The Express. — London, England, 1860-06-01 00:00:00

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Tars tram, 711 g THILIJI LIV/01. Mama J. & Met.). mei eke : Mrs. L Vara:Ad.—PAUL CURIO 1D or, The Leaks Prt. Reeve Sidney sad Rke . llfe. & Lae, Hrs. W. Creuturd, Was Ma—Rad THZ CHAMPION OP 1LIGLIJI1). MON NAM AT LONDON BMX& Tion —Mmolng, Ilk mai Aftiosook Ob. On. lu.sonauw—flornlog, Od TDB Aftoosoos, Ob. NW LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 1. WE hope and believe that tile long series of confused, false, and " official " telegraphic accounts of affairs in Sicily which we have had to publish during the last ten days has come to an end, or at least to a long pause. The fall of Palermo befi,re the patriot Sicilian bands, erroneously announced last week, may now, we believe, be re garded as an ascertained fact. All the recent telegrams, even those from Naples, have tended to make that event probable, and for the last two days all the reports have converged still more closely towards it. It now appears that the announcement of the Patric of Tuesday evening, published by us on Wednesday, was in substance correct. The patriots attacked the royal forces in Palermo on the morning of Sunday lad—fit day for that veritable work of charity and mercy, the extinction of BOCILDON tyranny. The advance was made, according to the telegram, at four in the morning on the south side, and the fight, which must have been for the most part a hand to hand encounter, lasted until ten o'clock. As soon as the people had made themselves maate•rs of the whole of that part of the city which lies to the south of the Strada di Toledo a tremendous fire was opened on it from the arsenal, the citadel, and the seaward forte, which still remained in the hands of the Boueisom troops, and from the shipping in the harbour ; but in the midst of this dreadful bombardment the people persevered in their great work, until the royal troops retired within the Royal Palace, the Custom house, and the Castle. After a respite of two hours, the fighting was resumed at noon. Of the result we are only informed that the Royal Palace was taken by the insurgents and burnt down. It may be that the Bontsoes have still a footing in that part of Palermo which is commanded by their ships of war, but their position there will not long be tenable after GAILIZALDI has had time to employ the artillery which the taking of the southern defences of the city must have placed at his disposaL Moreover, as soon as the recapture of the place is seen to be hopeless, the retention of these poai tions by the Royalists will be a useless waste of force, such as the BOURBON Government cannot afford, seeing that the success at Palermo must give life and vigour to the insurrection throughout the island. It is stated that other towns, which were known to be waiting only for this signal, are now up in arms; and if accounts from Naples are to be relied on, the loss of Palermo has para lyzed the Government and led to the fall of the Ministry. Fl'lllllll2 correspondence with Mr. Bruce, our Plenipotentiary in China, was laid on the table of the House of Commons last night. Its purport may be briefly stated. Mr. Bruce, whose first despatches had conveyed the impreesion that the Chinese government would be glad of a fair and reasonable accommodation, writing in February last, reports that that impression was incorrect, and that he is convinced, that the war party being in the ascendant, there is at Pekin a deliberate in tention to set aside the treaty engagements entered into by the Emperor, and that nothing but the complete defeat of this hostile party, and the destruction of their power and credit, together with " a lesson which will teach the Chinese that perfidy and bad faith necessarily lead to signal punishment," will enable us to place our relations with China on a secure basis. These are Mr. Bruce's reasons for proposing to demand abso lutely, in the ultimatum he was about to present to the Chinese, au indemnity for the expenses of our new expedition to China, instead of making that demand contingent on the rejection of his ulti matum by the Court of Pekin. A demand in this uneoielitional form had been made on the part of the French, and it was important that the two Western Powers should not appear to be divided in interest. By the Bth of March Mr. Bruce had pr•paredd his ultimatum, of which these papers coutain a copy. In the preparation of this document his first intentions with regard to an indemnity do not appear to have been rigidly adhered to, as will be seen in the paragraph of that document textually quoted below. Mr. Bruce's despatch to the Chinese government was addremed to the senior Secretary of State at Pekin and the members of the Great Council of the Emperor of China. The plenipotentiary begins by stating that he has brought to the knowledge (4 his government all the facts relating to his journey to the mouth of thertien-twin river last UM', his oorrtspoudenc e with the authorities on that subject, and also the version of these occurrences contained in the Im perial decree of August 9, pointing out to his own government how much his Imperial Majesty had been misled by his servants, Mr. Bruce then pro ceeds to relate, fur the information of the Em peror of Chios, what happened last summer at Rtiangluie and Taku. He denies in the mint pad. tive terms that it had been signified to him by . TEE EXPRES S , PRIDAY the Commissioners at Shanghai, that hie Majesty had decided on closing to twerps Envoys al natural and most convenient highway to his capital. The port of Peh-tang was never named by the Commissioners, who allowed him to quit Shanghai, in total ignorance of the Emperor's objection to his employment of the usual river route. Proceeding then to speak of Taku and what took place there, he says : A like silence on the 'abject of the imperial prohibition was observed toy/aids Admiral Hope, commander-in-chief of her Majesty's naval forces in these seas, when, in fur therance of the objects made known to his Excellency Kwelliang in the letter above cited, he appeared on the 17th June at the mouth