The Express. — London, England, 1860-11-22 00:00:00

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Tows- Ommosome N{ pod T. earwrinA. TIRE INWRWI. 170011210/t. W. entabod : Itnii Tomei sod Um S. Um—TM Yamlly. —Tom PRAIRIE 'LO W RIE —AAA ?AVID wrni VILA Mr. awOWIRIR: MI A. Dwain. —Common is bdARIMIIII. 117011 . W1q111 LT limbo* BUM& Tun DATlWiiiind, --- li: ila.....allownia. OIL Ws. Twitoasow—Maistag ift. sm.....Aeusase. WA. Wm LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 22. Tea telegraph from Vienna and Berlin has simultaneonak; announced that the British Mission at the former Court has been raised to an Embassy. Although this announcement is, as • matter of fact, prematurely put forth, there is, we believe, no doubt that such a step is in contem plation, and for very sufficient reasons, in the pre sent state of Europe. Ministers simply accredited to the governments do admirably well in constitutional states, where the policy and acts of the Cabinet are the result of the deliberations of ministers responsible to the Legislatures and to public opinion for their con duct as advisers of the Crown. But in great military and despotic monarchies, where therein*, the Sovereign is everything end the ministers are only instruments t.. execute Use imperial pleasure, where constant reference has to be made to the Sovereign, and his orders taken on all subjects great or small, and where subserviency to the will of the monarch is a primary elen.cnt of ministerial power, there it is obviously necessary that the re presentative of a great power like England should have access to the person of the Sovereign, and the right to communicate freely, as occasion requires, with the arhitrary Chief of the State. Ties dif ference between a Minister and an Ambassador at despotic courts like Paris, Vienna, St. Peters burg, and Constantinople, is not, therefore, nomi nal, or affecting only diplomatic rank and prece dence ; it is a real and substantial difference, en abling the representative of Great Britain to occupy • much better and more useful position towards the ministers he has chiefly to deal with, by the power it gives him of communicating without restraint with their Sovereign. This ambassadorial re straint over, and power of appeal from, the minis. ters of despotic monarchs, induces them to diseoun tenance, so far as they are able, the appointment of Ambassadors ; but as the right of representation rests with the accrediting government, the conside ration to govern its preference is what the interests of the case require, not what is moat agreeable to the personal wishes of foreign Cabinets. The telegraphic announcement is that the Vienna Mission will be raised to an Embassy ; it might, however, more correctly have been said : restored to the rank from which our representative at that Court was only degraded by the art of the Austrian Government. So much inconvenience has arisen from a change which precluded our Envoy from admission to the person of the Emperor of Arirrer• to represent the views of the British Government, and to claim redress for the subjects of his Sovereign who had suffered wrong, that it has, we believe, been determined to have henceforward an Ambassador at Vienna. A representative of Great Britain of the highest class, giving full weight and dignity to the repre sentations of the British Government, and acquir ing in a period of transition like the present in fluence and authority at that Court, may be almost as useful to Austria and Europe generally as to Great Britain. which can have no interests at Vienna but us promoting the independence of Europe, and in encouraging the Errr•aoa to per severe in those schemes of reform by which only the Austrian Empire can be reconstituted so as to play its part in maintaining that independence. We have recently pointed out how calmer and clearer views as to Venetia are gradually dawning on Vienna than the continued subjection of that portion of Italy to the guns and bayonets of Austria. Venetia was for centuries a free and independent Italian State without in the least endangering the safety of Germany, and the modern military theory that the misery of Venetia is necessary to the pro tection of Germany is altogether at variance with the experience and testimony of history. It is pride, and pride only, by which States as well as angels have fallen, that insists on the retention of Venetia, and by its retention menaces the peace of Europe. England has too frequently in past times come in great emergencies to the aid of Austria to be hostile or inimical to her now. She desires not the downfall of the Austrian Empire, but its reconsti tution and consolidation in a form and within limits which will enable it to develop the happiness and prosperity of its various populations, and to con front the common exigencies of Europe. Guided by • liberal public opinion, enlightened by a free press, engaged in the higher objects of govern ment, the influence of Austria in Europe would be an efficient counterpoise to the preponderance of France and Russia. They are not the true friends of England who desire to put us in con flict or enmity with all Germany. Such a policy, ht successful, would simply give a military Imre mmey to France, it might be • naval supremacy also if, as in that event would be most probable, Russia came into accord with France. The cow* and policy of Great Britain is plain and clear. It has enabled by its firmness Italy to choose its own Sovereignty, and to achieve its independent 2 free from foreign intervention. But we haws duties and objects out of Italy ; and if we can reconcile Germany to the revival of Italian independence and freedom, and render them com patible with the security of Germany from ambi tion and aggression on its ',orders, that balance of power on whi,h peace and general independence repose will bo preserved to Europe. Dr. Gray, at Dublin, and Mr. J. Lynter O'Beirne, of Loudon, had u audiesoo of his Itsjotty the Emperor NApolown coo ffondny, at Lb. Mom Mt. clotri, to ..Molt • prf,positino f r mrritag the nova mails to America rut " he audainc•," Gays lialrhw u , " mos a l oft me, sad entliactory." last is Si a,. able I- the officers le poor gessrally that for the present melancholy position of the regiment the mem are not se mach to blame. Before I left Naples the Legion was completely disorganised, many of the officers bad reigned In digest, and the men were kw big it in dosene, I might almost say in hundreds ; and by this time I dare say them is an Legkeledt. Andan without cams. From the first day the men landed at Naples up to the hoer I left they