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DiZBBZ and LUBIN'S LZAP-YZAR sawn. IL rt beelos.-11. N. Iked-seresk W. Atte erpreofs. TO 00111.111170:CDONTE. awiwthemeeas Weeded ler The th" Leedom Svenlog (P=owl be al the Mhos, le. ftweetioetreet, by Two ig we the day of RA YMALC IT. nevi Ir!wow, THE FAMILY 6MCIZT. rang& I Villiers. Here. Leers, Chipperials. t Brectrarr : Mir Amy SeeMprick. Mrs WlMir. Miss liemrsels —THE RI FLM AND HOW TO C IT. Mr. Boertose. —And TIM PILGRIM OF LOY& PILINCIIIIrB. Tam Incase. OT B LLW. Me;m s Phelps awl Ryder . Mist Death. Mir Atkin...Q.—hod 711 SYLPH IDIL Meows. F. Matthews, shre. and %kw: Mom C. Leetsrog, L Leelareq,aadhl Howard. 87._JAMMIS. Tim Unmask A vailiniur Rua blown F Robinson. T and natant : Ids X —DIDO. Mr. C. Young Miss W —And A MANOR OF 111111131 MON WATICL AT LONDON MOO& Tun DST —Mamba. M. Ilra Afternoon, To-nonsow—Marsing, NIL 56m Afternoon, LONDON, THURSDAY, MA Y 10. No wonder Lord JOHN Realism. has thought it necessary to publish his correspondence with Lord GRIT. No wonder if after the publication of that correspondence Lord Gast thinks it unneessosry to make any statement thereupon in the House of Lords. Lord GRST, as it appears from the monu mental pages of " Hansard," was at least • con senting Reformer in 1852, when Lord OMIT was also a Minister of State. The same noble Earl is something more than a silent anti-Reformer in 1860. Eight years may have mrde him a sadder and a wiser man, but " Hansard " survives all changes of opinion, whether of Ministers or of malcontent., and to that mute perennial witness Lord Joss RUSSELL, with a painful singleness of purpose, appeal/. Some weeks ago Lord Gm was explaining at length to his hereditary brethren the reasons which had induced him to acquiesce in the Reform Bill of 1852, and he then declared that "the original difficulty " from which •11 Reform Bills, present and to come, had sprung, w•e the gratuitous and unauthorised avowal by Lord J. Arnett, as head of the Cabinet in 1849, that " the time was come when • change might be " made in the measure of 1832." According to Lord GREY, the fellow-minister of Lord JOHN at the time, this untoward expression of opinion fell from the lips of the FIRST Mt:emelt without the privity or consent of his colleagues, and with Lord G•EY'a express disapproval. Lord GREY, as Colonial Minister, had, it is true, consented, with extreme reluctance, to remain • member of an thus pledged to a policy which he condemned. But why 1 Because the Cabinet was "on the eve of falling." We are honestly anxious to do justice to this characteristic stroke of chivalry. If the days of Reform are over for our hereditary Whigs, let us at all events have the satisfaction of showing that the days of chivalry are not dead for them. No ; though Lord JOHN had with that intrepidity which glories in danger nailed the colours of Reform to the mast, Lord Carr, though only a pri soner on parole, and owing nothing but a forced allegiance to her flag, determined to stick to the sinking ship, and to desert the flag only in the event of living to do so. He acquiesced in the introduction of the Bill because he was persuaded (we use his own words) that it had not the remotest chance of passing. He took the pledge because he felt mire it would never be kept. Et ettibi pa•snrai nitre fine eat asueele. This is why Earl GMT opened not his mouth against Re form in 1852, but actually consented as a minister to the introduction of a Bill by the head of the Cabinet. Not that he was absolutely dumb. This, of course, the laws of chivalry would not have per mitted. On the contrary, as Lord Joaie Rossi/2.x reminds him, Lord Gam , made, in his ministerial capacity, a speech on the Address to the Crown, in February, 1852, apologising very ably and conclusively for the introduction of the Reform Bill, and demonstrating exhaustively that its intro duction had become a sort of moral necessity. In that admirable speech Lord Gar( was not content with expressing fr:ely and distinctly his own complete and unreserved adhesion to the Hill, but with prophetic ardour he cut f. ,e ground from under the feet of any renegade or reactionist in days to come who might plead the "apathy" of the people as an excuse for withholding a mea sure of political justice. Lord Gasr's words on this point were valuable when spoken in 1852 ; in 1860 they are quite inestimable. We never have understood the precise meaning of the eulogy so often bestowed by the critics on great dramatic artists of whose performance there is no thing new to say—" he surpassed Moir!)." As suredly no other form of words so exactly ex presses the difference between the Lord Gm of 1852 and the Lord Gm' of 1860. The progress backwards, if we may be allowed the phrase, is immense. Here is the Lord Gave' of eight years ago. At that date, remember, he was a Minister 01 State ; he is speaking of a Reform Bill intro duced by the Head 41 the Cabinet " without any " previous concert or communication with his " colleagues," of a Hill which had his own entire disapproval. Mark how he denounces Lord JOHN Rosana:a rashness, exposes a hasty inconsiderate pledge, and deplores an ill-timed and uncalled-for violation of the settlement of 1832 : " Now, my lords, let me poiut out the real cir " cumstances of the case. Thn,e years ago, if I remember rightly, varions motions were made in " the other House of i'arliernent, and obtained in " that house a considerable degree of support, not " only from those who voted for these measures, " but in the expression of an opinion by gentlemen " of great weight and influence, that experience " had shown that