The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-04 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

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ITALY.

TURIN, Sari 3.

The Official Gazette of to-day says :
" Garibaldi has been removed to Varignano, in
the Gulf of Spezzis, where an apartment has been
prepared for him.
" His wounds appear to be slight. The govern-
ment has ordered two distinguished medical men
to attend him."
The Gazetta di Torino says
•

" Signori Desambrois and Caaainis were present
at the extraordinary council of ministers held yes-
terday.

"The opinion which prevaiieetin the council was
that justice should be fully allowed to take its
course. Two ministers were in favour of an am-
nesty being proclaimed.
"Nothing was decided as to the form of trial, bat
the question will be submitted to the consideration I
of the council to be held to-day."
Several members of the Chamber of Deputies '
have addressed a letter to the President, requesting
explanations respecting the arrest of some deputies
at Naples.

The Stampa of to-day states that several deputies
who had been threatened with arrest at Naples have
arrived at Genoa.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO GERMANY.

BRUSSELS, Ben,. a

Her Majesty the Queen, and the Princesses
Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice, alighted yesterday at
Lacken.

To-day the Princesses visited Brussels, accom-
panied by the Duchess of Brabant,
The Princes Arthur and Leopold have also visited
this city to-day with the Count of Flanders.
At noon to-day a grand (keener was given in the
Palace at Brussels, at which the Prince Royal of
Denmark, Earl Russell, Lord Howard, and other
distinguished personages, were present.
Her Majesty remained at I*cken with the King
of the Belgians. _

A grand dinner will be given this evening at the
Palace.

The departure of the Queen for Germany will
probably take place to-morrow.

ITALY.

GARIBALDI'S DRPARTURE FROM SICILY.

[Th' following letter, ea our readers will perceive, is Of
an earlier date than that of the letter from Naples, which
we published yesterday, having, it seems, suffered deten•
tion. As the narrative, from an eye-witness, of Garibaldi's
departure from Sicily for the Calabrian coast, the present let-
ter possesses an historical value, and will, we are sure, be
read with attentive interest.]

had assembled on the place around the volunteers ;
the staff waited on the gallery of the bathing esta-
blishment on the lava rocks ; about one hundred
boats lay close to the beach. At half-past five the
General arrived in a carriage, and was received
with &rives, but he made a sign not to shout,
which the people understood, and the embarkation
began. The staff, the special corps, the Continen-
tals under Bedeachini, Menotti's Guides, the Tus-
cans, the deserters, the thirty Hungarians, and the
flower of the Sicilian volunteers, were rowed to the
Diapaccio ; the Sicilians of General Corrao occupied
the larger vessel, the General Abbatucci ; Garibaldi
himself took the command of the former, though she
is a slower ship, but he scorned the idea of steaming
under French colours, and put Barratini in
command of the French packet. In the
meantime it bad grown dark, and the greatest
confusion prevailed on board and on shore. Both
ships were filled to suffocation ; there was no possi-
bility of sitting or laying down, and still the boats
were arriving and discharging their living cargo on
deck. 'Those who bad remained on shore shouted
andswets* and those on board protested vehemently
Against matte rntrffrers. The 'etierfffillektdd de-
scription. Garibaldi ordered all lights to be put
out, and even prohibited smoking. This order was I
complied with ; but his second order to keep abso-
lute silence could not be enforced. The Sicilians
continued , to chatter and quarrel, squeezed
together like so many herrings ; the heat became
insupportable ; it was near 10 o'clock in the even-
ing ; we were all thirsty and most uncomfortable.
About one thousand five hundred men were stowed
into the Diapaccio, of 180 horse-power ; the Abbe-
tucci carried two thousand ; more than one hundred,
volunteers were in the cabin ; they shouted that
they were dying, the volunteers above having ob-
structed the deck windows. At last some kind of
order was established, the General once more
gave the command of absolute silence as
the first condition of our safety, and the
Sicilians began all to shout " Silenza." Garibaldi
gotimpatient ; all in vain, some picciotti on thedeok
of the General Abbatucci began to discharge their
muskets for the sake of the fun. The ladders were
at last withdrawn, and about five hundred volun-
teers, thescum of Garibaldi's troops, wereleft behind
under Colonel Laporta's command, with orders
to march upon Messina. From Colonel Traseli's
column, about 800 men, we had not got any intelli-
gence since Regalbutto,the communication with them
having been intercepted by the royal troops. Both
these battalions will now either disband or be dis-
armed and sent home by the generals who were
unable to catch Garibaldi. At ten the Abbatucci
left her moorings and slipped quietly out of the
harbour ; we followed in the Dmpaccio about ten
minutes later.
Though the night was so dark—cirrous clouds
partially overcast the sky—that we could not see
the Abbatucci, it seemed still impossible that we
could evade the attention of the two Italian frigates
which lay in wait for us. We hugged the coast,
but expected every moment to see the flash and to
hear the boom of their guns. The officers of the
staff were, however, in high spirits, whilst
the privates seemed unconscious of their
danger, and continue 1 to quarrel and to complain
of the heat and squeeze. A captain swooned
below, where one was reminded of the black
bole ; we bad great difficulty in carrying him up,
and lifting him into the boat of the steamer, where
he soon recovered. I got by good luck a seat on
deck between the young Marquis Maurigy and a
Hungarian youth, and amused myself in conver-
sation with them ; they were both still in their
teens, but danger and enthusiasm had ripened
their intellect, the life in Garibaldi'a camp, among
officers who have been educated in the school of
exile and in the campaigns of Venice and Rome,

