The Express. — London, England, 1860-05-17 00:00:00

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This should be the demand of the House of Commons in all that relates to naval administration. We have never asked for more than this, and we shall never be satisfied with less. The habit of suppression is so familiar to the official mind, and the disposition to make things pleasant so ingrained, that only the other day, Sir JOHN PA RINOTON, a past and possible First Lord, was fain to request the pre sent Sr.i.rarrsay of the ADMIRALTY to " tell the " truth " about the gunboats. This seems a modest re.juest enough applied to the ordinary transactions of life, and one that ought not to be too difficult to gratify. But Sir Joan Psantorotr— moved, no doubt, by a keen remembrance of the sensitiveness of the official conscience--felt that to • the delicate ear of ir Secretary to a Department it might sound unreasonably abrupt and peremptory, so he hastened to soften it down by a Pickwickian expletive and a parliamentary amplification. " I do not imply that the noble lord " will be disinclined to tell the truth, " but I hope that the whole truth will be " candidly told, and that he will inform the " Home whether there is any fair ground of " serious imputation against the contractors." To this tolerant appeal Lord Ctriancn Peonr made answer with the best possible grime, yet with a frankness rather of form than of substance. His most anxious wish was not to let us know the worst of it : quite the reverse. "I think," he said, "that the first business I should perform is " to endeavour to allay considerable anxiety that " exists as to the whole number of the gun and " mortar boats in the Navy being rotten and un " fit for use." That is the function of the De partment—" to allay anxiety." And how did the Sscizraay Of the ADMIRALTY perform this emollient function f By a statement which may be summed up as follows :—Besides the gunboats on foreign service, twenty-three "in a partial " state of decay have been completely " repaired." There are six at present "on hand " for examination, and sixteen hauled up on Haslar slip, and as yet unexamined. There are forty afloat in the steam reserve, which " have not " shown any signs of decay," not having been examined. As to the sixteen on Hula: slip, the Secretary volunteers a cautious assurance " The " public must not give way to the fear that they " will be found defective." And as to the forty afloat the Secretary is quite easy in his mind : " I am very hopeful that those which are afloat " will not require such extensive repairs as has " been supposed." As to the mortar boats : " I " must own that some of them which we have " opened have been found MI au extremely " defective state." The Secretary, in order to allay anxiety, forbears to tell us how many have not been found in " an extremely defective state." Of the gunboats built in the Government yards, eleven have had to undergo considerable repairs. So that it is not only the contractors who deserve hanging. Indeed some of the contractors are in a position to plead an "extenuating circum " stance" in the quality of the timber. It comes out that one told the Admiralty " candidly"— a favourite word with the A druiralty that he had not seasoned timber enough in store to go on with ; and, notwithstanding, he was desired to "go on building." The fastening with short bolts is not so susceptible of explana tion, and on this point it is satisfactory to the country to learn that the Admiralty is actually taking legal advice—for the satisfaction, we 'op pose, of the officers and crews of the unexamined gunboats on foreign service. The Freer Lords account of the matter, however, was fair enough, inasmuch as it absolved the short bolts from the suspicion attaching to contractors' copper. " The " copper was supplied by the Government." Only one or two eases of short bolts have been discovered, says the FIRST Loan of the ADMIRALTY ; and we are permitted to conjecture very freely how they came there, when we are reminded that the con tractors, all hut ruined by the concurrent rise in the price of timber and in wages, were working day and night, " when the snow was " on the ground," under a sudden and extreme pressure. The Duke of Sousamer, therefore, at tributes the short bolts, not to any shipbuilder, but to some "scratch" workmen brought in at a critical moment, and doing job and task work at an hours of the day and night. A couple of experts were detached from the royal yards, as inspectorand sub-inspector, to the yards intwhich the boats were building ; but "the snow was on the ground," and the work was carried on through the night, and so the short bolts went smoothly and noiselessly into the green timber, and the inspector and sub. inspector may or may not have been standing and shivering by on eateries that would make very short bolts indeed if the annual total were counted out in copper. A Department has a right to reckon upon the absolute integrity of all whom it employs, from the highest grade to the lowest; but illiiiimmmft THE EXPRESS, TRURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1 whether it has a right to assume that human nature in all its grades is aqua, proof against temptation in m its 41810.1 is a question which we would ther not called upou to answer. wife and family and ac salary, bolts and timber in a " when the snow is on the grouncis rr i d nay not un charitably be supposed capable of winking its official eye, not to say, of dosing it. Want of sleep and shelter would account for as much as this, though the consequence, as in the case of a careless inspector of railway; may be simply the sacrifice of