of the river to announce the aproach of the undersigned and his colleague the minister of - France. The admiral wee smeared that the peonage had been closed by the so-called militia, whom he fou n d i n charge of the booms obstructing it, without the orders of their gav erument, none of whose officers, the militia re peatedly afirmed, were near the spot ; also that it was closed, not against foreigners, bat against a native enemy. These false representations were supported by false appearances ; the batteries of the forts were masked ; no banners were displayed ; no soldier discovered himself. Still farther to prevent verification of the statements of the militia, no communication was allowed with the shore. After promising to remove the obstacles at the river mouth, the militia repudiated the promise. They conducted them. selves with rudeness and violence to the officers who were sent to speak with them, in one instance proceeding so far as to threaten the life of a gentleman despatched with a Doessege from the admiral. Bach was the state of things when the undersigned arrive: olitawle the bar on the 20th of June. Finding that the officials persisted in keeping aloof, while the militia continued to assert that the obstruction of the river way was their own unauthorised act, he called on the Admiral to take such steps as would enable him to reach the capital by the time appointed. This, after due notice given to the militia, and after receiving from them an assurance on the previous evening that they should certainly have nothing further to communicate, the Admiral was log to effect, on the 25th of June, the eighth d a y =do arrival, when the forts, which had been for these eight days to all appearances deserted, suddenly opened fire upon his squadron. Apparently to cover this treacherous conduct, the officers in charge of the forts have imposed another fiction on his Imperial Majesty, who has been led to believe that the British squadron assruned the offensive by born. herding the forts. This is utterly without foundati on : no thot was fi red until the batteries had opened ; the ships having no other object in advancing but to remove the ob stacles placed across the river without authority. Upon the basis of this history Mr. Bruce proceeds to found the following Ultimatum : Her Britannic Ma_ )esty's goveniment, after mature de. liberati.in, have doodad that whether the Emperor of China was cognisant of this act of hostility, or whether it was directed by his officers, it is an outrage for which the Chinese government must be held responsible. Her Bri tannic Majesty's government require, therefore, an imam• diet* and unconditional acceptance of the following terms : 1. That an ample and satisfactory apology be made for the act of the troops who Bred on the ships of her Britannic Majesty from the forts of Taku in June last, and that 111 puss sad material, as well as the ships abandoned oa that R. That the Teti/lattices of the treaty of Tien•taie be ex. changed without delay at Peidu ; that when the minister at her Britmanicpermitted to Majesty premeds to Pekin for t ha t ma ce, be be premed the riverto city at Timetain in a British a im ed ed ; and th at proviics be made by the Chinese authorities for the conveyance of and of his suite with due bosoms from that city to _ _ & That full effect be given to the =minim of the said trend= including a satisfactory arrangement to be made fart i li a =pt payment of the indemnity of 4 x 000,000 Les, win the treaty, for lamer and military expenses cm the British governing= by the of the Casks =amities. The mademigued is further directed to date that, to arm =21 ..A 1 the attempt made to shairmst ii:C112: 4 111! the to Paidn, the u ho. tw77soWliri of El& sod made eamoiselasses in Orisber, 18M, with nips* te the rearleoce of the British animistic in China, is at as sad, sod that it rest. bescefor• ward exclusively with horßritannie Majesty, in acconlaoce with the terms of Artists 11. of the treaty of Tien•tain, to amide whether or lot the shall inatruct her minister to take bia olio* pormamintly at Pekin. The odors hos further to observe that the outrage ait the Nib° has compelled her Majesty's government to In. mews her forces in China at a considerable cost, and the ammtribution that may be required from the Chinese govern. treat towards debaring this expense will be greater or lees seconding to the ptitude with which the demands above lode aneslfeied in full by the imperial government The has only to add that, unless he receives, withis• of thirty days from the dated this oommu. alma^ a reply conveying the unqualified ament of his Majenty the Imperorof China to these demands, the British navel mod military authorities will proceed to adopt such miellinfell as they may deem adviaable for the purpose of mmapelling the Emperor of China to observe the engage. Mt. contracted for him by his plenipotentiaries at Tian. OM, and approved by his imperial edict of July, 1858. This document having been forwarded through Ho, the imperial oommissioner at Shanghse, eli cited on the 9th of April the following reply, in the form of a letter from the Great Council to Ho. Decree. The Great Council writes a reply (to the Commissioner Ho, which be is) to trananit The council received yesterday (or, • abort time since) • despatch from the coannimioner, and with it • communi cation he had forwarded from the British Minister Bruce, the contents of which have occaaioned the council the greatest ast..m is h ment. He states, for instance, that Peh-tang was never alluded to by the imperial commissioners, Kweiliang and his, col leagues. It appears that last year the imperial eocrimis wooers, Kweiliang and his colleagues, waited for the British minister at Shanghee for the express purpose of considering with him in person all the conditions proper to an exchange oetreatiai On ascertaining that the minister Bruce had arrived at Wu-song, they wrote to him several times to engage him to meet them ; their object being, in fact, to acquaint him that Taku was fortified (or, that arrangements bad been made for keeping people out of Take), and that