The Express. — London, England, 1860-07-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 31. and jobbing scheme ; for nothing could so tend to depopularise local authority and local administra tion amongst us as the attempt to examine arbi trary and oppressive powers by • body constituted as the Metropolitan Board is over the rut popu lation and property subject to its local sway. It is exactly because we desire to en sound and responsible local government established in the metropolis, and because we do not therefore wish to see the general principle and general practice of heel rale discredited, that we have from the first reenamstrated against the scandalous machinery of jobbing and extortion which is contained in the present measure. For it is plain that the conse quence of its passing in any shape however modified must inevitably be such • revulsion of feeling on the part of the great body of the middle classes who are to be the victims of the limitless powers of taxa. lion and interference proposed by this Bill, as will enable Government to propose without fear the absorption of the whole administrative and fiscal management of the metropolis into the central and executive power. Of all evils this is, in our mind', the worst ; and it is because the Member for Beth and his colleagues are fast driving things to this alternative, or rather to this consummation, that we have steadily opposed the project which stands for committee to-morrow. Instead of augmenting the already ill-adminis tered powers created by the Act of 1857, our wish would be to see a distinct corporate existence given to Westminster, Southwark, Finsbury, and the other great districts that make up London as one great whole, in order that the salutary in stincts of public spirit, and the salutary training in public business which great municipalities are fitted to impart, might thereby be safely and usefully promoted. Many, we are aware, would prefer one great corporation for the metropolis with such a delegation of powers as would in their opinion leave the virtual control of separate local affairs in the hands of their duly elected represen tatives. We do not discuss the comparative merit' of such proposals here. But anything almost would be better than an irresponsible clique, chosen with out the consent or knowledge of the people whose properties they tax, end whose resources they squander, and who now have the assurance to ask Parliament topermit them to over-ride all remaining barriers, and to dip their hands as frequently and as deeply as they please into the pockets of the community. Hitherto there have been some bounds to the mischief ; but if this Bill should pass there will be none. Augmented means would only imply multiplied mismanagement.. We do not believe that Mesas. THWAITZB, TITE, and Co. are much worse men than are likely to succeed them when their term of office is expired ; but we be lieve that the system they have been nominated to administer is thoroughly and inveterately un sound in all its parts, and that no set of men ought to be entrusted with the non-elective and irresponsible authority now exercised by them. The system of indirect nomination whereby the body is constituted is foreign in its origin and re pugnant in every respect to our habits and ideas, whether national or parochial. It is German, not English, and the sooner we get rid of it the better. We have had enough of these miserable experi ments, and want no more of them. An English Board if yon will, but not a German band to worry as with their harsh and discordant braying, and their incessant and rapacious importunities. It is to ms, we confess, • source of equal regret and astonishment, that failing to undertake general projects of legislation, Ministers should have suf fered subjects of a municipal kind to drift by them during the present year without making even • show of offering them the benefit of pilotage. Questions like those of gas supply to the metro polis, of Thames embankment, and still more of metropolitan taxation, ought to have been taken up by the Home-office and the Board of Trade during the last recess, and dealt with, at least so far as suggestion and recommendation in a prac• tical form are concerned, in an impartial spirit. Instead of thus leading opinion, the Ministers at the head of these departments have contented themselves with leaving all parties concerned to tight out their controversies before committees upstairs, in the case of the gas consumers and gas companies at • lamentable waste of time and money, and in the other cases we have noticed with results equally to be deprecated. In the in stance of the Metropolis Local Management Bill the first thing which its shameless promoters did was to shut out all discussion before the Com mittee except that which was conducted by agents and connael, and the next thing was to refuse the ',whin and inhabitants of the various parishes over whom they were claiming new and exorbi tant powers any right to appear as remonstrant, or objectors at all. By some technical application of the forms of the House they contrived to sue fixed in both respects : but we think the taxpayers of London will be apt to remember a wrong and insult so unexampled when the day arrives, as it assuredly will, for telling these usurpers to be gone. Meanwhile, they only ask, in common jus tice and in common decency, that Mr. Tire's Bill should be flung out as it deserves to he by the House of Commons, and that they should be no further exposed to the extortion and extravagance of the Board of Berkeley-house. FRIZNDLY words, we are told, have reached this country from France. The temper of the English people and the speeches of English statesmen have been obser►ed and noted at the Tuileries, and it has been thought that the time has come for vigorously operating on public opinion here. The somewhat overdone system of pamphlet publication has been discarded as inadequate to the occasion, and, according to our authority, a letter has been writ ten. Franco earnestly desires our alliance. Her interests are