The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-06 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1863.

ITALY.

A letter from Turin of the let sap :

The Chamber of Deputies terminated to-day the labours
of the first part of its session. It will not meet again ex.
ept to hear the decree of prorogation read, which will
take place about the middle of next week. The meet im.
portant law rot( d during the last few days is that on brig-
andage, which was passed this morning. This law is no
longer that Draconian one which was presented moms
months since, and which made the whole of Europe shud-
der. The present measure only contains fire articles, which
will be in force until the 31st December next, and establish
military jurisdiction against the brigands, who, when
taken in arms in their hands, wlll be shot within twenty.
four hours. The third article makes a diminution in the
punishment for all these who spontaneously submit
within a delay of one month from the promulgation
of the law. The government is also authorieed to
appoint a compulsory place of residence to persons sus-
pected of brigandage, and vagabonda, idle fellows, Ac. That
jforced residence aultiot, however, last for more than •
year. A new credit of one million has been opened to the
Minister of the Interior for the expanses attendant on the
suppression of brigandage.
Another Turin letter ban the following :

The session now closed has been especially devoted to
fillloool4 Though it began with a political bolpisb—tbs
last hearings of the agitation of the previous year—it has
gone on very quietly sines, if we except the episode of last
mouth. Though the debates have been longer than was ns-
onalary,rmults have nevertheless been obtained which are
not without importance for the future of the country. The
vote of the budget of 1663, which has bean applied
to the year 1864, has placed the finances on a regular and,
'ftisto be hoped, permanent basis. Thus a greed point
gained towards the consolidation of credit on the one hand
' and the regular working of the institutions on the other.
The parliament has also established in principle two taps
which may of themselves alone restore the equilibrium of
she finance' if sufficiently developed. The tax on personal
property is really a bold mesa" which may have the
effect of greatly simplifying the system of texation, if the
populations accept it with courage and patriotism, as there
is reason to think they will. As for the tax on provisions,
it is perhaps less felicitous in a theoretical point of view,
but it is humane. It must be added, that the laws impos-
ing these two taus at the same time tend to unification,
since they suppress a ronititude of taxes levied in the diffe-
rent provinces according to very divergent systems

THE DIEPPE REGATTA.

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DIEPPE, MOADAT.

Dieppe is in a bad temper this morning. Dieppe
has had a disappointment. Dieppe wants all its philosophy
to be cool, and all its patellar to be civil. It is a capital
thing in its way to admit "all nations " to • competition for
an envied prize when the victory is to the challenger ; but if
the malt la the other way it is very hard indeed. And yet
the good citimins are not taken by surprise. On Saturday
Dieppe was in a state of anxiety about the English. Num-
bers assembled on the quay looking hard at everyjicet that
.me in, and vigorously discussing the various reports that
were current of the arrival or non-arrival of this and that
p•rtieular rower of English birth ; for the annual regatta
was fixed for the following day, and the experience of last
year, when the prism were carried off by Englishmen, was
painfully present to the Dieppois memory. When it
became certain that an English crew really would pit
their muscle and boatman/hip against the chosen sailors of
Dieppe, the interest was at its highest. Some faces were
sombre enough, for it has come to be half recognised in
European port• that if an Englishman puts in where a sea.
race is concerned be is sure to win ; but others were so con-
fident of the local men that they at any rate preserved alive
• spark or two of hope. When yesterday came the assem-
blage on the plage, commanding • glorious view of the great
stretch of sea which spreads before Dieppe, was as full of
spirits and mirth as a French crowd ever was. Quaintly
dressed provincials jogged in with their baskets and new
cape from fabulously distant parka; the genus " swell "
from neighbouring towns was peaseit everywhere with its
affectation of naval coats and cape ; the workmen and the
tradespeople left their beloved restaurants for • while ;
diligence, got rid of their animated and gesticulating loads,
and pleasure boats took out as many as had the
courage to venture on a sea which was ae
smooth as • lawn. M. Lou 4 Delarue, the intelligent
Secretary, who is the life and soul of the Regatta
interest at this place, was hers, there, and every where,•pro-
riding for the due execution of • score of petty regulations
which only a peculiarly " paternal " government would think
of at such •time.