were badly treated, and all the affairs of the corps were mismanaged in the poems' manor. Ide not with to say one disparaging word of Colonel Peard, who is as brave a soldier as ever lived, but at the same time I meet not conceal the fact that the unanimous opinion of his own officers and PAD was, that he was not quite the man to command them, and that bad they bees trader the orders of Major Styles things would have borne a very different aspect. You must remember that, although a few molts had got anieloget them, the greet majority of the men In the Legion were gentlemen. Many of the men in the ranks had borne her Majesty's commission in England, and bad seen active service in India and the Crimea, who, animated by • love of adventure or of liberty, had come to Italy to fight for Garibaldi. Such men were genre critics of their commanding officer's acts, and to margo them required more than usual prudence, tact, and judgment. The first thing which shook their faith in Wesel Nerd's ability to lead them was this. On the night dthaltth of Gather he ordered the men under arms at sthinfight /or the parpose of making an attack on Caper. Wham they had sammehisel be harangued them on the slay lige amid via I Mbar soseseded. Major Styles and the idler edlosse YAM to obey his orders ; but two companies salmallp leOewd the Colonel, who led them up to the very leslime of Ospea. Fortunately, in the darkness of the .1.14 Sag was amildiervered by the Neapolitan sentinels, er everyone of Nem mei have been mesrliked. I marched with thie Lys. ham IL Angelo to Team The mesa complained to ms that they bad received no pay. Many of them were without shoes, and I now more than one poor fellow trudging along with his feet tied up in raga There was so soeunissariat, although it was said Colonel Peard had been offered one, sad had refused it. There wen so ambulances foe the sink ; no medical stores. Nosy of the man win dying from diarrhea, sad Dr. Fairloy, the sawn d the regi ment, had not one ease of medicine of say kind, sad bit. Maly mankind to me that he could not get any. On the march back frees TOMO to St. Angelo Ike Englishness won found looting a fanwhouee by some memben of Geribeldre staff, who seat them adder an wort I. be dealt with as Colonel Paull should direct. He at owe, without inquiry or trial of any kind, ordered the MS to be shot ; the picket told off for the purpose refused to obey orders, and would not fire. The Colonel sent to Garibaldi for • detachment of Italians to shoot the ethillsenned men, as his own regiment wes In a state of mutiny. Garibaldi replied that it would be a disgrace to English if he were to do so, and asked Colonel Feud to punks them. Ido not for a manumit justify the men for looting ; but wham they had so fond, and were obliged to forage for themselves, they sorely deserved some kind of trial. On the same march I saw Captain Hampton guilty of an act of cruelty to one of the sergemale of kis company, for which Colonel Peard should have drummed him out of the reginsest, and he was not even reprimanded. Now, air, then are a few of the fact. which came under my own observation. I heard of many others quite as bet, with which I shall not triable yea. Can you wonder, then, that the men are all anxious to leave the Legion, and that many of them are sorry they weer left England ? Many of them have joined the French Legion ; others have joroul the military corps under Colossi Dowling, while a few have joined the cavalry under Colonel Forbes. When I last saw the Legion on parade at Caserta, out of eight hundred men there were not three hundred present on the ground, the others haring left the regiment.. That these men were brave and could fight they rufli• ineptly proved on the morning of Friday, the 19th of Getoher. Whelk attacked by Neapolitans five times their numbers, they drove them back with a shout trader the very walls of Caps, and taught them • lesson which they will not soon forget. Such—owing to mismanagement, injudicious selection of ofilivri, and iocompeteney on the part of those appointed to heal them- is the inglorious ending of the British Legion, which is the more to be regretted, as a finer body of brave men were never brought together ; and led by officers in whom they had complete conlidesoe, there wens no achieve. meets too hazardous and glorious for them to attempt and perform. As a guarantee of good faith I have the honour to sub scribe myself, T. MASON JONES. 10, Cheltenhani.terrees, Nov. 21. lEbt Court. WINDSOR CANTU, Nor. 21. To.lay being the birth-day of the Princess Frede riok Witham (Princess Royal) her Majesty receive.: the coo -1 potulat:ous of the Royal Family °tithe atispic-Mus occasion. The ../ceen, eec , ropanied by Prisceiss Helens and Princess Louise, ranted the Duchess of Kent this mornuig at Proginore. Princ..ws Alice. with the Hereditary Princes of Holstein Aegusteribourg, aho paid a visit to the Royal Duchess. Toe Prince Consort went out 'booting, accompanied by Pilo* Alfred, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Prince of Holstein Anostenbaerg. Captain 0. H. Seymour, KN., had the hamar of aecerepeoying the royal party. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce and Lieutenant-Colonel Heppe!, left Wind sor is the forenoon for Oxford Univeraty. Prince Arthur rode out oa horseback, attended by Major inphinstone. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess of Leiningen visited the queen and took luncheon. The Duke of Cambridge took leave of her Majesty and returned to London is the afternoon, attended by Colonel Tyrwhitt. Yesterday afternoon the Duke of Cambridge, the Hermit. tory Prince and Princess of Holstein Augustochourg, the Earl and Counties of Clarendon, and Captain G. H. Hoymour, C.H., of hoe Majesty's ship Hero, arrived at the Castle, on a visit to the Queen. The royal dieser party in the evening included the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, the Prises sad Prince's of Unisys, Major• General the Hon. R. Hiram, Lieutenant-Coked Koppel, Major Cowell, ILE, MA* _ _ Elphinetone, R.E., and las •isitore staying in the Castle The Royal Hone (herds bawl played at dinner. The Quern's private teed afterwards performed in the drawing-reces the— (lrerturt•—" Leo Chspirms Iffier'.... Auber. Melauge—" Eiu Fe Moser in Acehmien".. Ileyerbeer. The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Friday), at Windsor Castle. Viscount Palmerston gave a dinner last evening to the cabinet mioisters, at his residance in Piccadilly. Deepatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands and from the Governor of Malta