The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-25 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. a Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guinea& Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. T IiEATRE-110YAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstosie. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, THE CRITIC. Mr. C. Mathews. And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCE SS'S THEATRE.-- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. I 'THIS EVENING, will be performed THE LADY OF THE LYONS. Mr. G. Melville, Miss Heath, &c. I 'After which, CRUEL TO BE KIND. A. Harris, Misses C. and R Leclercq. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. ADECIAPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster. J. L. Toole. P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and Miss Laidlaw. After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Miss Laidlaw, and Miss Julia Daly. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. Famil Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ; Balcony, ; 48. ; Front Circle Stalls, Zs. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. sd. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, sd. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Immense Success of "Mazeppa." A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY next, Aug 25, commencing at Two o'clock. This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at T. Box -aloe open daily from it till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEPT. Director of the Arena,—M. Felix Revolti. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from MARTHA, And Selections from DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH, And numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, le , , Hall. Bd. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, dm., in addition to the usual entertainments. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 25, 1860, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 63—highest since noon yesterday. 59—lowest this morning and during the night. 65—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.75. WlND—South-Westerly; rather fresh, with continuous rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE, THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. 59m.—Afternoon., 812. 41m. To-mosuow.-Morning, 9h. 27m.—Afternoon, 10h. 12m. THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 18e0, The speech of Lord PALMERSTON, in answer to Mr. KINGLAKE, last night, showed something of his ancient spirit, and was worthy of his position as First Minister of the British Crown. Now that he has shaken off the timorous councillors who fettered his language at the commencement of the session, we are able to gather his real opinion respecting the transfer of Savoy, which he ex presses with an uncompromising fearlessness worthy of the occasion. " The cession of Savoy to France was a very peculiar transaction," said Lord PALMERSTON, " and does not come within the ordinary category of cession of territory made by one Sovereign to another. It was not competent for the King of SARDINIA to cede, nor, as I hold, for France to accept that territory, thus emancipating it from the conditions under which it stood as part of the dominions of Sardinia.' After referring to the position in which Savoy stood towards Switzerland Lord PALMERSTON said plainly that France being a much stronger power and differently situated in many respects, it was clear that there was much greater danger to Swit zerland from that Power than from Sardinia. That the difference of situation referred to the character of the Government as well as to the relative strength and position of the state, is manifest from the subsequent paragraphs. " The cession," con tinued the Premier, " was objectionable not only on that account, but on account of the manner in which it was made. All the circumstances connected with it from first to last, the denials at one time and avowals at another, the promises made, as reported by the President of Switzerland in his message of March, the promises made in January and Feb ruary by the French Government to the Minister of Switzerland, that whenever the cession should be completed Faucigny and Chablais should be transferred to Switzerland—a promise afterwards retracted, and apparently never intended to be performed ; all these circumstances must pro duce a most painful impression in the minds of every man in regard to all the parties who were concerned in the transaction. It had cer tainly produced a painful impression on the minds of all the other States of Europe—an impression showing that they considered that, for the future, forethought and precaution must be the duty of every Power." This is language sufficiently ex plicit and straightforward, worthy of the lips of an English Minister. We can only regret that our statesraen should have suffered themselves to have been no long deluded by the diplomatic subtleties and professed magnanimity of other Cabinets. Why were not Lord PALMERSTON'S perceptions equally clear, why was not Lord J. RUSSELL'S "study of the character of that great man" equally correct when they suffered themselves to be en gaged in that Treaty of Commerce, which is already anathematised in many of our manufacturing dis. tricts, and condemned by the sound judgmen and deliberate resection of the general pub. lie ? Why was not the tone of our Govern ment equally fearless and outspoken when they forced that treaty through the Legislature by the threat that its non-acceptance would endan ger the French alliance. If " forethought and precaution" had been the duties of the past as well %a the future, England would never have consented to such an absurd sacrifice—a sacrifice made with out motive and accepted without gratitude—which will .yet lose more to the Government by,its ur.- popuh t ,i ty in this country, than it will gain them in the fr iendship of an ally wh om a l rea dy th ey distrust. w e _ rejoice, however, to see Lord PAL MERSTON 1128.111/ ling so dignified an attitude. He seems of IP.te to hay° abandoned the flippancy and levity which he once adopted, and to have resumed instead that honourable it dependence of tone and manner which no one can more worthily bear. Le t preserve this attitude and these sentiments,no longer fettered by the intricate theories of a crotchety colleague, or by the pacific platitudes of a quonda m friend. Let him be true to his own early career, and to th e sympathies of the E ng li s h people—sure that th e strength of position acquired by an upright and dt ' .4,. -j , • i ' ' _ _ I ::':,. i'- • • ~,'-' - • ..,- ~..ts i,-;-. • 7 .A.D.N. A t 4 -e,.,, --', - W bil. r..,. j , ~ - "I' 'II" '' ' ' • bfiiii 4 "' '• t- - ' • tt .. _ ..,.., allies. Reverting to that one particular line of electric communication which we are all of us so peculiarly desirous of seeing carried out between England and her enormous empire in Hindostan, an intelligent correspondent of the chief among our morning contemporaries, a writer signing him self Alpha, has explained in a very clear and succinct manner the stages of its development, the intervals of its success, and the causes of its inter ruption. The Red Sea cable, for instance, he re minds us, worked during very nearly nine months consecutively—namely, from the 29th of May, 1859, to the 10th of February, 1860—to admiration. At the latter date, namely, on the 10th of last February, the section between Aden and Souakin was interrupted. That section was satisfactorily repaired by the 7th of July—not, however, until after 200 miles of cable had' been cautiously un derrun, and when lifted thus bit by bit to view, subjected inch by inch to a minute examination. The outer iron wires were then found corroded —insomuch that the gutta percha underneath was laid bare at those points of corrosion. What was worse still—the gutta percha itself was found at intervals