The Dieppe people and their neighbours were, I assure I
you, awake enough yesterday afternoon, when the cliffs
gave back the booming of the signal guc, and seven boats
darted off from the starting dam as though they had come
out of the smoking month of the cannon itself. The mos
was fair enough, but it was all in the hands of the Britisher&
The rowing of the others was in comparison but as the un-
certain and feeble strokes of women. The owner of the
boat, and the head of the successful rowers, was " Robert
Bain, of London," who with his boat " Eva" sustained the
mama reputation like a truly skilful fellow as he is, and
from my quarters, surrounded by shouting, scresmiog
Frenchmen, I was conscious of stress pulsations of pride as
I watched him and his three comrades coolly keep-
ing their lead. I restrained myself to the end,
but then my respect for the feelings of my neigh-
bours gave way, and with other compatriots I joined in
giving the tare an English cheer. For, although it was
Sunday, there were Englishmen present. I will tell no tales,
and will my nothing unfair of white " ehokers " left be-
hind at the hotels, but on one reverend gentleman I oar-
tainly shall keep an eye in future, and if he ever express*
lin public his horror of a continental Sunday, he will cer-
tainly hear from me. By-the-bye, I had almost forgotten to
say that we had en English Cabinet Minister amongst us.
lam not sure that he was known to wore than a few—to
the Prefect and Mayor perhaps, and to a dozen more ; but
Englishmen present who were familiar with the
pleasant features of the Right Honourable Milner
Gibson detected him very speedily, and also his
yacht, which was moored same distance off. But
I must add, not only did Bain and his crew win the prize in
tha first race, but they were successful in the third—the only
other to which foreigners are admitted. There is a special
provision, however, made for such results, the Emperor,
with the appreciation of the English and with the
foresight which he has shown in so many ways, giving is
each case a special prize to" the Dieppe boat which is first
in." When the result of these noes was known there was
a alight stir of vexation ; but notwithstanding my remark
at the beginning of this letter, which mast not be teken too
soriewaly, that feeling soon parsed off, and at the distribu-
tios of the prizes in the evening there were DO voices more
enthusiastic far the winner than those of our generous and
gallant allies. Last yam two or three men were drowned,
and it was half feared that the government would forbid
the holding of another regatta at all, bet the authorities
WON pacified by the Club undertaking to engage the services
of Dr. Moriarty as medical attendant, Happily this year,
neither lancet nor hot blankets were required.
Dieppe is full of visitors. and is as gay as such an old-fa-
shioned place can be. The Princess Matbildeenpged 16 rooms
at the Hotel des Beim for a month, commencing to-day, but
last night ■ telegram was received stating that she was too
unwell to travel, and her suite of apartments are now
occupied by a Legitimist Duke.

Da/ignani says :—" The Dieppe regatta took
place on the End with great eclat, the weather being fine
and the attendance moat numerous. The yacht Arid, of
the Prince of Wales' Yacht Club, belonging to Mr. John
Arthur, of Perla, won the first prise, eouaiatiog of an objet
given by the town of Dieppe, and a gold medal ; also,
the Prise d Honour, given by the Emperor, for being the
winner of the Coarse d'Easemble. la the rowing matches
se English mew Ikea Lowden were oleo sacceedaL"

(mare. M'Cizusx.—An Admirable life-size
model of this &stimulated genera, lane Commander-in-
Chid on the Federal army, has, within the last few dam
beat added to Madame Teamed's exhibition in Baker-
stown. Ie the historical gallery, which has thus acquired
a sisselal Warfel for Wive AMOTIOISI in London,
way also be meow a model of President Liecols.

NAVAL AND MILITANT.

PORTSMOUTH, Almon L

The Lords of the Admiralty, consisting of the
Duke of Somerset, First Lord, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir
Frederick Grey, K.C.a, Rear-Admiral C. Eden, C. 8.,
Captain the Hoe. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., and Rear
Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., IL P., secretary, ae-
compaoied by Rear-Admiral Robinson, Comptroller of the
Navy, and Colonel Grease, lauded at the King's new land-
ing-Main this morning at 10 o'clock, from the F:achantreol,
Admiralty yacht. Carriages were waiting for their lord-
shim, who proceed to Fort Cumberland and Fastney
New Barracks. They inspected the Royal Marine
Artillery, who were drawn up at the fort and went
through the manoeuvres customary on the annual inspection.
Rear-Admiral Robinson remained in the dockyard durum
their lordships' visit to the fortifications at the east side of
Portsmouth. Having concluded the IOOPeCiiOO in the above-
named quarter their lordships returned to the landing.plue
and proceeded to Forton, where they inspected the Royal
Marine Barracks, and afterwards the gunboat slips and
sheds at Hular. Their lordships afterwards returned to
the dockyard, and proceeded to the Admiralty-hones. where
they dined with Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., Naval Com.
mander-in-Chief. The Duke of Somerset and his col-
leagues afterwards patronised a grand ball at Rolling.-
worth's Rooms Smithson, in aid of the Seamen and
Marine Or School and Female Orphan Home.
ea invaluable institution cooneeted with the naval service,
which studs in great need of pecuniary aid. To-morrow
their (lordships will inspect the dockyard, and on Friday the
First Lord's 1111700 m,ll be bad to Am Collage.
The Supply, 2, lion semistnsehip, Commander Charles
Bowden, arrived at Spithead on Tuesday evening from the
Mediterranean, and nailed this aft/moon for Woolwich.
A transport, from the East Indies with invalids, arrived
on Tuesday evening at Spithead.

PLYMOUTH, Wzoszunav,
There have been no more cases of emall-poi on
board the troop ship Windsor Castle, which pot in-here on
Sunday ea route for India. All the troops and the crew
that were unvaccinated have been vaccinated, and she is
expected to sail la a few dam

The ship Northumberland, Captain Hawkins,
from Madras March 29, has arrived at Plymouth. Her
cargo consists of rice, oottoo, iodigo, red wood, hides, and
horns. She reports being boarded July 29 in 48 N., 7 W.,
by the, Danish brigantine Nora, having on bawd the orew of
the ship lode, of Liverpool, from Ilatansas, for Falmouth,
abandoned in • sinking slate on July 8.