The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-19 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET.I Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buck stone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and firs. Wilkins. After whiich, the new comedietta, HIS ea EXCELLENCY, is which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will a pp r. And THE BOARDING SCHOOL. Commence at 7. ROY AL PRINCES S'S T HEATRE.-- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with BOWLED OUT. Commence at 7. 41% a moment as to which he would prefer. FARINA went to Sicily as Count CAVOUR'S commissioner to effect the first; he is a Sicilian, and he succeeded, according to his own account, in inducing the chiefs of 300 municipal bodies in agreeing to his views. Doubtless the argument was--make safe what you have got. To which GARIBALDI could obviously reply, you have not got Sicily yet. Its "Quadrangle" is yet in the KING'S hand ; you must capture Messina, the military stronghold of Sicily; the hold from which FERDI:NAND and FILANGIERI re-subjugated the island in 1849 — you must capture Messina and then talk of an nexation. lam the responsible Dictator, and can not be dictated to. But GARIBALDI, as FARINA says, would not stop there; he frankly says, he postpones annexation until he can see his way to annexing all Italy. He had enough of one precipitate annexation in the results of Villafranca. He had no choice then but to yield to what his superiors in the field of battle decreed. Now he has no superior ; and he does not mean to be Dictator and Commander-in-Chief for nothing. He knows the complications at Turin full well. He is aware that the diplomatist, Count CAYOUR is in the hands of the French EMPEROR, and that though as desirous of a united Italy as himself, he dare not kick over the Imperial traces. He knows that " confederation" is the watchword of France, and that at Turin they cannot reject it. He sees FRANCIS 11., at French instigation, sending offers of alliance to VICTOR EMMANUEL ; and sees the Sovereign, to whom he has given his allegiance for the sake of Italy, compelled to seem to look coldly on the project of a united Italy. He understands that VICTOR EMMANUEL cannot, even if France were not officiously in the way, seize on the Neapolitan territories and the States of the Church, and cashier the Rulers, as Lords PALMERSTON, RUSSELL, and BROUGHAM think best, for the sake of the public peace, and as the antidote to revolu tions. He is fully aware that all the power of the superior:priests of every grade, and of the monks, will be brought to bear against union—all these things the great Italian patriot well knows, and has his counter-plan accordingly. And it is to his plan that we all wish " God speed." And more than that, we have great con fidence in its author, Whatever GARIBALDI has undertaken, that he has done. His defence of Rome was acknowledged to be a great military succees ; though such crazy fortifications could not resist for ever. In its way it was as glorious as the defence of Kars. His exploits on the Alps, with the resources at his com mand, altogether surpassed those of the vain-glo rious Frenchman. His last in Sicily with two thousand to twenty thousand tells its own tale, And GARIBALDI'S patriot troops cannot now be overpowered by mere numbers of French men fighting to enslave Italy to the Pope. Eng land will never suffer that. He will now be able to fight his own battle with Bourbon despotism ; he has begun it nobly, and may be safely left to finish it. Louis NAPOLEON will doubtless do all be :can to complicate things at Naples for him ; but he will not venture, while we too have a Medi terranean fleet, to fire, again, a gun against him. Some indeed tell us that the south and north of Italy never can unite, the wish being doubtless father to the thought ; our reply is, leave the south and the north with GARIRALDI for their adviser, to settle that themselves. I f they do not, on both sides, wish for union, England can have not the slightest wish to force it upon them. GARIBALDI, on his part, most assuredly does not want to con• quer the people of Naples, but their despot, his mercenaries, and his police, on behalf of the people. We may be confident that, if, when freed from ter rorism, they preferred to leave their promised liber ties in the hands which give them only as a bait, GARIBALDI, would leave the simpletons and their Bourbons to themselves, to receive yet one more, and final, lesson in the perfidy of the worthless dynasty. Nothing in the world is wanted but to secure for the honest patriot " fair play and no favour." But the true state of the case can hardly be doubted. We have not yet while we write the ex planation of the last disturbances at Naples; but this at least we know—they were caused by the irri tation of the Royal granter of an amnesty with the popular joy on the return to their country of a band of the amnestied exiles. The joy in Naples over the few exiles whe returned, more than over all the citizens who needed no return, so like the joy of a better world over those who were lost but are found—was unendurable to the wretch who would rather they bad all gone to perdition than find again a place in the bosom of their families and of their native land. Thus much is certain; and we only hope that the murder of the rejoicing in habitants, and the dismissal of the Liberal Minis try are but the prelude to the exile of the BOUR BONS and of all belonging to them, never to return by any amnesty. Certainly never to return amidst the joy of the people. The Queen Mother and the camarilla—who it was promised long ago should be dismissed, still remain to prompt the young Monarch to resume his old counsels—we only hope that they have staid to make a larger freight for the vessel which will have the honour of being dredging barge to Neapolitan liberties. We believe it is not un common for such vessels to empty their contents in very deep water, and the Mediterranean is deep enough ; but, what is political " sludge" in one country may be thrown on the shores of another and do no harm. The Spanish coast is near and Austria not far off. So that Naples be cleared out we shall not care where the rubbish is shot. aara • ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Mr. A. HARRIS begs to announce that he has entered into an arrangement w ith the Company of ZOUAVES, origi nal founders of the The atre at Inkerman, duned ring the Cr renownimean War, where, under the enemy's fire. they gai such , and have since performed in the principal theatres of France, Vienna, Madrici, Brussels, Constantinople, Milan, Turin, Benin, Stockholm, Gibraltar, and Lisbon. The ZOIJAVES will make their first appearance in Eng land on Monday, July 23, in a novel and varied entertainment. The battles in which these Artists were eng,aged are Alma, Balaclava, I n kerman, Malakoff, and Sebastopol. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole rroprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Mr. B. Webster will make his first appearance (since his re- Sturn from his provincial tour) in the course of the present month, at his Annual Benefit, particulars of which will be duly announced. 12th week of the favourite American Actress, Miss Julia Daly. THIS /cVENING, THE HARVEST HOME. