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

BENSON'S WATCHE "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. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessice, Mr. J. 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 comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear. To conclude with A HUSBAND AT SIGHT. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE CORSICAN BROTIIERS. G. Melville, A. Harris, &c. After which, TINE FILLE TERRIBLE. Characters by the Zonaves. Followed by AN AMBUSCADE AT INKERMAN. To conclude with T HRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. A DELPHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. rA. Sole rroprietor and Mainzer, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS ..VENII•TG. THE HARVEST HOME. Messrs. J L. Took, P. Bedford, D. Fisher, Billinzton, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Miss Laidlaw. Atter which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul Bedford 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, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 15d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. - ..J-1 , - Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Entire Change.—Powerful Attraction. This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid hippo-drama of IMAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena. A grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY next, Aug. 4, commencing at Two o'clock. Doors open at half-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 Rcvolti. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- THIS EVENING. C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA. FAUST. First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls , Tian. 6d. Comic Vocalists —Magri. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, 45c!, in addition to the usual entertainments. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 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. WlND—South-Westerly; light, with fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY.—Morning, lh. 41m.—Afternoon, 2h. 3m To-monnow.-Morning, :2h. 23m.—Afternoon, 2h. 42m % ,4 0, • ' ~ * - -q, N ',;•;;-:. ' . r-Q.l.vi- .—si+t,r4 -• C N ---- 7 - 7,-i_tve 44 1 e , :>,1,7•34,4; ~.vr~ ; _ r 41' Y~~ y 1 y tt:7: ~ 1 11 l " ~~~i F~noti THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1860, Let us 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 PERSIGNY " 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, aid 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—" Hem !" 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 Duehies, 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. But Lord PALMERSTON knows me. He knows I am 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 reciprocal pronouns " Us," " we," " one another"—" each other ?" We rather fancy Lord PALMERSTON and Lord JOHN RUSSELL would have much preferred not to have been bracketed ; thus with the EMPEROR, who has to hunt about fur a man who will " believe a thing when he affirms it," and who must tell people that he is an " honest man" and no " thief." 'We fancy our two English noblemen would be inclined to remark —we, neither of us should ever have thought of telling any one that we were not thieves and liars. Our bitterest enemies not only would never suspect us of being so, but would not have believed it of us if any one had told them Very free and easy, to be sure, the letter—but gentlemen in England are not accustomed to advert to the possibility of their word or their integrity being matter of doubt. Yet somehow the origin of the 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 Nice. That, far more than the Italian war was the beginning of the mistrust. Lord JOHN RUSSELL told him it must be so. For a war be tween nations, there may, as in a quarrel be tween; gentlemen, be many 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 propii a.e what does not belong to you, an Eng lish gentlentan knows no forgiveness. lie cuts the man for ever. It is the Savoy and Nice business whicl i has shown that the old habit of taking-in by oaths and protestations at the coup detat, has not been broken off. Europe would be glad to believe that the " fra n k ness „ is not of the same chary cter as that which placed the representatives of Fr ante in dungeons, bani s h e d her ablest gene rals, and which has subverted all h er liberties down to thi's hour. Or, as that which tricked into a. treaty, while acts were secretly in p rogress, which, had they not been denied, would have been fatal to the treaty and all connected with it. As to the naval and military assurances we muse 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 manifestations 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. One 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 As to the indisposed to meddle with her. 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 part, this loving letter. But the immediate occasion doubtless was, that at last England has not only acted, but spoken out. " And thou, too, Lord PALMERSTON"-fOr thee to do it— you 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 his position. The latest intelligence from Naples is not the very brightest ; yet it indicates substantial advance. A telegram of the 30th from that city tells us that GARIBALDI and General CLARY,;the commander-in chief at Messina, have concluded a military con vention, by which the Neapolitans 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 to - wc —not to repeat the atrocities of 1848 and of Palermo in 1860. The Patriot and 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 and caution which have distinguished his military plans, quite as much as his courage and dash ; or, is he really influenced by advice ? Either would account for this convention. After the dreadful fight at Melazzo which has found so competent a witness and describer in Du:um, though he inflicted such tremendous losses on his opponents, yet his own was severe ; and it may well be that, though able to march on at once, and to occupy the town of