identified with the maintenance of peace throughout Europe, the development of her own resources by commerce, and the cultivation of • good understanding and common action with this country. Respecting Italy and Syria, the two fields to which European diplomacy is at present attracted, and in which it will for some time to conk be occupied, a policy is propounded in close harmony with the principles held by our own thivenunent and by nineteen out of every twenty Englislunen :—" In the East the firm maintenance " of the Ottoman Empire in its independence and " integrity, and in Italy the renunciation and " hindrance of all and any foreign intervention." Every Englishman will be glad to learn that in the most important affairs which can occupy the two nations abroad they hold views in common, and that their Governments will thus be able to co-operate. The bases laid down for an Italian and Syrian policy are valuable not only for their own sake, as being safe and just, bet because in adopting them the French Government renounces powerful connexions which have at times appeared formidable to this country. The firm maintenance of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire a as the principle on which we first entered into active alliance with France, and it is that which, as now appears, separates France from Russia If that principle is upheld by the two Western Powers, while they unite in forbidding all and any foreign intervention in Italy, there is the best reason to hope that the peace of the world may be preserved. The direct relations between England and France were, however, perhaps more prominently before the mind of the Imperial letter-writer than the consequences of our common action in Europe. Frank and explicit assurances relative to military and naval strength, we are told, enter into his 'cation. So far as they tend to correct mistakes we shall be glad of their wide diffusion. All who have taken any pains to inform them selves of these matters know that the warlike preparations of France, and especially those which relate to the sea, have been enormously and syste matically overrated here. An unscrupulous practice of trading on the apprehensions of their country men, on the part of some professional authors, has grown up, and has been powerfully aided by literary writers, who have popularised misstate ments which they have not taken the trouble to examine. It is much to be wished that the whole question of national defence were treated among us with more of that self-respect which becomes the countrymen of Nevem and WELLINGTON, instead of in a spirit of unreasoning and reckless alarm, which plays into the hands of 1 1 those who profit by lavish public expenditure, and breeds monstrous schemes of fortification, to dis honour the navy and dishearten the country. But while we welcome any correction of our errors, we are not likely to reckon amongst the number the unanimous resolve of the nation to owe its safety and the independence of its policy to no power, under PROVIDENCE, but its own. Sincerely desiring to see the Emrimort's letter become the means of bringing about • better un derstanding between the two countries, we hope that no expectation of this kind has entered into his calculations. He knows something of our habits as allies ; whether we have not been frank, faithful, fair. Ho knows, also, our objects : that we want peace for the welfare of our manufac tures end commerce, and therefore desire to see the independence of nations respected and all honourable engagements maintained. He knows, none better, that there is no party in England which desires war with France, or that is riot anxious for the growth and multiplication of every kind of friendly intercourse between the two countries. If the French EMPFXOR will work with us for these objects—and we understand his letter as signifyin g that he will—then we shall do well to grasp the hand extended to us, and look for ward with hope for the cause of civilisation. But we shall not permanently promote peace by neglect net the guarantees of our independence, nor after past experience may we neglect the general ditties of good neighbourhood for the sake of any exclu sive alliance. As the House of Coninions has thought 6t to defy public opinion during the present session by refusing to pass several good bills, it is to i.e hoped that at least it will exercise the same lower by rejecting the bad ones whose titles still linger on the notice paper. Conspicuous amongst these is tha: introduced by Mr. TITS for extending ud li4 , Nai the IN , lteri of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Every friend of local government is inte rested in the defeat of this grasping, usurPing, THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVEKING, JULY 31, 1860. :E. 4 I Live Botu,the Wile of operation of the Conipany d 1 Cridinebrio has recently been formed, 1 1'1 be this :—Bills at three months, or At air other dates adopted in the discounts of the Bank of Frame, must betsigned . by a person desirigg to borrow, and be accepted by a banker, landowner, or trader representing the society residing in his neighbourhood ; the Cridit Agrioole will then en dorse the bill so as to enable it to be presented with three signatures at the bank for discount. The borrower will then obtain money at the interest fixed by the bank, in addition to a small commis sion for the two intermediaries. This system, says the report, has reoeived the approbation of compe tent prawns and of the Bank of France. The Courtier de l'lsire lays : The prefect of the department has been officially in formed by a despatch from the Tuileries that the Emperor end Empress will visit Grenoble, and stop there for two days, during the journey which their Majesties intend to make in Savoy. They will arrive at Grenoble, from Chain !Cry, on the 2nd September, and leave for Toulon on the 4th. gbe inn. OSBORNE, JuLT 30. The Queen, Prince Consort, and the Royal Family walked oat this morning. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston returned to London to-day, Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Wed nesday), at Osborne. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Judgment was given by Lord Justice Knight Bruce in the appeal from Madras, "The Collector of Msaulipatam r. Carly V. Marsinapah." Judgment was given by Lord Justice Turner in the appeal from Bengal, "Maharajah Nitwit!. Sing r. Baboo Ruud Loll, and others." Judgment was given in the appeal from Canada, " Shaw r. Jeffery," by Lord Justice Knight Bruce ; and judgment was given by Dr. Lualiington in the appeal from Bengal, "Rogers r. Ru joule* Dutt and others." Despatches were received at the Colonial-Alm yesterday from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena and the Bahamas. The 3farquia and Marebioneee of Breadalbane Lk town yesterday for Scotland. The Earl and Counteas Delawarr left town yes terday fee their mat, Thickharst Park, Sussex, for a few Lady de Dungtanville left town yesterday for Audley-esd, ost a visit to Lord sad lady Braybmoke. Lord Clyde is at Wallace's Hotel, St. George's place, Hyde Park-corner. Some experiments aro shortly to be made upon the Whitworth and Armstrong breech-loading artillery guns, some officers and others twiddled to give ►n *aka being doubtful whether the Whitworth and Armstrong Winch-leaden will be found equal to the actual contingen else of war. lo order to test thin quertion by the only practicable method, it is intended to Audis some trials of both kinds of guns by firing some shots at the breech-load en. for the purpose of ascertaining the affects Proitteed upon them when struck by shot. The AC/Tirana° of Genoa announces the arrival, of Fatima ()avian at Palermo. ALEXANDER DUMAS AND THE BATTLE OP MELAZZO. The Paris Prase publishes a letter from M. Alexandre Dumas, describing the engagement at Mebum, of which be was an eye-witness. The following are extracts : " At dawn on the 20th, all the troops were in movement to attack the Neapolitans, who had come out of the fort and village of Nelms; which they occupied. Mslenchini commanded the left ; General Medici and Cozens the centre ; while the right was composed of • few companies only, Intended to cover the centre and left wing from a ear ' prim. Garibaldi was in the centre, where the action was expected to be the sharpest. The firing began on the left from the Neapolitan outposts, concealed in a reed bed half-way between Mist and ldelau.o. A quarter of an hour later the centre attacked the Neapolitan line and drove It from Be first position. The right meanwhile die lodged the Neapolitans from some houses which they own. pled. As the difficulties of the ground prevented reinforce ments from arriving, Bosco, with 6,000 men, turned upon the 500 or 600 men who had driven him back. The latter I were at fiat obliged to retire before the superior number' ; of the enemy, but, when other troops came up to their aid, they again attacked the enemy, many of whom were still concealed among reeds and protected by ffg•trees, so that a cheer° with the bayonet was impossible. Medici, while advancing at the head of his men, had a horse lulled under him Cozens was struck in the neck by • spent ball and fell he was for • moment supposed to be mortally wounded, but he was only stunned, and almost instantly he was on lie legs again, shouting Viva Vitali& !' Garibaldi, at fie head of the Genoese carbineem and some guides, attempted to take the enemy in the flank, but suddenly cams on a gun placed on the centre of the road, and which he determined to attack. When within twenty paces, the cannon, loaded with grape, was fired by the King's troops. The effect was terrible—only five or six men remained standing. Garibaldi had part of his boot and his stirrup carnal away ; his horse was also wounded, and he was compelled to alight. Major Bredaand his trumpeter were killtd by his side ; Mison's horse fell dead under him ; &stills was left standing unhurt in the midst of the iron storm; all the others were killed or wounded. The gun which had done all the mischief was taken soon after. Then the Neapolitan infantry opened and gave passage to a charge of fifty cavalry for the purpose of retaking the piece. Colonel Donon's men, who iad been but little under • fire, threw them selves :0 the sides of the road instead of receiving the charge on their bayonets. The cavalry came like a whirl wind, .be Sicilians firing from both sides. Thus assailed both rght and left, the commander of the Neapolitan cavalry stopped, and wanted to tarn back, but found the mamma barred by General Garibaldi, !diem, Statella, and five or six men. The general seized the officer's bridle, and crbd out, 'Surrender!' The officer replied with a blow of his sabre, which Garibaldi parried, and by a back stroke cut the officer's cheek open. The latter fell from his horse. Meanwhile, three or four sabres were raised against the general, who wounded one of hie assailants with a thrust of his sabre, while Misori killed two others and the horse of a third with his revolver. Statella brought down one antagonis►, while another, who sprang at Misori's throat, was killed by the fourth shot of his revolver. While this struggle was drawing to a close, Garibaldi rallied his scattered men, charged with them, and either took or killed the rest of the fifty horsemen. Seconded by hie centre, he next charged the Neapolitan', Bavarians, and Swiss with the bayonet. The Neapolitans fled at once, ' but the Bavarians and Swiss made a short stand before they gave way. This decided the fate of the day." The Official Gazette of Turin publishes a law enacting that an exhibition of aviculture, manufactures, and fine arta of all Italy, shall be held in Florence in Sep tember, 1861, for which • sum of 150,000 fr. is provided from the public treasury. A royal decree follows, ap pointing Prince Eugene of Savoy Carignan honorary, and Marquis Ridolfi acting, president of the committee entrusted with the organisation of the exhibition. The Count de Chambord and the Duchess of Parma, after staying • short time at Lucerne, where they received numerous visitors, chiefly