Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

THE MOVEMENTS OF THE AUSTRIANS no, ress BOLOGNA, June 12th.—The Austrians have eva ble t etlated Ancona, and are retiring by land in the ie° • tirection of Ferrara. )1r (Ted ?finis, Monday Evening, June 13th.—The Patric. Flo ila i's, that the Austrians have completely evacuated rder the States of the Churck, including even Ferrara. AtAt The same paper also states, that the people of 7ty. farina have asked that French troops may be sent ;s ea jilt° their country FRENCH AMB AS, 0 NAPLES establish a greater equality of force. reported up at prison nrobert ordered tho 3 •ed fro WAR IN ITALY. the Austrians 75,000 to 80,000. We have as yet no com plete Austrian accounts of the matter, bat there seem good grounds for believing that the French lost 7,000 men hor B de combat,, the Austrians 15,000, besides prisoners. By persons who had goad opportunities of observing the demeanour of the French soldiers and officers immediately after the action, I am "assured they . did not look so exhilarated as men sre supposed generally to be after a great victory. They seem to be under an impression that the system adopted at Montebello and Magenta of pushing a small force against a greatly superior one is more likely to produce heavy loss than important advantages. At Magenta, the Austrians, although beaten, were not pursued very far, and the next day, returned to the charge, nearly on the same ground, although without greater success. I see the Moniteur persists - in that only three gnus and two standards were taken as you know, they by the French, so that, of course, the accounts received here of a far greater number of cannon having been captured , must 'be erroneous. These are surely very small results of a victory in which such a carnage took place, and from which it cannot be said that any great advantage of territory or position have been derived. It may be discouraging to the Austrians, but it does not seem to be thought very encouraging by the French. There certainly ought to be some very palpable gain to compen sate such heavy losseS as have fallen on the flower of the 'French army—on the grenadiers, and especially on Austrians fought extremely well, although, as we learn from the prisOners, they were much fagged and dishearten being aggravated by irregularity in serving out rations The generalship of Gyulai throughout the campaign is most severely criticised, and none seem to doubt that he will be relieved of all active command. The Piedmontese Ware stlid to blathe the French for being in such haste to risk an It seems to have been the front that the French had lost one gun, but on this head no positive informatien , has reached me. Marshal Canrobert was very nearly taken When advancing at the head of a column necessary, and the Emperor, it is said, somewhat men who could move red again. --...40......--. M. Brennier leaves on Tuesday for Allbassador of France, at th 111 e Two Sicilies. court" of the King of THE BATTLE OF 'MALEGNANO VIENNA, June 13.- —The lustrian Correspondenze, bf this evening, contains the following : The Austrians, at the battle of Malegnano, yielded wy to the decidedly superior force of the enemy, and retired unpursued in perfect order. Piacenza has been evacuated by our troops, and t he walls and citedals have been blown up. Th e garrison body of the army R the The war-steamer Curtatone, arrived on the 10th inst. in Zara, from Ancona, bringing the news t he Austrians had evacuated that town. ---..-.4b..-.-.- I tEMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT LOAIBARDY VERONA, 11th • chief government authority of Lombar transferred to Mantua. T has been --~- THE ARCHDUKE .FERDIN AND. TRIESTE, June 13. —The Archduke Ferdinand ltaxithillian has arrived here. -~_ THE TAXES OF VENICE From the Ist of July next, the coupons of the national loan will no longer be accepted by the tax collectors in the provinces of Venice. -0- - PARIS TELEGRAMS ?Awls, Monday.— The Moniteur . of to-day contains the following telegrams : "MILAN, Sunday.—A part of the French arm) . 1134 pasted the river Adda, without striking a blow, In the hurry of the retreat from Piace the enemy a bandoned a great number of er,nnon, and magazines full of provisions and ammunition." "TURIN, Sunday. —A telegraphic despatch from Bologn a announces that the Austrians have avacna hd that town." The Vienna correspondent of the Times says that 1 council of war has been held at Verona, and almost 411 the members expressed their disapproval of the B Positions of Count Gyulai on the 4th and sth inst. 'he excitement at Vienna still continues to be very ,treat on this subject. The loudest railers are military men. Some coffee-house declamators have 'b een arrested by the police for expressing their ° Pinions on military affairs too freely. THE FRENCH FUNDS PARIS, Monday, June 13, 12.20 p.m.—Tke Bourse °pens very firm. Rentes, 62 95. 3.28 p.m.—Rentes closed 63 20 for money, and 63 5 for account, being a rise of 50 centimes in the former, and 40 in the latter, since Saturday. --~- FRANCE. PARIS, Sunday.—' The first impression caused by the Druclamations "to the Italians " and to " the Army of Ito 1 ," 'posted up at the Bourse yesterday, and published in )tfoniteur of to-day, was that the former betrayed a tt loderation which, to whatever cause it may be attributed, Is worthy of note. It is cerLs,.. .... . Nr cm by the French, and enumerated, perhaps, in imitation lf General Bonaparte after his . first campaign in Italy in 1 , 796, have been dearly purchased in blood, and, no doubt, AUSTRIA • in treasure. The conviction may be gradua ll y stealin g over the E mperor ' s mind, that after all he may not be the great VIENNA, June 10.