to be perforated by little circular pea holes, the result of latent bubbles exploded by the force of the gassing electricity—exposing the cop per wire at these apertures, and thereby subjecting the copper wire at these points to the destructive influence of decomposition. Wherever the cable was discovered to have been thus flawed it was repaired, and repaired so successfully, that by the 7th of July the line between Aden and Souakin was again in operation. Five days, however, were scarcely passed by after this when again, viz., on the 12th of July, the electric action ceased—since which period the section here particularized has been altogether unemployed. The interruption, moreover, was in point of fact all the more tantalizing from the circumstance that but three clays prior to the first interruption, namely, on the 7th of last February, the cable (in continuation of the route to India) was successfully laid between Aden and Kurrachee ! While we are in the midst of these con siderations, the hon. gentleman, late Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under Lord DERBY'S Government (Mr. SEYMOUR FITZGERALD), elicits, by his inquiries from her MAJESTY'S Government, the acceptable intima tion that her MAJESTY'S advisers will, at the very least, "wcit a wee" before aezteding to the modifications now audaciously proposed by the Austrian Government—the monstrous and impu- dent modifications proposed to be made in the con- vention entered into between that Government and our ovra, as to the submergence of electric cables between Ragusa and Corfu, and between Corfu and Alexandria , In the submergence of our electric cables we vf,lnt no conventions with any other fearless independence is worth all the assistance of combined armies, and the professions of " ideals' Everybody recognizes the vital importance to England of a direct line of electric communication being established forthwith between her own shores and those of her vast and remote Asiatic possessions. A direct line, observe, is the desideratum ! To carry the route unnecessarily through the dominions of any other power—however friendly, however old and firm and faithful an ally--were obviously in this design a blunder of the very first magnitude. The ally of yesterday may be the foe of to-morrow. And if humanity, and even prudence, bid us generally treat all our enemies as though they were one day to be our friends—experience tells us plainly that we should no less cautiously in all political transactions and diplomatic negotiations hold in view perpetually the possibility—not the proba bility, observe, but the mere obvious poribility— that our friends may later on be our enemies. If there is one thing, therefore, that is manifestly more desirable than another in the laying down of electric submarine cables between the capital of our Empire and our distant provinces —whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, or Australasia—it is that we should carry the route, as uninterruptedly as may well be, from point to point through our own territories. These territories are happily so very numerous, and they are so widely scattered, that we believe it will prove eventually quite practicable to unite the whole of our enormous and widely-distributed empire in a network of submarine electric cables, having its central core in the metropolis. It is only a question of time, expense, and engineering. There are those three obstacles alone to its instant development. But each of these three we believe to be an obstacle only in appearance. The rapidity with which the submarine electric system has already grown to its present dimensions, gives assurance that a compara tively moderate period is yet requisite for its further advance to the point already indicated. As to the seeming impediment of expenditure —that we have already been enabled to recognize as wholly illusory, even from our small past expe rience. Take, as a case in point, a portion of that grand series of telegraphic lines that we are now endeavouring to extend, section by section, until we brought London into instantaneous communi cation with Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta. Take the single isolated section known as the Aden-Suez cable. That, while actually in working order, we know to have already, within a comparatively brief interval, paid its expenses ; we know it to have very nearly, if not entirely, relieved her MAJESTY'S Government of the preconcerted guarantee. Nay in every individual instance in which a submarine cable has yet afforded us an opportunity of testing its capabilities as a mercan tile speculation, we have found it to be an enter prise essentially, largely, and immediately remune rative. So that in regard to expense, as in regard to time, the dreaded obstacle turns out upon exami nation to be purely imaginary. Then remains the one simple question as to the capabilities of en gineering. As to which—the world knows per fectly well by this time that the problem has been again and again solved, and that it has been solved definitively and triumphantly. Fugitive though the success of the Atlantic cable was, that mere fugitive success would of itself have been all-suffi cient. For remember only for an instant what was then done, what was thereby actually accomplished ! At the clicking of the electric needle Europe and America, then and there (upon the shores of Ireland and upon the shores of Newfoundland), mos►tentarily talked with each other—their thoughts, their visible and audible words (visible and audible in the click ing vibrations of the electric needle indicators ?) thrilling to and fro under the depths of the mighty Atlantic Ocean ! The subsequent interruption of that actual converse has merely demonstrated the existence of some flaw in the arrangements, of some error in the calculations. The feasibility of the enterprize has been—in spite of that subsequent interruption—conclusively and absolutely proved to demonstration. It is comprehensible, therefore, that submarine cables of minor difficulty are regarded by our electric engineers with a very natural and very reasonable complacency, as cables that may be not only readily but securely submerged—as enter prises that may be not only possibly but probably accomplished for us to our most complete satisfac. tion. THE SUN,' LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25 1860. Government—we want English money and English enterprise alone to carry out these designs, under the guidance, under the auspices, under the guarantee, it may be, of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government—but with the aid and co-operation of no other than her Britannic MAJESTY'S Govern ment. Let time press ever so much, it was but right that before Parliament was broken up, we should hear a little more on the subject of foreign politics from those who take an interest in them in the House of Commons, and from the Ministry too. We should, indeed, have been better pleased if all the more important personages who have special knowledge respecting foreign affairs or interest in them, had given us their last on the occasion which was presented last night. Where, at least, was Sir ROBERT PEEL when Switzerland was under dis cussion ? our Foreign Secretary, too, should at least have given us his views, and not left all to his chief. The Conference which was to have been held re specting the annexation of Savoy was the text of a discussion which naturally took a much wider range. On that subject the tone of the House and of the Ministry seem to be all that can be wished. Nothwithstanding the baseness and badness of the whole business, it was felt by all of us, from the beginning, that it was a transaction which could not be made a cams belli. The only question, therefore, was how it should be treated diplomati cally, and to the present hour we are informed that it is not a transaction recognised by the public law of Europe. The cession of Savoy is held by the great Powers