be must go by way of Peh tang. He, however, repelled th em , refusing them an in terview. The imperial commissioner., Kwediang and his colleagues, moreover, informed him that Tamale of war must on no account cross the bar ; but the British minister, Bruce, paid so attention to these words ; and when, on arriving off the Tiendain coat (or, the port or ports of Tien-tdra), Haag, Governor General of Chih-li, despatched an officer with a communication to the effect that be was to P :iar ti ce by w►y of Peh-4wg, and sent htta present of rour a tz er e ve vessels into Taku, and (commenced) destroying the apparatus there placed. How can lie allege that he sew received the slightest intimation that he was to go by Nhiang? And as he was coming to exchange beetles, why did he bring with him ships-of-war! It was t udi m hi e s i lis i t i e u nt to pick his ) a c tr a a rt rr:ll. How m then (when towards him? -- TivediTieoces at Taira are not, either (as he im- Plies). Ore , ' to keep out the British. Suppose that some other nation's ships-of-vier were to go to the length of presenting themselves under British colours, could it be left to them to commit any breach of propriety they phased? Well, thee, the defences of Taku cannot poodle!) , he ree moved, even when the treaty shall have been ex (Then the demand fur) indemnity under different and for the restitution of guns, arms, and vessel; is more against decorum. The war expenses of China have been enormous. The cost of defending the coast from Kwang.tung and Fith-kien up to Tien-Min, from first to led, has not been short of several millions of money. Were she to demand repayment of England, England would find that her expenses do not amount to the half of those of China. As to restoring ships and guns, the year before last Eng land destroy e d the forts at Taku, and obt a i ne d p osse ssion of a number of guns belonging to China ought she not, then, 4111 her pert to he consideriog how to make these good? But, besides this, half the British ships and guns (demanded) were sunk in the sea : they are not in the par armies of China at all. The question may be dropped, therefore, by both parties alike. Then there is (the announcement that) the compromise by which, the treaties once exchanged (the minister) was to have resided somewhere else, is at an end. The compro mise by which once the treaties were exchanged (the minister) was either to select some other place of resident* or to visit (the capital) whenever there might be business of importance transact, was definitely settled by the British minister Elgin in negotiation with the imperial com missioner Kweiliang and his colleagues. The revocation of this compromise now (anaminced) is even more unreasonable (than all the other pmpositions). Last year when, after the Americans had exchanged their trusty, there was an alteration in the rate of tonnage dues, and the ports of Tai-wan and Chang-chow (Swatow) were opened to trade, the British minister earnestly preyed for a like arrangeineut (in his favour). The English burl not eschewed their treaty, but his Majesty the Emperor, libe ral to foreign nations, and fall of tender consideration for the interests of commerce, gracionsly sanctioned au exten• lies of the boon to the English. for which they should be equally grateful (%). But if the compromise duly nego tiated is to be annulled, there will be nu impropriety on the part of China if she cancel the arrangement by which she ha. conceded to the English (the same advantage of) the improvements in tonnage dues and trade that accrues to the Americans under their treaty. To 001110 to the (British minister's) request to be treated with courtesy when he comes north to exchange tradition If be be semen in his desire for peace, let the commie siOlero when he shall have thought over all the details of the treaty, those which it will be proper to give effect to, soil those respecting which compromise (or arrangement) is to he made, negotiate (with the British minister), and, where both parties shall be perfectly agreed, if he will earns north without vessels of war, and with a moderate retinue, and will wait at Peh.tang to exchange the treaties, China will not Mks him to task for what has gone by. He moat be weaned to acquallet himse with the rules (observed or Undo* at the eashange of the Anieriean trilogies, and the cause to be marine will be further discussed with him (by the eammimiower). But Vhe be resolved to bring oti . Intlaber at mule et war, and if he per use-la proceeding by way ef Baku, this srfll show that his true purpose is not the mirage of treaties, and it must be left to the high officer in c har of the ooast (or port) defences to take such Mops ea ahalC be thereby rea dered (lit., u shall accord with navvy). The &switch written on thin comics (by the British minister) is, in much of its language, too insubordinate and extravagant (for the Gamed) to disease lie proposition more than superficially (lit., to go deep into argument). For the future, he must not be so wanting in decorum. The above remarks will have to be communicated by the commissioner to the British minister, whom it will behove not to adhere obstinately to his opinion, u, so doing, he will give COON to much trouble hereafter. A necessary communication. By this reply the Chinese Government not only refuses any apology or expression of regret for the treacherous conduct at the mouth of the Peiho last year ; it refuses permission to ascend the Tien tsin river, and directs Mr. Bruce to proceed, not to Pekin, but to Peh-tang, there to await the ex change of the ratifications ; stating that if he attempted to go by way of Taku. the officer in charge of the forte will be called on to act. It re fuses to restore the guns or ships abandoned at the mouth of the river, or to con sider the payment of an indemnity, and refers Mr. Brace authoritatively to the regulations laid down for the reception of the American mission last year, ►ppearing to hint at the same time that these may be in some degree modified in discussion with Ho, but instructs Ho that before the British plenipotentiary is allowed to proceed