The Express. — London, England, 1860-06-21 00:00:00

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WHEN 111111:011Ile is expressed that regiments of Militia should be disembodied, at • time when confessedly there are no more than thirty thou sand troops of the Line available for the defence of the United Kingdom, it is usually replied that a regiment of Militia costa more when embodied than one of regular infantry ; and that, as it is not likely to be more efficient in any respect, we may as well give the preference to the latter. We are not about to argue the invidious question thus raised, or to push our predilection in favour of a home force to the length of seeking to diminish the available strength of the Line. But we must unceasingly reiterate the desire which is felt by moat thinking and reflecting men, that, instead of being discarded or gradually disintegrated, the old constitutional force for the protection of the realm should be retained, reorganised, and rein vigorated. A National Militia permanently em bodied is no doubt subject to the objection that it is in point of fact nothing more than a number of supplementary battalions, officered by gentle. men who do not pay for their commissions, and exempted from service beyond the sea. But a Local Militia is a very different thing. It is free by the very constitution of its being from the imputation of being a rival or a substitute for the regular army ; and it has the enormous advantage of being capable of recruitment from a class of the community which at present contributes fewer than any other to the defence of the nation, but which would be found both able and willing to furnish forth the materiel of corps which would be found invaluable in time of need. Regiments of Na tional Militia are unavoidably recruited from the idlest and loosest portion of the labouring popu lation. In the first instance they are called out to drill for a fortnight twice in the year. No good workman will leave his employment for such a space of time ; and the man who does so seldom finds his way back to work when the fourteen days is expired. In a word, the existing regulations with respect to recruiting and training have the effect of winnowing the corn in order to secure the chaff. And if this be true previous to embodi ment, it is still more so in prospect or in presence thereof. Those whom it would be most desirable physically and morally to have permanently en rolled in the ranks of national defence will not be induced to subject themselves to being marched into • distant county, and there detained in billet or in barracks for six or twelve months as the case may be. A young man had better enlist in a marching regiment, and become an ordinary soldier. Very different would be the position in which a youth of intelligence and respectability would find himself were the ranks of a strictly Local Militia open to him. Without abandoning his calling, whatever it might be, he could, as the members of our Rifle Volunteer Corps do now, attend muster during part of one day every week or every fortnight, without feeling the obligation to do so • loss or a burden. The best limbs, the best nerves, and the best brains of the village or the parish would thus be enrolled, trained, and regimented, instead of the scum. It has been by institutions of this kind that Switzer land has for generations retained her military spirit and national freedom ; and it is by this means alone that the military defence of the country can be made permanently popular, inex pensive, and effectual. Curiously enough there exiats under our eyes the model of a system perfect in almost every respect, and applicable with little modification to every condition of society in the United Kingdom. In the island of Jersey there has existed time out of mind a local force con tributed by the population of every district, kept in constant organisation and discipline at little cost, and regarded by the people as a source of pride, not of privation. No man is taken from his trade or avocation for more than half a day at a time, except on occasions when the attack of a foreign foe, or the disturbance of do mestic tranquillity, is considered imminent. Ordi narily speaking the members of each company are never required to walk more than two or three miles to their place of drill ; but at stated periods they are of course brought together in larger bodies, and trained to act in concert. The old law, which required every section of the community to contribute its quota of men and money for pur poses of defence and the preservation of the public peace, renders every man liable, between the ages of seventeen and sixty, to be called on to render -this service, and the selection is made in each hamlet or township by lot. Obviously this is very unlike the conscription in France, or the Militia ballot as we used to have it long ago in England. The family is not in this case deprived for an indefinite period, perhaps for life, of its hope, its solace, and its stay. Instead of being filled with grief and repining on amount of the bereavement of its firstborn, every member of the household looks with pride on the youth as he puts off his working blower and dons for the after noon drill the citizen soldier's belt and cap. A sense of self-dependent security and martial habi tude is diffused throughout the community; and THE the health and vigour of the future heads of fatal-' lies are promoted by the use of discipline, which in culcated in this way comas more in the form of manly relaxation and exercise, than in that of hardship or vexation. And thus, without any ex pense worth mentioning, Jersey has a Militia two or three thousand in number, a force which in pro portion to the population far exceeds any which there has ever been in our time in England. Why should we not apply the admirable