—The city is full of vague and ex kilitary gen i us w hi c h t oo partial admirers would fain per- ceedingly contradictory reports, but the following intelli *Ude u s ; that the practice of war is more fatiguing than gence is correct :—A few days ago-probably on the sth reviews at Chalons, and more perilous than stag hunts in instant—a Council of War was held .at Verona, and almost the f orest o f C omp ie gne ; and that the mistakes Whic h led to all its members expressed their disapproval of the disP o ;he combat of Magenta, in whatever way the y are accounted sitions made by Count Gyulai on the 4th and sth instant. Q t . in the varnished bulletins of the Jitoniteur, cannat be The sitting is said to have been a stormy one ; and it pro aften repeated w ith advantage;—all these considerations, bably was so, as it is. now the question of the immediate Perhaps, encourage the spirit of moderation which the Em- removal of the co :mender of the 2nd army. The Austrian Peror delights to put forth to the world. We have now in, generals are disconsolate, and they one ,and all firmly h laclPand white a declaration from the Emperor himself believe that the allies would have been defeated on the that he does not make war either." for personal ambition or sth had an attack been made on them by the ten to aggrandise th e territory of France." All hi s Majesty fresh brigades (two complete corps d'arme e and one desire s i s " mora l influence," and not " sterile conquest ;" division) , which Count Gyulai , on his own con and this moral influence "he seeks with p ride, by fession, had at his disposal. The repO r t 'making free one of the fairest parts of Europe." dressy to the Emperor by In other words, not making free with Italy, but making it the second army was given to the public as it was received free —that i s, f ree o f Austrian influence. The Emperor by his Majesty, with the exception of the following remarka- Proclaims also that he is not in Italy with the "preconceived ble passage : " The enemy were so terribly shaken that it System t o di s p oss ess the sovereigns, nor to impose on the was evident he would be incapable of action for the next Italians his own will. " The Grand Du ke of Tuscany and twenty-four hours." The opinion expressed by the Aus the G ran d D uc h ess of Parma, in spite' of what has occurred trian commander was confirmed by the first French bill a thei r sta , es , th e Duke of Modena, and the King of Naples letin, in which it was said that the allied army " was - -not t o s p ea k o f the Pope—may therefore remain corn- to rest on the sth instant, in order that its reorganise- Vetely tranquil. The Emperor Napoleon merely breaks the tion might be completed." It is rumoured that Baron !hauls of those who are enslaved by foreign or domestic Hess is to be Commander-in-Chief, General Beneth.k (Extract.) despots, or g i ves th e m an opportunity of doing so them- his Adlatus, and General Ramming his Quarts:'- . " EARL COWLEY TO EARL OF MALMESEURY. 'Selves, i n p er f ec t security; and he then leaves them at master-General, but the only reliable news received " Paris, April 28th, 1859. libert " After the departure, yesterday, of my despatch of Yto choose their own rulers ; which, I presume, is from Verona is that Hess, as Commander-in-Chief, is yesterday, in which I inclosed to your lordship copies of What is meant by the phrase that he "will place now engaged in reorganising that part of the 2nd army letters which had passed between Count Walewski and my no. obstacle to the free manifestation of their legitimate which was opposed to the allies on the 4th and sth. It self, with reference to a treaty supposed to exist between wishes." . Thi s manifestation will doubtless be by appears that Gyulai's dispositions were ss execrably bad that France and Russia, I received a further written ' universal suffrage, and by means analogous to those which the Sardo-French army would have been able to march to tion from. his Excellency. In the evenina. 7 e r m sa u w nic ll a cs enabled the Moldo-Wallachians to establish their union, and Milan with little molestation, had not the vanguard of Clam's Il Ex i ee l l . lency,. and he reverted to the subject. 'rho object of e te o o neo .e n ti communicationsoop rteos say i en he said, had been to establish that he had never sec ure the double nomination of Prince Couza in the teeth corps chanced to arrive at the Lombard capital on the 2nd told m et e te tha there was a treaty in existence. I admitted o ci f th e t r eaty of Paris. Universal su ff r age has given free- inst. As only 7,000 men of Clam's corps took part in the that fact, and explained how it had happened . that an t o h n at t h h e at o p oo o l i a nt as h su a i d e g n o l ze th ab at ro il a i d a . ll the om to France ; why should it not do the same for Italy ? action, not more than 75,000 or 80,000 Austrians could _ e disavowal of all designs of conquest, and leaving the have been engaged on the 4th inst. As Count Gyulai, in his _talians to choose their own rulers, does not mean that the report of the 6th inst., made no mention of the 7th between the no o si o n h d oi tliol l e : cts . which had been exchanged Emperor would refuse to accept Tuscany, Parma, and corps (Zobel's), which was engaged on the 30th and Passed which treated‘ directly.anlo r ve i rai r e e n et tii y , n o o n thii t ig ri h it had Modena for one of his own family, if the people _of these 31st of May at Palestro, it must be concluded that interests. t. • They had reference solely to the Italian states use the deuce violence of the ballot for that purpose ; it was on the right bank of the Ticino when the battle of reesot,iotrli,roaonodhiftitlher overtures made by the French govern of Malakoff, to come to a common ' or, if the annexation of Lombardy to France herself be Magenta was fought. In his report, Gyulai says, " I rode understanding with he i rt ajesty s government as to the objects pressed upon for in the same way, France could not break to Robecco, to show the 3rd corps the direction it had to of the war---if war there was to be---were answered as his Excellen,cy honed everything the heart of Lombardy by rejecting her prayer, take to get to the enemy's right flank." "At certain French • -,/ that had passed between the and Russian Cabinets be freely ' should communi -----÷—_____—. moments," says the Austrian Generals, "it is absolutely sated to her Majesty's o TRE STATE OF PIEDMONT necessary that a commander should be seen at the whether I might • head of his troops, and it was at such a critical give Lv r er4m ia e e n s ~ ,sI g as o k r e e d ru C tn o e u n n t t 7al o e s wski the SLlT ance . that there was no understanding between France and -:- Russia on Eastern affairs. I asked the question, I said, be- Ty* june 10.