The Express. — London, England, 1860-08-23 00:00:00

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GARIBALDI is in Calabria, to contend with 4,000 chosen followers in the name of liberty and Italian independence against the large and l well-trained army of a King whose government bas been an incarnation of the spirit of oppression. If we have recourse to figures and compare the numerical strength of the opposed forces, nothing seems more ridiculous than this invasion. The King of the remaining " Sicily" divans of an army which, according to official statistics, should number 70,000 infantry of the guard and line, 6,000 cavalry, and 6,000 artillery, even when • fair deduction is made for lasses in Sicily ; and to cut off Gunsatei's communications by sea, has a fleet of 121 vessels, carrying 820 guns, not reckoning the little Velem. Hut in this war such calculations would be quite out of place. Gautisxot is in Colston, to place himself at the head of a nation which expects him as a deliverer, and which will find diversified occu pation for the Bourbon army, while it will swell his ranks and recruit him with all kinds of *meow. This, which is the only justification of his armed appearance in Neapolitan territory, is the ground of his expectations of success. Already we bear of the formation of a Provisional Government at Potenu, a fortified town in the very heart of the kingdom, capable of becoming the nucleus of an important movement to divide the royal forces ; and similar risings are to be expected at other points. But no mili tary animism* GARIRALIII can expect to receive will be of a character to detract from the badmen of his enterprise, which must be measured by the risks be immediately encounters. The information supplied by the telegraph is in all respects too imperfect to afford the materials of a connected representation of the fee* of this landing : we may, however, collect its moat striking features. It will be noticed that the telegram from Messina, dated Sunday evening, states that Gael- Jain had then disembarked with 3,800 men, while that from Naples, received through Florence, and dated Tuesday, states that the General had only landed that morning. But this latter tele gram seems to tell of • previous landing of 2,000 partisans of the General who had joined the in surgents, probably under Miaiwai, who, it will be remembered, landed with 360 picked men on the night of the Bth inst. If we add the 2,000 first mentioned in the Naples telegram to the troops subsequently mentioned u being carried over in 130 Sicilian fishing boat., then, allowing ten soldiers to each boat, we shall get a force tolerably similar to that reported in the message from Messina, the date of which may have been mis reported in poring through various telegraph offices. There is lees doubt about the part of the court where the disembarkation has taken place. Bagnara is a seaport in the Gulf of Goija, sixteen miles to the north-east of Reggio, and about six miles to the north of Torre del Cavallo, near which MISSORI loaded. How I; sitiammt could have been permitted to land there with so cousiderable • force is as unaccountable as was his landing at Mar sala. The Neapolitan steamers have been for weeks past moving backwards and forwards through the Straits of Messina, close to Bognor% exhibit. ing • fussy activity by day, and sending up an abundance of sky roans in the night, but yet DOB interrupting the tranioniasion of arms from Sicily to the mainland, nor hindering the deputations of Calabrians to Osaissines head-quarters. Their commanders must have a strong and radical con viction of the futility of an employment which they discharge in a manner so perfunctory. We must leave to further intelligence, which may be hourly expected, the further elucidation of this extraordinary and memorable enterprise. THE public will be disposed, ao far as the evi dei:ce tendered enables it to form any opinion, to agree in the main with the verdict of the inquest upon the late fatal accident at Dover. The his tory of the gun by which it was caused was traced in the records of the Dockyards and Arsenals with great minuteness and accuracy. It wee cast in the year 18115, and inimediately placed in his IMAJ►.vv's ship Edgar. After going through an amount of service which required that it should twice be seare.bsd for defects, it was transferred in lsl2 to the Barham. It was put on board another man-of-war before it was again examined on shore, and in 1835 it was placed in the Asia and despatched on foreign service. In 1845 it war returned to Woolen. h, and found to have been so much enlarged at the vent that reventing was necessary. After this had been done it was issued to ikA 0. in 1853. (if the number of rounds which had heen tired from it during this long period of service no information, however, could be given, Captaii. Suss, the assistant inspector of artillery at Woolwich, could only conjecture that it could not have borne more than WO rounds before it was ordered to be re veated, as that operation generally became noes miry when 501) rounds had been fired. But he stated that he observed mall cracks near the vent which, to an experienced eyt indketed gun was going, and that the. mud hatei since the gun was reventsil, dei they smug been seen at the time. This evidence seems or 'Au incosnistent with the theory that a gun ought to stand at least 1,000 rounds without the slightest Amen. But it is not improbable that both proposi tions are reooncileable by the fact of the great age of the gun. In the present state of our know ledge on the diminution of the cohesive force of metals under repeated blows, it is quite can• ceivable, though it has not yet been scientifically established, that mere lapse of time may aid the tendency to crystallisation which concussion de velops, and to which the loss of strength is due. It may be that a gun which, when tolerably new, could stately bear its thousand rounds, may, if laid aside for long intervals, become dangerous at the eight hundredth round. As no peculiar flaw ap ' peered in