'S SUCCESSES. Tbla morning (we learn from Mr. Renter) the following official bulletin wu published at Turin : " Garibaldi has occupied a position at St. Fermo, but many of his officers are killed and wounded. " Our troops continue attacking the enemy, and have penetrated as far u Como. " The town of Como was illuminated, and great joy prevails among the population. "The enemy is still at Camerlata. "At Lanigiana in Puma the people have risen and pronounced for the King of Sardinia. "General Ribotti, with Tuscan troop., military engineers, and gendarmes, entered Puma amidst the plaudits of the people, who declared for the King of Sardinia and Italian independence. " The Parmesan troops have retired." Aooording to a message from Lugano of yesterday (received at Berne), Garibaldi left Varese yesterday morning for Como. Tne Austrians concentrated at Camerlata numbered 6,000. Railway communica tion between Camerlata and Milan was interrupted, end also the telegraphs from Collie* to Joao and through the Valteline. The following telegram has been received : " TURIN, FIIIDIT ENISNINO, 9,30 rat. - . " Austrian steamers are cruising about the Lago Maggiore, threatening the country on the banks of the lake. The inhabitant., being in arms, offer resistance to the menaces of the enemy. " The steamer Radetzki appeared before the town of Canobbio, and tired a few shots without effect, but the discharges from the small arms of the national guard and the customs guard soon compelled her to bear away again. " A private message received here announces that General Garibaldi occupies a strong position near Varese. " Yesterday evening Coant de Salmour departed for Naples." GARIBALDI'S PROCLAMATION TO THE LOMBARDS. The following proclamation was issued by Gari baldi on entering the Lombard territory : .._ _ " Loisbards,-LYon are called to anew life, and yea will respond to the appeal as your fathers did of yore at Ponsida and Legnano. The enemy is the same as ever, pitiless, a black assassin, and a robber. Your brethren of every province have sworn to conquer or die with you. It is our task to avenge the insults, the outrages, and the servitude of twenty genera tions; it is for us to leave to our children a patri mony freed from the pollution of a foreign domina tion. Victor Emmanuel, chosen by the national will for our supreme chief, sends mo to organise you for this patriotic fight. I deeply feel the sanctity of this mission, and I am proud to command you. To arms ! Then bondage must cease. He who can seize an arm and does not is a traitor! Italy, with her children united, and freed from foreign domination, will know how to re conquer the rank which Providence has assigned her among nations." TUSCANY. The Paris Patric says that considerable forces are now arriving daily in Tuscany, that Prince Napoleon organises them as fast as they arrive, and that he is preparing to commence military opera tion. in Central Italy in a few days. It adds that it is not yet known on what point the corps d'armee commanded by his imperial highness will be directed. PORTUGAL. According to advice' received from Lisbon, the Portuguese government has declared to the Cortes its intention of remaining neutral during the present war. THE BEY OF TUNIS AND TEE ITALIANS. We read in the Opinione of Turin : "A distinguished Piedmontese officer, Count hu been for some time a minister; of the Bey of Tunis. The new destinies opening for his coun try, and for the whole of Italy, did not come to him knowledge without inspiring him with the patriotic desire of giving his aid. lie easily made it clear to his prince that it would be an act which France would appreciate, to send into Italy a corps of Tunisians, for France is the powerful protector of the regency against the Divan of Constantinople. The Bey instantly saw the opportunity, and this is how it is that we have a Tunisian frigate at Genoa. Count Raffo has dis embarked and proceeded to the King's hesd•quarten. It will not be long before we shallitear of the results of this interview." NAPLES. TURIN, MAT 7. A private telegr►m received here from Naples announces that the King of Naples hu on his acces sion to the throne published • proclamation, in which be enumerates the good qualities of his pre decessor, but avoids making any engagements for the future, and abstains from pronouncing his opinion on the events now going forward in the Italian peninsula. AUSTRIAN EXACTIONS AT VERCELLI. (IT St siteauts rem= mail (710 X OUR OWN CORRIRTONDIXT.) TURIN, FRIDAY. An official inquiry, made on the spot, with the aid of the Inspector of Customs, establishes the fact that the contributions levied by the Austrians at Ver- Oelli, and which the special correspondent of the Times, in his letter of May 15, declared had not been raised, amount to the sum of two million francs. MISCELLANEOUS. The Muniteur of to-day publishes the following telegram : Aleasandria, May 27.