to the north he is to go over the Elgin treaty, and consider what parts of it are to stand and what be eliminated or modified. Respecting the justification of the "resistance to our advance to Tientsin offered in the Chinese reply, Mr. Bruce observes : It appears that the determination to resist by force any attempt of the foreign missions to approach Pokin by the Peibo had been communicated some mouths previously to the Ituseian government ; in the letters addressed to me and my colleagues by the commissioners at Sbangbae not a word was said of any such intention, and the same silence on this point was observed to Mr. Ward in their personal inter course with him. The last letter to me merely intimated • wish that the vessels should anchor outside the bar, at the mouth of the Tientsin river (the Peiho). Admiral Hope did, in the first instance, anchor his squadron at Sha-liu-tien, thirty miles off, and appeared outside the bar with a steamer and two gunboats, despatc.hiNg his gig, with an officer and interpreter, over the bar to communicate to the authorities in charge the approach of the allied ministers, and to request that they might be allowed to proceed up the river. lie was assured no officer was on the spot, but the east actor informed him that the obtacles would be re moved within three days. When on acoount of the exposed ' nature of the anchorage be moved the smaller gunboats over the bar, he notified that the squadron would remain there during my absence at the capital, and requested that the men might be allowed t o l an d for supplies of water and provisiona. I have no doubt that the instructions to the commis sioners were to delay us at Shanghae, and that Peb-tang was as afterthought. Their letter, in the plumage above referred to, especially m entions my " arrival at th e m ou th of the Thu-tarn river; " and we now know that the stream which dehonthes at Pah-tang has no oonnexion whatever with the Tien•tsin neer or Peiho. Moreover, Hang, the Governor-General's, proposal was, that I should wait in the bay until the garrison was withdrawn from Par-tang, • t o • rations having evidently been m a d e f or m y rece ption or Journ ey, although his letter wee dated only three day s ore the expiration of the term fixed for the exchange of the ratification. I know from indisputable authority that Hang himself, the General commanding, and the Intendant of Men-tale were present at Taku at the time when the people were instructed to deny that there was any officer whatever on the spot, and while they were threatening with violence the persons we sent on shore to enter into comnau nication with the authorities, and to endeavour to obtain in formation as to the intentions of the Cilium, government. Their conduct was unjustifiable, even according to Chinese customs ; for, from time immemorial, it has been laid dos o as the ,tnty of frontier authorities to advise all comers of any prohibitions that may exist. As regards the proposal to exchange the treaty at 'Vi ten after further discussion of its provisious, it proceeds not from caprice but from policy ; and it is one of the etrongrit proofs to my mind of the determination of the im perial government to confide the management of foreign affairs, as hitherto, exclusively to • provincial authority. These papers appear to destroy the last hope of any amicable settlement of our differences with China. Our plenipotentiaries, in all their inter course with the Chinese, seem fated never to find that broad ground of common interests which must exist between the two nations, and which, even if they are knaves and liars, as we are never tired of calling them, should bind them to peace. Hitherto the "signal lesson" plan has signally failed, as it always must do when that alone is relied on. If we are not to have continual war with China, we must either find out on what terms the Chinese will readily hold intercourse with us, or obtain from them the means of defraying the expense of a permanent coercive force in their waters. We (Plymouth Journal) have received a letter oontaining the following from a correspondent :—" There was a long debate last night at the Union Club, Oxford, on Garibaldi, and bad you heard the opinions expressed, and witnessed the general enthusiasm on his behalf, you would bare thought highly of Oxford. Two coneervatire oppo nents only could be found, and these were almost hissed and shouted down ; so, after all, Oxford is rather enthu siastic in the Italian cause, and shows it by the subscrip tion actually going ma for Sicily. Some of the dons are even collecting subsaiptioos." The Malta Times, of the 24th ult., in alluding to the departure for London of Sir Gaspard Le Marc haat, the Governor, says :—" We understand that one chief object of his visit to England is to determine the question of the proposed great harbour improvements, respecting which there has been some difference of opinion between the Treasury and parliament, and which he hopes by a personal explanation to remove. His leave is only for one mouth or six weeks, during which the civil ►nd military government of the island devolves on Major-General Warren, the senior riser is prison." The directors of the Cologne and Minden Rail way are about to erect edema statues of the King of Panda and the Prince Regent at the gate; of the railway bridge ever the Rhine, and the models prepared by the seulpiara, MX Drake and Miser, have been approved. The statues will be in bronze, IN feet high, and will be on pedestals of 18 feet. It is intended to ornament the bridge with various other works of art Parisot, the founder and proprietor of the large reedy-made clothes establishment known as the Belle Judiniare [the French " Moose and Sou,"] whose funeral was celebrated with great pomp k few days since at Notre• Dame, has left by his will 600,000er. to found an asylum for poor workpeople. Though M. Pariasot ultimately acquired a large fortune, he was un• ancoessfid at his outset in life, and even became bankrupt. Some years after, however, he devoted 700,000 fr. to the payment in full of his old creditors, both principal and interest, and was