the gun at the place where it gave way, and as it was conclusively established that no carelessness in the matter of loading was attri butable to the volunteers by whom the gun was used, the jury were unquestionably right in draw ing attention to the great age of the piece as at least one of the elements which might have con tributed to the melancholy result. But in a case in which the public interests are so closely involved it is certainly unfortunate that no better evidence was adduced than that from which the Dover jury were left to draw their conclusions. The obecurity of the cause of the accident is exactly the circumstance which makes an investigation most necessary. Till we know, or at least can form some tolerably fair guess, what was the circumstance which made this gun burst at Dover, neither our regular artillery nor our volun teers can have any confidence that a similar mis chance may not at any moment befall them. It was suggested by the various witnesses examined at Dover that the cause lay in the hardness of the iron, in the number of rounds fired, or in the due recoil being prevented by the bad state of the platform. Any one of these suppositions may possibly furnish the true explanation. But the data upon which they rested were not clearly established, sad the inferences were deduced by no higher authorities than an operative chemist and a practical engineer living at Dover, neither of whom had ever before seen a Ike accident. In such a case as this the country had a right to re quire that the highest knowledge and the largest experience it can furnish should be brought to bear on the inquiry. We are periling our defence and the lives of our defenders in the use of weapons, of which one has just given way under circumstances which, for aught we know, may already have made hundreds of others equally unsafe. It might at least have been expected that if the true cause could not be diem vered, it should have been searched for with more care than the science of a country town can be trusted to supply. We sincerely hope that the matter will not be suffered to rest where it is, and that Government will be compelled to institute an inquiry, at the hands of persons in whom con fidence can be placed, into the sources of an acci dent which has given us so terrible • warning. The practical conclusion of the Dover jury is, however, in any view one which is plainly correct. It appeared from Captain Nose's evideuce that inspection by an experienced eye would have de tected indications that the gun, whatever might be the cause, was becoming unsound. That provi sion for such an inspection at frequent intervals should therefore be made, is obviously a very im portant means of greatly diminishing the chance of • similar miafortune again occurring. If anything has been thoroughly established by what has taken place it is that within a very short period, whether counted in lapse of time or in service done, after a gun has been pronounced sound, it may present indications of being un sound, and, if these are neglected, may buret. It may be that we shall yet be able to discover other circumstances which shall give us notice of im pending danger. It is possible that we may find that a peculiar quality of iron is untrustworthy, and that this quality can be detected even in old guns. Science may demonstrate that after a cer tain number of years • gun made of the best iron becomes as surely dangerous as a railway girder is known to become from the lapse of time andexposure to use. It may be put beyond a doubt that after a definite number of rounds, whether fired at once or at long intervals, reliance can no longer be placed in a gun, and a more accurate mode of re cording the number than by guessing from the state of the vent may be devised by the authori• ties. But in the meantime we have possession, on the authority of • government officer, of the fact that inspection would have discovered that this gun was going, at a very short time after in spection had warranted it as sound. We have, therefore, a right to demand that this one fruit of our sad experience shall not be thrown away, and that means will forthwith be found for establish ing at brief intervals an inspection which would have saved us this Ices at Dover, and which may be the means of saving ns from a loss for the future which at present no man can venture to calculate. DEATH OF HENRY WM. TANCRED, ESQ., LATE MEMBER FOR BANBURY. The decease of Mr. Tailored, which occurred on Monday evening, at Cliff-terrace, Margate, de mands from us an obituary notice on the loss of a public man long and conspicuously supporting the liberal cause. Mr. Tancred sat for the borough of Baubury fur upwards of • quarter of a oeutury, being first returned when that borough was " opened " in 1832, and resigning his neat before the last dissolution of parliament, from age and in firmity. As a younger NM of a family of distinc tion, but of limited estate, after leaving the Uni versity be adopted the profession of the law, being called to the bar at Lincoln's-inn in 1804. He was appointed Queen's counsel in 1831, and was a bencher of that society and had filled the of fi ce of treasurer. Proem his earliest years Mr. Tancred wane reformer, "a Whig and something more ;" one of the older membered Brooks's Club, and a member of the Reform Club on the first institution of the latter association of Liberals. He was the author of a most valuable volume on the laws affecting the English and Irish Roman Catholim, and, we need not add, • zealous advocate of Catholic Eileen . cipation. His able pamphlet on Parliamentary Reform, before the amendment of the represents,- five system in 1832, was further considered inferior only to the pamphlets of Mr. Grote and Mr. Bailey, all of great value at that critical period of politica l excitement. Such claims on the Reformers entitled him to the repreeentatiou of Banbury, and he was selected as the Liberal candidate in 1832, thus pub licly, but not personally, known to any of the electors, and he was returned unopposed. Before that