French, have now taken their departure—the former for Frohsdorff, and the latter for her chateau on the banks of the Lake of Constance. "We are assured," says the independence, "that the exiled prince, in his quality of chief of the house of Bourbon, does not disguise that he blames severely the recent acts of the Count de Montemolin—his inopportune disembarkation in Spain, his undignified submission to Queen Isabella, and his lamentable retractation! It is said that the Count de 3f ontemolin begged to be allowed to justify himself before the prince, but that his royal high ness refused to receive him." Two Italian journals, the Cettadino d'Asti and the Corriere Mercantile, affirm that the Emperor Napoleon and King Victor Emmanuel will have an interview some time in the first fortnight of August. A subscription list has been opened in Paris and the departments for the benefit of tho Christians of Syria who have survived the massacres. It is expeoted that about Ioo,ooofr. may be forwarded to Syria in the course of the present week. "• • • The American colleges are now holding their annual commencements. The number of colleges and col legiate imtitutions in the country is about 124, giving diplonnia to not less than 2,000 graduates every year. Of course the learned professions are well supplied. Ax EXECCTION AT New YORK. —A letter from New York says :—" The mob of New York had a sensation last week—vu., the execution of Hicks, the pirate, who killed the captain and mate of the sloop E. A. Johnson for • matter of thirty pounds. Before his execution Hicks confessed his crime, and also boasted that he had committed many other murders. He dictated his life and adventures to • scribe, and made arrangements for the publication by a sensation' bookseller. The proflta are to be given to the relict of the departed scoundrel. The execution was a singular affair, to say the least. Aooording to the usual custom, under the old Admiralty common law, Hicks was hanged as near as possible to the place where the murders were committed. The spot was an island in the bay, in full sight of the city, and about eight miles from its southern extremity. Under the state law, executions are strictly private, but the federal authorities made this public. At 10 o'clock in the morning the marshal waited on the condemned at the city prison, and read to him the death-warrant of the President. Hicks prepared instantly for death, and arrayed himself in • blue cottonade suit, worked with anchors and other nautical emblems in white. He wore a black cap with • fancy tassel, and altogether looked as if he was dressed for • fancy ball. He was then taken to • steamboat at the water-vide, where he met above five hundred persons, who had been specially invited to see him die. The company ate, drank, and joked, Si if it were a pleasure excursion. As the boat steamed out of the dock she turned up the river instead of down, and the party on board were treated to a view of the Chalt Eastern. This accomplished, the steamer laid a straight course for the Leland, which was surrounded by myriads of craft of all sizes. It was • bright, beautiful summer day. with hardly wind enough to stir the pennants on the mastheads of the vessels. The sloop E. A. Johnson was anchored off the island, and had all her colours flying almost under Hicks's nose. He left the boat with two Roman catholic priesta, walked steadily to the gallows, and was hanged a moment after wards. A suppressed murmur went up from the crowd (there were over ten thousand persons present), and they then turned to their former avocations. The numbers friends gave him a vote of thanks for his kindness in inviting them to the show." CETNIAL PALACE. -- ONE SHELLING DAT. MONDAY, JOLT 30.—Admissions on payment ; 9,334 , ditto by neon tickets, 849 ; total visitor; 10,183. LATE InTBLLIGF.NC: OF SING VICFOR EDLMANIJEL TO OARIBALDL The following in mid to lit a copy 61 the letter recently addressed by King Victor Emmanuel to General Garibaldi : • 111 " General—You know that I did not approve of your expedition, and that I was entirely foreign to it, but to-day the very grave circumstances in which Italy is placed make it a duty to enter into direct communication with you. " In the event of the King of Naples consent ing to evacuate the whole of Sicily, and voluntarily abandoning all species of action, and formally pledging himself to exercise no pressure whatsoever upon the Sicilians, so that the latter may freely pronounce their will, and choose the mode of government which they may prefer, I believe it will be wise in you to renounce altogether any further enterprise upon the kingdom of Naples. In the contrary event, I expressly reserve my entire liberty of action, and relieve myself of making any comment to you in regard to your projects." SICILY. The Movimento publishes an article supposed to be inspired by the Palermitan government, entitled " Help for Garibaldi." It states that, although his oonquering career has been uninterrupted, he has experienced serious losses ; that he is now sur rounded by men who are trying to force a peace upon him ; and that it is most important under such circumstances to strain every nerve to prove to Garibaldi that in proportion as his existing forces diminish he may rely that others are pre. paring for him in Europe, and that when he makes war Italy is with him. Many young men continue to enlist, but money is wanting. The Sicilian government is about to issue a popular loan, in bonds of Mr., 10fr., and 20fr.. and all who wish well to the cause should subscribe to it. The following is an extract from a letter written 1 at Malan° en the 21st instant by a volunteer from ; Turin to a relation : This time it was not heat of sun alone, but heat of can non. Bosco came out from Madam) to attack us, but as one of his battalions showed signs of insubordination, he re turned and picked out his men, to whom he added the Swiss and Germans sent to him from Moraine. Medici bore the brunt of the action ; then Commix came up to his help, and the engagement became furious. Our generals