of Europe, the one of course which has made might prevail over right excepted, to be an act which it was not competent to Sardinia to perform, nor France as one of those powers to accept. France has, indeed, got the territory, that is all, and everything some might say ; not quite so, however, and no one knows that better than the French EMPEROR. Universal suffrage and Impe rial visits are but a miserable whitewash after all. We have no doubt that if he knew any way to ob tain it there is no price in reason which the EM PEROR would not pay to get his title-deeds made indisputable. He has writhed from that day to this under the fact, of which he was advertised in the plainest terms by England's Foreign Secretary, that he might do the thing, doubtless without fear of provoking a war, but that all his territorial gain would not compensate him for the deep distrust of France which would henceforth be universal in Europe. And now what has he found ? that from a most imposing position in Europe he sees himself isolated. At the time referred to, Germany was disunited and disorganized ; England was on the best terms, and Russia disposed to co-operate with him. But he now finds Germany combined; and the Baden attempt on her union more than counter balanced by the agreement between Austria and Prussia at Toplitz ; that Russia has retired within herself; and that England has constructed a fleet, enlisted her volunteers by the hundred thousand, and commenced a system of fortification, with a rapidity chiefly due to the want of con fidence she feels in the writer of the letter to "to my dear PERSIGNY." She has also declared that she does not mean to separate herself in her course of policy from that of the other States of Europe ;—in other words, she will act with Germany, with Belgium, and with Switzer land, if action should be necessary, to put a stop to Bonaparte annexations. All this isolation of France is entirely due to the first great act of fraud in the annexation of Savoy, and to the violence thus done to the law of Europe, and to the safety of Switzer land. There can be little doubt that one great object of ,he crafty French EMPEROR was to threaten Ger many by rendering the Swiss neutrality a fic tion. He was as much concerned to show that he had an easy road through the small republic to Germany, as to gain a small accession of territory. Chablais and Faucigny, as the military outwork of the neutral Republic, were vital to its safety. They have been rudely and unceremoniously grasped by an irre sistible power, who, by that very act, said, " and whenever I please, be it to march through you to Germany, or for any other object, I will let Switz erland see that her neutrality is now but a farce." We are pleased, therefore, to enter on the recess with so distinct a statement of his views as Lord PALMERSTON made last night. After recounting the circumstances of the case, that originally Sar dinia had no right to concede nor France to accept ; that this original flaw was made worse by the man ner in which it was done—by the avowals at one time and denials at another—by the pro mises, and then non-fulfilment—he remarked that all these circumstances must produce a most painful impression in the mind of every man in regard to all the parties who were concerned in the transac tion, a remark received with general cheering in the British House of Commons. He went on to show how the same impression had been produced in the minds of all the other States of Europe— " an impression showing that they considered that, for the future, forethought and precaution must be the duty of every power." This, then, has been the result of the combination of fraud and violence, of knavery and false promises, of defiance of right by might, through which Savoy was annexed to France—•that she and her ' EMPEROR are now the objects of a universal suspicion and distrust, which will go far to prevent his acting the magnificent part he intended. He has, to be sure, the gloomy satisfaction of having compelled honest men to arm in self-defence, that is to treat him as a rogue. Lord PALMERSTON seemed, however, to have some hope that on a re- view of the whole, France:would feel the necessity of making some concessions which should be satis factory to Switzerland, whose conduct was ad- mitted to be most praiseworthy, and so to insure that great European object, the independence and neutrality of the noble little republic. Our Premier, also, in reply to Sir G. Bow- YER—who, as usual, advocated the cause of the pre- sent and the banished Italian despots, and denounced the pirate GARIBALDI, compared with whom our Indian TANTIA TOPEE was a patriot—gave us a little of his mind about GARIBALDI. He thought it quite plain that if, with a few thousand volun- teers, he conquered seventy or eighty thousand of the King's soldiers, it could only be with the con- sent of the army and the country. Respecting Syria, Mr. KINGLAKE mentioned two statements which he thought Lord DUFFERIN would do well to verify. One, that a large number of fire- arms, bearing the stamp of a certain European Government, had been distributed among the Druses. Another, that a news paper professedly published in Beyrout, in Arabic, and containing articles intended to irritate he Christians against the Druses and against Eng . . and, was really published in the capital of that Government. A city in which it would be hardly safe or possible for private individuals to engage in such a manufacture, without the consent of the Government. We may remember that Mr. KING- LAKE'S information on similar underhand affairs has always proved to be correci. We fear that, in the East, much will yet be discovered which will not be allowed to see daylight even in blue books. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia yesterday honoured the establishment of Mr. Hancock, of Bruion-street, with a visit, and was gra ciously pleased to favour him with numerous commands. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia honoured Mr. H. Emanuel's new establishment, in Hanover-square and Brook-street ; to-day with a lengthened visit. Their Imperial Highnesses the Dukes of Leuch tenberg, accompanied by Colonel Rehbinder, have left Claridge's Hotel for Russia. The Princess Doubovitsky has arrived at Fen ton's Hotel from Paris. Count G. Henkel, of Donnersmarck, and the Countess de Paiva have left Fenton's Hotel for Brighton. Count Marinx has left Fenton's Hotel for the Continent. Lieutenant-General Buckley, M.P., and Lady Catherine Buckley have arrived in South Audley-street, from Delapre Abbey (the seat of General Bouverie), era route to Coleshill House, to visit the Earl of Radnor, who has not been to Homburg as erroneously stated. Mr. Rampin, Mr. George Rampin, and Mr. Etienne have arrived at Penton's from Edinburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Sargent have left Maurigy's Hotel for New York. The prorogation of Parliament will take place on Tuesday next, the 28th inst. A Privy Council will be held at Balmoral on Monday morning, at which the Queen's Speech will be settled. The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the province of Canterbury was prorogued on Thursday last, in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster, by the Vicar-General, Dr. Travers Twiss, under a commission from his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Pri mate of All England and Metropolitan, to Tuesday, the 23d of October. ENGLISH OPERA AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. —Mr. E. T. Smith is making several engagements for English opera at this house. The band will be under the baton of Mr. Halle. Miss Parepa, Miss Alessandria, Miss Sherrington, Miss Jenny Bauer. as sopranos; Miss Laura Baxter, Mrs. Lemaire, Miss Fanny Huddai t, are the con traltos ; Mr. Swift, Mr. George Perrin, Mr. Parkinson, and Mr. Sims Reeves are the tenors ; Mr. Santley and Mr. Rosenthal, baritones ; and Messrs. Herman, George Honey, Bartleman, and Patey. With such a company, and two new operas by Mr. Macfarren and Mr. Wallace, there can be little doubt of success. —Ere. