The Express. — London, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

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Poorts who like to call a spade a spade ought to approve the style at least of the letter of Mr. COBDEN, an extract from which we published yesterday. The writer does not mince his words, but whether he describes • sneaking delator in Paris or a perverse mischief-maker in London he shows him his true picture. Mr. COBDEN has evidently written under a strong sense of the in justice that has been done him. Whether he is a party to the publication of his letter is a matter on which our contemporary, the Post, in whose columns we have found it, is not explicit. As to the terms in which he castigates thaw who publish in news papers the unguarded remarks which are allowed to fall in private conversation, nobody in this country will think them a bit too strong. The practice complained of is not an English one, and we earnestly hope that Mr. Coitiaree just denun ciation will operate to check those tenden cies towards its imitation by our newspapers which have within these few years become too apparent. The wider reflections in which he has indulged could not, we think, have been intended for the eyes of his countrymen. We do not think, for instance, it should be said that there is a vast deal of systematic lying in England about the French armaments. That there has been considerable delusion is certain, as the poor men who went from our yards to Cherbourg to build imaginary war ship, found to their cost Excited apprehensions have grown almost to monomania, and no alarmist report has been too absurd to find eager believers. But with us every statement is published, subject to instant and public correction, and there is no country in the world where attempted systematic deception has so little chance of success. The fact is, not that error has not been openly encountered with truth, but that the public mind is from time to time brought into conditions in which it cannot sad- milate truth of a particular kind. The feeling pro duced here by the policy of France in Savoy was not unreasonable or unjust, and it prepared men's minds on this aide to believe in other aggressions. In this suspicious mood every new story about French armaments was believed, and the statis tical fact, could not obtain due consideration. Mr. Coterie, of course, is quite safe in predicting a great and sudden reaction in the public mind. As long as men listen to the inexorable logicians on either aids, as long as it is held that we must either trust for peace entirely to our mutual interest in the exchange of commodities, or else &IMMO an attitude of distrust which excludes all international concert, whether in making commercial treaties or in upholding the interests of peace and justice abroad, so long we shall live in a period of reactions. But we never follow this pretended logic in the affairs of common life ; we rather take a wide survey of all the facts, ask on the one hand what is unavoidable and must be borne, and on the other what is possible, and having ascertained these points we strive after the utmost attainable good. If we were to do so now with respect to our present relations with France we should act more wisely than if we took the advice either of Mr. CODDIN or of Mr. Hownse. It is satisfactory to pans from these considera tions to Mr. COIDZN't account of the progress of the convention which is to complete the Treaty. Here the honourable gentleman speaks with autho rity. He says that up to the present moment he has experienced nothing but candour and straightforwardness in his dealings with the French Government, and that he has no reason to duubt that matters will be brought to &satisfactory result. Mr. Cosner has the misfortune to differ from the majority of his countrymen on some im portant matters of high policy, but we have never seen it alleged that he is deficient in plain common sense. He cannot but know whether he has beea met honestly or with chicane. The declaration be now makes never ought, for our honour, to have been necessary. For nine-tenths of our country men we believe it is totally uncalled for. The allegations to the contrary, reiterated although they have been with superabundant embellishment, have been so evidently the weapons of personal and party strife that they have had little effect upon the re flecting public. Nothing in the recent history of political controversy Is comparable to the disin• tenuousness with which the French Treaty has been discumed by some whore supvrior intelligence and vast influence should have been pledges of a more scrupulous course. Ilr.t the time is past when the public could be deceived in a matter respecting which it is worth while to ascertain the truth. The attempts to bully the public out of the just satisfaction with which it at first received the Treaty have failed before the calm and patient good sense of the nation. The errors and imper fections which disfigured the negotiation of the Treaty, the political differences which arose so soon after its announcement, and the delays which still attend the adjustment el its ooh cated details, have rapidly divested it ol the Wait' enthusiasm which greets every 0011 cause amend' sooner to betray it ; but wherever the pacific and humanising influence of commerce, silently worlds(' in thousands of hearts, is appreciated, wherever the material interests of this country are under stood, there the merits of the statesmen who de vised and executed this Treaty meet with honest, sincere, and increming recognition. MR. BRIGHT ON EXCESSIVE TAXATION. A vote of thanks havin' g been passed to Mr. Bright at the recent ass al the Northern Reform Union, for his peach Apia* the