The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-01 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. " 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 mllde, 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 84, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. T} L\ TRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee,, Mr. 3. B. Blackstone. 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 new eomedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY, is which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear. To conclude with A HUSBAND AT SIGHT. CoannencJ at 7. ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE,- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. TUTS EVENING. will be performed THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. G. Melville, A. Harris, &c. IP After which, UNE FILLE TERRIBLE. Characters by the Zouaves. Followed by AN AMBUSCADE AT INI►ERMAN. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL -IA- Sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE HARVEST HOME. Messrs. J te L. Toole, P. Bedford, D. Fisher, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Miss Laidlaw. After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul Belford and Miss Julia Daly. To conclude with OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Messrs. Eburne, Ward, and Romer. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, Z 2 2s. ; Family Boxes, 11. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 2s. ; Pit Stalls, 2s. ; Fit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.— Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Entire Change.—Powerful Attraction. This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of MAZEPI'A AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, introducing the lamest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena. A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on S.A.TURDAY next, Aug. 4, commencing at Two o'clock. Doors open at halt-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena--M. Felix Revolti. CAN'rERBIJit Y HALL TPA 3 Y.,' V PIN 1. C. Y. GOUNOD'S E fret Thitc in this Country, eauist 4r. - Henry Itubert. Ikpbistoobelpet kir r "Benito 11. Siobel NE, Antlitreop. II arguerite Cynkthetor. \t r. .1 , )11,1 It ill anm. Ana s.sluctirms !min Dinurah, 'l'rovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. CONCERTS.- Baloony, 1 --Hall, c.d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish CoMe dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The F.T HiOP INNS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, &e., in addition to the usual entertaintnents. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. TR WEATHEII..—Srx OFPICIT, ArGUST 1, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 65—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 67--this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.10. WlNS—South-Westerly; light, with fine weather. HIGH WATER A T LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 41m.—Afttizoon, 2h. 3rti. To-mounow.-Morning, ;2h. 23m.—Afternoon, 2h, 42m. ~,,,;.• i , 4 , „„r.„1„. ~,,, A • 1= • 0. • rt- - k 3 , -,,,,.. r..., -- 4.Z •f," , ..: -t E.;;;;A..216<ba, , ' - 7,.., . r• , I 0 ..;,- .•,F1 0 I i' • '''' V ""••••:••••••••iti s ‘ .... ,.....4. , . h i - 4. k . i . ' t;.' Wt.: _,, - - • • ` •,,,,, THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDA I, AUGUST 1, 186(;, • - Let ns beat our swords into ploughshares, and , learn war no more! France is all for peace, and if France desires peace who now will stir up war ? The letter itself, which Lord JOHN RUSSELL told us last night was a private one, was this morning communicated by two of our morning contempo raries to the whole of England. As this of course, "my dear PERSIONY " would not have done without the permission of the writer, we are at liberty to regard the letter itself as addressed, through the Count, to all the people of England, and to " my dear Lord PALMERSTON " in parti: cular. For him, indeed, a special paragraph is concocted. " Lord PALMERSTON knows me, and when I affirm anything will believe me." To which kind claim to personal acquaintance, and the logical inference from it, we imagine Lord PALMERSTON only replying—" llem !" After recovering a little from his surprise, we may also imagine our Premier beginning to mutter some thing about Savoy and Nice; and even " rags." Oh, Savoy and Nice, rejoins the letter, that was only an afterthought. I had, you know, renounced them. But—but—they were essentially French provinces —within our natural boUndaries that is —and, then, without that protection, Piedmont, strengthened by Tuscany and the Duchies, might have overpowered France at any time, so I merely took her Alpine fortresses into my own hand. That is why, he might have added, I felt compelled to make Europe suspect me as a liar and a thief. Bat Lord PALMERSTON knows me. He knows lam neither. " Let us, then, under stand one another in good faith like honest men as we are, and not like thieves who desire to cheat each other." What said " the eminent men at the head of the English Government to these plural and rce7crr,cl.l prmiouns " Us," " we," " one another"—" each other ?" We rather fanc- Lord P., ArztEasToN and Lard JOHN RUSSELL would have rnneh -preferred not to have been bracketed; thus wlth*the EMPEROR, who has to hunt about fora roan who wilt " a thing when he affirms it," and who must tell people that he is au " honest man" and no " thief." I.lro fancy our two Engiiatl noblemen would b. inclined to remark—we, neither of us shcnid ever have thought of L -- elii;ig any one that we were not thieves raid. liars (h r bit abt enemies not only would a)ever scrpect us hi king so, but tvould not have believed it of ui if aris one had told than Very free. and easy, to be sure, the let ter—bnt gentlemen iu England are not accustomed to advert to the possibility of their word or their integrity being matter of doubt.. Yet somehow the origin °1 Vale whole letter is that " mistrust is excited everywhere since the war in Italy"—and, he should have added, since I told you that fib about Savoy and NI • ce. That, far more than the Italian war was the beimaing of the mistrust. Lord JOHN ItussELL told hi m it must be so. For a war be tween nations, there may, as in a quarrel be. tween gentlemen, b e any , causes which would not lead either the combatants or their friends to doubt the honour of the belligerents. But for a deliberate act of deceit, and that in order to ap propriate what does , not belon g t, 3 tea r c i ut E s D th g lish gentleman knows no forgiveness. e man far ever. .It is the Savoy and Nice business b nCS y B which