were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Despatches were seat to the Governor of Canada. His Excellency the Greek Minister, who has been indisposed for some days past, is, we are glad to learn, meek better. The Countess of Caledon has arrived at Carlton- Louseterrace from Ireland. Lori and Lady De Tabley bare been entertaining • aueeessiou of visitors duriag the put week at their seat i• Cheshire. Lori wad Lady Forster will shortly leave Willey Park Salop, to joie the circle aboat to amemble at Savoie (Neat. I*dy Havelock and family honoured Messrs. Haywiod and Leggett with a visit yesterday, and inspected Mr. T. J. Batter's picture of the " Belief of Lanka:wt." We (Edinimr9l6 Courant) are authorised to state that the 1t.,. Dr. Colin Smith, of laverary,will be proposed Ihderator of the nest General Ameenhly. The undergraduates at Cambridge have affirmed at the Dnion. Iry a meimity of 40 to 28, " that the general tote of ti., swurtlay Amur is subversive of the principles et true criticism." TURIN, Nov. 21. It is araerted that the rumours respecting a loan to be shortly negotiated by the Sardinian govern ment are completely false. The clergy in the Neapolitan provinces have paid homage to King Victor Emmanuel. RANI, Nov. 21. The Dowager Queen of Naples has arrived hare with the Prinoess and the young children. They have taken up their residence in the Quirinal. The young Queen remains at Gaeta with the Princes. The French are about to occupy Terracing, • .‘ reminds its readers iibraltar. It is armed with of artillery. All the Charles V. downwards, have ' Ferdinand: a fortified ita " Our army'," says the difficulties in taking it ; binder the political and military reorganization of Southern Italy, a task to which the government is devoting its utmost efforts." The Ever() states that Gaeta has proviaiona for six months, and that during tho siege the repre sentatives of foreign Powers' will remain on board ships of war belonging to their nations at anchor in the port. A communication from Oast& of the 12th fur nishes some details not without interest : The Neapolitan troops still poesseeed out of the town the different positions of the Norge Seem. As to Gaeta itself, it was described as stronger than ever. The front of attack am the land aide does not exceed 700 meter in extent. It is defended by works cut in the rock and a r m e d w ith th ree rows of face d batteries, one of which has rifled cannon. These batteries together mount shout 300 guns, and their line of Are converges on the points from which the attack must necessarily be made. The ditch at the foot of the escarpment is cut in the rock, and the bottom of the escarp ment itself is completely covered. The other fortified points are protected by masses of rock, which render them sm. approachable. The ground in front of the place of attack is so reeky that any approaches must be mart dli. cult, and occupy a considerable time. Indepeodeatly of those defence', Gaeta possesses a certain number of works established on the heights, among which may be mentioned the castle, the Tower of St. Francis, and the Monte Orlando, • strong fort, which commands both the land side and the sea. A. to the port it is defended by considerable works, which would cause great damage to vessels of war built wood. In the situation in which Gaeta now is, and with the am side remaining free in coussquime• of the non- recognition of the blockade by the Europe= powers, it mar, with a garrison of from ff,ooo to 7,000 mea, with supplies of all kinds, defend itself for an almost in. definite period. The struggle will be coolkoed on both sides to a combat of artillery. The besiegers may establish mortar batteries and bombard the plies ; but that means will only occasion the destruction of the churches, building!, and private houses, but w il l not make tL"riek tenders-al it surrender, for the batteries sod forts are all bomb-proof. The king had got one wing of his palace put into 'lron defence, and to it retired with his family. Francis 11, bas issued the following order of the day : Soldiers,—When, after two menthe of generous efforts, perfect self-devotion, labour, and fatigue, we thought we had completed our work of crushing the revolutionary in vasion of our country, there arrived the regular army of a friendly sovereign, which, threatening our bait of retreat, hes obliged us to abandon our positioo. Happen what may from these events, the whole of Europe in waimatier, and judging them, will not be able to do leas than admit the valour and fidelity of a heedful of brave men, who, simistiag the perfidious seduction, as well as the strength of two armies, have not only made resistance, but have mice more metered illustrious the history of the Neapolitan army by the WOW of Santa Maria, Cajarso, Trifisco, Sent Angelo, he. These foots will remain indelibly graven on my heart. To perpetuate the remembrance of them • braise medal will be struck, bearing the legend " Campaign of September and October, 1860." and these words on the reverse, " Santa Maria, Cajazzo, Trifisco, Sans Angelo, ltc." The model will be suspended by • blue and r°l ribbon ; while ornamenting your noble breasts, it will remind every one of your fidelity and your valour, which will always be a claim to glory for those who shall beer your name. Itasca IL • - MUSIC. i • • lOVAIIE CLARA NOVELLO'S FAREWELL • CONCERT. TER ., EXPRESS. TIERSD: Y fEl4l*fp \ - NO -- ~.44 d , .. aet .., THE BRITISH LEGION AT NAPLIAL LATIOIIIif . Mill . , . .A . OE. 4.' % 161 . I ! 1 1 141 x. ro rya fDrroa or rien =mum I . 111= E s . 1; AETA. is, —A paragraph in the Lud leiter from y • •• • Ili" Vir :• . s 1 correspondent at Naples in your Impreseles et Monday r - "1nu.16.,." 4 The opiXielf the nth I i sfria l eacdsu i s i i d ot thrm gi en Ve Cu lP :olllllg 4 unelain the ess lin to tish ih Legi e tgavo: General Goyim is said to have &okra:that he that Gaeta is a second Gibraita "yen hundred palceil loud at Caserta. I only return e d f rom Naples bat would not deliver tie materiel belonging to the . of I 50V from Char les V. It, aid as I hal a pot dal of Mtertenr se Intla both Bourbon troops. who had Calton refuge in the 4 3 / 4 ar t i ri t , d e f enses. i Ir m a, officers and men 'of the Legion, sad am fully acquainted Roman States, either to Francis IL ,or to King most vulnerable points. " 0 I the felts of their cane, I bete you will give me a 0••• Victor Emmanuel. Negotiations are,however, being Opinions, " will find great die , oar columns to explain to their friends and the country but this siege will not binde .... . .. rally that fn. lila nemmant ....1......1-1.- _. r ..