ereetion of additional fortifications, the following bike hie bees received by the secretary of that b.aly "Rochdale, August IG, 1800. " Dear air,—Tbe resolution you have seat me has given me much piessere. lam only Navy that my efforts have been so freithen la the Home of Commons. In many seasices pest, indeed eines the beginning of the Russian war, economy has tees despiesd„ sad every man who has attempted to present a wads of the public resource* has been eon donned es unpatriotic and anti-natives'. The people have bees hoodwsipsd and Wooled almost beyond all former example, awl the ' services ' which should be their ser cants sad paresis have become their masters and spoilers. I know not when we shall see a change, but our late sad premed mane enact be continued without danger and diester. Peed* _we may see disappointments sad rOVIIRIII• in wads width mey chive us to take notice of the soanacm eau width is easeelly and media= from the proceeds of the nation's industry. with its popelW. m of thirty millions, will rake seventy two in government tame this year. United Sisk; with an estiznated population of filWeWo region ,will seise about twelve millions In Fedora sad elate Government taxes this year. How long will &claw' maintain her position in the race with this burden, sad what institution is there in the English system that is worth a tribute of sixty millions staling • year? The time mar come when the people will discover that awaarelise and aristocracies may be purchased at too dear • rate, led= monarchic* and aristocracies become mare wise. you will oblige me by conveying my thanks to the members of the Northern Reform Union for their resolution, a copy of which you have forwarded to me-1 ant very truly yours, JOAN BRIGHT. Hr. R. R. Reed, 50, Grainger-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. You:a - rms.—The undersigned, being a com mittee of officers commanding volunteer rise corps in the metropolitan district, having observed that numerous schemes have been published purporting to be volunteer friendly societies, &c., decline to promise their support to any society for the present. A general scheme for Great Britain, with the patronage of the Secretary of State for War, is under consideration, which the public and the volunteers will be invited to join:—Lieut.-Colonel Earl Grosvenor, Lieut.-Colonel the Marquis of Donegal, Lieut.- Colonel Hicks, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. Lindsay, Colonel Tbovold, Major Beresford, Captain the Hon. T. Bruce Captain Templar, Captain Glover, Captai n Sp o tti swoo d e , Captain Martineau. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, with the Princes Nicholas and Eugene Romanoffski, attended by Count Stroganoff and a large suite, have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Torquay. Their Excellencies Baron and Baroness de Brunnow were present to meet them at the Great Western terminus, and accompa pied them to the hotel. The Prince Boris Gallitzin, Print* John Galitzin t Pence Diva Gallitzin, and (bunt Levachoff have arrived at Loeirs Hotel from the lale of Wight. _. _ . The Prince and PrincensHohenlohe Schilling furst and A Ince William Rohealohe have arrived at Long's Hotel from the Isle of Wight. His Excellency the French Ambassador and the Countess de Persigny have arrived at Albert-gate House from a tour of visite in Cornwall and Devonshire. The Duke of Devonehire and Lady Louiaa Cavendish have arrived at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, where his grace is entertaining a select party for grouse shooting. The Duchess of Sutherland has arrived in Paris. The duchess does not intend to make a protracted stay in the French capital, as her grace is expected to Join the duke and family at Dunrobin Castle, Satherlandshire, early in the ensuing month. The Marquis of Bath, who on leaving town went to Longlest, his lordship's seat in Wilts, has since left for his shouting gasifiers in the Highlands. —.— . _ _ - The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are about to receive a swxessioa of visitors at Winton Cantle, Ayrshire. The Earl and Countess of Limerick and Viscount Clentworth have arrived at their seat in Ireland for the autumn. Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Radcliffe and the Hon. Misses Canning have left Grosvenoraquare, for Pencarron, on a visit to Lady Nolesworth. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert left London yes terday morning for Balmoral, to attend her Majesty. Lord Llanover baa left London for Naples and Sicily. Lady Llanorer prooeeda to Bonn on a Mat to LK Meter, the Baronage de Bunsen. The recordernhip of Southampton, rendered recant by the resignation of Mr. Edward Smirks, has been conferred on Mr. William Major Cooke, of the Western Circo;t, present recorder of Poole. An interesting experiment was recently made to obtain a direct telegraphic communication between Balmoral and Berlin, a distance of nearly 1,300 miles, A short con venation took place, the telegraph clerk at Balmoral in forming the Berlin clerk that the Balmoral time was 2 p.m., the clerk in the•Pru:sian capital replying that it had just struck 3, and that the signals were as distinct as if tie distance had been only a few miles. The Royal Library of Berlin has just purchased the whole of the music left by Mr. Fischoff, late pretence at the Conservatoire at Vienna. This collection is composed ef 3,718 pitons, by the best ancient and modern composers. The merchants at Frankfort are at present sign ing a declaration by which they denounce public gaming houses, and bind themselves to therein any of their clerks who may play therein ; also not to employ anyone who may have been discharged for that offence. The ranee why they