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PROMOTED BY THE MADRAS IRRIGATION AND CANAL COMPANY. THE EAST INDIA IRRIGATION and CANAL COMPANY. To be incorporated by Special Act of Parliament with Limited Liability. First Capital, £2,000,000. With power to increase the same. First Issue, £1,000,000, in 50,000 shares of £2O each. Deposit £1 per Share. DIRECTORS. JAMES THOMSON, Esq., Chairman, Major-General Philip Anstruther, C. 8., The Hon. Philip Pleydell Bouverie, M.P., Lieut.-Colonel John Grimes, Lieut.-Colonel William Campbell Onslow, General Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., Stc.. Major-General Westrop Hopkins, Chairman and Directors of the Madras Irrigation and Cana Company. CONSULTING ENGINEER. Colonel J. F. Smith, Madras Engineers, F.R.S., Consulting Engineer of the Madras Irrigation and Canal Co. AUDITORS. James Bonar, Esq. (Messrs. Small and Co.), 8, Old Jewry. Thomas Quested Finnis, Esq., Alderman, &c. BANKERS. Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., 1 Pall-mall East. SOLICITOR. John Mackrell, Esq., 34, Cannon-street West. Secretary—John Westwood, Esq. Offices :-27, Cannon-street, E.C. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, AUGUST 18, 1860.,„'_ THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 50—lowest this morning and during the night. 60—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.67. "WIND--South-Westerly; fresh, with dull rainy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 'Tsui DAY.—Morning, 2h. 37m.—Afternoon, 2h. 58m. To-moaßow.-Morning, 3h. 19m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m. ' " ' ,l . tt, Zt 9 . - --\ - Mk. •V 6 z • 24 . e f u .., ,..:_ ,- ,. : .._.. . 1 1 .7',.; , ...*.ii z_-,,,,,,T.e.---, ,„ The works selected, with the approval of Government, for first operations, consist of—lrrigating and Navigable Canals throughout the rich and extensive I)eltas of Orissa (in Lower Bengal), and the Districts between those Deltas and the Port and City of Calcutta. These works have been already investigated by Engineer Officers in the service of Government, of known ability and experience, who have pronounced them to be amongst the most important, and in promise the most profitable of their character in India ; in fact, the present Secretary of State for India in Council in March last addressed to the Government of India an official communication, calling attention to the importance of constructing these very works, and stating that her Majesty's Government were prepared to carry them into effect as soon as the plans and estimates were approved by the Local Government. A desire to see an unguaranteed company established, he states, led to their concession to this company. '3l 0? • THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1860. The main sources of profit willbe Firstly,—The sale of water to the Government for the irrigation of land. Secondly.—Tolls levied in respect of the use of the Canals and Water-ways by the public. To these may be added as available but subsidiary means of additional returns :- I.—The working of the Canals by the Company by the conveyance of Passengers, Animals, and Goods thereon. 2.—Rent and other income derived from mills and factories' established on the banks of the various channels. The news from Italy are varied, though still reassuring. The game has hitherto been played with a bold hand and a fixed purpose. Singleness of heart and a holy aspiration for freedom seem to influence the national mind. There is no precedent for greatness—lT makes itself—and GARIBALDI stands out illustriously in his magnificent majesty of action. He thinks only of his country, and works for her deliverance like a man inspired beyond all others. He has devoted his life and his fortunes to his country. Her freedom is the aspiration of his heart and her independence the burning glory of his soul. He has already achieved wonders in the eyes of men and will work miracles before he has done. Glory and bright success attend his hal. lowed efforts ! His very name has acquired a magic charm that sways the hearts of men with a spontaneous enthusiasm. Wherever he goes they follow with a willing devotedness which they can neither resist nor withstand. And why is this ? Simply because they all feel and believe that his heart and exertions are de voted to their cause, and the redemption of their fatherland from the long endurance of slavery. And what does he promise to himself as the reward of his devotedness ? Simply the glory of doing good. 3.—Cultivation and s;1 - e7f timber and other produce raised upon the land of the Company. And, 4.—The supply of water for general purposes. Although these latter are now put forth as secondary only, they should by no means be lost sight of—the first of them has been already ascertained to be highly productive in India, and by the official accounts of the existing Canals in the North-western provinces of Bengal the profits derived from mills, timber, and bank produce, represent a large peer centage upon outlay. The following returns realised by the Government on ex isting- works of Irrigation in India will afford some idea of the highly remunerative character of such works, if selected with ordinary judgment. The works connected with the Coleroon River co at £21,700, and for sixteen years returned a net profit of £11 . .8 per cent. per annum. The Fordwak Canal cost £2,700, and paid £5,000 in the first year. Another canal in Scinde paid 58 per cent. on its cost during the first year, and a third, which cost £3,600, produced £5,000 in the first year. The Western Jumna Canal has paid £5 per cent., ae td produced a clear surplus of £1,000,000, the aost of construc tion being £81,458. The works in Maiwara produced a return of 265 per cer tt. per annum. _ _ We hope to be able by Monday to inform our readers that the die of BOURBON dynasty is cast. Already we learn that GARIBALDI has gone on a mission and left the command of Sicily to the custody of General SIRTORI. This was on the 10th, or perhaps the 11th, for on Sunday, the 12th, an Order of the Day was issued to the army and navy announcing the fact. We have no doubt These are not exceptional instances. Terms of a vet/ favourable character have been arrange d with the Secretary of State as the basis of a final Agree ment, to be made with the Government of India at Calcutta.. It is proposed 'to limit the issue of capital in the first in stance, to the sum of £1,000,000, divided into 50,000 shares of £2O each, and to take a first deposit of £1 per share only, with a fuirther payment of £1 per share when the final agreement has been concluded ; this will, it is believed, suffice to support effective operations for the first twelve months. Of all subsequent calls, full and timely notice will be given to each shareholder. A full Prospec Ws and form of applications for shares ma y now be had upon request at the Company's Offices, 27, Cam non •street, E.C., London; or at the Company's Bankers, Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East. EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND CANAL COMPANY, 27, Cannon-street. No application for Shares in this Company will be re— ceived after Thursday, the 23rd of August, 1860, immedi ately after which the allotment will be proceeded with. By order, JOIIN WESTWOOD, Secretary. OWM AMMAN ANTHRACITE COAL and. iRoN COIIIPANY (Limited). —Parish of Cwm Amman, near Linnelly, cclunty Caermarthen. Incorporated. under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, 1856 and 1857. Capital £50,000, in 50,000 Shares of £1 each. A deposit of Se. per Share to be paid on application for Shares, and ss. ti within 30 days after allotment. DIRECTORS. John Astell Deacon Cox, Esq., Birchin-lane, E.C., and Sutherland-gar dens, W. Thomas Dowl ing, Esq., Gresham House, E.C, Charles Paul Berkeley, Esq., 18, Cannon-street, E.C., and 6, Lansdown-p lace Russell-square, W.C. Horatio Nels on, Esq., 10, New Cavendish-street, Portland pi ace, W. William Whitehorne Lawrence, Esq., 21, Upper Ranelagh strcet, Eaton-square, S W. Bassett Smitla, Esq., 8, New Broad-street, E.C. LOCAL MANAGER.