__ ../ •1.. continued on this subject. r THE PENINSULAR MAIM r, TEUSSDAT. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus has arrived, with the above mail, and 21 passengers, including 5 officers of her Majesty's ship Perseverance, lost off the island of }Liao. She also brings 1,3441. in specie and a general MVO. The English squadron under Admiral Stopford arrived at Lisbon on the 14th inst. At Lisbon, on the 17th instant, exchange on London was quoted 544 ; Paris, 5.28 ; Amster dam, 424 ; Hamburg, 48; Genoa, 5.71 ; Rental, 3 per oent., 463 ; Coupons, 453 ; Deferred, 374 ; Bank of Portugal shares, 560; Commercial Bank of Oporto, 260 ; Mercantile Bank, 260 mareie. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rzox ova own PARIS, WIIIIWISIDAT EVINOO. r.) If the Cosseitaiimutel and the Mimi* are cor rectly informed, there is no longer any doubt as to the resolution of Francis of Gaeta to defend him self to the last. He will, it it said, send away all troops not absolutely necessary for the defence of Ithe place, the lottery-ticket indicating the lucky in dividual marked out for slaughter or starvation. Truly, this man is the father of his people ! The Paris correspondent of the Nord, on the contrary —without affixing a probable date to the departure, win et anti, of the ex-king —announces that when ever that event occurs he will betake himself to Rome, there to consort and collude with Pope Pius IX. This writer surely reckons without his Napoleon, who will hardly tolerate the plotting. and contrivings of these two incarnations of abso lutism beneath the tri-coloured flag. The same correspondence values the devotion of those devoted Bourbonista who have fled to Paris on the irrup tion of the Victor Emmanuelle* at the tune of 10,000 crowns—such being the amount of the tribute forwarded from this city to the military chest at Gaeta by Neapolitans, many of whom have in comes amounting to several millions of franca. The Pope has given an organisation to the col lection of Peter's Penoe, which it had not before. The Ctionoale di Roma has the following : The Holy Father hoe dinned to allow the society ineti. toted atßeens fortis collection of Peter's Pence to assume the name, donator. sod privileges of an aroh-brotherhood, ander the patronage of the Apostle of Peter, with the power of Weans,/ to itself other societies and brotherhoods throughout the catholic world, established for the same object, viz., the suocoaring the Holy See by payers and pious deeds. _ By " pions deeds " is, of coarse, meant the begging-box business. iTttrin letter, of the 19th inst., says the Pied moutese parliament is to be convoked immediately on the King's return, and forthwith dissolved in order to be replaced by an Italian parliament. It adds, that there is a strong party in the country desirous of the election of a constituent assembly of the whole nation, in order at once to establish the constitution of the new Italian state. The Patric, in its latest news, announces the fact of the signature of the treaty of peace with China, which took place in the beginning of October at Tchang-Tcheon, near Pekin. The telegram which announces an arrangement between the banks of France and England for thee:- change of two minions sterling in gold against a like amount in silver, has been favourably received. It had the effect of producing a certain animation towards the close of the Bourse, which resulted in a trifling rise in the Route of 10c., the final price being 70fr. 20c. for cash, and 70fr. 15c. for the account. Credit ldobilier left off at 760 fr. 25c. cash, and 770 fr. account. The Emperor Napoleon visited the representa tion of La Trariata, at the Italian Opera, Paris, oa Tues day night. _ The Messager de Nice, in speaking of the em ending momenta of the Empress Dowager of Russia, had said that the last recommendation of her Majesty to the Emperor Alexander was in favour of the King of Naples, in remembrance of the reception which she met with some years ago at the court of the Two Sicilia. That journal again revert, to the subject, and says :—"A private letter from Bt. Petersburg, received here, coafirms the dying words of the Empress Dowager to her son, such as we gave them. Only after having recommended to the COW the King of Naples, tie angled prince's ia said to have melded— ' But above all thlap make no alliance with Austria.' like died ems after." ' A NEw ENGLISH MISSION TO ITALY.—The Rev. A. Camißerl, curate to the ltev. Dr. Wordsworth, aeon of Westminster Abbey, is about toooned to Italy. Ile COO of several agents, who will be accredited to carry out • new English mission einomget the Italian people. The penury object/1 of the miasioneries will be to e serail reformation Mowery way pomade. I. lt the j an ions distribution of the Aoglo-Coutinental &end s Itali pub lications and 'Wien prayer-books. 2. By explaining by word of mouth the limits of the legitimate jurisdiction and autho rity of the Bahop of Rome, especially with reference to the liberties of the churches of North Italy and Bic@ . 3. By enforcing on excited minds the necessity of . • cal older. 4. By convincing men, both by argument and by the example of the Eiablish church, of the possibility of a national church reforming itself, and being at once catholic and protestant, catholic in maintaining the faith anddiscipline of the holy catholic church, protestant in rejecting papal usurpation and dogma. The MUINICNNITiaII are also to be in structed to avoid any transgression of the law of the land, and to abstain from any attempt at drawing individual, out of the Italian church into separate communities. Mr. Camilleri wee educated at Malta College, and is reported to be well qualified for the duties her about to diasemge. FAMINI me NIVITGUNDLAND.—Grest &Ones during the coming winter is anticipated lemon)* localities ia the north sod west of Newfoundland, on account of the failure of the potato crop and a serious falling off in the catch of fish. The grand juries of Blain and &Twists have made presentments on the subject, and recommend that the government give *mistime*, in the shape of greats of roomy to be expended on the roads. The cod fishery in Placentia Bay, usually so productive, his failed this year, and much distress in the coming winter is anticipated, It lithe commonly received opinion amongst all the fishermen on these shores that the annual decrease in the " Mks of lab "is to be attributed to the increase of the Preach beakers, and especially to the mode of their taking the fish by means of " the Wholes." which Bishop lffulloci in his We lecture, designate. " the most ruinous mode of r. fishing ever _practised." The executive has coavoked the legislature for the :lid of December—some seven weeks whet than usual. The necessity, says the Patritg, of adopting peampt menus of meeting the dernitution of the inhabitants el some of the eastern districts, from the failure of the &bey is SPV.T7II parts along shore, h,, couvioced the government at the expediency of convening the legislature ea 'Arty as pee lade.