The Express. — London, England, 1860-08-18 00:00:00

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Ex chequer Bonds to the value of 1,000,0001. sterling expire in November next, and according to un derstood arrangements, to which the sanction of the Holm of Commons had been extended, were to be replaced by others to the same amount. )fr. GLanerrona, however, has been seriously considering the badness of the wea ther, the chances of a bad harvest, and the natural operation of high prices of meat and bread on the public revenue, and to make things set and anticipate the necessity of coming forward as • borrower when grain is being brought into and money sent out of the resin, to feed the China war, he asks leave to raise two millions by Ex• chequer Bonds or Bills instead of one. The first intimation of the right hon. gentleman's intentio.i was given in the printed votes yesterday morning, and as the new loan was the first business of the mid day sitting, the retolution may be said to have been submitted at about two hours' notice. This reminnen of course (lid not pan without some grumbling, and the CHANCXLLOIL'S forebodings as to the harvest were also rejected as unfounded by members of some agricultural expe rience. But the loan was nevertheless voted, and with a great deal more facility than if it had been announced a month beforehand. Some mis called measures of precaution tend to produce the miachiefs they are desigred to avert : this one is not of that class. The lateness of the season makes our harvest prospects very uncertain ; bat a few weeks of fine settled weather, srch as in the neighbourhood of London yesterday seemed to promise, would probably secure us an average home supply of home-grown food. The money Mr. Gueirroxit took powers to raise yesterday may never be wanted to make good • deficiency in the revenue ; but it w"1 doubtless come in handy to supply the expenditure of the China war, that leak through which the country is losing • million sterl;ng • month. This outlay is taking place at • time whin Sir G LUAU.% apprehends that " we are not l "a belligerent relation with China." As Sir JAMB Gasissu reminded the House, " war has not beau " declared, and without that any British subject " who kills a Chinese is guilty of murder." At present we have not heard that a blow has been struck. The one thing certain is that all the money Parliament has voted for the war has been already spent. The bloodshed is, to be sure, safe to follow, and its story may engross attention for a time ; but whenever a Relied of reflection comes, this enormous expedition will appear one of the most stupendous follies a British Cabinet ever committed. The Resolution adopted yesterday raiszs the rum voted for the use of the Government since the meeting of Parliament to 713,400,0001., an amount I not only unexampled in our peace expenditure, but exceeding even the average expend'..ure of the country, aided by loans, for the three finarcial years in which the charges of the Russian war fell. And we know, by the accounts from China, that large as it is, it will be exceeded. The CHANCILLLOS of the Exce►gres admits that the year is an anomalous one. To the 70,100,0001. estimated in February have been added 3,300,0001. for China, 2,000,0001. for fiatificationr, and 1,000,0001. for paying off Exclsequer Bills. Mr. GLADSTOX6 is not anxious to defend fh;s enormous expenditure. It has been forced on him. 11e do not feel SUM whether he is taking credit to himself or making an excuse when he pointa out that between him- self and the public there is • difference of opinion about the rate at which we are getting through the money. He says that although he spends • great deal, the public want him to spend still more. The right hon. gentleman will do well to take courage. It is true he has not been well supported out of doors. Retrenchment suffers just now, like the reform with which it was once associated in liberal programmes ; but we shall not always be willing to construct our batteri.- with money-bags. WHILI the House of Commons is occupied in debating and voting the sums required for the maintenance of our national establishments, the Grand Jury of Cheshire has opportunely drawn attention to one instance in wli;ch penny wisdom has proved eminently pound foolishness. The allowances to prosecutors and witnesses in cri minal trials have recently been regulated by a scale emanating from the Home -office. In this scale the maximum of economy has been aimed at. In its view, according to the Liverpool Grand Jury, mankind is divided into two classes. The first consists of professional men, doctors and lawyers, and their remuneration is tired at a guinea per day. The second clam comprises all the rest of the human race, and the value of their time is ticeil, by remarkably strained generality, at Ss t;il. per head per day. The grand jury i s indeed not quite correct in stating that the scale admits no other distinctions. But it is un. doubt. illy rivlit in affirming that this rate of 3e. I:d• pvr day is applicable to the great majority of witnesses. Of the connequesess which follow , from so low a standard of remuneration the Cheshire magistrates are, as regards their own dis trict at least, perfectly qualified to speak. Their evidence is, that it is operating with daily in. creas i ng force to impede the detection and convic tion of crime. Men will not come forward to pro secute for their own wrongs, still less will they come forward to bear witness to the wrongs of others, when to do so implies the loss of a day's wages and the incurring of additional expenses far exceeding the pecuniary recompense allow: 3. Even the police have their professional energies blunted by the same influence. The sum allowed them for travelling expenses, and for payment of their necessary expenses while waiting on a trial, is so inadequate, that a regard to their own interest makes them only