—From officers and other arrivals from moment that Count Gyulai rode to Rebecco to cause the language of Russian agents abroad gave her She front we receive some details of the battle of Magenta, perform'a duty which might very well have been discharged majesty's government a right to suspect that Rusi awould Which a ll c o ncur as 'representing as an excee din g l y blood y b y one of his aides-de-cam p ." The feeling against the no longer defend the treaties of 1815 if she could SP business on both sides. Although th e Austrians un q ues- blunderin g commander is so strong, and people so loudly thereb y the abro g ation of the treat y of 1856.docaunret tionably got the worst of it, the French advantage was pur- •assert that his conduct ought to be inquired into, that the mindW al t e at i r h e e pl w ie o d ul is. a . tone which carried conviction to my Chased by a ver y h e avy loss, falling in great measure upon Police have considered it a d v i sa ble to arrest some of 'the syllable of truth givtleiem re e po h r i t s . wo . A. ll l tlt is t i li m ere to was not a Some of their finest t r oops. According to the best accounts coffee-house declaimers. Thi s s t e p, h o wever, is a very i affairs have been studiously avoided by France. l Hi s e s x t c e e r l a . obtainable, the strength actually engaged was as four to imprudent one, as it only serves to increase the exaspetation 1 leney added, that the existence of a treaty, offensive and de obtainable, or perhaps nearly as one to two, the French being of the public, which plainly sees that a very favourable ; feve, with Russia, having t appeared in the newspapers, he entirely contradicted f . At first, it had been decided that believed to have had 40,000 to 45,000 men in the fight, and opportunity for ' &au— .% the .Sardo-Fr ' o gh ar my a severe the contratctickti should, appear i re the Moniteur, but it tud .--,-......-__._,... , " My dear CoWley,—They write to me from Si. Peters burg that I have spoken to you of a secret treaty between Russia and France. Since I desire that not the lightest cloud should obscure our relations, I wish to explain my self very frankly with you, without delay, on this subject. You know as well as I do, that diplomatic usages. do not admit of questions touching secret treaties, from the very simple reason that, to consent to answer in the negative would be to establish implicitly that a refusal to answer on another occasion would be equivalent to a tacit avowal. Besides, if our conversation had not been of a strictly private' character, you would not probably of thought of asking me such a question ; and, if you bad asked it, my duty would have obliged me to remind you that I could not admit a question to which I could answer neither yes or no, and that, for the reasons which have been above mentioned. I had not thought it necessary to proceed in the commander such a manner with you, taking the amicable and intimate character of our relations into consideration ; anyhow, I have not spoken to you of a treaty, but greatly wishing that you should not deceive yourself as to the nature of the relations which have been established between Russia and ourselves, I attempted in our conversation to rectify, some erroneous ideas in this , respect. Thus, then, in order that there should be no misunderstanding between us, my dear Cowley, I must repeat to you, that it would not have been within my competence to accept a question touching the existence of secret treaties, and that in the confidential conversation which we, had together, I said nothing which could imply the idea of a treaty,—Aecept, &c., " A. WALEWSKI." impatient, C to follow him, and plislied forward with MS staff at i sharp trot. Just then a small part of Ilulans.dashed quickes across, so close that it seems inexplicable that th and I THE NORTHERN TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 14 igs9 that of Russia, nor in the communications excnangeu Lut subject, with reference to the affairs of Italy, is of a nature to affect in the slightest degree the interests of Great Britain, and that the new report of a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, existing between Russia and France is entir " el3 without foundation.---Accept, &c., A. WALEwsici. The correspondence includes despat R. James and Mr. Charles Lever (the well-known r les from Mr, G. I and Mr. Scarlett, the Minister at Florence The latt The two last despatches consist of one from Co been thought afterwards that such a proceeding would give too much importance to the rumour, and the denial would be inserted in other papers." (Translation.) " Paris, May 2, 1859: " M. l'Ambassadeur,—l have received the letter which you did me the honour of writing me to inform me of the satisfaction with which her Britannic Majesty's government had received the spontaneous assurances which it had pleased the Emperor to give you verbally on the subjects of the relations which have been lately established betweeg Russia and France. His Majesty has deigned to authorise me to repeat to your Excellency that nothing, in the existing arrangements between the government of the Emperor and ...... one of his despatches, observes—" I cannot help believing it oue opinion which the French Minister often announces namely, that the possession of Lombardy is in reality a source of weakness to Austria, and that wei independence, and make an Austrian Archduk Lombardy and Venice, entirely withdrawinc , her t 7 troops from Italy, not only would she, by such a policy, di appoint the ambition of Piedmont, but might hereaft establish for herself in these countries a more healthy and legitimate influence, instead of being execrated throughout the whole peninsula." In a circular to her Majesty's ministers abroad, dated the 4th ult., Lord Malmesbury enters into a narrative of the various transactions, and concludes with saying—" In the present position of the contending parties, it would obviously be to no purpose to attempt to restrain them from engaging in a deadly struggle. Her Majesty's Government will, how