The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-21 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY' EVENING, MAY St, 1862.

and give all reasonable encouragement to Queens-
land. But India must continue to be our grand
resource. The stimulus is given there, and the
Indian Government has wisely fostered it by re-
ducing the import duties on cotton goods and yarn.
Just at the moment when the Indian prospect
is improving month by month—at the moment
when we are hoping to hear of the clearing off of
stocks where the glut has been most disastrous, at
the moment when our manufacturers are discover-
ing that their machinery can be easily adapted to
Indian cotton, and our public that fabrics of Indian
cotton actually wear and dye better than the
American, it would be madness to alienate the
Indian cultivator and merchant, and imperil our
chief manufacture by a rash renewal of our de-
pendence on the American commodity. We should
have no fear of it but for the obstinacy of the
preference shown by our manufacturers, and
excused by them as rendered necessary by the
public taste. That part of the public which under-
stands the matter will give its vote for national
independence in such a matter. Whenever
American industry is organized again, and
American capital begins to grow so as to be
adequate to the due cultivation of the soil, we
shall be ready to buy whatever they may have to
sell—of cotton or other things. But they must
now take their chance with the rest of the world,
as they have deliberately chosen to do. They are
all turned soldiers at present ; they are all poor,
and without means to raise what we want. We
cannot wait till they have arranged their political
and retrieved their private affairs : and if Mobile,
Savannah, and Charleston follow the fate of New
Orleans, we ought to keep our faces turned to-
wards the cotton fields of India as steadily as if the
American conflict were lately to continue, without
advantage to either side, for years to come. The
worst thing that could happen to us would he a
fit of speculative high spirits about the fall of New
Orleans, followed by total disappointment about
obtaining any cotton thereby. We shall soon
know the truth about the rumoured destruction of
the commoJity within the city. Whether it is
burnt or safe we are not likely to get much, either
from the stores of the city or from the country
behind it.

LATEST

INTELLIGENCE.

ITALY.

A despatch from Palermo states that the
squadron of Admiral Rigault de Oeoouilly left
that port on the 17th for Algiers.
A letter from Turin of the 16th gives the follow-
ing particulars concerning the recent movements
in Lombardy :
Troops were immediately directed on Como, Tizano,
Bonnie, &kW, fie, and DUAIDZISIO ; the pares of Stelvio,
Towle, Bros d'Anfo, and Rive de Trento will be strictly
watched. But at Berra, a town noted for its heroic
traditions, and ever ready to take fire at the words inde-
' pendence and war, the demonstrations assumed a some.
what alarming character yesterday, when Nullo and a
number of his companions were taken to the town prison.
A great crowd soon 'rambled in front of the edifice, and
showed a disposition to attack the troops on guard. The
soldiers gave three warnings, at rather long intervals, that
they should fin; but as the assailants persisted, they fired,
killing one and wounding five or six, according to the
latest accounts.
The Milan Gazette publishes the following de-
claredon :
In consequence of Colonel Null's arrest yesterday at
Palazzolo, 1 consider it my duty to declare that that brave
officer bad gone and acted exactly in conformity ton my
s. order G. GAREBALL
The same paper states that Advocate Brofferio,the
leader of the Extreme Left, had had an interview
with the general since the late events, and found
I him in a state of extreme irritation at the arrest of
his friends, but at the same time convinced that
they would soon be set at liberty. The general de-
clared, among other things, that he would use his
influence with the people to prevent their commit-
ting themselves by some imprudent movement.
The Prefect of Brescia has issued the following
proclamation :
Breeden. !—Yesterday the tranquillity of Brescia was for
an instant disturbed, and in the midd of the riot a very
painful event retired. The judicial authorities will dis-
cover the truth regarding it. But if yesterday our enemies
smiled at a flash of hope, to-day they perceive that nations
which love liberty and the religion of their country from
the bottom of their hearts, and respect the laws, come
forth unscathed from danger. Breecians ! your devoted-
ness to the King, and your attachment to the institutions
which govern us, are well known ; I invoke those noble
feelings in the interest of order, concord, and the future
welfare of the Italian cause, for which Brescia at all times
has made such peat sacrifices. The King for ever !
Brescia, May 16. NATOLI.
The italic of Turin states that Baron Natoli's
resignation as Prefect of Brescia has not been ac-
cepted.

AUSTRIAN PREPARATIONS.
The Armenia of Turin states that the Prussian
legation have communicated to the Italian govern-
ment a note from Austria, in which that power
declares that she would regard as a carers beUi any
entry of volunteers upon Austrian territory.
The following letter from Verona shows the ex-
citement which was occasioned by news of the expe-
dition on the other side of the border :
Verona, May 15.

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This has been a day of great apprehensions, hopes, and
fears. Persons arrived from beyond the Mum* and others
who dorended from the Tyrol, related that Garibaldi, with
6,000 volunteers, had attempted an invasion by the Stelvio,
in the Italian Tyrol. A great number of our compatriots
set out by railway for Trento, in order to get some
intelligence. In reality they observed a great movement
among the troops. The officers assembled in groups on the
Liston of the Piazza Breos and in the cafes, the dis-
ordered state of their countenances denoting that they were
agitated by serious thoughts. Later a battalion of chassenra
set out by the Tyrol railway ; it was followed in the same
direction by another battalion of the line. But a letter
which has just arrived from Brescia—and which, in
spite of the police, I have seen—informs me that
your government has disoovered all, and that it has
arrested a great number of volunteers, and among them
Colonel Hullo. Here Austria pretends to disarm, and at
the same time works incessantly
1 She is at work on the
POlaille, ou the Adige, at Mantua, on the Tyrol road, and
here at Verona. The forts of Pastrengo are already com-
pleted, and other fortifications are being surveyed.

A TRAGEDY AT WARSAW.
A Warsaw correspondent of the ',Wpmlance
Beige says :
Oa the tith of May a horrible event took place on the
estate of Count Theodore Starzynski, situated ion
the
government of Lublin. The colonel of gendarmerie Mu.
towski having been sent from Lublin to make an inspection
of the gendarmes in the district of Hrubieszow, received at
the same time an order to pay a domiciliary visit to the
home of a pesos. named Bougard, employed in the house
of the abovementioned count. He took with him the
captain of gendarmerie Cywinski, and a sub-officer. The
domiciliary visit resulted in the arrest of the individual
who was gravely compromised. Hs was already conducted
by a guard into one of the streets of the village belonging to
the property of the count, when, alleging excessive thirst,
he asked of the colonel permission, which war immediately
granted, to enter a house belonging to the steward. He there
took tea, being watched by the officers of gendarmes, when
the eon of Count Starzynski, a young men 20 years of age,
rushed into the chamber with a revolver in his band, with
the first shot killed the sub-officer, with the second seriously
wounded Captain Cywinski, who has since died in cones-
queoce of his wound; with the third wounded also Colonel
Mastowski, sad then, hastening towards the door, killed
1 himself. Colonel Bestowal, though considerably injured,
had sufficient strength left to conduct to Hrubieesow the
person averted, and did not meet with the least violence
on the way. General Chrusezew, commandant at Lublin,
immediately ordered a judicial inquiry into this affair, and
it is to be made by a delegation of civil judges and an
officer of gendarmes. The result of the inquiry will ulti-
' mately be published.

MEXICO.