—C. G. Bateman, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Pal;tison and Wig - ,g, 10, Clement's-lane, E.C. OFFICIAL AUDITORS. Messrs. Deloittß & Greenwood, Accountants, 4, Lothbury, E.C. that the daring Dictator has crossed the Straits of Messina at the head of his adventurous fol lowers, and seized not only Reggio but other com- manding positions in the Calabrias. When his advent once becomes known the whirl wind is but 'ls a type of the wonder working enthusiasm that will inspire the ex pectants and pervade the mass of the people. As we said the other day the very ardour of his ex pected coming will rouse the people to a state of impatient frenzy, and so act that the whole na tion will be up and doing for their own deliver ance from a thraldom so unspeakeable as only to be felt in its dire enormity. That the success of GARIBALDI is considered certain may be inferred from the uneasiness of beholding nationalities. France is wavering, and Austria trembles even in her bravado. She will and she won't, and while she hesitates the game of mercy to millions will be played out by GARI BALDI to the amazement and delight of a wonder ' blessing world. Then will come the critical point of action. Be moderate, but be firm, say we to GARIBALDI, and who shall act against the Libera tor of Italy? If Louis NAPOLEON stir, Austria will move, and a conflagration will ensue, the con sequences of which no one can forsee. Let Eng land be prepared for the battle, and Italian inde pendence will be permanently secured. The appointment of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY as Postmaster-General cannot fail, we are satisfied, to give universal satisfaction. Among all our 'Whig Administrators there is not one who enjoys a more amiable, a more unsullied, or (we will go so far as to say) a more enviable reputation. As Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department as Secretary of the Treasury, as Paymaster. General of the Forces, as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, as President, and previously as Vice-President, of the Board of Trade, the noble lord has evidenced his ability in the conduct of public affairs in various depart ments both prior to and subsequently to his elevation to the House of Lords during his father's life time as Baron EDDISBURY. His lord ship's present appointment is, if not the most re sponsible certainly not the least intrusting or the least opportune he has ever received as one of the Dii 211ajores of her Majesty's Government. Scarcely one of the departments of the public service admits at this present moment, more freely or more obviously, of improvement. The abuses of the Pest-office are many of them flagrant—a few of them have latterly been gaining an unenvia ble notoriety. A bold hand is urgently re quired •in St. Martin's-le-Grand to effect there hardly so much a series of re solute innovations, as a complete and compre hensive reorganisation. What has probably re tarded the commencement of any well-considered attempt, even at this long-required revision and rehabilitation of the Post-office System, has been the frequent Ministerial changes of late years, the rapid sequence of Administration upon Administra tion. A cursory retrospect of the most recent of these Ministerial changes, so far as they relate to the conduct of affairs at the General Post-office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, will be amply sufficient to convince any one of their detrimental cha racter—and to demonstrate clearly at a glance the fatal influence of their frequency upon this particular department. Reverting to the close of the last PALMERSTGN Administration—don't we all of us very well recollect that it was the nomination of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE to the then vacant office of Postmaster-General that may be said to have put the last straw upon the camel's back of public endur ance, and to have dropped the last drop into the brimming cup of popular indignation. Scarcely was Lord CLANRICARDE'S appointment gazetted, when down came with a sudden crash the whole stately fabric of the boasted strong Government. The Government that immediately succeeded to office, the late —the second—but who shall venture to say the last P—DERBY Administration, installed at the head of the complex machinery of the Post Office a noble earl whose repute had been that previously of a gallant tar rather than of a skilled chief of one of the great Civil Service Departments of her MA JESTY'S Government. It cannot be deemed invi dious, even by the noble lord himself, or by the noble lord's staunchest personal friends and ad mirers, if we remark that among all the late Premier's Ministerial nominations, perhaps the nomination of the Earl of HARDWICKE to the office of Post master-General was—to put it in the mildest terms possible—about the least well considered. It was certainly not the right man in the right place. It was the round man in the square hole, !, or vice versa. Lord HARDWICKE would have fe BROKERS. Messrs. Eykyn Brothers, 22, Change-alley, E.C. BANxEns,—City Bank, Treadneedle-street, E.C. SE CRETARY.—lierlry Graves, Esq. OFFICES.—W albrook House, 37, Walbrook, London, E.C. This Company is registered under the Joint Stock Com panies' Act, for the purchase awl working of the property, in the county of Cisermarthen, known as the Lion Colliery, em bracing* an area of about 420 acres, the whole held under a lease for forty years from 1850, at the moderate royalties of 9d. and 6d. per ton respectively for Coal, 10d. per ton for Iron, and fid. per ton for Fire Clay. The quality of the coal is sufficiently established by the reports and analysis of Mr. Petherick, Mr. Bateman, Dr. Normandy, and Mr. Dugald Campbell, which prove it to be first-class. The statements of these gentlemen are equally satisfactory and conclusive as to the quantity ; the produce of saleable large coal being estimated at 3,764 tons per acre. Messrs. Woodhouse and Jeffcock, of Derby, have inspected the property on the part of the Directors, and made a special report. The present yield of Coal is about 80 tons per diem, at a cost, free on board at Llanelly, of 6s. ; while the market price is 9s. 6d. per ton, leaving thus a profit in the actual working of 3s. 6(1. per ton, besides about 10 tons of Iron Ore, worth 108. per ton. Calculating a production of 300 tons per diem, with 30 tons of Iron, the present price would afford a clear profit, after all possible contingencies, of 25 per cent. on the paid-up capital of £25,000. It is undoubted that the recent Commercial Treaty with France must create a greatly increased demand for Coal and Iron, while it will materially inhance the value of first-class steam coal, like that in this Company's property. The Iron Ore will produce about 2,116,800 tons. The pro perty is situate in the Vale of Cwm Amman, about 15 miles from the Port of Llanelly, and is provided with floating docks, capable of accommodating vessels of 1,000 tons burden. In the event of the Company not being duly constituted, the deposit will be returned without any deduction. Applications for Shares may be made to the Bankers or Brokers, with a deposit of ss. on each Share applied for. Prospectuses, with Reports and Forms of Application for Shares, may be obtained at the offices of the Company or from the Brokers. nENSoN's w ATCIIES, " Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. 