there were defects in the Reform " Act which required further legislation. My " noble friend feeling the force of these remarks " and of public opinion, and seeing defects in the " arrangement of the Reform Bill which had " not answered the expectations of the coup " try, thought it right to express his opinion " that a time might come when it would be " proper to make some alteration in the " existing laws relating to " friend exprttuled that " manner, and proofn " that were given in 1848, by all dames of tke " population, of loyal attsolinmint to the crown and "to the existing institutions of the country. My " noble friend expressed that opinion as far back "as 1849, and since that time has had to combat " various proposals made in the other House of " Parliament for alterations in the Reform - Act. " But it was my noble friend's opinion that if in " combating these proposals for hasty and inoon " sidemte alterations in the Reform Act he had not " expressed himself in favour of future improve " manta, he would have shaken the foundations of " that great settlement of our constitutional rights. " My noble friend therefore said, and I think he " was right, that he was not averse to well " considered amendment. But it was im " possible that he could take this line in coin " bating those propositions, which he looked upon " as dangerous, without thereby contracting pledges " which he considered it his duty to fulfil at a proper " time. I ask, can there be a better time for re " deeming them than the present / is not the eery " apathy of which the noble earl speaks a sufficient " reason for calmly approaching the subject, and " calmly considering what amendments can be intro " duced I Would that apathy hare existed if we had " pronounced the Reforms Bill to be a final measure, " and if he had said there were no blots in it which "we would attempt to get rid of I If he had taken " that line, would there not have been a eery differed "dimositiou on the part of the people of this country " with regard to changes in the Reform► Act far less " temperate than those now about to be proposed l I " think it is a justification of the line which my " noble friend has taken, and in which his col " Lear KJ joined." Considering that this unanswerable justifica tion of a new Reform Bill is eight years old we are bound to give Lord Ginty the credit of being a man (at least eight years) before his time, and this, perhaps, even more than Lord JOHN Rcs 6KLL'S pledges, is the " original difficulty" under which—as a posthumous anti-reformer—he now labours. Now what is Lord Gm's latest inter pretation of this nescit reverti of eight years ago! As a confidential hint to a brother Cabinet Minister it may mean little or nothing ; as a lifting of the veil which shrouds the arcane of Cabinets from the vulgar gaze it seems to us to suggest a curious doctrine of mutual responsibility. " You know perfectly well," writes the sometime Secretary of State for the Colonies to his former Chief, " that it is the duty of a " member of Government, when its acts are " attacked in Parliament, to state, as well as "he can, the reasons by which the Cabinet "he belongs to has been guided, even though " sometimes those reasons may not have been 1 " conclusive to his own mind. My object " in that speech was to explain as / understood " them your notices fur the course you had taken, " without implying my own concurrence in opi " %ions tchish it was notorious to yourself and to " all our colleagues that I woe far from sharing. " It appears from the report you have quoted that " I was betrayed into using some expressions " going beyond this line, but undoubtedly it was " not my intention to do so." "And I think it was right," in the mouth of a Cabinet Minister, must not be supposed to imply a concurrence in opinion, but only an ostensible and involuntary acquiescence. Nay, it means nothing more than half-a-dozen words which it was not the intention of the speaker to utter. Surely Figaro need not complain of a tight-rope dancer being selected for office when a diplomatist was wanted. That Lord GAIT, in his anti-Reform speech of the 19th ult., referred to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S opinions in 1849, not to his speech in 1851, in terms implying that the author of the present Reform Bill had pledged without consulting his colleagues in 1862, is a small matter after Lord GREY'S distinct admission that Lord Joint RUSSELL'S speech on Reform in 1851 " was " made after repeated discussions in the Cabinet " on the subject." But this illustration of Cabinet morality would be incomplete without Lord Gamy's frank admission, that he and some other members of the Cabinet " held " themselves " quite free for " the future, but were content to remain in the ad " ministration for the present, as therewasso differ " eau between us as to the course to be taken by the " Gorernment." "The course," according to Lord Garr and " some other members," was to endorse the Bill on condition that it should be dishonoured when due. THE GRAND NATIONAL ENGLISH LOTTERY OF 1860. —By a communication from the Baud of Trade, we are in formed that two packets of papers, similar to the one at foot, purporting to be English lottery ticket*, printed in Spanish, were lately picked up by the Coast Guard and Shan near Shellacs, in the Island of Sheppy. On refer ees to Mews. Rothschild, whose name was printed at the bottom of each ticket, it appeared that they knew nothing whatever of the matter, and were of opinion that it was • scheme for drawing money from the pockets of the credulous. The face of the tickets biro the following in acription, enclosed in an ornamental gold bonder : —o Gran ',seri* Nacional hurlers de IWO. —No. 2,208. —Vale Veinte Real es VeUon. Decima parte de billet* de dicho numero pus el Sorteo que se ha de celebrar ern Loodres el dia Veinte y siete de Febrero de mil mho ciento y serest& —Rothschild Hermance, Tesorens" ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL Socirrt.