ever, watch the progress of the war with the most anxious attention, and will be ready to avail themselves of any opportunity that may arise for the exercise of their good offices in the cause of peace. It is their earnest desire and firm intention to observe the most scrupulous neutrality T. between the contending parties." Walewski, to the French minister at Vienna, and which was communicated to Earl Malmesbury by the Duke of Mala- aide-de-camp were not either 3r cut down. It is presumable they wc the infantry that closely followed, but of incidents of Is kind, occurring in the middle of a battle, and over in taut, it is difficult to get correct particulars of a cut across the shoulder, a a severe wound only by the padding One of )r trap- pings of his uniform. General Espinasse is said to hay been killed in the town of Magenta, dud in rather a s rode up to the door of a house filled with Austrian soldiers (such is the account that has reached me to-day from camp), followed by his aide-de-camp and some troops, and called upon the enemy to surrender. It is even said he dismounted and struck at the door, at the same time calling to his mon, who were a littlr behind him. He was shot from the windows, and his aide de-camp, who rushed in, either to drag him out of danger or to share it, fell by his side This is the account given to me. I see that another says he was cut in two by a cannon ball. General Clery fell gloriously in front of his men. Espinasse and his aide-de-camp (who was his nephew) were buried .at Novara on the 7th, veterans of St. Helena being the pall bearers. Only a very small force of French cavalry, not much exceeding 120 sabres, took_ part in the battle, but they did good service at a particular moment by checking the enemy when he was forcing back the grenadiers of the Guard. They charged down in five divisions, and were taken for the advance of strong columns. On the 6th inst. a column of 4,000 Austrians was very nearly cut off at San Pietro all' Colmo, between Magenta and Milan, by General Fanti's division. The Sardinians were close upon them, when they were delayed by the arrival of two French officers, who, riding along the column, desired them to suspend the pur suit, as they were bearers of a summons to surrender. The officers went on, were received by the enemy, and conducted, it is said, blindfolded to the general commanding time was lost by the Piedmontese, and made the most of by the Austrians, and finally the officers were dismissed on the double ground of their having no written credentials, and of the enemy's commander not seeing that his position was such as to render it necessary to yield. blow has been lost. The loudest railers against General Gyulai are military men, and the fact is so patent that_no one can venture to- gainsay me. CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE AFFAIRS OF ITALY. The correspondence respecting the affairs of Italy, so often alluded to in the late debate, yesterday morning was issued in a blue-book of 412 pages. The period covered by these documents extends from January to May, 1859, and the actual number of papers, &c., is not less. than 535. The correspondence opens with an extract from a despatch of Earl Cowley's, drawing attention to the well-reme,mbered expression of the Emperor to M. de Hubner, respecting his unsatisfactory relations with Austria. Lord Malmes bury counsels, " the union and good understanding of France and Austria," in order that an amelioration and gradual improvement of the condition of the Italia' may be effected, and remarks : —" If, happily for that people, those two governments would occupy themselves seriously to insist upon and carry out the reforms demanded by both justice and policy in Central Italy they would doubtless succeed. In an effort so glorious for both countries, and so beneficial to Austria, her Majesty's government would heartily join ; although they arc of opinion that, as a Protestant country, England should not take too prominent a part, lest she should excite a suspicion that she was swayed by motives of a Sectarian character. If Prussia and Russia approved, they would stan Itoman Catholic .t and- modification of the ter V WOUIC country and good government of the people; without enfeebling the spiritual authority of the Pope, her Majesty's government would be ready, together with the other powers - who were parties to the treaties of 1815, to give it their best con s-de-camp koff; and one which occupies upwards of four pag Earl Malmesbnry to Lord Cowley. This dispatc s, from ;h seta forth the foreign policy of the Derby administration in the fol- lowing terms - - "Viewing impartially the conduct of both Austria and Sardinia in regard to Italy, and lamenting most deeply the spirit by which both have been actuated, her Majesty's 'government can, nevertheless, have no doubt as to the course which it befits, them to pursue in the present emer gency. The British government have always recognised as a sacred rule of international obligation, that no country has a right authoritatively to interfere in the internal affairs of a foreign state, or, with a sound policy, long with hold its acknowledgment of any new form of government which may be adopted and established, without territorial usurpation or absorption, by the spontaneous wish of its people. The British government have shown, for a long series of years, how steadily they have observed these prin ciples, and they certainly cannot depart from them on the present occasion, however earnest may be their desire to secure the freedom of the Italian people, and to maintain the _treaties which confirmed the independence of their respective states. The government of the Emperor of the French appears to anticipate that, notwithstanding the abhorrence with which her Majesty's government contemplate the coming war, and the value which they httach to the principle of non-inter ference, they will yet be brought to co-operate with France on the present occasion. The imperial government has had too many proofs of late years of the anxiety of the British government to act together with them in all measures cal culated to lead to the general advantage of nations, to