election the constituency numbered some 19 electors only, and Banbury was the pocket borough of the North family. Increased by the Reform Act to 3.13 this now keel electoral body proved them selves) worthy the suffrage, and though on almost every subsequent dissolution of parliament the borough has been besieged by tory candidates, and some tunes by liberal candidates professing Chartism, and dividing the reformers for the benefit of the common enemy, yet Mr. Tancrel successfully maintained his ground and the votes of a majority. Mr. Tancred never missed a division in favour of the ballot and fur a repeal of the Septennial Act, Le supported every motion for an enlargement acts of ative ou oe was r iu pt.liticis and party, and it'always with reluctance that when a liberal ministry was in danger he sacrificed by a vote in its favour his own individual opinion on a particular question. Us was in fact a truly independent member of' tire legislature—more commonly in minorities than in majorities, though always maintaining his party when it was justly entitled to his support. Mr. Taacred never sought or received any office or mark of personal distinction from the Whigs , though enjoying the friendship of their leaders. They knew they could rely on his principles, and that his liberal convictions were the true bias of his votes in the House of Commons. Such disinterested legis lators are not super-abundant. fix Court. BALMOBAL, Ammer SL Her Majesty, with Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, and attended by lady Macdonald, drove to the Linn of Dee yesterday afternoon. The Prince Consort went out deer talking. There was no addition to her Majesty's dinner party. A deputation from the directors of the parish of St. Pap aw, consisting of Mr. Collins (chairman), Mr. J Taylor, Mr. J. A. Fisher, Mr. J. Hie% Mr. Brettingbam, Mr. Maifheld, Mr. W. D. Cooper (solicitor to the vestry), Mr. W. B. Scott (surveyor to the vestry), Mr. F. S. Pathan (architect), and Mr. R. Wiswould, had an interview with the Right Hon. C. P. Vilifies yesterday at the Mike of the Poor law Board. Voor or THE Quasar TO Patomna.—We hear it rumoured (says the Scotsman) fart her Majesty, on her return from the north, will sail from Leith in the royal yacht, for Hamburg, on her way to visit the Princess Frederick William of Prussia. MARRIAOII ix Hiou LIPL —(Tim DAY.)—Thin morning the marriage of Miss Pamela Ruslunt, second daughter of Sir Charles and Lady Rushout, and niece of Lord and lady Foley, to George Douglas Pennant, Eaq., aided son of Colossi the Hoc E. Douglas Pennant and Lady Louisa Pennant, was celebrated at St. George's Church, Hanover...lame. Tim Sruacua'a Huncsa.—The Right Hon. the Speaker pre his annual dinner to the principal officers of the House of Commons yesterday evening. The following were present :—Sir Denis Le Marching, Bart., Mr. Erskine May, C. 8., Mr. Ley, Lord Charles Russell, Captain Gawk, Han. George Weldegrave, Rev. Henry Drury, 114.111charda, Mr. Leroy, Mr. Samuel Smith, Mr. Prom Mr. Arthur Jones, Mr. Vardon, Mr. Dyson, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Postletlawaite, Mr. J. B. Bose, Mr. Pole, Mr. Gray, Mr. Hodgkin, Mr. W. Rose, and Mr. Howard. The annual ministerial whitebait dinner took place het evening at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich. Vis count Palmerston and a large party of his colleagues came by water from Westminster, a Citizen steamer being engaged for the purpose. Covers were laid for thirty, the company including the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Somerset, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Wode bonse, Viscount Palmerston, the Right Hoe. Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hoe. Charles P. Villiers, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, the Right Hoe. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Clarence Paget, Boar Admiral the Ron. F. T. Pelham, the Right Hon. W. Hutt, tit. Bight Hon. Robert Lowe, Hon. H. R. W. Breed, Mr. Ling, the Bight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Bight Hon. W. F. Cowper, Mr. C. Fortneue, the Attorney- General, the Solicitor.Oeneral, Mr. Hagemen, Mr. J. Beg. well, he. The preparations for the reception of the Prinoo of Wales in New York are fictively going forward. Among them a banquet in his honour is expected at the Metro• pulitan, where the scion of royalty can have a fair view of the Mayor and "his feastful friends," the Common Council.. Theirßoyal Highnesses the Duchesa of Cambridge and the Princes Mary have left (bridge Cottage, Keen for Cullen.* near Southampton, on a visit to Mr. and Indy Elisabeth Drummond. Their Royal Highnomos the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg•Strelita, and Prince Adolphus, attended by Lady Caroline Cuat, arrived at Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, on Saturday, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. On Sun day morning the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Dadaism, accompanied by the Duke and Dachas of Marl. borough and the company staying ►t the palace, Wended divine service at Woodstock Church, sod again in the after noon in the private chapel of the palace, the Bishop of Ox ford preaching the sermon in both photo. Viscount and Viaxnuiteee Newport, Lord and Lady Churchill, Dowager Lady Truro, the Bishop of Oxford, Colonel North, M.P., and Baroness North, Hun. Colonel and Lady Louisa Spencer, Mr. and Lady H. Wbeteley, the Rev. George Steele, and the Rev. Mr. Tabor have been among the visitors. Their royal highnesses and their youthful son closed their visit to the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough on Tuesday, sad lett for Cambridge Cottage, Rey. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and Madame Ifuserus, the Karl and Countess of Arras, tke Countess of Cathcart, Viscount and Vnicountems Cartermer. ilia Countess of Kenmore, and Count J. and lady Ceed Dadeld an paring the season at St. Lsoardvoa•Bes. The Duke of Leinater left Carlton-bouse-terram yeetesday for Carton Hour, neer Marnootb, Ireland. The Harquie of Harlington has left town to join the Duke el Devonshire and the family circle staying at Dolton Abbey, Yorkshire. _ _ The MarChionese (Frances Anue) of Londonderry and Lord Adolphus and Lady Susan Vane Tempest were expected to Imre Wynyark Park, near Stockton-on-Tees, yesterday, for Genes Tower, the marchioness's seat inn the north of Ireland. The Earl of Malmeabur7 and Viscouut Ranolagh have been among the guests of the Earl of Lansdale, at Lowther Castle, Westmoreland, during the past week. The Hon. Colonel Lowther, 11.1'., has joined the circle fry town. The guests of the noble earl have had capital shooting. The Earl and Countess of Beseborough left town on Wednooday for Beisborough Howie, their seat in belerid. Viscount awl Viscountess Sydney have left Lon. dos for their east, Frognal, Kent. Mr. Bright, M.P., arrived in Edinburgh on Saturday, and left on Monday for Satherlandalure. Yeatigday the marriage was celebrated, at New Park-street (Awed, by the Rev. C. B. Spurgeon, of the Rev. James Archer Spurgeon, minister of Portland Chapel, Southampton, to Emily Georgina, youngest daugh ter of General Sir John F. Burgoyne, Bert. The Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres, on arriving lately at Berlin, proceeded to Potsdam, to visit the Queen and other members of the royal family. On leaving Potsdam, they are to go to Ludwiplust, where they will stay tea days, and then proceed to Claremont. The Emperor of the French has a great fondness for American horses, and the French einbsasy have just visited Boston to purchase five Vermont horses for the im perial stables, which already boast of twenty-four from that country. The hones are all ot the Emperor's favourite colour, dark bay, 15 hands high, having a fine action, nod trotting a mile in two minutes and fifty seconds. Their met was between 2,000 dole. and 3,000 dole. a pair. The population of the American watering places is at its maximum. At Seratop sad Sharon the hotels are thronged, and at Newport the increase of expensive villas for the acoommodstion of the votaries of fashion is beyond preosdent. The most costly private summer residence in the town was erected this spring at en expense of 2(10,000 dole. The style of living and the equipages of the wealthy visitors to this lovely wawa' e resort are of a corresponding cha. meter. Newport is just now the place of the mutual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which numbers among its niernhers such Sara as Professors Agassin Bache, Boger; and Hitchcock. The vexed question, renewed by Mr. Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species," of more interest to the ansociation at this time than any other, baa thus far been avoided, it is supposed, for prudential reasons. Mr. Nathaniel Hawthorne has reemnal his abale at Concord, the Maasachnsetts town of that name, some 20 miles from Boston, and which is still enough to meet even his requirements in the way of quiet. He is under stood to Le engaged on a new work ; and the editors of the Atlantic Nona," announce that he will be • regular con tributor to its ••„..., Alpo, AU UST LA INTELLI C - • .4 1...7 ARIBALDI IN CALABiIA. MESSINA, Auouirt 19 (vii Marseilles). The city has been illuminated in honour of the dolparture of Garibaldi for the mainland. Gari baldi, on his return from Capra, met and went on board an English vetweL On his arrival at the Faro he found another English ship, having on board 30,000 muskets and 15 rifled cannon. He departed again without landing, accompanied by Colonel Birk. and 5,000 volunteer,. General Coeenz is prepared to leave for another point of the mainland. A Oaribaldian vessel was run aground on the Neapolitan coast in order to land 2,000 volunteers, The Neapolitan cruisers, as was the case at the first landing of Garibaldians at Marsala, fired on the vessel after the landing had been effected. TURIN, Avoca M. The Opinione of to-day contains the following despatch from Naples, dated yesterday evening : " Eight thousand Garibaldiane bare disembarked on the mainland. "An insurrection has broken out in Calabria. "Garibaldi has takeu Reggio. "The Neapolitan forve;are concentrated at Monteleone." NAPLES, Aucen 21 (VIA TLORENCE). News has been received here of the landing of 2,000 Garibaldisns in Calabria, who joined the in surgents and attacked Reggio. This morning, 130 Sicilian vessels disembarked Garibaldi and his army at Regnant. The telegraph lime between Palmi and Reggio have been cut. A provisional government Las been established at Potenza. The elections have been adjourned until the end of September. The parliament is to be assembled on the 20th of October. MESSINA, Ammer 19, 6 r.w. Garibaldi, with 3,800 men, has landed at Melito, on the Calabrian coast, 12 miles from Reggio. A general attack is imminent. The following remarkable order of the day was lately issued to 1,500 of Garibaldi's volunteers by General Nicotera, the friend of Pisacaue, at Castel Pucci, near Florence : ORICIRS, NON-CONNISSIONLD OFFICKPA, AND SOLDITSS. Here is your standard, that standard so long borne by our martyrs, which rejoices the hearts of our brethren and is an emblem of terror to tyrants, whether abroad or at home. You will read in the centre two words, which are our pro gramme—liberty and unity—" unity," that we may be great, and " liberty," the reward of the heroic efforts of an entire people, that we may be men and not brute beasts. These two great things we will defend as long as there is a drop of blood in our veins ; it would be child's play for ux to be satisfied with one without the other, and to gain nothing but a somewhat larger prison. I give but one flag to the whole brigade, in order that you may be the more Jealous in Its defence ; and you will defend it, I am certain, as a father would defend his only sou. In this flag is your glory and the salvation of your country. I confide it to your hands ; very soon, perhaps to-morrow, you will display this flag in the face of affrighted enemies, and peoples who long for Its .appearance. 