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, D. Fisher, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Wool,gar, Miss IL Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Miss Laidlaw. After 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, IL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 45.: Front Circle Stalls, Es. ; Pit Stalls, 21.; Pit, 16 . 6 d. ; Amphitheatre, ls ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. PRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. 1 Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. EVERY EVENING. Positively the last Week but Two. TO-NIGHT, LE MOULIN DE BLESINET. Madile. Marie Basta. And LES PATTES DE MOUCHE. Madlle. Delphine Fix and M. DevauX. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Commence at 8. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEAT RE.- ..T.3. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. In consequence of the continued success another MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on Saturday next, July 21, 1860.—Commence at 2 o'clock. Every evening the entertainments commencing with the Spectacle of FAIR ROSAMOND or the AMAZON , with incomparable Scenes in , the Cirque, and CRUSADERS a laughable Farce. On MONDAY next, July 30, the popular Spectacle ol MAZEPPA will be produced. Doors open at halt-past 6, per f orma nce commence at 7. Boa-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager —Mr. W. Wzwr. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti. CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING, C. H. GOUNFA UST. OD'S OPERA.. First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite 0•••••••••• Miss Russell. Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls , Hall. 6d. Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, dc., in addition to the usual entertainments. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. CONCERTS.- THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Raz 19, 1660. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADB. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 56—lowest this morning and during the night. 69—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.77. WIND—South -Westerly; light, with fine weather now It rained in the morning pretty heavily. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIG DAY.—Morning, 2h. 9m.—Afternoon, 2h. 32m, To-moimow.-Morning, 2h. 65m.—Afternoon, 3h. 17m 44R — f g f kt nraci.-,..,7**, • ' 0 . 74 . •31 0 WT; ( 1 , " 4 - I`. THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1860, A few days ago we were told that LA FARINA, who was, in fact, Count CATOUR'S commissioner to Sicily, had been summarily sent back by GARI BALDI. The inference seemed unavoidable that the misunderstanding between the Count and the General, which was always understood to exis' had now become an open quarrel. Ever since the surrender of Savoy to France, and of Nice, too, the General's own town and county, for which he was a delegate in the Chambers, GARIBALDI and CAVOtig have chosen directly opposite policies, Each, indeed, has selected the one for which nature fitted him. CAVOUR has been the able and cun- ning, yet supple, diplomatist. With him it is no disgrace, nor even, perhaps, much against the grain, to stoop to necessity, or even to difficulty. To marry a Sovereign's daughter in girlhood to an old roue of middle age; to bargain away the oldest inheritance of his Sovereign, and Nice into the bargain, for the aid of France ; to accept Villafranca instead of Venice ; to put up with a separate Tuscany as the last payment of the purchase money for Savoy and Nice, instead of the Austrians expelled from all this to Count CAvouß and to other able men of his class, like LA FARINA, seemed quite reasonable. Not so to GARIBALDI. He did notilike the tortu ous ways of diplomacy. Yet it would seem that he confides in, and is reciprocally trusted, by the King of SARDINIA. When it is necessary to manage GARIBALDI, they get the KING to see him or to communicate with him. This single circumstance, to our minds, says more for VICTOR EMMANUEL than all besides. GARIBALDI is naturally confiding, still he knows men well. Evidently, as it strikes us, the KING trusts his great General, and his General trusts him. They understand each other ; and the General thinks he can serve his chosen Sovereign better in his own way, than by If the old. Tory Quarterly committed itse' egregiously of late, the old Whig Quarterly, the Edinburgh, has certainly followed suit in its cur rent number, but just now published—floundering into a false position with the most amazingly deli berate premeditation. The Quarterly Reviewer, in his perverse attempt, strove, as will .be remem bered, to carry dissension into the front ranks of his own party, for the gratification of some per sonal spleen, and for the allaying thereby of his own individual heart-burnings. The Edinburgh Reviewer would now appear to be bent, in his turn, upon a spitefully disingenuous endeavour to mar that notable "experiment" which is still being made, according to the hon. gentleman the repesentative for the Tower Hamlets, by the members of the pre sent Coalition Government. An experiment namely to try whether the Whig Party and the Liberal Party can really constitute a firm and stable Administration. Against these insidious efforts, on either side, we would protest with all the fervour of our convictions . and with all the frankness of our independence. The "obscure writer" in the Quarterly turned out to be the noble lord the member for Stamford, the Lord ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOIGNE CECIL, second son of the present (the second) Marquess of SALISBURY, late Lord President of the Council under the Earl of DERBY'S Administration. Whether the " obscure writer" in the Edinburgh should likewise prove upon examination to be some other scion of a noble house or not—his gratuitous assumption of the part of AIARPLOT in the great quarterly organ of his party, does most assuredly ration ming his course under Count CAVOUR'S guidance We have now LA FARINA'S account of the whole affair of his dismissal from Sicily. As he gives the story, he seems to have been sent off very abruptly, and he does not fail to attack the men who, he thinks, influenced GARIBALDI to the step. It is, of course, impossible to discuss satisfactorily his com plaints and attacks of this kind in England, espe cially since we neither have, nor, we suppose, are likely to have, GARIBALDI'S account of the proceed ings censured. He has something else to do than to vindicate himself in words—we do not remem ber that he has ever attempted that yet—he vindi cates himself by deeds, and we shall be surprised if he do not succeed in that kind of vindication. What we, here, are concerned with is the policies of the two men, and these we have, as de scribed_ by LA FARINA himself in the Piccol o Corrie re of the 15th ; in that journal he says : "The causes of my differences with General GARI BALDI, since it is desired that I should speak at any cost, we re as follows :—I believed, and still believe, that the only salvation for Sicily is imme diate annexation to the constitutional kingdom of VICTOR EMMANUEL, the most ardent wish of all the Sicilians , already manif es t ed by