Messina, he was not in a con dition to attack the fortifications, the citadel especially. He might need many more guns and men also, and delay might have been essential to him, especially since he could hardly lose anything by it. Not only would his own resources increase continually, but the state of things in the island garrisons, and on the mainland also, would become more and more unsettled—the seeds of dissatisfac tion with the Royal cause being so abundantly sown that he may calculate on the weakness of his opponents, and his own strength increasing together. Indeed, we should not at all be sur prised if the rumour prove true, that while the con vention is Ili force the Royal troops will evacuate the citadel of Messina. On the other hand, we know that the King of SARDINIA did write an autograph letter and for ward it by an adjutant to GARIBALDI. What pur ports to be a copy of that letter is now published ; and the KING, of course, writes in it, 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 circumstances, it would be wise for GARIBALDI, if the King of NAPLES would evacuate Sicily and abide by the fair vote of the Sicilians, not to attack the mainland," and so forth. One of the greatest essayists of the last generation wrote his essays in the shape of letters to a lady whom he was wooing at the time, and the preface states that each published letter was accompanied by another letter—many of his readers thought they should like to see that "other letter" also. And in the present case we should like much indeed to see the " other letter" of the King of "SARDINIA, which went with the official one ; or at least to know what the Adjutant under stood, when he left Turin, that GARIBALDI was to understand from the whole communication. We have, indeed, letters from Naples two days prior to the telegrams which bring the news of the armistice, which asserts " that GARIBALDI had refused to c3nclude the armistice advised by King VICTOR EMMANUEL, and had replied that he him self 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." They also add— " that the disembarkation of GARIBALDI on the main land was immediately expected." These accounts are not inconsistent. It may be equally true that the General has refused to engage to turn aside from his groat project of liberating Italy, yet that he has concluded:a 2nilitary convention merely, with General CLARY at Messina. We must, however, be as patient as GARIBALDI himself, and await the full development of his plans, only-devoutly hoping for one ultimate issue, that on which the heart of GARIBALDI himself is set. That such will be the result of Italy left to itself, as the Emperor of the FRENCH now proposes, we can hardly 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 omen has proved nothing better than an illusory flash in the pan. Mr. HAwKsLEY's Filtration Scheme has certainly been set aside as a very dirty attempt at cleanli ness. The residue of the £17,000 voted for the payment of it by the House of Commons has been snatched like a brand from the burning. The north western extremity of the Serpentine is no longer destined to be haunted evermore by the wheezing ghosts of so many unseen, but neither unheard nor unsmclt stationary engines, everlastingly pumping up the bilge water of Bayswater! There are still those tea-gardening vases and statues in stone and stucco littering the spot designed originally by Mr. lIAWKSLEY to be the scene of such filthy secret ceremonials behind a veil of flowering shrubs and Cockney statuary. If we have escaped the engi neering experiments of this adventurous gentleman, we are unhappily not so well quit of his ridiculous little subsidiary experiments at __~-, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1666. 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 Edileship, which had been so admirably occupied by Lord LLANOVEIt 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 very part cut 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 haying 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. COWPER'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• manding 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 Chief Commissioner cannot recognise that there is in reality ample room and verge enough elsewhere for the exercise of 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 Commissioners !—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 THE 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 Frog-more 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 between Miss Lucy Sitwell, daughter of the late Sir George Sitwell, Bart., of Renishaw, Derbyshire, and Mr. Ilarwald 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, Jermyn street, for the Idle of Wight. The Countess of Euston, accompanied by Miss Raikes, has arrived in town frem 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 Hon. Mrs. Basset have left town for Tchidy Park, Cornwall. Mrs. Baillie Cochrane was safely delivered, on Sunday last, of a son and heir, at Mr. Cochrane's residence, in Wilton-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. Some foreign journals having announced that Baron Brenier, the French Ambassador at Naples, was about to quit that capital, the Patric and the Pais declare the statement to be completely unfounded. The Journal du Cher states that the Emperor has approved of the report of the Artillery Committee, which pointed out Bow ges as being the town best situated for the establishment of a foundry, an arsenal, and a pyrotechnic school. THE POLICY OF THE 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 : " 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. Welly 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 still 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 a3lt no better than a concert with England on this point, as on others ; but, in Heaven's name, let the eminent men who are placed at the head of the English 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 tble 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, beca use I f ear th a t th is in- tervention may involve the Eastern question ; but, on