too happy if a case before the magistrates should turn out not strong enough to be sent to trial. A like motive induces governors of gaols to hold back from proving previous con victions. Acting thus upon all classes that are concerned with the immediate punishment of crime, the Home-office scale is believed by the Liverpool grand jury to be the true expla nation of the present lightnc -1 of the northern calendars. Its ultimate effect is, that offences pass undetected in cases where they might have been detected—that dan prous criminals are at large in full pursuit of their saner, who might have been in prison—and that a slight economy wrung out of honest witnesses is balanced to the public by the profits of rogues, and the premium of immunity which most of all tends to draw recruits into the ranks of clime. This Liverpool remonstrance is indeed far from being the only sound of objection to the Home office scale which has reached us. All over the uorthern counties, that is to say, wherever the rate of wages is nearly equal to, or is higher than, the government allowance, similar complaints are made. Leaving out of few all but the cl as of labourers, there are many among them in the manufacturing districts, whose daily pay is five, seven, or ten shillings ; and probably little labour of any sort can in such neighbourhoods be obtained under 3s. a day. But it is obvious that even the actual rate of daily wages paid to workmen engaged in a settled employment, and living in its immediate vie:pity, does not at all represent what is fairly due for a day abstracted from those of regular work, and spent in a distant assize town. Mo-e -over, where wages are high everything is dear. The Wiltshire labourer, who lives the year through an ten shillings a week, may find it possible to pro cure refreshments for the day and still save some- thing out of his three-and-al:pence ; but in Man chester or Newcastle, the hungry witness must have food such as he is accustomed to, and must pay dear for it, however humble his hostelry. The prac tical inequality of the fixed rate thus operates in a double sense. There is to the northern a:san more than the loss of his day, which perhaps, if it were openly taken from him in the name and for the service of the state, he might not so much grudge—there is the additional actual injury of money out of pocket added to the insult of a pretence of sufficient recompense. That the Homo-office scale is inadequate even for payment of expenses incurrad, is, indeed, very clear from the statements made by the Liverpool magistrates in reference to the police. With them there is every motive to aid in the discovery and represeon of crime, and there can be no possible conntera :S -ing influence, except the circumstance that atten dance is a loss to them. Vitt Court. BALMORAL, Auaowt 16. The Queen and Prinoe received yesterday the melancholy intelligence of the death of their aunt the Grand Duchess Anne of Russia, the eldest and bat sum' ring sister of the Duchess of Kent, and of the late reign ing Duke of Saxe Coburg, who expired after a few days' illness at her residence Elfenace, near Berne, having nearly completed her 79th year. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-Mace troths governors of Canada and Newfoundland, and the Lord High Commissioner et the lonian Islands. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley left town yesterday for Knowsley Park, Luwashire. The Prinome Gagarine and family have left the Brunswick Jennyo-street, oa a tour through the Highlands. Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bait, has left Fen ton's Hotel for Scotlsod. Seldom has the fashimable town of Homburg been so crowded as this season. Among the English visi tors are—The Earl at Radnor, Viscount and ViNCOP•I . Masserrene, the Earl of Pembroke, Lord and lady Cal. thorpe, Viscount Maynard, Lady and Miss Dormer, Sir William Somerville, the Marquis Conyughans and lady Cecilia Conyugham, General Sir Charles and Lady Via Straubensoe, Sir J. M. and Lady liasmyth, lady Blanche Egerton, Mr. and Lady Margaret Baal:moat, Mr. Naiad, Lady Emma Campbell and Lady Caroline Charter* Sir Bernard and Lady Berke, to. The Count and Countess de Peraigny, who have been visiting Nemirow, in Cornwall, 'the mat of Lady Moleowerth, arrived on Thursday morning at the South Devon Railway Station, Plymouth. The French Arnhem ',dor and anibusedress were also accompanied by Lady Molesworth, the Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo, the Marchioness of Alleibury, the Marquis of Bristol, Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Colonel Airey, to., and were received on the platform by Lord Chanter, who took them to a bonae in the Esplanade, Plymouth Hoe, prepared by his lordship for his noble visitors. Rear• Admiral Sir Thomas Feeley, Acting Port-Admiral, placed his yacht at the com mend of the count, who, with his friends, proceeded first to the grounds of Mount Edgecumbe, and then returned to the Hoe to witness the contest for the prizes at the regatta. The customary annual ministerial white bait boner, 000 01 the preludes to the close of the parliamen tary seamen, is appointed to take place on Wednesday next. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House at Commons will give hia annual entertainment to the prin cipal officers of that branch of the legislature on Saturday next, at his official residence in the New Palace of West minster. Lord Stanley of Alderley will •uccoed Lewd Elgin ad Postminter-GenersL The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the state of the dockyards has suspended its labours, and will not resume its sittings until the 16th of October. " The Dean of York has," eaye the York aaaaaaaaaa ' placed the munificent sum of 2,0001. at the disposal et the chapter, for the purpose of augmenting the salaries of the ' songmen,' tr in other words, for improving the choir of York Cathedral. MS handsome donation will, of gouger, be invested ; and the annual proceeds will enable the chapter to make some ackl;tions to the present very in. adequate salaries paid to the singing MO." The appointment of Sir C. Eastlake as Director of the NationalOallery has been prolonged. according to the nap b e f o re instituted, for another period of five years. Mr. Gambart writes to the Atheweeme :—" An the wording of a paragraph in the Atheneum of last week (which paragraph du been copied iota nutty other papers) may possibly suggest to some readers an erroneous idea as to the price paid by me fur Mr. Holman Hunt's picture, I ask knee to state the exact facto of the was. I purchased the picture and copyright, as you "ay, for 5,5001. Bat the deed of rile nukes no division of this sum into so much for the picture aed so much for the copyright. The copyright, lo all caws when no special understanding W the contrary occarr. goes with the picture. Is she present instance, how ever, I am honed by my deal of purchase to have The Funding of the Saviour in tbv Tcmplo engra,tvl in first-rate Kyle by as swayer to be approved by Sr. Hunt.—lours, U.. i Osissass." TSB ExAms. IAY EV T RAO 'BS INT4I,I.IGME. LAT: THE RISING IN CALABRIA. NAPLffil, Avner 16 . (vie Tomo). 1,500 Garibaklians have disembarked in Cala bria, and joined 2,000 insurgents, who had with drawn to the mountains. The preparations for the defence of Naples are being continued. FRANCE AND ITALY. PARIS, ACQUIT 17. The Constitutionnel publishes a letter from Turin bearing the signature of M. Grandguillot, com mencing as follows : Italy is now entering the most critical and most decisive period of her regeneration. Henceforth she stakes on a single card either her ruin or her salvation. Engage-las she is in the path upon which she has been thrown by the ex pedition of Garibaldi, Italy will within two months be either free and completely independent, or Austria will again reign, and this time from Minima to Turin. The letter then details the course of past events, and elites that the negotiations between Naples and Piedmont were unsuccessful by reason of Gari baldi's refusal to arrest his course, and on account of the enthusiasm prevailing throughout Italy having paralysed the measures which Piedmont might otherwise have taken to prevent further complications. ROME. ROME, Avaurr 11. General Lamoriciire has dismissed all the clerks at the Spoleto telegraphic office, for babbling about the contents of despatches, and has confided the service to a Jesuit from the Loretto College, who he thinks will keep his secrets better. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Saimaa. The great powers, in conformity with the wish of the English Cabinet, have agreed to discontinue all further negotiations for including Spain in the number of the great powers. The committee of 21 members of the Reichsrath, acknowledging the justice of the reasons adduced in the memorandum of the Archduke Maximilian against the reduction of the Austrian navy, pro- posed by the Minister of Finance, has unanimously decided that the marine budget may be increased by 1,000,000 florins. FRANCE. PAESI, Avenel. 18. The Moniteur publishes s decree abolishing the duties on capillaire. Another decree abolishes the compensation duties established by a decree of February last, on cushions made of cloth and trimmings in silk, wool, and ganduras. Another decree reduces the duties on alcoholic liquors to 6fr. 25c. per hectolitre. SPAIN. MADRID, Allot= 11. It is announced that the court, after returning to Madrid on Sept. 3, will start for Barcelona on the 10th, " unless any extraordinary circumstances should occur to prevent her Majesty's journey." It is supposed that this saving clause alludes to the eventuality of the fall of Francis IL, in which case the liberals, who compose the great majority of the population of Madrid, might possibly take advantage of the absence of the court to testify their joy in a somewhat too exuberant manner. M. Ribero, the editor of the Discusion, has been wounded in a duel with the colonel of the Bourbon Regiment, who called him out for reporting that he had bastinadoed a soldier. The colonel has received three challenges arising ont of the same affair, but it is not thought that there will be any more fight ing about it. M. Ribero's wound—a pistol shot in the abdomen—is not dangerous. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, AuQu 17. The project of law respecting the railways has been adopted by the First Chamber by 34 against IS votes. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mit ova owa PARIS, FRIDAY EVIIDIG. The rise at the Bourse to-day being quite unac countable, so far as any authentic news is concerned, some attention is paid to two flying rumours—cue that Garibaldi has had an interview with Victor Emmanuel, and another that Austria comes for ward to propose a congress for the settlement of the affairs of Italy. It is said in Bullier's Correspon dence that Austria's threats of action in the penin sula do not refer to the overthrow of the King of Naples, but are bounded by the contingency of Garibaldi's marching into the Roman States, in which case Austria would throw an army into Ferrara and Bologna. This step would, however, obviously involve a war with Piedmont, which has annexed Bologna to its dominions. M. Manna, the Neapolitan negotiator, dined yesterday with M. Thouvenel. It is given out that the news of the Neapolitan government having sent preening orders to M. Winspeare to return to Naples is false. In reference to the interview of Tceplitz, details of which, supposed to be more accurate than any hitherto published, appear in the Nord of August 16, it is suggested that the grand question now is whether the Emperor of Austria will accompany the Prince Regent to Warsaw to witness the grand military manceuvree to be executed there next month. Such a step on the part of