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. arpl Lud , ate-bill. London. E.C. Established 1749. fri EATRu-ttOY AL, HA YMAItIi...E T. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Blackstone. THIS EVENING the nertorrannces will commence with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. And THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Bucketone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear. To conclndc with THE CHRISTENING. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will b ., performed A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris, Miss Heath, &a Followed by UN TIGRE DU BENGALE. And LES DEUX AVEUGLES. By the Zouaves. With the farce of A.S.S. After which, LA CORDE SENSIBLE. Charaeters by the Zouaves. Followed by AN AMBUSCADE AT INKERMAN. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and 3ranager, Mr. Ben). Webster. THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and Miss Laidlaw. To conclude with IN AND OUT OF PLACE. Miss Julia Daly, Messrs. C. Selby and C. J. Smith. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d, Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A.STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Immense Success of "Mazeppa." This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of 14A.ZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new MI beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, bu r :tieing the lamest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po -rmitaloes, and Camels in the World. of t?ie b d e . 4° ll o'wed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders Doors ope n Box.oftk, at half-past performance commence at 7, open daily from 11 till 4. D S tage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. ector °t he Arena—M. Felix Rsvolti. CANTERBuity HALL CONCERTS.— Ji.Trallrid :IVectilliNoniNfrGom' lI ART HA, And Selections from DiNoRAII, TROVATOItE AtAcnETH An d numerous other Ent ertainments ' Balcony, IFI, ............ lic. ea. . pssrs. Gr'Ortr,e H ods Combo Vocalists ( " 1 (the Irish Come ti:mmtoenttual, with Marshall. dian and Mimic), aly l l C. C onciqtinz of 17 pen , ent). for the p, - "„,.O r gallißed The ETITIOPTAN. q, Comic and Se - ti -- mance or expressly for this 14;stablish.m Negro delineations, anecdotes, Vocal and Instrumental M usiu, to., in addi . e usual entertainments. The Fine Arts Gallery io open from 5 till 11 on BUnday Evening. more at ease, more in his element—we may be - quite sure of this—at the Admiralty than at St. Martin's-le-Grand. However, at the Admiralty there was installed (happily for our defences)—if we must needs have a civilian there—one of the most energetic and patriotic First Lords Eng land has had for a long while, in the person of the Right Hon. Sir SOHN SOMERSET PAKINGTON. And so—the sailor Earl of HARDWICKE went as a stop-gap to St. Martin's-le-Grand as Postmaster- General. As though some fatality weighed over department--no sooner had Lord DERBY and his colleagues been ousted from office, and the formation of another and a stronger Coalition Government than formerly again en arge landed property, and almost, of course, a pretty decided, if not High, Churchman. He went abroad to marry ; which, as the decisions now stand, was of course, legally, a futile expedient. In his case we know that the subject long caused him great pain of mind ; but at last his conviction of the claims of his children being far above those of an artificial and unreasonable human law, decided both him and the lady to brave all consequences. We feel, no doubt, that contempt for, and viola- tion of, law—on a subject on which all parties, who are ever placed in a position to feel its pressure, perceive at once that no man has a right to fetter another,—is rapidly increasing. It must increase. The example of all the three parties we have ad verted to would be stronger than any law in their respective neighbourhoods. They are known there to be gentlemen who would all, naturally, pay the utmost deference to law—gentlemen who would not fill up their Income-tax returns in their own favour or do a shabby action, for the world; and gentle men, we need not say, whose word is, at all times, sufficient. Yet these gentlemen all evade the law. The most wealthy of the three visits the continent in contempt of the recent decision. The other two prefer to make an equivocal declaration, and to re main at home. Detection by clergymen and regis trars is, of course, from the diversity of names, and from distance, impracticable. Punishment is out of the question. We almost wish it were not, for it would, we believe, be the death of the law. All must be left to the conscience of the individuals ; and their conscience tells them that they are not bound to disobey the, dictates of nature, and their own convictions of duty too, because the legitimacy of the Duke of BEAU FORT could be purchased from a pragma , tical Bishop, only by prohibiting, in future, all such marriages as that from which the Duke him self sprung. This, indeed, were to purchase immu nity for a single aristocrat at the cost of the whole community. It is a striking feature in all these cases that the parties do not choose to associate toge ther without, so far as in them lies, binding them trusted to Viscount PALMERSTON, than the new Premier (to all appearance quite wantonly) threw away one of his chief trump-cards—put unques tionably the Right Man in indisputably the Wrong Place—by appointing Lord ELGIN (of all men !) to (of all offices !) the office of Postmaster- General. It was like nominating a recently returned and triumphant Generalissimo to the conduct of the Commissariat ! The third Chinese war broke ont, as if for the express purpose of demonstrating the absurdity of this appointment almost upon the very morrow of Lord ELGIN'S installation over the letter-bags in St. Martin's-le-Grand. The noble earl had to drop the winged wand of office as England's Mercury, when 'the peta.sus of the Post-office was scarcely yet warmed in his grasp and to return with all possible dispatch to the scene of his late diplomatic achievements at the north of China as her MAJESTY'S Envoy Extra ordinary, and, Minister Plenipotentiary to the EMPEROR of the Celestial, and that great Asiatic Potentate's Gf3vernment. His lordship's vacated, or at least partially vacated office—for the Earl of ELGIN was constrained to " drag a lengthening chain" after him as far as the Isthmus of Suez as the still-unresigned Postmaster-General !