exposed themselves too much, and both of Mena bed very narrow escapes. We took advantage of the ground to avoid the sweep of their artillery, then rose and charged at the point of the bayonet. We cried out "Savoy ;" the other' uttered different battle-cries, and so we encouraged one another. But the getting into lishisso was the hardest part of the work. There the enemy knew the locality, was double our force, and prepared. The sbirri of the province of Palermo, many of the very menwhom Garibaldi had saved from the fury of the people, had thrown themselves into the houses, and were peppering us like the very devil. Garibaldi fought like a lion, but exposed him self too much, nod it is a miracle be was not killed. During this result, which lasted two whole hours, we fired very Wm. It was the bayonet that gained the day. We hays lest many of our comrades in those accursed streets, but we pined possession of the town after a regular slaughter of the police and the royalists as well. Those police agents behaved moat treacherously. The Swiss were the last to retreat into the fort. Bosco has now sent a flag of truce, and asks permission to go oat with the honours of war. In these actions we have had at length the pleasure of seeing a goodly number of Sicilians fighting, Lice ourselves, in the open field, and following us manfully when charging with the bayonet. ITNITED STATES AND CANADA. LONDONDERRY, TUZSDAT. The Canadian steamer Palestine, which left Quebec on the 21st test., has arrived. She lauded all the mails except those for Liverpool. The steamer City of Manchester, Africa, and Nova Scotia, all from Liverpool, bad arrived out. MONTREAL, JULY 21. The preparations for the reception of the Prince of Wales are approaching completion. The weather is favourable for the crops. The flour market has undergone a general im provement. Urge sales of wheat have been effected at I dol. 27c. Ashes are steady. NEW YORK, JULY 20. Money and exchange are unaltered. The stock market is less active and prior have declined. Flour is heavy and lower. Canadian descriptions are drooping. Rye steady. Wheat is heavy, and 1 to 2ocuta. lower. Barley dull, and en changed. Coco firmer and in fair demand. Oats unchanged. Beef active at steady prices. Lard firm. Whiskey mo derately active. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT. The cotton market is quiet. Breadstuffs are heavy, and all qualities have slightly declined. The provision market is steady. Stocks are rather higher. NEW ORLEANS, JULY 20. Cotton is in better demand, bat prices are unchanged. The receipts of the week reach 1,200 bales. Receipte ahead of list year, 797,500 hales. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (Thou ous ows PA.RDS, MONDAY EVENING. A great sensation has been made by a telegraphic summary of an article in a London journal, stating that an autograph letter of a most satisfactory kind had been received in England from the Em peror. It has been assumed—and the Prase states the fact so in positive terms—that this letter was written to the Queen of England. But the truth is that the Emperor, finding that his Syrian schemes had led to verydifficultnegotiations, merely acted for the nonce as his own Minister of Foreign Affairs, and taking up M. Thouvenel's pen wrote instruc tions to M. de Persigny. The opportunity for the general conciliatory assurances which that letter contains is said to have been found in Lord Palmer ston's late speech. The Preset which, although not a government journal, has, for reasons of which lam wholly ignorant, taken the lead in the misrepresentations which were put forward all last week on the sub ject of the Syrian question, says that the plenipo tentiariea met at 3 this afternoon, "to draw up the convention," and that " it is thought" that the convention will have been signed to-day. 1 feel confident that it has not been signed. The Pays and Patric merely say, in identically laconic terms, that another conference has been held rela tive to the convention. It will, I believe, be found that the meeting has again been adjourned. The Turkish ambassador insists, as I am told, that all military operations must be taken in concert with Fuad Pacha, a condition which France objects to. The Russian plenipotentiary, on the other hand, asks that all the intervening powers shall, without further authority, have a right to interfere in any part of the Turkish empire in which new dis turbances may break out, and to this England will not consent. The rumour of the Emperor's letter produced no effect whatever upon the Bourse, which was inani mate during the whole day. The Rente fell sc. both for cash and account, closing at GBfr. 30c. Mobilier fell 2fr. &)c. In railways there was scarcely a shade of alteration. It is: confirmed that Garibaldi has refused to grant the truce asked for by the King of Sardinia, and that he expresses a firm intention to march upon Naples as soon as he has taken Messina. ♦carding to a report presented to the Legisla- ' NAPLES. (nom ova OWN commeromarr.) NAPLES, JULY 24. The feeling in favour of annexation increases ; hourly whether from • sympathy for Garibaldi or from admiration of Victor Emmanuel, or from hatred of the Bourbons, or from that necessary tendency to unification which is an European, an historical fact, the multitude is all mad for annexation. They see no difficulties, or overleap them ; tell them it is a question of time, and they say no time is so good as the present ; in short, it is a sentiment almost irresistible. Generals Nunziante, Scaletta, Agostini, and Ferrari have either been sent off, or are just about to leave ; and as you will remember, these are the leading members of the Camari llo. The na tional guard has been doubled. Sicily is being evacuated. The foreign legion will be broken up. The administration is being purged. At present, I must needs confess that the result is problematical,'for the whole people, in furiated by what they have suffered, are rushing forward like a mad bull. When I sent you my postscript on Saturday, I was inclined to think that the evacuation