MESSINA, AUGUST 28.
On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday last Ga-
ribaldi seemed exclusively occupied with reorga-
nising his troops, wearied out by the enormous
march of Sunday and Monday. [By a slip of the
pen I wrote you in my letter of the 20th that Gari-
baldi's volunteers had =relied 44 Italian miles in
28 hours ; it ought to have been 48 Italian miles in
48 hours.] The 2,800 muskets found in the castle,
and the 300,000 francs just arrived from Turin, gave
him the means of arming and clothing his volunteers,
whose numbers were considerably increased by the
enthusiastic enlistment of the Cataneae youth. On
Friday the French packet le General Abbatucci, of
the Messageries, arrived in the port, and Garibaldi
went repeatedly on the cupola of the Benedictine
Abbey to survey the movements both of the
Italian army in camp around Mistabianca
and of the government frigate, the Duke of Genoa,
which lay in the port. An English frigate, too.

had arrived for the defence of the national in!

terests, and cast anchor between the Italian man•

of-war and the town. We sought the general on
Saturday early in the morning ; he was again on
the cupola, the spy-glass in his band. Mordini
greeted him with the words, " You take once more
an eagle's view of them, general, as at Centorbi.

When shall you pounce down i" Garibaldi smiled,
and said, "Look there, our difficulties are increas-

ing." Indeed, we saw a second frigate, the Maria
Adelaide, steaming towards the port, and at the
same time a great stir in the camp of Miatabianca,
but Garibaldi did not give any orders about the
defence of Catania ; he received as usual the re-
ports of his officers, the deputations still thronging to
him, and the volunteers of distinction who bad them-
selves presented—among others two Transylvanian
magnates, who had enlisted as privates among Me
notti's Guides.