—The situation of affairs affords nothing new to note." A letter in the Dibuts states that Mar shal Canrobert's bead-quarters are at Pon tecarone ; General Renaad's are at Coati; General Trachea at Cutelntiovo. General McMahon has his Lad-quarters at Voghera. The latest letters from Alessandria mention as amp rumours that the Emperor has sent his aide de-camp the Marquis de Cadore, with an autograph letter to the Emperor of Russia, and that a grand review had been ordered for to-day or to-morrow. A second convoy of Austrian prisoners, 43 in number, has arrived at Marseilles. They consist chiefly of Bohemians, Hungarians, Croats, and Tyrolians. A letter from the Adriatic states that Admiral Jurien del Lagravidre had made as many as seven teen capture down to May 20. One of his prizes is a fine three-masted vessel from Trieste, the Santa- Trinita. The recently instituted council of prizes will shortly sit to judge of the validity of these cap tures. Marshal Valliant, u major-general of the army of Italy, addressed the following circular to the five generals commanding corps &armee : A otat4 fait or arms. bee brilliantly inaugurated the CAIII pdgn. The Emperor orders me to make you acquainted with the details. On May 20, at noon, a column of 16,000 Austria= attacked the advanced posts of the lit corps. They were repulsed by Gomel Forey's division, which behaved admirably, and took the village of Monte bello after • tremendous fight which lasted five hours. The Piedmonts*. cavalry, commended by Ormsral de Senna:, behaved with rare intrepidity. The ninny left the field of battle covered with dead. We made 200 prisoners, of whom one wee a colonel, and we took several artillery waggons. On our side we had 600 or 600 men hors de combat. General Beuret, Colonel de Bellefonds, end Commandant Deohet were killed; several superior officers were wounded. A Trieste telegram dated yesterday says:—" A Turkish steamer has arrived bringing the overland mail, but the news is unimportant. Advices have been received from Corfu to the 23rd. Two Austrian steamers have arrived there without hindrance." " A correspondent in Greece," says the Pays, " wires us that at a farewell dinner given at Athens to the Grand Duke Constantine two touts excited the loudest applause. They were,' To the success of the allied armies!' and ' To the alliance of France and Russia!"' The Turin journals mention a curious incident. During the last few days several letters addressed to officers in the Austrian army have arrived at the post-office of that city. The Sardinian government has caused them to be delivered to Count Brawler de St. Simon, the Prussian minister at the Sardinian court, begging him to forward them to their des tination. We learn from Genoa that General Klapka is at present occupied in that city with the formation of a Hungarian Legion, which is to wear the national costume, so as to form a kind of attraction for such of their countrymen as are serving in the Austrian army. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (TROY OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAT EVENING. The public is still anxiously looking for the exact numbers and names of the killed and wounded at Montebello. It is probable that the families of officer. who have fallen have been informed of their loss privately. Dr. 'Menessier, one of Prince Napoleon's physi cians, has arrived in Paris with despatches from him. The Emperor has given orders that all the infantry regiments in the army shall receive in struction in artillery practice. The non-commis sioned officers and select companies will be instructed first, and the system will be gradually extended to all the other companies. In every regiment there are officers educated at the Ecole de St. Cyr, who are competent to superintend artillery drill. It is expected that hereafter, when the artillerymen who serve a gun may be killed or dis abled, any troops in the service will be able to sup ply their place, and either go on with the firing or move the gun as may be expedient. The Bourse opened very firm, and although little business was dons at the end of the day the closing prices were nearly the highest of the day, being 61k. 65e., and 61k. 60e., with a rise of 20c. and 30c. 'lobilier rose 2fr. We. The Southern and Western railways closed without change, and the other lines rose about 6k. Signor Montanelli, the former Tuscan Minister, who has been living for some years in exile in Faris, where he wrote the tragedy of Comm; for Ristori, came to Alexandria, from Acqui, on the 25th, and had an audience of the Emperor. It has been already stated that this distinguished states man and poet hu accepted a commission in the corps of the Tuscan volunteers. M. A. Retie, who, like M. Grapier de Cassagnac, is a member of the Corps Legislatif, appends the following remarks to the official account of the re ception by the Empress yesterday : Only one word need be said respecting the proceedings at the Palace. The some was as grand as the event. which are Citc, and preseuted • most noble spectacle. The prets showed herself equal to the part which she has to play, and to the present solemn conjuncture. She addreseed to the deputies of France language which was truly august. Her noble and touching beauty, her voice slightly faltering and yet so impressive, her noble and imposing bearing, pro duced an effect which cannot be deeaibed, particularly when she uttered theme words, which history will record : I rely on your loyal co-operation and on the support of the whole nation, which, In the absence of the chief It has chosen for itself, will never be wanting to a woman and to a child." These words, so true, coming from the heart of • mother, excited each transports of enthusiasm for the auraet lady that one would almost have said that all France had heard her speak, and wee respanding to the sentiments expressed. The Tint a was seized to-day. ITALY. SARDLNIA. (ism ova own comsronnzwr.) TURIN, MAY 24. Although we are in the midst of arms, with war fare around us, you must not suppose that diplomacy is sitting still with her hands in her lap. Napoleon 111. is compelled at head-quarters to devote his atten tion quite as much to politics as to military strategy. You are aware that Lord Derby has taken it into his head to protect in a particular manner the exiled Grand Duke