of Sicily would have soothed the po pular feeling, and that the communications of the French government, which I announced to you, would have disposed the nation to hesitate a little ; but, as far as I can judge, this is not the case. As for the policy of the French Emperor, many ask, " Has he the power to carry it out I" and others affect to doubt it. Indeed, not a few are of opinion that the Emperor, unwilling to assume the responsi bility of a change of dynasty, diplomatically sup porta it, whilst underhand he supports annexation, not from any desire of it, but with the hopes of pro ducing ultimate confusion, and increasing French influence ; or perhaps even of placing a French Prince on the throne. No one certainly be lieves that the French government will ever go in honestly for annexation. I receive the impres sion from many that great efforts are still being made to create a French party, and though I have been unable to procure one of those papers, which I was assured were in circulation for signature in favour of a French Prince, still my informants con tinue to assert the fact. These insinuations may be all perfectly untrue, but they are the penalty which French diplomacy must pay for having med dled in affairs. There was a grand performance in San Carlo on Saturday evening last in behalf of emigrants, many of whom have returned in a deplorable condi tion. The pieces represented were a milk, a bit of this, and a bit of that. There was an act for the Lombards, and all the per formers were dressed out in tri-coloured ribbons. There was a national hymn sung, and much enthu siasm of course was displayed. His Majesty sent a subscription of 2,000 ducats (nearly 340/.) ; the afters of the marine gave their 20Napoleons. Some ladies in the boxes gave three granis each !• None of the royal family were present, and great wonder was excited that at least the Count of Syracuse was not present, as he had hitherto come forward as a liberal, but I believe that his royal highness has expressed himself hopeless of the future of his family, and refuses therefore all demonstrations on his part as unnecessary and useless. Everything passed off very quietly. We have received intelligence of reactionary movements and of bloodshed in Canons, Avellino and Gaeta, on Sunday last, and it is said that the people , in the last mentioned place uttered cries of Viva la Regina madre," and sacked some houses. Disturbances of a similar character are spoken of in Comer= and Reggio, and are, of course, repre sented as paid reactionary movements. I think an easier solution is to be found by supposing that they were got up by a corrupt soldiery , who have been trained in hope of plunder, and, like animals who have once tasted blood, are bent on brewing more of what they have been indulged in in Sicily. On Sunday and yesterday 20 steamers in all were sent off to Mersin and Syracuse to bring back the troops in occupation of those places, so that very shortly we shall have an additional force of 26,000 men on the Continent, and some fear is entertained that they will be used as an element of reaction. They will return mortified and irritated, and very probably, I think, will be soother ingre dient thrown into the cauldron of confusion. The government, I am given to understand, re ceived despatches of considerable importance yes terday morning from their envoy at Turin, a por tion of which I telegraphed to you immediately. Sig. Manna bad had a long conference with Cavour, and Victor Emmanuel had engaged to send an aide-de-camp with an autograph letter of his Ma jesty to Garibaldi, inviting him not to attack the continent. This act of his Sardinian Majesty and the evacuation of Sicily will for the moment para lyse Garibaldi, but must very shortly lead to a de claration of his intentions ; in the course of a few days, therefore, we may count on knowing precisely what are to be the destinies of this country. Arms Posr.—l hasten to give you intelligence just brought in by the Messina steamer, to the effect that on the 20th and 21st seven engagements were fought at Malan°, in which Garibaldi carried everything before him. One fort was taken, and Major Bosco asked permission to leave with the honours of war, but was an/livered he might leave nude. Both aides fought well. The Velooe took part in the action, capturing four cannon the first day and six the next. There was a row at Venafro yesterday, in which a mass of people attacked the National Guard— the latter fired, killing six or seven, and wounding thirty. At Avellino the disturbance is reported to have been very serious, and many of the foreign troops were massacred. SICILY. OFFICIAL BULLETWE OF THE BATTLE OF HELAZZO. The government of the Dictator has caused the two following bulletins to be published : National Camp of Merl, July W. This morning at six o'clock an exchange of musket shots took place ; it was thought at first to be an affair of out poste, but it soon became a general action. The royalist. had artillery ; on our side there was none. The struggle was terrible, the royalists being under cover, whilst our men were fighting in the open. At one moment the position appeared difficult, but at the magic name of Geri. baldi our men rushed on like lions and carried the position, and at twenty-five minutes peat three our troops entered Melauo, after capturing five pieces of artillery, three of which were taken in the action outside the walls, and the two others at ,the entrance. The Vetoes steamer can nonaded the fort, where the royalists shut themselves in, constantly purmedby the bayonet ; they were crowded there as in a barrel of anchovies. Our men then took the first gate of the fort and a bastion, and our flag is floating over one tower. We have a heavy loss to deplore ; that of the royalists is enormous. The surrender of the fort and of the entire column is considered certain. A reinforcement, with rifled cannon, has this instant arrived for us. The soldiers of Bpadafora are retiring upon Gem. July 21. Yesterday, at 6 a.m., the battle commenced at Meld so, and was not