hundreds of lives. We are not concerned to accuse or acquit anybody; we simply remark that to pass 'camped work with your eyes open is one thing, and to let it pees with your eyes shut is another. Not to detect a fraud is not always to be party to it, or there would have been a razzia the other day upon Ptruntosa's confiding employers. Pcmusona is a man of er post fret° hth•moral feeling and self-sacrifice; the Admiralty is a department of er post facto rigorous supervision and inspection. The discovery of the green timber and the short bolts is succeeded, after a decent interval of inquiries, by a compli cated and complete system of check-upon cheek. The Duke of Sowrearr referred on Monday night to the often mooted question whether the Surveyor (or Controller, as he is now called) of the Navy ought to be " a practical man " It may very well have appeared to the de partmental mind a revolutionary and subversive proposition that the officer supremely responsible for the building of ships should be himself an expert in shipbuilding. To the high official understand ing you might as well propose to get rid of all the ornamental titulars who preside over the public departments, and replace them by those unknown working chiefs of the permanent staff who do all the work. There is no knowing where so prepos terous an innovation would end. Besides, is it not admitted by all disinterested people who are capable of forming an opinion on the subject, that the Navy is better administered in chief by a civilian than it could possibly be by a seaman, and that even a Naval Secretary to the Admiralty is a doubtful advantage f Admitting that every flaw in our naval administration, from defective reserves to short bolts, may be traced to the brittle and spongy constitution of the Department in White hall, we are bound to express our conviction that a naval near Low) is not called for. The one thing wanting is revutisibility. Definite, dis tinct, direct responsibility, from the top to the bottom of the administration, running through all its branches ; ripening in the light and strengthened by the air of a wholesome publicity, and bringing forth fruits, not " leaves " only—this is what the AoantRALTY wants, sad what in the coming hour of trial the country will demand. THE GARIBALDI FUND. rbt Court. TM Queen• sod the Prime Consort r od e on terd4 ay . • F ine d; e . lltete i l by the lkel, featl4 . .4„,,,„ , Lon, . . • Coactutiknekled setimi c E of the Royal ,' I. . 4 . nal of die Patriotic Fund, In the 'Remora at three o'clock at the Palace d W L The following Royal Comminionste wen present :—The Earl of Hardwicke, the Fari of Chichester, Lard Rokeby, Lord Ookheeter, Lerd fit. Leounds, Lord Pommy, Lord Lyveden, Calomel the Host J. Lindsay, Sir James Gramm, Mr John Pakiegton, Sir Robert Throckmorton, Colonel J. Wilson Patters, Sir Morton Peto, J. Ball, Faq., and the Lord Mayor. Captain E. Gardiner Fishbourne, R.N., and Colonel John Henry Lstroy, 8.A., honorary secretaries, &Headed. The meet* *eke up at a quarter-put eve o'clock. The Qom gave hat evening a state ball, to which a party of 1,811 were invited. The Qui= and Prince Consort were conducted to the ball and email room by Visconnt Sydow, Lord Chamber laia, tha Bert al St Greemma, Lea* &award, and other principal carers of the royal bressibirkl. Her Ms jeety and hie Royal Hlsitusees were ercampanied by the PrMos of Wake, the Primer Athos, the Dothan of Cam and the Primer Mary, the Duke of Cambride, the PrMos and Primal of Welds* end Pinnont, the Prince and Primers of Laminae., and the Maharajah Du leap Singh. The Lease and Gentians: in Waiting at. tended the royal party. The Corps Dipionsmique and the general company followed. The on u s, w e re • dress of with* amps over white silk, two Souncee, upper one looped up with bouquets of white lilacs and chrysanthemum ansamented with dia monds. Her Majesty's bead-dryer was formed of a wreath of white lilacs and chrysanthemums ornamented with diamonds. The Pnnceis Alice wore a white crape dress over rich glace silk, trimmed with bugles and white roses. Her royal highnes, wore a wreath of white roses t o co/re spond. The Duchess of Cambridge wore • black glace silk dress trimmed with black tulle, and an over skirt of deep black lace. A stomacher neeklaes, sad earring@ of pearls and diamonds. Her ro yali head-dress was composed of a pearl tiara, black lwhssti sad black The Princess Mary of Ombridip wore & la terite tulle dress festooned with large bows of wee ribbon and fringe, and covered with • silver tells eel ; the body to correspond A stomacher at end dimemilA Necklace and ear. ='-erZ I : wreath a/ kilts. a the awi alle i y highness w ore veal a vet leaves, with iilmaceid enemsate. The Princess of Laming's wore • white tarlatans dress over white silk, trimmed with wild convolvulua. Her royal Millman wore in her heir • wreath of wild couvolvulue en- twined with dammed'. Weippert's bead of thirty-six musicians, covdocted by Mr. John Weippert, wee I. attendance in the orchestra, and sour after the estrum of her Majesty and the distinguished company commenced • vase, " Mariana" (Taney). Pram of Wales, attended by Major-Genera the Hat. B. Broom and Major Teesdale, arrived at Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon from Oxford. The Qum, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice, and attended by the Hon. Beatrice Byng, took a drive in • • carriage and four in the afternoon. The Etjuerriss in Waiting attended on horseback. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the offi cial residence of the First Lord of the Trossury, in Downing-street. The Ministers resent were Vis count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com minion for the Exhibition of 1861 was held on Tuesday et the Privy Council.o(sce. There were present—Earl Gran ville, Lord Overmone, the Right Hon. R. Lowe. ILP., Sir A. IVeiroaa, Bart., Mr. CouLOn Q.C., Mr. DEM), Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Edgar Bowring(secretary). Mr. H. R. Wllliems, Anemia officer, attended. Mr. John Nash, of Reed-court, Rochester, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at elloial miasma in Downing-street, upon the subject of the poseposement al the hop duty. we reetiv at the Colonial-office yesterday from }theme of the North American provinces, and the Governor of Bermuda. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West Indian Islands, British Columbia, and Canada. We read in a letter from Quebec :—" With a elm to preserving a tasting memento of his Royal Highnem the Prince of Wales's visit • meeting has been held at Toronto, at which it was concluded to plant with ores• mental trees and shrubs a strip of land bordering on the really charming bay of Toronto. The place is thereafter to be known as ' The Prince's Walk! No sooner were the lernolotions submitted to, and unanimously concurred in by, the assembly, than the proposed labour of love was begun, the lord bishop of the disease setting the sample, and planting, with his own venerable hands, the first tree. Such an example was quickly fol lowed by other loyal and prominent citizens of Toronto ; end, the work having thus been properly se well se most Pm.* began, there is reason to believe that care will be tam to render the Prince's-walk, even at the period of the visit of the heir-apparent, • beautiful object from the bay es the royal and illustrious strangers approach the city from Lake Ontario. It is intended to plant alternately • poplar and chestnut tree, and between each to place a spruce. A space is to be kept vacant until the Prince's ar rival." Madame Van de Weyer has Witted cards for an emembly on Saturday next at the residence of the Belgian Legation, in Portland-place _ _ The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgbe and Lady Charlotte knee Ker have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, liend-atreet, front Floor* Castle, Kelso, N. B. . - - The Marquim of Conyngham and Lady Cecilia Oanywhem have calved 113 town, fres Ireland, for the NORM The Marquis and Marchioness of Chandos ar rived at the Euston Hotel yesterday from Wotton Court, Bucks. The marquis and marchioness attended the Queen's State ball last evening. The Countess Cowley and the Ladies Cowley have arri►ed it Lord Ebury's residence in Park.street, from Perla Vineount and Viacounteas Dungannon have ar rived 4 their residence in Grafton-.trent, from firynkinalt, Deabighshirr, for the session. Lord and Lady Vernon are staying at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestuno. Viscount and Viscountess Torrington have anived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. _ . lady Emily Heaketh'i bill, announced for the 11th June, is postponed until Friday, the 15th proximo. Lady Louisa Cotes' ball, announced for to morrow, is =avoidably postponed until Tuesday next, the 22nel inst. The Caledonian fancy dress ball in aid of the joint funds of the Caledonian Asylum and the Scottish Hospital, is fixed to take place on Monday, the 25th of Jane, at Willis's Room'. Already several ladies of the highest rank connected with Scotland have sent in their names as patronesses, and the treasurer, Rir Charles Forbes, will, as usual, personally undertake the arrange ments for the ball. At the meeting of the New York Board of Alder men. on the evening of the 3rd inst , • communication was received from the acting mayor, transmitting a communica- tion from the agent of the owners of the steamship Great Eastern, stating that they had decided to send the Great Eastern to New York, and asking for authentic informa tion in relation to the harbour. A committee of flue we appointed to procure the information required, and mate inch other arrangements as might be deemed beeeerry. American worshippers of the pugilistic art seemed determined not to be behind those who bow down at the shrine of Sayers. The propaeal lately made to pee -1 sent the American champion with a testimonial had met with enthusiastic approvaL Already 600 dole. to 700 dole. had beep subscribed, and it was determined not to cry "enough" until the sum of 5,000 dole. should be reached. Gaiipiani states that the articles of English manufacture left unsold at the late Fancy Fair, held at the British Embassy in Paris, in favour of the British Chari- table Fund, will, with the kind permission of leis Excellansty Earl Cowley, be dispaped of by public auction on lisminy next, the 21st inst., at tin British ftwalreasy. Among thee articles are English parallel's, potteries, ladies' hate, plated ware, he. THE LATE SIR CHARLES SLILE/Y.