has shown t hat the old habit of takin g i n oaths and protvitatioris at the coup (rent, has net been broken, off. Europe would be glad to believe. that the " frankness" is not of the same tharacter as that vrhich.plccccl the representatives of France in dungeens, bani,illed her ablest gene rals, and which has subverted all her liberties down to this hour. Or, as that which tricked England into a treaty, while acts were secretly in progress, ,_which, had they net been denied, would have been " in perfect frankness" say, that we do not believe a word of them. Just in the same style in the spring of last year, he denied that France was armed or arming—yet, a few weeks later, he launches an army of 150,000 men on Italy, had another large army of observation on the Rhine, and plenty to spare also to repress all liberal mauifestations at home. With hardly more than a single colony to defend, France does not want the 600,000 soldiers to which he confesses. France does not want them for peaceful purposes. Oae half that number would be far more than enough for a Power which as certainly meant to leave other Powers alone, as other Powers are indisposed to meddle with her. As to the navy—that, we doubt not, is a very sore point. It was intended to get quietly a-head of us. It is not, and cannot be denied, that that object was nearly attained, but the design was noticed. England wakes. Her dockyards and steam-engine factories resound with the adze and the hanmer, and the mortified EM PEROR sees our navy now in a condition to sweep his from the sea, and to assert again successfully the rule of Britannia over the ocean. Hence, in great party this loving letter. But the immediate occasion doubtless was, that at last England has not only acted, but spoleen out. " And thou, too, Lord PALMERSTON"—for thee to do ft— ..; ou who " know" me; for you to say, what all Europe is so perverse as to say—what all the common people of England were saying—for you, the Prime Minister of England, in your place in the House of Commons, to pronounce that France could not want her army and navy for honest purposes ! Oh, it was " the unkindest cut of all." Now, therefore, was the time to write " in all frank ness" to my dear PERSIGNY," and get him to publish the letter to all England, and to convince these misled Islanders that he do not contemplate fulfilling the third part of his programme, " to avenge a defeat." Peace and commerce are his only thoughts. Armies and navies are but acci dents of 'lig position. The latest :atelligerv3e from "Icaplet is not the very bi ightest 7 y e.l it indicates sulmstaotilil advance. ,A telegram of the !):0(17t from tLat. city tells us that GARIBALDI an a General CLA a v,.1 - Ite commander-in chief at Messina, have concluded. a military con vention, by which the NeapolitanA are to remain in possession of the three fortresses they yet hold, Syracuse, Agosto, and Messina, with free access to the towns. Melazzo is not mentioned,and we may presume therefore that Bosco and his men have . had to capitulate. The citadel is not to fire on the town—not to repeat the atrocitiee; of 1848 and of Palermo in. 1860. The Patriot anrd Royal flags are to have equal rank, and the navigation of the Strait of Messina is to be free. What does all this imply. Is GARIBALDI ;merely acting with the prudence anl caution which have distinguished hi 3 military pins, quite as much as his courage and dash; or, is he really intim aced by advice ? Either would account for this convention. After the dreadful fig It at Melazzo which has found competent a witness and describer in DUMAS, though he inflicted such tremendo.us losses on his opponents, yet his own was seve re ; and it may well be that, though able ~o march on at once, and to occupy the town of INleasina, he 'vas not in a con dition to attack the fortiEeati oi is, the citadel especially. He might need many &more guns and men also, and delay might have be-n &essential td him, especially since he could hardly Use anything by it. Not only would his own re sources increase continually, but the state of things in the island garrisons, and on the mainland es o, would become mort and more unsettled—the see is of dissatisfac tion with the Royal cause being so abundantly sown that he maycaulate on the. weakness of his opponents, and his own stroraigth increasing together. Indeed, we should not at all be sur prised if the rumour prove true, the t while the con vention is in force the Royal troopt ; will evacuate the citadel of Messina. On the other hand, we know tih ,t the King of SARDINIA did write au autograp h. letter and for ward it by an adjutant to GARIBA. Ll M. What pur ports to be a copy of that letter is; :now published; and the KING, of course, writes in ;, what he must do, if the letter was to be published ;'to all Europe-- "The KING did not approve the expedition ori ginally; but, under present circurngit ances, it would be wise for GARIBALDI, if the Xi no of NAPLES would evacuate Sicily and abide bs • the fair vote of the Sicilians, not to attack Zhe mainland," and so forth. One of the greatest; •e, ssayists of the last generation wrote his essays in the shape of letters to a lady whom he was wet ,:ng at the time, and the preface states that each published letter was accompanied b 3 another letta r—many of his readers thought they should like to.isee that "other letter" also. And in the present tease we should like much indeed to see the " othi 31 - letter" of the King of SARDINIA, which went w ith the official one ; or at least to know what the A djutant under stood, when he left Turin, that GA 3i IBALDI was to understand from the whole conimtueication. We have, indeed, letters from iga pies two days prior to the telegrams which bring• ;'the news of the armistice, which asserts "that iG. ARIBALDI had refused to e3nclude the armistice a, ivised by King VICTOR EMMANUEL, and had repli e d that he him self could alone judge concerning t foie real state of things." GA IBALDI is also 2.sserte , I to have added that "he would not pause until the cause of national unity had triumphed." . 