system that has so long been tried in the Channel Islands/ What can be better for its purpose than that which we have briefly described as existing there/ What can be less satisfactory in most important particulars than that which we have for the last seven years been trying bare t AMIDST incontinent talk of invasion, rumours of war, gossip of princely gatherings, and obscure hints of diplomatic confetences to stir up the latent elements of dissension on the Continent, it is plea sant to hear of aoonference about to assemble whose only object is European peace and international pewees. After all, the facts relating to the steady advancement of nations in the path of moral cul ture, as well as in the arts of life, are quite as im portant as intercepted royal notes and imperial visits. Of course, it is • duty to deal sa efficiently as possible with military facts and figures as they arrive for discussion, and at pre sent public attention is necessarily occupied to a considerable extent with the vexed question of our national defences. But it is surely unwise in the extreme on slight or fanciful grounds to sum up all social questions and political problems into the supreme alternative of peace or war. The earthquake and the storm are but momentary interruptions of the great agencies of nature which are incessantly at work for the benefit of man. Nor are war and carnage the necessary conditions of national life, however passionately the unripe judgment and fervid enthusiasm of youth may cling to such a theory. So far from being the end of a nation's existence, or even the beat means of its progress, the drawn sword is at best a terrible remedy of • worse disease. Nations instinctively feel this, and the national wars of Europe have been the exception, not the rule. The great wars that have devastated Europe have been instigated by royal convenience or imperial ambition. The friendly intercourse of nations must tend to sup press this costly and criminal species of argument, the ultimo ratio of kings. Anything that tends to promote this intercourse is an unmixed good. The meeting we have referred to may fairly claim this character. It is that of the " Interns " tional Statistical Congress," which, at the invi tation of our Government, will assemble in London the 16th of next month, and hold its fourth session during the five following days. The previous meetings of the Congress have been held, as many of our readers will remember, at Brun eels, Paris, and Vienna. The idea of the Con gress first originated here, at the Great Exhibition, ten years ago, but it was first called together at Brussels by the Government of the Kira of the Br.Loisite, and very much at the instigation of a celebrated statistician, M. Quermer, who may be regarded as the chief founder of the Congress. Each meeting has been attended by the most dis tinguished economists, statisticians, and masters of political science in Europe ; and the deliberations of these Congresses have done thus far more to ad vance the science of comparative or international statistics than the isolated labours of individuals could possibly have done. The science indeed, from the number of its objects and the largeness of its aim, peculiarly demands combined action for its successful cultiva tion. No tangible object that is of the slightest use or value to man escapes its comprehensive grasp. Its work is to take an exact inventory of the population, arts, manufactures, industry, agri culture, resources, revenues, and wealth of the nation. But vast as is the task to be accomplished in this direction it does not end here. The obser vation and registration of facts is only preliminary to the higher work of classifying them, determining their mutual relations, and evolving the laws they exemplify. Then follows the practical application of these laws to correct what is defec tive and supply what is wanting in the social and industrial organisation of the people. The field which the science of statistics thus occupies is immense, the facts being almost innumerable and their combinations infinite. It is not enough, more over, merely to correct the statistics of any single country at a given period. These must be corn pared with those of the same country at different epochs, as well as with those of other countries, in order to secure the moat valuable results. Com bined observation can thus alone solve the great problems of statistical science. The civilised nations of the earth must carry on their observa tions together, and compare the results. Curiously enough, every kingdom and government in Europe sends representatives to the Congress except the Government of Naples, which thus practically confesses the notorious truth that it is utterly barbarous and without the pale of civilised society. Though London can scarcely be called a Euro pean centre, or is at least not a central spot for European Delegates to assemble in, it is quite right that the Congress should meet here, England being the cradle not only of political economy but of the political arithmetic from which statistical science originally sprang. Sir Wititsx Parry, the great ancestor of the present Lord L►xs nowrs, was the true founder of the science in this country. He was a man of rare genius and enterprise, and his " Politics] Arithmetic," pub lished towards the close of the seventeenth cen tury, laid the foundation of all that has since been done towards the exact observation and collection of social and political statistics. Besides, the idea of a Congress, as we have seen, first origi nated here. Accordingly, our Government sent a message to the Congress at its last meet ing in Vienna, to the effect that if it should be thought desirable to hold the next meeting in London her Majesty's Government would be happy to give the members the best reception it could in conformity