the other hand, 1 do not see how to resist public opinion in my country, which will never understand that we car leave unpunished, not only the massacre of Christians, but the burning of our consulates, the insult t) our flag, and the pillage of the monasteries whbh were under our protec- tion. " I have told you all I think, without disguising or omitting anything. Make what use you may think advisable of my 'Ater. "Believe in my sincere friendship. " NAPOLEON." TliE LETTER OF KING VICTOR EMMANUEL TO GARIBALDI. The following is sa'd to be a copy of the letter recently addressed by King Victor Emmanuel to General Garibaldi : " General,—You kn)w that I did not approve of your expedition, and that I was entirely foreign to it, but to-day the verygrave circumstances in which Italy is placed make it a duty to enter into direct communication with 7ou. " In the event of ;he 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 ary event,upon I expressly reserve my entire the kingdom of Naples. In the tr liberty of action, and relieve myself of making any contrary comment to you in regard to your projects." The Courrier de L2nzoges 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 bist, 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. Sec seal 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 end indulged to their hearts' content in snow balling each other." 'TIE full quota of the militia in England and Wales is 82,631 men; the number of men enrolled, 41,986; the nu m ber of men present at training this year, 38,872; th e num b er w h ose a b s ence was accounted for by illness, 503. The undermentioned regiments h av e not yet ass e mbl e d f or t ra i n i ng : —Anglesea, Brecon, I st Derby, Glamorg a n (t wo corps ), P em broke, Cardigan, Car marthen, Ist and 2d Durham, Merioneth, Perthshire, Car . narvon, Denbigh, Flint, Montgomery, Itadnor. TIIE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT TIIE HARROW STATloN.—Patrick Leven, aged GO, 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 laseerated limb. This is another instance of a fatal accident occurring through the reprehensible practice of passengers alighting from railway carriages while the trains are in motion, L AT E S.j. E W The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Renter's office : ARMISTICE BETWEEN GARIBALDI AND THE NEAPOLITAN GENERAL. , NAPLES, JULY O. 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 armistice 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 ivill reassemble, in order to definitively sign the Con. vention. The Patrie of this evening 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 andria. 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 hal 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 Druses and Bedouins. The Turkish garrison consisted of 5,000 men, 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 exaggerated statement, as the state of terror which prevailed would not allow of its being verified. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 31.—The market has been more buoyant, and a fair amount of business has be©n translcted at improved quotations. Threes, which opened at 68f 35c, are now at 68f 45c ; Mobilier, 691 f 25c; Mediterranean, 890 f; Orleans, 1,375 f; Northern, 960 f. Tho response de primes (option) was made at 68f 40c to 68f 45c, and there is every reason to expert that the settlement will go on under favourable conditions. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 97 65 , Credit Foncier 880 Do. end month.... 97 75 j Belgian 42 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 20 Roman Bank Shares 2820 —1 Austrian ...... 80 50 Credit Mobilier 683 751 Spanish Threes.... Do. Account 682 50 Home Debt - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1365 1361 25 Northern 955 955 New ditto 877 50 .. 875 Lyons and Mediterranean 885 885 Geneva 367 50 .. Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 4OO Austrian Lombard SYRIA. The following letter from Beyrout, dated July 11, is published in the Presse :—"lt was at two o'clock in the afternoon of the day before yesterday that the massacre began at Damascus. I have a letter now before me which was sent off at midnight the same day. Before 11 o'clock no less than 500 Christians had been massacred or burnt ; those who perished by fire had taken refuge in the con sulates, convents, or churches, which were all pillaged and then burnt down. At the departure of the messenger who brought these letters, other buildings had been set 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 torn down and insulted in every possible manner, the archives destroyed, and the furniture broken to pieces. After an unsuccessful search for the consuls, the fanatical mob set fire to all the foreign establishments, both civil and reli gious. The consuls had anticipated the outbreak, and accepted for themselves and all under their protection the hospitable asylum offered by Ah-del- Kader. The more faithful and devoted of his Alga rines has assisted the consuls in making their retreat through the Mussulman quarter when the explosion 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." 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-tnain 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 Gramoit 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 50 killed, 100 wounded, and 17 prisoners. After the town was taken, 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 ment of Don Miguel, in garrison at Mantua. On the 24th of June, during the movements of a field day, some of the Hungarian soldiers, having ob tained ball cartridges, fired into a corps of Chas seurs, 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. 1. 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 leave for Southampton this evening. PERA, JULY 31. The Lazarists sisters of charity, and other wo• men of Damascus, have safely arrived at Beyrout under an escort furnished by Abd-el-Kadm 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 eLme back a full ship. The directors are said to be quite satisfied with the reception the vessel has met with. RELIEF TO THE SICK AND WOUNDED OF GARI BALDI'S CAMP.