over before 8 p.m. The straggle was terrible. There was fighting along the whole line. There was a great carnage of the Bourbonista, who fought with much obstinacy, so that it became necessary to gain ground foot by foot under a shower of grape. The field of battle, covered with dead bodies of the enemy, and with baggage of every kind and five guns, was at last conquered, amid cries of "Long live Italy I" "Long live Garibaldi !" Our men vied in enthusiasm with the brave men of Gari'Wddi's legion, which was the first in the combat and the first to charge with the bayonet, to storm Melarso, and also seize the first and second redouble of the fortress, still pressing the Bourbonists close with the bayonet. Our loss has not been excessive. The legion of Garibaldi has had a few of its men wounded ; our yonng men have also suffered very little, but the loss of the continental soldiers has been considerable. Enormous loss, enormous damage has been inflicted upon the enemy, who in flying was driven into the redoubts, and from them into the rest of the for tress. He was pursued thither, and the water conduits were cut off. This morning, the 21st, the hero Bosco presented himself to the Dictator and requested leave to quit with the honours of war. " No," replied Garibaldi, "you shall leave dis armed, if you please." FaUw.cl and lnterdknato have marched to Gesso, by order of the generalisimo. The enemy occupying that pod tion withdrew immediately to Messina. The Dictator, in •cavaby engagement at Melazzo, cut off with a blow of his sabre the swoolarm of the major of the Neapolitan corps, that wast! him ; a ft er which the Neapolitan cavalry were and destroyed—a just punishment of their fratricidal obstinacy. Lang live Italy Loan lire Victor Emmanuel ! LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner 1101/oyd.) IN RZBUREILLL AND WALUDL—ADJUDICATION. Mr. Linklater presented a petition for adjudication in bankruptcy against Joseph Babell and &Urea Walker, of Woodatreet, and Harpenden, straw bat manufacturers. The petitioning creditor is Mr. Slade, straw bat manes.. tam, of St. Alban's. The liabilities are 11,0001. ; assets, about 4,000 i. Mr. Ow= is the ofilciel ardsnee. IN II DAUNT AND WILSON. Adjudication was also mode against Edward Russell Daunt and John Wilson, bill-brokers, of Old Broad-street. The liabilities are said to be very oonsiderable. INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT. (Before Mr. Oommiskeer Nichols.) THE VICAR OF WANDOWOBTH.-IN HE THE REV. HEYRY HOURS. This insolvent., the Vicar of Wandsworth, applied to he discharged under the act. Mr. Bennett (Magnay . and Bennett) opposed in person on the ground that the moil vent had contracted • debt with him without reasonable expectation of payment. It aptthat the insolvent was discharged under the set in 1 when his debts and liabilities exceeded 27,0001. His living been under sequestration for some years, and he now derived no income from it. The income was about 8001. a year. He had accepted various accommodation bills for Messrs. Grieves, Henderson, and Company, pub and two were held by Mr. Bennett. Mr. Bennett stated that Mews. Grieves applied for credit and gave the insolvent's name as security. Inquiries were made, and the insolvent was found to be the Vicar at Wandsworth, and living in a stylish house, and was, be. sides, a single man. He supplied paper with bills to 1251. Grieves had pleaded to the action, and he had judgment against the insolvent. Had he known the insolvent s dr. cumstanoes he would not have taken the bills. He con. eidered he had been defrauded. _ _ The insolvent said be expected some arrangements would be made to remove the sequestration off the living. He admitted that he had been paid 201. for accepting a 501. bill for Grieves, and 10/. for another. He was to be held harmless. Mr. Commissioner Nichols said this was a bad case, and he should file a judgment, at the snit of Mr. Bennett, for contracting a debt without reseonable expectAtiou of pay ment. - Judgment deferred. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. Thomas William Hones and Ambrose Cambianca, two gentlemenly young men, were again brought up on remand under a warrant, in the custody of Sergeant Russell, a dense. tire police-officer, and underwent another exami nation on a charge of conspiring to defraud Mr. Ladislaa Kin, of 93, Watling-street, silk-merchant, of silk to the value of 1501. and upwards, by false pretences. The inquiry was still pending . when our report left ; but it win under. stood that the prisoners, at its conclusion, would be again remanded. GREENWICH. MYSTEWATIC ROBBERY BY A RAILWAY OFFICIAL. Charles Langrialge, aged 20, of 2, St. James's-plaw, Donatt's-road, New-cross, an office porter, in the employ of the London and Brighton Railway Company, was placed in the dock before Mr. Maude, charged with stealing seven passengers' tickets, value 10a. 6d., the property of the com. Mr. In y spector Carpenter said the prisoner had been far eight months employed as office porter at the New-cross station of the Brighton Railway, and for some weeks past a number of tickets had been missed at different times by the booking-clerk from the tubes in his office. Suspicion attached itself to the Frio eoner, who was narrowly watched. On Sunday, the 22nd instant, three tickets for Brighton were missed, and these tickets were severally collected from the prisoner's father, mother, and brother, who told witness the prisoner bad given the tickets to them. On the Tuesday following maven other tickets, from New-croon to the Crystal Palace, were found to have been taken not from the tube, but from • drawer in which the tickets were keptin bundles. A watch had been kept in the collection of these, which were of con. secutive numbers and without dates, and last evening two of them (produced) were collected from females on the Crystal Palace train arriving at the New-cross station. Witness subsequently went to the prisoner and accused him of having stolen seven tickets from the booking-elerksa' office, when he said he knew nothing