in consequence hooourably rehabilitated by the tribunals. The Opinion of Turin announces that Father Protegn, a Jesuit, and two of hi companions, have been arrested at Turin, and all their papers seized, together with a slant el 40,000 fr. found in their possession. The following letter from Settembrini appears in the limiest of Flumes :—" I have a debt, and I know not how to repay it in part, unless I beg you to insert these few lines in your journal. On the 18th of this month my wife and daughters came from Naples to Leg horn, with a peat deal of luggage. The porters at the Marine Railway station of Leghorn, on seeing the wo. men, and knowing they were an exiled family, would not be paid, and refused some forty francs, which would have been their for. Signor Enrico Bini, who kindly took oars of my family, could scarcely ioduce them to accept seven francs. And one of the generous fellows said, 'lf we only had a franc in oar pockets, we should not take this.' I therefore wish those noble Livornese faochinl to haw that that war my family, th►t I thank them, and shall always remember their kindness, and I hope tome day to press those hard hands of theirs, sanctified by labour.— USN BnTrtutann." On Tuesday last the Rev. Rowland Ingram, M.A., wee instituted to the Nweeery of Little Minibus with Great Effingham annexed, in Nerfpik i GC hie own pietas+. On the someday the Rev. John Bellriwy Gilbert, 8.A., was instituted to the Rectory of (hatley in the same county, on the presentation of William Alexander Gilbert, Seq., at the wee place. U, J "AA 47,7-14 00 . 14 1860. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. The Paris Moniteur of this morning publishes the following despatch : " NAPLES, MAY 30. " Garibaldi entered Palermo on the 27th. Ile is master of the greater part of the town. The troops were concentrated in the castle. A bom bardment immediately commenced. Fires broke out in several parts of the town. Garibaldi attacked the castle at noon of the 28th of May." Another telegram received in Paris states that Garibaldi put himself at the head of his men, and, bearing in his hand the na tional flag, led them on amid the , fire, and penetrated into the centre of the city, where he established his head-quarters. The loss on both sides is stated to be great. The fire from the forts appears to have been protested against by the foreign Consuls. ' TURIN, THURSDAT. The following details of Garibaldi's attack on Palermo have been received from a reliable source : At four o'clock in the morning of the 27th inst. Garibaldi attacked Palermo on the mouth aide. A desperate combat ensued, and lasted six hours. The people made themselves masters of all parts of the town south of the Strada di Toledo. A terrible bombardment was opened by sea and land, notwithstanding which the people continued to fight. The troops retired within the Royal Pa lace, the Custom-house, and the Castle, and hosti lities were suspended from ten until twelve o'clock, when the struggle recommenced with greater des- peration. The royal palace was taken by the people, and in the evening was burnt down. Other towns in Sicily have risen, the inhabitanta everywhere shouting " Italy for ever 1 Victor Em manuel for ever !" M•T 31. A letter from Genoa states that Garibaldi has ordered the formation of eight regiments of infan try in Sicily to take rank after the Piedmontese infantry. The Levant steamer is expected with news from Messina. •...rk... trbe Court. and the Prince Conic" accompanied flb • Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princedom Helena, Louise, and Beatrice, left Osborne at twenty minutes past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, embarked at Cowes on the Fairy, royal steam yacht, crossed to Portsmouth, and travelled by • special train on 'the South-Western Railway to the private station It Vauxhall. In attendance were the Countess of Demart, the Hon. Lary Kerr, the Hon. Mary Bulteel, Maier- General the Hon. Charles Grey, Colonel the Hon. A. IN - dell, Lord Charles Fitsroy, Lieutenant-Colonel Foruicaly, and Major Elphinstone. The Queen i - liftmen The royal party proceeded in live of the Queen's car riages, escorted by a detachment of Light Dragoons, to Buckingham Palace, where they arrived at twenty minutest past viz o'clock. The Queen and Rine were received by the Earl of St Germans, Viscount Sydney, the Marquis of Ailesbury, Earl Spencer, Viscount Cardamom, Lord Camoys, Lord Waterpark, the Hon. M. Backside West, and the Muter of the Household. Lord Camoys and the Hon. Mortimer Sockville West have succeeded Lord Riven and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, as the Lord and Groom in Waiting to the Queen. Viscount and Viecountem Palmerston arrived in town yesterday, from Brcellands, Hants. DEPARTURE OP THE COURT FROM OSBORNE. PORII3YOUTH, MAT 31. Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, and the royal family, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the court, left Osborne this afternoon in the midst of a pelting rain, and proceeded to Portsmouth in the royal screw yacht Fairy. The royal standard was saluted by the ships at Bpitheael, and also by the garrison and ships in harbour. The royal party landed at the dock yard, and were received by the naval and military authorities of the port and garrison, and guards of honour furnished by the East Kent and Bedford militia regiments Her Majesty proceeded by special train on the Loudon and Portsmouth direct railway. DEATH OP LORD HRYTESBURY, G.C.R. One of the oldest diplomatic servants of the crown, Lord Heytesbury, has been removed by death. His lordship died at an early hour yesterday morning at his seat in Wiltshire, after a protracted Mama. A few days back he had a relapse, and since continued to sink rapidly. The demand, William i'Court, Baron Heytesbury of Heytes bury, in the county of Wilts, in the peerage of the United Kiegdom,vess the eldest son of StrWall ism P. Asbe £'Court, who was for many years Y.P. for Heytesbury, by his second marriage, with Letitia, daughter of Mr. He Wyndham, of the College, Salisbury. He was in his 81st year, having been born 