the ch i efs o f tnore than 300 municipal bodies. General GARI BALDI believed, and perhaps still beli eves, t h at t h e annexation should be postponed till the liberation of all Italy, including Venetia and Rome, has been effected." We have here the CAVOUR and GARIBALDI policies, distinctly stated and contrasted. And probably, not one Englishman would hesitate for sparent. Afeik . appear to us not one jot less discreditable. The ( Quarterly critic, it is notorious, essayed to alienate the Conservatives from their brilliant and gifted leader the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire. The _Edinburgh critic has now been doing his "little all" to bring about the untimely discomfiture of the Coalition, not through a Man, but through a Mea sure. His endeavour may be described, in fact, as nothing less fatuous and flagitious than the nailing of the old blue and buff standard to the mast, and the branding upon it of the old Anti-Ballot decla- voting for going into committee, and 68 against it. Several of the leading metropolitan members staunchly supported the measure, as it was surely very right and reasonable that they should do. They had the Government moreover at their backs in the person of the Home Secretary. But—against them—against the Bill itself—was that redoubtable champion of the Gas Companies' Monopoly, Mr. A rtri " r • I, A . STANILAND. This, remember, although the very rigmarole title of the Bill might have warned him, might actually, one would think, have shamed him, against any such interference. This roundabout title being, as we have seen, the Metropolis Local Ma nagement Act Amendment (No. 2) Bill. That one word " local," it might have been supposed, would prove sufficient to warn off from any pert attempt at meddling in the matter one who surely had no right or title to do so thus obtrusively from the mere circumstance of his not being amongst the number of the Metropolitan representatives. So thought not Mr. STANILAND, whose advocacy of the Gas Companies is apparently inducing him to run a muck against anything and everything calculated to mar the hitherto fondly cherished hopes of his clients for the continuance yet longer, and the per petration, it possible, of their monster mono poly. It was no wonder therefore that Mr. JAMES should express very frankly his surprise at this uncalled-for interposition of Mr. STANILAND ; saying, " he did not know why the hon. member, who did not represent any of the places that would be effected by this Bill, should oppose it—except (Mr. JAMES added) that the other evening he came forward as the great champion of the Gas Companies, whose monopoly might thus be very seriously threatened." Into the lobby, however (notwithstanding this well-merited sar casm), there went last night 68 in support of Mr. STANILAND'S proposition for not letting the bill go into committee. In vain, however, as we have seen, thanks to the 78 who supported Sir G. C. LEWIS'S view of the measure, and the combined advocacy of it by the metropolitan members pre sent in the House last evening. The second reading passed, the House duly went into Com mittee, and the Bill may now, therefore, be regarded as in a fair way, even at this fag end of the session, of being fast developed into an enactment. This enterprise is in itself sufficiently insidious. But we believe it will lead in the end to no greater success than that attendant upon the equally blun dering effort of Lord ROBERT CECIL to' deprive Mr. DISRAELI of the leadership of the Conservative party. The apple of discord which has been but just now cast by the Edinburgh reviewer among the motley supporters of the present Liberal Coali tion, looks wonderfully tempting, it is true, has about it the superficial bloom of ripeness and every indication of a succulence and flavour in the highest degree refreshing and appetising. But, at the first nibble, it turns out to be as worthless as an apple of the Dead Sea—dust and ashes at its core—the dust and ashes of all sorts of old dead and gone arguments these ashes here, by the way, being as unlike as possible to those mentioned by Mr. GRAY, the poet, as vital still to the last with their " wonted fires 1" " Secret Voting and Parliamentary Reform" is the double title of this most insensate and maladroit political pronunciamento in the current number of the Edinburgh. Whatever there is of serious argu ment—and it is small enough in all conscience— anywhere discoverable in this paper of the old Whig Quarterly, we shall examine into more care fully in these columns at our earliest opportunity. In the meanwhile we cannot but direct attention to the flippancy and frivolity of the tone in which the writer takes this grave and vitally important sub ect into consideration. His earliest illus- tration is drawn from no more serious or philosophic source than the humorous " Con tested Election" of Mr. Tom TAYLOR, the whimsical playwright. His antipathy to the Ballot leads him at the very outset into the formal extenuation of bribery and corruption through this bold and monstrous paradox—" If we had no votes, no one would bribe us." Accepting which as con clusive, we might by a parity of reasoning venture to palliate the crime of homicide by an utterance equally Socratic—" If we had no lives, no one would take them." But the writer goes yet further than this—he not only deprecates any especial hor ror of bribery and " influence" at elections by say ing of them "after all they are weeds which spring up on the soil of liberty"—he has the hardihood to maintain that "It would be spendthrift husbandry to endanger the fruits in destroying the weeds which are thrown up by the strength and richness of the soil." According to which ambi-dexterous logic we might insist upon the rashness of dealing in any way harshly with all (even the most heinous) descriptions of crime through fear of im pairing what is good in the effort at its extermina tion. Nevertheless, with a startling inconsistency while advancing these most shallow reasons against any precautionary measures being taken to prevent the hazard of bribery and corruption, the Reviewer can, upon the very :same page, write thus boldly and vigorously about those taints upon our popular system of representation — It is indeed a singular instance of the extent to which conventional rules will overbear the plainest and simplest dictates of common honesty, to find men of respectability, nay even men of station, con niving at an offence not more respectable than shop lifting, and not much less nefarious than highway robbery. We do not speak of bribery merely, which, infamous as it is, stands in our opinion higher in the scale than some other offences of the same kind. The worst, the most pitiful and most disgraceful of such offenders, is the man who uses his position or his influence to coerce or compel an elector to vote against his inclination. The right to vote without coercion or restraint is the property of the elector ; the law secures it to him, just as much as it does his purse to the traveller ; 'and the man who tries to take from him the free exercise of that right, is in his heart no better than a thief." It isbecause we are so perfectly persuaded of all this, and because we deem the present system of open voting as utterly powerless to protect the