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—For the forthcoming season Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. Lambert (from Australia), Mrs. Frank Mathews, and Mrs. and Miss Stirling are engaged, and will form part of Mr. E. T. Smith's company, to appear in a new drama from the pen of Mr, Thomas Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean per form here early in February, to be followed by Mr. Gus tavus Brooke. , --Bra. MR. J. W. ANSON'S BENEFIT.— Mr. J. W. Anson, the very assiduous treasurer of the New Adelphi Theatre, takes his benefit on Tuesday evening next, when a popular drama and farce, embracing the entire s t reng th o f the company, will cons titute the entertainments. The exertions made by Mr. Anson not only in this capacity but in others connected with the interests of the theatrical pro fession, should find an adequate response on the occasion. —Era. ARGYLL ROOMS.—This well known establish ment, having been thoroughly re- decorated, will re-open for the winter season on Monday next. The arrangements, under the direction of Mons. Antony Lamotte, will be de signed, as heretofore, to secure perfect enjoyment to the visitors, and the musical department will be carefully super vised, so that the same reputation may be acquired by the present orchestra which has rendered the Argyll bands peculiarly attractive to the public. THE LATE MIL FLEXMORE, THE CLOWN.—Mr, Harry Bolono has addressed the following letter to the editor of the Era :—" Sir,—Poor Flexmore is dead, and I fear left little or nothing behind to defray his last expenses, or help an aged mother. If you could, through the pages of your journal, suggest to the profession to lend their aid for one night, and I know Mr. E. T. Smith, with his usual kindness of heart, would do all in his power to let the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, for so charitable an object, on the most reasonable terms. All 1 can do to assist the above object I shall be happy.—l am, yours obediently, HARRY BOLRNO.-89, Long-Acre, Ang. 21." DEATH OF THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE.—We have to record the death of the Earl of Lauderdale, which took place at his seat, Thirlestane Castle, Berwickshire, on Wednesday, in the 76th year of his age. The deceased peer was son of the eighth earl, by the daughter and co-heir of Mr. Anthony Todd, secretary to the Post-office, and was born in Wimpole-street in 1784. He succeeded to the earl dom on the death of his father in 1839, and was heritable Standard-bearer of Scotland, and Marshal of the Royal Household there; he was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire, and a Deputy-Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire. The first peer was Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and the second earl was created Marquis of March and Duke of Lauderdale— honours which expired with him. THE CLIVE FUND.—The example of the Com pany's soldiers in India is being followed in high quarters. The Earl of Powis and Baroness Windsor, the representa tives of Robert Lord Clive, claim payment of the greater part of the Clive Fund to them (subject to existing pen signs), on the ground that the Company have ceased to employ a military force in India. The chief part of this fund arose from the gift of £63,000 by a Nabob of Bengal to Lord Clive, who placed the money under the charge of the East India Company in trust to apply the annual inte rest for the benefit of disabled officers and soldiers (and their widows) in the service of the Company, he " being zealous for the prosperity of the Company, tha cGourity of their territories and territorial revenues in India belonging, to them, and their trade and commerce, which greatly de pended on the bravery and conduct of their troops." The deed stipulated that if it should ever so happen that the Company should have no military force in their actual pay or service in Irdia the fund should bo devoted to the naval service, but if they should also cease to employ ships for carrying on their trade, the principal was to be paid over to Lord Clive, his executors, administrators, or assigns. The Government, having taken the opinion of counsel upon this demand, have declined to comply with it. MAILS FOR SYRlA.—lnformation has been re ceived from the French Post-office that during the absence of the expeditionary forces in Syria a weekly service will be maintained between France and Syria by means of the French mail packets from Marseilles. The following shows the dates upon which the packets in question are for the present to be despatched from Marseilles, and also the latest dates upon which correspondence intended to go by them should be despatched from London :—Malta, Beyrout, Tri poli in Syria, Latakia, Alexandretta, Mersina, Rhodes, Smyrna, Dardanelles, and Constantinople, on Sunday, August 26, and every alternate Sunday, at 9 a.m., and Friday, August 24, and every alternate Friday; Malta, Alexandria, Jaffa, and Beyrout on Sunday, September 2, and every alternate Sunday, at 9 a.m., and Friday, August 11, and every alternate Friday. The time to be occupied by the packets in the voyage between Marseilles and Bey rout direct will be eight days, and in the voyage between Marseilles and Beyrout via Alexandria and Jaffa, 10 days. PORTS3IOUTII, FRIDAY.—We have had a succes sion of strong breezes here during the past throe days, vary ing from N.W. to W.S.W. All the fore part of yesterday it blew fiercely from the last named quarter, but moderated towards evening. To-day it has blown a hard gale from S.W. to W.S.W., accompanied by incessant rain up to 5 p.m., when it nearly ceased. The force of the wind in creased in the squalls, and it now (6 p.m.) blows as hard as ever, with every appearance of a tempestuous night. Baro meter, 29.80, falling .A large quantity of the corn in this neighbourhood has been beaten down by the violence of the wind and rain, and there is every reason to fear that similar disastrous reports will be t eceived from along the coast. Among the many vessels which have anchored in side the Isle of Wight for shelter from the violence of the weather are the following, all from London :—the American Eagle, for New York ; the Gosforth and the Louisa, for Calcutta; the Summer Cloud and the Daphne (the latter with troops), for Sydney, New South Wales; the Migno nette, for South America; and the Victoria, four-masted steamer, for Cardiff. No account of any shipping disasters in the Channel have as yet come to hand. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT MESSRS. MAUDSLAY'S FACTORY.—Yesterday morning, between 6 and 7 o'clock, an accident of a frightful character, and nearly attended ' with fatal consequences, happened to Thomas Green, aged 35 years, who resided in New-street, Union-street, Lambeth. The unfortunate man was at work at Messrs. Maudslay's, Westminster-bridge-road, attending a planing machine, when his attention was called away, and the machinery caught his sleeve, and dragged his arm into it. His cries brought assistance, when the engine was stopped, and the unfortunate man extricated. He was conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where Mr. Charlton rendered every assistance; but it is feared that amputation of the arm from the shoulder must be performed. He remains in a precarious state. THE MURDER IN THE QUEEN'S -PARK, EDlN nuawn.