Leopold, and hopes by his abdication to remedy the (supposed) mishief done, by placing the hereditary prince upon the throne. It seems from this and some ether antecedent facts that your states men act faithfully up to the French proverb, that of calling in the doctor after the patient's death. First, at Florence, Sir J. Scarlett encouraged the Grand Hake to resist ; now that the die is cast and that prince can no longer return to Tuscany without a complete victory on the part of the Austrian army, your government thinks it eau induce him to abdicate, which was the very thing his own subjects begged him to do. This does not appear to be the best mode of increasing English influence in Italy. I have also reason to ' think that Sir James Hudson has received instruc tions to ask what Prince Napoleon is going to do in Tuscany, and he only embarked, you know, yesterday for Leghorn, his arrival being heralded there by a few thousand French soldiers. The answer given to the British envoy's question was to the effect that King Victor Emmanuel has placed under the prince's command the Tuscan troops, with the in tention of employ ing them in the military operations against Austria. This declaration has increased, or rather has confirmed, the suspicions of your diplo macy. Why select the Prince Napoleon to com mand the Tuscan troops ? That is clearly tantamount to a preparation of the throne of Etruria for him, so that all can now see plainly the design long whis pered about by persons versed in state secrete. Now, I am not careful to conceal from . you that in ni nny itself the command given toPnne,eNapoleondoes not please all, and appears to infringe upon the free choice of that people in a matter affecting its future 1 destinies. But the prince is confident h e a h a ii suc ceed in dissipating their apprehensions by publish ing, as soon as he arrives, a proclamation which is to be printed to-morrow, and an abstract of which, ac cordingly, you will have by telegraph, long_ before this letter of mine can reach you. He will remain neither in Leghorn nor Florence, but, following the Piotoja road, advance on Modena. This movement, combined with there of the main army operating between Scrivia and Piacenza, will in all probabilitl te iuce the Austrians to retreat f rom Bologna, gio, and the other places they hold sz present on the right bank of the Po. The y are terribly afraid at Rome of this result, fo re _ seeing that the Romagna. will rise the in. stint the Austrians evacuate Bologna. I wrote you word not long ago, that although France pro. mises to res_pectmore or less scrupulously the neutra lity of the Papal States, Piedmont requires that if she also is to do so, Auatria in no part of the domi nions of the Church shall pretend to carry on mili tary preparations and increase the number of her troops. Therefore, if affairs at Ferrara and Ancona do not return to the stable quo it is doubtful whether even France herself will allow the Pope to enjoy th e exemptions and privileges of neutrality, and I can inform you that the blockade of Ancona, suspended for a time, will yet be carried into effect. In the mean time the Court of Rome builds its hope on the Swiss troops, and endeavours to foment deep hatred be. tween them and the people. To this end, it caused the day before yesterday a company of the Swiss guards at Cesena to attack suddenly several un armed citizens, some of whom were slain and others wounded. As it is notable at Rome itself to work with quite the same materials, it is trying to corn. promise the French garrison and form:the French to treat the people with severity. The famous Nardoni, with this design, prepared certain persons on a given day to cry out, " Death to the Priests!" "Long live the Republic!" but the attempt was a complete failure. Hereupon the liberals, highly indignant, drew up and forwarded to the Emperor in Alessandria a memorial explain. ing the sad condition they are in, and bow their government had collected a large number of police- men and of the infamous Centurions to bring about in the Romagna' disorders lure to occasion blood shed, ea they were going about provoking and irri tating the quiet citizens. The petitioners further stated that it would be impossible to keep the libe rals resigned and tranquil any longer if those har pies of the law continued to be protected, and if the police were not confided entirely to the French. On account of all these difficulties the Emperor, as you are doubtless aware, summoned to his camp the Duke of Grammont. At one of these interviews with his ambassador, Count Cavour was present, so likewise Prince Napoleon and the Prince Latour d'Anvergne. Ido net pretend to know what they discussed, but this I can state, that the duke fee sure the Pope will keep on plotting his escape, but is not so sure that the city will remain tranquil. INDIA AND CHINA. THE CALCUTTA MAIL. The India and China journals brought by the Overland Calcutta mail have arrived. The dates from Calcutta are to the 22nd ; four days behind the news which we last received from Bombay. The Englishman says: The condition of the rebels still in arms becomes daily more desperate and more wretched, as they are hunted and their resources cut off from them ; but though beaten they are still numerous enough to be troublesome, and from the mis taken course pursued with them many of them are by no means hopelees of soother chance. They fight only when I compelled, but plunder at every opportunity, and oblige us at great cost to follow their movemente, and when at last any number find themselves hemmed in, they give themselves up, with arms in their