Francis Joseph would be looked upon as a sign that Prussia had succeeded iu bringing about a reconciliation between Austria and Russia. The Bourse, after opening at an improvement in consequence of "discounts," the policy of which is a mystery, receded to yesterday's prices, and be came very dull. In the afternoon, however, there was a sudden and unexplained upward movement which brought the Rente up to 68fr. 10c. both for cash and account, with a rise of 30c. Mobilier rose 7fr. boc. Railways, though not participating in the movement in the same proportion as the Bente, were better ; Northern and Eastern rose 3fr. 75c. each. The Patric girls; a positive contradiction to the assertion of several journals that General Turr, during his recent short sojourn in Paris, had an in terview with the Emperor, and that the Emperor had made Garibaldi a preaeut of some rifled cannon. There is a rumour that the Queen of England will this year meet the Emperor of Austria and the Kiug of Prussia at Coburg. BoAim OF T=ans, NitreEmtu., Aram. 17. — The Right Hoe. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Connell for Trwie and Plantations have received, from the Elecretery of State fur Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majegy's Ambassador at Paris, enclosing a copy of a French Imperial decree, authorising the importetioa of raw wool through any of the custom-houses of the empire. —Game& 14 4 . .\kr -, TE G I .or AUGU ICILY. FIRST PASSAGE OF THE STRAITS. (nos ova snow. 00IRM/POIMINT.) FARO (rasa 119tanta), AUGUST 9. There they are on Neapolitan soil ! After eleven long years of sorrow and despair, the national flag is hoisted again upon the misty tops of the Cala brian mountains. Yesterday, as the sun was set ting, a S.W. wind was driving dense clouds towards the Calabrian coasts. A dark night was, there fore, announced—a night favourable to the bold enterprise so long meditated by the Italian hero of our times. The rays of the rising moon were not able to pierce the dense vapours of the atmosphere, and the whole tract of land which skirts the Sicilian' gulf was wrapped in a dense veil of fog. At eight o'clock the general, who waastill on board the City of Aberdeen, gave his last orders to Major Missori— the noble fellow to whom Garibaldi is indebted for his life, which without Missori's courage would perhaps have been lost at Melazzo. Ten men were' asked to volunteer out of each company of one of the encamped brigades. Fifty Carabinieri of Genoa, 'twenty guides, and twenty of the engineer battalion and of the artillery were bands; asked to join the select party, together with some English and French volunteers. The party on which thus de eolved the honour of crossing the Faro andshow- Lug the way to Naples did not number more than 350 men. Major Missori was the officer in command, and had under his orders Majors Salomon. and Nulls, of the general staff. At half-past eight o'clock all the men were on 14ard of fishing boats and ready to sail. But here an unanimous complaint was beard amongst the ranks of the brigade. Those soldiers who were not of the envied number made most urgent requests to their officers to be allowed to share the fate of their comrades. It was indeed a moving sight to witness the grief of those who had been left behind, and to hear their appealing supplications. Order was, however, soon restored, for the sentiment,of duty was uppermost in their hearts. Half-past nine was pealing from the bell tower of the Faro church, when the little expedition of the Italian patriots sailed amidst the surrounding darkness of the night. The moment was really au imposing one. Three hundred and fifty young men —the flower of Italy—were starting on the most audacious and &narcissi enterprise of this won derful campaign. I say the most dangero for the coasts of Calabria are manna 3 with hundreds of guns, and its narrow sea is swarming with Neapolitan men-of-war. The pai Sy had scarcely reached the middle of the gulf when it was known here that it had been directed by Garibaldi to surprise or storm the Fort of Ca vallo, which nearly faces Faro Point, and stands upon a rocky hillock which skirts the coast. A signal had been agreed upon to inform Garibaldi of the safe landing of the expedition. I will not at tempt to describe the anxious expectation of that long, long hour. Ten thousand men were waiting there to „ know the fate which was in store for their noble compenions. At last a faint light appeared along the opposite shore. God be praised, the expedition had landed in Calabria! But half an hour had scarcely elapsed when the rattle of musketry was brought to this shore through the fresh breath of the sea. A few more musket shots, and then all was silence and mystery again. In leas than an hour, however, a messenger arrived from Major Missori, confirmed the successful landing of our friends, and explained the cause of the firing. The expe dition was nearly touching the opposite shore, when one of its boats, either drifting with tie current or intentionally, separated from it, and went towards Villa San Giovanni. In that boat were the few Frenchmen and Englishmen who had joined the expedition. As they did no:, know the coast and had not been made acquainted with Garibaldi's orders to Miasori they landed close to a Neapolitan battery. Although the night was dark the Deutz :es of the battery saw the boat appro-cn and gave the alarm, speedily followed by a discharge of musketry and a cannon shot. Two men were wounded, but this was not the worst, for they were obliged to sail back as quickly as possible. Ly the time this unfortuate accident happened Major Missori had proceeded with his men of the road towards Forte del Cavallo. But suddenly hearing the report of a gun and the rattling of muaketry, and not being able to explain it, he thought that the surprise of the garrison of Foote del Cavallo had become a matter of total im possibility. Major