The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-14 00:00:00

should be doubled as well as of 4fftary.
We ought, in his view, 4to )4thave as
many ships of the line se Lunn, France,
and America united. More lavish expendi-
ture in the beading el vessels, and more also in
the pay of the sedan, which, like that of the
soldiers, ite would raise muck above the present
rate. Sir AintliALD never pauses to consider
whether the extravagant outlay he advises would
womanly obtain the force he desires. All recent
experience goes to show that the MM.
'increase of expense in the naval depart-
ment is no guarantee whatever for in-
creased eMciency. This, however, is a prac-
tical inquiry quite beyond the lecturer's range, or
rather altogether beneath his notice. His one
text, the simple burden of his advice—his
" Best System of Defence," is, " Spend money,
" wisely if you can, but at any rate spend
" it, lavishly, recklessly, incessantly." But where
is all the money to come from to meet the enor-
mous expense of this " Best System?" Sir Awn"-
BALD, falling back on 1815, has his answer ready :
" He advocated the expenditure of the money
" recently voted by Parliament for fortifications,
" and as to the country having reached the maxi-
" mum of its taxation, he said that in 1815 the
" country did not contain more than nineteen
" millions of inhabitants, and it raised 72,000,000/.
" The population of the country was now twenty-
" eight millions, and yet they were told that the
" country could not afford to spend 76,000,000 E.
" It was perfectly ludicrous to say, as the advo-
" elates of peace at any price said, that we could
" not afford to spend eight or ten millions on for-
" tifications. When he saw the national expo endi-
" titre up to 130,000,0001. he should then think
" we had reached the maximum taxation which
" the country could stand, but not till then."
Surely any comment on a statement like this is
altogether needless. It is • complete recbietio
ad a/mordant of the " Best System of Defence,"
which simply consists in doubling the naval
and military expenditure of the country,
and doubling the present amount of taxation in
order to meet the enormous outlay. To any one
but the Historian of Modern Europe such
a proposal would at once appear in its only true
character, as simply absurd. With him, however,
it is the height of political wisdom—emphatically
the " Best System." It recals the traditions of the
great war, fulfils those indispensable conditions of
our national prosperity—heavy taxes and lavish
outlay—and thus gratifies the patriotic aspirations
of the distinguished Conservative Historian.

Cix Court.

BALMORAL, Sir!. 12.

Her Majesty, aemnpanied by the Prinoeme
Alice and Helene, and attended by lady Churchill, drove
yesterday afternoon beyond Castleton to the Colonel'. Cave
iu Glen Eye.

The Proace Comport went ant deer talking.
Her Majesty gave a ball in the evening to the tenants and
glib.' on the Balmoral and Abergeldis estates. Mr C. B.
Phipps and family, Dr. Robertson, and the Rev. A. Ander-
son and family had the honour of receiving invitations to
witness it.

Mr. C. Pearson, the mayor of Hull, and Mr. Hake trans-
acted business at the Foreign.offlce on Wednesday uu the
subjoet of the illegal seizure of thu steamer Orwell ia the
port of Genoa, on the Vial ult., by Clarsbekli's ages* and
her subsequent capture her Majesty's steamer Scylla at
Messina.

Despatches from the Governors of New ZoaLux!, Hong
Kong, Ceylon, and Malta were received yesterday at the
Colonial-olthw. Despatches were west to the Governor of
Canada.

The Counteie (Dowager) Granville, Mr. sod Lady
Gamin" Fullerton, and ths Hon. Frederick Leveson Gower,
are staying at Worthing.

The Earl of Ripon hag left town to join the
counter and family at Studer,' Park, near Ripon.
Baron Wilde and Lady Mary Wilde have left
Colrbil!, Berks (the scat of the Lai of Radnor), fur Went-
worth House, Yorkshire, on a visit to the Earl and Counter
!Beware.

Sir Alexander Cockburn, who returned early in
the week from a.v.o •ml, intend. to leave for Italy tro-
-

Mr. and IMy Mary Craven leave town to-morrow
for a tour in Germany.

Lieutenant-Colonel A. Meyrick, Grenadier
Guards, has arrived in town from a tour in Italy.
Mr. and Mrs. Scully and family have arrived
at it'sllea+ 11.,te1, St. George's.plaos, Hyds.park-oonter,
from Crewe. Captain and Mrs. Tottenham have arrived at
the lame estobliAnneat.