1' hey' also add— "th et the disemba - rkation of GARIBA 14:Dion the main land was immediately expected." `.these accounts are not inconsistent. It may be emtaally true that the General has refused to engages to turn aside from his great project of liberating Maly, yet that he has coneluded'a miletary conventi 3 u merely, v.ith General CLARY at Messina. We a lust, however, be as patient as GARIBALDI himself, sand await the full development of his plans, only d e voutly hoping for one ultimate issue, that on whit h. the heart of GARIBALDI himself is set. That sac will be the result of Italy left to itself, as the :Et nperor of the FRENCH now proposes, we ean.harelty doubt. ••••• The blundering of the Chief Commissioner of Public Works is really inexplicable.. His first pro ceeding gave good auguries for his administration. But, alas the gleam of that fair c wen has proved nothing better than an illusory flush in the pan. Mr. lIAWKSLEY'S Filtration &het nil has certainly been set aside as a very dirty at tempt at cleanli ness. The residue of the X 17,090 voted for the payment of it by the House of Co mmons has been snatched like a braud from the bur cling,. The north western extremity of the Serpentine is no longer destined to ;be haunted evermore by the wheezing ghosts of so many unseen, but ncii;her unheard nor I unsmelt s t a ti onary eng i nes, ever l a stingly puthping up the bil ge water those of Bayswater There are still tva - gardening vases and stxtues in stone and stucco littering the spot designed origi sally by Mr. HAWKSLEY to be the scene of such filthy secret ceretnonials behind a veil of flowering shrubs and Cockney statuary. If we have eseapal the engi• 1 nearing experirnents of this Ildvenzure, 'us gentleman, - - - THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AITGUST 1, 1860. andscape gardening. However this may be, the greater evil has been evaded : and remember ing how much Mr. COWPER had to do with its abandonment, we were amongst the very first to exult at his accession to that responsible post of the .tEdileship, which had been so admirably occupied by Lord LLANOVER prior to the right hon. baro net's elevation to the peerage—of which recom pense, by the way, his numerous friends and ad mirers had been so long in expectancy. While we cannot but remember, however, that Sir BENJAMIN HALL received, as a fitting reward for his memo rable and resplendent services as Chief Commis sioner that tardy advancement at last from a Welsh baronetcy to a Welsh barony—we are constrained to acknowledge how egregiously in error have been all those who were precipitately disposed to behold in Mr. COWPER a worthy successor of Sir BEN JAMIN. As if to signalise the absurdity of any such agreeable expectations, the pre sent Chief Commissioner has falsified them at once in the very scene whence (by his inaugu ral act) they may be said to have originated. Kensington Gardens has undoubtedly been saved by Mr. COWPER from pollution through the filtra tion scheme devised by Mr. HAWKSLEY for the purification of the Serpentine. But hardly has this judicious proceeding been adventured upon, when all our pleasant hopes as to the Chief Com missioner's administrative powers are dashed to the ground by an act as insensate and as ill-advised as ever a Conservator of our Parks and Palaces deter mined upon performing. Suddenly—in obedience to the merest freak of fancy—unasked by any one —assuming to himself the sole responsibility—Mr. COWPER bisects the most beautiful and sylvan part of Kensington Gardens with the bold broad sweep of a Horse Ride, carried round from the western extremity of Rotten Row, right across the Botanical Walk, and thence under the trees parallel with the Broad Avenue, between the Round Pond and the Old Kensington Palace, the last-mentioned edifice historically memorable as the birth-place of the reigning SOVEREIGN. Recollect, nobody asked Mr. COWPER. to do any thing of the kind. Recollect, too, that Kensington Gardens—particularly at the vex.) part eut in twain by this Horse Ride—is, as we termed it emphati cally the other day, the Nursery of the Metropolis. It is right through the centre of the swarming crowd of children and nursery-maids and perambu lators that this outrageous sweep of the Horse Ride has been carried. The road marked out for the equestrians being defined upon either side by a line of iron hurdles—with little gaps here and there, at stated intervals, for the crossing to and fro, between the horses' feet, of the throng of pedestrians, the latter, for the most part, consisting of young women and children. Nothing upon the very face of it could be more ill-considered in every imaginable way than this innovation. The site chosen for the new Horse Ride is, for the obvious reasons here particularised, the very worst that could possibly have been selected. It is as if all the park riders, male and female, had been care fully lured into the thick of the throng of the West end nursery maids and children. Yet—uncalled for though the improvement (!) is in itself—the first those most interested in it learn about it is the fact of its accomplishment. As BYRON went to bed one night unknown and awoke the next morning to find himself famous—Mr. COWPER re tired to rest the other evening in respectable ad ministrative mediocrity to rise the following day having rendered himself utterly ridiculous. What renders the proceeding all the more outrageous in its way is the circumstance that the Horse Ride we are now writing about followed, as a sort of nonsensi cal anti-climax hard upon the heels of that magnifi cent demonstration of loyalty and patriotism in Hyde-park, the review by Queen VICTORIA of thirty thousand Rifle Volunteers. The iron hurdles used in keeping off the pressure of the multitude of spectators present upon the day of that magnificent demonstration were immediately afterwards, in obedience to the orders emanating from Mr. COWPEE'S frivolous little whimsy, carried . off from Hyde Park to Kensington Gardens, there, in the latter beautifully wooded playground of the Lon don children, to be trailed in a double parallel line across the green sward under the trees from Ken sington to Bayswater. No sooner was the act of vandalism known than there was one unanimous, vociferous outcry of indignation. Kensington, Notting-hill, Bayswater, Marylebone, Knights. bridge, all the contiguous and surrounding, locali ties. held meetings to protest against this Horse Ride, signed petitions urgently de• mar-ding its removal, waited in deputations of remonstrance upon the Chief Commissioner—laid direct entreaties for the Royal interposition before the Sovereign. The whole neighbourhood border ing upon Kensington Gardens—north, south, and west—have proved, in fact, to have been cut up as roughly by the Horse Ride as the green turf itself which that Horse Ride traversed ! About the happy result of this popular outcry against the Horse Ride there cannot fortunately be any doubt whatever left remaining. Mr. COWPER'S hurdles will have to be carted away as ignominiously as Mr. HAWKSLEY'S pumps and engines, and gravel and rubbish heaped together on the margin of the Serpentine. Pity it is our Caief Commissioner catnot recognise that there is in reality ample room and verge enough elsewhere for the exercise cf the ambition of the most adven turous of all innovating iEdiles—say in building up a grand central Palace of Justice between Carey-street and the Strand, as projected by the Royal Conzinissioners l—or by bordering the river Thames upon either side with a broad and massive and stately line of eminently useful and eminently picturesque embankments. DEPARTURE OF TIIE DUCHESS OF KENT FOR SCOTLAND.