elector on the one hand from being bribed, and tha candidate on the other from the temptation of bribing, that we ask for the one only reliable guarantee of perfect freedom in the exercise of the electoral franchise, the ballot-box, or, if the writer of the Edinburgh likes the phrase better, the system of secret-voting. The flippancy of the Reviewer's tone, however, is signalised yet more remarkably as he warms to his party-argument. The unfairness of. the spirit in which he writes is evidenced hardly less by the very selection of his language when supposing the Ballot, for the sake of argument, to be " established with a gloom as impenetrable as its best friends could wish "—than by the ridiculous character of the little apologue through which he affects to de pict its working. This apologue, which may be found at page 270 of No. 227 of the Edinburgh, is really borrowed (the root-idea of it) from Mr. Tom TAYLOR'S " Contested Election" aforesaid—and it may be, with perfect accuracy, described as nothing less, in so many words, than a burlesque upon a bur lesque, a caricature of a caricature ! The Reviewer naively appends to his imaginary election in the supposititious constituency of Flamborough this wonderfully frank acknowledgment of its worth lessness—" Such is a rude sketch of a possible system of bribery under the Ballot ! " But imagine fur ther the "judgment" of a political writer who can seriously inform us of the following as a scheme of corruption actually in vogue under the pre sent system of open voting—telling us— " A gentleman belonging to a borough had a fancy for lending money to the electors, in small sums of £lO, £2O, or £30." Adding, "He took reasonable interest, and called up his loans et pleasure, and whenever an election came on, gave a general notice to his debtors to pay up, unless they were prepared to support his candidate." And yet absolutely appending to the above record these astounding words, " Now the Ballot would not derange, in the slightest degree, the principle on which a borough might thus be bought and sold." Would it not ? Does any man in his sober senses really and truly believe that there could be found in the three kingdoms a single individual, outside the walls of a lunatic asylum, who would be pre pared to lend money after this fashion, upon such a contingency ? The whole reasoning of this paper, in fact—if such jolt er-headed notions can well be dignified with the name of reasoning—is simply preposterous; it is a ringing of the changes, in effect, alternately of ridicule the most frivolous, and of paradoxes the most audacious and tran- MB. STANSF.ELD'S PLAN FOR A NATIONAL BANK OF ISSUE. That were a special stock created for the distinct object of providing a sound currency, instead of appropriating the existing Government stocks for that purpose to the exclusive advantage of the fund holders, a sum of at least £30,000,000 might be obtained for the use of the Government, and for the benefit of the people, without laying any burden on the public whatsoever. Assuming the total issue of notes to be for £15,000,000, based upon two-thirds of the amount , in Government securities, and one-third in gold, a , sum of £30,000,000 in a National Bank 3 per cent. stock would be required. The operation would be as follows. The public in the first instance would purchase the stock from the Government and give their money in exchange, as they do for an ordinary Government loan ; they would then deposit the stock with the National Bank Commissioners, and receive their money back in the shape of legal tender bank notes; adding to their deposit of £30,000,000 of National Bank stock, £15,000,000 of gold, against which they would also receive notes. The public there fore would be in possession of the same amount of money as before the transaction ; they would have lost none, and yet the Government would have gained £30,000,000. This result arises simply from the Government becoming the issuers of this credit money instead of bankers; by taking from fallible issuing bankers the monopoly which they now en joy for their private advantage, and transferring it to an infallible national bank for the good of the public. On the part of the Government it would be the receipt of the sum of £30,000,000 subject to an annual charge of £900,000, and as this charge would be defrayed out of the profits of the circu lation, the Government would get the amount without laying any burden on the people what soever; and were a still larger amount than £30,000,000 of the National Bank stock required, the Government would obtain a still greater sum. It may be said that such an issue would virtually be a Government issue of notes for £45,800,000, based on a reserve of gold of £15,000,000, to ensure convertibility, and so it would be ; but with this important difference in the working, that the amount in circulation would adjust itself to the re quirements of commerce, and be regulated by the wants of the public and not of the Government. FLORAL EXHIBITION AT COVENT GARDEN. This very beautiful exhibition was thrown open to the public yesterday, most of whom, if we may judge from the expressions of delight and admira tion which escaped them, had never seen so many flowers before in their lives. Independently of the flowers and fruit (for some very fine pines were not denied admittance), the picturesque character of the building, enhanced by the almost endless rows of festoons which stretched across the roof, forms a conspicuous feature. Nothing was wanting to the attractiveness of the scene save the presence of a first-rate band, the absence of which, we think, was generally felt by the spectators as they promenaded up and down the walks. The following is the schedule of prizes given and awarded by Mr. Gye ROSES. CLASS 1.-OPEN TO AMATEURS, GARDENERS, AND GROWERS FOR SALE. For the best Coll(action of Roses in Pots; the size of the Pots unlimited.—A first prize of £8 to Messrs. Paul; a second prize of £5 to Mr. Francis. CUT BLOOMS. CLASS IL—OPEN TO GROWERS FOR SALE. For One Hundred Varieties of Roses, three trusses of each variety.—A first prize of £8 to Messrs. Paul ; a second prize of £6 to Mr. Hollaruby ; a third prize of £5 to Mr. Mitchell. For Fifty Varieties of Roses, three trusses of each variety. —A first prize of £7 to Messrs. Paul; a second prize of £5 to Mr. Francis ; a third prize of £3 to Mr. Cant. For Thirty Varieties of Roses, three trusses of each variety.—A first prize of £6 to Mr. Keynes ; a second prize of £1 to Mr. Turner ; a third prize of £2 to Mr. Laing. CLASS lII.—OPEN TO AMATEURS AND GARDENERS. For Forty Varieties of Roses, not exceeding three trusses of each variety.—A first prize of £8 to Mr. J. T. Hedge ; a second prize of £6 to Mr. Terry ; a third prize of £5 to Mr. J. Evans. For Twenty-five Varieties of Roses, not exceeding three trusses of each variety.—A first prize of £7 to Mr. J. T. Hedge ; a second prize of £5 to Islr. Moffatt ; a third prize of £3 to C. M. Worthington, Esq. For Fifteen Varieties of Roses, not exceeding three trusses of each variety.—A first prize of £6 to Mr. J. T. Hedge ; a second prize of £1 to Mr. Churchfield ; a third prize of £2 to Rev. G. E. Maunsell. NEW VARIETIES OF ROSES. [Not exhibited previously to 1858.] CLASS IV.