Missori therefore took the path of the mountains. Nothing has been heard of them since, but we hope they are safe, and making their way through the districts of Calabria, which are waiting the moment to begin the revolution. By this time the Neapolitan generals must be fully aware of the first landing of Gari baldi's forces ; but no important movement that we know of has yet taken place on the other side of the Straits. To-day General Clary was suddenly summoned to Naples by telegraph, and he loft the command of I the citadel of Messina to General Fergola, one of the most devoted adhe rents of the King, and therefore a most ardent ad versary of liberal institutions. Two days ago we bad at Messina an alarm caused by some Neapoli tan soldiers who tried to decert. The poor fellows were shot at by their comrades of the outpost, and Wows.. severely wounded, and two others made pi goner& The Garibaldini tried to cover their escape by discharging their muskets, but only ore Neapo litan was lucky enough to reach the national camp. Newshaajust come from Brenta that General Biro has shown the greatest firmness in restoring order and in putting down the outrages com mitted there by a band of ruffians who wanted to disgrace the spotless banner of Garibaldi The ringleaders, about thirty in number, were shot in the square of the town. Martial law was be sides proclaimed at Broute, and disarmament ordered under penalty of death. A war tax has also been imposed by Bixio on the city. Those who are always calling Garibaldi and his office..i re ,olutionista of the most dangerous character, will, I hope, agree with your correspondent that they know how to maintain order and make law and life respected. While Garibaldi is thus busy preparing to in vade Calabria with an army of 20,000 men, the Neapolitan cruisers are steaming up and down the strait, as if they had resigned themselves to play the part of passive lookers on. What is still more strange is that they do not even intercept one of the numerous boats which are continually taking arms and ammunition to the other side of the strait. Members of the national committees of Calabrian towns and villages arrive he'e every hour of the day in the teeth of the Neapolitan fleet. I have just spoken with one of these gentlemen, and he told me that as soon as Garibaldi himself has set a foot on the Neapolitan continent the whole of the country will rise at the cry of "Long live the Dictator ! Long live Victor Emmanuel ! Down with the Bourbons!" Atrourr . lo. At last we have received news from our friends who first touched the Calabrian shores. I hear that, after having marched the whole of the night, Major Miasori met a column of Neapolitan troops who seemed disposed to dispute his passage. Missori is a man who never counts the enemies he meets, and he went boldly to attack them. The light was hard and long on both aides, but at last the Neapo litans gave way. Missori had six wounded, and lost another, who fell into the hands of the Neapo litans. These men had the barbarity to take the poor fellow to Re ggi o, in spite of the advice of the surgeon, who told them he would die on the way. Such was really the case, and I hear that if the wounded prisoner had been left at Villa San Gio vanni his life would have been spared. From this fact we may infer that the Neapolitans are not changed, and that they intend to carry on a war of extermination. You may depend upon it that they will get the worst of it. When the Neapoli tans retired, Major Missori was allowed to march with his men on Aspromonte, a small village which, as its name indicates, stands on the top of a moun tain, and I hear that they are still there. In the course of yesterday they were joined by 150 Cala bruin insurgents, all inhabitants of Villa San Giovanni. All the man able to carry a musket, 18, 1880. and even some hewleft Santo Steffanto join them. It may. ,be said that the re volution has already begun in Calabria. This will ins:team the difficulties of the Neapolitan army, which will thus be obliged . to keep its ground in s hostile country. A rumour 14 current in the camp this evening tint an agent of the Neapolitan court has been arrested. It appears that this man was despatched here to assassinate Garibaldi, and that he was caught whilst loitering about the lighthouse of the Faro. lam not in a position to state whether there is any truth or not in this report, but what is • rain to my mind is, that to perpetrate such a crime would be very difficult indeed, surrounded as the General always is by devoted officers. I had just written so much when I heard the fact con firmed by an officer, who saw the prisoner whilst he was on the point of being taken to Manilla. He is a man about 40, and a Calabrian by birth. The rascal will be brought before a court-martial, and if his guilt is proved, he will, I hear, be executed to morrow or the day after. 100.161 NA, Aileen 11. To give you an idea of the enthusiasm that Garibaldi's name awakens in men of every nation and conditior, I must tell you that the desertions amone,st the men-of-war lying in this harbour increase every day. Your blue-jackets are of course of the number. Sons of a liberal and generous nation, they cannot help coming to give a lift to Garibaldi* army. Yesterday evening, at half-past seven, whilst the first lieutenant was on deck of her Majesty's ship Scylla, to see the hammocks sent below, four men jumped down into the captain's gig unobserved except by the sentry, who thought they were going . on shore to fetch the captain, and pulled to the pier. All the boats were at the time hoisted except the gig and the launch. Two or three minutes after the sentry had observed the gig, the first lieutenant gave the order to hook her on, when it I will found that she was missing. On in quiry it was discovered that the boat was seen pulling ashore, and then it flashed across the first-lieutenant's mind that