—Yesterday morning her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady A. Bruce and Lord James 'Murray (Equerry in Waiting), took her departure from Frogmore Lodge and proceeded by the. South Western Railway en route for Scotland. The Royal Duchess in tends performing:the whole of the journey without stopping. Her Royal Highness will not return from the north before September next. A marriage will shortly take place be4een Miss Lucy Sitwell, daughter of the late Sir George Sitwell, Bart., of Renishaw, DerbysLii e, and Mr. Harwald Wake, C. 8., son of Sir Charles Wake, Bart., of Courteen Hall, Northamptonshire. His Highness the Prince Poniatowski and the Marquis of Gaviria have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jerrnyn street, for the Isle of Wight. The Countess of Euston, accompanied by Miss Raikes, has arrived in town from a tour in Germany. Lord and Lady Wensleydale have returned to their residence, Park-street, from York. - Sir A. Bannerman, Bart., has arrived in town from his seat in the North of Scotland. Mr. and the llon. Mrs. Basset have left town for• Tehidy Park, Cornwall. _ Mrs. Baillie Cochrane was safely delivered, on Sunday last, of a son and heir, at Mr. Cochrane's residence, in 'Witten-place. The mother and child are both doing well. The wheat harvest has commenced in the province of Beauce, and also in the environs of Paris. Soule foreign journals having announced that Baron Brenier, the French Ambassador at Naples, was about to quit that capital, the Pattie and the Pays declare the statement to be completely unfounded. The Journal du ( her states that the Emperor has approved of the report of the Artillery Committee, which THE POLICY OF TILE EMPEROR NAPO LEON TOWARDS ENGLAND. We are requested to publish the following im portant letter from the Emperor Napoleon to the Ambassador of France, to which Lord John Rus sell last night referred in the House of Commons : si ST. CLOUD, JULY 25, 1860. " My dear Persigny,—Affairs appear to me to be so complicated—thanks to the mistrust excited everywhere since the war in Italy—that I write to you in the hope that a conversation, in perfect frankness, with Lord Palmerston will remedy the existing evil. Lord Palmerston knows me, and when I affirm a thing he will believe me. Well, you can tell him from me, in the most explicit man ner, that since the peace of Villafranca I have had but one thought, one object —to inaugurate a new era of peace, and to live on the best terms with all my neighbours, and especially 'with England. I had renounced Savoy and Nice; the extraordinary additions to Piedmont alone caused me to re sume the desire to see re-united to France pro vinces essentially French. But it will be ob jected, You wish for peace, and you increase immoderately the military forces of France.' I deny the fact in every sense. My army and my fleet have in them nothing of a threatening cha racter. My steam navy is even far from being adequate to our requirements, and the number of steamers does not nearly equal that of sailing ships deemed necessary in the time of King Louis Philippe. I have 400,000 men under arms ; but deduct from this amount 60,000 in Algeria, 6,000 at Rome, 8,000 in China, 20,000 gendarmes, the sick, and the new conscripts, and you will see— what is the truth—that my regiments are of smaller effective strength than during the preceding reign. The only addition to the Army List has been made by the creation of the Imperial Guard. Moreover while wishing for peace, I desire also to organize the forces of the country on the best possible foot ing, for, if foreigners have only seen the bright side of the last war, I myself, close at hand, have wit nessed the defects, and I wish to remedy them. Having said this much, I have, since Villafranca, neither done, nor even thought, anything which could alarm any one. When Lavalette started for Constantinople, the instructions which I gave him were confined to this— Use every effort to main tain the status quo ; the interest of France is that Turkey should live as long as possible.' " Now, then, occur the massacres in Syria, and it is asserted that I am very glad to find a new occa sion of making a little war, or of playing a new part. Really, people give me credit for very little common sense. If I instantly proposed an expedi tion, it was because my feelings were those of the people which has put me at its head, and the in telligence from Syria transported me with indig nation. My first thought, nevertheless, was to come to an understanding with England. What other interest than that of humanity could induce me to send troops into that country ? Could it be that the possession of it would increase my strength ? Can I conceal from myself that Algeria, not withstanding its future advantages, is a source of weakness to France, which for 30 years has devoted to it the purest of its blood and its gold ? I said it in 1852 at Bordeaux, and my opinion is stilt the same—l have great conquests to make, but only in France. Her interior organisation, her moral development, the increase of her resources, have still immense progress to make. There a field exists vast enough for my ambition and sufficient to satisfy it. " It was difficult for me to come to an under standing with England on the subject of Central Italy, because I was bound by the peace of Villa franca. As to Southern Italy, lam free from engagements, and 1 ask no better than a concert with England on this point, as on others ; but, in Heaven's name, /et the eminent men who are placed at the head of the Englith Government lay aside petty jealousies and unjust mistrusts. " Let us understand one another in good faith, like honest men as we are, and not like thieves who desire to cheat each other. "To sum up, this is my innermost thought. I desire that Italy should obtain peace, no matter how, but without foreign intervention, and that my troops should be able to quit Rome without compromising the security of the Pope. I could very much wish not to be obliged to undertake the Syrian expedition, and, in any case, not to undertake it alone ; firstly, because it will be a great expense, and secondly, because I fear that this in tervention may involve the Eastern question ; but, on the other hand, I do not see how to resist public opinion in my country, which will never understand