sup pose that it is otherwise than with sincere regret that her Majesty's government feel themselves precluded, by every consideration, from associating themselves with France in the present struggle. They believe that the struggle will be productive of misery and ruin to Italy, and, so far from accelerating the development of freedom in that country, will impose upon it a heavier burden of present ruin and future taxation. They feel that the war, on whatever princi pleS it may be commenced, and whatever obj contemplate, will infallibly become a v it may of extreme ,t hut dread political passions ana opinions. "Hey uaLotui, that the events in Italy may react on othe ations, and that, at an early Say, all Europe will b in the conflict. Your Excellency, who 'has taken so active a part in the efforts of her Majesty's government to avert these results, will, more easily than any one, understand the bitter disappointment of her Majesty's government that all those efforts have proved unavailing. Nevertheless, your Excellency will assure the French govern ment that her Majesty's ministers will not be deterred by difficulties, past or future, from entertaining hereafter any overture which may be made to them by either of the contending parties, indicating a disposition to avail them selves of the good offices of -England. Nay, more ; her Majesty's government will watch with the utmost attention the various phases of the war; and if an opportunity should present itself for pleading the cause of peace and reconcilia tion, they will not wait to be invited, but will at once tender themselves as mediators, in the sincere hope that their offer may be accepted, and lead to peace. They will do so with the fixed determination to carry out such a mediation in a spirit of fairness and impartiality, and with an earnest desire to establish and secure a well-balanced and real independence of the Italian states and a general improvement of the administrations throughout the Peninsula of Italy. The Emperor of the French may be assured that if this opportunity should present itself, her Majesty's government will zealously eo-operate with his imperial Majesty, and will rejoice most sincerely at again finding themselves placed on the same line with a most valued ally, by acting cordially - with France in every work of peace and civilisation." avulved RUSSIAN CIRCULAR. The Russian government has issued a circular to all its representatives at foreign courts, explaining the views of Russia respecting the political situation of Europe, more especially as regards the attitude of Germany. This circular says "Our desire, like that of the majority of the Great Powers, is now to localise the war, because it arose out of local circumstances, and because it is the only means of on the hours, inctualn; abOut 12,000 p, naa'ers, masters, f ;nn factories, t tors of achinery about ion roor W. Arrnstronf )W it r The co AMERICAN ated to be of office, ne line accelerating the return of peace. ........ lotto some States of the German Confederation tends, contrary, to generalise the struggle by giving it a character and proportions which go beyond all human provision, and which, under any circumstances, would lead to increased devastation, and would cause torrents of blood to be shed. " We can the less understand this tendency, as indepen dently of the guarantees offered to Germany by the positive declarations of the French government, accepted by the Great Powers, and the very force of circumstances, the German States thereby deviate from the fundamental basis which unites them. " The German Confederation is a combination purely and exclusively defensive. It is on that condition that she participated in the international law of Europe, on the bases of treaties to which Russia's signature is affixed. " Now, no hostile act has been committed by France against the confederation, and there does not exist any story treaty for the latter to attack that power. " Should, consequently, the confederation take hostile measures towards France on conjectural data, and against which it has obtained more than one guarantee, it would have falsified the object of its institution, and disowned the spirit of treaties upon which its existence rests. " We confidently entertain the hope that the wisdom of the Federal 'governments will set aside determinations which would turn to their prejudice, and would not con tribute to strengthen their own position. " If, which God forbid, it should happen otherwise, we shall at all events have fulfilled a duty of frank and sincere friendship. Whatever may be the issue of the present com plications, the Emperor, our august master, perfectly free in his action, will only be inspired by tho interests of his country and the dignity of his crown in the determinations which his Majesty will be called upon to take. GORTSCHAKOIT. "St. Petersburg, 15th (27) May, 1859." The Invalide Busse announces that the Russian government has concluded a financial convention with Messrs. Rothschild, through the mediuin of the commercial house of Kapherr and Co., of St. Petersburg, The details of the convention are not known. ' PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE. Notwithstanding that the establishment of Woolwich Arsenal engaged in the Tenon* departments of War has for some time exceeded that any former period, large addi *us have been made, wry day during the past week, cop: sisting principally of men reunired for preparing guns, she+, least four—plying between the two points. Their shell, and cartridges for use and for .exportatiqa, removing pioneer ship is the barque Mendi. They will have stocks of obsolete or 'doubtful stores to be e.Amined and a small steamer to run along the coast from Cape recast, and cleaning and burnishing arms and materials of Palmas to Monrovia, touching at intermediate every description which may possibly be brought into sad- points to collect freight and passengers for the den regnisition. The number of men, women, and lads who. American packet. As the British steamers do not daily assemble within the arsenal at the various working n ow touch at Monrovi a , thi s s t eamer will likewise --,-, the contractor's labourers, are