—OPEN TO AMATEURS, GARDENERS, AND NURSERYMEN. A first prize of £5 to Mr. Keynes and Messrs. Paul, equal; a second prize' of to Mr. Lane ; a third prize of £3 to Mr. Fraser. FUCHSIAS. CLASS V.—OPEN TO AMATEURS, GARDENERS, AND GROWERS, FOR SALE. For the best Twelve Specimen Plants of Fuchsias—A first prize of £8 to Mr. Oubridge ; a second prize of £5 to Mr. Lousey ; a third prize of £3 to Mr. Croucher. For the best Collection of Fuchsias —A first prize of £8 to Mr. Todman ; a second prize of £5 to Mr. Hayes ; a third prize of II to Messrs. Frazer. Foe the best Collection of Pyramid and Standard Fuchsias —A first prize of £lO to Mr. Gilbert; a second prize of £5 to Mr. Young. It was almost touch and go last night with the Metropolitan Local Management Act Amendment (No. 2) Bill for its second reading. Upon a divi sion, in a house of 146 members, that stage was passed only by the narrow majority of 10-78 CACTI. CLASS VI.-OPEN TO AMATEURS, GARDENERS, AND GROWERS, FOR SALE. For the best Collection of Cacti—A first prize of £6 to Dr. Waggett ; a second prize of 11 to Mr. Green. For the Six best Specimen Plants of Cacti—A. first prize of £5 to Mr. Green ; a second prize of £3 to Dr. Waggett. CLASS VII.—OPEN TO Alt iTEURS, GARDENERS, AND GROWERS FOR SALE. For the Best Collection of Twelve Stove and Greenhouse Plants A first prize of £2O to Mr. Whitbread ; a second prize of 15 to Mr. Peed ; a third prize of £lO to Mr. Gilbert. For the Best Collection of Six Stove and Greenhouse Plants.—A first prize of £lO to Mr. Whitbread; a second prize of £7 to Mr. Whitbread; a third prize of £5 to Mr. Peed. ROSES. (EXTRA. PRIZES ADDED SINCE THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT.) CLASS VIII.—OPEN TO GROWERS FOR SALE. For Fifty Varieties of Roses, One Truss of each Variety. —A. first prize of £4 to Mr. Keynes ; a second prize of to Mr. Cant; a third prize of £2 to Mr. Turner. For Twenty Varieties of Roses, One Truss of each Va riety.—A first prize of £4 to Mr. Keynes ; a second prize of £3 to M r . Cranston ; a third prize of £2 to Mr. Laing. In addition to the above, extra prizes were awarded to Messrs. Lane Mr. Cranston , M essrs. Crawsha y , Mr. P erry, Mr. Evans, 3lr. Terry, Miss C rawsha y , A. Fr y er, Esq. Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Green , Mr. Rh odes, Mr. Fr ancis, Mr. Cattell, Mr. C. Turner, Mr. Burley, Messrs. E. G. Hender son and Son, Mr. Standish, Messrs. Milne and Co., Mr. Summers, Mr, Hopkins, and Mr. Wright, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1860. NEW The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, JULY 19. The Monileur says the Sultan has addressed the 'ollowing letter to the Emperor, under date the 16th July:— " I have at heart that your Majesty should know with what grief I have learned the events in Syria. " Let your Majesty be convinced that I shall employ all my powers for establishing security and order in Syria, and that I shall severely punish the guilty parties, whoever they may be, and render justice to all. " In order to leave no doubt whatever on the intentions of my Government, I have entrusted that important mission to my Minister for Foreign Affairs, with whose principles your Majesty is acquainted." BOMBAY MAIL. The Bombay arrived at Suez on the 11th inst. The Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s sailing ship Haddington arrived at Bombay on the 12th June. OUTWARD MAILS. The Nubia, with the London mails of the 20th and 26th May, reached Point de Galle, en route to Calcutta, on the 19th of Stine (two days early). The Panther, from Marseilles on the 12th, arrived at Malta and left for Alexandria on the 15th inst. FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 18, BOURSE, July 18.—The market has been heavy, and stock having been freely offered, prices are now lower than at the close of business yesterday. The market continued heavy to the close. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 97 25 , Credit Fonder BB5 Do, end month.... 97 35 ; Belgian 42 9B 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 65 { Roman Bank Shares 2820 —1 Austrian .. BO 50 Credit Mobilier 690 Spanish Threes.... 471 Do. Account 687 `Homeso Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1361 25 .. 1362 50 Northern New ditto 875 .. 876 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 885 .. 885 Geneva — .. 370 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard SICILY. The Malta Observer of the 13th inst. contains he following extract from a letter . from Marsala, dated July 11: " You will be glad to hear that the Lombardo — the large steamer that brought Garibaldi here, and which was sunk at the entrance of the port, has at length been saved, and was towed round to Palermo the day before yesterday. She will require a deal of repair and fitting out, in consequence of the Mar salese having stripped her even of some of her planking. Garibaldi ought to make the Marsalese pay for putting her to rights again. " You will no doubt have heard that Major Ascenso has been nominated Military Governor of Trapani, and that he has been promoted to the rank of colonel. " There is capital communication between Eng land and Palermo via Genoa—there being a regular line of steamers running direct between these two latter ports—and there is another line between Leghorn and Palermo. I believe they now get letters from England in five days. We had the Benjamin Franklin here last week on her first trip round this part of the island. "The price of wine keeps up, and I should not be at all surprised to see it still higher one of these days, as the appearance of the vines and prospect of the coming vintage are anything but cheering, the grape disease having commenced and pro gressed considerably, notwithstanding all the sulphur that has been used—which is a bad look out and no mistake. " The Argus is fixed to remain at Marsala, so that we now feel quite safe—indeed you cannot imagine the salutary effect the presence of one of her Ma jesty's ships has on the evil disposed." The Malta Times of the 12th of July publishes the following intelligence from Sicily : " Our Messina correspondent writes : " ' Messina, July 10. " Very little of importance has taken place here during the week. On Tuesday last two Neapolitan frigates passed through the straits on their way to Trieste. They had on board the Queen-Mother and all her family, besides about 30 of the Court attached to the Bourbons. It was reported that Garibaldi had been at Naples, and that on his leaving he had sent a printed pamphlet to the King, informing him of all that he had done during his stay in that capi tal. This is not very likely to be true. " A large number of Italians are arriving at Palermo. The Intrepid, that came in on Saturday, the 7th inst., brought the news that four steamers were continually running between Genoa and Pa lermo, crammed with men. Young Garibaldi has arrived in Girgenti with several officers, to establish order in that place, and a regiment of Italians were on their way there. "‘ Melazzo, a place near Barcelona, is to be attacked during this week. There were about 1,000 men there, but the men and officers are deserting fast. Yesterday evening the commandant of this place despatched the French transport Bresil, with the Ist King's Regiment of the Line, as a re inforcement. Colonel Medici, shortly after