that we can leave unpunished, not only the massacre of Christians, but the burning of our consulates, the insult to our flag, and the pillage of the monasteries which were under our protec tion. " I have told you all I think, without disguising or omitting anything. Alake what use you may think advisable of my letter. "Believe in my sincere friendship. " NAPOLEON." T 111? LETTER OF KING VICTOR E.'iLIIANUEL TO GARIBALDI. The following is said to be a copy of the letter recently addressed by King Victor Emmanuel to General Garibaldi : " General,—You know that I did not approve of your expedition, and that I was entirely foreign to it, but to-day the very grave circumstances in which Italy is placed make it a duty to enter into direct communication with you. " In the event of the King of Naples consent ing to evacuate the whole of Sicily, and voluntarily abandoning all species of action, and formally pledging himself to exercise no pressure whatsoever upon the Sicilians, so that the latter may freely pronounce their will, and choose the mode of go vernment which they may prefer, I believe it will be wise in you to renounce altogether any further enterprise upon the kingdom of Naples. Iu the contrary event, I expressly reserve my entire liberty of action, and relieve myself of making any comment to you in regard to your projects." The Courrier de Limoges states that, three nights ago, there was a sharp white frost at Bourges and the im mediate neighbourhood. " The municipality of Paris," says the Siecle, " has just purchased for 2,410,000 f. the theatre of the Cirque Imperial, which is required to be demolished for the Boulevard du Prince Eugene." SNOW IN JULY.—A letter from a gentleman travelling from Leeds to Scarborough, on Saturday last, says :—" When within 10 miles of the queen of English watering places, I noticed what I suspect that respected authority, the ' oldest inhabitant,' will pronounce unprece dented. Seleral fields were white over with snow. There was no mistake about it—it lay almost ankle deep in some parts, the banks of the railway were covered, and, if the driver had pulled up, the passengers might easily have turned out and indul ge d t o their harts' content in snow balling each other." THE MILITIA.—The full quota of the militia in England and Wales is 82 634 men; the number of men enrolled, 44,986 ; th e number of men present at training this year, 33,872 ; the number whose absence was accounted for by illness, 503. The undermentioned regiments have not yet assembled for training :—Anglesea, Brecon, Ist Derby, Glamorgan (tw o cor ps), Pembroke, ardigan, Car marthen, Ist and 2d Durham, Nerionoth, Perthshire, Car. narvon, Denbigh, Flint, Montgomery, Radnor. THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT THE HARROW STATlON.—Patrick Leven, aged 60, a passenger by the St. Albans train, who was severely injured through falling between the wheels of the carriage and the platform at the Harrow Station on the 23d inst., died on Monday at the University College Hospital, from the effect of his wounds, having declined to submit to amputation of the lascerateel L`TE►ST NEWB. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : ARMISTICE BETWEEN GARIBALDI AND THE NEAPOLITAN GENERAL. NAPLES, JULY 30. A military convention has been concluded be tween Garibaldi and General Clary upon the fol- lowing terms : " The Neapolitans are to remain in possession of the forts of Syracuse, Agosto, and Messina, and to have liberty of access to all parts of these towns. " The citadel of Messina will not fire upon the town. " The Garibaldian colours to take equal rank with the Neapolitan flag. " The navigation of the Strait of Messina to be free." NAPLES, JULY 30. The city is tranquil, but agitation prevails in the provinces. It is rumoured that the Royal troops are about to evacuate the citadel of Messina. MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY. Letters from Naples to the 28th July assert that Garibaldi had refused to conclude the armis*e advised by King Victor Emmanuel, and had re plied that he himself could alone judge concerning the real state of things. Garibaldi is also asserted to have added that he would not pause until the cause of national unity had triumphed. The disembarkation of Garibaldi on the main land was immediately expected. A Naples paper had assumed the title of " Gari baldi." The public press was very violent in its language. A circular had been issued by the Minister of the Interior, authorising the functionaries to use all exceptional means for maintaining public order, as the welfare of the people was the highest law. Letters from Rome to the 28th July state that General Goyon will leave for France on the sth of August. PARIS, JULY 31. Lord John Russell has authorised Lord Cowley to sign the convention for regulating the interven tion in Syria, on condition that the free acquiescence of the Porte shall have been previously obtained ; and it is asserted that Lord Cowley has also been instructed to make the reserve that should Fuad Pasha successfully carry out his present mission, and thus render the despatch of foreign troops un necessary, the Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris in 1856 shall confine themselves to supporting the efforts of the Porte for the complete pacification of Syria by maintaining in the Syrian waters such naval forces as will suffice for the efficacious protec tion of the Christians. PARIS, JULY 31. The Ambassadors, in the conference held yester day, agreed upon drawing up a convention contain ing six articles, and adopting the modifications de sired by the Porte. As soon as the said modifications shall have been approved by the Great Powers, the Conference will reassemble, in order to de:finitively sign the Con- vetition. The Patrie of this evehing says :—" In conse quence of the convention concluded between General Clary and Garibaldi, there will be a cessation of hostilities in the island. The belligerents will each preserve the positions which they now occupy." The same journal also says :—" It is asserted that all the Powers agree upon, the convention relative to Syria, and that only a few matters of detail, which cannot essentially influence the question, remain to be settled." MARSEILLES, JULY 31. The Indian mail has not yet arrived from Alex- an dria. The French mail steamer from Syria is expected to-morrow. GENOA, JULY 31; The Corriere Mercantile publishes an authentic account of the massacres at Damascus up to the date of the 10th July inclusive. 