—The Ladies' Garibaldi's Benevolent As sociation, established for the relief of tke sick and wounded, widows and orphans of Garibaldi's heroic followers, and of the sufferers at Palermo and other places, are using the funds placed at their disposal by the British public in the most effective manner. Various meetings have taken place to consider the best mode to be adopted to carry out the benevolent objects of the association, and it has been deter mined not only to forward money to the gallant general for his distribution, but also hospital tents and the requisite medicines and necessary comforts for the sick. THE FIRST IMPRESSION.—There is nothing truer (I believe) than physiognomy, taken in connexion with manner. The art of reading that book of which Eter nal Wisdom obliges every human creature to present his or her own page with the individual character written on it, is a difficult one, perhaps, and is little studied. It rosy re quire some natural aptitude, and it mustrequire (for every thing does) some patience and some pains. That these ai e not usually given to it—that numbers of people accept a few stock commonplace expressions of face as the whole list of characteristics, and neither seek nor recognise the deal of time and attention to the reading of music, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Hebrew, if you please, and do not qualify yourself to read the face of the master or_ mistress looking over your shoulder teaching it to you— . l assume it to be about it, five hundred times more probable than improbable. Per haps some little self-sufficiency may be at the bottom of this; facial expression requires no _study from you, you have been taken think ; it cornea by nature toyot_t to know enough and you are not to be taken in. I _ con f ess, for my part, that friends than by I have been taken in, over and over and over again. I i have o f b eceontut course) y bin friends aeu ; a i i i n ia t r a n o e f t e e s i , l a cr nd hy l , any other class of persons. ow came T I to be so deceived ? Had I quite misread their faces ? No. Believe me, my then away.— ; first i m pression of these people, founded on face and alone, was invariably true. My mist,ike manner-xr s, suffering them to come nearer to me, and explain selves D i c k ens 's ",41‘ the Year .Rourd." BA.N . Q UET 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 cold 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 S aumarez, 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 pi incipal 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 inscri:p tions in commemoration of the battles in the Crime a. 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, &e., 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 had 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. _HEALTH OF LONDON DURING MS WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) The deaths in London last week were the same in number as those of the previous week, viz., 975. 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 te ll years 1850-9, and this with a correction for increase, of population, is 1,206 ; th e actua l number returned is therefore less than the estimated amount by 23 1 . 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 sutfo• cated on a brick-kiln ; a young woman died. of 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, Greenwi c h, th e mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.685 in. The barometrical readings rose from 29.50 in. ea Monday to 29.86 in. on W e d nes d ay. The mean temperature of the air in th e wee k was 55.6 d eg ., which is 6.3 deg. b e l ow t h e average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was much below the average thro ug h ou t t h e wee k . Th e h i ghest po i n t attained by the thermometer in the shade wee 69.5 deg. on Sunday and Friday ; the lowest point was 42.8 deg., on Thursday. On the latter day thermometer on the grass fell 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 temperature was 5.5 deg., showing the amount of dryness of the air. The mean degree of humidity was 82 : on Monday the humidity was 98, ap proaching closely complete saturation, The wind 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. THE ANTIMONI4L POISONINGS AT LIVERPOOL.- COMXI77I4L OF TH-E 801 V E 1?. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. p l o e v r n ll s n t s i This morning th.eefoprreisAoinre.r,RTahmoems ,as t he Wins low , w di a a s ry aga inplaced magistrate,b when the deposition of the various witnesses were read over to him. Th e d e p os iti on s, which were very v oluminous, occupied the Court severa l hours in reading. The whole of the evidence having been gone through, the prisoner Was fully committed for trial at the assizes, and th e severa l w i tnesses entere d into recognisanees to appear. It transpired in court during the proceedings today that i n t h e case of the three Townshends, in whose bodies l arge quan titi es o f an ti mony wa g discovered by Professor Taylor during his analysis, the charge against the prisoner will be deferred, pending the trial in Mrs. James's case at the tip' preaching assizes. The most important evidence against the pri soner was given by Inspector Horn, of the detec• tive force, towards the close of the proceedings yesterday afternoon. Mr. Horn, amongst other statements, deposed to taking awaY from Mrs. James's, on the day she was taken to the hospital, a cup containing a quantity of cooked sago, Mrs. James having previously partaken of a portion of the sago. When taking the prisoner into custody Mr. Horn told him that Dr. Edwa rds had analysed this cooked sago, and had found anti many in it. The prisoner replied, "I made the . sago, which I took to her at five o'clock tha t morning, but I put no antimony into it. I know the use of antimony; I have given it to cattle, but I have not used it for the last 18 years." Joi been porta are E Mail the !-- con Cc/ Inc 22E prey Uni past pric Unit Nl ar , Masi 11 8.130 ( reali; vane ( ast t illOtE Bank ; per tPer :slew Dii bit. 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