—The Dean at Westminster, on the application of the President el Iha Royal Institute of British Architects, has been plowed to pant pen:dation that the remains of the late Sir Charism Barry, R.A., be interred in Westminster Abbey. The faunal will take place on Tuesday next, at one o'clock pne. IT INTELLIGENCE. IMENT OF , 47*AlSoGREss OF O. MALTA, Mat U. H.M. gunboat Intrepid arrived this morning from Marsala, which place she left yesterday morning. She brings the very important intelligence of the landingat Marsala at daylight that day of Garibaldi, at the head of 2,000 men. They had arrived by two steamers. Immediately afterwards three Neapolitan men of-war hove in sight, and without a moment's notice commenced bombarding the town of Marsala, with round shot, shell, and grape, many of which, when the Intrepid left, were falling into the grounds of Messrs. Woodhouse's boglio. A fourth steamer (a merchant vessel) having been supplied with a gun, also took part in the bombardment. The English ladies of the place had been removed for security to Messrs. Ingham's baglio, which is further off the town. Garibaldi and his men, immediately on effecting their landing, marched for Trapani and Alcamo, the strongholds of the insurgents. Her Britannic Majesty's steam corvette Argus remained at Marsala to carry off the British residents, should snob a step become necessary. Great fears were entertained for the safety of Mr. Gill's baglio, as it was closer to the town than either Messrs. Woodhouse's or Messrs. Ingham's. A private letter states that two English steamers had arrived. (ran on owl MALTA, MAT 12. Her Majesty's ship Intrepid arrived from Marsala this morning, leaving at that place her Majesty's ship Argus. Four screw line-of-battle ships are cruising off Malta, under the command of Rear- Admiral Rodney Mundy ; and four screw line-of battle ships are in port ready for an immediate start ; so there are plenty of ships to protect Eng lish interests in Sicily if necessary. I have heard from a rather good authority that two—not four—Neapolitan steamers were present at Marsala ; that they allowed Garibaldi's troops to land, and then commenced bombarding his ships! IiARBEILLES, NAT 16. The Levant steamer has arrived. She touched at Messina on the 13th. The city was still quiet. The captain of the Syria, which arrived yesterday, has declared that on passing Marsala he noticed red flags on the town. He is not certain whether they were flags hoisted by the insurgents, or by the inhabitants. News brought by the steamer Italia announces that after the receipt of a despatch from the Emilia 500 men precipitately quitted Milan, and embarked yesterday at Genoa. A movement by General Lamoriciere is spoken of. FOREIGN INTERVENTION. The following telegram Las been received at Mr. Reuter's office : "MADRID, Hey 16. "It is reported that • despatch has been re ceived here from Naples, stating that the state of affairs being precarious, the Bing has requested foreign intervention." SICILY IN ARMS. The Paris Pays says that the movement has de veloped itself with "extraordinary rapidity," and that its success throughout the whole of Sicily "seems certain." The Pays go on to say : "After having landed his volunteers, Garibaldi, by means of arrangements previously concerted, succeeded in concentrating the insurrection. We are assured that he has already made himself master of all the most important places in the island. We cannot, however, to-day say anything more precise on this point. It would appear from other very recent information that a part of Gari baldi's expedition has landed in Calabria, and that the insurrection, already almost triumphant in Sicily, now threatens Naples and the Neapolitan provinces in the peninsula. It will be readily understood that we cannot guarantee the truth of facts of this importance, but the information which reaches us from all sides leaves little doubt that it must be accurate in the main." The Pattie gives the following version : " Most serious news has arrived by telegraph from Southern Italy. Garibaldi's expedition has succeeded in raising all Sicily. The royal troops hold nothing but the fortresses of Palermo and Messina It is said that the insurrection has broken out simultaneously in Calabria, which is only separated from Sicily by the Straits of Messina. A third insurrection, combined with two others, is also said to have taken place in the Abruzzis, on the borders of the Roman State. It is rumoured that the French squadron of evolution is about to sail for Naples, in order to protect French residents in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies." The Corriere Mercantile publishes the following proclamation to the Neapolitan army issued by Garibaldi : Foreign insolence reigns over Italian ground in muse queue° of Italian discord. But oa the day that the sons of the Semites and Martii, united with the brethren of Sicily, shall join the Italians of the North, on that day our nation, of which you are the finest part, shall resume its place, as in former times, among the first nations of Europe. I, an Italian soldier, only aspire to ass yen drawn up side by side with these soldiers of Varese lad San Martino, in order jointly to fight against the enemies of Italy ! G. GAILUILLDI. TO TO IDII . OI 07 TH2 DAILY 1111112. Sin,—Some few months past I proffered, through your columns—as did many others--a subscription to aid Garibaldi in forcibly maintaining the lately acquired liberty of Central Italy. At the precise time when I was about to forward the money to Italy, the news arrived that th e G enera l h a d yi e ld e d to the solicitations of the Piedmontese government, and retinal from his command. Regarding this action as indicating a change of policy on Garibaldi's part not calling for active support on the part of English sympathisers, I withheld my subscription for a time, nail Garibaldi, or some other patriot, should raise the standard of independence to the cry of " Italy fur the Italians." That moment has arrived. God send success to Garibaldi and his brave volunteers who have sailed to join in the Sicilian revolution ! So prays Eng land, whatever diplomacy may say. How should it be otherwise/ We too have had our revolutions which few in England now think otherwise than glorious ; and what was our ship.money question, what was our Star Chamber tyranny, to the long denounced infamies of Neapolitan rule 1 I offered 501. towards the Central Italy Defence Fund ; I send 1001 . to the committ ee established to send aid to the Sicilian patnota.