calculated at sons. The royal carriage department and mail. be useful in carrying the The business, both cloys 6,718! military and civil officers, Ma on shore and shipboard, will of course be transacted )remen, artificers, labourers,'and others; entirely by coloured men ; for it is a speculation of 1, 41 military storekeepers, and the inspec. their own, and one in which they. will probably best 2,000 ; the other departments each a succeed by confining its operation to the manage aroportionate number, and the contractors about 3,000. A meet of their own race. With respect to the .ritime branch of the enterprise, it is well °served, that " coloured men are generally good sailors, more peaceable, docile, and humane than the white slaves of the forecastle, and it is no more than fair that they should have an opportunity to rise to command a crew of their peers, provided they are competent to do so." And as to the commercial department, I believe the observation is quite trqe, that "the African trade in palm oil, ivory, gold dust, &e d, coffee, =iv [lade much more profitable and extensive than it now is." And, there fore, taking it altogether, "if the new hands will --overe, there can be but little doubt that they will +s and full passenger lists." It is, have good freig ..sting experin Despatches from Sir J. Hudson and Lord A. Loftus elicit It should be stated that from the first his lordsh the•nolica. of Sardinia p censures On February 12, he " earnestly ' the cabinet of Turin to patise in its "" headlong areer." He says, "It may be still within its power to avert the danger which it has so rashly courted ; it may still be able to control the passions which it has so injudici ously excited ; it may still, with.courtesy, retract the appli- cgi(ins which it has ralde for for still come to such a common and i , zn support and• it -may tanding with Austria as to admit hat power, re-as any sinister de- n§§ on the part of Sardinia,-abstaining from any demon- Ition of force on the frontier of Lombardy, calculated to Turin. Her Majesty's g-overn nt hay( no reason to suppose that Austria courts an Italian war ; but, on the other hand, it cannot be supposed that Austria will submit without a struggle to the invasion of the. terri tories which she holds under the united sanction of the powers of Europe, or allow a foreign state to hold out encouragement to the disaffected within the Lombardo- kingdom." ils of conversations with the foreign ministers of their respected courts are reported by our representatives at Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Turin The negotiations which preceded and accompanied the mission of Earl Cowley to Vienna, and the Russian pro P osition of a congreSs . as well as the question of a previous disarmament, occupy a considerable share of the correspon dence. The failure of these negotiations was complete on the 27th of April, when Lord Malmesbury wrote Sir J. Crampton :—" I have to instruct you to inform Prince hakoff that the cabinet of Vienna having declined to accept the 6pecific part of the proposals offered by her Majesty's government for the adoption of their allies on the 18th instant, which contemplated the admission to the con gress of the representatives of the Italian states on the same footing on which they were admitted to the congress of Laybach, her Majesty's government have considered that, consistently with the dignity of this country, no other course remained for them to pursue than to abandon all further attempts at assembling a congress of the five great powers on the affairs of Italy ; and they will accordingly decline to take part in any such meeting, even if any further proposal were made to them to do so." The sole mediation of England was subsequently refused • the French Government. Under these circumstances," says Earl Malmesbury (April 29), " Her Majesty's Govern ment have no but to abandon, for the present, any further attempt to stay the outbreak of war; but they will, nevertheless, be at all times ready and anxious, during the progress of the war, to lend their best efforts to promote the reconciliation of the contending parties, and they will take advantage of every favourable opportunity that may offer for effecting that object." The " hostile" character (towards Austria) of Russian neutrality is commented upon as early as the 15th February, by Sir J . Crampton, the English Minister at St. Petersburgh. In April instructions were given by the Earl of Malmesbury to our representatives at Paris and St. Petersburgh to make inquiries about the alleged secret treaty between France and Russia. The French reply is found in the following (Translation.) _ "Paris, April 26, 1859 io recently built the pattern room The new branch of tra tall chum feet high rs, is progressing rapidly ; the e the machinery, and to he 100 and the exterior I` bell factory, ac joining the ng 180 smiths, haiimer 3otunienced forging the pri of the new rifled o-rdn'anec -..-............ tablisli meat will admit iFFAIRS. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT TO THE SOUTH. 111011 E TROTTBI WITH TH be regarded with indifference even in England. Apropos of the negro question, I may mention that the subject of marriage among those of their race who are in bondage in the United. States has lately been under the consideration of the Anglo-. American Church in South Carolii my hands Special Cm THE LINE OF Episcopal and , current entitled appointed b's' ome into ,rt of the Protestant Lt its session X RCM. port .on the duty of elergsmen in ge in 1858, to relation to the mar substance of the Report is embodied in eight Resolutions, which declare, first, that the, sacred relation of husband and wife binds with the same force the master and the slave.; second, that the injunction of our Saviour, forbid to those whom. the con- ONS; NO CHANCE OF TOO PROMINENT: T HEIR IN( A NEW IMPORTATION XPITLSION MOST THE NEXT PRL•SIDENTIAL ELECTION: CONFUSED STATE OF PARTIES : NO ACTUAL CANDI- DESIRABLE NEGRO ENTERP E FOR LIBERIA INTER AT NEW YORK NEGRO SLAVE T ADJUDICA' ) UPON RIAG ES BY THE ANG ,ICAN CHURCH, IN CAROLINA THE LAWLESS LIQUOR DEALERS OF NEW YORII The 'P et out on a visit to some of the