have adopted till measure is that a railway is about to be opened which will place Homburg within twenty minutes of Franldort. A Paris paper gives some details concerning Prince Nieholu Petrovitch, the new Viselike of Monte negro. This young man was a student at the School of Louis le Grand, in Paris, from the Ist of August, 1866, to the :not of March, IMO, where it is said that be was made esteemed and liked both by his masters and Ida fellow pupils. He is described es a tall, bandaome youth, of re markable physical strength, with black hair and masculine sad regular feature*, and hie character is said to be distin guished by its frankness, nobility, and generosity. Before coming to France, he bad passed several years at Trieste and Venice, and he is well acquainted with the Garman, Italie*, and French languages. A RKIVAL or J. 0. LEVEN, ESQ., M. P. ' AND J. A. EeQ., M.P., lie GAtwAf.—On Friday morning! placards were posted through the town, ann that the above-named gentlemen would arrive in Galway y the four o'clock train, and accordingly at that hour a lame umber of pergolas assembled at the terminus. The ships ta the rondo were decked with flags, and banners were placed acmes the streets in some places. On the snivel of the train Hera. Lever and Roebuck, accompanied by some ladies, tame their meets with the Rev. P. Daly, on • carriage, and with a hied playing in front, the crowd moved slowly through the town. On their arrival at the residence of the Rev. Hr. Daly, the latter gentleman st oo d upon th e top of the =rise and addressed the crowd. He said that in conferriog such an honour upon the two lion, gentlemen b e felt that they were honouring him (Mr. Daly). thin of the gentlemen before them was their member and fouuder of their boats, the other was the man who secured the means of the future prosperity of Galway, that WAS Mr. Roebuck. (Loud cheers.) That was the man who, without fear, called upon those who, underhand, calumniated Mr. Lever • that lharded them to their faces and dared them to com e f orward cud sav if his character was tarnished in the least. (Cheers.) It was an honour to • prince to have such a man so Mr. Rocl,uck in his house for one moment. if there were rogue couneeted with the packet station he was not one of them. (Cheers.) He was happy to see them giving his friends such a reception, though they (the cresol) were called in • paper " gallery boys." He was stare they remembered how they were characterised the other day, but be hoped they would soon have an opportunity in peace to laugh et the calumiiiiitor, when the prosperity of Galway placed them in a piwitiou to laugh at him. (Cheers.) His frieeds were fatigued, hut he hoped they would soon have so oppor tunity of (oaring their voistt and the eloquence of one who.e thunders wets .4) tropically heard ill the senate of Great Britain. (Loud cheers.) The rev. gentlenian then retired into his house, accompanied by Mews. Lever and Roebuck, and the crowd &penal. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY E ,; LIT INTELLIGENCE. WILY. There appears to be great probability that Gari baldi has left Sicily, not for the. mainland of Naples, but for the waters of Sardinia. He an nounced his departure in the following address to the National Guard of Mamba, delivered from the, balcony of his house : I am summoned elsewhere by my duty, and must quit you, 0 Sicilians ! It is now time for Sicily to think seriously and vigorously of her own defence. Yes, you must hence forth defend yourselves alone against whoever may attack you! I have done for you all that was possible for me to do. At present Italy requires that I should go elsewhere. Diplomacy has not been able to check me, and I will pool. tartly not come to a compromise with it. It was in the Washington that Garibaldi left, having 1,000 men with him. NAPLES (vu OzzoA), AUGUIST 19. It is said that at Foggia two oompanies of dragoons and several artillerymen have joined the insurgents. GENOA, Axiom 20. Official &dykes received from Naples assert that the Neapolitan troops on the Calabrian cossta fired on the evening of the 14th Mat,. upon a brig coming from Malta loaded with arms and ammunition. The vessel stranded and was taken by the Neapolitans. THE POPE'S CLEMENCY. The Opinion Nationale says : WO TOCEIiTO from Rome numerous letters which all soros in contradicting the news circulated by several laureate that all the political prisoners belonging to the Itomagnas hams hew released. The fact is that they all, without • 'bee eseeptke, remain in irons. Some few prisoners (the Opinion gives their names) were set at liberty on June 24, but none of them were from the Romagnaa. Of these very few, almost all, had but a few weeks or days to remain in prison before the term of their sentences would expire, and the majority return to their families afflicted with incurable diseases contracted daring their confinement. " What metiers!" said the priest, "we have done our best to save their souls!" A favourite device of the Roman government when it wishes to gain credit for el*. meney is to remit an illusory portion of a heavy 'entities, particularly in cases where the recipient of the favour has already suffered so much that he is not likely to live to enjoy it. For example, four years have been struck off the sentence of hard labour to which young Messopreti, of Tocli, was condemned. But be is now nothing but a living skeleton stretched upon a bed of suffering. He was once a rich merchant. Since his imprisonment he has learned the death of his father (who died of grief), of his two sons, and the utter ruin of his house. His young and beauti ful wife has been obliged to go out to service to provide for the sustenance of his only remaining child. In