about them. 11e was then given into custody, and on witness proceeding to the prisoner's lodging and searching the place, he found in a card. ease one of the other seven stolen tickets, and on the mantelshelf a second of the tickets. On being searched at the station, a half ticket, also without date, was found in the prisoner's pocket. There had also been three ticket. stolen on Saturday last. Uterine of which wee 3a. 6d. each, and one of which had been susee collected. lie had therefore to ask that the prisoner might be remanded, when ',Ramses would be forthcoming to complete the case. Mr. Maude asked the prisoner if he had anything to say why he should not be remasded? The prisoner—No, your worship ; it was temptation which led me to do it, and had always before borne • good character. inspector Carpenter remarked that part of the prisoner's duty was to collect tickets, which he Wilt to the booking. cleric's office to sort. and had thus taken the opportunity of getting possession of the tickets from a drawer which was kept in a cupboard. Mr. Maude said, in committing the robbery, the prisoner was robbing his fellow-servant, who was reopens:hie to the company for all the tickets received by him. The prisoner was then remanded for a week, an atelier". tinn to admit him to bail being refused. DREADED!, ACCIDENT AT GRIMSBY.—Lose OF Two Lrvms at Flan.- On Thursday afternoon a dreadful acci• dent occurred here, causing universal consternation. About hail-part four o'clock two vans, similar to those used by itinerant showmen, arrived in Grimsby, end took up their quarters on the Freeport wharf. When the two men belonging to the vans were returning front taking their horses to a stable, the first sight that met their view wee one of the caravans enveloped in flames, sur rounded by excited persons, who had been attracted to the spot by a loud report that had taken place previous to the breaking out of the fire. Every effort was used to break open the doomed van, and at length, by throwing it over, it was accomplished. Some hopes had been previously enter. Mimed that two women, the wives:of the owners of the ve nt, who were known to be within, might still be re-cued, bee that hope met with a speedy and complete extinction, upon the blackened and charred bodies of the two sufferers hems extricated from the burning van. The sight was meat horrible, one spectator averring that upon water beiog thrown upon one of the bodies, bo observed a movement of the nostrils and lips, from the act of respiration. Amidst an immense number of spectators the bodies were carried on boards to the Cemetery dead-house, and an inquest held the following day, when a verdict in accordance with the above evidence was returned. It appears that the fire originated in the ignition of a quantity of naphtha. of which there wen a largo supply in the van, and which was the cause of the loud report. It is supposed that the two poor women were asleep at the moment, and doubtless they would never be conscious of their awful fate. No one seems to have imagined that the women were in the van until the return of their husbands ; but had the fact been known, it is pro• bable that from the time of the explosion of the naphtha all human assistance would have been utterly in vain.— Lirinoln Time/. THE SUNDAY. — Several years since, on a Sunday in July, I went to afternoon service at a certain church by the sea-shore. The incumbent of that church was a young clergyman of no ordinary talent ; he is a dm. tawishell professor now. It was a day of drenching rain sad howling hurricane; the sky was black, as in mid winter; the waves were breaking angry and loud upon the rocks hard by. The weather the previous week had been beautiful ; the weather became beautiful again the next morning. There came just the one gloomy and stormy summer day. The young parson could not foresee the weather. What more fitting subject for a July Sunday than the teachings of the beautiful season wineli was passing over? So the text was, "Thou haet made summer. " It was a sermon on summer, and its monk and spiritual lessons. How inconsistent the sermon seemod with every. thing around! The outward circumstances reduced it to an absurdity. The congregation was diminished to a sixth of its usual number ; the atmosphere was charged with • muggy vapour from sloppy garments and dripping umbrellas; and as the preacher spoke, describing vividly (though with the chastened taste of the scholar) blue skies. green leaves, and gentle breezes, ever and anon the storm outside drove the rain in heavy plashes upon the windows, and, looking through them, you could see the black sky and the fast. ' drifting clouds. I thought to myself, as the preacher went on under the croft influence of thesA surroundings, now I am sure you are in email things an unlucky man. No doubt the like happens to you frequently. You are the kind of man to whom the Tibia fail to come on the morn. ing you specially wish to see it. Year horse falls lame on the morning when you have a long drive before you. Your man-servant catches a sore throat, and is unable to go out, just when the visitor comes to whom you wi-b to show the neighbouring country. I felt for the preacher. I wan younger then, but I had seen enough to make me think how Mr. Snarling of the next parish (a very dull 'wencher, with no power of description) would chuckle over the tale of the summer Fannon on the stormy day. That youthful preacher (not Mr. Snarling) bad been but a few menthe in the church, and he probably bad not another semen* to give in the unexpected circumstance*: he must preach what he had prepared. He had fallen into error. I formed a rear. lotion never to do the like. I was looking forward then with great enthusiasm to the work of nay sacred pnifessicer —with enthusiasm which has only grown deeper and warmer through the experience of more than nine years. I neolved that if ever I thought of preaching a sninrsor sermon, I would take care to have an alternative one ready fur that day in case of unfavourable weather. —Fruars 11°ga:int for August. ! J 1►