Southern States. As his political strength is known to lie very much in that direction, it has not unrea sonably been suspected that the visit had something to do with Mr. Buchanan's re-occupation of the White House in 1861 ; for there is an idea very prevalent that he would gladly be re-elected, if only of carrying out his Cuban ure an opportunit .e. for whic remaining eig has no intention wh God has joined to,getl science sale or dispoE be governed Chris aster; third, that in the 1.1 of a married slave, ti Le master should. td fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh, relate to cases of voluntary abandon tions fro it am or ives, and to separa their control ; and that in such cases of and where separation appears to be permanent and final, the refusal to allow a second marriage would often produce much evil and hardship, and therefore the the eighth res separation, ocher either Convention decides in favour - of such marriages. There is something rather hopeful in this ; and more especially when it is considered that the Anglo- American Church in South Carolina embraces among its members a very great proportion of the largest and most influential slaveholders in the Union. It must be remembered, however, that the above representation of the case is what it is declared to be in theory. In practice, it is to be feared, it is too often very difficult. The wonder in England will doubtless be, how the holders of their fellow Christians in slavery, and the traffickers in human bodies and souls, can possibly be recog nized as members of an offshoot of your national Church. It is an English prelate, and one of the most distinguished of the existing Episcopal Bench, who asks,—" What witness has yet been borne by the Church in these Slave States against this.almoit universal sin ? How has she fulfilled her vocation?" And who at once answers,—" She raises no voice against the predominant evil; she palliates it in theory, and in practice she shares in it."* This reproach, I fear you will think, is rather confirmed, than ignored, by the Report I have spoken of. A remarkable instance of the little regard that is paid by " the people " to the requirements of the law, and the indifference there is about enforcing it whenever it is unpopular so to. do, is just now made manifest by the discovery. by the Excise Commis sioners, that in the city of New York alone there are thousand persons who sell liquors without. being licensed as the law requires. This trade is, more than anything else, a source of lawlessness. 'When the law was enacted, some three or four years since, prohibiting the sale of liquors altogether except as meeticine —it was almost universally set at nought. The fact is that the liquor dealers —and their name is leg-ion are a very formidable set of fellows, and many of their customers and abettors are still morn so ; and on political grounds especially, it is dangerous to meddle with them. as mane * Wilberf a's History of the American Church The French government have sent three war steamers, and two schooners of war to watch over the interests of their fishermen in the Newfoundland fisheries. ACCIDENT AT A REVIF,W.— On the 25th nit., while the Royal Sus Sex Militia were being reviewed in the Queen's Park at Edinburgh, one of the several boys who had been. following the soldiers in their movements was accidentally hit on the head by a cartridge paper discharged in the retreat movement. The young lad was able to walk to an apothecary's, and was afterwards taken to the infirmary, where he progressed favourably for ten days, but on the 6th instant he was seized with convulsions, and died next day. It was found that a small crack had been made in the skull, which had ultimately produced inflammation, and thereby caused his death. _ GREAT THUNDER-STON Sunday, London was ze"— which raged with visited by a s terrific violenee for several hours. The morning, from an early hour, was cloudy, some rain having fallen during the previous night, and up to twelve o'clock thick clouds gathered, portending the coming storm. Shortly after twelve o'clock they broke, and the rain poured down in in- cessant torrents during the next two hours, most effectually clearing the streets, for any one who might have ventured out would, in a single moment, have been drenched to the skin. Meanwhile, there were vivid flashes of lightning and, appalling peals of thunder, creating in many quarters the most intense alarm. Between two and three o'clock the ited; but during the remainder of the intervals, of thunder, evening the ,nd rain ai there will searCelybe time during een months of his present term Buchanan has declared that he -election .nd that he will avail himself of the first public - - -• contra y pre If of emphatically i the Mormon It had been apprehended for the last week or two, that the differences so long existing between the Executive and Judiciary were. about to result in a collision between the United States troops under General Johnston, and the Mormon militia under General Wells—five thousand of • the latter having been called out by Governor Cumming to protect the citizens from what he deems the usurpation of authority on the part of the judges and the military. I noticed the case in question at the time. It became evident that a serious state of affairs had arisen, and there was considerable anxiety about it at Washington. It is now very generally admitted, that there can be no permanent peace in that Territory between those they stigmatise as " Gentiles," and the Mormon population. All the United States officials, of course, are " Gentiles and they have a not unnatural antipathy to them, and to the whole American people. As I see it well observed, " the line of demarcation is too strongly drawn between them—the interests and the sympathies of both are alike divided ; and we question whether any amount of armed force the government can send there will have any other effect than the total demolition of Mormon rule in Utah, and the exodus of that Prat tr u the Pacific. It is _rimy to one of the Ist i__ -. possible," adds the writer, " that the present diffi culty may end in this way ; and if such is to be the result, the