most countries, when a criminal is thought to deserve more than twenty years' imprisonment he is sentenced for life, or sometimes, which is more humane, to death. But here 40 years of the galleys is quite a common thing. But this is not all ; political vengeance inflicta a sentence of 15 or 20 years in irons even after death. In these cases the skeleton of the prisoner, when he dies, is kept unburied and in irons. When the Pope thinks it desirable to show mercy, the number of years of imprisonment remitted is deducted in the first instance from those to be suffered after death, so that many whose names are paraded es instances of his Holiness's clemency have no hope but to die in the galleys, and have no other ground for rejoicing than this—that the fetters will be removed from their bones while their rottenness is in • somewhat lees advanoed state than they were originally led to anticipate. There is no country in the world but Rome where these refinements of cruelty are indulged in. To conclude with an individual ease—Giovanni Lucentl, a Roman, now lies in prison, work ing out a sentence of 3ti years in irons. He was a pros perous tradesman and the father of a large family, whom he brought up in the enjoyment of ease and comfort. The Pope has just granted him • remission of 25 mouths oat of his 36 years ! What • mockery! Lecenti,' since he ham been in prison, has lost a leg and an eye, has become deaf in one ear, has a tumour in his liver, a chronic disease of the cheat, and • equarrose affection of the epigastrium. Is not this killing by slow torture? SARDINIA. TURIN, Arouerr 20. Signor Canofari has left for Paris. Baron Winapeare has been appointed Neapolitan minister at Turin. The official Gazette of Turin publishes a circular addressed by the Minister of the Interior to the governors and intendants-general in reference to the formation of volunteer corps to join the na tional guard. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. BERLIN, TUMMY. The official Prussian Gazette designates the state ments of the Nord, in reference to the points de termined upon in the interview at Toeplitz. as pure inventions. HUNGARY. VIENNA, Accurr Despatches from Pesth state that, it being ne cessary to re-cast the monument of the Palatine, the inauguration has been adjourned. The national fete to-day was confined to a reli gious procession. General Benedek entrusted the maintenance of order to the municipality, who guaranteed perfect tranquillity. PESTII, Arover 20. The religious procession has taken place in per fect order. The Primate was cheered enthusiasti cally. No member of the police force was risible. INDIA. BOMBAY, JrLT Zl The Chamber of Commerce has passed resolutions against Mr. Wilson's currency scheme. A telegram from Calcutta in the Bombay Times states that the income tax bill has passed. The first payment will be due on the let November. The tax is retrospective. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : THE BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLES, Arovarr 20. The Alhambra, with the above mail, arrived at 1 p.m. The mail left for London at 5 p.m. The Delta, with the heavy portion of the above mail, left Malta at 4 p.m. es the sth, and may therefore be expected at Southampton about the 24th inst. The China arrived at Suez from Bombay on the 10th of August. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Ripon, from Southampton on the 4th, reached Malta cm the 14th mat. at 9 a.m., and left for Alexandria at 4 p.m. The Veit* from Marseilles on the 12th, arrived at Malta on the 14th inst. at 7 p.m., and left for Alexandria at 11 p.m. THE 'UNITED STATES AND CANADA. LONDONDERRY, TCWIDAT. _ _ The Montreal Ocean Company's mail steamship Bohemian, Captain Grange, from Quebec on the 11th int., has mired. The Prince of Wales left Fredericketown on the 7th inst. His royal highness was expected et Gaspe on the 12th, and at Quebec on the 17th inst. The Duke of Newcastle had been unwell but had re covered. A serious insurrection of the negroes wu reported in the guano islend of Lombrero, endowed excitement among the merchants interested in the guano trade. 0, AUGUST ; L INTELLIGENCX. NEW YO RK,Olatirr 10. Stocks agave ; exalting* unaltend. wluat dull and heavy. Goes firmer and in good denwall. pork, and beef dull and unchanged. Lard heave. MONTREAL,. Awning! 11. The weather since the beginning of the week has be* hotter. The har►est accounts are favourable. Flour du% but firm ; sales 8,000, at 5 dol. 45c. to 5 dol. 60c. Wheat, a* sales. Peas in good demand. Ashes have declined ; pots and pearls 5 dol. 70c. to 5 dol. 75c. [LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.) NEW YORK, Amway 11, EVINTKO. The Adriatic from Southampton has arrived out. Stocks have slightly declined. Produce markets are generally 011- changed. _ _ NEW ORLEANS, Amer 10. Cotton quiet. MiddliDg is quoted 10a to'loia. saes of the week, 2,500 bales. Receipts of the week, 1,60 D balsa QUEDISTOWN, MONDAY. The Royal Mail steal; ship Canada, Captain Lang, which left Boston on the Bth, and Halifax on the 12th inst., has arrived here. She brings 71 paesengers, 100,000 dole. in specie for Eng land, and 9,100 do's. for Havre. She landed all the mails, except those for Liverpool, and six punnets. The Europe and the Canadian, both from Liverpool, bad arrived out. The news by the Canada is unimportant. NNW YORK, AUGUST 7, EVEONG.—The money market is active. Exchange, 10918. The stock market has improved. New York Centrals are quoted 851 ; Erie, 25 ; Ralson River, 58 ; Illinois scrip, 798 80. Nrw Ont.r.sna, AUGUST 6.—Cotton and freights are en. altered. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Amon 21. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, Captain Cook, with the above malls, arrived off Hurst Castle at 10.30 a.m. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova owa PARIS, MOSDAT E1 112f150. Garibaldi appears to have cut the telegraph in the Neapolitan States moat effectually, for, though events of as great importance as ever occurred in the history of the world are very probably taking place at this moment, the news of this evening is a blank. The only dish that the Pays is able to serve up to its hungry expectants of " latest In telligence " is that although the Neapolitan army exhibits the utmost devotion to the royal cause the superior officers have told the King, with much urgency, that they hope he will remain among them, and not run away to Gaeta as the Camarillo wishes him to do. A programme, said to be quite correct, according to the very last settlement of the Emperor's tour, says that the duration of it will be exactly thirty three days. Their Majesties will leave St. Cloud at 9 a.m. on August 23, and will return on Sep tember 24 at 10.35 p.m. The principal stages of their journey will be Lyons, Chambery, Annecy, Grenoble, Marseilles, Nice, and Algiers. The visit to Corsica will be but a flying one. The Emperor will not stay a night on the island, but after passing a few hours at Ajaccio on September 14, will return to his yacht. The Opinion Nationale affirms in the moat posi tive manner, that the hostile expressions towards the French Emperor, attributed .to Garibaldi by the Times' correspondent in Messina, and which have been reprinted here in gigantic type by the legitimist journals, are pure inventions. The Bourse was most inanimate. The Rente, after trifling fluctuations, closed with a fall of Sc., at GBfr. and Var. 90c. Mobilier left off without change. The Eastern Railway fell sfr., and Orleans and Northern lfr. 25c. each, but in the other lines there was no variation. The principal piece of news on 'Change to-day was the sudden death from apoplexy of M. Jutesu, a retired broker, who has played a great part on the Bourse for the last thirty years, and was surnamed "the King of Speculators." ITALY. SARDINIA. (not ous wine TURIN, Aumerr 17: For the last week there has been nothing else talked about but the landings in the Calabria& ; the telegraphs and journals will have it also that Garibaldi himself has landed. lamin a position to give you information of a more accurate nature. A few hundred Garibaldians have, it 'is true, landed in Calabria at several points, and many Calabrians have also landed, who had previously gone over to Sicily to procure arms and learn how to organise themselves. Many points of the coast are being threatened, and the Bourbon's means of defence are being studied, but a great part of Garibaldi's ships are collected in the waters of Cagliari, the smaller vessels, which are numerous, being near Messina. In the meantime, Garibaldi came yesterday rite unexpectedly to the Island of Madalena,• where he took in 150 tons of coals for the use of his steamers. With less certainty I inform you, that be may perhaps have been at Genoa last night, or he may arrive there this morn ing ; and, in short, it is possible he may have ar rived here at Turin to confer with au exalted per sonage. But I shall not be able to state anything positive on this head before to-morrow. • In V.A.I.a is about to mile• won of the north rood of Studlaist. NAPLES. (not( OUR OWN NAPLES, Aupoirr 14. There is much talk and greiitsiitatiOniei,„zid were I to believe all the reports afloat, the pillage and the murder of half the population would be an inevita ble fact at least once a day. Despatches, too, from the scene of conflict are invented every half hour, and ministerial intentions and decisions set afloat in a manner to astonish even one who knows the Neapolitans. One party reported Garibaldi a pri soner last Friday, and the ..posite party landed him in four places with 7,111 men on Saturday. The National Guard, too, it was said, was to be broken up, instead of which it was decided in council that the whole body should be immediately armed ; and, moreover, 400 muskets were distri buted (by the Comitato, however, and secretly) in each of the 12 quarters of the city. Altogether, I calculate that about 15,000 civilians must be under arms in Naples alone. From real or groundless causes of apprehension, the capital is, I must confess, in a moat sad state ; every person is arming himself, and pistols and sword-sticks are as common as "grani" I have stood and listened to commissions which have been given in places of public resort for the pur chase and importation of revolvers. Liberals and reactionists are both doing the same thing. Both, too, are distributing money far and wide. The C./mita/0 allows many of its agents amongst the working classes 4 carlini a day, engages men for military service, and despatches them, when a certain number have entered their names, to Sicily. A considerable number left by the Rotterdam last Saturday for Palermo. The real state of the country, therefore, is suppressed civil war. and it is no wonder that the eye is met in every direction by indications of fear. The French Steam Com pany have telegraphed to Marseilles for another steamer, as 2110 persons more than they could accommodate have applied for berths. Some of those who remain are hiring vessels by the month, and others flying to the country. Yesterday for in stance, and the same kind of thin; is taking place to-day, there was a perfect exodus. All the market '`.