—was en trusted,: until it could be seen whether this third Chinese war must prove really in evitable, and the consequent abandonment of the Post-office by Lord ELGIN to be abso lutely unavoidable this half-vacated place in the Cabinet, we say, was entrusted pro tem. to his Grace the Duke of ARGYLL—already there, in the Cabinet, in the purely ornamental office as Lord Privy Seal. Now, it must be acknowledged, in re gard to the Duke of ARGYLL, that his grace was the very last Postmaster-General who had won for himself anything like distinction in that office by his conduct of affairs at St. Martin's-le-Grand. The Duke of ARGYLL had been the immediate predecessor there of the Marquis of CLANRI GARDE. It was during the regime of the Duke of ARGYLL that the metropolitan daily " deliveries" were so remarkably mul tiplied—that the London districts were so ingeni ously mapped out alphabetically. But now—no sooner had his Grace generously undertaken to keep the Earl of ELGIN'S Ministerial post open for him until such time as it should prove inevitable that Lord ELGIN must really in spite of himself resign it alto gether for the purpose of proceeding further eastwards to his Chinese destination—no sooner had the Duke of ARGYLL consented to be pro tem. Postmaster-General as well as Lord Privy Seal, than his Grace was taken ill—with the measles. The fatality seemingly bornof Lord CLANRICARDE'S appointment appeared to be pursuing relent lessly that unfortunate office of the Postmaster generalship. The evil spell is at length, however, definitively broken. We may rest perfectly well assured by the admirable and judicious nomination to the vacant post at St. Martin's-le-Grand of one of the most able, and po . pular, and respected among all our many able, and popular, and respected Whig administrators—Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY. We are satisfied, in fact, that this nomination of Lord STANLEY of ALDER LEY as Postmaster-General will be recognised by all parties as one of the most auspicious and judi cious—as Lord CLANRICARDE'S nomination to the same office by the same Premier three years since was the most inauspicious and injudicious—of all Lord PALMERSTON'S Ministerial appointments. selves by the forms which they and their friends regard as the line between licentiousness and honourable marriage. This itself is plain evidence of the real character of all concerned. LATEST We have adverted to these facts because, hardly had the first we mentioned occurred, when we found in our Parliamentary report the astound ing statement of petitions for repeal of the episcopal —" not "—from more than one hundred corpora tions ! Lord CLARENDON, at this period of the session, declined to make a speech on the subject ; perhaps no speech was needed. And yet our aged Lord Chancellor could unaccountably assert that the feeling against the law was not extending ! He must excuse our asking what evidence would con vince an aged and Scotch lord that one of his pet notions must be given up ? That he mast allow other persons to have their notions too ; especially on a purely practical and personal question—and one, too, on which the course of action adopted by individuals could not injure others. Can a fairer representation of our middle classes be found than that supplied by our corporations ? As the rule, they must consist of all the well-to-do, the staid, the non-theoretical part of the community ; and no one will deny that they would be a favourable re presentation of its morality. The petitions have been obtained without excitement ; by fair repre sentations only; since we had not even heard of what was doing. To small bodies of respectable persons this was the most appropriate mode of ap peal. To us it appears that after the numerous proofs Parliament has had of the objection to the prohibition in question, the corporation petitions ought to decide. All the Protestant Dissenting bodies object to laving the church canon fastened on them by epiopal legislation. The House of Commons has r€pcatedly voted against it. Numer ous petitions ha7e been presented against, and very few, and those chi e fly clerical, on the other side— will the House 4f Lords refuse longer to listen to reason, and to Mlle opinion ? Let it be remem bered that the demand is—not to compel any one to °jectionable to himself; but, that others no; be coerced to conform to th e i r neighbour's scru,k s . do what shall is Abruzzi." Glancing the other day at the " Marriages"• in one of the papers, we saw, to our surprise, the names of a gentleman—an old acquaintance—and of a lady, whose father we also know well, and both of whom live ordinarily far away in the country, as having been married in a church in London. We well knew that the lady was the sister of the deceased wife of the gentleman. A pretty exem plification, we immediately thought, of the working of Bishop BLOMFIELD'S interpolating his " not" into Lord LYNDIIURST'S Act. A stronger case could hardly be conceived for the desirableness of the marriage in question. The widower had been left with six children, all as young as the course of nature permitted, who needed a foster-mother; he was, therefore, so situated that, sending his young family from home or marrying again was almost his only respectable alternative ; and whither should the heart of such a bereaved parent, looking daily on his helpless babes, turn, but to one whom he had seen often during his wife's lifetime caressing the children with a fondness hardly less than that of the mother ? How naturally the heart of woman would respond to such an appeal we need not suggest. All was natural, desirable, and good, for all parties concerned, from beginning to end ; and was Bishop BLOMFIELD'S " not" to stand in the way ? Religion and human nature equally said no. We have nuth pleasure in announcing that Lord Stanley of Allerley will succeed Lord Elgin as Post master-General. Lord Stanley has had long and varied official and parlianamtary experience, and is an excellent the scandals the wPheiscth omffiscnonwf ibllurseidneeems. itA .'lr cl e ta t r ni ac s te t r, t a h n a d t t i h n at h t i h s have so long dis grated its administration will cease. The Duke of Sutherland, accompanied by the Marquis and Mar ebioness of Stafford, has left Trentham on a visit to Lord end Lady Blantyre at Erskine House, N.B. At the close of their visit the noble duke will em bark on board his . Yacht at Glasgow, and sail to Loch Inv e r whence his grace will proceed to Dunrobin Castle, Suther land sb ire. The Countess of Verulam l eaves t own t o -d ay for G o rmanbury-park, n u t s. Lord Hubert do Burgh, Secretory of Legation at Turin, has arrived at the Marquis of Clanricarde's residence in Carlton-house-terrace, from Italy, on leave of absence. Lady Emily liesketh and Miss Hesketh have l e ft Torquay for Gwrych Castle, Denbighshire. Sir Cornwallis and Lady Caroline Ricketts have left Grosvenor- Place for Pencarrow, Cornwall, the scat of L a dy Molesworth. The Eight lion. B. Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs. Disraeli have left Grosvenor-gate for Hughenden Manor, Bucks. The Right Ron. Sidney Herbert will leave town on Tuesday next for Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Wyndham have left the St. George's Hotel for Innellan, Argyllshire. We hear that Major-General Lockyer is likely to be succeeded in the Ceylon command by Col. O'Brien, now Assistant - Quartermasier-General at the Horse Guards. Col. O'Brien, although never engaged actively in the field, has rendered useful service in almost every part of the globe. He is a capital ling u i s t , an d an e ffi c i en t a d m i n i s t ra tor, and a popular officer.