sooner-it comes about the better." And so say I,—the sooner the better for the credit of the Union, as well as the peace of the country. The fact that the Mormons are rapidly increasing in numbers, and in power, is only an additional reason for their expulsion. . The transit of a new importation of them is thus noticed in a late number of a Chicago journal : —" At the Michigan Central Depot grounds yesterday morning arrived a special train from Detroit, bearing a small party of Latter day Saints and Saintesses, only seven hundred and fifty strong, a fresh arrival in this country by the Liverpool liner packet ship William Tapscott, at New York. They were an assorted cargo of humanity, made up from the several proselyting agencies of the Elders of Joseph Smith, but chiefly representing the British isles and the north of Europe. As they embarked from the long train, and filed into the depot and waiting rooms, the spectacle drew numerous curious spectators, who rather pressed upon the entrances to the crowded ladies' rooms, some of the sinners perhaps more or less favourably inclined to the Mortnon faith by this or that glimpse at its sisterhood. One stout matron, in fact, seemingly beanie scandalised at her share of the inspection, and dashed the Gentile crew by'a proposi tion to ' pass round the hat, if the show is to be kept up. We learn that among the number one disciple has in his family five sisters, to each of whom he is at once brother-in-law and husband. Another has a mother and her daughter in the same relation to his bearded and sanctimonious -looking self." This is undoubtedly a most disgusting state of things to be found in a Christian country. Here are men and women living in -a condition of gross and revolting incest ; and in this beastly' state are taken under the protection of the United States anvprnmpnt. It is a disgrace to human nature, to 0 Q I CRINOLINE AND INDEVOTION AT CHUnCIL - On Sunday say nothing of any higher consideration. the Rev. W. L". Richards, incumbent of the new church of The preparatory movement for the next Preside"- All Saints, te aMrgarct-street, took occasion in the course of tial Election is going on with increased vigour, but his sermon pronounce a severe censure upon the existing so far with no definite course of action, either with mania t for dre ie ss. The rev. gentleman had previously been me t o persuade chur eh t o himself g r a t that ifs. none mere one party or the other. As is truly remarked, "on i o n f s G is o i d ng o l n vo t uld n t e i c l e a s t si h ty of d i e i vout attention to the worship those he saw before him' t the day ac d cd) both sides the politicians are completely befogged, :co ' p id a l r e t curiosity.of Christian O lN n • l oyrshiep was . g oin g at and the chances of union and harmony on either side .. will depend as much upon the events at Washingtonbefore, while h t e he sa m w os a t , solem o u tt of the year before us as upon the events of the past walking up and down, gazing s thi s on, he and aF e t rs hat, five years of the Kansas agitation. Thus," it is and comporting himself altogether as if he had been at a added, " with the summoning of the contesting museum or a picture gallery. And that morning he had seen parties to the field in 1860, we may have a very others sitting and lolling through the service. Surely such great change- in their relative positions and strength, conduct could not be right. On week days every facility and thus, under the favourable auspices of the times was afforded fhe public for seeing, what every one admitted, and Mr. Buchanan's vigilant and sagacious adminis- was a very beautiful edifice ; and there was,theroe..ore.! no tration, the broken and dispirited democracy excuse for coming to look at it when they ought t Leti there for no other urpose than that of devotion.it be may re-appear in the fight a - solid and studythat church remembered letarmy." Lettemples—temples of the 3rd chapter of Isaiah, of n he words of followers are resolved upon a bold and positive anti-thoughtforour blessed Lord, who bade his dis ci les take no injune slavery platform •, but the Americans and more P tions of Holy Scripture raiment. Not that the moderate of the Republicans are disposed to sr f et a i against the use of gold and pearls and costly array were be taken quite literally, for down the slavery issue so as to make an op_e o ni t l i i ic , and 1 there could be no doubt that the costliness of a person's y' a general opposition coalition in 1860, th N North unite, apparel might lawful bear some proportion to his station South." And if these two sections can uor means. At the art . present time, however, it must be it is generally believed that the Democratic s p i y obvious that there was a licentious extravagance in dress would be defeated. But that Mr. Seward the which amounted to a positive deformity. Everyone seemed. man thus to unite upon, is more than questionable... to vie with her neighbour who should be guilty of the most Col. Fremont would, upon the whole, it is thought, l excess. But let such reflect that a church was not a show be much more likely. place and that it had no room for vanity. Indeed it was A very well-planned effort has just been made im? than to hardly possible to conceive any more painful misp „ . obtain a select-body of negro recruits for Monrovia, that which was caused by the spectacle of a, per , :ol i e i n s te; t i o n l g —not for any military movement, but for prosecu- the presence of God and ever! a po ) r r o a a 1 t, V:rlno. the body y tins the peaceful pursuits of commerce in that t v a l ble in t th t e g A arb of fo , lly. bie Th o e rn f t a l :n ne ent must for the present rising colony. Their present object is to combine l eons s n is o t in shaiwnefmacaciqlnseess and sobriety ; but a time would resou rces .of the country. They i n t en d , i t i s stated, becometh women prof essin g g odliness with good works her to have a house in New York for the purp ose of develo p in g the commercial come when if she had adorned herself with that which `. York, and another at Lord, would change her vile body itltO the image of . MonrOvia, With a regular Wu a packets —at His QW1:1, ution dc