__. boats, steamers, and railway carriages, were crammed with fugitives from what is regarded as the devoted city. Mattresses and every species of furniture met the eye at every turn of the street. One third of the shops are shut up, either because there is nothing doing, or that the proprietors are afraid to open them. The notices too of " Domi cilio Inglese," or " Francese," or " Estero" are multiplying from day to day, and judging from the fears expressed and the preparations made the population might be holding their lives in their hands. There was a report for several days that on the 13th we were all to be massacred, and 1 believe that the apprehension of it sent many away. I had forgotten the warning myself, and was taking my usual evening lounge through the Toledo, looking into the Caffd Europa, that great preserve for canards, when I met the largest military patrol I have seen for many months. Going on a little farther I met as large a patrol of National Guards. The population were looking on with mute astonishment, and every one was shut ting up his shop, but nothing came of the alarm—if anything was intended it was a coup manqut, and now I suppose, according to custom, another day will be appointed for the demonstration. I used to laugh at reports, and I am very sceptical of them now, but I must say that there is greater danger of a dis turbance now that some thousands of civilians are under arms. I observed one thing, and that was, that the two corps did not pass each other, but tamed sharp round on approaching. The Royalists by no means regard their cause as hopeless, and talk of the resolution of their men to wipe out the disgrace which they incurred in Sicily. I understand that a strict scrutiny has been going on into the several branches of the service, to ascer tain their fidelity. As may readily be understood the artillery and engineers cannot be depended upon. Altogether it is calculated that with 20,000 native troops in Naples and the environs, and four or five thousand Bavarians, they can bring an imposing force into the field, which is to be commanded by General Pianelli, at present Minister of War. Such calculations look very well on paper, but unfortunately for their correct ness, desertion has been going on apace, and senti nels are known to have left their posts. They are tampered with during the day by the agents of the Consitato and, time and place being appointed, they desert, and are kept concealed until an oppor tunity occurs for sending them off. Ido not speak of one or two cases, but of many. The defection's are on a large scale. Filangien left Naples last Saturday, not too late for his personal safety, but a vast deal too late fur his reputation. Alexandre Dumas arrived yesterday morning by the French steamer from Marseilles, and is mak ing his observations. He had on board 1,500 stand of arms and some pistols, destined for Sicily, to which island he is bound himself. From the provinces, and especially those of Cala bria, reports of disturbances are continually arriv ing, but, according to the latest government despatch, " Reggio and the whole province was tranquil ; the Urban Guard was being disarmed, and their arms were reported useless ; the National Guard were deficient in arms • people disposed to give e ff ect to the constitutional Institutions.' Such is the letter of the government despatch. ' On going through the city this morning I find that there was much more agitation than I was aware of. Sentinels stand at the corner of every street, heavy patrols of soldiers and of the National Guard are moving in all directions, bodies of men are bivouacked in the squares, and artillery is in the street'. After midnight we were startled by the sound of cannon in the direction of Castellamare • several rounds were fired, and I wait for detai ls. As for the streets, they present the same appearance as they do on the 4th of May ; every one is flying, and one sees no thing but furniture. The Castellamare affair proves to have been an unexpected and dashing attack of the Veloce, one of Garibaldi's vessels, on the Monarca. The Veloce entered the port unob served at midnight, and sent two boats, one astern and the other to the bows of the Monarca. They succeeded in cutting the hawser, but were baffled by the chain cable, and one of the men was heard to say, " Impossible." The sentinel fired a shot as an alarm, and from both aides shots were fired, the Garibaldini shouting, " Viva ! Viva Gari baldi'" others responding with " Viva il Re !" The fort opened fire, but with what result is not known yet. Captain Acton, of the Monarca, is said to be mortally wounded, and also two of the sailors, and two others wounded. The Veloce afterwards sheltered herself behind the British and French ships of war, and then made off. Before the day is over I think the city will be placed in a state of siege—that is to say, under custody of the National Guard, and that the mili tary, with the exception of a small body, will be sent out of the city. There is a strong suspicion of a reactionary plot which is said to have been discovered, compromising Prince Luigi. Certain is it that the princess and her family, the Brazilian minister, and his wife, went on board the Brazilian war steamer during the night, and the prince is on board his ow% yacht, with instructions which he is to open ten miles out at sea. Besides the guns which I in formed you were on board the Pausilippo that brought Dumas yesterday, there were cases of re volvers directed to a French gentleman for Prince Luigi. The government was advised of the fact by telegraph, and prohibited the landing of them. Amex Pogr.