The Express. — London, England, 1860-06-25 00:00:00

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Without prejudging what Lord Ewer may have done since Mr. BRUCE received from the Imperial Commissioner Ho the letter of the Great Council, in which that functionary was informed that the English ultimatum was wanting in de corum, and that our demands had better be dropped, we may point out that whereas this news of peace, which comes by the unaccustomed route of Japan, San Francisco, Springfield (Missouri), Boston, and Queenstown, is dated China, April 10, we published, a fort night to-day, a long letter from Hong Kong, of April 24, describing the incessant labours of the Quartermaster-General's department in organising the expedition, the harbour full of transports, the little army of commissaries, storekeepers, and pur veyors, the bullocks from India and the ponies from Japan, the Chinese Coolie Corps, or " Bamboo " Rifles," and ahu ndred other preparations for carry ing on the war, of the active prosecution of which nobody doubted. But we need not go any further. In the haste of preparing his despatch Mr. Rat-rra'a agent at Queenstown has made a mistake. His rumour is • fortis* . .rider than authentic news from China published here a fortnight ago. The same remark applies to the news from Japan. The assassination of the Emperor of JAPAN is another version of the attempted mur der of the Regent, fully narrated by Mr. Atcors, our Plenipotentiary at Yeddo, in a despatch which has been in England long enough to have been presented to Parliament. Mr. Auoc wrote from the capital of Japan on the 2nd of April, making no allusion to the assassination of the Emperor which, according to the American account, had taken place on the 15th of March, more than a fortnight before. We regret to be compelled to destroy illusions in which the humane feelings of the public have found a momentary satisfaction ; but whatever Lord ELois's diplomacy may be able to accomplish, certainly the prospects of peace with China remain unimproved. Despatches received from Shanghai by the ordinary route of the overland mail, and dated April 28, reached London last night, and apprise us that, as our correspondent had led us to expect, pending the receipt from the Chinese Government of a reply to the second communica tion of the British Minister, the allied forces oo cupied Chusan on the 21st of April without oppo sition. Tee Grand Review on Saturday was in all respects a triumph, such as those who witnessed it are not likely to forget. No such sight has been seen in our days. We have had indeed military displays that have been on various accounts brilliant and impressive, but none so perfectly national, none that combined elements of such peculiar and stirring interest as this great pacific demonstration. The moral significance of the whole is summed up in the one fact of its beng a Volunteer movement. Those fine bodies of trained men that marched to the ground CM Saturday with a precision that delighted pro fessional critics knew nothing whatever of military discipline a year ago. At most twelve short months, and in many cases little more than half that number, have sufficed to convert a hundred thousand busy citizen& into effective soldier.. No business or professional occupations have been sa crificed to produce this result. It is the rich fruit of scanty leisure freely dedicated to • noble pur pose. Under these conditions the change appears litt'a short of miraculous, and we cannot wonder at the exclamations of surprise, admiration, and delight which greeted the Volunteers on Saturday. But the explanation is simple enough. The per fect discipline of the men represents the energy and determination that has been thrown into the movement. The sudden creation of this vest national array is a miracle which the love of " Eng land, home, and duty" easily works amongst a brave and patriotic people. It expresses the stern but enthusiastic attachment which true liberty inspires. The mere whisper of danger to the land that enjoys it, and the institutions in which it is em bodied, has profoundly moved the whole nation. It has summoned bands of volunteers in every part of the country to the unaccustomed disci pline of arms, and, were danger immi nent and threatening, the same impulse would multiply their number tenfold. This is the meaning of the demonstration of Saturday. It was the fete-day of constitutional freedom ; and everything conspired to render its proceedings worthy of the occasion. As a mere spectacle nothing could be lair than the appearance of the Park at the aseilisring of the Volunteers. The day was of the best possible kind for out door activity gad enjoyment, bright and cheerful but not too brilliant, bits of blue sky chequering the masses of cool grey clouds that moved slowly across the sky, and a pleasant breese tempering the heat and giving freshness and elasticity to the air throughout the day. Then the arrangements on the ground were most pisturesque. The actors and spectator* enclosed the open spaces of the Park so as to turn its beauty to the best account. They were arranged in • vast oval amphitheatre, or long ellipse, lying north and south, the eastern line being a crescent of gaily-dressed spectators, and the longer western line covered with muses of thej volunteer troops in position, each line having us • background noble screen of wood. The