the men in the gig bad deserted. The launch was instantly manned and pulled towards the landing-place, where the gig was found minus the men. An I escort of marines was immediately rent on shore to apprehend the deserters who, after an hour of fruitless search, were not to be found. The Com mander of the Scylla waited on Garibaldi this morning, but, if I am correctly informed, he was told that as all the deserters from foreign ships en list themselves under the assumed name of Brown or Smith, it was impossible for him to send the mis sing men on board. In this ingenious manner 26 sailors of her Majesty's ship Amphion deserted at Palermo, and the Sardinian frigate Maria Adelaide lost at least double the number. I am not going to justify the desertion of these fellows, but when I remember they neglect their duty and risk their lives for the sacred cause of liberty, I cannot help excusing them. The matter ' lam sure, will be looked upon in the same point of view by your countrymen at home. Nothing of importance has occurred to-day. Ga ribaldi is alwaysat the Faro, busily engaged in man ning vessels and boats, collecting troops , and erecting new batteries. Major Missori's squadre has 1 -en greatly increased, and it is stated that it numbers al-mdy 1,500 good fighting men. This evening we saw large fires lit up on the ridges which are above the lofts of Scylla and Del Cavallo, and over the villages of Villa San Giovanni and Gallico. They are signals that Minion makes to the General from the Calabrian side of the strait. To-morrow the packet starts for England, and I shall not fail to add a postscript to my letter if there is any news of consequence. Acorn 12, lloartso. Au attack on the fort of Scylla vas probably made last night by Missori's party, which now num ber.; 2,000 men, for about 10.30 a brisk firing was heard in that direction, and it lasted till 1.45. The heavy boom of artillery and the rattle of musketry were distinctly heard through the stillness of a splendid moonlight night. At the first shot heard, the alarm trumpet sounded from the citadel, but no bombardirent has yet taken place. When the action began on the extreme point of the Gulf at Fort Scylla, the Neapolitan cruisers fired rockets every moment, steaming up and down the gall. They did not, however, fire against Garibaldi's batteries of Faro Point, or on the boats, wb;ch I hear were conveying more armed expedi tions to the Calabrian coast. It is stated that the landing of those expeditions, protected by the darkness of the evening—the moon did not rase till half-past 12 o'clock—was successfully effected at three different points of the opposite coast. What is certain is that as soon as the sun set bonfires were distinctly seen all along the ridges above the Calabrian villages of Villa San Giovanri and Gallic°. No doubt those fires were lighted either by Missori's party or by the Calabrian squadre, which has hoisted the flag of the national cause. If Missori has en weeded in capturing the fort of Scylla Garibaldi will be able to master the strait, and the landing of the whole of his army can be accom plished in comparative safety. Whether this is the case I shall be able to tell you in my next letter. Mr. Collett., the Swedish mister at Constanti nople, died suddenly at his residence in Pere on the 2nd inst. The funeral took place on the following Saturday, when the remains of the dammed minister, whose death has been the subjcet of deep regret in this place, were fo"owcd to the grave, in the cemetery of Ferikeni, by nearly the whole of the corps diplomatique and several Turkish func tionaries. A number of troops were e'en in attendance to keep the ground. It is understood that engagements are being entered into by the Spanish government for the oonata ac tion in this country of eight first-class war steamers, which are expected to cost LAN less than 200,0001. each. The Spanish government are also in the English market for the purchase of several thousand loads of oak timber, the con tracts for which stipu'ate for the deposit of 17,0001. caution money. Spain has abundance of oak in her ow a forests, which is stated to be inaccessible from want of roads, but it is a remarkable circumstance that while she is making purchases in our markets the English Admiralty are reported to have sent surveyors to ascertain what eau be obtained from these sources. The fitting-up of the imperial yacht the Aigle, which is to convey the Emperor and Empress to Algeria, has been made 'n such a manner es to afford accommodation in addition to that required for their Majesties, for a nume rous suite—namely, General Frogmen', of the Engineers; General Lebmuf of the Artillery; and General Fleury, of the cays'ry, aide-de-camp to the Emperor ; aLo for three orderly officers, and three ladies of honour, Madame, de Smiley, de Poem, and de Itayneve , . The vessel is besides to carry 42 domestics of both sexes. It is stated in the France Musicale that Prince Pountowski has composed a militai; march of great beauty, to be called the Arapalonienne, and that the Emperor has ordered that it shall become the national air, in the place of " Padua pour Iu Eyrie" of Queen Hortense, which is not considered sufficiently animated. When the crew were in the act of catting the anchor on board the Russian frigate, General Admiral, Captain Shestaskoff, on Tuesday last, as she passed out through the western entrance to Plymouth Sound, at a speed of eight knotr, one of the men engaged in the bows fell overboard, when Lieut. Mahe, a Dane by birth, threw off his coat, and, jumo'n; in, swam after and sustained the drowning sailor until relief an:veil. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAIIS.--SOUTHANP TON, FRIDAY. —The Tasmania left here to-day with the West India and Pacific mails. She took out about sixty pamengers. Amongst her cargo were 212 bottles of quick silver, erorth 1,478/. ; English specie, in silver coin, worth 11,6201., of which 1,6001. is on government account, and 10,0001. for the Colonial Bank at St. Thomas or Jamaica; French specie, worth Mi., for Colon ; English jewellery, worth 1,5=/., and French jewellery, worth 3,928/. The Tagus also left here to-day with the Peninsular mails. Amongst her passengers was the Duke de Nernoirre. Amongst her cargo was specie in sovereigns worth 17,80(1. Lerrzus TOR Brum, dn.—With reference to the Notice No. 26, of this you, relative to the tnuramission of letters for the Cape de Vend Islands and the Brasile by French mail packets teem Bordeaux, the public are re minded that, under the regulations in force In France, letters sent through the post-office of that country can be registered only when there are the means of prepaying the whole portage to destination. Upon letters for the Cape de Verd Islands and Brazil, only the British sod Freuch postage can be prepaid, and consequently such letters, cermet be registerod.—By command of the Pustmeeter-Gaueral. RowI.AND HILL, riecretary.—tieueral Post-office, August 17. 1860. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MARYLEBONE. TES LATE PETIT ZOBBERT AND XIOLXIIT OAS EXPLOSION THE CALLOONIAN-BOAD.—CAPTURE OF TIC THIEF. ()wive Brown, 25, was placed in the dock before Mr. Seeker, charged with stealing the gas fittings from the tap room of the British Queen, Ferdinandetreet, Hampstead road, such fittings being valued at 255., and the property of Mr. John Oversold. Edmund Charles Broom, barman at the British Queen, said that at a quarter to 7 last evening the prisoner asked fora glass of ale, and on being supplied with it be went into the tap-room. Having received information of the late explosion, be became suspicious of the pri senor, and determined to keep his eye upon hint. In a few moments he came out for panther glass of ale, and again went into the tap-room. Wetness bad occasion to go into the kitchen, and on his return be found the glass put upon the counter, and the prisoner gone. Witness in stantly followed him, and asked him about the gas fittings, and the prisoner produced them from inside his coat. He took hem back to the hone-, when prisoner put the fittings (three be number) on a vinegar cask, and begged bard to be let go. Witness, however, replied that for the protection of his employer and other people he should detain him. Mr. Seeker inquired the value of the fittings. Witness replied, at a valuation, they would amount to 25e, but the prisoner on selling them could realise but a mere trifle. I. the robbery had not then been discovered —and they seldom bad any one in the tap-room at night —when they had entered with a light for the purpose of closing, a violent explosion might have been the cense. quence. Mr. Seeker inquired if the prisoner had any questions to ask. The prisoner said he bad not. He was guilty over that case, and that was the only one. Constable Howland, 377 S, said about 7 o'clock last night ho was called to the British Queen and received charge of the prisoner. The pipes were on a vinegar cask. He said it was his first offence, and wished it to be looked over. On !eking him to the station he found upon him IL and a Inspector Willoughby, S division, said the prisoner had been identified two other parties—the one Mr. Wilby, by of the Crown, Winchester-street, Caledonian-road, where the explosion took place on the 3rd inst., severely injuring IT persons, by the prisoner's theft ; and the other the barman of the Old Eagle, College-street, Camden town, where the prisoner bad perpetrated a similar robbery. Mr. Wilby, who has not yet recovered the personal effects of the explosion, identified the prisoner as the man who had taken away his fittings. There were twenty similar robberies effected in one day, and many of the owners of the property would have been present but for the want of a longer notice. The barman at the Old Eagle was positive the prisoner was the man who entered his house on Thursday morning last at 8 o'clock, and had a glass of ale, upon receiving which he walked into the tap-room. On Ins leaving the potman discovered the pipes gone. lie picked him out last night from amongst about a dozen men. Prisoner said he could not be identified for he had been into the country, and had only just returned. Mr. Seeker remanded him till Wednesday next. SUSPECTED MURDER AT STEPNEY. Yesterday, shortly after 12 o'clock, a suspicious discovery was made at No. 9, Greve-road, Stepney, a short distance from the Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Bow-road. It appears th at the deceased was a widow lady named Mary Earley, aged about 70 yam, who up to the time of her death was in possession of considerable landed property, situated at Stratford, Bow, Bethnal-green, Victoria-park, and other parts at the east end of the metropolis. She had, it is said, a number of agents and collectors who were carry. mg her large sums of money weekly; arising from rents and other property, which she had held since the death of her husband, a large contractor and brickmaker, well known at that part of Loudon for his eccentric habits. The deceased bad not been seen by the neighbours for some days, and a collector, named Walter Thomas Emma, sent his son as far bath as Tuesday last for two brass taps which be was to put on to water-butts at two of 'her houses. On each day since Emma bad repeatedly sent and called , but though he knocked on each occasion loudly at the door, no one answered. The impression was that the &wear I had gone out, as the garden gate was left unlocked. Yes terday, when Emms went, he had his suspicion aroused that all was not right, and he accordingly communicated with Mr. Rosa the deceased ' s solicitor, of Change-alley, Coenhill, who with Mr. Whittaker and another gentleman named faith proceeded to the house in company with police constable. They could not make anyone hear, and proceeded through the adjoining