The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-14 00:00:00

secret instructions for the governor with relation
to them.

At Constantinople, M. Lavelette is finding the.
fullest scope for his diplomatic abilities, as the
alleged confidential depository of some tremen-
dous secret of his Imperial master's. Sir E. Lytton
holds aloof from him : Austria wishes to swim in
this matter with the current, and the marquis,
receives cordial co-operation from the members of
the Russian Legation alone. As for the Turks
-themselves, their—discontent -by all -accounts is
prolond. The preponderating inflnence. of
Christian diplomacy is growing more and mote
insupportable to them, for they entertain the most
steadfast persuasion, that the sole object of its
exercise to-,substitute the- institutions and
, ••
I usages , Of- Europe for the laWs of the - Prophet.
Perhaps they are not far wrong. It may not be
gerierfilly known, also, that a considerable num-
-ber'of Greeks haVe enrolled themselvei in the
Turkish army, -concurrently with the Turks,
and these, it is. unnecessary to -say, are at
present the cause .of no little suspicion and
uneasiness to the Government. Moreover,
it is asserted that a great conspiracy, has
been discovered at Scutari, and that the con-
--spirators -had organised a rising on the Asiatic
side. Another letter from Constantinople men-
tions" a rumour that the English Government
intends taking possession of, some of the islands
of the Archipelegb, as soon as the French expedi-
tion lands. The report lately received by
I telegram from Fuad Pasha, seems. to have been
considered. by Lord J. ',Russell as authorising him
to state, that he hadievery. reason to, believe that
the distUrbances were finally at an end, but I
suspect hiS lordship will find himself very much
mistaken. The Patric of yesterday evening,
takes the' Morning Star 'to task for following
suit in this interpretation of the despatch' in
question, and for 'suggesting that, not only
should no More troops be sent off by -France, but
that those which have left, should be recalled forth-
with. " Such counsel as this," adds the Patric,
" is only a subject for derision; it could only be
inspired by a_ pitiful jealousy of France." per-
haps the Patric is not aware, how often the
former .of 'these obseivations is applied to the
same paper by-the English people theniselves.
-A private telegram was publiShed here last
night stating,- that Garibaldi had landed at
•
Pausillipe, near Naples, and had had an inter-
view with the " notabilities" of that city; but
the last accounts speak of him as still at Messina,
where, however, he is making preparations on a
Most extensive scale for some great comp, the
noise of which will shortly resound from one end
of Europe to another.
There are a number of rumours afloat as to the
steps that are being taken by the commanders of
the troops at Naples, and of those at Rome, to
meet the attack, and it is said , that Austria
will not shrink from declaring war at once against
Sardinia, if she discovers the -smallest active com-
plicity between the Government of Piedmont and
Garibaldi ; but I must defer allusion to these
rumours till my next, and some of them will keep
,very well.
If I am to believe a statement in the Progres
de Lyon, the French Government has- authorised
a manufacturer of that city to execute an order
from the Sardinian Goternment for the making
of 25,000 rifle muskets.
The weather and the crops are engaging much
attention here at present—more even than M.
Grandguillot's articles on the comparative size of
the armaments of France and England founded
on official returns, in which he has been to a great
eXtent, anticipated by M. Clarigny .in a two
• volume pamphlet, copious extracts of which were
published previous to the issuing of the work
itself. People here are not ignorant that an
English official account is a very different thing
from a French otie. As for the harvest, it would
be premature to pronounce any opinion upon the
probable state of the crop as a whole. •