his arrival at Barcelona, went to Melazzo to reconnoitre, and said that two hours' work would be enough to take the castle there. I suppose in a day or two we shall have the Royal defenders of that place returning here in driblets without shoes or arms, Several Royalists have received orders to quit Messina. Telegraphic communication between Messina and Catania is interrupted.' " Another letter from Messina of the same date says that Garibaldi was within twenty miles of Messina, and confirms the statement made above that Melazzo was to b e at once attacked. Gari baldi on the 4th of July completed his 53d year, and the day was observed as a koliday in Sicily. The desertions of the Royal troops con tinued, and a proclamation of General Medici, call ing upon the garrison of Messina, to make commop part with:the patriots, was circulated throughout the town. " A letter from Palermo, dated July 7, says : " Here we remain in statu quo, strong rein forcements coming in almost daily. At Naples the plot seems to be thickening and her Majesty's ship Hannibal leaves for that port to-day. We hope that matters will speedily be settled, and enable things to return to their normal condition. We hear of a brush between the Neapolitans and Sar dinians, under Colonel Turr, at Scaletta, near Mes sina, in which the former were worsted. The troops seem to be very much demoralized, and desertions are of daily occurrence—so much so that the Nea politan General has issued a decree, which condemns to death any one aiding or abetting the desertion." The Opinion Publique publishes the following, of which a telegraphic summary has already appeared : "A telegram of our private service brings us serious news from Messina, under date of the 15th inst. "On the 14th Garibaldi joined Medici with 3,000 men. On the next day (15th) General Bosco marched out of Messina with 4,000 men and three cannon, and took the direction of Barcelona. An engagement and the attack of Messina are conse quently imminent. "The French consulate at Messina is crowded with persons asking to be allowed to find a refuge on board the Descartes. Our consul, whose energy is known, has already protested against the bom- bardment of the town until full time has been given to all strangers to leave it." GREECE. ATHENS, JULY 5. There has been a change in the Greek Ministry. M. Coumoundourob, the Minister of Finance, hav ing retired, the Ministry has been reformed as ',olio ws : Miaoulis—Marine, President of the Council. Botzaris—War. Conduriotis—Foreign Affairs. Potlis—J astice and Public Worship. Lycurgus Crestenites—lnterior. Eustache Simos—Finances. The Princes of Orleans, Count do Paris and Due de Chartres, arrived at Athens on the Ist of July ; they were received by the King and Queen ; the King paid them a visit next day ; they paid a rapid visit to the antiquities, and left on the Tuesday. THE CHINESE EXPEDITION. (From the Correspondent of the Daily News.) HONG KONG, MAY 17. The steamer from Galle, which arrived on the 9th, brought papers to 2Gth March from England, and a few days later news by telegraph. The affairs of Italy, which are engrossing all the public atten tion at home, excited a considerable interest even here. We have learned by this mail the incorpora tion of the Italian Duchies into the kingdom of Sar einia, and the annexation of Savoy and Nice to France. What was of more consequence to us at this junction, the mail did not bring Lord Elgin, the great pacificator, as he is beginning to be called, who, it is supposed, is coming to adjust all our dif ferences with the Celestials, and cheat us out of the campaign we are anticipating. Our preparations are now so far advanced that whether the ambassador comes or not we are not likely to wait long. With the ex ception of one battery of Armstrong guns, which started from England to come out overland good ness knows how long ago, I think the troops have all arrived. Indeed, it would appear that owing to some misunderstanding between the Indian and English Governments too many have been sent out, and that, from the Indian Government not knowing how many were going from other parts of the world, or the home Goverment being mis or un-informed of the numbers going from India, the force stipulated for in the agreement with the French has been exceeded ; and the last mail from Calcutta brought an order from Lord Canning to send back a portion of the Native Contingent. In consequence of this the 11th Punjaub Infantry has been stopped and landed at Singapore, and the Regiment of Loodeanah remains here to garrison Kowloon. You must therefore strike out these two from the statement of the expeditionary force I sent you by last mail. General Napier and staff left this on the 11th in the Encounter, man-of-war, on a special mission. He is going first to Chusan, then to Shanghai, and back to Pootoo, where arrangements are to be made for establishing a depot for convalescents. 200 Eu ropean and 300 Native Infantry, with a portion of the Madras Native Artillery, are to be stationed there for the protection of the place. After finish ing his work at Pootoo the general will go on to the Gulf of Petcheli, and make a reconnaissance, with a view to find a favourable spot for landing the army. Such at least is the camp gossip. His instructions being secret, no one probably knows anything about them except the chief of the staff. The troops have been embarking in the trans ports all this week. The 31st and 44th Foot, the 60th Rifles, Ist Royals, 3rd Buffs, the Bth and 19th Punjaub Infantry, the Madras Artil lery and Sappers, and Barry's Armstrong Battery, are all on board ship and ready to sail. The first division will leave in a few days, and in a short time Kowloon, so lately swarming with soldier life, will be a desert, and the harbour of Hong Kong, now crowded with shipping, will be tenanted by only a few merchant vessels and a solitary man of-war. The embarkations have been effected with great celerity and without any accident. A floating pier has been constructed in the little bay at Kowloon. This reaches far enough out to admit of gunboats coming alongside. The men are marched down to the shore, along the pier and into the gunboat, which when full puffs away with its living freight to the transport, leav ing another to take its place and bring off another load. From another and smaller pier on the other side of the bay the embarkations are made by men of-war's boats, and the native troops have a bay and pier of their own, from which they are taken off to their ships. In this way all confusion is avoided. Each regiment is kept separate, the baggage does not get mixed up together to the eternal confusion of quartermasters and frenzy of its owners, and the men proceed quietly and orderly to their respective ships. All these arrangements are made by the Quartermaster-General's department, and one or other of its indefatigable officers superintends the operations. The commissariat difficulty which I mentioned in a previous letter has at last been solved by the re turn to Calcutta a few days ago of the Bengal officers. You are aware that when the China ex pedition was preparing to leave India, Lord Clyde, who has had ample experience in the Crimea and in India of the Imperial and Indian commissariat, and has tested the merits and efficiency