with English usages. The official invitation was cor dially accepted, and we are accordingly to have amongst us next month the first masters of social, statistical, sad political science in Europe. They deserve, as we are quite sure they will receive, a hearty welcome, and the result of their delibera tions will necessarily be of great interest and value not only to ourselves but to every civilised nation on the Continent The correspondence relative to Sir Charles Tre volyan's famous minute has been published in the form of parliamentary puss. The moat important part of it consists of two despatches which Sir Charles Wood addressed to the government of Madras. One of them recalled Sir Charles Trevelyan, and stated the grounds upon which that step was taken; while the other expressed, in emphatic language, the seam which her Majesty's government enter tained of his valuable services as governor of the presidency. A new communion of government will shortly be issued. In the mean while the office this vacated will devolve on the member of council next in rank to the governor other than the commander-in-chief, agreeably to the pro. visions of the law. EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AIRE 2t, 1860. LATEST ItiTELL IGENOE. FRANCE. CIRCULAR NOTE FROM THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. The following telegram ham been received by Mr. Renter : PARTS, JUNI 21. At a council of ministers held yesterday at Fon tainebleau, under the presidency of the Emperor, M. Thouvenel, minister for foreign affairs, read the circular note which the French government is about to address to the powers who have signed the final act of Vienna in order to demand their recognition of the new settlement of the French frontiers, resulting from the accom plished fact of the annexation of Savoy and Nice to France. This note summarily recalls the cir cumstances under which the annexation was oomplished—namely, the spontaneous cession of those provinces by the King of Sardinia, and the free expression of the wishes of the inhabitants by universal suffrage. M. Thouvenel expresses his confidence that such an act, accomplished in con formity with the generally admitted principles of public right and international laws, will obtain the adhesion of all Europe ; the more so be cause France is ready to renew before the European Areopagus the assurance that she intends to assume the obligations resulting from Article 92 of the final act of Vienna, referring to the neutralised dis tricts of Faucigny and Chablais. The note then proceeds thus :—" The good faith of the policy of France and the friendly interest which she has always shown in regard to Switzerland offer the best guarantees for the faithful accomplish ment of such an engagement." M. Thouve nel, in conclusion, distinctly hints that the court of the Tuileries will not consent to any lessening (amoindriesesserif) of Savoyard territory in favour of Switzerland, although France accepts the European conference on the question. The circular note of M. Thouvenel will be dis patched this evening to London and to-morrow to Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, for com munication by the representatives of France to the different ministers for foreign affairs. This note will also be communicated to the cabinets of Stockholm, Madrid, and Lisbon. The Constitutionnel, in an article signed by the chief editor, M. Grandguillot, strongly refutes the opinion that the pamphlet, entitled " Prussia in 1860," emanated from official inspiration. THE GERMAN POWERS. BADEN, WIIMMIDAT EVIINING. According to reliable information the final con ference between the Prince Regent and the German Sovereigns, before their departure, has brought about a decisive agreement on those questions which refer to the relations of Germany with foreign countries. THE REVOLUTION IN SICILY. CAOLIARI, Joint 90. All the communes in Sicily have presented ad dresses requesting annexation to Piedmont. The clergy and aristocracy are at the head of the move ment. The evacuation of Palermo continues, but Mes sina is being fortified. One hundred more dead bodies have been dis covered in the ruins of the houses of Palermo, which were destroyed by the bombardment. Carini, Manin, and Pallas*lo are recovering. Colonel Medici, with 3,000 volunteers, has arrived at Palermo. Considerable forces will leave to-morrow for Mewsina. Important desertions from the Neapolitan army have taken place. VMTNA, Jars 21. The statement that Austria is about to reinforce her flotilla in the Neapolitan waters is without foundation. Rear-Admiral Fantz will only sail forthe Adriatic Sea in order to exercise the crew of the newly-built ship Kaiser. three mamas. They probably hope for a reborn of the state of things is 1848, when 17 months pond without anything being den* to organise a national army, and when • for lir were sufficient to reduce Palermo and pnt an ad to the national government. But, if some swollen their detest with such illusions, on the majority the Isee events have produced quite a different impression. They have converted them into Italians ; above all, those—end there are many—who come in °outset with General Garibaldi ; they are to s man pined over, and not a few have expressed the hope of fighting soon side by side for Se Mlle of Italy. Jun 11. ROME, THUIUMAT. WI evening another steamer, with 400 troops, and two sailing brip with ammunition and stores, left in the direc tion of Massina, where, it seems, great preparations are made for maintaining the position. To-day the large French transport steamer is expected to leave. From all we can see, the first care is to carry off the material, which is, likewise, according to the terms of the convention ; when this is done the cavalry has to be taken, and then, pro bably, the troops remaining will go in one large convoy. According to official intelligence addressed from Naples to the Holy Father, no infraction of public order has yet taken place in Calabria. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, TatiasDAT MORNING. The Sultan has arrived here with the Peninsular mail. She left Lisbon Jane 17, and Oporto sad Vigo June 18. She brought home 51 passengers. Amongst her cargo was specie worth 3,3001. The Tagus experienced on her homeward passage fresh southerly breeses, with a con siderable sea across the bay. The Magdalena, with the outward Brazil mail, left liaison on the 14th inst The French Imperial yacht L'Aigle, with the tag of Rear Admiral Doupenay, wee in the Tame. Exchange on London, 531 ; on Paris, 5.33 ; as Amster dam, 42; ;on H■mhurg, 47i ;on Gems, 5.31. Lisbon Beak, 5.50; Oporto Bank, 2.56 ; Ranks, 451 to 46 ; Coupons, 441 to 45. THE UNITED STATES. QUEENSTOWN, TBUIADAT. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Pales tine, which left Quebec on the 9th instant, has arrived here. She landed all the mails. She brings no news el importance. NEW YORK, Juts 7. The stock market is dull, but prime are rather better. Money plentiful and heavy ; rates 4 to 411. Exchange on London, 1091 to 1091. The receipts of flour reach 18,000 barrels; sake, 15,000. State and Western steady. Super fine State, 5 dole. 15e. to 5 dole. 20c. Wheat steady. Oats dull. Corn snd lard firm and active. Pork dull. MONTREAL, Jams 9 (mid Parma Poise). Flour inactive but firm. Wheat inquired for. &lee of corn 12,000 bushels. Freights easier. Grain, 6s. 6d.; sour, 38. 6d. to 4e. to the Clyde. The weather continue favour able for the crops. The accounts from the Western Pro vinnie ace highly satisfactory. (LATERT BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.) NEW YORK, Jung 9, Emus°. The Gliugow sailed to-day for Liverpool with 400,000 dollars. The cotton market is dull and quotations are nominal. Breadstuff. quiet, and prices are barely main tained. Corn dearer with an advancing tendency. NEW ORLEANS, Jura 7. Bales of cotton in two days 2,300 bales. Quotations 'mina]. Colonel Nino Bixio bee been promoted by Gari baldi to the rank of Brigadier-General. The following are extracts from the Palermo correspondence of the Times, June 9, 10, and 11 : ITALY. -.- (nor our owr Yesterday the Sardinian admiral, Persano, went to pay a visit to General Garibaldi, with whom he ham been so:painted for years. The appearance of the Sardinian squadron at this moment baa excited considerable interest, and not a few conjectures, especially as La Farina, a Sicilian emigrant, known to be in the confidence of Cavour, was brought down in the admiral's vessel. It is whispered that he has his nomination as commissioner extraordinary in his pocket. Her Majesty's ship Racoon came in yesterday, from Malta, hariag touched at Syracuse, Catania, and Messina. The lust place was still held by the Neapolitans, who kept their position only by the most sbiagest military measures, having strong patrols in the streets, and being ready for an outbreak. Catania was found abandoned, and considerably damaged. The garrison had retired to Manias, where like wise the garrison of Girgenti bad gone, raising the form sta• tioned there to 7,000 or 8,000 men. The first batch of troops and two ships full of ammunition which went from here the day before yesterday had likewise arrived. The soldiers were still in the town, and the populetion, as usual, waiting for Garibaldi's arrivaL In the meantime the equadre are constantly coming into Palermo, where the great work of military organisation has begun. The arms, ammunition, and men who were landed lately at Yawls have come in likewise, and now supplies of these, on a far greater scale, are daily expected. The whole Central Italian army seems disposed to come down, and would do se if it was allowed to follow its own inclina tion. To-day Minima Pere and cowpony arrived here in his little yacht Monte Cristo from Genoa. The Neapolitan consul at Normal's refused to rise his passport for Palermo, and when he arrived here and aaw the Neapolitan flag still graving over the matte and on board the Neapolitan ship., be felt rather uneasy. But, soon after, the shore boatmen coming off with tricolour cockades in their button-holes and on their caps removed all apprehensions, and he came on shore, where he was quartered in the royal palace, being the first, except estployis, who has taken up his abode there. We have likewise Mr. Oliveira, ex M.P., who has come in the Racoon from Malta. JrNE 10. Yesterday there was little movement on the Mole, and only ens steamer left in the evening. From the castle marten and ammunition were taken on board ship, however. Meet of the Neapolitan ships have been drawn close to the Mole, so that embarkation can take place without using boats. The proem, as you may imagine, attracts crowds of spectators to the Marina, and every cargo is greeted with blow and shouts, to which the soldiers invariably reply by " Viva it R!" In order to put an end to this, an order has been given to prevent the crowd from assembling, and the berrimdes at Porta Felice, and several others leading to the Marina and the castle, have been heightened. About noon a large screw steamer under French colours came in, towing two empty brigs. It was the first of six transport steamers freighted to take away troops and mate rial. It is to be hoped that the embarkation will go on in progressive ratio, for the fewer troops that remain the more anxious will the military authorities be to clear ad the place. It seems the Neapolitan troops expect to return in SARDINIA. TU.I:t•T, Jun 17. I have already had occasion more thin once to mention the intrigues and the insolence of the clerical fsction. A fresh scandal has just occurred, and this time the author of it is a priest who ought to have kept himself