—..A rm y Sligo, the Marchioness of Aylesbury, morningat the South Devon Railway Station, of and Navy Gazette. Countess de Persi gny, w h o h ave b een v i s i t i ng i n Pencar roal:ll ,in Eell CornwaII,FRENAMBASSADOR.—The Count and th e sea t o f L a dy M o l eswor th, ar rived on T Plymouth. The F renc h A m b assa d or an d A m b ass adress w e re also accomp an i e d b y L a d y M o l eswor th , th e Marquis and Thursday rsday Marchioness the Marquis of Bristol, Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Colonel Airey, &c•, and were received on the platform by Lord Churston, who took them to a house in the Esplanade, Plymouth Hoe, prepared by his Lordship for his noble visitors. Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley, Acting Port- Admiral, placed his yacht at the command of the Count, who, with his friends, proceeded first to the grounds of Mount Edgecumbe, anti then returned to the Hoe to wit ness the content for the prizes at the regatta. Mr. E. T. Smith, the indefatigable lessee and manager of Her Majesty's Theatre, ever on the alert to give encouragement and patronage to native talent, has engaged a new tenor in the person of Mr. William Parkinson, the young gentleman who took the town by storm during the late opera season at the Surrey Theatre. It is said Mr. E. T. Smith has sent, or contemplates sending, Mr. Parkinson to Italy to finish his masical education, and t o receive that careful instructi on W hi c h w ill soon qualify him to break a lance with Mr. Sims Reeves.—atcrt Circular. We understand that the marriage of M. Wieniawski, solo violinist to the Emperor of Russia, with Miss Hampton, niece of the popular composer and pianist, George Osborne, has just taken place. The event was celebrated at Pierrefitte, near Paris, where Mr. Stevens gave a handsome dejeuner in honour of the occasion, fol lowed by a concert. Madame Catherine Hayes sang " Qui la voce." The wor th y h ost sang a morceau, w hi c h Rossini did him the distinguished honour of composing expressly for him. 311'. ()shortie and Mr. Oury also lent their aid to the gratificatiuu of the company, which comprised a whole host of celebrities in music, literature, and art. M. Rossini was present.—Court Circular. MORE DRAMATIC ALMSHOUSES.—WO hear Mr. Dodd is still determined to present his promised land near Windsor to the theatrical profession, and proceedings are in progress to carry out his intentions. lin ependent of a free gift of the ground, he will genercusly endow the build ings with a sum of £B,ooo.—Era. We are requested to contradict the statement that Dr. Vaughan has been appointed to the Chancellor ship of Yoik Cathedral. The Agincourt has arrived from Melbourne with 43,608 ounces of gold, worth about £174,000 ; and the Bre men and Vigo from New York with £36,0 00 and £84,000. The amount o f th e rem ittances by the steamer Pera on the ',oth will be £324,333, of which £314,541 is silver, £9,792 gold. Of this total £4,778 is for India, £312,015 for China and the Straits, and £7,540 for Alexan dria and Aden. Government, it appears, on this occasion, despatches £64,843 in silver to Hong Kong. ~ With a practical people, such as we are, one un ♦arnished fact often weighs more than columns of acute argument. And rightly so too. Logic and criticism may blunder; facts cannot mislead us. We have given, therefore, the simple particulars of one case, as far as propriety permits, for which we pledge our word. We may also add, that the gentleman is a mau of high character. We may, on such a subject, be further permitted to say, he is one whom all his neighbours would designate as a sincerely religious man; while the father of the bride is a gentleman also of large property, landed and otherwise. Two more perfectly unex ceptionable specimens of England's best middle class we do not know. Now, are we not entitled to ask those who wish s to impose their faith in the canons on others to consider fairly, and in a states manlike spirit, such an illustration of the working of their law as this ? It is not an exceptional case, but the common one. Can it, apart from critical discussions (which we yet believe to be wholly in favour of our view)—can it be right to maintain a law which flies so completely in the face of the best and purest feelings both of men and women of unquestionable character that they will disobey it. We believe the instances in which the law is violated must be very numerous. We have not better means than others of becoming acquainted with them ; and yet, besides the case we have mentioned, two others have come under our notice within about a year. Both of them, also, were of the best character, though at pretty nearly the extremes of middle class life. One was that of a gentleman who was an artist—a deacon, and active member of a Dissenting church; he, as in the case just referred to, defied the law at home. The other was a country magistrate, a gentleman of 5 votes. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1860, NAPLES, AUG. 16, (via TURIN). NEW The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : Fifteen hundred Garibaldians have disembarked in Calabria, and joined two thousand insurgents who had withdrawn to the mountains. The preparations for the defence of Naples are being continued. PARIS, AUG. 18. The Moniteur publishes a decree abolishing the duties on capillaire. Another decree abolishes the compensation duties, established by a decree of February last, on cushions made of cloth, and trimmings in silk, wool, and ganduras. Another decree reduces the duties on alcoholic quors to 6f. 25c. per hectolitre. VIENNA, AUG. 18. The Great Powers, in conformity with the wish of the English Cabinet, have agreed to discontinue all further negotiations for including Spain in the number of the Great Powers. The committee of 21 members of the Reichsrath, acknowledging the justice of the reasons adduced in the memorandum of the Archduke Maximilian against the reduction of the Austrian navy, pro posed by the Minister of Finance, has unanimously decided that the Marine Budget may be increased by 1,000,000 florins. PARIS, AUG. 17. The Constitutionnel publishes a letter from Turin, bearing the signature of M. Grandguillot, com mencing as follows : " Italy is now entering the most critical and most decisive period of her regeneration. Hence forth she stakes on a single card either her ruin or her salvation. Engaged as she is in the path upon which she has been thrown by the expedition of Garibaldi, Italy will within two months be either free and completely independent, or Austria will again reign, and this time from Messina to Turin." THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. (From the special Correspondent of the Times.) FARO, AUG. 12, 2 r.m. In the hope of catching the French mail to Mar seilles, I write a few words to announce to you the following Order of the Day, which has been just given out : The letter then details the course of past events, and states that the negotiations between Naples and Piedmont were unsuccessful by reason of Garibaldi's refusal to arrest his course, and on account of the enthusiasm prevailing throughout Italy having paralysed the measures which Piedmont might otherwise have taken to prevent further complica tions. The Pairie of this evening contains the following despatch, dated Naples, 16th inst. : " Tranquillity prevails in the city. " Garibaldi is still reconnoitring the Neapolitan littoral. " Tranquillity still prevails in Calabria and the BEYROUT, AUG. 5 (via MARSEILLES). Syria is tranquil, but in the environs of Damas cus attempts against the lives and property of the Christians are of daily occurrence. THE HAGUE, AUG. 17. The project of law respecting the railways has been adopted by the First Chamber by 34 against WW=== FRANCE. BOURSE, August 17.