of each, sug gested to the Indian Government that an officer of experience in the department, with a sufficient staff, should be sent to China to co-operate with and assist the Imperial commissariat, should their services be required. The Indian Government, approving of the suggestion, selected an officer of great and varied experience who had been at the head of the commissariat department that provided for the wants of Lord Clyde's army in his Oude campaign. Several other officers who had had much practice in the field, and had at different times supplied the requirements of divisions of an army, accompanied him, and all arrived in Hong Kong with the commander-in-chief of the expedition, or soon after him. Their arrival was not at all welcome to the officers of the Impe rial commissariat. Naturally enough, they looked, upon them as interlopers. They had been deputed to undertake the supply of the whole army : it was their duty to do so. What would be said in Eng land when it was told that the department which broke down in the Crimea had gained nothing by past experience, and required assistance to minister to so comparatively small a force as the China expe dition? The obnoxious rivals must be got rid of. In the meantime, however, they had arrived, and were ordered to undertake the executive duties of the native troops. It was proposed that the Indian officers should remain exclusively under the control of their senior, and that they should not be asso ciated with the officers of the Imperial department. Indeed, it was not possible to assign relative rank to the officers of the two branches, and make them work together, for they differed in many respects. The one hold commissions in the regiments to which they belong; from which they are only temporarily separated, and to which they =return at any time. The others are commissioned only in their own de partment ; their mode of keeping accounts, of pro curing supplies, in fact their whole system is di verse, and therefore to have attempted to amalga mate the two would have produced nothing but confusion and discord. At the same time it was not possible that in the same army there could be two distinct and independent branches of the same de partment. The Imperial Deputy-Commissioner- General,who is controller of the expenditure of the army, could not be held responsible for the outlay, if' another officer,not under his control,and rendering his accounts to another government, was intrusted with the supply of a portion of the force; a spirit of rivalry would have been engendered, and we might have bad the two commissariats in the market bidding against each other for the same stores, to the great detriment of the public purse. Moreover, as the native troops have not brigaded together, but been distributed throughout the force, we should have had one set of officers providing for the Europeans, and another set for the natives in each division and in every brigade; in fact, a double machinery which would have proved as cumbrous as it would have been unnecessary. These difficulties appeared so great that the order for the Bengal commissariat officers to a ssume the e xecutive duties of the native portion of the force remained a dead letter, and at the e nd of a month it was clearly seen that some other arrangemerA charge of the into must be made. As I have stated , the two services could not be amalgamated, an d the difficulties of the Bengal officers undertaking: native troops were so great , and 1111: relations gruo u end s a ability it. t y h e attempt which they would have been thrown witthheitrhegreat Im perialge branch so incon could not be made ; but it appeared that there w as still experiencea i) by which could be secured to the. leixtvhpie:cdefilkittntiiiio°: enNlv,taleovQ6,ydi't'agoahlroDuptelpaecunictiyjrgo.ca colmiiiitneeibuspao4 the responsibility _ them in an General on the one hand inferior position on the other. It was proposed that some particular portion or division of the army should be made over to them ; that Captain Fitzgerald, the senior Bengal officer, should have the entire control over and direction of his own subordinate officers buttho Mr. Turner, himself should in his turn be subordinated to the deputy commissary -general of the royal army, who would thus continue to be supreme in the de- partment, and the responsible authority for all its operations, Captain Fitzgerald rendering all his ac counts to him and receiving all commissariat sup- plies from him—or in the event of his not being able to furnish them, making purchases, or drawing supplies from India, under his direction and sub ject to his approval. But this scheme—the best, perhaps, that could be devised under the circum stances—was open to many and grave objections. The opportune arrival from the Cape of several offi cers of his department enabled. Mr. Turner to assert that the further services of the Indian officers were not required; they were accordingly relieved from their anomalous duties and sailed for India and the Imperial commissariat remained masters of the situation. It will le seen from the above statement that there will be great difficulties in the way of the harmonious and efficient co-operation of the two branches of the department, but I will not concede i that these difficulties were insurmountable ; and I cannot but think it a subject for regret that so much valuable experience, especially in provision ing native troops, and so many trained and able officers, should have been lost to the expedition— especially as it is going to localities of the resources of which we may be said to know nothing. It is no disparagement to the Imperial commissariat to say that necessarily they knew little of the many peculiarities of native soldiers with respect to their rations, and are but little accustomed to deal with the inhabitants of eastern countries in making pur chases of supplies. I cannot but think that the knowledge of the Indian officers would have proved most valuable on these points, and regret that it was found impossible to retain their services ; but I have no doubt these considerations were duly weighed and allowed their full value by the chief of the Imperial Commissariat before he took upon himself the very grave responsibility of declaring that he could dispense with their services, and al lowing them to return to their legitimate duties in India. 19th.