— Canadian Sc.,. LETTER OF DON RIIGIGIERO SETTIMO TO COUNT CAVOUR. The Opinions of Turin, in announcing that Bing Victor Emmanuel has conferred the Collar of the Order of the Annunciada on Don Ruggiero Settimo, publishes the following letter from the noble veteran to Count Cavour : Malta, Nov. 3. Excellency,—ln these momenta of supreme importance, both to Italy and humanity, you have been so kind as to remember me, and invite me, in the name of the King's government, to return to my native county. I cannot find words sufficient to gimes my gratitude for so flattering • remembrance of me. As a chime of Italy, I feel fur the King and his Government the devotion of one who sees her redeemed by their efforts. As to an Italian born in Sicily, I owe you still greater gratitude for your just estimation of the feelings of natiooality which have inspired nay fellow-citizens ; for you have justly recognised, in the policy followed by the Provisional Government of Sicily in 1848, • te ftdmey towards Italian nationality under the dynasty of Savoy, although manifested under the form which the political roe ditions of that period required. Personally, I feel myself too much honoured by the esteem you express for me is raped to my political life. Having witnessed, and acted • part in the struggle which sines the end of the last century has been going on in order to free the human race from despotism, 1 have long been convinced that the liberty and prosperity of a state depends upon he complete indepen dence, • wise constitution, and eternal order. All these things Italy ma only obtain under that King who has un flinchingly upheld the banner of independence and liberty. AU the various countries of Italy have understood this, and hence their noble impatience to sacrifice municipalize on the altar of the country. Sicily would not be the last, and her enthusiastic vote for annexation proves it. Under ' the regular and wise government of the king she will find that repose she So muck imam Although I feel that I am give but little aid in this word, still I acknowledge it to be the duty of every honest citizen devoted to Italy to I contribute thereto as far as is in his power. Hence, and in compliance with the honourable in- I viiation with which you have honoured me, I shall feel it my duty to return to Sicily as soon as the illness, which has latterly tried me more severely than meal, shall render it penal& I also wish to return, in order to see my country again sod my fellow-citizens, to whom I feel grateful for their Seeder affection towards me. Should this wish of mine be denied me—should I be de shoed to end my long life in the hospitable land of my exile, I shall fee l secure as to the future of Italy and Si cily under an honest king and so wise a government. Be assured of my devotion to the King, and my respectful esteem of your Excelleac , while 1 remain, with senti ments of the highest cooa darntion, Itcowato Earruto. The French sailing frigate his has just completed avoyaga of circumnavigation with more than ordinary rapi- dity: The Isis sailed from Brest on the 19th of April last, with a body of marines, to relieve the prison of Tahiti. She touched at Rio Janeiro towards the mid of May, and since then no account reached Prawn of her course. The authorities began to feel noon nominees as to her fate, whoa on the 16th of the present month she anchored in the listbroz al Bred, having fulfilled her mission, sod having mailed mend the globe is 210 days. A ROA.X.—Yesterday afternoon it was reported that "The Emperor rlapoleon had landed!" Orowdsrushed to London-bridge, and crowds to the South-Western. This was the least probable point al arrival, and there fore the most favoured ; for was not Napoleon a men most to be expected from some unlikely quarter Besides, would it nut suit him to pass Portsmouth in his trip, and take a sketch of the new fortifications Rumour soon magnified itself into positive assertion, and Sootland-yard was applied to. Staidgfetwey a large force of police was sent down to the station to keep the surging crowd front too near as approach to majesty. Still matte's were only at the state of assertion, when soddenly the teie mph was set to wore at Winchester, sad the great news was converted Into • certainty. A uard telegraphed to the board that he had got him—Napoleon himself- in the first compartment of • first-class carriage in the 2.30 from Portsmouth. On this—endless excitement. The train was watched for, prayed for. At last it duly rumbled into the station. Directors were there, and big and little official; and long-nosed police, sad quick-e) ed reporters ; and last, not heat, it is averred—sure sign of the imperial approach —a posse .of French secret police sprang from the ground, having arrived by some tunnel only known to the French, from Leicester-square. The hubbub was great ; dozens of hands were laid on the doors of all first carriage* of first-class compartments. Who should first greet hint? The astonished pawners could hardly get out. When was he ! Why, sure enough, m • first comportment there wastottud• genet-looking Footle:nen with the promineut nose tied the mouatache and imperial of the victor of Solferioo. As such be was baled. "Ave Omar!" cried the board, and "Hooray for the Hempen,!" shouted the crowd. The polio, pushed them back. The reporters duly noted the "ovation," and :Dom was made for the im perial movements. High best the hopes of the Hansoms. Earnest, though humble, where the four-wheelers, when suddenly the group about the carriage ported asunder. The astonished gentleman arid:tined to the unwilling auditors who he was, and • magistrate with spectacle*, two rail way interpreters, end four travelled Britons, affirmed that he was not the Emperor. This being confirmed by the general verdict of the crowd, including the " French detectives," he was permitted to escape from his storage and novel situation. The British public were undoubtedly "sold," to use the phntse current among the muses in the Waterloo-road. Nevertheless, many held that Napoleon ought to have come, and that he would still come,aud they rennieed near the station till • late period of the after noon. The police stayed three hours