During the day Catania got somewhat alarmed ;
the royal troops bad loft their camp at Mistabianco,
and were slowly approaching. The barricades, dis-
continued on Tuesday, were now raised a few inches

Sicily and Naples, invigorating those Italians whose

fathers had become effeminate under the demoral-

icing influence of foreign despots. I liked better to
see them here, among unwashed eons of the people,
than flirting with some too notorious beauties of
Naples or Milan. Let them be called rebels by the
government papers ; it is a better name

than ciesabeo. It must have been near
midnight when we descried at laat the

General Abbatucci ; she had met the Maria
Belvida, but the man-of-war left her at once,
and steamed back towards Catania. We could not
explain that mystery, but guessed that under the
impression of Garibaldi's recent visit the crew
must have refused to attack us. Under Actreale we
left the coast, and under full steam hastened away
in a north-easterly direction. The troops were
drowsy, and less loquacious ; some squatted
down upon the feet of their neighbours, and

could not be moved either by words or kicks.
At half-past two we cast anchor, but it was so dark
that we could scarcely make out the coast. The
boat of the steamer carried Garibaldi on shore ;

they did not look as yet formidable in any way, still
the higher classes got alarmed, and ladies and
children began to leave town. Garibaldi re-assured
everybody, and told those who came to him that
there would no attack. Many soldiers profited by
the vicinity of the new camp, and deserted to Gari-
baldi ; a dozen of them arrived from Aci Reale, in
the north, where another column, sent from Messina,
had fixed its headquarters. At the Benedictines
we were told that the general bad made a visit to the
Maria Adelaide, but I could not get any particulars
about it. On Sunday morning the Dispaccio, of the
Florio Company, bound to Malta, cast anchor
under the guns of the Maria Adelaide, and
the Duke of Genoa left the harbour to
make her usual daily cruise, after having intimated
to the captain of the port that any ship carrying
Guribaldian volunteers would be stopped by her
guns. Garibaldi paid a visit to the French and
Italian postal steamers ; a few minutes later, at 11
o'clock, they were invested by a picket of red ahirts,
and the captains put under arrest, the General tell-
ing them that he had sequestrated the steamers, be-

the cable was fastened to a rock ; the ships drawn
as near to the beach as possible, and iu the dim
grey light of the morning we recognised the coast
of Calabria, descrying Etna in a south-westerly
direction, whilst to the east the sea was not
bounded by land. We found the beach completely
deserted—no trace of any living being could be
perceived. We had no other means for landing
than the six boats of the steamers, each of them
carrying about ten men at once. Thus it happened
that it took full six hours before all the volunteers,
the provisions, the ammunition, about two hundred
muskets in reserve, the military chest, and a great
deal of clothing, could be landed. I remained long on
board the Dispaccio, always looking out for the French
cruisers, of which we had read so much in the tele-
grams of the Agenzia Stetani, but they remained
invisible. On shore the battalions were slowly
forming ; about a hundred volunteers had
profited by the opportunity and swam about in the
deep blue sea, in the rays of the morning sun, to
wash the dust of a twenty days' march from their
bodies.

cause he had need of them. The French captain I thought of the difference in Garibaldi's posh-
declared that of course ho could not offer any tion now and a week ago, on the march from
sistance, but that he desired solemnly to protest Regalbutto to Centorbi. His ragged, scarcely
against such viclence. "Just as you please," armedband had become a well-equipped army, every
said the General ; " you do your duty, I do mime." man in Ilia red shirt and grey pantaloon, whilst
Accordingly the captain was escorted to town, the scum had remained on the island, and was re-
where he made his protest in doe form at the French I placed by Catania= and continentals. There were
consulate with all the formalities required by the above 3,000 young volunteers, with a numerous
law. Though some volunteers were already on board' staff of high-spirited officers.
of the steamer, the Maria Adelaide paid no oaten- I lat last left the Dispaccio, just when a steamer
tion to them, but at 4 inthe afternoon steamed onto(' with the French flag passed at some distance. It
the port, cruising in the neighbourhood. At . was the packet-boat La Seine, steaming from Con-
-5 the red shirts began to throng to the place stantinople to Messina. On shore I sought the
facing the harbour and adorned by a short General, to congratulate him on his success,
obelisk, at the end of the Via Stesicorea, but the General had disappearetl. As I had
and with them all the people of Catania. In a few important business to transact at Turin, and
minutes we saw the windows of the houses densely did not like to lose the opportunity of the
packed with women ; about five thousand persons packet—for the Abbatucci was to return to