11th ulf t , eb l e 7 c 7 c it s . , The late peer married 3rd October, 1808, Maria second daughter of the late Hon. Bouverie, by which estimable lady, who died in October, 1844, the late lord leaves surviving Woos, a sow, the Hen Wm. Henry Aahe il'Court Holmes, who meow& to the barony, and the Hon. Cecilia Marisa, married to the Hun. Robert Daly. The diplomatic SerVielle of the late lord ex tend over nearly sixty years, far as far back aa 1801 he was appointed by - Lord Hawkesbury (afterwards Lord Liverpool) as Secretor, of Ligation at Medea For his distinguished diplomatic services he was, two years after succeeding to the baronetcy, nominatedaCivilOrand Cross of the Order of the Bath, so that he was the senior member of that class and order of knighthood. In further recognition of his diplomatic services he was made a peer in DM, by the style and title of Lord Heytesbury, as before named. For many year, he bad enjoyed a pen sion of 1,7001. a year, and in 1857 relinquished his offer of Governor and Captain of the Isle of Wight and Governor of Carisbrook Castle. The only son of the late lord succeeds to the barony. He was born in 1808, and married in 1833 Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Sir Leonard Wursley Holmes, Bart., of Westover, Isle of Wight. He wee educated at St. John's Collets, • and was Y.P. for the Isle of Wight from 1837 to 184. The present peer is a deputy lieutenant of the counties of Heats sad Wilt.. The Prince Regent of Prussia reached Carlarnhe on the 26th ult, alter inaugurating the extension of the Rhein•Nahe Railway, and continued his journey to Baden. On the 2nd (to•morrow) the Prince Regent will go to EyclUrchnen to open the railway to the Russian frontier, and will return to Berlin on the 6th. During the summer, when the aseionchement of the Princess Frederick William is expected, his royal highness will reside at Berlin and B►belsburg. Her Majesty Queen Victoria will arrive ►t Berlin in September to be present at the baptism cif the infant, and will reside at the new *ace at Potsdam. No mention is now made of a meeting with the Emperor Napo- leon at this period. His Excellency Baron Bentinck is still con6und to his roots in consequence of a severe attack of gout. The Duke and Duchess of Terranova took their departure from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermynetreet, last night, for Paris. The Earl and Countess of Fife entertained at dinner, last night, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Ease-Weimar, the Marchioness of Londonderry, the Marquis of Tullibtnline, the Earl and Countess of &afield, the FArl of Southeek, Lady Dufferin, Han. Alfred Stoartoa, Colonel Dalrymple, and Dr. Quin. The Countess Cowper'. ball, announced for the lath Wt., is unavoidably put oil. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney entertained at dinner, on Wednesday evening, at their residence in Cleve. land-square, his Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, the Earl of Sandwich, the Earl sod Countess of Winchilses and Lady Florence Paget, the Countess Cowper and Lady Florence Cowper, Viscount Hinohingbrooke, Viscount Raychem; Lord and Lady Churchill, Mrs. Henry Baring, Mr. Swinton, and Colonel Oliphant, in attendance on the Maharajah. Viscountess Sydney received after dinner. Viscount and Visoountem; Doneraile entertained at dinner, on Wednesday, the Earl and Countess of Dun raven and Lady Augusta Wyndham Quin, Lord and Lady Proby, Lord and Laiy Raglan, the Duke of Rutland, Via want Caraptlets, Viscount Canterbury, Mr. and Lady Caro line Tow Imlay and Miss Tow aeley, Hon. Mr.and Mrs. Spencer Ponamby, lady Honoria Cadogan, kr. Lady Molesworth entertained his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and • select sky', at dinner lad evening, •t her residence is Eston-plaos. lady Constance Grosvenor gave birth yesterday toe sea. Lord Bloomfield, the English Minister, left Ber lin ea Tuesday with Lady Bloomfield for England, where his exoelleoey will make a long stay. _ _ In the blouse of Commons, on Thursday next, Mr. Ayrton will propose :—"That this house, having re solved th►t it is inexpedient to continue the duty on paper as a permanent saute of revenue, having also passed a bill for the repeal thereof from tho 15th day of August next, and haring provided for the service of the year by granting other taxes, pledges itself to support her Majesty's Ministers in adopting whatever constitutional measures may be deemed useemery to obtain the remission of the duty on paper from sod after the 15th day of August next."_ _ _ Mr. Hennessy, on Monday, will move that the select committee on the Thames Embankment consist of seventeen members ; and that Lord Perim) , and Yr. Joseph Locke be added to the committee. The Messrs. Longman promise on the 13th the " Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robe: t Peel," by the great statesman's cousin, Sir Laurence Peel (formerly Chief Justice of Calcutta). _ _ Messrs. Macmillan, of Cambridge and London, we just publishing Five Discourses on the Revision of the Liturgy question, by Dr. Vaughan, late head master of Harrow School. On Sunday last the fine old mansion known an Brickworth House, the country seat of Mrs. Strangwaye, to the left of the mad leading from Salisbury to Southamp ton, was almost totally destroyed by Ste. The mansion was the property of Earl Nelson. A stained glue window has been rooently erected ia Harrow School Chapel, by the members of t h e house of the Bev. Dr. Vaughan, the late head master. The subject is the farewell of St. Paul to the Ephreians at Jfiletus. The Council of the Society of Arta announce that the sum of a quarter of a million, which was the minimum lied for ensuring the Exhibition of 1862, has been guaran teed. The amount already promised (including the sub scription of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort foe 10,0001.) is 282,0J0i., and is daily increasing. The one hundred and sixth anniversary dines el the Society of Arta will take place at St James's Hall, Piccadilly, on Friday, the 22nd. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., will preside. A meeting of musicians, amateurs, and others interested in music, will be held at the house of the Society of Arta, on Tuesday nest, to receive the report of the coat. mates appointed by the council of the amity. NAPLES. NAPLES, MAT 29. Great agitation prevails at' court and in the ministry. Afters Cabinet Council the ministers tendered their resignation. It is rumoured that a liberal ministry will be formed. NAPLES, MAT 30. The government is deliberating as to the advisa bility of sending orders to Palermo to stop the bombardment. (mom ova OWN NAPLES, MAT 26. (After poet tune.) The Intrepid has just oome in, and I send you the following gleanings from official despatches and letters bearing the date of " PALIMNO, MAT 23. " Garibaldi is reported to be at the back of the hills which surround the city, with a large number of insurgents, but no one dares go out. At night we find numerous fires lighting up the summits of the hills, and by day we can discover through the glasses the ridges covered with the insurgents, looking down on this devoted town. The im pression is that as soon as he has organised his forces, Garibaldi will pounce down on the town some dark night, and then the troops will rush to the shipping in the mole, and on board their nume rous little war steamers surrounding the town, pillaging and firing the city, if time permits." From another source, on which you may rely, I get the following information, that on the 22nd a sharp fight took place between the insurgents and the troops (13th Regiment), in which the latter were completely defeated, with the loss of two cannon. My informant had examined the fortifications, and considered them very weak. The city was so hemmed in that nothing could get in or out. The seat of the Provisional Government is at Corleone. In the defeat of which I have spoken above, the royal troops (Bavarians and Austrians) lost 60 men killed and 200 prisoners. The following letter is from a British subject on board the Hannibal : On board the Hannibal, May 25. ation with say part of the interior ; There im no things are just the rune at Messina. writes me by land that they can only communicate with Catania, which place also, as well as the rest of the island, was on the point of an outbreak. I have received no letter from Girgenti sinoe you left, and only yesterday got one from Messina by the Vulture. Thirty or forty of the foreigners had gone away. Here, up the Pareo, there bee been some bard fighting, the troops always getting the worst of it ; they lost also two large guns in the affray. Garibaldi was also over there, but not, I believe, with his own force, which is about Parte nico. This is all we know in Palermo. Fighting men we can see in the mountains, and their watch-fires come nearer and nearer every night. The new Austrian consul was in constant communication with the palace all poster. day ; but on his being recommended to embark, he did so with all his family. Depend upon it Francis IL ie in • poor way, and that Garibaldi will punish him well for his obstinacy in not listening to Lord d. Russell's good advice in time. Yesterday was the Queen's birthday, and a grand sight it was with so many vessels of war in the bay. In the evening the admiral gave • grand dinner to all the cap tains here, including one Neapolitan captain, who saluted him on his arrival. The Vulture brought in the foreign post yesterday, but no one could be found to receive it until late in the evening. The following despatch of Marshal Landi, who was in command of the Neapolitan troops at Calata- Fimi, was sent to the Commander-in-Chief, after the battle : (Most urgent.) &lata-Firni, Mayls. Exeellenry,—Help—prompt help! The armed bands which left Salami thin morning have covered all the hills to the south and south-west of Calata-Fimi One•half of my column advanced within range and attacked the rebels, who poured out in thousands from every point. The firing was well sustained, but masses of Sicilians united with the Italian bands are in immense numbers. We have killed the great commander of the Italian free bands and have taken their flag, which we have with us. Unfortunately a piece of artillery tell from the back of a mule which was shot, and remained in the hands of the rebels ; this pierces my soul with grief. My column was obliged under a re treating fire to fall back on Galata-Fimi, where I am on the defensive, as the rebels in great numbers make a show of attacking us. I therefore beg your excellency instantly to send off astrong reinforosmentof infantry and at least another . . . . half battery, u the massesare numerous Mid obstinately beat on fighting. I to be smeetted in the position which I occupy. I will defend myself as long as possible, but if most prompt assistance be nut sent I must confess I do not know where the affair will end. The ammunition of the artillery is almost finished; that of the infantry consider ably diminished. I have 62 wounded. I cannot at this moment give an exact number of dead, as I am writing 4 mmediately after the retreat. I outwit to your excel lency that if circenutances compel me I shall retreat on Alcamo. My column is Iwrounded by enemies, who have assaulted the mills and taken the flour prepared for the troops. The column fought, with brisk firing, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., when I made my retreat. The General in Command, Marshal LANDI. On the day after the battle, General Garibaldi —on the other hand—jutted the following procla mation : Soldiers of Italian liberty—With companions like you I can attempt anything, and a proof of it is that I have led you to an enterprise very arduous, both on account of the numbers and of the strong positions of your enemies. I counted on your fatal bayonets, and I have not been de ceived. Deploring the hard necessity of being compelled to fight against Italian soldiers, we must confess that we found a resistance worthy of men belonging to • better cause ; and this proves of how much we shall be capable on the day on which the Italian family should be serried together around the glorionsb•nner of re demption. To-morrow the Italian