0. NICOTIRA. Villa Castel Pucci, August 12. AUSTRIA. The Cologne Gazette publishes a Vienna letter, which says : . AD Austrian note relative to Garibaldi's expedition wilt very shortly be forwarded to the great powers. This note partieuhuiy insists on the consequences that would result from Garibaldi's Wreaks of the kingdom of Naples, and adds that the revolutionary torrent would, in that case, take the direction of Rome and Venetia. Allusion is also made to the armameute of Sardinia, which can only be intended against Austria. Count Recbberg declares, in conclusion, that Austria does not meditate a war of aggression, but is firmly resolved to defend her Italian possessions at all cage. The same letter adds : The military preparations making by the Duke of Modena attract notioe. He is enrolling volunteers and purchasing hones, and hes addressed to his troops, com posed principally of foreigners, a proclamation in which he tells them that he shall soon take the geld. It is probable that the duke intends to unite his troops to those of Lamp- Aria's, as soon as Garibaldi shall enter on the Papal ter ritory. FRANCE. PARIS, TIIMPADAT. The Moniteur publishes a decree reducing the navigation dues on the canals of Franco. The reduced scale to oome into operation ou the Ist of September, 1860. TI7RKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUGUST 14. Sir Henry Bulwer is said to have made repre sentations to the Sultan respecting the dangers which threaten the Turkish empire, and to have again advised the recall of Hibriali Pacha from Routnelia, and the transfer of his mission to Omer EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ma ova OWN PARIS, WEDNGSDAT EVENING. The contradiction telegraphed yesterday from the Prussia► Gazette (not an official journal), of the details given by the Nord of the interview of Tospliti, is served up afresh this evening by the Pays and Patrie, in the form of " latest news," which they have " reason to believe" to be posi tively true. Nevertheless the Nord, with a know ledge of the Berlin telegram, reiterates its assertions. The simultaneous presence in Paris of the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, the French minister at Berlin, and of the Marquis de Moustier, French minister at Vienna, leads to the supposition that something remarkable must be taking place in the diplomatic relations between France and Germany. The Pays publishes en itinerary of the Emperor's program on his tour, as far as Nice only, from which it is inferred that there may be some truth in the rumours that circumstances way after all prevent him from going to Algiers. Aocording to telegrams which will be scrutinised with intense interest, Garibaldi in person has now landed in Calabria. The last resolution of the King of Naples, counselled by General Pianelli, is to cling desperately to his capital with all the troops he can command, and not to scatter his forces by attempting to check Garibaldi's progress in the provinces. This is as good news as the friends of Italy could wish for. Let Garibaldi add to his already immense fame by parading his standard through the Neapolitan states, and the defection of the Neapolitan army and a rising in the capital will readily open to him the gates o f Naples. At the Bourse the Reute, after opening at yes. terday's prices, became weak, and closed, with a fall of 20c. for cash and 15c. for account, at 67fr. 95c. The money article of the Opinion Nationale thus comments upon the manteuvres, to which I alluded yesterday, of certain inituentie • 1: '1 . • 1 j. - who e aulanortuou.s interest in keeping p the Rente : The qnsetion of dimmtusts continues to be the principal One at the This operation can only be judged by its results; and the little effect it hue hitherto produced shows the futility of this device in extrema*. We learn that the parties at the bead of this movement are very deeply interested in its success. We never doubted the extraordinary ability of the financiers to which the initia tive of this bold system is attributed, but we may be allowed to ask what public credit can gain by their proceed ings7—and, until better advised, we shall continue to be lieve that they bite a file. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50c. In railways there was scarcely any change Dr. Cumming, who preached at the Oratoire last Sunday on "The Future Destiny of the World as Revelled in Prophecy," purposes, on Sunday next, to deliver a sermon on " The Future Destiny of England as Revealed in Prophecy." I will— D. V., as the doctor himself would say—be there to hear. & • .t, • FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE ALPS. The mournful intelligence of a frightful accident upon Mont Blanc, by which three of our countrymen have lost their lives, is communicated by a correspondent of the Times, who writes as follows from Cormayeur : "On Wednesday, the 15th of August inst., three English travellers—yin, Mr. J. M. Rochester and Mr. F. Vavassour, both of Cardiff, and Mr. B. Fuller, of London, left the Ifordanvert, near Chamouny, at 5 o'clock in the morning, with the intention of crossing the Col du Giant for Cormayeur, attended by three guide', of whom Frederic Tairraz, the brother of the well-known Jean Tannin who keeps the Hotel de Mont Blanc at Aorta, was the chief ; a porter carrying their knapsacks. The weather seemed favourable. Some time, however, before they reached the summit a thick fog came on, accompanied by a storm of hail and rain. The travellers were extremely fatigued by the long ascent, rendered more difficult by a recent fall of snow, into which they sank up to their knees. This and the state of the weather caused the guides to urge them to turn back. They, however, refused to comply with this advice, alleging that they were too tired to return, and preferred proceeding. At about 4 o'clock in the afternoou they reached the summit. The tra vellers had been tied together by a new rope, of sufficient strength, at interval. of 10 feet ; two guides held the ends of the rope twisted round their hands, one yeeeedleg the ' party, the other following, while Tains/ walked with the travellen, grasping the rope from time to time. In this =toner they descended for • considerable distance without any accident, the guides continually urging the travellers to plant their heels firmly in the snow, and to walk as steadily as they were able. About 6 o'clock they reached a place where it is necessary to traverse a steep projecting ridge by a muddy and slippery path, the descent of which was, however, graduaL This path was then covered by fresh and sloppy snow to the depth of about a foot. The tired travellers were advancing on this path with unsteady steps, when all at once, at the very angle of the ridge, one of them slipped, fell, and dragged with him his two companions, with the three 4uides, over a steep and long slope of snow. The two guides at the end of the rope made every effort in their power to arrest their progress, but in vain, and seeing that they were all upon the point of being launched over the precipice, they let go the rope, forced their hands and feet into the snow, and stopped themselves as by • miracle at the very verge of an abyss, into which their unfortunate companions were immediately plunged. They made their way to the foot of the precipice, where they found three bodies in such a sad condition as to leave no doubt of the fate of the fourth, and then hastened down to Cormayeur, where they arrived soon after 8 o'clock. . . . . - - " The foregoing is the account given by M. Curie, the Vaudois pas!rer of this place, and almost in lus own words. The only point that seems to call for explanation is the fact of the travellers being tied together by a rope, for which there is no need on this aide of the Col ; but, as TILiMIS was a most experienoed guide, we must believe that he saw good reason for using it to this cam. The result was most disastrous. The weather, no doubt, had been bad for many days, and much snow had fallen ; but this did not prevent other parties passing the Col iu safety by the very Kama mute ; and on the morning of the day on which this lamentable accident occurred a party of six (including two ladies), of whom the M. Curie mentioned above was one, ascended the Col from Cortnayeur and returned here un injured. "On the following morning the judge of the district, with other officials and a staff of guides, M. Curie (who has been meet indefatigable in his exertions to investigate every particular of this most melancholy occurrence), the Itev..J. F. Day, acting chaplain to the English residents, with several others, ascended the mountain for the purpose of recovering the Lodiee and instituting a formal inquiry into the circumstances. la the evening the remains were brought cloys, Ilion of Ur Eyelash being deposited in the Vaudois Chapel Yesterday they were interred in one grave in the protestant cemetery, followed by all the English in Cormayenr, to the number of 30, and a large crowd of sympathising inhabitants, the Rev. J. F. Day reading the burial service. The guide Trims was buried iu the Roman catholic portion of the cemetery, as close as possible to his unfortunate companions." THE WILL OP AN ITALIAN. A sensation has lately been caused in the law courts of Padua by the raiding of the last will and testa ment of Vincenzo Caleavers Piston. The announcement of its anti-Austrian provisions called forth the unrestrained applause of those present in the court during the raiding. The Austrian judge, President Headier, Procurtur-General Hammerle, and Councillors Pretz and Coils, were in great wrath et the popular demonstration, and Ilemmerle could not raisin from muttering, " Only to think that the fellow eat be arrested." " TINTAMINT. " Pianiga, 10th July, 1800. " In the name of the omnipotent, best, mid greatj im Coy "Feeling that the illness which for two years has me is daily getting worse, and that my end is in sense. quence drawing nigh ; feeling that, by boid'e mercy, I em still sound of mind, and thoroughly COD 060 in cf all my actions, I hereby make the present testamentary dispo sitions. " Although I have no apprehension that my beloved children will ever abandon their excellent parent—the beet of mothers, and though I know they will all share, un divided, their small paternal inheritance, nevertheless, to provide for every possible eventuality, I declare that I leave, and do hereby leave, the half of my poor property—namely, the disposable part—to my dear and affectionate wife for the term of her natural life ; and that, after her death, the said part shall be divided into equal portions amongst my three beloved male eons, while I bequeath a legacy of 200 ' lire to cachet my beloved daughters. " I declare and make known that if any of my eons, either directly or indirectly, shall serve order the Austrian Hag, he is to be disinheri ted and to forfeit the sum which he would have received after the death of his mother, which sum, in that event, shell be paid over, one half to the poor of the parish of Pianiga, the other half to the Ministry of War of his Majesty the King of Piedmont, Victor Emma nuel and his successors, to be distributed to the young men of the province who shall serve under the adored standard o f th e King of Piedmont. Rather than serve Austria they ought to be ready to die. •In like manner, I declare any one of my sons to have forfeited his sucomsion in the portion aforesaid, who shall accept any office whatever under Austria, or who shall be come connected with, or contract matrimony with, any Austrian woman. In that case, I equally declare that the portion belonging to any of my sons guilty of such en offence be disposed of in the same manner as by the preceding article. " I forbid my fondly beloved daughters from giving their hand in marriage to au Austrian. They should prefer death rather than such a deed—the most iniquitous and ahemeful of which an Italian woman can be " I impress upon my soma, and I impose it upon them as a duty, to be always reedy to shed their blood for the hide. peodence of Itilz—of this biased mid unhappy Italy which I so much loved. BRITISH