intervening space was brightened with moving uniforms, and animated with martial music ; while all round surged the I I great tide of the many.voiced and ever-moving multitude. Such a crowd of excited holiday , keepers has not filled the metropolitan Park for many • day. No praise, however high, could well be deemed excessive for the Volunteers themselves. In their discipline and soldier-like bearing they I exceeded the expectations of the most sanguine. If there were any who doubted either of the reality or national value of the movement, those doubts must have been set at rest. No proof could well be stronger of the deep hold it has taken of the national mind than was given on Saturday. Apart from the time devoted to the arduous work of drilling, these Volunteers have spontaneously taxed themselves to what is in the aggregate an enormous amount. Taking eight or nine pounds as a moderate average for the outlay of each in dress and accoutrements, the various corps throughout the kingdom, consisting for the most part of melt belonging to the middle and mer cantile classes, and necessarily of moderate means, have contributed nearly • million towards pro moting the most vital and effective part of our national defences. This pecuniary contribution is no alight sacrifice, but the time and energy given to the work of training is a still stronger proof of earnest and devoted patriotism. But the sacrifice has not been in vain. We may see already how much good the movement has effected at home in the altered tone of public feeling. It has steadied the more excitable portion both of the press and of the people, and prevented them from running, as heretofore, into the discredit able extremes of offensive bravado or senseless panic. We have happily lost the old tone of in solent swagger in referring to other countries or speaking of ourselves, once too prevalent, but which is only a sign of conscious weakness. The country is no longer distracted with alarm by doubtful tele grams, by excited appeals from home agitators, or false rumours in foreign journals. Our dangers, what ever they may be, are certainly not less now than they were twelve months ago. But the tone of public feeling is very different. There is a calm ness and quiet confidence springing up in the public mind, which blended with increasing vigilance and determination is the happiest sign of conscious strength. The demonstration of Saturday will deepen and intensify these feelings throughout the country. There is another important aspect of the Grand Review which ought not to be overlooked. It goes far towards settling the vexed question of our national defences. Every one must have felt, in looking at the almost endless succession of fine corps that passed before the Qt Lax on Saturday, that such a force was after all about the beet protection any country coulll ponces. Volun teer troops that consecrate their hours of leisure to military drill, until they have acquired the knowledge and skill of tried soldiers, will prove, we may be certain, a most effective defensive force. If they have done so much in comparatively quiet times, they would do ten times more in seasons of actual alarm. There is, in fact, nothing that men of tbni stamp would shrink from in a crisis of national danger. Prevention is bettxr than cure ; and the posses sion of such a force is undoubtedly the best security against their ac.ive services in the field ever being required. While this is amongst the most effectual, it is at the same time the moat econon•ical of all national defences. Military men are just now debating whether various schemes of stone fortifications would be useful and effectual or not ; but no man doubts the use and value of the masses of living fortifi o. tions that paraded in the Park on Saturday. If an invasion ever were to take place, the business would in the end be settled not by stone walls, but by the masses of men that could be brought to oppose the foe. We need scarcely waste time in discussing, or money in expe riments as to the best protection against invasion, when we have before us the simple maxim— " Multiply the volunteers and we are safe." That, we believe, is the actual truth. Two hundred and fifty thousand of well-trained Rifle Volinteers would effectually prevent this contingency. We earnestly hope that some means may be devised for extending the movement, so as to embrace all classes, and thus make the force not only large, but what it ought to be in the truest sense— national. We have the best possible material for effective rifle troops in the more skilled and intel ligent workmen and art'sans of our large towns. They would gladly join in the movement, but they cannot afford the preliminary expenses. Surely some means might be devised for meeting this difficulty ; and if so, while it still continues to spread amongst other classes, we should in a few months obtain double the present number of volunteers. With 250,000 volunteers in regular training the question of national defences would be practically settled in the cheapest and most expeditious manner. Tar accounts received from some of the textile manufacturing districts during the last week indi cate rather a dull state of trade, although there appears to have been little falling off in the extent of employment. At Manchester the principal depression is in the market for manufactured goods, in which the recent reduction in prices