continent will rejoice for the victory of her free sons and our brave Sicilians. Your mothers and your lovers, proud of you, will go forth into the highways with lofty and radiant brows. The battle cost us the lives of dear brothers, who have fallen in the first ranks ; those martyrs of the Italian cause shall be re corded in the Patti of Italian glories. I will send forth to your country the names of the brave soldiers, young and inexperienced, who so valiantly con. ducted themselves in the fight, and who to-morrow will lead to victory, on • yet wider held of battle, soldiers who are to break the last links of the chains with which our dearest Italy is bound. Gassers GARIBALDI. Cidata-Fimi, May 16. FRANCE. THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND ITS CRITICS. The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The Go vernment believes it its duty to protest against the malevolent suppositions and accusations, and the thoughtless interpretations which have been pro duced by the annexation of Savoy and Nice." The Monitcur recalls the circumstances which brought about the cession of two provinces sepa rated from Piedmont by the highest mountains in Europe, and says :—" The French government, far from having a design to provoke or to give rise to complications in Europe, in order to find an occasion for further aggrandisement, is animated by thoughts of quite au opposite character. The government deplores the mauceuvres destined to propagate daily impressions the least exact as regards its real intentions. The Emperor has made every effort to re-establish in Europe the confidence which has been shaken. His sole desire is to live in peace with other sovereigns, his allies, and to use all his endeavours to actively develope the re. sources of France." PARIS, JUNE 1. The Emperor and Empress left to-day for Lyons, at 10 a.m. The Dowager Empress of Russia is expected at Lyons, at 6 p.m. The Grand Duchess Helena arrived yesterday at Lyons. AUSTRIAN PREPARATIONS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office : VIENNA, JUNE 1. The statement in some journals that the seat of the command in chief of the army in Italy will be transferred from Verona to Laibech is erroneous. The commander-in-chief will remain in Verona, only the administrative and judicial offices of the army will be transferred to Laibach to ensure a more free and speedy movement of the army in Venetia, which has been re-organised not only front economical motives but also to be prepared for all emergencies. For this double purpose the military forces, considerably reduced, a 11l be concentrated in the fortresses of the quadrilateral. The cavalry will be assembled in the plain of Por denona, and the artillery in Verona. The latter will be provided with rifled cannon. Thus Austria, with a corps d'armie of 70,000 mon, will await the development of events in Italy. HESSE CASSEL. CASSEL, MAY Si. The official Low Gazette publishes a constitution granted to the country by the Elector. This con stitution is dated May 30, and is based upon the resolutions of tho Federal Diet of the 24th March, and of the Diet of Electoral Hesse of 1857. THE PENINSULAR MAIM SOUTHAXIVON, JuU 1. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam. ship Sultan, Captain Cook, with the above mails, has arrived. She kit Lisboa on the 27th rltimo. She brings St passengers, 4,0021. in specie, and a cargo of general merchandise. On the 29th ultimo she spoke the Dutch ship Rhone, from Palermo to Rotterdam, and on the 30th the British brig Catherine and Alice, in lat. 4515 long. 7'43. _ Lisbon exehanr on London, 3 months, Ira 3 quoted 531; on Amsterdam, 421; on Homburg, X 471; on Genoa, 530; on Paris, 5.M. Three per Cent. Itentes, 451, 45i. Coupons, 40, 441. Deferred, 33 to 33i. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The United States mail steamer Illinois (of the Vanderbilt line), Captain &shiny, arrived off the Needles at 9.40 a.m. with mails for France and England. She left New York on the 19th ult. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of Waslungton, Captain Petrie!, from New York on the 9th ult., and the Montreal Oce►a Company's steamer Bohemia, Captain MacMaater, from . Quebec on the 19th ult., have arrived here. Their news hat been anticipated by telegraph, rid Queenstown. The amount of diacrepanciea in the dock of the Pacific Mail Company had not been ascertained. It was believed not to be serious. Thu secretary had absented himself. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom oua OWN coaarAroxozn.) PARIS. THCILIDAY EVINIXO. Prince Jerome was atill alive at three o'clock this afternoon, but his state is most alarming, and the Emperor and Empress have gone to Villegenis to see him. It is said in Battier's Correspondence that the "state of the prince will not prevent the Emperor's journey to Lyons, but that, in case of his death, the departure of the court for Fontaine bleau will be postponed or perhaps countermanded." I can hardly think, however, whatever may be the political importance of the meeting between the Empress Dowager of Russia and the Emperor, that his Majesty would go to Lyons to-morrow morning if his uncle were to die in the course of the night. The Courrier de Paris was, I am afraid, mis informed when it lately announced that the French army was really coming away from Rome. The Nord indeed says only yesterday that the evacua tion is decided upon, but that it will not take place till August, but I look upon that statement as merely a holding up of the old Jack u' Lantern which people have ceased to believe in. The CM. 'Witticism! of this morning says, in a tone of triumph marked by a note of admiration, " The French army remains in Rome !" And a corre spondence from Rome transcribes the following letter from the Minister of War to General de Goyon, in which the reasons for their remaining in possession are given with a judicious brevity which affords no hold for discussion : . . (knout —Political circumstances hare modified the in- tentions of his ]Majesty. Already. no doubt, you hare learned so from the Ambassador of France at Home. The E i&-