especially clear of such matters. Abbate Gazelli, the royal almoner, who has received many favours from the King, and been ' honoured with his confidence, has been recently intriguing with the Roman court, which has lured him by promises of ecclesiastical promo tion, and to which he has forwarded the sum of two thousand francs as a contribution to the so-called Peter's pence. As soon as the King became aware of this he acted with his usual good-natured toleration, merely telling Gaxelli that, as this contribution might be interpreted as an act of hostility to the government, he ought to declare that he intended It for purely religious pur posee, and not for any object at variance with the stability of the kingdom. Gazelli refused to make this declaration. The King then called upon him to resign his office of royal almoner. This also he refused to do • whereupon his Majesty, losing patience, dismissed him. The intriguing priest had hoped that matters would not be carried to such an extremity, but finding them desperate, he im plored the good offices of the Princess Clothilde, who wrote from Paris to her august father on behalf of Gareth, who had been her confessor. The King, how ever, refused to yield, semen he Tight. In another age, or at any other court, such an insolent priest would have been imprisoned, or perhaps sent to the gal leys. At Naples if a priest were to subscribe to the Garibaldi rifle fund he would most assuredly be put to death. A brawl which took place here yesterday is per haps worth mentioning, as indicating the temper of the people with regard to the recent annexation. Some of the disbanded Savoyard soldiers and three Piedmontese artillerymen were drinking together at a wine shop, and the Savoyards offered to pay the score. This the Piedmontese would not allow ; it would be better, they said, that every man should pay for himself. The Savoyards rejoined that they were Frenchmen, and rich, and not poor devils, like the Pied monteee. The latter retorted that the Savoyards might possibly have some money, as they had just sold themselves. Thereupon a fight took place, in which the Savoyards decidedly got the worst of it. On the whole, however, we have reason to b i e ja v rc / well satis fi ed with the attachment the Sav oy ards show to our government. Of 244 officers o y 29 have left us ; the rest remain in our army, although necessarily obliged to be content with inferior rank. Yesterday and this morning we have received a good deal of news from Naples and Sicily. From the former place I hear that people don't seem to know what they want, that there is no clear poli tical programme, but that there is no longer any confidence in the government, which is at a discount with everybody. The arie tocratic party, which is the more favourable to the government, and which is somewhat afraid of the revolution, has already sent much of its moveable property to Vienna, and is preparing itself to follow. The officials are taking advantage of the moment of anarchy, and robbing with impu nity. General Filangiert, Prince of Satriano, is constantly getting money out of the King for new plans,—at one time for attacking Piedmont, at an other for reconquering Sicily. Meanwhile the heads of the police department make similar profit out of promises to get Garibaldi assassinated ; for to such schemes does this ultra-pious court lend itself. An extraordinary sum has been pro mised to one Ottaiano, a pardoned brigand and assassin, if he should manage to kill Garibaldi ; and he and a certain sergeant of artillery have been conveyed to Sicily for that purpose in a royal ship. If he should succeed in his mur derous design the police are quite capable of getting rid of him in an equally summary manner, to save the blood-money. Such things are not unknown at Naples. At Genoa the arrival of the Genoese riflemen wounded at Calatafimi and Palermo has deeply moved the whole city. More than 20 Genoese volunteers, however, have found a grave in the island they fought to liberate. Many other cities have paid large tribute to the Sicilian cause, and Paris, Bergamo, Brescia, and even smaller places, have lost some of their bravest sons. My letters from Palermo make no mention of the occupation by the English of the fortress of Castellamare. It might have been as well for the French, Austrians, and others, who have made such an outcry, to have first ascertained thatthere was something to cry out about. What Ido hear is that the Archbishop of Palermo, and many heads of religious orders, paid a visit to Garibaldi, and returned delighted with the simplicity and modesty of his bearing. Garibaldi finds himself more at home with the Sicilian clergy than with any other, because it has never made common cause with tyranny, or lost the manly virtues of the citizen. " It was worth while to oome to Sicily," he said, " if only to find out that there is still an Italian clergy.' Garibaldi, on the other hand, must con trast favourably in their eyes with the Neapolitan generals who have profaned their churches and plundered them of their sacred vessels, as General Clary did at the sack of Catania, in the confident expectation that the Pope would absolve him as he absolved the Swiss, who, in sacking Perugia, laid ecclesiastical as well as lay property under contribution. So the less Cardinal Anto nelli says about the " sacrilegious" spoliation of the Romagnas the better. By the way, I see that the cardinal magnifies Zambianchi into something like the general of an army, pretending not to know that the man has been arrested and confined in one of the criminal prisons of Turin. I wish the car dinal would exercise as much vigilance as our go vernment, and lock up all the Zambianchis to be found walking about in Umbria and the Marches ; but that is not to be expected, for it would dry up the sources of the army which