hands yet lot from their Let exploit, and are received under the terms of the still open amnesty. Literally each was the owe with a party of about 75 who looted a factory near Bum, and wins they found them selves cut off from escape, next day gave themselves up as we have said. Officers coming down smart that the Sepoys its often heed to say : " Yea, we are beaten ; the Bengal army ham lost its chance; but you have got the Madras sad Bom bay armies., and the time will coma." We should be glad to have ground fora e ing the struggle is at an end. The ootmtry is settled ; but a a nte through our columns will show that, though approa ching that consummation, there is yet wren to be done and the worst mason to do it in. From Hong Kong intelligence is to the 13th of April. The Overland China Nail of that date gives the following in its summary : Bunn Gros, the French plenipotentiary, left this on the 7th instant in the Andaciettes for Singapore, from whence he returns to Europe. M. de Bourbonllon, at present at Macao, is now the French Minister, and the Legation will be re moved to Shanghse nest month. The Bishop of Victoria has also left, on a visit to Australia. _ . From Cochin China there are more particulars of the taking of Saigon, which does not seem to have cost a single life to the allied French and Spanish force. The booty is said to have been immense, both of arms and of copper cash. From Shanghae there have ems rumours which may pos sibly have some influence on the course to be pursued by the British minister to China. It is said that the Bemis= have established their legation at Peking, and that their minister has been attended ther e by a large retinue, but that he his already had a difference with the Chinese government, from his refusing to communicate officially with any one but the Emperor himeelf. It is also reported that Tie -fain (where the treaty was ooncluded) has been occupied by a large num ber of Chinese troops, and "difficulties" are apprehended when our minister adman; to Peking with the ratified treaty. . . . . . . . . Business is almost entirely suspended at Canton, and the rumour that the city is about to be evacuated by the allies is one great cause of fear. No teas are making thMr appear. awe, and almost no purchased' are made of our imports except of manufactures used in Canton itself and the immediate neighbourhood. It is reported that the rebels who hold the poeseseion of the penes to the tea districts, have intercepted the small remaining quantity of this season's tea which was on its way down, and are interfering with the cultivation in some districts. It is feared by the Chinese that immediately after our evacuation of the city it will be seized by the rebels, and ao they are unwilling to engage in commercial opera tions whkh may only serve to enrich others. Both in the east and on the north-west of the province of Kwang-tuna, the rebels have been successful of late, and are pressing towards Canton. In 1846 they needy took that city, and were driven back with tome difficulty ; but now there is no determined Yeh to govern the province, or to intimidate the rebels by wholesale executions in the event of the foreign troops being withdrawn. At all the ports business has been dull during the last fort night ; but the reaaraption of the immigration of Chinese to California bas 'lightly increased the demand for shipMng. The continued dryness of the spring has caused a wasider able rise in the demand for rice at all the porta and at Macao. There have been lately many and gross instances of kid napping Chinamen in order to send them as oontract 000fitie to the Havana. This slave trade has not been carried on at Hoeg Kong, but on the mainland, especially in the neigh bourhood of Canton and Whampos, and the Chinamen thus kidnapped are said to have been taken down, chained in torches, to the neighbouring Portuguese settlement of Macao, where they are placed in barracoona, and shipped off, chiefly in French vessels, ix Cube. THE UNITED STATES. The Bremen arrived at Southampton yesterday, with the United States mail. She left New York on the 14th inst. The news, which is one day later, is unimportant. The packet ship William Tapecott, Captain Bell, arrived at New fork on the 13th, from Liverpool, bringing 726 Mormon emigrants, including women and children. One half of them were from England. Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and the other half from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. They are a better class than the average of European emigrants. With the exception of some seventy-five, the whole party 4eft for Florence in Nebraska territory the same evening, via the Suspension Bridge route. A Washington telegram of the 13th inst. says:— "Letters received here, from sources entitled to credit, mention that rumours were prevalent in various portions of Italy that the Pope might be compelled to take refuge in the United States. Our ministers at Rome and Naples speak of it as highly probable, owing to the unsettled and precarious con dition of things." THE RED SEA AND LNDIA TELEGRAPH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE Exrarss. I have much pleasure in forwarding the enclosed copy of a telegram receivel this morning from Mr. R. S. announcing the succrosful laying of (he Red Sea Telegraph Cable as far ea Lnakm. ' " " Evening, May 16.—Fotty wales from Laskin. Calls laid so far moat suemeaftilly. We howl to lead tht csa to-mlrrew at soon. All well. " May 17, 11•15 a.m.—Arrived a' Letitia. All well: I am, &e., Lmdoe, May 27. C. PEEL, Seactar7. 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