—The whole of the French expedition is now in China, the last ship having arrived in Hong Kong harbour yesterday, and the greater portion haS sailed to the north, for Chefoo, a town on the southern coast of the Gulf of Pecheli, fifty miles from the eastern extremity of the Shan-tung pro montory. We hear little here of their proceedings, but it is said that finding Wousung, at the entrance • to the Shanghai river, unhealthy and inconvenient, they have retained only a small force of occupation there, and have sent the bulk of their army on to Chefoo, where the troops will be landed and the expedition organised. Chefoo has the advantages of deep water close in the shore, a fine climate, and good anchorage ; and the province of Shan tung in which it is situated produces an abundance of supplies. Horses and Mules are also procurable, and the water is good. It is probable that one of our depots will be established there also. The rendezvous for the English fleet is the Bay of Tahen-hwan, to the east of the promontory of Lao tie-shan (a portion of the kingdom of Korea), which runs out into the Gulf of Pecheli opposite Chefoo, and forms the entrance of the Strait of Mia-tao, the entrance into the gulf. Ta-lien-hwan Bay is about 80 miles from Chefoo, and nearly due north of the latter. From these two places, when all is ready and the time is ripe, the two fleets will sail and make a descent upon the Chinese coast, in the neighbour hood of the Taku Forts. Such at least is the camp story. I do not profess to be initiated into the secrets of the allied commanders. Great exertions have been made during the past fortnight, and all • the preparations are rapidly approaching comple tion. A crowd of transports left the harbour yes terday afternoon, and will go to sea to-day On board are the following regiments :— . I)A Royals, 3d Buffs, 31st and 44th Foot, 60th Rifles, Madras Sappers, Bth and 19th Punjaub Infantry. They are conveyed by man-of-war steamers, and will make their way to the rendezvous under sail. The cavalry will embark last, and will be towed up by steamers from here. It is supposed that the Com mander-in-Chief and the Admiral will leave Hong Kong immediately after the arrival of the English mail. I told you in my last of the orders issued regard ing carriages and baggage ; the latter is cut down to the smallest possible compass, and every brain is racked in the endeavour to solve impracticable problems having for their object the compression of material substances into half the space that nature requires for them. The demand for por table bedsteads and multum in parvo dressing appa ratus, &c., is at its height. One occasionally meets with a wonderful contrivance, which you are told is a most luxurious bed at night, a sofa and dressing table and chair by day, and, for aught I know, per haps transformable into a bathing tub and tent; but I have no faith in these mechanical arrangements; there is generally a screw wanting, or a peg broken, or a hinge that persists in turning the wrong way, bringing the whole concern and the owner along with it to unutterable confusion. Bell tents only are to be used at the first landing ; but a quantity of camp equipage of a superior description has been put on board one of the steamers, and should a standing camp be formed it will be landed and made use of. One ship in each division has been told off as a baggage ship, to which all the impedimenta not landed with the troops will be transferred, and re main till wanted. Two coolies and 150 lbs. of bag gage for each officer is but a small allowance, but the necessities of the case will not admit of more. The commissariat have succeeded in collecting a large number of ponies, and some very fine bullocks; have arrived from India. I saw the other day a large number of the Manilla ponies ; they are small, mangy, and miserable looking, but have some good points and look of a good breed. Plenty of food and a liberal allowance of sulphur will restore many 01 them, but some will never be of any use to society except in the shape of cat's meat. If they cost, as it is said, 60 dols. each in Manilla, the owner must be rejoicing in the liberality of the British government. Each has a huge V. R. branded on its rump, but I cannot congratulate her Majesty on this valuable addition to her possessions. In no country, under no circumstances, is it credible that such animals could ever be worth such a sum. The arrivals since, I wrote last have been Gowan's battery, Roy ' Artillery, from Bombay ; head - quarters of 2a Queen's, from the Cape ; head-quarters of the 78th, '. from Calcutta; and head-quarters of 15th Punjaub Infantry, and of Lane's Horse. Part of the King 'S Dragoon Guards have also arrived from Madras, and have landed at Deep Bay, on the other side Of the island. 22d.—The steamer arrived on Sunday evening/ the 20th, bringing English papers to 10th April? - and a telegram to 13th idem. We are again dis appointed by the non-arrival of our great plenipo tentiaries. Lord Elgin's delay is accounted for, naturally enough, by his mother's death; pe ople are asking whether Baron Gros' mother is dead also. Lord John Russell's speech on the French ' annexation of Savoy and Nice, and the damage caused by this act to " the alliance," has been received with intense approbation by apparently all classes in this colony. I am afraid the entente cordiale is not of a very cordial or permanent chit' meter. Orders from the Wareoffice have been re' ceived, causing some important changes in 0 1° construction of the staff of the force. The appoints ment of chief of th& staff is disallowed as unnece s " sary, and it is understood that Colonel Heythoru e l who has had the appointment up to the preset)! time, will return to Calcutta as adjutant-gene rel e of her Majesty's troops. The appointment also 01 deputy-adjutant-general of native troops is ail? allowed. Hitherto we have had two deputy•ad‘ efficiently , and d The pelt) ' jutant-generals, one for the Eu ea r sm o e p : e lm a g i sa i European, ia t s h tpe e ods o ewa t h i :r e; for the native troops. The Secretary of State for War considers that a duality in any de partment cannot work abolishes it. The depity-assistant-adjutant-general w n as th e expedition o chieff tonfenianatipveeritarloboprasnreerl of the ebnduoet department. rraanndgement, but all regret that find dle faultis a sound Nvtnt one, e t , i it causes the loss to theokno of Col. Bruce, Oncle, and certainly one of the ablest officers in the Indian army - . The mail from Shanghai brings no news of if' latters are quiet • portance. A in Japan. The trooPe healthy, which is ti o t the e poli servicesepolice i at Chusan are remarkably cheerful circumstance as agreeable as unexpecte d, for when first occupi e d i n t h e f ormer war it was s 5 ' th e their store-ships o peace. n perfect Golgotha. The s e n latest rumour button t i o s n that Chinese Emperor has rins to Souch ow , a l arge c it y near Sh ang h a i, with proposals l s for t h r e rh r e oek s French near have th en e lost ntra one ee , of ao Amoy harbour. It contained all the saddlery an harness for their artillery and some ammu nition.; No particulars have been received yet, and i,t, l e possible th e cargo, or part of it, may be saved. „ French Admiral Page arrived in the harbour frn,'; Shanghai on Sunday. He is accompanied by tP chief of the French staff, The English general and staff are expected e, take their departure on the 30th inst. The Gen ral will probably go first to Shanghai en route to the rendezvous. The weather continues moderately cool and pleiat; sant, with an occasional heavy fall of rain. I beg at to be sceptical about there being any hot sea,ses, here at all. People are still wearing woollen cl ote o and walking out in the sun, in the forenoonf: i t V o g perfect impunity. The oldest inhabitants of 11° a g Kong tell us it is an extraordinary season, suc s l o l,l was never known before; but as I have be en., the same thing in respect to the season at e_ s i;_.. new place I have ever gone to in any part of the world, I am unable to believe it. s arra i The Imperatriz, with the second battery of strong guns, arrived yesterday. 9 cc PI e 2 So :Le 13i ha NI co 13( ID al