—The circumstances and the perpetrators of this crime seem to be every day becoming more and more en shrouded in mystery. All that is yet known upon the sub ject is that the poor girl was in company with soldiers of the 13th Light Dragoons at various times on the night pre ceding her death, up to two o'clock on the Sunday morn ing, and that she was grossly and brutally abused, and afterwards cruelly murdered by some person or persons within two hours of that period. The chief difficulties in the case may be said to arise, first, from the want hitherto of witnesses able to speak to'any of tho occurrences after two o'clock, and secondly, from the extreme difficulty always felt in individualising and recognising soldiers in uniform, especially when the soldiers are entire strangers, and have been looked at only casually and in an imperfect light. From these causes, while all doubt as to the actual mur der, and the brutality by which it was preceded, has been set at rest by the post-mortem examination, and where there are abundance, almost superabundan ce , of witnesses to the poor girl's id en tit y , an d th e f act of her companion ship with the soldiers on Saturday night and Sunday morning, all attempts to fix the identity of the particular individuals under examination have hitherto been unsuc cessful. Probably, therefore, the proof, if obtained at all, must be sought in other directions. The collateral or circumstantial evidence has also, we believe, been very scanty. A regimental button was said to be two days ago picked up near the fatal spot, and was handed to the autho rities ; but it turns out, in the first place, that the button, though marked with the figures " 13," was not of the same pattern as those worn by the 13th Light Dragoons ; and, in the second place, instead of being picked up on the spot by the woman who handed it to the authorities, it is now said that she got it from another woman, who got it from a young man, who cannot be further tra-ed. On Friday, however, a switch, similar to those frequently carried by cavalry soldiers, was found at Clockmill-bridge, directly opposite the place where the murder was committed, and this switch is now in the hands of the Procurator-Fiscal. It may also bo mentioned that when the soldiers at Piers hill were paraded on Sunday afternoon for the purpose of, being inspected by the witneses b:ought down for that purpose from Edinburgh, the officers caused the clothes they had worn when out on the previous evening to be minutely examined, and that no stains or marks such as might have been caused by a scuffle of any kind were found upon them. On Tuesday a number of additional witnesses, including several privates in the 13th Light Dragoons, were examined, but, as has been previously stated, the examina tions are conducted in private. COURTLY FISH.—The island of Khoajah Khizr, i n tho Indus, is said to be so sacred that the fish of the river, particularly the pullah, evince their respect for the island by never turning their tails wheu return; from its shores, LATE ;; .4 . N E vt' The following telegrams have been received a' Mr. Reutez's office : PARIS, AUG. 25. The Moniteur contains an Imperial decree order ing the construction of a section of railway between Toulon and Nice, which would connect the two de partments of Var and Nice and be a work of public utility. The Nonie,eur also announces the arrival and enthusiastic reception of their Majesties at Lyons. NAPLES, AUG. 21. The Royal Intendant of Potenza is at the head of the insurrection in the province of Basilicata. Four thousand Calabrian insurgents reinforced the Garibaldians during their attack on the town of Reggio. The chiefs of the National Guard of Naples have tendered their resignation on account of the foreign battalions not having been disbanded. VIENNA, AUG. 24. For several days the Ministers have been sitting in Council almost without interruption, as before the end of the month they will be summoned by the Council of the Empire to pronounce a categori cal decision on the political reorganisation of the monarchy. Fears are entertained that the Government may grant but insufficient measures of reform, in which case the Hungarian delegates have firmly resolved upon immediately quitting the Council of the Empire. Hungary has until now been perfectly tranquil in expectation of the result of the deliberations of the Council of the Empire ; but should the hopes of the Liberal party be disappointed, a refusal of the payment of the taxes may be expected in Hungary. Many Hungarian refugees staying in Wallachia are engaged in spreading revolutionary propaganda. In addition to other military measures of pre caution the Government has already assembled 15 cavalry regiments under the command of General Bencdek. BERLIN, Auo. 24. Notwithstanding that during the conference at Toplitz an understanding was in principle brought about on all pending questions, it is certain that the realisation of the alliance between Austria and Prussia will entirely depend upon the political reforms which are to be effected in Austria. The Prince Regent expressly declared to the Emperor that Austria, since 1850, had been com mitting a positive infraction o`: the Federal Act, which distinctly states that all the States of the German Confederation shall receive a Constitution on the representative system, and that until Austria enters upon the path of constitutional reforms there can be no hope of a real and dur able alliance. TRIESTE, AUG. 24. The new Prince of Montenegro has deprived the Bishop of Montenegro of office, on account of his having, at the burial of the late Prince Danilo, left the funeral procession before the conclusion of the ceremony. The bishop alleged a sudden indisposi tion as an excuse. Nikizza refused, however, to accept this excuse, and ordered the prelate to quit the country immediately. The Russian Consul intervened in his behalf, as the bishop is reported to be the chief of the Russian party. It is known that he proceeded last year to St. Petersburg in order to be consecrated. The great agitation nrev.mn e . 11. ITrffifpnpgro especially caused by the struggle between the French and Russian parties, who divide the country. s, AMERICA. GALWAY, FRIDAY. The Atlantic Royal Mail Company's steamer Prince Albert, Captain Prowse, which left New York on the 14th, and touched at St. John's, New foundland, on the 18th inst., arrived here at 5 30 p.m. She brings the mails and 110 passengers. She made the passage from St. John's in five days 19 hours. On the 15th inst. she passed the steamer Edin burgh, bound west ; also a steamer supposed to be the Damascus; and on the 16th a steamer supposed to be the Adelaide. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales em barked at Charleston at 1 p.m. on the 13th inst. for Cape Gaspe. The Prince is to visit Bermuda on his way home. Preparations were being made there for his reception. Advices from San Francisco were to the Ist of August. The Democratic State Central Committee met on the 31st ult. Twenty-six members declared for Breckenridge and Lane, and 10 for Douglas. The Douglas Democrats were confident of carrying the mass with them. Advices from Mexico, received at New Orleans on the 13th inst., state that Miramon's army had been routed by the Liberals while trying to escape from Lagos. The latest accounts reported Miramon at Leon, surrounded by the victorious Liberals. Robles had abandoned" Jalapa. The Spanish Mi nister had threatened a bombardment of Vera Cruz. At the Kentucky election Combs obtained a ma jority of nearly 26,000 over M'Clarty. A terrific storm had passed over Proctorsviile. The water rose 32 feet, and swept away every house in the place. About 140 lives were lost. NEW YORK, AUG. 14. The cotton market is steady, with sales of 1,000 bales. Flour is heavy. Freights moderate. NEW ORLEANS, AUG. 13. The cotton , market is quiet, and only 350 bales have been sold to-day. Corn, wheat, and provisions are active. • (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO ST. JOHN'S.) NEW YORK, AUG. 17. The Great Eastern sailed yesterday for Halifax and England. Advices from Mexico state that Miramon's Go vernment refuses to accede to the demands of the Spanish Minister. Juarez has surrendered the Spanish barque Maria Conception, Nvhich - the Com modore demanded. The New York cotton-market is firm, and mid dling upland is quoted 101,c. to 11c. Stocks are rather lower. Breadstuff's are heavy. The provi sion -market is dull. NEW OItLEANS, AUG. 16. The cotton-market is firm. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The United States' mail steamer Illinois (of the Vanderbilt line), Captain P. E. Terry, with mails from New York of the 11th inst., arrived at Cowes at 6 a.m., and proceeded to Havre. She had fine weather during the voyage, with westerly winds. This vessel brought 149,996 dols. for England, and 767,332 dols. for France, with a good general cargo, and 67 passenges, of whom 15 were for this port, and 52 for Havre. The steamer Adriatic, hence on the Ist, arrived at New York on the morning of the 11th ; and the ship William Tell arrived at that port on the af ternoon of the same day. Yesterday the Illinois passed the ship Ocean Monarch, bound up Channel. Advices are anticipated by the City of Washing ton. TAE NEW GAME DUTIES.—By Saturday next, the let of September, the new game licenses are expected to be taken out. The old license cost £6, and the new duty is only £3. Under the new law conies (rabbits) are in cluded, except in Great Britain, by the proprietors or ser vants, in a warren or enclosed ground, killing the same. =II IRELAND. DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING. According to the Freeman's .Tournai of this morning, the following legal appointments and resignations are reported as very likely to take place within a short period. Two or three of them, at least, have been long spoken of as certainties, but as the law delays are somewhat notorious, it may be that even yet November term may come and go without any important changes in the judicial staff:— " The Attorney-General to be a Baron of the Exchequer, in room of Baron Greene, who retiree, owing to continued ill-health. " The Right Hon. Abraham Brewster, Q.C., to be Lord Justice of Appeil, in the place of Franci.3 Blackburne, who also resigns from ill-health. "The Solicitor-General, Thomas O'llagan, Q.C., to be Attorney-General; and Sergeant Lawson, the Castle ad viser, to be Solicitor-General. "Richard Armstrong, Esq., Q.C., to be Serjeant ; and Charles Hare Hemphill, Esq., Q.C., to be Castle adviser. " The following gentlemen have been respectively named to fill the office of Master in Chancery, vacant by the resig nation of Mr. Acheson Lyle. " Mr. David Lynch, Judge of the Bankrupt Court ; Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Q.C., Chairman of County Mayo ; Mr. W. Berwick, Judge of the Bankrupt Court ; and Mr. Robert Andrews, QC., Chairman of County Cork. "It is also stated that Mr. John L. 0. Ferran, Commis sioner of Metropolitan Police, is about t o retire, after 24 years' service, and to be succeeded by Captai n D. O'Connell, as Assistant or Second Commissioner of Police." ORANGE REVELATIONS. The Fermanagh Reporter, in the course of some remarks deprecating as uncalled-for the passing of the Party Emblems Bill, makes some curious reve lations respecting the present and future of the Orange Institution. At one time, and that not very far back, the Reporter was itself a chosen vessel high in the confidence of the affiliated brethren : " There is at present among the Orange body a great amount of independent sentiment and opinion. A Roman Catholic gentleman recently mentioned to us that, except in religious matters, the Orangemen are the most liberal minded people in Ireland. We know that in this locality there is at present a good deal of sound liberalism among them, and a strong disinclination to be led any longer by those who they consider have misled them, and whose views and interests they hold to be antagonistic to their own. Some are disposed to separate from the Grand Lodge en tirely; some have already separated; others wish to see first what the Grand Lodge will do. There is in existence an organisation called the Black P..ceptory, with the nature of which we are not well acquainted. But we understand it has no party emblems or party obligations. If the Orange Society were to resolve itself into that body, and make such changes in the rules as might be found ex pedient, it might be rendered a valuable organisation for promoting the welfare of the country. Tho Black Pro ceptory is much more liberal than the Orange Society; for its Grand Lodge is composed of delegates sent by the members to an annual conference. The Orange Grand Lodge is, we believe, a self-organised and self-perpetuated body, though delegates from the districts are permitted to attend. This is utterly contrary to the principles of the Reformation and the spirit of Protestantism, which require independence. It is evident that some change will take place in the Orange body, and it is for its members to con • Sider whether tho change ought not to be in harmony with the liberalism which is essential to Protestantism. The in terests of Orangemen have not been consulted by the rulers of the land or their own leaders; and it is for them to con sider whether they will longer be subservient to the interests or wishes of others." THE NEW MAIL STEAMERS. The Leinster, one of the new boats destined to perform the service between Dublin and Holyhead, made her trial trip yesterday. She started from Kingstown, with the mails, at 8 minutes past two, and reached Holyhead at 38 minutes past fire p.m. CRYSTAL PALACE POULTRY SIIOII7. A private view of the large collection of poultry, pigeons, and rabbits constituting the summer show for 1860 was yesterday afforded in the north wing of the Crystal Palace. The last two classes are more than usually numerous, and the varieties of poultry are very creditably represented, when it is recollected under what adverse skies the birds—all of this year's growth—have struggled into exist ence. Under the important heads of game fowl, Dorkings, and Hamburgs, both pencilled and span gled, there is a very good display. The Brahma pootras are pronounced by the judges to be remark ably fine, and the Cochin China fowl, named for the sake of distinction " cinnamon" and " are exceedingly good. Of the rarer and more delicate breeds, Spanish, Polish, bantams, &c., the contribu tions are individually meritorious, but in the aggre gate not as numerous as could be wished. The total number of entries is in poultry, 350; of pigeons, 236 ; and of rabbits, 108. Among the poultry one of the pens which attract most observation con tains a couple of Sebastopol geese, the property of Mr. Baily, and said to be the only specimens in this country; they are conspicuous by rows of curled and drooping feathers on either wing. Some white Dorkings forwarded by Captain Beardmore share with the foreigners the honours of especial notice from the fact of their having obtained the China vase given by Messrs. W. H. Kerr and Co. A prize rabbit, which, in addition to satisfying the in a ge on a.. three t,ardillal ponds of Bri ll , ollstre and colour of eye, and length of ear, has succeeded in attaining the weight of 181 b., is likewise one of the " lions" of the collection. The depressing influence of the weather yesterday seemed to extend itself even to the members of this motley gathering; but at intervals there was sufficient clamour to vindi cate the propriety of the decision according to which the farthest end of the building was chosen for the exhibition, and to sug ges t th e re fl ect i on whether, in the earliest poultry show on record, the expediency of allotting a remote corner to the or nithological inmates presented itself to Noah be fore or after the internal arrangements of the ark were complete. ST. SWITHIN DEFIED. —There is now before the Academy of Sciences at Paris "a wonderful invention" of Mons. lielvetius Otto, of Leipsic, by which he promises to " insure fine weather." He erects a platform at a consi derable height in the air, on which he places a "propeller," or huge bellows, worked by steam. With t h ese bellows, which are "very powerful," he blows away the r3louds as they gather; and, as rain comes from the clouds, it mu st necessarily follow that where the clouds are not allow e d to gather there can be no rain. He maintains that if a certain number of his "rain propellers or "pluvifuges," as he has named them, are placed at intervals over the city," he can provide for the inhabitants a continuance of fine weather, and a certain protection from sudden showers and muddy streets, so long the terror of fair pedestrians. The poor inhabitants of adjoining towns would be to be pitied. What would become of them ? As for the pluvifuge pro prietors, their motto ought to be " Apres nous le cl6luge." Victims, however, as we in England have been of late to wet weather, still we cannot blame the Fronchman's pluvifuges, inasmuch as France itself has been in nearly the same predicament—at least the northern parts of it.