—At the evening meeting on Mom* next the following papers are to be reed. 1. On a possible peerage to the Forth Pole ;by Mr. Alderman Hopkins. 2. Proposed telegraphic communica tion with America, yid the Fames, Iceland, and Greenland; by Colonel Schaffner, U.S. OrEs AIR Seamessi ns GREENWICH-PARIL—The Earl of Aberdeen, as ranger of Greenwich-perk, h-ving assented to open.air service being performed in the park, the Rev. F. P. Courtenay, Curate of St. John's, Deptfonl, sad the preacher appointed by the London Diocesan Home M1N14.11 for the district, has annowiced the first service for Sun lay afternoon next. Morro FOR A VoLENTRZR REOIWINT.—Before marching out for their usual afternoon drill on Saturday last the members of the 3rd Regiment of Manchester Volunteer Rifles adopted unanimously as the motto of the regiment " Defence, not Defiance." The words bad bees suggested by Private J. B. Ranh, of the sth (press) com pany ; and Major Hen ry , who was in command, called Mr. Marsh Pi the front, sod complimented him on behalf of the regiment on the creation of so appropriate a motto. lame RIMS VOLT:MYREN* —The executive council met yesterday st the offices, John-street, Adelphi, the Sumas of Domapall in the chair ; when &magmata& were made for bold* a general meeting of the enrolled member* of the corps oa Thursday, 17th init. THE SATUILDAT HAIZ-HOILIDAT ix HOFXDSDITCH. —We are glad to lad that the Ststurriav half-holiday, which is beaming so general, and which is about to be adopted by the banks, a extending itself into may localities and trades hitherto unceemeseed with the movement. The proprie tors of the wholesale ffinningbass, aal fenign hoc:, goob warehouses in Hoendedlieh, with seareely ea exception, have agreed to close their artgdiehmeute at two o'clock on Saturday afteradoas, tram the third Saturday in Yaw until the lest in September. Sorra KnwarnoTee Mrawnt.—During the week ending May 5, the winters have been aa follows : On Monday, Tuestisv, and Saturday (free days), 5,2(19; co Woodsy and Toesciay (free evenings), ,6 4 2. On the three student.' ;days (atheism to the public 611.), 1,1119 ; one idadentoe %evening (Wednesday), 2 6 2. Total, 13,072. Prom the opeuine of the Himont, 1434,337. LON DOM GENERAL 011NIIICI COWPANY (14X/11131). —Traffic receipts week sad* Nay 6,12,061414 a. 6d. Inc Court. The Queen will hold a Privy Council this oisy (Thursday) at Backinghaa Ries. • The Woes laid the Mews °insert, acceinganied by the Murree Alia,. rode on horseback yeatendw morning, at to. by the. Hon. Blanc* Byng, Lora Charles Fits . Ckuel Blidulph, and Leutenant-Colend Presoak , . Mbar and the Primmer Helms and Louisa toe& a carriage drive. The Prince= Alice visited the Princess Leiningen, at Cla rettoe-bouna St. Janiees, yietertley afternoon. The Queen, accompanist) by the PliWeil Alice and Prises ♦rthur, and attended by the Non. Emily Cathcart, took a drive in a teeming, and four in the afternoon. Lard Alfred Paget and Lord Charles Pita-Roy attended co horseback. In the evening her )(sleety gave a oonoert, at which the following whited, viz., Mdlle. lltjene, Mesdames Miolan and Ceiling, Mdlle. Jenny Meyer, and Bigness Giuglini, Osrdoni, Zelger, Belletti, end Bentley. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mazy arrived at Buckingham Palace at half•pst 9 o'clock, attended by Lady G. ficaxavet and Colonel Home Purees. The Duke of Cambridge was attended by the Hon. James Macdonald. The Prince and Princess of Leiningen were also prceent. Their Royal and Serene Highneweee were conducted to the White Drawing•room, where the Queen received her illustrious guests. Viscount Sydney, the Lord Chamberlain, conducted the Queen and Prime Consort, the Princess Alice, sad the illustrious party, from the White Drawing-room to the saloon which was prepared for the concert, when the per formance commenced. The following was the programme : Trio, .. n thetinam," ile — diMe'irtaZa, e 81g norlGerdoal a Neatiey (Mora) Meyerbeer. Melodic, "Tn eel it pumice,' Nig. Oinglist leae, AjP•tiagi° " se a meo w , midems, ) " Mlle. Mesa a athubert 112, . !!' l liet t i el? zze re d nee l r het tg dOne Metter," Mozart. II eau: Calling . ; 11 erbetlied) Doo, " Per vent per broohl," Madame Wotan e Big. Gordon' Mangle'. Air '•('be faro seem Ineidleo," Mdlle. Thiene Allen) • Meek. Doppia ooro, " I sal tee le," Tattl Coro, ••O valll o ost;o7Zu - ro7giu (la Partetus) Mend•baolm. Air, "Nina }ob. et mete," Mane. Maas (Acacia) Trio, "81 la stancheams," Meetlmme. Mem • ear, •Olsiglini (Treenteme lrma Alr, "Kamm biz kb nicht .Wr y ," MOz Jesmy Meyer ,Freclenal Deo, Paaamlb oh quer mar," apart am& ley • Ulcer (heel) Air, .• Mee ends Geodes Ftiebeire," a& °arcked A* Peetake de faniumism Adm. Finale, •• 'Fedi sa aseel Gee," Teal Own) Mr. Costa presided at the pianoforte. The Prince and Princes, of Leiningen arrived at Clarence House, Bt. Jima's, yesterday afternoon, from Gosport. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell A deputation, consist* of Mears. J. E. Saunders, H. Hill, W. Badger, and G. Pieties., guardians of the City of Loudon Union, and Mr. Bowling, the clerk, had an inter view with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, at the Moe of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. A deputation from the Re Agricultural Society of England,consistingat Lord alsingham (president), Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., the Hon. Colonel Wood, and Kr. Brandreth Gibbs, had an interview with the Right Hon. W. J. Cowper, at the Nice of Works. Whitehall. place, yesterday. Sir Rowland Hill had an interview with the Chancellor of the FichequeryesterTarst his ;111CiairWridencein Downing -street. A deputation from the township of Manchester had an interview with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers yesterday at the OfDoe of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall. A deputation respecting the Bleaching and Dyeing Works Bill had au interview with Mr. Clive on Tuesday at the Home-otEoe. Their Serene Highnencos the Prince and Prinoen al Leiningen arrived at Clarence House, St. James's, yes terday afternoon, from Gosport. The Marquis and Marchioness Townahend have taken a residence in Lower Grosvenor-street for the season, and have given up their late house in Stratford-place. The Countess of Lanesborough has issued cards for an assembly for Friday, the 18th inst. Mr. and Lady Catharine Ricardo had dinner parties at their residence, 31, Lowndes-square, on Saturday and Wednesday Wt. Amongst the company entertained were his Excellency the Netherhuuls Minister, Viscount and Viscountess Dalrymple, Sir T. and Lady Whicheote, the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, the Comitess of Fife, the Earl el Gifford, Viscount and Viscountess Ingestre, Lord sad lady de Manley, the Hoc. Walter Talbot, Sir John and Lady Morold, Mr. sad Mrs. Warburton, Mr. and Mrs. Lane Fox, of Branaham, Mr. Drummond, Miss Lane tox, the Hon. G. 9. Duff, he. Hie Excellency Count Guillnume de Ludolf, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Kin of the Two [Bellies, arrived last evening at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street. The following have been among the recent visitors to the Gnat Globe in Inhoester-equare :—Marquis of Bute and party, Mr. Walpole and ladies, Lard Alfred Paget and family, Mrs. Gemmel Scott, Marchioness of Salisbury, Lord Camden's family, Mr. Bristow, IL P., Lady Augusta Gordon ILdiburtoo, Marquis of Kildare and party, Lady Flower and ladies, Lady Tuffeall and family, Lady Brace and ladies. On Friday last the Rev. WiliiamTalman, M.A., was instituted to the rectory of Haddiscoe with Toft Monks annexed, in Norfolk, on the presentation of the provost and scholars of King's College, Cambridge. On the same day the Rev. James Hadley, M.A., was instituted to the rec tory of Bsgthorpe, in the mid county, on the presentation of Mn. Cattley and the Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, of Clapham, in Surrey. Mr. William Ewart, to-morrow evening, will aBk the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether strict measures will be adopted to prevent the resumption of the prim-flight. Lout Had-do proposes reviving the subject of female models. On Tuesday next he will move that " the exhibition in schools of art of females wholly unclothed Night not to receive the sanction of a public grant of money to the schools in which such practice is adopted." To-morrow Mr. Grant Duff intends to ask Mr. Solicitor-General, whether his attention Lao been drawn to an advertisement which appeared no the 9th, announcing that a subscription had been opened in London in aid of the Sicilian.; and, "whether persons in this country who contributed to the fund which it was proposed to raise would render themselves liable to any legal proceedings." Prince Napoleon has gone to inspect the im provements in coarse of execution on the estate he pur chased last year near Geneva, and is expected to return immediately to Paris. Preparations are in progress for a voyage which his imperial highness intends to make to all the principal ports of the Mediterranean and Constanti nople. The Official Gazette of Turin states that the King, on hie arrival at the cathedral of Parma, wee reeei, ed by the whole chapt,.r and clergy attached to that edifice. A Paris letter in the Nord says :—`"Our govern ment, in the explanations it has had with the Papal Nuncio, is said to have declared that if the court of Rome had been disposed to lame a loan in France by the ordinary and regu lar means—that is, by the medium of the tankers—there would have been no objection to its negotiation in the dif ferent money markets ; but the government did not deem it prudent to authorise a system of public subscription by the instrumentality of the bishops and parochial clergy, as it would have had the inevitable result of causing agitation through all the dioceses of the empire." Two new journals have just been established iu Savoy—the Savoie, at Chambery, and the Gaxtte de Savoie, at Annecy. Daxaasors &Barr Caossmos.—We aro sorry to hear that Mr. Grenville Pigott, one of the Inspectors d the Poor Law Board, met with a serious aocident on Saturday last, between the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock, at the crossing in Pall-mall, near Messrs. Longman'a chop, into which he was carried, having been knocked down by a gentleman's chariot. The coachman continued to drive as with the mat perfect indifference, and it is only cur that at the pace with which the different vehicles are driven down Waterloo-place, and round into Pall-mall, mere frequent &ancients do not occur. Mr. Pigott is, we are haepy to be informed, progressing favourably, though to has bed. LATEST INTELLIGENVE. re.e, IALDI'S EXPEDITION SICILY. DEPARTURE //26M GIDIOA. IT.) GENOA, NAT 6. tritOM A Garibaldi and two thousand two hundred volun teers embarked last night at 12 p.m. Three steamers were lying in the offing, to which they were conveyed in detachments from various points along a range of four or five miles of coast. The concentration of any large body on a given spot was avoided not to bring additional perplexity on the government, who has shut its eyes to what ever Garibaldi has been planning for the last three weeks, but whose sympathy, of course, can assume no more tangible form. The scene at the Foce, near Genoa, witnessed by your correspondent, was exciting in the extreme. Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, and the semi-reserve with which the movements of the ex peditionary force had been invested, nearly 5,000 persons of all ranks flocked to the beach to bid the gallant adventurers good speed. Genoa gave 900 of her best marksmen from the Societe del Tiro Ns zionale ; the rest were from all parts of the peninsula, as the dialects you heard on every side, in the medley of cheers and leave-taking, amply testified. As usual with Garibaldi's volunteers, they were of every grade and calling—nobles, soldiers, artiste, physicians, down to peasants and workmen, all young and vigorous, and perfectly aware that with such a leader no child's play lies before them. A few were lads of only fifteen or sixteen. They were all in plain clothes, but their uniforms, with arms, ammunition, &c., were already on board ship. They are to wear the scarlet tunic so identified, in the Neapolitan's imagination, with Garibaldi's successes over them in 1849, when the mere sight of one of the red diavoli used to inspire panic. The funds for this expedition have been supplied from the proceeds for the subscription for a million of muskets set on foot by Garibaldi last autumn. It is not to land in Sicily,but is intended to effect a diversion in Calabria. The enthusiasm of the troops in garrison here has been so roused that it was necessary to confine them yesterday to their barracks to prevent their deserting in order to enrol themselves. This prudential measure has been made the most of by the authorities here in reply to the remonstrance of the Neapolitan consuL More has been done, it is alleged, in opposition to the departure of the Gariteddisi, than the Aus trian government has seen fit to do with regard to the thousands of volunteers, many of whom were her soldiers, who for months peat have been pouring into the Roman States from Trieste, to swell an army intended for the invasion of a part of the King of Sardinia's dominions. Garibaldi has sanguine hopes of cutting out some one or other of the Neapolitan frigates which are on the watch for his appearance. This would be but the repetition of some of his South American achievements. Midici, his able lieutenant, is to start in four or five days with two thousand more volunteers. Events are thickening. Here it is generally ex pected that Lamoriciere will make a descent on Romagna in a few days. ALUMINA (vii Nanales), MAT 6. Tranquillity prevails, but UllolllillollB is produced by the want of information as to the state of things at Palermo. The emigration continues. The greater part of the troops have left Messina. De tachments have proceeded to Calabria, but nothing is known of what takes place in that province. It was upon the request of the ambassadors that the state of siege was nominally raised ; in reality, how ever, it still continues, as the possessor of any weapon, even a dagger, is liable to be brought before a court. martial. A considerable number of insurgents have disem barked at Trapani. The political aspect in general is very serious. Foreign aid is expected. Everything appears to indicate that a fresh rising way be expected. TURIN, NAY 9. The journals publish a letter from General Gari baldi, in which he says : "It is the duty of all to encourage, aid, and augment the number of combatants against oppres sion. It is not the insurrectionary party in Sicily whom we are assisting, but Sicily herself, where there are enemies to contend with. It was not I who advised an insurrection in Sicily ; but from the moment that our Sicilian brethern threw them selves into the struggle I considered it my duty to assist them. Our battle cry will be, ' Italy and Victor Emmanuel ? THE PAPAL STATES. The following telegram has been received by Mr. Reuter : VIENNA, THMIDAT. The Sardinian Government is said to have been induced, by the representations of France, to reeog niro the right of the Pope to claim eventually the assistance of the King of Naples to maintain order in the Papal States. It is, therefore, asserted that if, after the departure of the French troops, the Papal army were increased by Neapolitan soldiers, Sardinia would raise no objection, provided the Papal army should not attempt the conquest of the Legations. THE CONFERENCE. GENEVA, THUINDAY. England only accepts the proposed Conference on condition of being at liberty to make any sugges tion which may appear to her most favourable for efficaciously guaranteeing the neutrality of Switzer land. FRANCE. PARIS, TIII37IIDAY YOUDIO. The Moniker announces that the Superior Coun cil of Commerce, which has been appointed to make investigations relative to the execution of the treaty of commerce with England, assembled on Monday last, and will in future regularly meet on Monday, Thursday, and Friday in each week. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, MAT 5. Her Britannic Majesty's consul at Masaowah (Abyssinia), Mr. W. C. M. Plowden, is dead. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 5 o'clock this morning. Mails left for London at 10. The Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the mails, would leave Malta at 8 a.m. on the Bth, and may be consequently expected at Southampton on the 17th inst. The Simla arrived at Sues on the 3rd. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL The Delta, from Southampton on the 27th April, arrived at Melte at 7 a.m. on the 6th inst. The Panther, from Mitsuinee on the sth May, arrived at Malta on the evening of the 7th, and would continue her voyage to Alexandria at midnight. THE UNITED STATES. QUEENSTOWN, MAT 9. The Canadian mail steamer North American Captain Alton, from Portland (Maine) on the 29th April, has arrived. She landed all mils, except those for England. The Africa and Vanderbilt had arrived out. The proceedinp of the Charleston Democratic Conven tion @tin formed the topic of the day. Nothing definite had been resolved upon. All the factions were confident of success. The sittings of the Convention were very riotous, but the excitement will doubtless subside. POllOB is firmly re-established in Venezuela, and the go vernment had contracted a lean of one million sterling, which 11 to be negotiated in England. Havannah advice. are to the 24th ult. News unim portant. The prices of sugar were nominal. Acoounta from Mexico state that Miramon, accompanied by 1,800 men, had arrived at the capital oa the 17th ult., where he wee received by a salute of guns and other demon. strations. The government was suffering from want of money, and forced loans had been levied in every direction. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. New YORE, Arm 27.-7118 cotton market was very dull; ales today 600 bake. Flour arm; sales amounted to 17,000 barrels. Corn had advanced 2 coots. Provisions unchanged. Sugar fum, but quiet. Molasses and co ff ee steady. Stocks quiet; Minois Scrip, 594; Ney York Cen- Nnw ( 724 Mimi Erie, " Allt/L 26,—Sales of cotton, 10,500 bales; middling Upland, 104 to 11. SAVANNAH. APRIL 26.—Cotton market dull. Sales is three days 3,000 bales. Ciummiroi, Aram 26.—Sales of cotton, 3013 Market quiet. SALTIXOBE, APRIL 26.—Flour firm. Mosrimvi., APRIL 28.—Breadstufts unsettled on account of receipts per Vanderbilt. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. Ntw YORE, APRIL 28.—N0 nomination to the presi dency had taken place at Charleston—the chance, were in favour of Mr. Douglas. Cotton market dull. Sales in three days 3,000 bales. Breadstuff, exhibited a rising ton. dencv, all qualities having slightly advanced. Provisions steady. Oxisstra, Amyx 27.—Cotton quiet. Sale, today, 4,000 bales. Market generally unchanged. Soles of the week, 37,000; receipts during the week, 13,000 ; receiptk ahead of last year, 765,000 bales. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. GARIBALDI'S EXPEDITION. (nor on on oosacarnonr.) PARIS, WEDNENDAT EVENING. The one question of the day is—Where is Gari baldi ? The French government prints are over flowing with anxiety about the King of Sardinia in case he should neglect the advice which they daily press upon him to concentrate all his thoughts upon the organisation of the new territories which he has acquired, steadfastly repudiating as revolutionary and anarchical any further step towards the realisa tion of that principle of Italian freedom and unity of wh' ch he is the representative. Their constant cuckoo cry is that Cavour must be a good boy— must be sage—for that any attempt to go further will " compromise " all that has been done. They ' said the same thing only three months ago, when they did their best to prevent the emancipation of Tuscany and the Romagna", and therefore their advice—if not meant as a disguised threat—is worth little attention. There can be no doubt that Victor Emmanuel if in possession of Sicily and Naples would be in a much better position to defend himself against Austria than if the latter power had King Francis, with his mercenaries, for an ally. The only way in which, according to any rational supposition, the success of Garibaldi's expedition could compromise Pied mont, would be by its giving occasion to the French Epiperor to throw off the mask and declare himself the enemy of Italy. It is this contin gency, if anything, to which M. Granier de Cas segue alludes to-night in the Pays, when he says that " if, after a sufficient trial, it should be de monstrated that the Italians are incapable of self organisation and self-government, and if it should become manifest that their love of noise, agitation, and utopias is a peril for general order—all would be over (tout serait dit)." This journal re luctantly admits the groat figure which Garibaldi is now making in the eyes of the world. Its Turin correspondence of May 7 begins in these words : " One only name—that of Garibaldi ; one only fact —Garibaldi's expedition to Sicily—occupy public attention exclusively. He has put to sea with 1,500 resolute men, and has on board his vessels plenty of money and arms." The Opinion Nationale, which seems to have information from peculiar sources, says that Gari baldi has under his orders several ships and as many as twenty cannons. His vessels bear different flags, which are specified in the Opinion's despatch, but which, for obvious reasons, it declines to men tion publicly. The Patric gives the effective force of the expedi tion as 1,400 men, composed in great part of old chasseurs of the Alps, Romagnols, Lombards, and some few Genoese. It states that there are four ships in all, that the expedition is organised on a great scale, and that the adventurers have with them arms, ammunition, provisions, and camp equipages sufficient to sustain a struggle for many months. The expense of fitting