lamoriciere is col lecting to march against the King of Sardinia. place Tea dollars were paid to every private with arms and wastrel:into—four dollars without them. The Ans. than captain (a Venetian) expreesed supreme contempt a t the cowardly behaviour of the Royal troops, and observed that if Francis 11. had no better hopes than the defence of such, he had better at once seek refuge with the Emperor at Vienna. Amongst the troops here (Messina) there are daily deer. tions, not only of privates, but of officers and sub.officers. On several occasions the sentinels on guard during the night have decamped. It is a disease that seems on the increase. This morning the Archimede, a small mercantile steamer, now in the employ of the Neapolitan government. arrived from Naples, bringing again the celebrated Marshal Mien de Rivera, who takes command of all the troops here, the late commander, General Russo, being recalled to Naples. From such a brute as Don Affan we may expect nothing but brutality. The postage stamps with the Bombe bred are not any longer efficient for letters for any place out of the district of Messina. Afternoon.— It has leaked out from the Archimede that the Court at Naples are preparing for a run. The royal treasures have been embarked upon two steamers that keep up their steam day and night. A te legr aphic despatch has ordered Affan de Rivera topromed to command there. Several boats have arrived from Reggio with royalists. Nothing has yet broken out in that town ; but the aspect is menacing. Any news of the defection of the troop. at Monteleone would cause a revolt. Letters by the Caradoc, from Palermo, state that the Nee. politan troops were being removed gradually ; that two French transports bad arrived (chartered by the government) to mist in the operation ; that Garb baldi was planting cannon against the Fort of Castellamare, eo that in case the garrison do not evacuate by the time stipulated, their memories may be refreshed; that the municipal body had been summoned by Garibaldi to de. vise on the fate of Sicily, and it was expected the vote would be annexation. It is said that the government have sent emissariee to Palermo, to murder Garibaldi. " The direct boat is in fioin Marseilles. The Neapolitan missions to the governments of France and England begging their interference have failed. Both have refused, and have limited themselves to express their regret that their good advice had been despised. INIIMm EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor on own" PARIS, WIDNESDAY ElllOlll3lllO. The Opinion Nationale and the Cowrie? de Paris have both received warnings for having published Victor Hugo's speech ; the Daily News was detained for several hours'at the post-office on account of its containing an English translation of that heart stirring denunciation of tyranny. It is worthy of remark that the speech was carefully framed so as to avoid any specific allusion to Franoe. Any offence which the government may find in it can only be deduced by way of logical consequence from certain principles impossible not to be alluded to in a eulogy of the hero Garibaldi. The warn ing describes the corpus delicto as consisting of a " violent and general appeal to revolutionary pas sions apropos of the affairs of Naples." To be consistent the Minister of the Interior should pro hibit the publication of any news from Neapolitan states. For eloquent as Victor Hugo is, the most fiery of his burning words are tame and spiritless when compared with the trumpet-tongued tale of the progress of the revolution, told by the bare re cital of the least of Garibaldi's deeds in Sicily. The warning's this day inflicted by M. Billault are both second ones, and consequently the two young journals which have given the empire valu able support in its foreign and commercial policy, and have repudiated in its favour liberty itself, if only to be supported in connexion with Orleanism or legitimacy, are now on the very brink of destruc tion. At the Bourse there has been a further decline— attributed to the state of the weather. Yesterday there was a change in the moon, from which much was hoped, but a great deal of rain fell last night and this morning. Nevertheless flour was lfr. lower in Paris to-day, and news of a fall is reported from several markets. The Rente, after having been as low as 68f r. 45c. and 68fr. 40c., closed at Mfr. Mc., both for cash and account, being a fall of 20c. and 15c. The price is now just what it was on the day when the Emperor started for the celebrated meeting at Baden. Mobilier rose lfr. 25c. All the railways were about 2fr. 50cc. lower. The Pays, in addition to the contradiction of the telegraphic news that England had supported the application of the Sardinian Ambassador at Naples for a restitution of Garilvddi's two cap tured .hips on the ground that they had papers for Malta, says that the government of Turin has repudiated the step taken by its representative as being unjustifiable by the law of nations. There is a rumour that the Emperor will make a pacific speech ou the 26th, to the gainers of prises at the cattle show. THE DISTURBANCES IN SYRIA. (nom on owl! A gentleman, by last mail from Alexandria, who appears well acquainted with Syria, states that eraisaariss of both France and Ramis are very busy stirring up disputes between the Maronites and Christians, in the hope that it will give them an opportunity of interfering in the affairs of Turkey on the plea of protecting Christians. He states that the inhabitants quite look upon Russia as the future master of Syria and France of Egypt. He says also that at this moment M. Lumps hes 10,000 French soldiers in the very heart of Egypt, whom he has introduced as labourers for the Suez canaL He states that the Turkish soldiers sent to the assistance of the Christians had turned against them. Notwithstand ing which the Christians bad, after a desperate struggle, defeated their opponents ; that something like a thousand lives had already been lost, and that the Christians in Syria were in great danger. I give you his statement as I received it, believing it to be substantially correct. Several portions I have heard corroborated from other quarters On the 10th, her Majesty's steamer Queen arrived from England and would have proceeded on to Syria, but she bad a large number of sick, and her Majesty's steamer Ex mouth proceeded instead, on the 11th, to Beyront for the protection of British subjects during the present disturbed date of Syria. The Mohawk has also been sent for the same purpose. Her Majesty' steamer Cesar is cruising off Naples with lemon board. The Neptune is laying at Naples. Lieut.