--• Builder. THE MURDER AT S TEPNEY.—Yesterday a com munication was received by Capt. Labalmondiere, Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, at Scotland-yard, from Mr. Clive, Under-Secretary at the Home-office, inti mating that the Government had decided upon offering a reward of £lOO for the discovery and apprehension of the murderer or murderers of Mrs. Emsley, and a free pardon to any one who may have been privy to the crime, short of In the face of the disastrous intelligence on all rson by whom it was actually committed. rWhit sides the accounts from Scotland are yet cheering, takes and Mr. Faith, two of the relatives of the deceased as will be seen from the following : by marriage, also intimated to the authorities at the office yesterday evening their intention to offer a reward of KIRKCALDY.—Harvest was begun here on Mon £2oo, in addition to that of the Government. Up t o 11 day with a field of barley, close to the railway. o'clock last night the murderer was still undiscovered, and MARKINCII.—On Wednesday a field of barley at it remains to be seen what effect the ofer of £3OO may have Balbirnie Mill, the first in this locality, was cut in solving the mystery. Inspector Thorntox and Sergeants Tanner and Thomas, detective officers from Scotland-yard, down. SOUTII QUEENSFERRY.—The crops in this dis- are understood to be sedulously engaged in investigating the matter, as are also Inspector Kerressey and Sergeant Coppi ng trict, though later than those of last season, on the of the local divisional police. Of operations so delicate, and whole promise well. The hay has, however, suf- conducted with the view to the attainment of an important fered a little from the late heavy sho veers, and some end, secrecy and discretion are the very essence • so that of which their inquiries take or the mode in Which of the corn fields have got a good deal laid from necessity nothing at present transpires as to the direction they are carried on. Fresh • applications continua to be made by per the same cause. The turnip crop is in fine condi- . ,ion, and much above an average. The potatoes so understood that no one has established his relationshi b ns who claim kindred with the deceased, but as yet it is blood, and the probability at present is that the prop P erty y are still keeping free from disease, and promise fair N o t_ she held in her own right, independent of that left her by returns. her husband, and which is so considerable that the value of DUNFEitMLINE AND INVERK.EITIIING. it 1 has Yesterday l'teetjeen accurately ltt ascertained, will go to the withstanding the ungenial weather we have re tiL edrecweaassedreacseiT,ead frnomloasltatiin_ cently experienced, the cereal crops in the neigh bourhood are fast ripening for the sickle, and the Edinburgh e descri a bing a bright verdure tinge of summer is fa s t yielding to solar friend " of the writer's family, and st o ati g ng that P she the golden hue of autumn. Several of the more was married to a gentleman named Tosha previous to 1815, that her father was long a factor to the Earl of Wemyss, advanced fields of barley have already been cut and that her family was of the highest respectability. The down, but harvest operations will not be general amily by a former marriage of Mr. Emsley, the last hum until about the beginning of September. The crops band of the deceased, state that this is an entire misappre - are, undoubtedly, heavier than last year, but the hension ; that, on the contrary, the deceased was but twice very heavy rains we have had lately have laid married, that her first husband was a Mr. Jones, and that them consid era bl y , an d i t i s to be feared in many she herself was b orn an d b rought up in the district of Rat cases, owing to th e f u l ness o f t h e ear, they will not cli g cut down.—bu n f ffe and Stepney, where she was married at a very early e. be able to regain their ne Press. erect position b e f ore being a EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS FOR GARIBALDI.— ermli Perhaps no stronger proof could be obtained of the sym pathy which exists everywhere in this country— an d pro bably not least among our own staid and undemonstrative citizens—with the cause of civil and political liberty in - Italy, or of the wonderful fascination exerted over brave and ge nerous spirits by the great Italian patriot and soldier, than is to be found in the origin and formation of the Edin burgh Company of Volunteers for Garibaldi. Only on Mon day last a young gentleman, a member of one of our Edin burgh rifle companies, desiring t o j o i n th e regiment o f vo lunteers at pre sen t ming in London, with the vi©w of I), adver tised would easily be olethcaotnirrecarnuits would be re procefeodrinagcaosmspoaonnioans entertainingpossible similarar ib al d i a views,c am The un_ expected effect of the advertisement was to call forth such a host of responses that it soon became evident that, instead Hunter-square, f o o f r a m s e o d l: t a a n r d y acne announcement n aw h ceived at Hob g's Temperance was inserted in the newspapers. Day after day applicants Coffee-house, belonging not only to Edinburhut to distant parts of Scotland, eacerly offered themselves; and although it was explained to them that the pay to be obtained in Italy was merely nominal, and that_ during the campaign they would probably have Co depend to a large extent on their own private funds, by yesterday evenin . g no fewer than 65 volun teers had been enrolled, and it is confidently anticipated that by the end of the week the number will have reached 100. Mr. Eirival, we believe, intends then to visit Glas gow, in order to give the Young men of the west an oppor tunity of joinir g the corps, and it is expected that, by the end of a fortnight, when the Scottish band of volunteers will probably be culled upon to join their brother "excur sionists," as they are termed in London, they will be 200 or 300 stronfr )1 a . i r.Eirival opened a correspondenc e a day or two ago with Captain Edward Styles, a mber o "Ga r ib a l di ' s Staff. We believe that Mr. Burnett m , e of Ain f - slie-place, Edinburgh, has sent in a handsom e subscription to assist in defraying the expense of transit, and has pro mised to supply a f ew mus k ets ; and Mr. Eirival will be h aPPY to take charge of any further contributions._ Scotsman. (3()VEItNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government emigration vessel Lady M'Donald, 678 tons, Captain Biun nell, sailed from Plymouth on the 21st inst. for Sydney, N.s, W., with 17 married couples, 107 single men, 96 single women, 7 boys between the ages of 1 a n d 12 , 15 girls be tween the same age s , 2 male infants and 1 female, making a total of 262 souls, equal to 24S statute adults, under charge of Surgeon-Superintendent W. G . Gunn, aided by the set, • vices a Mrs. Eliza Barker, matron. LOLA MONTEZ.—LoIa has recovered sufficiently from her severe attack of paralysis to be removed to Astoria. She is as yet scarcely able to lift her hand, and there is little or no hope of her ultimate recovery.