at the station, till, finding there was no possible reason for their presence, they marched home to Scotland-yard. Meanwhile, the news had spread through Leielon, and for a few hours the hoax enjoyed a very lively existence. J Clara Novell° has taken her farewell—her Alhimeweil—oir the public. Her career—the most brilliant that any English vocal performer has had during the present century—ia ended, and she retires into private life, carry. Mg with her the regret and the good wishes of every one who has derived from her performances the Woad and meet refined pleasures which the art of music can beitov, sad of every one who has had the comas of knowing, from personal acquaintance, her many virtues and amiable qualities. The announcement of her farewell concert created much excitement in our musical circles, and drew, last evening, .tbe greatest audience we have ever seen in St. James's Hall. Long before the doors opened, the lines of carriages in Regent-greet extended as far as the Polytechnic Institu tion ; there were number, of them approaching by all the neighbouring streets ; and in a short time every part of the building was densely crowded. In all corners of the ball the " familiar faces" were seen of distinguished musicians and amateurs, anxious to pay the great songstress a parting tribute, and to have the really sad pleasure of hearing her voice for the lent time. The concert was in three parts, and in each part Madame Novella was heard. In the first she sang one piece, but it was one which has always been one of her grandest efforta— the magnificent scam, " Ocean, thou mighty monster," from Weber's Oberon. We do not know any piece of dramatic music that requires greater vocal powers, com bined with greater energy and passionate expression, than this celebrated monologue ; nor do we know any performer of the present time who has been equally successful in conquering all its immense difficulties. The remainder of the first part was made up of Mendelasohn's part song " The Nightingale," very nicely sung by the chorus; the buffo air, " Madamina," from Don Giovanni, sung with spirit and effect by Mr. Wass ; and the part.song, " Now the sun has mounted high," from Macfarren's Robin Hood. The second part of the concert consisted entirely of Bene dict's cantata, Maine, performed for the first time in London. It will be remembered that this charming work was originally produced at the late Norwich Festival, ander the composer's direction and with the most brilliant success. Madame Novelle then sustained the part of the heroine, and again did so list night, with as much effect as before. The beautiful song, "Nark the waves that rippling play," rung by Undine with • thorns of female voices, produced an immense sensation. The applause from every part of the hall was so loud and prolooged that the fair prima donna could not but interpret it as an encore ; and, though she had retired from the orchestra, she returned, and the piece was repeated with undiminished effect. The exquisite solo purse which con cludes the piece, and in which the hapless Undine laments the fate of her false lover, was sung with a pathos which, had the scene been represented oe the stage, would have drawn tears from the audienoe. Indeed, we must repeat wh►t we said immediately after hearing' this cantata, that it is so eminently dramatic both in the subject and its musical treatment, that it could be easily adapted to the stage, and would make a short two set opera full of interest and beauty. The other parts were wag last night by Miss Palmer, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, and Mr. Weiss ; and the whole performance was completely suecessful. In the third part, Madame Novell° sang the scene frees Mozart's Figaro containing the lovely air, " Deh yield, non larder," ;with charming sweetness, exquisite purity of voice, and that tranquil tenderness which the melody so finely conveys ; and she also sang the solo part in Mendolasohn's " Ave Maria" from Lovely. Mr. J. W. Davison's very fine and expressive song, "Swifter far than summer's flight," was sung with great feeling by Miss Palmer, and was warmly applauded. And a beautiful part-song by Benedict, " Sweet repose," was sweetly and delicately sung by twelve Lanai of the Vocal Association. The concert concluded with "God SIM the Queen." Madame Novello singing the solos. She made her parting obeisance, and retired from the orchestra amid acclamations and waving of bat.' and handkerchiefs from all parts of the hall. MEETING OF CREDITORS. A meeting took place yesterday of the creditors of Messrs. J. and E. Williams, sugar agents, of Fen church-street, who stopped payment on the 10th inst. The balanoe-sheet presented by Messrs. Theodore Jones and Co., accountants, estunatces the liabilities at 42,281/., and the assets at 33,6201. The cause of the suspension was the failure of Messrs. H. Holmaear and Co., sugar refiners, who owe 10,0001. to this estate. The capital of Messrs. Williams on the let of January, 1856, was 4,0191., and the gross profits from this date up to that of the stoppage have reached 31,4841. The following items are also included in the balauce-sheet refer ring to the same period :—Trade expenses, 6,1471. ; salaries, 2,5721. ; travellers' commission , 5,739/. ; discount, 4,711. ; loss on bad debt:, 3,988/. ; loss on bills receivable (Holmaear), 7,6341., &c. Some discussion took place with re ference to certain goods in transits and to the probability of the assets being diminished in con nexion with them. The advisability of further in formation upon this point was urged by several creditors. It was proposed on behalf of the firm to pay 15s. in the pound, viz., ss. at one month ss. at two month, 2s. 6d. at four months, and 2e. 6d. at six months, the last instalment to be secured. This offer was not agreed to, a committee of investigation being appointed, which will report to an adjourned meeting. The attendance was somewhat numerous, and comprised partners in some of the first firms in Mincing-lane. A dividend of about lid. in the pound is about to bo declared in the Bankruptcy Court among the joint creditors of Messrs. A. J. and H. Jauobs, glass merchants, of Finsbury and Australia, who failed in 1855, with liabilities to the amount of 17,1091. This estate, when under inspection, has already yielded ss. Od. in the pound. Assets to the amount of 1,0001. will shortly be divided amongst creditors to the amount of 30,0001. of George Montagu Evan., solicitor, of Farnham, who absconded. Mr. William Dickins, shoe mauufac turer, of Daventry, passed his examination to-day. Assignees were appointed