—Hia Royal Highness the Count of Aquila has been sent away, his residence hore being considered incompatible with public order. He is suspected of having been the chief of the reactionist party. Naples presented a moat sad aspect, all the shops being shut as on a Sunday, and people pour ing out of town. The state of siege I have just ttlagraphod. SICILY. (nom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) HAPLZS, Analyst 14. The Messina boat came in this morning, and from an official letter I cite the following :—" We have had notice of the first disembarkation in Ca labria, but nothing positive as to the prog of operations, which have met with unexpected obsta cles. Every night we hear the thunder of cannon, at the entrance of the canal on the side of Calabria, and it appears that the Neapolitan marine seriously oppose the passage. The forces in Sicily increase ' daily. The communication with Calabria is free ; but it is very difficult to have precise information as to the sentiments of the population. Order is re-established in Bronte with great rigour. Some symptoms of a Massinian intrigue have been dis covered, but without results. The public spirit is persuaded that republicanism cannot suoceed. The position is the same as regards the citadel, which is inoffensive. No iatelligence from Augusta or Syracuse." This letter is dated the 13th inst. The following is a more important letter than the one I have already quoted : "Messina, 3. . Aug.• "The great secrecy which Garibaldi observes even towards his own staff induces many to form sup positions and communicate them as facts. I have been informed this morning by leading officers that no one knows exactly the number of troops that arrive and leave, or even their destination. beveral attempts, merely as feints, have been made on the Calabrian coast ; and even empty boats have been launched. " The Veloce has not returned. Some say that Garibaldi was himself on board. The first expedition made by Garibaldi into Calabria was at Meho, some mike in the rear of Scylla, under Colowel Misaori. A despatch of his arrived yesterday at Garibaldi's camp saying that their position is excellent—that they have been joined by 1,000 Calabrians, and have plenty of provisions. Several large ships of Garibaldi have arrived at Palermo, and are ex pected here in a few days, when probably au expe dition will sail for the Gulf of Taranto, in the Adriatic. Troops arrived yesterday from Palermo. The whole force of Garibaldi in now about 25,000 mon, at or near Messina. At Drente the iuhabi- I tants revolted, and committed atrocious acts of robbery and murder. General Biala was sent there with a large force. He put the whole district in a state of siege ; ordered the surrender of firearms, cutlasses, and knives, in three hours ; threatened to shoot every one who refused, and laid a contribu. tion of ten ounces an hour on the district until order was restored. Messina is tranquil, but it is difficult to procure provisions, which are very dear. We have in port two large Sardinian frigates, the French frigate Descartes, and IA Mnette. This last sails for Naples as soon as Garibaldi has landed in Cala. bris. There is also an Eneish frigate hers. Gen. Garibaldi has left, no one knows for where. The other day a person was arrested at the Faro. He confessed that he was one of the number paid by Prince Luigi to assassinate Garibaldi. 9,000 francs in gold were found upon him, which he says the prince gave him on account. Two others were arrested a few days ago, and confessed their crime at the moment when their execution was to take place. They are said to have made important re. velations. The Bishop of Messina is still under arrest." MUSIC. MR. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS. The Promenade concern; at the Floral-hall, Covent-garden Theatre, under the direction of Mr. Alfred Mellon, promise to remunerate him amply for the energy and liberality with which his spirited enterprise is carried on. At this dead season they are a most welcome addi tion to the entertainments of the metropolis, and are well worthy of the considerable patronage bestowed upon them by the public. The orchestra consists of eighty per. formers carefully selected from the bands of the two great Italian Opera-houses and from Mr. Mellon's own Orchestral Association, and presents a body of instrumentalists not to be anywhere surpassed. The concerts are arranged much on the same plan as those by which poor Jullicn made himself famous. The programmes include either the whole or portions of symphonies of the great masters, favourite overtures, selections from operas arranged for the orchestra, together with vocal and instrumental pieces by eminent singers and solo performers. Prince George Galitrin, who was the Ent to introduce Russian music into this country at his own concerts during the past season, and who, among his other artistic attainments, is a skilful chef d'or , hutre, has added to the attraction of the concerts by conducting the performance of a number of pieces full of national character ; among which a spirited Russian Qua. drills arranged by himself, consisting of popular airs, and concluding with the great Russian Hymn, has made a re. markable impression. The Prince's engagement is about to terminate, and the forthcoming novelty will be a grand Sicilian Quadrille, composed by Mr. Mellon, and in which. by the introduction of military bands and other means, those brilliant and striking effects will be produced which gave such unbounded popularity to Jullien's warlike music of this description. The vocal portions of the programmes have been entrusted to Miss Parepa, Miss Augusta Thom son, and Mr. Wilbyc Cooper, whose excellent performances enhance the interest of the entertainments. DRAMA. ST. JAMES'S. Heralded by such puffs and trumpet-flourislaugs as our transatlantic brethren can alone produce, Mr. Barry Sullivan has returned from America, and appeared last night as Hamlet, at this theatre. Mr. Sullivan bus not altered one whitduring his absence. Hu reading of the part is careful, his elocution