out the expedition must have been very large, and people are at a loss to conjecture where all the money came from. It is admitted now by the Sardinian government that the law dues not permit them to put a stop to the subscriptions for Garibaldi, and that, at any rate, after having permitted the collection of Peter's pence for the Pope, it would be unfair to do otherwise than leave people to do as they like about this second subscription. The telegram stating that Garibaldi had been thrown out for Turin, was incorrect. The election between him and M. Fabre, the ministerial candi date, was a drawn one, and there is to be a second ballot. The Bourse has been very heavy, notwithstand ing a rise of in Consols. The Reute fell 20c. both for cash and account, closing at 70fr. 70e. and 70fr. 75c. Mobilier fell 10fr. The Eastern Rail way rose lfr. 25c., but all the other lines were lower. Orleans fell 3fr. 7bc. ; Northern, 7fr. 50c.; Lyons, 10fr. ; and Southern, bfr. The Prase publishes an apology for an article relative to the refusal of the council of the Lyons bar to restore to the rolls without a previous in quiry, M. Juif, a refugee, who lately returthxlto France under the amnesty. The council had brought an action against the Prow for this article. M. Nenser, the editor, and M. Rouy, the manager of the journal, are now happy to put an end to this "painful difference between the bar and the press," by admitting that the article wax too hastily inserted, and that the council was guided in the matter in question by the most honourable motives, and only acted in acconlance with its legitimate rights and privileges. SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 9. Yesterday 300 men belonging to the disciplinary companies rose at Alcala de Henares. The civic guard re-establiahed order, but not without lament able incidents. Negotiations are taking place on the subject of the late capture of the American vessels. FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. GENEVA, MAT 9. The Federal Council has received a note from the French government respecting the maltreat ment and insults which had been offered to French men in Switzerland, and requesting that stops should be taken for the prevention of the same. Official inquiries have proved these allegations of France to be absolutely false. Arrivals of Swiss troops have taken place here to-day, and will continue to-morrow. ZURICH, MAT 9. K Thouvenel, in a note addressed to the Federal Council, complains that French subjects have been maltreated in Switzerland. The Federal Council has directed a rigorous in• Tortigation to be instituted upon the subject. VICTOR EPOWiIIEL AT MODENA. (rams oat smut. coampompare.) MODENA, MAY 5. You are aware that though about forty priests received the King at the Duomo of Bologna the day before yesterday, the archbishop and canons decline the honour of meeting him. The worthy prelate, however, subsequently waited on his Majesty to ex. plain th at he had acted in accordance with expre , s orders from Rome, but that in obeying them he had not intended to show any disrespect to his Majesty. It must be admitted that his reverence's conduct exhibits considerable ingenuity in the attempt to reoonoile his spiritual and temporal interests. Victor Emmanuel received him with his usual frankness and good nature, which appeared to make a favourable impression upon the arch bishop. In the evening his Majesty went in an open •camsge to see the illumination of the town, accom. paned by Count Cavour and the officers of his Staff. The cheering and clapping of hands were incessant. At the theatre the same enthusiastic Eocene took place, and when his Majesty appeared in the royal box the cries of the people filled the house. As I write I see passing before my windows the line of royal carriages conveying his Majesty and suite to San Salvatore, a royal park ten miles (Tom this town, where his Majesty is to enjoy a little shooting. He will return this evening, and to-morrow morning we shall start for Reggio before mass time. Although the King has been excom municated he is still constant to his religious observances, a thing which, I hear, is bitterly felt both by the Holy Father and his Secretary of State. On arriving here I found the number of emigrants from the Venetian provinces greatly increased. committee has been established ? under the chair manship of Cavaliere Feraccmi, one of the most distinguished citizens of Venice. These poor emigrants are daily enlisted in the army, and those who are rejected as phy si cally disquali fied are supported by funds derived from voluntary contributions. Yesterday I happened to talk with one of these gentlemen, who had left Mantua four days ago, andhe told me that nothing can give an idea of the tyranny which the police of Austria exercise over the unhappy population of her Italian dominions. It will be enough for me to mention a fact which occurred a few days ago near the village of Goito. The parish church of that country place is situated on the left batik of the Mincio, and therefore it forms a part of his Sar dinian Majesty's dominions. The rector, however, exercises spiritual jurisdiction over a popu lation which lives in the province of Mantua. During the Easter holidays this population went as usual to confess at the pariah church of Goito, and received the printed ticket which is the voucher that the sacrament has been duly attended. It is a custom of the rector to inscribe on the ticket a line or two of the gospel. It appears that Don Rondelli bad on that occasion chosen a line in which Our Saviour is designated by the name of Emmanuel. The