—The market shows but little improvement as far as the amount of business is concerned, but rather more firmness has been apparent. Threes, for the account, are now at 67f 95c ; Mobilier, 667 f 50c ; 'Orleans, 1,362 f 50c ; Northern, 950 f; Mediterranean, 880 ; Austrian, 477 f. 50c; Lombard, 472 f 50c. The following are the last quotations : ft per per Cents ... 97 75 Credit Foncier Do end month.... 97 75 Belgian 41 97 25 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 10 , Roman Bank Shares 2830 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 680 7 1 Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 683 75 IHome Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1365 .. 1365 Northern New ditto B7O .. Lyons and Mediterranean 883 75 .. 885 Geneva 365 .. 365 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. At the interview between the Prince Regent of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria, at Toplitz, no formal convention between the Sovereigns was drawn up or signed. The engagements between them were made on parole; but the Emperor wished - the terms of the understanding to be Embodied in a protocol ; and this document, the German jour nals state, is now the subject of a correspondence between the Courts of Vienna and Berlin. The Nord gives the following resume of the engagements mutually entered into :-1. The two Sovereigns on the Eastern question, undertake to adhere firmly to the conditions of the Treaty of Paris; to resist anything that may affect the integrity of the Turkish Empire ; and to obtain an understanding on this subject with the Cabinet of London. 2. With regard to the internal affairs of Germany, Austria has made important concessions, especially on the question of the organisation of the Federal army ; Austria engages also to offer no oppo sition to the liberal reforms contemplated by Prussian policy: 3. With respect to the affairs of Italy the Prince of Prussia recognises that the pos session of Venice is of real importance to the Aus trian empire, but declines any engagement on this point so long as the Italian movement is confined only to Italians. If any foreign Power takes part in it, the Prince Regent engages to lend Austria the support of the Prussian arms. Finally, the Prince Regent promises to use all his personal in fluence to bring about a reconciliation between Austria and Prussia. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's screw steamer Vigo, Capt. Mirehouse, from New York on the 4th inst., has' arrived here. She brings upwards of 420,000 dols. in specie. On the 7th inst. she passed the Kangaroo, out ward bound from Liverpool. The Australasian, from Liverpool, had arrived out. The other news by the Vigo has been antici pattd. Sltt B. BnobrE.—the Medicdl Times of yester day says, in reference to a report - 1611 lifts ben current for the last few days, " it becomes our duty to let ottt readers knowthat the operation of iridectomy was performed on both Sir Benjamin's byes on July 12. His sight had been failing since Christmas last, but was not painftilly fective until the completion of his 78th year in June. About that time vision beeame rapidly more and more im pairech especially in the l e h eYb. to this time the dia base had been regarded as senile cataract, more ad*anced in the left eye than in the right, but after the return of Sir Benjamin from the meeting of the British Association at Oxford, the defective vision was ascribed to glaucoma. Iridectomy was performed under chloroform. We regret to say that the result is not so satisfactory as the paragraph in the Ti me s m i g ht l ea d t h e profess i on to h ope. Th left eye is much in the same state as before the operation—if anything slightly improved ; but in the right, or better eye, vision is quite lost. The great ground of hope in this case is that as there is now a cataract very evident in the.right eye, this is the cause of the impaired vision, that the eye is not glaucomatous, and that hereafter vision may be restored by extracting the cataract. We have not alluded to this sub ject before, as it is to sonle extent a private matter; but the whole profession have so filial an interest in all that relates to the respected president of the Royal Society and of the Medical Council, that all have a right to know as much as is freely talked about in th#3 medical coteries of the metro polis—especially at the present time when a comparatively new operation like irideptomoy is on its trial." " ORDER OF THE DAY. "Faro, Aug. 12. " Officers and Soldiers of the Land and Sea Forces.—The General Dictator having for a short time quitted headquarters, left me the following Order : " ' General Sirtori,—l leave to you the command of the land and sea forces, being obliged to leave for a few days. G. GA RIBALDI.' " Officers and Soldiers,—My greatest title to your confidence is the confidence which the man reposes in me who represents your noblest aspira tions. I trust that you will obey me as you would obey General Garibaldi. " G. SIRTORI, Chief of the Staff." That is the exact meaning of this is as yet a mystery which has to be cleared up. Some cir cumstances which occurred this morning may help to throw some light on the mystery. A.Sardiaian frigate was at the Faro this morning. Dr. Ber tani has arrived from Genoa, and has brought, it is said, important news. These two circumstances would lead one to suppose that the mystery has a peaceful meaning. On the other hand, Garibaldi is just the man to wish to see and promote the in surrection in Calabria in person. I dare say by to-morrow's mail to Naples I shall be able to give you the true key to the mystery. (From the Special Correspondent of the Daily News.) FIRST PASSAGE OF THE STRAITS. FARO (NEAR MESSINA), AUG. 8. You will undoubtedly, before this reaches you, have heard by the telegraph of the masterly and wonderful preparation made by Garibaldi to cross. the famous strait, and also, I hope, of the successful landing of his troops on its right shore. If I mistake not, it will be this evening that the first battalions of the national army will cross over to Calabria. Some people thought at first that this bold attempt would have been made at night, but as the moon was shining in all its glorious splendour it would have been unwise to set out. For the same reason Garibaldi was obliged to countermand the order he had sent to Captain Irwin, of Colonel Dunne's bri gade, to attack and capture, with a party of about 40 English volunteers, almost all seamen, a Neapo litan frigate which was at anchor a little further down at Fort Cavallo on the Calabrian side. The blue jackets were rather disappointed, for, in spite of the shining moon, they swore they would have captured the Neapolitan man-of-war. The bustle of warlike preparation which comes to my ear from every side of this camp is such that now and then I cannot help thinking that what passes before my eyes is but a dream. Three months have scarcely elapsed since a great general landed