3,000 Christians had taken refuge in the Citadel which was occupied by the Algerines under Abd-el- Kader. The town was still in the power of the murderers and incendiaries, to the number of 2,400, the greater part of whom were Drnses and Bedouins. The Turkish garrison consisted of 5,000 iuen, inactive or hostile. The soldiers had driven the Christians into the flames of the burning houses. The same account computes the number of victims at from three to four thousand ; but states that this may be an er:aggerated statement, as the state of terror whicb. prevailed would not allow of its being verified. FRANCE. BOURSE, Stay 31.—The market has been more buoyant, and 'a fair ai.nount of business has been transacted at improved quotations. Threes, which opened at 68f 35c, are now at 68f 45c; Mobilier, 691 f 25e ; Mediterranean, 890 f; Orleans, 1,375 f; Northern, 960 f. The response de primes (option) was made at 68f 40c to 68f 45c, and there is every reason to expect that the settlement will go on under favourable conditions. The following were the last quotations :-- 41 per per Cents ~ . 97 65 , Credit Fonder BBO Do. end month.... 97 75 j Belgian 4f 3 per Cents Do. end month GS 20 ' Roman Bank Shares 28'20 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 683 75 Spanish Threes — Do. Account 682 50; Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans .. 1365 • . 1361 25 Northern .. 955 .. 955 New ditto Lyons and Mediter a mean 885 .. 885 Geneva .. 367 50 .. Southern Western .. 575 .. 580 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard S YRIA. The following lel:t gr from Beyrout, dated July 11, is published in 'the Presse :—" It was at two o'clock in the aftern,o Dn of the day before yesterday that the massacre be gan at Damascus. I have a letter now before me ,vhich was sent off at midnight the same day. Beft , re 11 o'clock no less than 500 Christians had beer massacred or burnt ; those who perished by fire :had taken refuge in the con sulates, convents, oir churches, which were all pillaged and then bra nt down. At the departure of the messenger who brought these letters, other buildings had been s el , on fire, and when at an hour's distance from the town he saw a red light in the sky over Damascus , The Mussulmans first attacked the Russian consulate, and then went to the others. The flags were to cn down and insulted in every possible manner, 1 ;he archives destroyed, and the furniture broken t a - pieces. After an unsuccessful search for the con role, the fanatical mob set fire to all the foreign est Ablishments, both civil and reli gious. The censi xls had anticipated the outb teak, and accepted for thorns Alves and all under their protection the hasp ituble asylum offered by Ali-del- Kader. The more_ Saithfi al_ and devoted of his,/ Ogo- ppeared imminent. With the exception of two, they all arrived at the Emir's in safety. M. Costi, the United States consul,was seriously wounded, and had a very narrow escape from the hands of the assassins. M. Costi is a native of Damascus, and of Arab extraction; he has worn the European costume for some years. The Dutch consul, also a native, was less fortunate, as he was killed and his body cut to pieces. Ab-del-Kader displayed great energy. A furious crowd threatened but could not inti midate him ; and his calm and firm demeanour, aided by his religious character, has, so far, suc ceeded in restraining the fanatics who threatened his guests. He sent messenger after messenger to the two pachas demanding troops to save the Consuls and Christians who had taken refuge with him. When the last letters left, Ahmed-Pacha had not sent a single soldier. We have here letters from the French consulate, dated the Bth. M. Lanusse then wrote that no moral force could longer prevent the Mussulmans from rising against the Christians. The incessant efforts of Ab-del Kader were totally unavailing in presence of the instigations addressed to the mob ; the priests were parties to the conspiracy. Ahmed Pacha, to shield his responsibility, had made a demonstration which was absolutely ridiculous from its insufficiency. The attitude and language of the troops showed the Mussulmans that they had nothing to fear either from them or their commander. One officer even said If there is any disorder in the quarter of the, Ghiaours, the citadel will throw a few shells amongst them.' We have no news of M. Lanusse since his retreat to Abd-el-Kader's, on the 9th ; but I have a note before me, dated the evening of that day, and written by M. Nicora, a Corsican, and sanitary physician for the French Government. M. Nicora is also at Abd-el-Kader's. His note confirms the facts above related, and adds that two of the four Lazarist priests, forming the mission at Damascus, also succeeded in reaching the Emir's; they are M. Le Roy, the Apostolic Prefect, head of the mission, and M. Najan. He is unable to give any information about the fourteen Sisters of Charity or the children, about a hun dred, chiefly girls, who were being educated in their establishment." BANQUET TO GENERAL LORD CLYDE, G.C.B. The members of the United Service Club paid a handsome tribute of respect last evening to General Lord Clyde, the " pacificator of India," on his re turn home. A" more enthusiastic appreciation of his gallant labours could not have been displayed by both services—military and naval. The spacious coffee-room of the noble club-house in Pall-Mall, the largest and most elegant apart ment in the house, was selected for the entertain ment. A more appropriate salle a manger could not have been selected, for the walls are hung with the full-length portraits of some of the illustrious heroes—naval and military —who have shed a lustre over sea and land, names renowned in history. Among the conspicuous heroes there to be seen on canvas are Admiral Sir Francis Drake, John Duke of Marlborough, Admiral Lord De Saumarez, General Sir Ralph Abercromby, Admiral Sir Geo. Cockburn, Marshal Viscount Beresford, General Lord Saltoun, the late King of the Netherlands, and the present King of the Belgians. The tables were so arranged that the one at which Lord Clyde sat formed the principal one. All were equally sumptuously adorned by a profusion of plateaux and ornamental plate, furnished from pri vate sources, through the medium of the well-known firms of Hunt and Roskill, and of Hancock and Shepard, :of Bond-street. The chief groups, in silver, were selected from English history. That before the president's chair represented the figure of Victory, upon a pedestal, holding a wreath of trophies, with emblematical figures, with inscrip tions in commemoration of the battles in the Crimea. ' A great variety of beautiful specimens of art, in silver and gilt, cups, vases, tazzas, &c., filled with the choicest flowers, relieved the tables. The deli cious fruits, clusters of grapes, &c., were inter spersed with the