—grew York, Ilerald. The Hsi of the principal contributors included the names of the Marchioness of Winchester, Lady Julia Cornwallis, Lady Louisa Thynne, and other persons of distinction. The prize list, which in cluded no less than 104 classes, exhibited a creditable amount of competition. The show opens to the pub lic this day, and will continue on view upon Mon day, Tuesday, and Wednesday next. THE CROPS. DISBANDONMENT OF THE POPE'S IRISH BRIGADE. A letter of the 18th inst. from Rome says that e Duke of Modena's troops, about 3,000 strong, are positively to pass into the Papal service. It is reported here that Piedmont, in taking note of this transfer, will declare that, in consequence of it, she reserves her right to intervene. According to a cor respondence of the 13th in the Siecle, a great part of the Irish battalion was at that date already em barked, to be sent back to Ireland. The expense of sending them back was estimated at 10,000 scudi, or upwards of £2,000. "Everybody (says the letter) is delighted at this depar ture; there were no limits to the disturbances got up by these men. The butchers, bakers, and innkeepers were especial sufferers. Never paid, often beaten, the only satis faction they got was, Go to Antonelli ;he will pay you.' One day M. de Mdrode went to their barracks to harangue them, but he had to make his escape as fast as possible. All the talk to-day is of the formation of a sacred battalion, to be commandei by the celebrated (sic) Cathelineau, and to be composed of 3,000 picked men. We aro told that these trbops, who are to be dressed ala Garibaldi, will a irresis tible. The Cathelineau in question is the greatesT madman I know. If he keeps all his promises, the Holy See will soon recover all its provinces, and Piedmont will be sent home. The Pope and Cardinal AntOnelli support the for mation of this corps; nothing, however, is dared to be done without Lamoriciere, who orders everything, and his con sent is waited for. He is in perpetual movement, going from Ancona to Spoleto, and from Spoleto to Ancona : I have just heard that his authorisation has been received for the formation of the battalion. It is said that if the foreign troops in the serv i ce o f N ap l es be dismissed th e y I will be taken into the Pontifical army." , • + THE CHAMPION OF ENGLAND . -I.)g the stay of Tom Sayers in Bristol (says the local _Herald) he hag been the guest of street Charles Good, lamb and Flag Tavern, Temple; and on Thursday a number cit' sporting men, using this well-known sporting' house, enter him at , dinner, when they presented the champion' with a handsome silver tankard, bearing the following in scription :—" Presented to Tom Sayers, the Champion of England, by Charles Good and friends, for his pluck in the ring as an Englishman." A very pleasant evening was spent, and the champion acknowledged the great kindness he had received in the old city of Bristol. ->~.._. THE CH.4.NNEL FLEET A T MILFORD HAVEN, FRIDAY. This magnificent harbour, which for many months past has been all but deserted, is now a scene of intense activity and animation, owing to the arrival of the Channel Fleet. The capacities of Milford Haven to shelter even the whole of the royal navy, if occasion required, have long been known and admitted, but by some unaccountable mismanagement no attempts have been made to apply it to the perposes for which it is so admirably adapted. The arrival of the Channel Fleet, and the Great Eastern, which is expected here, on Sunday, will, it i lmope 1, tend to direct some increased share of public attention to the noble Haven. Between nine and ten o'clock on Friday, the leading ship of the squadron was signalled from St. Anne's point, and shortly after the whole of this splendid fleet of 11 line-ot battle ships entered the harbour with the most per fect ease. The ships in the squadron are—The Royal Albert, 121 guns, carrying thk flag—blue at the fore —of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle. Captain of the Fleet, Rear-Admiral Elliott; Captain of the Royal Albert, Captain H. E, Lacon ; the Aboukir, 90 guns, Captain Douglas Curry ; the Centurion, 80 guns, Captain Henry Downey Rogers; the Conqueror, 101 guns, Captain Edward Southby; the Edgar, 91 guns, flag -ship of Rear-Admiral Erskine; the Trafalgar, 90 guns, Captain Edward Fanshawe ; the Algiers, 91 guns, Captain G. O'Cal laghan ; the Mersey, 40 guns, Captain H. Caldwell; Mars, 80 guns, Captain Strange ; the Diadem, 32 guns, Capt. Cockburn ; the Donegal, 101 guns, Capt. Broadhead; the Geyser,6 guns, Commander G. Jack son. During the previous night the wind had been blowing gre a t guns f rom nearly south-west, and it was confidently affirmed by many who were thought to be competent authorities, that the fleet would not venture out in a half-gale. They forgot that this is the same fleet which so gallantly weathered the terrible hurricane of October last; and all scepticism was destroyed by seeing the squadron enter the haven in a half-gale ; another proof—if another proof is wanting—of the unequalled safety and value of our unrivalled harbour. When .the fleet came to anchor off Milford, between eleven and twelve o'clock, it was dead low water—and dead low water, too, of the highest spring —and yet eleven line-of-battle ships found ample space and room enough to moor in safety, while scores of smaller craft were dotting the haven on every side of them. And not only found ample room enough, but actually seemed to occupy but a very small space in the spacious waters of this noble harbour. The whole of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday the gale continued with unabated fury, and communication with the shore was matter of some difficulty. The ships are anchored at a respectful distance from the dockyard at Pem broke, as it is not permitted for men-of-war with their powder on board to approach within a certain distance. The provision contractors are, as might be expected, unusually busy, and a score of beasts or more are daily slaughtered for the services of the crews. Intense interest was shown on the an nouncement of the approach of the squadron in the towns of Milford and Hakin. It was 10 o'clock when the headmost vessel appeared, which was the Royal Albert, with the flag of Admiral Fremantle. Another and another quickly followed in the Ad miral's wake, until at length eleven gallant ships were seen bravely steaming up the waters of the noble Haven. As they neared Milford it was dis tinctly seen, without the aid of glasses, that the three-decker in the van bore the flag of Vice-Admiral Fremantle, and that the fifth ship in the line dis played a Rear-Admiral's flag at the mizen. About 11 o'clock the Royal Albert having arrived just off the Milford Pier, came to moorings, and was fol lowed in rapid succession by nine of the fleet, and all anchored in close order of battle. The eleventh and last ship in the line—the Donegal —was sig nalled to by the Admiral, and instead of anchor ing below the Point, she steamed up the Haven, passing all the other ships until, hav ing rounded the stern of the Royal Albert, she came to an anchor just off the pier. Im mediately on the Admiral anchoring he honoured the town of Milford with a salute of 7 guns. The whole of the ships are open to the inspection of visitors daily from 12 o'clock to 4, and the officers and men in chate show every consideration and courtesy to those who avail themselves of the pri vilege. It is not yet decided how long the fleet will remain at Milford, but rumour affirms that the ships will not leave until late in the next week. The officers have been invited to a ball this evening at Pembroke, and it is expected to be a magni ficent affair. The arrangements for the reception of the Great Eastern are all completed, and it is expected that many thousands of persons will visit Milford at a time when they will have an opportunity of seeing this noble fleet of men-of-war, and the giant of ships. - sens con hay the raov table gen gen the riti( nes! Bat hibi will X3O was pre` ball of t will that take offic amc lini Cen 4 pi De: pro the ver act dec 122 tine Bar 3 IA 3 p( Ne' lnd