The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-03 00:00:00

THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.

The report of the select committee, occupying 7
folio pagesoras issued this morning. Havingarrived at the opin.
ion, that the museum in respect of its action as well throughout
the United Kingdom as in the metropolis is exercising a bene-
ficial influence, and that it is fully deserving of continued
parliamentary support, the committee tuna their
attention to the state of the buildings at South
Kensington, and arrive at the conclusion that

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a Ichtional space for the accommodation and exhibition of
the art collections should be provided at owe. Captain
Fowke states that the cheapest mode of obtaining this space
would be to complete the quadrangle of brick bed4eirs
which was commenced by the Sheepshanks, Vernon, and
Turner Galleries, sod to glaze it over. He estimates that
this might be done for 17,0001., and by doing so the art
collections now in the Iron Museum would be placed in
safety, others not properly shown would be efficiently ex-
hibited,whilst apace would be provided in the Iron Museum
to receive and exhibit the architectural casts procured as
models for the houses of parliament, which at present lie
unexhibited in buildings at Tharnewhauk, costing an annual
rent of 4901. The danger srising from the use of the
wooden schools and dilapidated houses renders it
equally necessary to remove these build'ngs, and in-
stead of them to provide at once safe br'ld-
logs for official residences and the art training
schools. The cost has been approximately estimated by
Captain Fowke aC 27,0001. The committee recommend
these works as matters of extreme urgency, the completion
and covering in of the quadrangular court as • means of
rescuing much valuable public and private property from a
receptacle quite unfit for it, the removal of the wooden
schools and the dilapidated houses from considerations of
safety and therefore of real economy. The iron building
and the temporary brick buildings the committee see no
occasion to disturb at present, they can be usefully em-
ployed, and may well be allowed to stand for some years to
come. The committee " are by no means anxious to involve
the revenue in large expenses fur mere ornament. The
museum is yet in course of formation, and they think it
unwise to commit the country to a heavy expense in antici-
pation of its wants. The committee recommend that any
plan which may be adopted fur the buildings to be erected
should be capable of being worked into a general plan
which would at once fully occupy the ground, and be sus-
ceptible of a proper amount of decoration. Such a plan has
been laid before the committee by Captain Fowke."

Friday, the 20th ult., was one of the hottest days
of the seamen in New York. The heat was intense, and
there was not the slightest breath of air stirring. From
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. an oppressively warm temperature pre.
railed, a dead, heavy heat, which rendered exertion exces-
sively uncomfortable and caused profuse perspiration. At
10c m. the mercury in the thermometer stood at 90 degrees ;
at noon it was 92 degrees, with an upward tendency ; at 2
o'clock at 92 degrees ; at 3 o'clock, 93 degrees ; at half-past
3,94 degrees ; at 4, rather less, with a downward tendency ;
at 5 o'clock, 93 degrees.

A letter, addressed to the U nita Itnliaiui, contra-
dicts a statement that the inhabitants of Melazzo were hos-
tile to Garibaldi, and says that nearly all of them had left
the town before the battle. It was a number of gendarmes
escaped from Palermo, joined with those of Melees), who
entered the deserted houses and threw boiling oil on Gari-
baldi's men.

A letter from Rome in the Monde says :
" General de Goyou is to quit Rome on the sth August.
The cause of his departure is not timely known ; but no
one believes that he is going on simple leave of absence,
sod this supposition is confirmed by the fact that the Pope,
in a reception given him two days ago, made him • magni-
ficent present consisting of the portrait of his Holiness in
• cameo. The Pope is represented in the act of giving his
bleating and wearing the thus and cope, both of which are
enriched with precious stones. The cameo has a trance of
gold exquisitely worked iu the Etruscan style, and is deco-
rated with diamonds, rubies, and pearls."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

EUROPEAN INTERVENTION IN SYRIA.
PARIS, FIUDAT.

The following has been ported up at the Boum.
" All the powers have agreed upon the conditions
of a European intervention in Syria. The confe-
rence will assemble at three o'clock to sign the con-
vention in reference to the measures to be taken in
common."

The Convention which was agreed upon in the
sitting of Monday last contains sir articles, deter-
mining the common co-operation of all the great
Powers.

The following is a summary of its contents :
The intervention will last only as long as
the Porte shall deem it advisable. A pre-
vious agreement is necessary for the re-
gulation of all the military operations, and in order
to determine the effective of the expeditionary
forces who are to be maintained at the charge of
the respective powers.
A separate article stipulates that the French
troops already on the point of embarkation
shall start without waiting for the contingents of
the other powers, unless the representative of the
Sultan at Paris should receive information from
Syria which would render all intervention unneces-
sary. As soon as all the great powers have adhered
to the plan of the Convention, as modified
in the second sitting, their representatives will re-
assemble in order to sign the Convention, and the
additional protocol which has been drawn up
at the request of the Turkish Ambassador.
The representatives of the powers will then com-
bine the two documents in order that they
may receive, in a fourth sitting, the sig-
natures of the plenipotentiaries. It is said
that Prussia, which till now has only
been represented at the Conference by a
charg4 d'affaires, will, when the definitive signature
of the convention takes place, be represented by
its minister, Count Portales, now absent from
Paris on leave.

ROME, Niacin. 2.
The Pope has addressed an energetic letter to
the bishops of S).-ia.

His Holiness laments the massacres of the
Marmites which have been committed by the
Drums, and expresses his horror of the barbarities
of the Turks. His Holiness further speaks in high
praise of the French expedition, and exhorts the
princes to repress the excesses of the infidels, and
to arrest the enewies of morality, justice, religion,
and social order.

GA RI BALDI IN MESSINA- EVA CUATION
OF SICILY. •

PARIS, FIIDAY.

The Monitcur publishes the text of the conven-
tion signed at Messina between General Clary and
Colonel Medici, which is merely a moitary con-
vention for the evacuation of Sicily from motives
of humarity.

ME44INA, JULY 29.
Ganlaldi has entered the town amid great
enthusiasm.

The convention signed between General Clary
and Colonel Medici stipulates the evacuation of
Sicily.
Four thousand Neapolitans will guard the citadel,
and will not bombard the town unless Garibaldi
attacks the citadeL

The outer forts are occupied by Colonel Medici.
The artillery of Garibaldi bas arrived.
The Neapolitan troops are demoralised and refuse
to fight.
PALERMO, JULY 31.

Signor Depretis will modify the Ministry by
choosing only such members as are favourable to
Italian unity. Signor Crisps will re-enter the
Cabinet.

Count Litta leaves for Turin to-day.
MARSEILLES, Amur! 2.

News from Messina state that Garibaldi is pre•
paring 300 vessels to transport troops to the main-
land. The preparations have been witnessed by
travellers.

BAVARIA.
MUNICH, AUGUST 2.

Baron Wendland, Minister of ti,e King of
Bavaria in Paris, has arrived here. Ho is about to
join the King at Grafenborg, and will accompany
his Majesty on his visit to the court of Berlin.