ITALY.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

MILAN, August 7.
For the last eight or ten, days more than
the ordinary movement and activity has been
observed at the offices of Agostino Bertani,
deputy.of the Sardinian Parliament—Garihaldi's
factotum and chief director of the volunteer
expedition to Sicily. Day after day for the last
fortnight, hundreds of young men were arriving
by almost 'every train at Genoa, so that it was
clearto everyone that something more than an
ordinary expedition was preparing ; but 'the
greatest secrecy being observed by Bertani and
the other Garibaldian agents, we were entirely
left-to the wide field of conjectures which this
unusual movement excited among those who
scrutinisingly watch the passing events of the
day.. - Towards the end of the past week the
number of young men at Genoa, Cornegliano and
FeStri, were not less than six or eight thousand.
On Tuesday last five steamers entered the port
and were immediately visited by Bertani and the
committee of the Society Nazionale, a circum-
stance which did not escape the observation of
those idlers, whose only occupation is to pry into
the most minute actions of their neighbours, and
if they have succeeded in picking up the smallest
fact, to roll it through the length and breadth of
the city, like the boys do a snow-ball until it
takes the most gigantic proportions. This was
the case with the five steamers, because on Wed-
nesday morning everyone was littering with the
greatest consternation, "And the twenty steamers
that came .here yesterday."
Colenel Canofari and several others who Were
to command this expedition, arrived at Genoa
from Sicily, which circumstance again gave birth
to fresh conjectures. Ent onWodneadayemul..g,
notwithstanding all the prudence and tact of
Bertani; he vas unable longer to' ceneeal the
object of these great preparations, and the fact at
last came out that this expedition was no more
nor no less than for the express invasion -orthe
Pontifical States, which was planned to take
place almost simultaneously with the landingnf
Garibaldi. in Calabria,—that the five steamers
-which—were in the port were to be followed-by
several others, for. the purpose of transporting
this large body of young men from-Genoa, -and
that it would be joined by a similar expedition
at Leghorn; thus Making a force of nearly twielve
or fourteen _thousand men, all of whom Were
equipped with the most military exactness.
I must here break off from the subject to intro-
duce by way of parenthesis a few phrases. Where
do these immense sums come from to meet these
expenses ? The fund for the million muskets is
'certainly exhausted. The Sicilian fund has
scarcely a franc left ; the subscriptions from Eng:
land and France have been swallowed up by the
first expeditions ; and we know that the. revenue
that has been received from Sicily is not sufficient
for-the internal expenditure ; consequently, some
secret and powerful current ,must be at work to
keep in motion this political bark of the Garibaldi
party. . ,
RiCasoli, the ex-dictator of Tuscany, being
informed of the object of the preparations at
Leg-
horn, immediately left for Turin to consult with
Cavour upon the steps , that should be taken with
regard to this: expedition, and
after a meeting of
the Cabinet it was determined, at whatever cost,
to stop the same, being calculated to plunge the
Stateintothe greatest peril. Farini, the Minister
Of the Interior, was tharg-ed to start for. Genoa
and dissuade Bertani from pursuing such a dan-
gerous undertaking, inasmuch as it would corn-
yrozriise the Governmentin the face of Eur Ope,
and doubtless furnish Austria with a casus belli
for the protection of the Pope, as well 'as lead-to
serious complications which-would in all probabi-
lity bring the State into direct antagonism with
France. Bertani most energetically resisted this
reasoning' of the minister, declaring that it was
impossible to stop the expedition, and that events
course whatever consequences
must take their
might follow. Whereupon Farini replied in such
untnistaks-able terms that at last a Promise was
given
that the expedition should start direct for
Palermo, and from thence take such a course. as
Garibaldi might think most in harmony with his
present plans. In. this manlier the question of
the invasion of Pio Nono's states rest for the pre-
sent. This is the second time that an attempt
has been_ made on the part of the in • surrectionary
Movement to invade the Papal States, the first
having been concerted at thetime of
Medici's
expedition; and consisted of two armed vessels,
the American Clipper and Utile,
e, which were com-
manded by Zambianchi and Corte, hut being cap-
tured -in the Tuscan waters, put a stop for a time
to the contemplated design of Garibaldi.
I will'not take upon myself to say that Pius
'the IX. mid his Cardinals ought to be, driven out
,of Rome, and stripped of 'an temporal power,
or that no sympathy ought to be felt for him
should his States be successfully invaded by the