- seat Hooper is appointed to her Majesty's steamer Ex - namalk, it.. Eattray, gone as half-pay. Mr. Bateman, paymaster al her Majesty's eteszeir Neptune, died shortly alter bag laviaderl. LETTER FROM MESSINA. The following letter is from the Messina corre spondent of the Malta Time. : 11erina, June 11, 1860. The London and Renown passed here yesterday. They signalled with the Scylla. On Thursday afternoon the cavalry and infantry arrived from Catania, which place is now entirely free of Neapolitan troops. After the depar tore of these, some excesses were committed be the mob on a few police that had remained behind, and on some spies, which is to be regretted ; but order has since been re stored, and they are all now quiet aad happy enough there. Amongst the reports current here is one said to be official, but which nobody believes, that an order has arrived from Naples that Catania be re-occupied by the Royal troops. Reeler said than done. General Clary, the commander of the troops at Catania, has paid into the hands of Walser and C0.,0f this place, 28,432 due., for which amount he took bills on Naples—a nice little sum for his share of the plunder of Catania. On marching from Catania he halted at Aci-Iteale, and besides obtaining forced supplies of provisions he in sisted upon a contribution of 6,000 or., or in default threatened to burn the town. He succeeded in extracting 2,000 or Such are the Neapo litan generals. On Friday afternoon, a Neapolitan war steamer came in from Palermo, with the Bth Sharpshooters. It had been rumoured that the troops in Palermo had capitulated ; this confirmed it. The troops were to be removed as soon r practicable, and to return whence they came. Thus the Bth S. S. were sent here, whence they bad started. During Saturday there were rumours of disturbances having commenced in Calabria at Monteleone, Cataruaro, and Cosenza. Towards the evening the only Neapolitan steamer of war In port began to take in troops, and left during the night for Piro. This steamer returned yester day, and this morning has started again with troop" tor the same destination. There is very little communication be tween this and the opposite coast, and thus more room is given for rumours. It is said (and it is not unlikely) that a landing has been effected in Calabria by • strong band of Italian patriots. On Sunday, at noon. an Austrian steam-frigate arrived from Palermo. The news learnt was that there were stall 10,000 soldiers at the Mole, waiting for steamers to embark; that though armed they were 'druid of some of Geribildre bands disobeying orders, andattackin them, and had obtained from that general a guard of protection of 150 men. Thir teen military lands hail deserted, and the streets of Palermo were enlivened all the day with music. The Fort of Castel- Immure was dill occupied by the Neapolitans, who would embark, ae well as those at the Mole, on the arrival of stamen, sad yesterday (Sunday) they would meet likely have left. Daily and numerous desertions were taking THE VESSELS CAPTURED BY THE NEAPOLITANS. A letter from Naples says : From information just received I can correct and add to much which I have reported. The capture of two vessels suspected of belonging to Garibaldi is confirmed : 800 men were on board. They had been purchased of Franini and Co., at Marseilles, and are said to have shipped also 15,009 muskets. The details we do not know as yet, but the ships are taken into Gaeta, and will raise a question for the Sardinian and the United States' authorities, as they are maid to have been taken on the high sea, and to have hoisted " the stars and stripes." The Haws Agency publishes the following despatches : TURIN, Joss 19. - - • -- • . . We hear from Genoa that there is a rumour in that town that the capture of two ships conveying reinforcements for Garibaldi was the result of an act of treachery. Near the Piombiao canal a Neapolitan frigate, which had hoisted the English flag, offered to tow the two ships into Palermo, and that they accepted the offer. The frigate then hoisted Neapolitan colours, and towed the vessels to Gaeta. TURIN, Jura We have confirmation from Palermo that some Neap?li• tan cruisers have captured an American clipper carrying 900 volunteers, and towed by a steamer. THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW. We are authorised to state that no tickets for admission to the galleries to witness the volunteer review on Saturday can be issued from the War. office after 2 o'clock p.m. to-morrow, the 22nd instant. It is also added for the information of the public that each ticket will not admit more than one person. PREPARATIONS LN HYDE PAWL A large number of men are engaged in erecting the galleries, or raised platforms, in Hyde Park, whicb are intended for the accommodation of members of the Hone s of Peen and d the House of Commons , and other privi. liged persons. The gallaies, which are constructed by Mr. Smith, builder, of Pimlico, by direction of the Office of Works, are about one-third of a mile in