poor peasants who had brought the ticket to their homes on the other side of the Mincio had on the following day to undergo a strict search by the Austrian police, who wanted to seize all the obnoxious tickets. Five men and two women, who obstinately refused to give up the tickets, were arrested and shut up in the dungeons at Mantua called La Mainolda. This fact, the correctness of which I can answer for, speaks volumes as to what Austrian government really is. Count Cavour, who arrived here yesterday, sud denly left this morning for Turin. From this sudden departure of the Sardinian Premier people are led to believe that some important news has reached him. Among the different rumours cur rent here one much believed is that the Emperor of Austria is on the eve of paying a visit to his newly acquired friend of Villafranes. At this meeting, people say, the Italian question will be settled raitisaille, and perhaps some new diplomatic trick played off on the Italians. The peop'e of this coantry are, however, determined to counteract all Imperial tricks by a firm defence of the indepen dence they have so nobly acquired at the price of so many sacrifices. MUSIC. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The Barbiere di §Wiiiiaat Covent-garden on Tuesday was the greatest treat the opera-going publie have enjoyed this season. The piece itself is the most delightful comic opera in existence—a combination of gaiety, and beauty unequalled on the music s 1 stags. Though it has kept on of the stage for half • century, and hag been performed hundreds, nay thousands of times, in almost every theatre and every language of the civilised world, it is ma fresh as when it had the strange fate of being damned on its first performance. and exalted to the skies on its second. lest night at our Royal Italian Opera there must have been few persons in the house who were not familiar with almost every scone of the drama and every note of the music ; and yet the laughter was as hearty and the applause as loud as if the drama and the music had been altogether new to the public. This reception was owing not only to the unfading fresh. ness of the opens itself, but to the excellence of the per. formance. We bad an entirely new Resins in Madame Miolan Carvalho, and a more charming Rosins has probably never appeared on the stage. In her ease there was no need to make any allowance for waning beauty or personal defects. She was, as she stood before us, all that the ins. gination could require in order to " realise " the youthful ward of Doctor Barthel°. Face, figure, dress, grace, and refinement, all were there ; and all the pleasant traits of the young damsel's character were brought out with consum. mate dramatic skill. Madame Miolun combined the acting of the Opera Comique with the singing of the Italian stages She exhibited, indeed, vocal powers of the very highest order; a voice of almost unequalled clearness and flexibility. unbounded execution, great variety of expression, and tho artistic finish of a thorough musician. If we could find any fault with so exquisite a performance, we might say that she was somewhat too profuse of embel li sh. went. Her floriture, indeed, showed a rich fancy, and no. thing could be morn perfect than their execution ; but they were often nothing more than mere alterations of Rossini S passages, and it 11 very seldom possible to alter Rosin's music for the better. Mario wan the Couat Almaviva, a character in which he has no rival, and ho has seldom appeared in it to greater advantage. We may say precisely the same thing of Ron ceni's Figaro. It was the perfection of gay comedy, with • out being in the leant overt4ournl. Zedger'• Barthel° wan a close imitation of Lablaclie, with the difference that always exists between an original and a copy. Taken altogether, this was, we repeat, an adnurab t l . rz e ; I formance. The house was fully and brilliantly ata an d we have seldom sees an opera go off more agreeably. DRAMA. HAYMARKET. Last night, a ;eV:WlZaWitfinal comedy, tailed The Family Secret, was produced with great applause and all the denionstnitious of success. The author is Mr. Falcosser, who is known to the public by his comedy of getemam ; but his recent production is certainly inferior in interest and as a work of art. As delineations of modern society both are preposterous, but the first piece was devoid of exaggerated melodramatic situations and incidents which disfigure the production of last night, while it possessed one or two characters which, though wrongly couceived, were straggly wrought out, and it was also devoid of caricature, which is certainly more than can be said of its successor. Mr. Falconer's greatest fault is his intense primeness to verbiage; over and over again he tells the mime story decked in different but equally uninteresting common. places, in dialogue which is void of all novel imagery, and which frequently verges on the ludicrous, being in the ex tremes of High-flown rhapsody or homely quaintness. Hie serious characters have long turgid soliloquies on the most minute of subjects, and his funny lioople strive painfully after repartee, and failing to find it, grow eminently face. tions on etch other's personal defects. Because Mrs. Wil. kin, happens to be a lady of embonpoint, she i. made per. petually to complain of her thinness, of her want of appetite. and of her husband, whom ahe twice describes an "eaten` the flesh off her bones." This is not the style of humour we look for in a comedy of the day, but we find it, and not only it, but bursting bombshells, burnt deed., and various other transpontine ingredients. 1