SYRIAN RELIES FUND. The following letter has been addressed to Mr. Moore, her Majesty's Consul-General at Beyrout : " British Syrian Relief Fund, 12, York-buildings, Adelphi, Ang. 20. " Sir,—We are requested by the committee to inform you that they have sent you telegrams from the Foreign. office authorising you to draw upon their treasurer, Mr. Kennard, 4, Lombard-street, London, for MIMI amounting together to 6,1500/. for the relief of the sufferers by the di. turhances in Syria. "They now particularly desire, if you see no objection to such a course, that you should add to your committee one or more leading Roman catholic', one or more leading gentle. men of the Jewish persuasion and one or more Greeks— perhaps the Greek Consul at Be . yrout would be regarded by you as a suitable person. "The committee here are managing the collection of this fund on the most unsecteu lan and impartial principles, and they trust sr , th mildews) that the diFtrlhution of it will be regulated by the 'ante eotielderatlect. Roping Lb it the brnevolenze of the British public will enable us shortly to sead you further mid liberal aid, "We have the honour to he or, " Your most obediet servants, • " CULLING E. EAKULIT, 1 Hon. " JANES FERtlttial)N, ) "N. Moore, Peal., &c." The circulation of the Nord is prohibited in tipaia. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, Atrousr 22. PRomurents .tin Artswirmtwrs.—The following engineers have been pr o . muted to chief enineers, and appointed to the undermen tioned ships :—W. L Robinson, to the Cumberland, for hr. vice in the Orestes ; A. W. Guist, to the Cumberland, for service in the Goliath ; and J. Magna% to the Cumberland, for service in the Challenger. Master F. JOBay, to the Fik^anl, for surveying service. Chief Engineers A. Bain, to the Indus, for service in the GibraltAr ; J. M. Smith, to the Cumberland, for service in the Meeanee ; and H. Newton, to the Indus, for service in the Brunswick. First Clam Assistant Enq u r ee A. lelmod, to the Indus, Second Clue Assistant • • n J. lanksbury, to the Orion ;H. A. Henri, to t he mins ;C. Thompson, J. On. borne, and A. Mason, to the Asia. Acting Second Class Assistant Engineer J. Muir, to the A rtie r. g Third Class Assistant Engineers J. Jack to the Aboukir ; H. Aitken, to the Edgar ; A. Wintyre, to the Mars ; .1. Pickles, to the Mersey ; T. S. Grim, to the Am. pinion ; K. Ditchburn, to the Conqueror ; and T. M. Thump. son, to the Centurion. WOOLWICH, AUGUIT 22. la accordance with Admiralty instructions Mr. Ward, of Auburn, Cayuga County, United States, attended at the dockyard this evening to carry out a final series of experiments; to exhibit certain improvements recently effected in his system of ocean marine telegraph signals, which has been adopted by the governments of France :Lad America, and is about to be introduced into the royal ray, of this country. The experiments commenced at half-pat 8 o'clock in the presence of Commodore Superintendent the Hon. J. R. Drummond; Commanders Hawker, of the pird, fiagehip ; Petley, of the Black Eagle ; Allen, of the Vivid, and other naval officers. Mr. Ward, the inventor, took charge of the signals hoisted on board the Fagan', and a similar apparatus having been affixed to the trout of a building facing the river, a succession of messages were rapidly traaamitted, and a correspondence carried on be. tween the two operators with the utmost ease. The great merits of the invention are its simplicity, its adaptability either for the naval or military service, and the comparatively short time required to understand the details of the system. Each apparatus is fitted with three lamps, two showing red and one white, and each lamp is connected with a shade attached to a string, by mc-ans of which the operator can darken one lamp or the whole at pleasure. Mr. Ward's system of day signals, which is also to be adopted in the rayal navy, consists of thirteen flags, each having two colours, and made in a pendant form. At the conclusion of the experiments the officers fitment expressed a favour. able opinion as to the utility of the system compared to the old plan of communication bAween vessels at sea. The Daphne, milli* vessel, taken up by the War Depart. meet, left the river yesterday with detachmeuts of Royal Artillery and other corps for New Zealand. PORMMqIITH, AUGUST 4 The Lords Coranussiosers of the Admiralty are expected to arrive at Portemouth on Monday next, it is aid toembark on board the paddle-wheel yacht (Moroi., to proceed to Ireland on a tour of inspection. ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE. —The following is a list of successful candidates at the competitive examination for commissions in the army medical service, August '3U; C. H. Y. Godwin, London, St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; J. Walters, LB., London, King's College ; F. Gillespie, M.D., Cork; A. A. Gore, M.D., Dublin; T. Maunsell, Dublin • G. F. White, London, University College ; F. IL Wi lson, ILB., Dublin; W. H. Jones, M.D., Cork; N. Akock, Dublin ; D. WG. Davidson, M.D., Glasgow; R. E. Heath, M.D., Dublin and Belfast ; IL Adams; M.D., Glasgow and Dublin ; R. C. Lever, London, King's College ; B. J. Jasdowski, M. 8., Aberdeen ; J. Thompson, Dublin • C. S. Wills, Ilaltlin ,• K. B. Riordan, Dublin ; S. Hope, London. St. Mary's Hospital • T. Y. Baker, London, St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; 1. IL N. Bracken, Dublin ; P. titunka, Dublin ; F. Pont, London, King's College ; C. P. Baxter, LB., Dublin ; S. G. White, M.D., Edinburgh and Belfast ; H. Lamb, Dublin ; H. 0. Harvey, London, St. George's Hospital ; E. B. Grant, M. 8., Aberdeen ;W. R. Wall, Dublin ; T. P. Flynn, Dublin. PRESENTATION or BUGLES TO tits sth HANTS VOLUETZEES. —A somewhat important demonstratita of volunteers of the Portsmouth district took place yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon on the Lieutenant-Governor's green, when the sth Hants corps was presented with eight silver bugles, subscribed for by the ladies of Portsmouth. A large concourse of persons assembled on the green and the mu. rounding ramparts. The volunteers present comprised four companies of the sth Hants ; two companies of artillery, one company of the (Import corps, and detachments from Fare ham and Havant, together with a division of the Hants Yeomanry Cavalry. The volunteers were drawn op so as to form three sides of a square, and the bugles were then presented by Mrs. Vallancey, wife of Major VaUancey, the Captain Commandant of the corps. Major General Lord Paulet, the Lieutenant Governor of the garrison, attended by a numerous staff, was present, and at the conclusion of the ceremony the gallant general delivered a short address to the volunteers, who afterwards marched past the staff in open and close column, and the proceedings then termi. nate& - - . ••••••••-• BILUTALrIY BY A MILITIAMAN.