has not yet etimu• lated the demand. From the increased number of inquiries on the part of buyers for the Indian market it was imagined that trade in that direction was about to experience a partial revival, but a fresh check seems to have been given by the advice. received on Tuesday from Calcutta, and on Thursday from Bombay. The demand his accordingly slackened again. A sufficiently inde pendent position, however, is maintained by many of the manufacturers, who are still, in some instances, delivering goods under old contracts entered into at high prices. The loss that has been incurred, as a matter of course, does not fall upon the manufacturers, who, on the contrary, derive a considerable advantage from the fall which has taken place in the price of cotton since the date of the contracts in question. As regards yarns, there has been some revival of business, and in a few instances prices are a little firmer. The woolleii trade is rather dull, owing partly to the backward state of the weather. In some quarters a diminution has taken place in the employment of the operatives, but this is excep tional, and, upon the whole, there is little actual complaint. The principal degree of acti vity seems to prevail at Huddersfield. The silk trade throughout the kingdom is depressed, and a considerable number of hands are out of employ ment In the hosiery districts the amount of \ TICE EXPRESS, MONDAY ErANINfI, au • badness going forward ix moderate, the trade still waiting upon the weather. At Nottingham the lace department shows signs of improvement. From the Midland Districts engaged in the iron trade the reports are more cheerful. There is no briskness, but a very fair extent of general move ment, all the great works being in full operation, notwithstanding the continued dulness of the de mand for many foreign markets. Trade at Bir mingham and in its neighbourhood is described as decidedly more active in nearly every department, and labour is more fully employed. There is no doubt that the long-continued un genial weather and the check which it has given to the home spring and summer trade has occa sioned a good deal of difficulty in many of the retail branches. A large number of shopkeepers who had purchased goods in the expectation of meeting with the amount of custom usual at the season have been left with them on their hands, and have been thrown behindhand with their pay ments. Through the necessity of indulgence thus imposed upon the wholesale houses, the effect of the check to trade works back to the manufac turer. The limited extent to which it has yet trenched upon the employment of labour fur nishes another satisfactory evidence of the magni tude of the fund of reserved profits existing amongst the trading classes. Cbe Court. Her Majesty the Queen went on Saturday after noon to review the Volunteer Rine Corps in Hyde•perk. The Qom= left Buckingham Palace at a quarter before four o'clock. °Meer of Quartermaeter-General's Department. Detechment of Life Guards. Queen's Aidsde•Camp. Deputy Adjutant and Deputy Quartermaater•Generels. Equirries to the Queen not with carriage'. The Adjutant-General, Military Secretary, and Quarter• A eurime and four conveying the Queen, the King at the Belgium, the Princess Alms end Prince Arthur. Tits Prince Consort and the Count of Flanders rode on banistoct en ono side of her Majesty's carriage, and ths Nines of Wales, and Prince Jules of Holstein rode on hone. bads on the other. Field Marsha Viscount Combermere, Gold Btick.in- Waiting. The Master of the Home and the Clerk Marshal. A carriage and four conveying the Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg &relit; the j eces or. g e and Prince Leopold. Seymour and Lieutenant• Colonel the Hon. D. de Bah the Equerriee m Waiting to the Queen and Prince, rode es either aide of the carriage. A carriege and four conveying the Princess Mary of Cam bridge, Princess Louise, and the Eight Hon. Sidney Secretary of State for War. Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Equerry to the Queen, and Lientenent- Colonel Kappa, Equerry to the Prince ct Wales, attended on horseback. A Gurley gad four conveying the Duchess of Athol!, lady la Welling, Lady Caroline Barrington, Lady Geraldine S. nit, lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge, and larl de Grey and Ripon, Under Secretary of State for Wea. _ _ _ Lind Charles Fitsßoy, Equerry to the Queen, and Major Du Rat, Equorry to the Prince Consort, ►ttended on hone . .._ Lords-Lieutenant of Counties on horseback. Majw-Osseral the Hon. R. Bruce, Colonel Count de Moerkerke, e zior Burnell, and Major Elphinstone. Foreign . Assistants Adjutant-Ottheral. Detachment of Qsvalry. The King of the Belgians appeared in the uniform of • British field-marshal ; the Prince Consort also wore a field marshal's uniform. The Queen returned to Buckingham Palace at a quarter past six o'clock. The Prince of Wales visited Prince Victor of Hobanlohe and the Princess of Holstein-Gluckshourg at their respective residences on Saturday morning. The Prince Consort preselcd in the evening at a dinner at the Trinity-house, of which corporation his Royal eiser is Master. The Prince was attended by Earl S W pencer, Lord George LeTallll4 Oelonel the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps, Major-General Wylde, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. D. de Ros. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alice, the Prince of Walt,, and the Count of Flanders, honoured the Italian Or ra with her presence in the evening. In attendance were the Irucheas of Atholl, the Hon. Caro line Cavendish, Viscount Torrington Major-General Sey mour, Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, dad Major Burr eIL Yesterday the Queen and Prince Consort, the Bing of the Belgians, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Alice, Prinoe Arthur, the Princesses Helena and Louise, the la lies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic house hold, attended divine service in the private chapel, Buck ingham Palace. The Rey. Henry Nury, chaplain to the House of Commons, preached the sermon. The Prince Consort and the Prince of Walm visited the Grand Duchess of Leuchtenberg, at Claridge's Hotel, in the afternoon. The names of Mrs. Washington Jackson, Mi Jackson, and Min Ellen Jackson, from the United States, were acci dentally omitted from the list of distinguished foreigners who had the honour of attending the Queen's Ball on Fri day, 22nd June. The names of Vice-Admiral Sir Barring ton Reynolds and Lady Reynolds were also accidentally omitted from the list. This morning the Duke of Cambridge, as General Commanding-in-Chief, accompanied by General the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scsirlett, K.C.8., the Adjutant-General, and attended by a numerous staff, left town for the camp at Aldersbott, in order to receive her Majesty, the Prince Con sort, and illustrious party on the Queen's arrival at the amp to-day from Buckingham Palace. As announced on Saturday, her Majesty and the Prince Consort will pass one night only at the Royal Pavilion. The "Queen's Gallery" in Hyde Park, on Satur day, was occupied by the Duke d'Aumals, the Turkish ambassador, the Duchess of Wellington, the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, the Marquis of Anglesey, the Marchioness of Aiksbury, the Marchioness of Westminster, the Countess of Desert, the Earl and Countess of Durham, the Countess of Lichfield, Viscountess Jocelyn, Viscountess Ingestre, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl and Countess at Shaftesbury, Sir Charles and lady Phipps, Viscount Tesringtoo, the wife of the Secretary at War, Mrs. Sidney Herbert, Lord Palmerston, the Countess of Somers, the Duchess of Manchester, the Lord Chancellor, and many others. The 7'inses says that in the Park, on Saturday, the Doke of Newcastle and Lord Otbo Fitzgerald were both thrown from their horses, but without receiving nevem injury. The Countess do Persigny bad an assembly on Saturday evening at the residence of the Embassy, Albert gate Hoses Previously to the aseembly the ambassador and the Countess de Persigny entertained at dinner his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Duchess of Wel lington, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, Vismantems Palmerston, Viscount and Viscountess Sidney, Lord and Lady Harry Vane, Lord and lady Harriet Ashley, Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild and Mims de Rotheehild, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, ILP., aad Mrs. Herbert, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, /LP., and Yrs. Cowper, Mr. George Russell, Le. Hn Dime gave • &jabber, on Saturday, at Qves►eaorpts, which wee numerously attends& It is misted that the post of paymaster of Civil gerskes, Gabbs, sadist by the death of Yr. Charles Grey, worth MOM. a year, will sot be tilled up, the aloe betas doomed to abolitioa. The Council of the National Rifle Association, having resolved to extend the time for the entry of volun teers who desire to compete for prizes at the Wimbledon meeting on the 2nd of July and following days, announce that the escretary of the association will be prepared to receive further entries up to Saturday next, the 30th inst. The 'pedal Sunday evening services in West minster Abbey will cease with the service of next Sunday for the present year. _ _ The Channel nquadron, after an anchorage of 15 days in St. Margaret's Hope, rirth of Forth, left its moor legs on Saturday afternoon, and under canvass, with auxiliary steam power, proceeded down the Firth and stood out to sea. A number of steamers convoyed the fleet down the Firth. The public enthusiasm excited by the visit of the Channel squadron in the Forth can scarcely fan to give • stimulus to the service in the southeast of Scotland, where for many years a fleet of war ships had Dot been seen ; and great disappointment is felt that the fleet has Dot been able to make the tour of the north of Scotland and Ireland, as war anticipated. It was expected th►t the squadron would reach Yarmouth-routs yesterday afternoon. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. NAPLES AND SARDINIA. (MN 001 OWN NAPLES, Jaws 20. This country is not absolutely at war with Sar dinia, but the state of things very much resembles it. Volunteers are continually landing in smaller or greater numbers on the coast of Sicily, and I have reason to believe that the Marchese Villa marina has declared to the Commendatore Carafe that his government will not promote such ex peditions, but not charge itself with the prevention of them. The reason assigned was forcible : You recruit in Austria for men to put down the liberties of Italy, and Austrians, Hungarians, and Bavarians, well-disciplined soldiers, land at Bari or Brindisi, and are thence sent to Avelina or Nooses, and drafted into the army which is fighting against the independence of our brothers. If despotism imports, liberty must do the same. Unless, too, the affair of the capture of the vessels be adjusted favourably,l have reason to believe that a Sardinian vessel of war will accompany and protect future expeditions similar to the one which has been interrupted. Sardinia is therefore at an almost insensible distance from • war with this country. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. The Grand Duke of Baden arrived here yester day evening, and left again for London at 7 o'clock this morning. SPAIN AND NAPLES. MADRID, Jtaigi 25. The Spanish government, by the medium of its Chargi d'Affaires at Turin, has presented a pro test to Count Cavour against the assistance indi rectly given by Sardinia to the Sicilian revolu tionary party. Should the remonstrance of Spain remain with out any effect, the Spanish Legation will be ordered to quit Turin. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. VIENNA, Joint 25. The interview of the sovereigns at Baden has brought about an understanding between Austria and Prussia as regards the re organisation of the military constitution of the Confederation. The Prince Regent of Pfussia has invited the Austrian cabinet to send • military representative to the conferenoe on that question which will take place at Baden. Austria has sent • colonel of the general staff. FRANCE AND BERNE, Joss 114. The Federal Council received two days ago a despatch from M. Kern, the Minister of Switzer land at Paris, in which K Kern gives an account of the conference he had on the 19th instant with M. Thouvenel in reference to the accomplished annexation of Savoy to France. The French Minister for Foreign Affairs declared that his government would not ob ject to this question being brought before • Euro pean conference at which Switzerland would take part. M. Thouvenel added, Switzerland having by her note of the 23rd of May last rejected the French proposals, the Court of the Tuileries entirely withdraws them,and France will henceforth merely place herself in the position formerly occupied by Sardinia in reference to the obligations resulting from the neutralisation of Fancigny and Chablaia. M. Thouvenel is said to have further declared that the Emperor Napo leon would not give up any portion of the territory of Savoy. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Jinn N. Count Moltke, the Danish minister plenipo tentiary in France, has arrived here, having been summoned by the government on account of the affairs of the German Duchies. THE CONFERENCE AT BADEN. BADEN, Jams 24. It is stated that during the conference at Baden the Prince Regent of Prussia directed the attention of the august assembly to the state of affairs in Italy. The Prince Regent is said to have declared that the Sardinian government was already overrun by revolution, and that if no attention were paid to the further course of events, all Europe might be threatcned with revolutionary agitation. It is also said that Baron Schleinitz has been ordered to draw up a circular note, informing the diplomatic agents of Piedmont abroad of what passed in the interview at Baden. In this note particular mention would be made of the words pronounced before Napoleon 111. by the Prince Regent of Prussia on the affairs of Italy. RUSSIA AND SARDINIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Julia X It is said that by order of his Majesty, Count Stackelberg, the Russian minister at Turin, has been instructed to declare to the Sardinian cabinet that should the Sardinian government not hence forth prevent the departure for Sicily of the expe ditions in course of organisation in different porta of Sardinia, Count Stackelberg, with the whole of the legation, would quit Piedmont. THE REVOLUTION IN SICILY. The Patvie states that Garibaldi held a council of war on the evening of the 21st inst., at which it was unanimously decided that the insur rectional army, after having collected all the neoeesary military forme, should march on Mes sina.The volunteers brought by Colonel Medici had been chosen with great care ; among them were officers and sub-officers of engineers. It was be lieved that the march on Mesons would commence on the 28th instant. . According to advioee from Palermo to the 18th inst. the organisation of troops was progressing. The national guard occupied the different posts in the town. The first division of troops under the command of Colonel Turr, Bizio , and Spanguro, was ready for departure. The second division was being organised. The marine was also being orga nised. The republican party adhered to the government of King Victor Emanuel. Sardinian flags were everywhere displayed. Advicea have been received at Turin from Sicily stating that Prince Torrearsa had been appointed President of the Council and Deputy of the Dic tator Garibaldi at Palermo. Count Cavour approves and maintains the pro test which was lodged at Naples by the Marquis of Villamarina on the 11th inst., against the capture of the Sardinian steamers by the Neapolitan fngate Fulminante. It is officially stated at Naples that the Comman der de Martino has received from theEmperorof the French the formal assurance that France would not recognise the annexation of Sicily to Piedmont. It is also officially asserted that the