at Melazzo with 1,000 men, and now that very man is at the head of a gallant army which numbers more than 20,000. You will not have forgotten that Garibaldi divided this army into four divisions. One of these divisions is encamped here and occupies the ground which skirts the sea from Pace to Capo di Faro and Faro Superiore. Two other divisions, that of Maid and Cosenz, are still at Messina, but the last-named one will arrive here either in the course of the day or early to-morrow morning. It is a pity that brave General Bixio should not be here, but some disturbances and terrible political assassinations having occurred at Bronte, in the province of Catania, Garibaldi has sent Bixio to put things to rights. It seems that the exasperations of the Brontese were so great that almost every sorcio—as the adherents of the former regime are called—whom they could get hold of was roughly handled by them. Bourbon officials and their minions thus reap what they have sown — hatred and bloody revenge. It is a severe retri bution, which I shall not endeavour to justify, but which I can fully understand. To revert, however, to military subjects, there are four batteries of heavy guns which have been constructed all along this shore. At its extreme point, where the ancient poets placed Charybdis, the most powerful of these batteries—six 32-pounders and two 65—has been erected, and it is intended to bear upon the opposite fort of Scylla, which, however, some say the Nea politans have neglected to mount with guns. The other batteries, of four guns each, have been placed at a proportionate distance from each other along the Faro shore. All the engineering arrangements are under the directions of Colonels Bordone and De Flottc, but it may be said that Garibaldi is in fact the man who has advised them, for General Orsini, the chief commander of the artillery, does not stir without the orders of the dictator, The distance from Faro Point to the Castle of Scylla opposite is not more than 6,017 English yards. The heavy guns of Garibaldi will, therefore, at the same time keep in check the Neapolitan men-of-war, the batteries of Torre del Cavallo, and the floating and standing ones the enemy has erected at Villa S. Giovanni, Gallico, and on other points of the oppo- site coast. Whilst I am writing I can see Garibaldi, who arrived here this morning at 4 o'clock, walking up and down the deck of the City of Aberdeen, one of the Sicilian steamers lying in this harbour, fol lowing through his glass the movements of the enemy. There is an amusing story current here, which I give you without, ho wever , vouc hing fo r its correctness. You are perhaps aware that the great fishery of the pesce-spada, or sword fish, affords occupation to the fishermen who live in the villages and hamlets scattered about along the coast from Messina to Faro Point, as well as on the opposite one of Calabria. This fishery is performed in the most ingenious manner. A man ascends a long pole which rises in the centre of the boat, and when he sees the sword-fish passing through the current he makes the rowers row in that direction, and the man at the stern, who is armed with a long and sharp pike, if fortunate enough, spikes the fish. Well, one day Garibaldi disappeared for two hours, and it is stated that having disguised himself as a fisherman, he went so near to the opposite shore that from the pole he was able to reconnoitre all the fortified points of the Neapolitan coast. True or not, this story forms the subject of all conversations in the camp, and causes a great deal of merriment amongst the noble fellows encamped under a scorching sun on the sandy beach yonder. lam the more convinced that Garibaldi's intention is to attempt a landing during the forth coming night from seeing the number of field-pieces scattered about on this shore, and the number of battalions ready to embark. Besides the steamer anchored in this small harbour, or rather jetty, there are about 260 fishing-boats of different sizes, which complete the adventurous armada. They lie al:whore:A in two lakes behind the lighthouse of Faro, and arc therefore screened by it, so that Gari baldi's naval pre p,rations cannot be seen by the Neapolitans on the othei side of the strait. These two lakes in ancient times commaunicated both with the gulf and the open sea, by way of two canals, which from some cause or other had beel; choked up. Garibaldi had the two canals opened, so th - , 9 t he can now sail with his fleet from the lakes with out the enemy's knowing it. The boats which com prise Garibaldi's flotilla have been collected from different points of the Sicilian coast, and can very easily ship from 20 to 30 men each. Garibaldi will thus be able to land a force of more than 7,000 men where he pleases at once. It is now five o'clock, and the greatest activity prevails in the camp. Major Caldesi, the brother of the well-known London photographer, is just leaving the City of Aberdeen, apparently bearing, orders from headquarters. In the meanwhile, Nea politan frigates are steaming up an d down the strait, some in the direction of Reggio, sumo to wards Fort Scylla. Through my glass Ica dis tinctly see the officers on the deck lookingsa°thatis going on in our camp. Su rel y they must be by • this time convinced that th e hour of the landing is near at hand. One of thos e vessels is laden with a battalion of Neapolitan s har p shooters, wbo come bound for from the citadel of lkiessina, and are some point or other o f Calabria. As nobody in IVlessina is ignorant th a t th e land ing of the Sicili an troops will take place this even lug, I hear tha t the alarm of the townsmen is great, for they fear that General Clary will bombard the however, cannot be d one w ith ou t its c i t y. This, being officially communicated to the foreign con suls. Your able ♦ice-consul, Mr. Rickards, has positively and peremptorily intimated to the com mander of the citadel that such a communication must be made to him according to the rules of war. Her Majesty's ship Scylla is in the harbour to back the just intimation of yoar consular agent. There is no fear for the safety of your countryme n ; they are in good hands, for nothing can exceed the activity of Mr. Rickards when the interests of Eng land and the lives of Englishmen are in danger. AUGUST 9. There they are on Neapolitan soil ! After 11 long years of sorrow and despair, the national flag is hoisted again upon the misty tops of the Calabrian mountains. Yesterday, as the sun was setting, a S.W. wind was driving dense clouds towards the Calabrian coasts. A dark night was, therefore, announced—a night favourable to the bold enter prise so long meditated by the Italian hero of our times. The rays of the rising moon were not able to pierce the dense vapours of the atmosphere, and the whole tract of land which skirts the Sicilian gulf was wrapped in a dense veil of fog. At 8 o'clock the general, who was still on board the City of Aberdeen, gave his last orders to Major Missori— the noble fellow to whom Garibaldi is indebted for his life, which without Missori's courage would perhaps have been lost at Melazzo. Ten men were asked to volunteer out of each company of one of the encamped brigades. Fifty Carabinieri of Genoa, twenty guides, and twenty of the engineer battalion and of the artillery were besides asked to join the select party, together with some English and French volunteers. The