in the case of Mr. J. Baker, tanner, of Ileatlifield. Yesterday Sir Richard Mayne, the Chief Com missioner of Police, and Saprainisadest MaWien, of the London police, arrived at Shearson dockyard fur the pur pose of making arrangements for the Introduction of the metropolitan force iuto that establishment, in compliance with the provisions of the recent act of pit-lament to that effect. The new arrangement is to come into operation at Sheerness dockyard on the 3nl of December. In the Landed &tate+ Court, Dublin, on Tues day, Judge Lanelsla disposed of certain estates in the meaty of Mayo, the owners and petitioners being Messrs. J. W. Burmeater, Wipiem Corry, and J. A. Durham. The total produce of the lots 'obi is 33,3101. The owners an petitioners are trustees of the London and County Bank the creditors of the late Jobe Sadleir. Mr. V. Dillon pur chased the greater portion in trust for Mr. Denis O'Connor of Mount Druid, county of Roscommon. It appears ?row ;letter in the Limerick Reporter that a grand banquet is to be given to the Limerick, Clare, and Tipperary contingents of the late Irish Brigade, on Monday evening, the 3rd of December, in the theatre of that city, and that General Laiiimici;:re, Major O'Reilly, Cardinal Wiseman, and Archbishop Cullen will attend. Preparations on an extensive scale, it is mid, are being made for the event, which is expected to come off with unusual MEMORIAL TO LORD PALMERSTON TOE AN INCREASE Or THE BISICOrATE.—A meaiorial is in mune of circulation amougat the laity, having some thousands of name attached to it, amongst others those of the Duke of Buocleuch, the Duke of Marlborough, the Marquis of West minder, the Earl of Denbigh, the Earl of Cimarron, the Earl of Romney, the Earl Nelsoe, the Earl of Verulasi, the Earl of Effingham, the Earl of Galloway, Viscount Beasley, Lord Calthorpe. Lord Redeedale, Lord Leigh, Lord Ebury, Lord John Naimoli., M.P., Lard Robert Cecil, M.P., SirJohu Patkron, Sir J. T. Coleridge, Mr. Adderlcy, 11. P., Mr. Sotheroa listanat, M.P., Mr. MowbrlY, M.P. Vine-Cliaiseellor air W. Pao Wood, Sir W. Heatboote, Bart., 611. P., Sir Walter Janie., Bait., Sir Walter Farquhar, Bart., Sir Stephen R. Glyms, Bert, Mr. Hubbard, ILP., Mt. Esker/irk M.P., Mr. J. J. Rogers, M.P. (Ralston), Mr. Selwyn, M.P., Mr. Percy Watliegton Mr. Wbateloy, Q.C., Mr. Romidnli Palmer, Q.C., and Mr. Ilaory language, secretary to the Cathedral Commission, praying for an femme of the Episogata„ A ' u n it., d ., 3k. ratio. has here by upward. 6,000 clergymen. The lay memorial will be presented before the commencement of the forthcoming aosston of parliament This morning, between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock, a most destructive fire broke out at the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, Clerkenwell, The discovery was made by one of the warders observing dense bodies of smoke issuing from the kitchen. An alarm was immediately raised, and messengers despatched for the engines of the London Fire Brigade. which arrived as speedily as posalble,but the Eames spread with mating rapidity, and it was found secessary to send for the new steam land engine, invented by Messrs. Shand and Mason, Blackfriars read. This was got to work in an admirable manner under the direction of Mr. Engineer Gerrard, and some thousand tons of water were thrown on the blaring pile, but the flames extended and caught the store-room on the east side of the prison. The fire was not subdued until very consi derable damage was done. Cause is unknown. GREAT FIRE AT MANCHESTER.- A COTTON MILL BURNT DOWN. Yesterday afternoon a serious fire broke out in the spinning mill belonging to the Messrs. Birley, situated in Rukae-street sad Cambridge-street, Choliton-on-Medlock. The mill premises occupy three sides of a square, and the portion burnt is that which runs down Cambridge-street, having its gable in Hulme-street. To Cambridge-street it presents a front of 15 windows, and is about 12 yard, broad in Hulme-street. This portion of the mill is the oldest of the entire block, and one of the oldest mills in Manchester. Between it and the mill running along Hulme.etreet there is a very thick, strong gable, sad between it and the oppo site block, which is occupied as a sugar refinery, there is also a strong gable. To these gables may be attri buted the confinement of the flames to the portion of the mill in which they broke out. At the time the con. Ingestion broke out the wind was blowing strong from the south-east, and darkness was just coming on. The flames andhalf-burnt material were thrown over in the direction of Market-street, and before many minutes had elapsed the dark purple glare in the sky told to all in the streets that the flames were making very rapid progress. Intelligence of the fire medial the Town's-yard in a very shed time. Mr. Bose and a body of firemen at ones pro. added to the spot with the Thames engine, and they were is a short time followed by the rest of the brigade with the Mersey and the other engines. The fire broke out in the fourth story from the ground, in Cambridge-street, and was the result, ea far aa inn be ascertained, of friction in one of the bevil wheels of the main driving shaft. This friction must have sent sparks in various directions, for the cotton which wu in process of spinning was in • blase all round, in a very short time. The hands in this and other rooms did what they could by buckets of water. The floors being saturated with oil, and the wood work very dry, the flames spread with slasming rapidity, sad the managers and the overlookers had at once to forte the hands out of the floor, and from the floor and attic above. All got out without danger. When the engines arrived the flames were bursting forth from six windows ; and Mr. Rose saw that there was little or no hope of saving this compartment of the mill. Before his arrival soave of Mews. Birley's men had put on a hose to one of the street plugs ; so also had the men in the sugar refinery of Messrs. Binyona, Fryer, and Co. By Mr. Rose's directions the hose of the engines were attached to the adjoining plugs, bat only the Gorton pressure being on, the jets only reached to the third story. Ultimately, however, the Denton pressure was tbmwn into the line of pipes, and the water was thrown to the highest point necessary. Altogether there were twelve jets played upon the burning building, but, fanned by the fierce wind, the flames increased in power, and a go o d deal of water—especially that played from Hulineetreet—was rather thrown back in the faces of the firemen than upon the burning floors. The strong staircase