premises to the backgarden, where they climbed the wall and made an entry at the back door. They searched the lower part of the house, which seemed in considerable confusion, and upon reaching one of the rooms on the second fl oor they discovered the deceased lying dead with the toppart of her head forced in. Therewasalarge wound of the scalp, and blood had flowed copiously from the injury which had been inflicted, apparently by some bard substance, or life preserver. The floor was besmeared with blood, and it is supposed that the deceased had been killed by some burglars who had entered the premises to get her cash. The deceased kept large sums in the house, although she had an account with one of the City banks. Subsequently Inspectors Kerriuey and Haynes, of the K division, proceeded to the house and made a minute search, dit is supposed that a great amount of property . has been removed. The deceased lived entirely alone, having no servants, but is east to have been of miserly habits, and dirty and intemperate. Lan evening Mr. Stevens, the Coroner's officer for the district of Stepney, took charge of the body for the official investigation before the Coroner (Mr. Humphreys), but the inquest is not yet appointed. A number of po lice-constable' have been sent out from Arbour-square and T. , .w stations, and late last night no else to the guilty parties had been obtained. The deceased was, it is said, in the receipt of an income from her property amounting to about 5,0001. per annum. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews are secured by Mr. E. T. Smith for the opening of his dramatic season at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. Their engagement at the Haymarket Theatre terminates at the latter end of Sep. somber. The cricket matches for next week stand thus On Monday, the Gentlemen of Surrey v. Gentlemen of Kent (return), at the Oval; the A'l England Eleven a. Twenty-two of England, with two players, at Barnsley ; and the United A'l England Eleven a. Twenty-two of Kent, at Tunbeidge Wells ; and, on Thursday, Surrey a. North of England (return), at Manchester. The Hastings Regatta takes place on Monday and Tamely; the Harwich Yacht Club Regatta, the Folk'. stone Regatta, and the Royal Welsh Yacht Club Regatta on Thursday ; and the Torbay Royal Regatta on Friday. DOWNING-STREIT, AUGUST 15.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Stair Douglas, Face, to be colonial secretary for the Island of Mauritius ; Her Majesty has also been Seed to appoint Sir William Byam L . ; John Gray, Thomas Nicholson. Esq., M.D. ; James Wat urn see , William Thibou, William Ann (:cull, John Bell Lowry, and Alexander Adam, &qrs., to be members of the Executive Council of the Island of Antigua ; George Webbe, Walter Maynard, and Thomas Huggins, Rom. ; the Rev. Joseph Herbert Pemberton, Meetings Charles Huggins, and William Scott, &qrs. ; to be members of the Executive Council of the Island of Nevis ; William Steventon, Es%. ILD., to be -a member of the Legislative Council of Lhi island of Montaerrat ; and Thomas Alexander Finlayson to be a member of the Legislative Council of the bland of Trin(dad.--Gazette. TUB INSPECTION OP VOLUNTEER CORPS.—The improved arrangements for the inspection of the volunteer corps, to which we have already alluded, are now nearly completed. The present assistant-inspectors will have the head-quarters of OW ,- respective districts fixed as follows e. Major Nelson, London ; Lieut.-Colonel Luard, Reigate or Goldford ; Lieut.-Colonel Ibbetson, Cambridge ; Major Hume, Exeter ; Major Dick, Birmingham; Major Harman. York ; Major Jones, Edinburgh. Assistant.inspectora have yet to be appointed to three dotricts—the North-Westeia. whoa head-quarters will be at Liverpool ; the Welsh, at Swansea ; and the South Scottish, Glasgow. In all probe. bility three majors of depOt battalions, who are about to be reduced, will be selected for these appointments.—Army and Nea t Gamete. THS NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—The COM* cif of the National Rifle Aasociation having resolved that at the next annual prize meeting, in Mil, her Majesty's prize and the gold medal of the association shell be competed for on the same terms a. this year, hereby in vite the guomakera of the United Kingdom to a competition with rifles of a minimum bore of '451 and a maximum weight of %lb., the pen of the teener being not lee than Mb. This competition will take place at Hythe early in February, due notice of the day appointed being previously given. Each competitor will have to bring eix ri fl es .d the sam e description and quality. The rifles w ill bo fired from fixed p a schal:pica' testa, and the one that gives the best figure will be selected as the description of rifle with which the queen's prize, together with the gold medal of the low o a'. L ton, shall be competed for, subject to the condition of the manufacturer undertaking to supply the number of riflos required by the council within a time specified, and of their being in every respect equid to the one chosen. REVIEW or KP-NTIBII VOLUNTEERE—The most complete arrangements have been carried out for the review of numerous companies of volunteers in the perk of Sit' Thomas M. Wilson, Bart.. at Clams n on this of a ft ernoo n, by Lord Sydney (Lord Lieutenant of Kent). Raised sods for the accommodetion of holies here been erected. and the park will be open for visitors, who will he admitted by tickets, at 3 o'clock. The whole force will be under the command of Colonel Tborold, Brigadier-Gene rid of the Ist Bat' -lion of Kentish Elba, a nd the following compapies will be present :-3rd Lee, 4tli Woolwich, Kidhe"ok, Rth Bydenham, 13 th Greenwich, 21st Lewisham. 2fith Illackhcath, 27th Deptford, '2Bth Charting, 29th Ilromlov, 32nd FlGnon, 34th Deptford, and the Woolwich Dockyaid and other companies of artillery, The review will take place at half-pas t 4 o'cleck.