Emperor, as well as M. Thouveuel, has drawn particular atten tion to the fact that the court of the Tuileries has not recognised the annexation of Tuscany and she Romagna to Sardinia. It is further stated that the King of Naples, 5 , 1860. yielding to the counsels of the Emperor, has de clared himself ready to enter frankly on the path of reform by granting a liberal constitution., to be placed under the guarantee of England and France. In exchange for this, the King of Naples de mands the guarantee of his possessions by the Western Powers. This, however, has been refused. The number of the prisoners taken on board the two steamers captured by the Neapolitan frigate is about 900, all of whom are confined in the prisons of Gaeta. ILLNESS OF THE KING OF NAPLES. TURIN, Junes 2s. The Opinion of to-day publishes the following despatch from Naples : The King is senoualy iIL The government is said to be deliberating upon the restoration of the captured vessels, together with the passengers and merchandise. THE PAPAL STATES. PARIS, Jots 24. Letters from Rome state that Dr. Manning had been appointed prelate. Troops had been sent to Fermo. At Aseoli precautionary measures were being taken. CHINA. SHANGHAI, APRIL 28. The allied forces occupied Chum= on the 21st April without opposition from the Chinese. The movements of the rebels are becoming more alarming. Trade is stagnant. CANTON, HAT 6. No answer has been received from the Chinese government to the second communication from the British minister. The Chinese are making extensive preparations for resistance. The rebel disturbances are over. Trade has improved. WRECK OF THE STEAMER MALABAR. POINT DE GALLE (Vu Timm), MA,' 28. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Malabar has bsen totally wrecked in harbour. She her hawser in • gale of wind, bumped parted heavily against the rocks and went ashore on the sand. The passengers and mails were saved, but nothing has been recovered from the wreck. The Malabar lies with her stern deeply em bedded in the sand. Divers are endeavouring to recover the specie which was on board. TEIESTE,Juire 24. The Malabar, with Lord Elgin and Baron Gros on board, was wrecked, when about to leave Galle harbour on the 22nd of May. All the passengers and crew were saved. A portion of the mails was saved. Both ambassadors have loot their credentials and PaPer Allthe bullion and baggage sank with the ship. The ambassadors will sail on the 6th of June for Hong-Kong. HOMEWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Nemesis arrived at Suez on the 16th inst. The Ceylon arrived at Malta at 3 a.m., and left for South ampton at noon on the 22nd. She will probably arrive on the 14 July. _ _ . The Valetta arrived at Marseille@ at 6 a.m. this day. Mails left for Loudon at 10 a.m. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Delta, from Southampton on the 12th, ar rived at Malta at 7 am. on the 261, and sailed for Alex andria at 6 p.m. on the same day. The Nubia, with the Calcutta and Chins mail of the 20th (26th) Nay, broke her main shaft on her way down the Red Sea towards Aden. The Nava took the mails, dc., on to Calcutta. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ous me PARIS, SUNDAY EVNNDIO. The news that Prince Torrearsa baa been ap pointed Garibaldi's substitute at Palermo is thus commented upon by the Pays, which, however, it must be remembered has always been very hostile to the Italian national movement : Since the occupation of Palermo by the volunteers very serious difficulties have occurred apropos of Garibaldi's ad ministrative measures. Complaints were especially made of the men whom he had put at the head of affairs in Sicily. Prince Torrean• will probably unite all suffrages. He is one of the five princes who took a leading part in recent events. He is an intimate friend of Count Cavour, and while a highly honourable man has experience in busi ness. At • moment when Garibaldi is about to march upon Messina, it was neamsary to replace him as dictator by a man whose authority may possibly be sufficient to keep down the depression which is always apparent with regard to the ultimate destinies of Sicily. It is very much doubted here whether Garibaldi really means to besiege Messina. The announce ment is thought to be a ruse de guerre. The Debate reproaches certain liberal journals with inconsistency, because they would have had the government prohibit the pontifical loan. The Opinion Nationale replies that if the government had been strictly neutral, and bad allowed the friends of Italian independence to subscribe for Garibaldi without impediment, and to advertise their subscriptions, it would have been quite con tent to see the like liberty accorded to the partisans of Austria and divine right. But since it has been thought fit to interdict the subscription for the emancipation of Sicily and Naples, the Opinion per sists in saying that the government would have done better to have been equally severe in regard to a loan destined to thwart French policy in Italy, and to reinstate Austria on the banks of the Po. This day, June 24, is the first anniversary of the battle of Solferino. The regiments quartered in Paris who took part in that decisive combat have celebrated the event by regimental festivities in their barracks. It was intended to have an im posing religious service for the souls of the men who fell at Solferino, in the Prince