— Yesterday a man named Thoa. Fox, said to be a private in the Artillery Militia, was brought up ►t the Liverpool polioe.court on • charge of having on the previous evening, without the slightest provocation, assaulted in the must brutal manner a woman named Elizabeth Matthews. It appeared from the evidence that Mrs Matthews bad gone to the prisoner's house to make some inquiry, when she was knocked down • flight of steps, and severely kicked in the abdomen by the prisoner. An old woman who was in the house wee then seized by Fox, and would have been thrown out of the window had she not been rescued. The prisoner could offer out the slightest excuse. As Mrs. Matthews injuritt , are likely to terminate in death, Fox was remanded in order that the result of his violence may be ascertained. THE LOSS OP THE MALABAR, The Lords of the Committee of Privy Contrail for Trade have received the report of the officers who Teens appointed to institute an inquiry into the ciicumstaracee attending the loss of the Peninsular and Oriental Coin. pony's steamer Malabar, iu the harbour of Point de Grille. After some preliminary remarks they say : "We find that the Malabar arrived in Oalle on Sunday. the 20th, and was piloted into harbour by Mr. Emmanuel Daviot, one of the tee senior pilots of Odle, and, awed. tog to his statement, the ship was anchored in the position usually assigned to the steamers running between Bombay and China. Unfortunately no cross bearings of : the vessel's positiou were taken by the officers of the Malabar, and we have therefore only the pilot's state ment to rely on, and see no reason to question its truth. fulness. Taking for granted, therefore, that the position marked io tracing be correct (confirmed by the one bearing taken from the log), we find that the vessel, with SO fathoms at the bitts, and with a length of keel of 200 feet, should have swung about 18 fathoms clear of the buoy, and her not doing so is to us a conclusive proof that the ship dragged her anchor during the heavy north-east squall 011 the afternoon of the Mid. Great difference of °pillion exists respecting the exact position of the buoy when the vessel first struck. That the buoy was carried away no ono questions. The one now marking the shoal is declared by the acting master attendant and pilot to be nearly in the exact place the other occupied. Its situation has leen fixed by angles taken by ourselves, and we have also sounded in all directions outside it without getting leas than 44 fathoms. la the absence, therefore, of any conclusive evidence to the contrary, we deem this confirmatory of the statement made by the master attendant and pilots, that the buoy wee pro- perly marking the shoal in question at the time of the acci dent. We beg to call your attention to the fact that by the custom of the port, merchant yawls are invariably moored with both bowers, especially at this season of the year, and the olden to the pilots are not to leave the ship till she is so secured. The reasons assigned by the pilot for not carrying out this essentially necessary rule on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers are, that as the @hips frequently remain only a short time in the har bour, mooring with both anchors would entail incrisee of labour and loss of time. In conclusion, it is our *Mon that the loss of the Malabar was attributable to the ex treme violence of the squalls from such an unexpected quarter, and that evidence tends to prove that nothing could have been done to prevent the calamity during the short time that elapsed between the bursting of the squall and the striking of the ship." The report is signed by G. F. M'Dougall, Master, R.N. ; H. It. Harris, Master her Majeety's ship Cyclops. Or A ien tludeapat' kh ompan intin waa y, raceh iltiug that lie dY66terd4by the Peninsular and whole of the opium in the Malabar had been recovered. A communication from St. Petersburg, in 'the Cologne Oa-vile, states that a souadron, compostst of four frigates, under the Gemmed of the Grand Duke Constan tine, is about to proceed to the coast of Syria. The Grand m u l es . will, it is said, accompany her husband. barmier SERVICIIL—LYRE Riots, Atittiza 21. —At daybreak on Sunday morning, during a heavy rile of wind from W.S.W., the lifeboat at this place, beholgtog to the l o yal National Lifeboat Institution, prooeoled to the aasisiauee of a vessel with a signal of distress dying, and anchorisl near the shore 15 miles to leeward of this port. On reaching her the wind had moderated, but the sea war , still hear,T. A portion of the lifeboat's crew were put on and at noon they succeeded in weighing the vowel, having slipped one anchor and weighed the other ; and at even p.m. the vessel, which proved to be the Ceres, of Lyme, was safely got into Briiiport harbour. The lifeboat's crew, consisting of toast-guard men, fishermen, and yachts w.m, are considered to be entitled to much conntoeutlutioo, as they went fifteen miles dead to leewant, with no port or plaoe where they coot. hope to laud had the gal.. continued, and they might have had to remain a lengthened i.erhal at anchor amidst the heavy area and surf of the I . eat West Hay. The lifeboat behaved remarkably well throughout the service. A