flowers, which gave a beautiful effect to the ensemble. Messrs. Chater, of the London Tavern, had the distinction to supply the banquet, which was of a princely character. By half-past seven o'clock the company began to assemble, the dinner committee being in attendance somewhat earlier. The Secretaries of State for India and War (Sir Charles Wood and Mr. Sidney Herbert), who came together, arrived early. General Lord Clyde, accompanied by his relative and military secretary, Colonel Sir A. Sterling, arrived punctually at eight o'clock. A crowd Ilad collected outside the club-house, in order to see the hero of the late struggle in India. In alighting from his carriage, the gallant general made a rapid dash into the club, those who obtained a glimpse setting up a hearty cheer, which was reiterated by those less fortunate in their object. On entering the grand staircase, the full band of the Coldstream Guards, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, the veteran master of the band, saluted the presence of the noble and gallant guest by playing the grand march of the Coldstream Regiment of Guards, of which his lordship is now colonel. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at tended by his aide-de-camp, Colonel Tyrwhitt, came shortly afterwards. As the Duke of Cambridge and the other gallant company, who had congregated in one of the upper saloons of the Club-house, descended from the stair case to pass into the banqueting-room, the military band played the familiar air of " The Roast Beef of Old England." His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge presided on the occasion, having seated on his right hand, General Lord Clyde, G C. 8., the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P., and Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, G.C.B. ; and on the left, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., General Sir William Gomm, G.C.8., and General Sir John Burgoyne, G.C.B. Major-General Stanhope, Lieut.-General Sir Jas. Jackson, K.C.8., Major-General Sir W. Brereton, C. 8., Colonel Gilpin, M.P., Colonel Blois, and Col. de Bathe officiated as vice-presidents at the different tables. Lieutenant-Colonel Norman, Colonel Metcalfe, and Major Allison, recently on the Staff of Lord Clyde in India, were the only " strangers" present at the banquet, and were invited expressly in com pliment to Lord Clyde, for, being hon. members of the club, they were not eligible. Covers were laid for 160 persons. NAPLES. A correspondent at Naples writes under date of the 24th ultimo :—Events become every day more serious on all points. The monarchy of the Bour bons is incurring the greatest dangers, and revolu tion appears to have already destroyed the Con stitution. At the very moment when Colonel Bosco was defending at Barcelona the honour and rights of the Crown of Naples, the King ordered that all his troops in Sicily should immedi ately return to the Continent, and Garibaldi is henceforth absolute Sovereign in the island. One would have said that 35,000 men were ready to embark at Genoa to assist the rebels on the con tinent, and that it was necessary to collect all the forces of the monarchy to oppose them. The Generals who were detained at Ischia have been set at liberty, and the King has appointed them to im portant posts. General Nunziante, before leaving for Malta, sent to the King all the decorations, titles, honours, and pensions which he had received from his Sovereign. A coup-de-main had been pre pared for the 20th, but it was either countermanded or failed, through some unforeseen circumstance. A body of 800 revolutionists had been expected from the Roman States, but they were arrested on the frontier by General de Lamoriciere. They were marching under the red flag." ROME. A communication from Rome in the Monde says: -- "It is perfectly certain the French troops will remain indefinitely at Rome, until they receive a formal counter order from the Pope, and that they remain there in order to prevent any disturbance and any attack of enemies from without or from within. The Duke de Gramont confirmed this on his return from Paris. This arrangement gives General de Lamoriciere the free use of the forces under his command for the defence of the pro vinces, and he has withdrawn from the capital almost all the Roman troops which were quartered there. The main body of the Papal army is now concentrated between Spoleto and Perugia. How ever limited may be the favour conferred by the French Government on the Holy See, in guarantee ing Rome by arms, it is nevertheless, under existing circumstances, a real and important 'service, which increases the force of the Papal army and which all rightminded men will duly appreciate." SARDINIA. The Turin journals state the probability of an interview between the Emperor of the French and King Victor Emmanuel being one of the incidents of the Emperor's visit to Nice, during the present month. The Official Gazette of Turin, in giving the de tails of the action at Melazzo, states that the loss of the Neapolitan troops was 580, killed, wounded, and prisoners. Garibaldi's force lost 40 killed, 100 wounded, and 17 prisoners. After the town was to ken, Garibaldi ordered 39 of the inhabitants, among whom were several gendarmes, to be shot, for pouring boiling oil and water on his men during the attack. THE AUSTRIAN ARMY. A letter from Milan describes the first indica tions of the mutinous spirit of the Hungarian regi vaent of Don Miguel, in garrison at Mantua. On the 24th of June, during the movements of a field deg", some of the Hungarian soldiers, having ob tained ball cartridges, fired into a corps of Chas seu;rs, noted for its loyalty to the Emperor. A sergeant of the Chasseurs was mortally wounded. After steps were taken to discover the criminals, several of the Hungarian officers deserted. THE BRAZILIAN MAIL. LISBON, AUG. The Royal Mail Packet Company's steam-ship Magdalena, with the above mail, has arrived. She brings 158 passengers and £3,600 in specie. The Magdalena will lease for Southampton this evei PERA, JULY 3 The Lazarists sisters of charity, and other wo men of Damascus, have safely arrived at Beyrout under an escort furnished by Abd-el-Kader. The Great Eastern is announced to leave America for England on the 16th of August, touching at Halifax on the way. She was to take a three days' trip to Cape May. It is anticipated that she will come back a full ship. The dirt eters are said to be quite satisfied with the reception the yes sel has met with. 'RELIEF TO THE SICK AND WOUNDED OF GARI II.4.LDI's CAMP.