Eugbne barracks, but the ceremony is postponed till Tuesday to suit the convenience of the Archbishop of Paris, who will officiate. A banking house of great local importance—that of Pain and Co., of Troyes, has stopped payment, under very painful circumstances. The principal partner, who has been arrested, is accused of hav ing appropriated for his private speculations three fourths of the capital of the company. There is property enough to pay all the creditors of the bank in full, but it is anticipated that the share holders will lose from 40 to 60 per cent. A comet, visible to the naked eye, has lately been observed at Paris, Havre, Orleans, Nantes, and Bordeaux. It will be necessary to make further observations before the course which the comet will follow can be calculated. An English female pickpocket, named Ellen Brown, well-dressed, young, and pretty, was yes terday sentenced to three years' imprisonment for stealing a purse from a lady on the Boulevards. The German journal of Paris, Pariser Zcitung, announces that a German company of players will I commence a series of representations in Paris within the next few days. • PARIS, SOUILDAT Evcsnio. The Emperor came to Paris this morning from Fontainebleau to visit the cattle show. He approved of the purchase of ten horses made for him by General Emmy, and bought another himself. On leaving the show at an early hour he presided at a eouncil of ministers, from which ho was called away by a telegram from Villegenis, stating that his uncle, 'Ptah* Jerome, was at death's door. The prince, who in all human probability cannot sur vive many hours, is not yet dead. I have heard reports of his death continually this evening, but they are not true. The Emperor, leaving Ins bed aide, returned to Paris, and presided at a sitting of the Council of State at half-past two. At six in the evening he left for Fontainebleau. It has been doubted whether the Emperor and Empress would visit Savoy and Nice this year. It is now, however, said very positively that they will start to look over their new possessions immedi ately after the fête of August 15th. It is added that they will afterwards go to Algiers, escorted by the Toulon fleet. In reference to the rumour that the prizes awarded to the exhibitors at the great cattle show would be distributed with a grand ceremonial (it was even said that the Emperor would make a speech on the occasion), the Patric regrets to an nounce that the prizes were all delivered to-day privately in one of the upstairs rooms of the Palais de Plndustrie. The Bourse opened with an upward tendency as regards the Bente, but during the greater part of the day very little business was done, and at the close, although the quotations were a little better than yesterday, the tone of the market was not good. The last prices were 68.75 both for cash and account, being a rise of sc. for cash and 10e. for account. M rose bf. There was scarcely any change in railways. A Turin letter, of June 21, in the Prase, says that Count Amari, a noble Sicilian exile, who has long been resident at Turin, has been accredited to that capital by Garibaldi as the representative of the existing provisional government in Sicily, and that be has already presented his credentials. It is added that he will, of course, have only an officious (offieieuae) position. DEATH OP PRINCE JEROME BONAPARTE. The Paris Muniteur announces the death last evening of Prince Jerome Bonaparte, es-King of Westphalia, and the last of the brothers of the great Emperor Napoleon, among whom were partitioned the states which he acquired by his successive conquests. . . The deceased prince was in his 77th year. He was the youngest child of Charles and Letitia Bonaparte, and the youngest brother of the Emperor Napoleon 1. His father died in 1785—the year following the birth of the prince— and the training of the child was undertaken by his mother in Corsica. When his brother rose to power, he placed Jerome and his sister Caroline at the establishment of Madame Campan, in Paris, where he remained until the return of Napoleon from his first campaign in Italy. He was then transferred to the College of Juilly ; and on his brother having been elevated to the First Consulship, Jerome entered the naval profession. In 1801, when in his seventeenth year, he was ►ppointed to the command of the corvette L'Epervier, in the expedition to St. Domingo under Gen. Le Clerc, whence young Jerome brought the despatches. Some escapades of his on shore at Brest led to his receiving from his brother Napoleon a characteristic rebuke, in which occur thaw words :—" lam waiting with impatience to hear that you are on board your ship, studying a profession intended to be the sane of your glory. If you ever mean to disgrace your name, die young ; for if you live to sixty without having served your country, you had better not have been born." Jerome soon after sailed for Martinique; and when the war broke out between France and England he sought In vain to fulfil the injunctions of his brother, and after a cruise of several months he put into New York. He visited Philialelphia, and, Decem ber 24, 1803, he married Miss Elizabeth Patterson, the daughter of a merchant of Baltimore, descended from a Scotch family settled in the north of Ireland. This mar• riage displeased Napoleon, and after a year passed in the United States, Jerome was compelled by his brother to return