in liulme-street, at the end of the gable which divides the carding-room from the mill on lire, was, hum the but, Mr. Roses chief object of attention. Re saw that if he could get the jets well played from a high point here, that he would prevent the fire from penetrating into the carding-room portion. A gallant body of firemen forced their way up the stairs, although nearly imffocated with smoke and heat. They were kept beck, but only for a little. They knew the importance of a good stead point here, and they were reisolved to secure It. They succeeded at teat, although three-quarters of an hoar were lost before they could reach the fifth and sixth stories. The roof fell in, and this at 030 e ecab'ed them to reach the desired elevation without danger from telling masses of smoke, and the myriads of sparks poured forth from the burning mass. They directed copious shower aof water from the top story doors of the staircase. The flags on which they stood were cracking underneath their feet, each break being ateowpanied by a sharp explosion. In spite of their claimer, the men stood their ground nobly. At the opposite aide of Ilulnie-street stands another of Masts. Birley's mills. For an hour end a half Mr. Rose was occupied in directing the efforts of Messrs. Birley's hands to preserve it from danger, the brow blowing all the lame and burning material towards it. Under the direction of Mr. Kennedy, one of the firm, hose and appliances were got upon the roof, and .kept it cool by large supplies of water ; they also stopped all crevices in the dome sod win. down. Mews. Binyon and Fryer's men, at the other extra. mity of the burning mill, kept their gable safe; and by these various means the dames were confined within the old mill. The men in Meade. Bb lay's macintosh mandate tory also gave excellent assistance. My sight o'clock, all danger from the llama waa over. By die time the mill was • mere shell, the contents burned down to the cellars. The danger being over, all the firemen, except ten, with three jets, were withdrawn. Occasionally greeter or smaller pieces of the walls fell, and the firemen sometimes had narrow escapes from the melees of bricks hurled down into the street falling often close beside them. The mill was but lately filled entirely with new ma chinery, all of which is destroyed ; 400 hands are by this accident thrown out of work. The premismare insured to the mooed of 10,001 Y. iu various offices; but the total 'mount of damage is estimated at about 15,001 e. The police kept admirable order, and preveuted the enormous, crowds, which rushed from all points, from encroaching upon the space in front of the mill, where the firemen and Messrs. Birley'a hands were moving about. Captain Pain and Superintendent Sarum directed the force, and assisted Mr. hose io the satisfactory working of the fire brigade.— Narstectier Erminiaer. FIRe AT Tile SUNALX-HALL.—On Tuesday even ing, between 8 and 9, the French clam at Sussex-hall was alarmed by the discovery of fire on the premises. Notice was immediately sent to the fire station in Jeffery.equare, and aeastauee presently arrived, when it was amertained that it had originated on the inemises of James Leckie, • vellum binder, 5, sugar Loefemurt, and was communicating itself to the roof of Sussex-hall. Happily its course wan checked in time to save the hall, which has recently become more interesting as the borne of the metropolitan even' classes, but Mr. Lockie'e HI-wises are utterly Too high praise cannot be given to the firemen and police. whose united exertions saved niuch valuable property. although the adjoining house (No. 4) is the court seems little mere than lath and plaster. THE FATAL FIRE AT POPLAR.—This tire, which we noticed on Tuesday hut, in which a poor t-irl 13 rem of age was burnt to death, and Mr. Donovon, who occupied the upper pert of the house, was, together with one of his daughters, very terribly burped in endeavouring to escape from the building, has proved of a more disastrous cha racter than was at Ore, expected. Yesterday morning it was announced that the unfortunate girl, who was removed to the London Hospital, had expired from the effects of the burns r emised, and that nut the least hope could be enter tained of the recovery of her unfortunate father. Tug NVINLAroN anzu. —The coroner's in quiry into the death of John Hety was brought to a ter mination on Tuesday. The evidence taken related priced. pally to the apprehension of Smith the "Leckie," who was present, in custody. It appears that the murderer, after wandering about the country for more than a week, arrived at Port Mulgrave, near Whitby, on Thursday, the 15th inst.. and obtained employment in an ironstone pit. At the same place worked a man named Irvin, whom he had known twenty years before se a fellow-pitman at Milkridge Colliery, near llaltwhiatle, and with him he took up his abode. On Saturday morning Irvin saw the gamekeeper to Mr. Mulgreve, who told him ci the Winlatou murder, and described " the Loki." so minutely that Irvin at once identified his quondam friend as the assumed murderer. Ile communicated the fact to the gamekeeper, and on Sunday evening both taxed Smith with the crime. The prisoner admitted his guilt, and con fessed that the trousers and boots were those of the de ceased, but he denied having struck Baty with a murderous! intention. Next morning lie was brought to Gateshead by those two worthy men, and higldell over to the police. After hearing these and other wituc.ses. the jury returned • verdict of " Wilful murder against Smith,Who, it is ex pected, will be tried at the ensuing winter aseise..—New castle Chronicle. ..... . B/LAWLINti IN A CHURCH. —A great deal of el. eitement was occasioned at the church d St. Peter, Clifton Wood, during the evening service of Sunday. The Rev. Canon Girdiestone wombed a powerful and effective sermon there, in the course of which he made reference to false witness, and, as he was doing so, a tell, powerful-looking man suddenly , rose up in the midst of the ouogregation, and exclaimed, • That's true, I be if it anat." This interruption caused much coaster. 'Ration. A policeman was called in, and the man was apprehended and removed to the station-house, when it was found that his name was Nash, and that he had once before been in custody on a similar charge. He was conse quently locked up for the night, and was brought before the magistrates on Monday, when the charge wee proved. and the prisoner was committed to tho House of Correction for severs days, with hard labour.— Bath CArtreide. SIRE AT THE CLEREENWELL HOUSE OP CORRECTION. -(THIS DAY.) . _