dignified, his walk and attitudes of the true old conventional stamp ; he strikes out no new lights, but is even, rational, and correct. The burlesque of Fortssio, aided by Mina St. Cassell singing, and Mr. Joseph Robins' burlesque bumour, makes an agreeable termination to the evening's entertaiment. THE PERFORMING HIPPOPOTAMUS. A wonder tells better now than it did in former days, and has much greater success. We ore essentially matter-of-feet and prosaic. The chemist's shop, with hie red and blue lights, his plaster-of-Paris horse, and him an. nounc.ement of patent medicines, looks meanly when con. treated with his Hudibrastic prototype, with the stuffed and pendant crocodile, the crucibles and retorts, the blow. pipes and the brazier; and the conical-capped broad. philacteried owner looms large in contrast to the smog even-hued Galen, with his framed credentials from the Hall es his grand recommendation to public patronage. Our wonders are of the smallest and coarsest. Matthew Hopkins has given war to his namesake Polly, and kettles are now " put on" the fire instead of witches ; while three. legged pigs, children with "Napoleon" plainly written in the whites of their eyes, and bell-ringing dwarfs in imposai. ble miniature houses of intense redness of brick and green. ness of street-door, constitute all we know of the marvel. lons and sublime. Still anything out of the ordinary run must be found attractive, else the proprietor of the Alham• bra, energetic though he be, would scarcely have expended the sum of three thousand pounds in the purchase of a per. forming hippopotamus, even though the vendor were so great a magnate as John Petherick, Esq., her Majesty's consul for the Soudan. Perhaps he thought the attraction lay in its being " the only specimen of the pachydermatous tribe that has been thoroughly domesticated;" perhaps he thought no one could resist the fact that "at the command of its Arab keeper, who accompanied it to this country, it goes through an interesting performance, exhibiting great docility." To which statements we humbly cry " Question?" Per. haps allowing a very seedy and dirty Egyptian fellah to put his unpleasantdooking head in your mouth, is to be "thoroughly domesticated ;" perhaps to walk very slowly and surprisedly round a circle is an "interesting perform. nice,' and not to revenge yourself on the keeper who bestrides your back mid whips you heartily is to " exhibit great docility." Certainly this is all that is done by the new-comer, a young and diminutive specimen of the hippo. potamus, who has much promised for him, but who does not perform at all. Those wishing to see a fine hippopo. tamus will see two at the Zoological Gardens ; those wish. tog to see a performing hippopotamus will not see one at the Alhambra. The circle is excellent, the performance of the Brothers Berri wonderful and dangerous to the highest degree, but the hippopotamus is a humbug, and should be stigmatised as such. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 20. PROMOTIONS AND Areorrantercra--Second Master L G. Whichelo, promoted to the rank of master, and appointed to the Black Eagle. Chief Engineer J. T. O'Bree, to the Tartar. First Class Assistant Engineer J. Rom, to the Curlew. Second Class Assistant Engineers W. H. Tweedy, to the Colossus ; and C. Freeborn, to the Espoir. Third Class Assistant Engineers J. Gordon, to the Curlew ; G. Paul, to the Tartar ; A. H. Renee, to the Espoir ; and J. W. Elliott, to the Asia, for temporary charge of the machinery of the Grinder. Acting Third Clem Assistant Engineers J. Robertson, to the Curlew ; T. Russell, to the Tartar ; E. Jackson, to the Es it ; A. GiUseder, to the Indus, as supernumerary ; and J. A. Cawley, to the Cumberland, for service in the Myrtle. CHATHAM, AuGuirr 20 el • TItOOPS FROM INDlA.—Thisafternoondetachments of troops from moat of the infantry regiments serving . in India arrived at St. Mary's Barracks from Calcutta, having disembarked at Gravesend from the steamer Sevilla.. The troops belong to the let battalion sth Fusiliers. Ist batta lion Bth (the King's), Ist battalion :Ikb, Ist battalion 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 35th, 38th, hit (Highland Light Infantry), 89th, 90th (Light Infantry), and 97th Regiments, the Rifle Brigade, and Royal Artillery, together with some troops who have been sent home from the Royal Bengal Artillery, and some other native corps, the whole in medical charge of Assistant-Surgeon T. J. Biddle, lit battalion Bth Foot. The troops sailed from Calcutta on the 19th of April last. After they hail been medially inspected nine men were ordered into hospital at Fort Pitt, and the re mainder sent to St. Mary's invalid depot, where they will be inspected by a Chelsea board. Intelligence was also re. ceived at toe garrison this morning of the arrival of upwards of 300 cavalry and infantry • troupe at Gravesend, in the Earl of Balcarras, Captain Kerns, from Bombay. The troops will be landed at °rammed to-morrow, and proceed at once to Fort Pitt. MILFORD HAVES, Ammer 20. The following are the names of the Channel fleet, now lying off the town of Milford :—Royal Albert,l2lmins, Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Fretinuitle, K.C.B. ; Edgar, 91, Rear-Admiral Erskine; Donegal, 101 ; Conqueror, 101; Orion, 91 ; Algiers, 91; Aboukir, 90 ; Trafalgar, 90 ; Oen• tuition, 80; Mara, 80; Mersey, frigate, 40 ; Diadem, frigate, 32. It has blown a perfect gale since their arrival, and little communication with the shore bee consequently taken place. The Lightning steam tender conveyed the Earl Caw.lei mid other members of a committee of entertainment on board reete e =to invite the officers to a will end supper en y next at the town-hall, Pembroke. I