to Europe ; he landed with his wife at Lisbon, in May, 1805. Jerome left for Paris, and the lady,went on in the ship to Amsterdam ; on arriving in the Texel, an order bad been received forbidding her to land ; she accordingly came to England, where she resided at Camberwell. On July 7th was born her son, Jerome-Napoleon Bonaparte. Still the Emperor Napoleon would not recognise the marriage ; nor was Madame Jerome Bonaporte permitted to enter France. In the March previously the marriage had been, by a special decree of the Council of State, declared null and void. The Emperor next applied to the Pope for a bull annulling the marriage, which, however, his Holiness hail not the power to issue ; and he wrote a long letter to Napoleon, explaining the reasons. Meanwhile, Jerome, who wan greatly attached to his wife, temporised, rather than further pro. voke his brother. He next went on a mission to Algiers, whence he returned with 250 Genoese captives, whom he landed at Genoa, where he was received with great honour as " the young Napoleon of the Sc"n. He next took the command of the Veteran line-of-battle ship, in sin eight months' cruise in the West Indies. On his return thence he took six English merchantmen ; but he was pursued by the English fleet, and his vessel was stranded off the creed of Brittany. On reaching Paris, Jerome received the cordon of the Legion of Honour, was promoted to the rank of admiral, and created a prince of the empire. Nevertheless his pre. dilection for the army continued, and he soon after obtained the conuuaud of a body of Bavarian and Wirtemberg troops, at the head of which he directed the blockade of Glogan, and reduced the fortresses of Silesia; services for which he was made a general of division iu the imperial army. Jerome, by the ambitious instigation of the Emperor, next entered into an alliance with the Princess Frederica-Caroline, daughter of the King of Wirtemberg ; and immediately after the marriage Jerome was proclaimed King of West phalli', and the constitution of the new kingdom was pub. liehed. The young King, then only twenty-two years old, was much beloved, and startled the world by his administra tive skill ; he replenished his exchequer by a loan from the Jews, whom he repaid by the concession of perfect re ligious freedom, observing that " Nu man ought to interfere with the exercise of the religious worship of any man. Every subject ought to be as free to observe the rules of his faith as the King himself. It is the duty of the citizens only that the laws of government ought to regulate. I hope I shall never have cause to regret that I favour and protect the Israelites of my kingdom." With the end of the empire of Napoleon closed the reign of Jerome, King of Westphalia. He now assisted his brother in his reverses; and after sharing in the vicissitudes of defeat at the hands of the Allies, Jerome sought refuge with his wife at Trieste and Paris. At Waterloo he played a conspicuous part, being chosen by Napoleon to open the battle at the head of 6,000 men. Jerome now lived many years in retirement at the castle of Elvangeu, in Wirtemberg, at Vienna, and at Trieste. He at length returned to Francs, and by the Emperor Napoleon 111. was nominated to the Presidentship of the French Senate. His only son by the amiable Elizabeth Patterson married a lady of fortune in Amities. Of Jerome's marriage with the Princess of Wir. tenberg, three children were the issue : Jerome-Napoleon, born in 1814; Mathilde, born 1819; and Napoleon, in 1823. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. - The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain Stone, from Boston on the lath, and Halifax on the night of the 14th inst., arrived here this afternoon. The main features of her news, received by telegraph from Queenstown, have been already published. The steamer North Briton hence arrived at Quebec On the 10th ; the Arago, from Southampton, arrived at New York on the 11th ; the Niagara, hence at Halifax, and the Vigo, hence at New York on the 13th inst. The southern seceders from the Democratic National Presidential Convention met at Richmond, Virginia, on th e 11th inst. Resolutions were finally udopted declaring thit4 as the action of the convention was contingent upon that et the Baltimore Convention, in regard to a platform, it ad. journ to the 21st instant. The President of the Sem ' sionista denied that it was their purpose to promote dis union, and declared that they were only perforuiing a duty which the south owed to itself. Both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature had adopted resolutions thanking Mr. Sunnier for his recent speech in the Senate on the shivery question. Considerable opposition was shown, however, and the resolutions were not coned until they were also made to include thanks to the other se nator from Massachusetts fur his serrieec in the senate. Violent threats had been uttered against Mr. Sumner by sundry slave •owners in Washington, sod his position was considered so dangerousthat he was constantly surrounded by numerous friends as a protection front violence. One In dividual had been arrested fora,' attempted assault on the senator, but he was liberated ou nicking an epolosl. QUEENS OWN, JUNI U. The royal mail ateamahip Persia, Captain Jud kin% arrived Mee at 10 a.m. tbi nwroing, embarked the made and passengers, and prueeeded for New York at 5.30 p.m.