party on which thus devolved the honour of crossing the Faro and show ing the way to Naples did not number more than 350 men. Major Missori was the officer in com mand, and bad under his orders Majors Salomone and Nulla, of the general staff. At half-past eight o'clock all the men were on board of fishing boats and ready to sail. But here an unanimous com plaint was heard amongst the ranks of the brigade. Those soldiers who were not of the envied number made most urgent requests to their officers to be allowed to share the fate of their comrades. It was indeed a moving sight to witness the grief of those who had been left behind, and to hear their ap pealing supplications. Order was, however, soon restored, for the sentiment of duty was uppermost in their hearts. Half-past nine was pealing from the bell tower of the Faro church, when the little expedition of the Italian patriots sailed amidst the surrounding darkness of the night. The moment was really an imposing one. Three hundred and fifty young men—the flower of Italy—were start ing on the most audacious and dangerous enterprise of this wonderful campaign. I say the most dan gerous, for the coasts of Calabria are manned with hundreds of guns, and its narrow sea is swarming with Neapolitan men-of-war. The party had scarcely reached the middle of the gulf when it was known here that it had been directed by Gari baldi to surprise or storm the Fort of Cavallo, which nearly faces Faro Point, and stands upon a rocky hillock which skirts the coast. A signal had been agreed upon to inform Garibaldi of the safe land ing of the expedition. I will not attempt to de scribe the anxious expectation of that long, long hour. Ten thousand men were waiting there to know* the fate which was in store for their noble com panions. At last a faint light appeared along the opposite shore. God be praised, the expedition had landed in Calabria! But half an hour had scarcely elapsed when the rattle of musketry was brought to this shore throught the fresh breath of the sea. A few more musket shots, and then all was silence and mystery again. In less than an hour, however, a messenger arrived from Major Missori, confirmed the successful landing of our friends, and explained the cause of the firing. The expedition was nearly touching the opposite shore, when one of its boats, either drifting with the current or in tentionally separated from it, and went towards Villa San Giovanni. In that boat were the few* Frenchmen and Englishmen who had joined the expedition. As they did not know the coast, and had not been made acquainted with Garibaldi's orders to Missori, they landed close to a Neapolitan battery. Although the night was dark the sentries of the battery saw the boat approach and gave the alarm, speedily followed by a discharge of Mug" ketry and a cannon shot. Two men w ere wounded, but this was not the worst, for they were obliged to sail back as quickly as possible. By the time this unfortunate accident happened Major Missori had proceeded with his men on the road towards Forte del Cavallo. But suddenly hearing the report of a gun and the rattling of musketry, and not being able to explain it, be thought that the surprise of the garrison of Forte del Cavallo had become a matter of total impossi bility. Major Missori, therefore, took the path of the mountains. Nothing has been heard of thew since, but we hope they are safe, and making their way through the districts of Calabria, which ar e waiting the moment to begin the revolution. 131 this time the Neapolitan generals must be full)" aware of the first landing of Garibaldi's forces ; but no important movement • that we know of has ye t taken place on the other side of the Straits. Te-dal General Clary was suddenly summoned to Naples by telegraph, and he left the command of the citadel of Messina to General Fergola, one of the most de voted adherents of the King, and therefore a most ardent adversary of liberal institutions. Two days ago we had at Messina an alarm caused by some Nea politan soldiers who tried to desert. The poor fellowS were shot at by their comrades of the outpost, and two were severely wounded, and two others made pri soners. The Garibaldini tried to cover their escape by discharging their muskets, but only one Neap° litan was lucky enough to reach the national c ame. News has just come fro m B ron te that Gen. Bixio has shown the greate s t fi rmness i n re storing order and in putting d own th e outrages com mitted there by a band of ruffians who wanted to disgrace the spotless banner of Garibaldi. Th e r i ng l ea ders, about 30 in number, were s h o t i n th e square of the town. Martial law wa s b es id es proc l a i m ed at Bronte, and disarmament ordered under penalty of death. A war tax has also been imposed by Bill° on the city. Those who are always calling Gari baldi and his officers revolutionists of the most dangerous character, will, I hope, agree with you r correspondent that they know how to maintain order and make law and life respected. While Garibaldi is thus busy preparing to ill" vade Calabria with an army of 20,000 men, the Neapolitan cruisers are steaming up and down the strait, as if they had resigned themselves to p 1 3 51 the part of passive lookers on. What is still mer e strange is that they do not even intercept one of the numerous boats which are continually taking arms and ammunition to the other side of the strait. Members of the national committees of here every Calabrian towns and villages arrive hour of the day in the teeth of the Neapolitan fleet. I have just spoken with one of these gentlemen, and he told me that as soon as Garibaldi himself has set a foot on the Neapolitan continent the whole of the country will rise at the cry of " Long live , the Dictator ! Long live Victor Emmanuel 'lown with the Bourbons'." AUGUST 10. GaribalZ, s head - qua r t er s have been establishe d here since yesterd-IY , or, to speak more correctly, have been establishes at the Lighthouse of the Strait. But now and then, especially during th e night, he goes on board the City of Aberdee n ' Last night the Neapolitan men-of-war which are cru ising in these w a t ers were c ontinually exchang jug signals by of fresh means of coloured rockets. If I aril rightly inform e d, thi s did no t prevent the sailing expeditions. lam told that, in spi te of a bright moon, a party of 80 men was sideli landed between the villages of Azzerello and Villa San Giovanni. A second landed at Cannemiele- A third, of about 150 men, were equally successful in reaching the opposite coast at Fiumara Zacche" rella, between Alta Fiumara and Cannetello. A 0 these expeditions, if this really occurred, had n° fight to sustain with the Neapolitans. Judging from these small draughts of men, Garibaldi's plan is to collect an army little by little, rouse Calabria.,ll and then proceed to Naples. I say it s eems, for n: is very difficult to know what Garib aldi 's pla really are. I have been told that ev en Genera ; Sirtori and Hebert—the first the ch ief of his sta.....tt the second a most able adviser in military mattea are not : tator. ing tha dice th Calabril Gulf of lions ar the innspren( Their g add, th that w1:1 the raos last nig War en hold of attempt charge quenchi leverell ing to r °f-War, to the 1 80 tha Gariba attemp vaiani 1 fact w change extern •vill g retired Ilia me thre( the f whet inq u pulli lieu! serti Pun Was Was P CV ha nu az G ti