—The Ladies' Garibaldi's Benevolent e an As soc iation, established for the relief of the sic k and woun d_ d of widows and orphans of Garibaldi's heroic followers, 011 the tho sufferers at Palermo and other places , are usi ng the fluids placed at their disposal by the British ric , st effective manner. Various meetings havrieutakeonutpltakcee to consider the best mode to be adopted to carry gallant been benevolent objects objects of the association, an taken o t e :3 kn 0 Is w Ic nothingb E t e r and the requisite n lined not only to forward money to thefinghe.neralfor his distribution, but also hospital tents_te medicines and necessary comforts for h sick. . written on it, THE FIRST IMPRESSION. —There true r (I believe) than physiognomy, connexi on _ n al Wisdom obliges every Inima: creature arat o present his or ' little studied.e. vritle manner. The art of readinhTatiti t It may h is e a r odwoa p n a lt ge on w e i , t p h e t t h h e ap i n s, di a v n i g u i , re quire some natural aptitude, and it must require (for every it—that numbers of thing does) se nao p atience and some pains. That these are no t u sually given to people accept a f ew stock comm on p lace expressions of face as the whole list o f c h a racteristics , and neither seek nor recognise the deal of please, and do not qualify timreencahn,dlattatleiannti,oHn Hebrew, if readingif3,onlease, of music, Greek, Latin, F yourself to read the face of the master or mistress looking over your shoulder teaching it to you—l assume it to be five hundred times more probable than improbable. Per haps some little self-sufficiency may be at the bottom of this ; facial expression requires no f study from you, you think ; it comes by nature to you to know enough about it, and you are not to be taken in. I confess, for my part, that I have been taken in, over and over and over again. I have been taken in by acquaintances, and I have been taken in (of course) iy friends; far oftener by friends than by any other class of persons. How came Itobe so deceived? Had I quite misread their faces? No. Believe me, my first impression of these people, founded on face and manner ,--.....—. ieen,eni,te trio l‘iv mistake was. in suffering REALTH OF LONDON DURING TSt WEEK. (From Me Registrar-General's Report.) The deaths in London last week were the same in number as those of the previous week, viz., 97 5 . The deaths have not reached a thousand in any of the four weeks of July except the second. The average number of deaths has been obtained for the weeks corresponding with last week of the ten years 1850-9, and this with a correction for increase of population, is 1,206 ; the actual number returned. is therefore less than the estimated amount by 231. As some explanation of a result apparently so fa vourable it should be added that the high mortality suffered during a great part of this year prematurely deprived the population of many infirm lives, but, chiefly, the weather, though still cold for the sea son, has been more favourable to health, and there fore lightened the bills of mortality. The returns have lately shown a small increase in diarrhoea. The weekly deaths in July from this complaint were 12, 21, 32, and (last week) 52. Of these 52, all except 5 were those of young children ; also 2 deaths of infants were referred to cholera. Diarrhoea and measles were fatal in almost equal degrees ; for the latter disease carried off 53 chil dren. Measles seems to prevail chiefly in the east districts, in which 24 cases were recorded. Four occurred in the sub-district Whitechapel North, 5 in St. Mary (St. George-in-the-East), 3 in Ratcliff, 4 in the Poplar district ; and on the south side of the river, 6in the district of St. Saviour. The re gistrar of St. Mary (St. George-in-the-East) states that measles is now very prevalent in his district ; of 24 deaths recorded by him in the last fortnight a. third part was caused by that complaint. Fatal cases of small-pox have now declined to 7 in the week ; there were 31 of scarlatina, and 4 of diph theria. Three infants were murdered ; a boy was suffo cated on a brick-kiln ; a y oung woman di e d 01 epilepsy from the habitual use of opium. Last week the births of 917 boys and 868 girls, in all 1,785 children, were registered in London. In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1850- 59 the average number was 1,534. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.685 in. The barometrical readings rose from 29.50 in. on Monday to 29.86 in. on Wednesday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 55.6 deg., which is 6.3 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was much below the average throughout the week. The highest point attained by the thermometer in the shade was 69 5 deg. on Sunday and Friday ; theiowest point was 42.8 deg., on Thursday. On the latter day a thermometer on the grass ?ell to 35 deg. The range of temperature in the week was 26.7 deg. The mean daily range was 17.5 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air wind temperature was 5.5 deg., sho win g th e amount of dryness of the air. complete was 82: on Monday the humidity w as 98 , ap proachingleiteea m ea n degree saturation.f The humidity closely om was in the south-west on Monday; with this excep tion it was in the north-west generally on the first five days ; it was south-west the rest of the week. Rain fell to the depth of 0.89 in.; it fell chiefly on Monday and Saturday. A heavy thunderstorm occurred between four o'clock p.m., and six on the latter day. T HE ANTIMON 1.4 L POIS n NINGS Al' LIVERPOOL.-- COMMITIAL OF THE PRI* SONER. Y. This mor n i ng the p L r l i V s e E e t e rP, OThomas u l E v s i D e A s low, was again placed before Mr. Raffles, the stipen diary magistrate, when the deposition of the various witnesses were read over to him. The depositions, which were very voluminous, occupied the Court several hours in reading. The whole of the evidence having been gone through, the prisoner was fully committed for trial at the assizes, and the several witnesses entered into recognisances to appear. It transpired in court during the proceedings today that in the case of the tree Townshends , in whose bodies large quantities of antimony was discovered by Professor Taylor daring his analysis, the charge against the prisoner will be deferred, pending the trial in Mrs. James's case at the ap proaching assizes. The most important evidence against the pri soner was given by Inspector Horn, of the detec tive force, towards the close of the proceeding s yesterday afternoon. Mr. Horn, amongst other statements, deposed to taking away. from Mrs. James's, on the day she was taken to the ho:Tital, a cup containing a quantity of cooked sago, Mrs. James having previously partaken of a portion of the sago. 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