length in the park in front of Park-lane, at a distance from it of about 300 Duds. They They extend from Upper Brook-street to the Pond, and it is stated that there will be room on them for about 15,000 persons. The centre gal. lery will be appropriated exclusively to the royal suite, and members of the two Houses of Parliament and their personal friends, and will be lined with red baize. In consequence of so large an area of the park being occupied the general public will be deprived of a con. siderable space of ground, on which they would otherwise have had an opportunity of seeing the review, as in the immediate rear of the galleries it will be impossible to see anything of it. The only spot from which a view of the ceremony can be had will be either on the north or south of the galleries, or in front, among the cluster of trees ad. jw • • rig the °lards' Barracks, or what used to be called the De v er Park. Yesterday several military officers were in the park making arrangements for the review day, the whole of which it is expected will be completed by Friday next. Yesterday and to-day have been busy days with the various rifle corps of the metropolis. Several of them were at drill earl y in the morning, in addition to their usual evening drill the volunteers being desirous, as far as possible, to s render themselves perfectly efficient in their evolutions and mancenvres. The commanding officers have given notice to each respective come of the time at which it necewary the volunteers should assemble at their head quarters on Saturday next, in order to be at Hyde-park be. tween 1 and half-past 1 o'clock on that day. REGULATIONS TO PREVENT OBSTRUCTION AND PRESERVE ORDER IN HYDE-PARK AND THE APPROACHES. HYDE-PARK. 1. All the gates will be open during the day for persons on foot. 2. From 12 o'clock the gates at Hyde.parkronier, the Marble. arch, and In Park-lane will having ose, except for the admission of carriages with persons tickets coloured red, red and white, and orange, for admission to the galleries erected in the Park. Princes-gate, the Queen's-gate, and Victoria-gate will be open for carriages, which may remain only on the road from the respective gates to the barrier at Albert-gate, and that on the road leading to the Marble Arch. 3. Persona on horseback may go through Albert-gate Into the Ride. 4. The approaches to all the gates will be kept tree from obstruction, and, if necessary, at any point, the carriages will he formed Into line by the police. Carriages, after setting down company at a gate, will be aspired to move of quickly and wait wisere directed by the police, or go away. ADMIERON TO THE °ALIFRISS.. 5. The entrances will not be opened until two o'clock, p.m. The tickets for the different compartments are coloured red, red and white, orange, and plain wldte. At the entrance to each compartment a flag will he filed of the same colour an the ticket of admi.sion to that compartment. Person. having tickets should go to the flag of the colour of their tickets. All the entrances are at the ba6k of the galleries, and the most direct way for getting to them is by Park-lane, and on foot through any of the gates. Or persona with tickets coloured red, red and white, and orange may enter the park In carriages, an mentioned In Regulation No. and drive to the nearest point of the gallery where the lag 4 of the same colour as theta tickets. The carriages, atter setting down at the gallery, are to welt within the Park where directed by the pollee. ADMISSION TO GROUND IN FRONT OP CIALLRItrEti. 6. Persons having green tickets, and officers In uniform (but no person without a ticket can he allowed to accom pa ny them', will be admitted to a place for standing formed by hurdles in front of the galleries from the end nearest Hyde• park-corner to the Saluting Point. The entrance le at the end nearest Hyde.park-conser, to which persons will be directed by the police. 7. Persons without tickets will be admitted, as far as there la room, to a place for standing, formed by hurdles in front of the galleries, from the end nearest the tUrille Arch to the Saluting Point. The entninoe is at the end nearest the Marble Arch, to which persons will be directed by the poli,*. RICHARD MAYNK The Commissioner of Pollee o7t1; Metropolis. Metropolitan Police-office, 4, Whitehall.place, June 20, 1840. The following London-bridge houses have agreed to close business on Saturday at one o'clock :—Mappin Brothers ; Evans, Son,and Co. ; Deane and Co. ; Greene and Niner ; W. S. Adams ; J. C. Smith ; Merritt and Short ; Deane and Son. Yesterday, a volunteer review was held on the Bootle*, Chester, the force being made up of detachments of volunteers from all the regiments in the neighbourhood. About 1,200 volunteers were reviewed, and a large number was present as spectators. An immense concourse of people also attended. Colonel Wilhnileim, the officer who re. viewed the volunteers, complimented them in the highest terms, and declared that the manner in which they bad per formed their evolutions would do credit to any infantry regiment. The 2nd Worcester Rifle Corps has volunteered to be reviewed in Hyde-park on Sotunlay next, and the Secretary at War has accepted the offer. Each member bears the expense of kis journey.—Worrestendarr Chruniek. Ax UNW CLCONZ COM ?ANION. —OR Thursday last a labouring man at Crewkerne, while carrying a fagot on his shoulders, felt something cold entwining itself round his neck. He hastily threw down the fagot, when he die. covered that his neck was encircled with the affectionate embraces of a large adder. He, fortunately. eurceeded in disengaging himself without injury, except the almost fainting state which such acircvuvtance was well calculated to produce. The reptile took refuge in the (sent. Irem which It was ultimately taken and destroyed. —Watt Elseee4 Gazette.