—l Ac. City, May It P. A. TAYLOR. MR. COBDEN AND THE FRENCH TREATY. The following letter, addreneed by Mr. Cobden to an intimate friend in Manchester, has been placed in our hands for publimains : " Paris, 82, Rue De Fl'oiversite, May 12. pe " My ble dear sir. —I will answer your inquiries as briefly as nd. am w etmeglyin favour of the principle of ad valorem duties as any one in Manchester. Bet nearly all the COUR tries of Europe have, from motives of convenience, or to avoid food., preferred specific rates, and the French go vernmest caned be induced to take for its rule the ad valo. rem system. Nor, indeed, is it invariably desirable ; for instance, in the case of Woo, and some other articles, the English producer prefers specific rates. In goode of a simple and uniforms nature, admittailif e msy /km tins, such as yam and plain cottons, ad valorem duties would he preferable, the, adoption specific rates will not be attended with . great• inconvenience. If there are other articles of so mixed and varied a character as to defv dassificatioo, the treat has made providon for dealing with them in. an exoeptioaal manner. " England is really not in a position to dogmatise on this 'motion. The French government are of course aware that our owe tariff hardly coati= an ad valorem duty, sad that even in retest years we have bees engaged in substituting specific for ad valorem retest At this moment the wine- growers of Itargimody are holding meetings to protest against oar specific duties on wine, which, oda( to the alcoholic test, impose 50 per cant. more duty on their common meting perhaps half-a-crown a canon, than on the rarer kinds of claret, which are often worth more than fie. a bottle in the cellars of the Gironde. My answer to these complaints is that the evil is inevitable, owing to the exigencies of our revenue system. The French govern. meat plead, with equal good faith, the necessities of their ' mistime service in defence of their specific duties. " With respect to your other inquiry, there is not the slightest foundation of truth for the reports in question. The comminermen new sitting in Paris are not m- Mee!in correcting the initglitlay blunders to which you We have no mere power lima yourself to negotiate for the alteration of a seed of the treaty. Our duties are limited to the carrying oat of the provisions of the 13th article in the manner contemplated from the first, and by the only mode in which it could have been scoompiished. The ' task on which the commimion his just entered will call for the exercise of much patient labour ; and they who wish to ram a fair t on its conduct will wad for the result. taps oily of the past, I will say that from the time when i wee first brought into communication with the French government, now mere than six months since, to the present day, I ham experienced from them nothing but frankness, dasightiorwardnems, and good faith. They have never peufesael to carry out at once a free-trade policy to the advanced stage at which we have arrived in England. They are rather at the print of departure from which Mr. Hue. Moen started in IWA ' with the great advantage of having had our expereoce to guide and encourage them, and of having to deal with protected interests very much in *deluxe of ours of that time. The French government has begun with the repeal of duties on mw material., giving notice that after a certain time the prohibitive system will cone, and foreign inaeufacturee he admitted at revenue duties which will operate ea a protection to home producers. This is ere ctility the cones. pursued by Mr. Iluekissos, and we know with what happy consequences. "The Preach government have entered upon this new policy, not for the benefit of England, but from aa ealighteeed appreciation of the a.letstages it will confer as the people of Prance ; and were I to doubt the 1112CCets of the wpari moat, or fear that they will not persevere in the mew on which they have entered, I should be faith hes to those principles, the application of which has undamped such inesieslable advantages and blessings MI sty countrymen. presses treaty will inaugurate a sew ela i the coarawelal intareowse of France and Eag lets& end It will ady rapire a few years to develop that Mate of mintwal which forms the solid basis for the pore and h m esihip of nations. "Oan it he true that there ere sinister influences at work is in giai to mar if ponible this (sir prospect! If so tree, the mercantile, manufacturing, and trading intereste of the conntry will prove true to themselves, for in the present ruse their interests are eminently those of humanity and civlimation.—Believe me, room wry truly, "IticiAao COID/Of." The following is to the inhabitants of Naplea : It is time for you to imitate the magnanimous example of Sicily, by rising against the most impious of tyrannies. To the perjured and bloodthirsty race that has so long tor tured and trampled upon you, let the free government sue 000 d which eleven million of Italians now enjoy ; and sub stitute for the foul Bourbonic n►g the glorious tricolour, the happy symbol of national independence and unity, without which true and durable liberty ace impossrole. Your brethren of the North desire nothing more than to WO you join the Italian family. G. GARIBALDI, G. RICCIARDI, BARON Stucco. Ono to the Sicilians follows : Bdcidiane!—l have brought you a body of brave men, who have hastened to respond to the heroic cry of Sicily. We, the remains of the battles of Lombardy, are with you ; all we ask is the freedom of our land. United, the work will be easy and short. To arms, then !—he who does not snatch up a weapon is a coward, or a traitor to his country. Want of arms is no excuse. We shall get muskets, but for the present any weapon will do in the bands of a brave man. The municipalities shall provide for the children, women, and old men deprived of their support. To arms, all of you! Sicily shall once more teach the world how a country can be freed from its oppressors by the powerful will of a united people. G. GARIBALDI. THE STATE OF PALERMO. (MON OUR OWN OOBBISPONDErf.) NAPLES, MAT It The Elettrico came in from Palermo this morning, and I have scarcely time to send you the contents of two or three letters. One says, dated the 9th : "The shops in the Cassano and the Toledo have been opened by force, and are kept open by abirri and gendarmes. Companies of soldiers march up and down the town ; in fact, the government are doing nothing but parading the armed force and ar 1 resting- pople. They are much alarmed about do report of the approach of Garibaldi, and the soldiers begin to ha frightened ; the officers, too, are sick of being kept constantly on the move." " Palermo, May 1 12.—The steamer was detained by order ad..government. She was sent off the night before last to cruise in search of Garibaldi, who has not yet been found. We have been worse off than ever these last two days--constant demonstrations, and yes terday and the evening before, the people, on being fired on, got foul of the police with knives, and killed and wounded several. Some of the people also were wounded, and by degrees we look for another Sicilian Vespers. The people were never more united, and are beginning to get desperate. There has likewise been • riot with the troops near Balestreri, to the east of Palermo." This is from a good source, as also that the 10th regiment of the line at the Mole showed symptoms of disaffection, and cried out, " Abbaeao il Colo nello," ec. , &c., so that by degrees you will see things are beginning to take the course predicted by Lord John Russell. The reports about Garibaldi have thrown the government into confusion, and the evening before last all the steamers were again put in requisition, and sent off in every direction. The Elettrioo came back yes terday afternoon. The demonstrations are no longer in the Cassano and the Toledo,but in the Marqueda and the off streets. In the forenoon yesterday there was not a person to be seen in the streets, and the city and all the public resorts appeared to be dead. The working people, too, knocked off work at the same time, which added to the general gloom. To wards evening,about 7 o'clock, the numerous sentries surrounding the writer's house and the bank were very much alarmed, and carried their muskets in hand, ready to fire in any direction, appearing, at the same time, exceedingly nervous and excited. There is a report in Naples that a telegraphic die patch has been received from Tunis, apprising the government of the arrival of Garibaldi there with 800 men. Certainly there is great alarm felt here ; and, amongst other troops, the 3rd (foreign) Regi ment has orders to embark—this regiment consists principally of Austrians. I confirm what I have said of the provinces : the Calabrias and other parts are ready, and a spark would set them in a blaze. NAPLES, MAT 15, 9.50 r.r. (ortictu.) Garibaldi is in Sicily at the head of the fili busters. The royal troops are marching to comet thorn. No movement whatever has taken place in the provinces. NAPLES (v 0 Marseilles), MAY 12. The mere rumour of Garibaldi having attempted to raise the people in Calabria has caused a panic. It is even reported that the Court has packed up articles of value in order to be prepared for all con tingencies. The Neapolitan soldiers are discouraged, as for 38 days they have been fighting on the same ground. AUSTRIAN CONCESSIONS. VIENNA, MAT 17. The Praise publishes the following telegram, dated "PESTH, HAT 16. "An autograph letter of the Emperor is to be published to-morrow, allowing the constituted superintendents to assemble in conventions, in order to discuss the question of sending deputies to a general conference, and to make proposals for a synod. Free choice of superintendents and curates will be granted. The trials pending against Pro testants have been suspended." GERMANY AND THE SAVOY QUESTION. FB.ANKIFORT-OLTHE-MATNE, WAY 16. The probabilities of the assembling of • con ference have lately diminished, the German powers being of opinion that it would not in any way in fluence French policy, nor arrange any real gua rantee in favour of Switzerland. The following tire their reasons : The annexation of Savoy to France having prac tically done away with the guarantee contained in article 92 of the final act of Vienna, that article could not form the basis of a conference. The cession of the littoral of the Lake of Geneva to Switzerland would not constitute any guarantee of military importance. It is not likely that at the conference the oppo sition of the Great Powers to the annexation of Savoy would be unanimous. Even if it were, France having accomplished the annexation, not withstanding the opposition of public opinion iu Europe, would also not be inenenoed by the opinion of the Great Powers, more especially as they have resolved upon acting with moderation, and without coercion towards France. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. ST. PETERSBURG. HAY 16. On the occasion of the communication; made by Prince Gortschakoff to the diplomatic corps respect ing the affairs of Turkey, the English ambassador, Sir John F. Crampton, immediately protest e d against the intentions declared by Russia. THE STADE DUES. HANOVER, MAT 16. The Anglo-Hanoverian treaty of July, 1844, respecting the Stade dues, was prolonged the day before yesterday for a further period of six months. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, MAC 16. The ship Result passed hem this ?twilling. She bee been 79 days on the passage from Melbourne, mud brings 40,680 or. of gold. A few of her praermgers hslds landed here. THE UNITED STATES. QUEENSTOWN, MAT 16. The royal mail steam-ship Australasian, from Portland, Maine, no the firth instant, has arrived. The City of Manchester had arrived out. The Southern Convention had adjourned on the same day as the Charlestown Conven. Lion, after voting down a proposition for the former I (which claims to be the National Convention) to take the title of the " Constitutional Democracy." A Southern Convention was to meet at Richmond in the second week in June. Captain Farnham, of the slave yacht Wanderer, had beenfforcib l y rescued from gaol. New YORK, MAT 4, Evrsrso.—Stocks active and better. Illinois scrip, 59(. New York Centrals, 79. Money easy. Exchange on London, 1091, firm. Cotton steady. Sales to day, 1,400. Middling pland, 11k. Breadatutfa dull. Sugar firm. Provisions steady. Freights heavy. Cotton j to 3-16. Nan Owe, MAT 3.—Cotton sales, 3,600 bales. Ming Upland, lOic. to 11c. Noma May 2—Cotton sales, 3,000 bales. Middling Upland, 101 c. to 10ec. QI7IIENSTOWN, WEEINIRDAT. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer, City of Baltimore, Captain Petrie, which left New York on the sth inst. with over 500,000 dole., has arrived. The Opinion. Nationale states as a positive fact that the King of Naples, wishing to bestow au especial mark of hie royal favour upon the notorious Maniscalco, surnamed the hangman of Sicily, has appointed his eon (a baby three rim and a half old !) to be receiver•gcneral at Capua. A Paris letter in the Nord says :—" It is stated that Count de Montemolin sad his brother almost Wiese. distely after their arrival in Paris, left for London, where their brother the Infante Don Juan is residing. No repu diation of the act of renunciation baring been made either by the two princes or in their name, that document assumes a stronger and stronger character of authenticity. Queen Christina and the Spanish embassy maintain that it cer tainly emanated from the princes, so stated." EX PRESSFROM -PARIS. MON OUR OWN OORIZISPONDINT.) PARIS, WM:MAY EMONG. The glorious news that Garibaldi has met with immense success has transpired, but the text of the telegrams, which you will doubtless receive before to-morrow morning, is not yet made public lic:re. The Opinion Natiotiak announces tkat, iu couse guenoe of an "invitation" from the Minister of the Interior, it suspends any further publication relative to the subscription opened for the defenders of Italian independence. Thu Pattie goes further and says that the subscriptions themselves, and not merely publicity relating to them, are positively prohibited. I cannot help thinking, however, that the prohibition is of a very weak and formal kind, and that the original announcement of the Opining Nationale must have been winked at by the Empe ror. lam the more inclined to this opinion, be cause M. Havin, in a leading article in the &fele, states that he shall subscribe, and, by way of a side blow at Lamoriciere, he calls his donation the " at. Peter's pence of the Sick." M. Billault continues to attract the very little public attention which the grave events now purg ing in Europe leave unobserved, by his wonderful activity in visiting the press with frivolous warn ings and communicated notes. A little while ago M. E. About, in one of his witty jeuilletone, took a side in the great picture-cleaning controversy with which you are so familiar in England. He main tained that the collection of Rubensee, the St. Michael of Raphael, and other chefs d'cenore in the Louvre, have been ruined by the process of clean ing, and prayed that the hand of the destroyer might be stayed. It is to be presumed that there must have been a great deal of truth in his obser vations ; for very shortly after they appeared, and apparently in consequence of them, the Moniteur contained an article, praising to the skies the taste and judgment of the managers of the Louvre, but stating in the last paragraph that in future they would not be allowed to clean any picture without the consent of the mem bers of the Institute. After this victory of the anti-cleaning faction the Minister of the Interior would have done well to be quiet. But speaking evil of dignities is so abhorrent to his views pf "order" that he now comes down upon the Opieribn Nationale, with a tardy communiqué for M. About i s article, and reminds the journal that attacks upon any "depositaries of authority" (meaning the scrubbers of the Louvre Gallery) are illegal, and ;if repeated may lead to the most "serious conse quences." The Pays says it is "certain" that the French army of occupation will leave Rome and return to France "by the end of this month." In connexion with this news it notices the elevation of General de Goyon to the rank of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, which I remarked upon yesterday as being very significant. The Bourse was a little reassured this morning by the thinness of Consols, but a perfect panic set in later in the day. To-morrow, Ascension Day, is a holiday, and few speculators for the rise felt the courage to keep their accounts open till Friday. The Rente fell 60c. for cash and 75c. for account) closing at the low prices of 69fr. and 68fr. 85c. Mobilier fell 15fr. The Northern Railway fell Bfr. 75c. ; Lyons, 7fr. 50c. ; Orleans, sfr. ; and the other lines 2fr. Wc. each. M. de Lampe presided yesterday at a general meeting of the shareholders of the Isthmus of Sues Canal scheme, and read a report, the most tangi ble fact of which is, that 360,0001. sterling of the subscribers' money has been spent in surveys. The meeting, however, appeared to be highly delighted with the statements made to them, and accepted ae authentic the assurance that, in spite of the persis tent and malicious opposition of England, "all difficulties were now got over." THE REMOVAL OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. Yesterday a meeting of Old Westminstera was held in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey, to take intooensidemti?n matter,, of rms. importance con- netted with the welfare of Westminster Schocil. The meet ing was very numerously attended. Lord Ebury advocated the retention of the school on its present site, but proposed that it should be recast into a middle-class day school, and thus meet a great educational want. Lord Charles Russell, as one of those who still retained his connexion with the school by sending his children there, was convinced that the most desirable course to be pursued was to remove the school Lord Llanover opposed Lord Ebury's proposition ; he sawno reason why the old school, if re moved to a suitable distance from the metropolis, should not revive, retain its old connexion with the nobility and gentry of England, and vie with any public school The Dean of Christ Church thought, con sidering the bad position of many of our public schools— Eton notoriously unhealthy, Winchester in a swamp, Har row and Rugby without water—that it would be possible to find a position which should combine every advantage for the new St. Peter's College of Westminster when trans. planted to fresh soil ; but of one thing be was convinced, that if an angel from Heaven were to come down and under take the charge of Westminster School, he would find it impossible to revive it on its present site. The Master of Trinity said that if the school, as Lord Ebury seemed to contemplate, were made a mere middle-class day-school, the connexion existing between it and Trinity would be materially weakened ; nor could it be expected that under such a system many additions would be made to those glorious names of poets, judges, and statesmen, who, having been educated at Westminster, had been transferred to Trinity and enrolled in the archives of that college. The Dean of Westminster declared it to he his decided movie tion that it was desirable to remove it before the old West minster connexion was entirely snapped. The Duke of Richmond,whosew before him in Sir James Graham hie fag of bygone days, called on the Head Muster to state his opinion. The Rev. C. B. Soot; Head Master of West minster, said that though the school had not fallen off much of late years, still it languished. and seemed gradually to decline. There were great diffieulties attending the moral supervision of boys in the metropolis, great risk in pursuing the favourite sport of Westminster; young and old, the water, and, and above all things, want of Apace even for educational purposes. After entering into some statistical details to prove his point, Mr. Scott proceeded to may that he thought, for various lemons, Lord Ebury's proposition was not feasible, but he was very sanguine of the success that would attend removal if the scheme were properly and influentially carried out. The Bishop of St. Asaph then moved a resolution to the effect that the meeting thought it desirable, if it were possible, to remove the school. Sir David Dundee end Sir James Graham pleaded for delay. Lord Broughton followed still more decidedly against the motion. Sir Walter James declared that he was decidedly opposed to Lord Ebury's scheme, and said that ho thought if the school were removed it might reasonably be expected to revive. The Duke of Rklunouil then moved an amend ment to the effect that the meeting should stand adjourned to Wednesday, the 13th of June, the Bishop of St. Asaph withdrew his motion, and the amendment was unanimously canied. On the day named it is expected that every information to enable the meeting to arrive at a clear ex preioion of their opinion will be laid before the Old Wait 'Masters who take part in it. THE LADr AND THE VOLUNTEER MOVENEKT.— The following letter, containing a practical suggestion se regards the drill and efficiency of volunteer corpv, has been addressed by Eat' Grosvenor, the commandant of the Westminster Volunteer Corps, to a contemporary :—" May I ask your kind insertion of a line on a subject of some importance to the tradesmen of the west-end NMI to the metropolitan volunteers? In this matter the !Adios have it in their power to contribute very materially to the efficiency of our volunteers—and how' By not shopping after 2 p.m. on Saturday. Should they consent to , yield to such a demand on their convenience and good nature the tradesmen would be able to close their shops at that hour, the men would obtain a half holiday, which many would be only too glad to devote to the solitary exercises happily so much in hellion, to their peat moral and physical bet. In the city business is over by about 20 clock, and I amconlideut that if it were only more generally known in our quarter what real practiml advantage would accrue from a little personal sacrifice and consideration on the part of the ladies in their Saturday's shopping arrangements, they would be most willing to assist in this halfdcoliday volunteer movement. Probably an aeice chitin° of bolim might be started for this object, and a com mittee formed for acting upon this suggestion, if, as I think, it is not altogether worthless.. I