A General Court of Proprietors wax held at the
Suit India-house on the 12th inst., whet, Eric Car-
rington South, Eel., was elected a director of the
East India Company, rice Major Moore, dead.
FERTIVAL OF THE THREE CEOHUt. —WO/WINTER,
TETRADAT. —Last night the College Hall was densely
packed from the orchestra to the doors, and the gallery,
which ix capable of sitting stoat 9:10 peruse comfortably
wt, made, by some peculiar prams known only to the ini-
tiated, to hold at !oat a hundred more. There could not
have been lee than 800 pastas altogether in the room.
For an hour before the opening of the cathedral doors for
the oratorio this morning people were swarming into the
town and besieging the tickeeaMce. The *amber of aisle
tickets printed were moo absorbed, and suplemcatary ones
bad to be issued. The cathedral at the opeoiog of the
oratorio—llenelsenhies Mijah—peeeeeted • beautiful
appearance. Every mat, with we believe the 'mammon of
one, we. occupied on the boor of the save, mil the aide was
croak.' so that some late comers actually took possession
el the suounients. The attaidasce nor the lariat up to
the pre ant lima but it is expected that it will he exceeded
tameanow when the ifeasieh, whisk always draws • largo
embosece, will he given. The whale of the principle tickets
far the lfreijoA were dimmed of two ders ago, and it h ex.
poctel that the audience will overflow into the choir. The
amount collected in the cathedral after the oratorio to-day
tar thioeharity was 2351. a large sum for the third
day. To.night is the "fa•hionable " night, and the concert
will he • crowded one. To-morrow morning the Messiah
will be gives at the aithedraL

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CRUST IluertreL—On Friday nett, Sept. 21'
being ltt, Matthew shay, the Lard Mayor, ablermem. and
iihmiffs with the gement-in of the several oval hospitals,
will attend !Arnie service, Christ Chun+, New—iteetreet,
where a mermen will be pommeled by the Kew. J. 1).
NI A., of Tiinit C.ellege, Cambrid.m, head-
master of t'bri.t's College. &noon ; after which they will
ropier to the Great Hall in ehriet'a Hoepital, where ora-
tions on the helmets of the royal hospitals will be delivered
by the sesior eehniars, aoceording to annual esistoni that
in data. by (lurks Victor Merriman ; that in English by
Jahn Webb Hickman; that in ()reek by Ebenezer Morris;
that in French by Arthur Penning Millet. Sia poems will
also he recited be the following : A translation into Greek
iambies, teen "'Prides and Cresaila," by Edward /RANI
Carlos ; into Latin elegiacs. of " Napoleon at the Kremlin,"
Ly Hobert George Glenn; not° Greek 'sapphire, (men the
'Battle of lake Rezak's," by James Collis FrllllCel Mor-
ns ; into Greek liesanoeters, of the " Destmetion of Kenna-
&crib," be Arthur Thornhill Waugh • into Latin aleathi,
of" Henn, to the l'uiverse,“ by Hyde Edwards Walker;
and Intim betainetem, on " that ma conme dies," by E. 0.
Carloa, being the Rivired'a prize composition.
Ithn ere. fit's tL Si. HARRY
rears-t to learn that Lieutemint.Generel
Sir Harry tenet., GA'. it, has been attacked by der-are of
the heart,atel it is feared be cannot recover.
TIRE EARL Or KINGSToR.--CII/NrElt, TRIIIRDAT.
t Feßtleteeß who etsted himself to be • friend of the Fall
implant, mod who was supposed to be a solicitor from
Latham, though hie name wee not allowed to traltagerni
arrived here this morning, end attending at the office of the
inagietante's clerk. laid all expenses incut red on the unfair.
toad, earl's account, eel obtained MI order to hare his
' lordship given up to him by the of&.e m of the county
asylum. His lordslup, we are told, was very comteet during
his rmitlesee at the 11•00111. mat .el.l that he should have
no objection to stay there for • month. His lordship left
hero
was Debits lo esyreel tier+ at 3.43 p.m to-day. His destination

INT.

ITALY.

M.

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NAPLFZ, fir. H.
The tranquillity d the city hes not been dis-
turbed, and the same enthusiasm still prevails.
The Time and the other forts have sarrenclerwL
_ _

The English admiral hoe paid a visit to Gari-
baldi who afterwards went on board the Hannibal,
the English ambassador being present. On that
°caution the Sardinian fleet fired a salute of seven-
teen guns in honour of the Dictator.
The Neapolitan fleet has been delivered by Gari-
baldi to the Sardinian admiral.

The Sardinian troops disembarked yesterday, by
order of the Dictator.

It is said that the King, on leaving Naples,
ordered the bombardment of the town and the
burning of the royal castle. It is even asserted
that the original of that order has been found.
A report is also current that the King will TO
Gaeta with his army of 30,000 men, and will loin
General Lamoricibre.

The King Iwo formed a new royalist ministry,
the members of which are Caselli, Oknofari, Ulloe,
and Gerolamo.

The Austrian, Russian, Prussian, and Spanish
Minister, and the Papal Nuncio, have followed the
King to Gaeta

Tie whole army of Garibaldi will arrive at Naples
in four days, and, with the insurgent bands, the
total force will be raised to 80,000 men.
The revolution is everywhere triumphant. It is
said that the Dictator is about to march to Umbria.

The Bixio and Medici brigades have just arrived
in the port.
Baron Brenier has not protested against the dis-
embarkation of the Sardinian troops.
A proclamation of Garibaldi to the Neapolitans,
issued yesterday, has been published. Garibaldi
in this proclamation says, that the annexation will
be effected when he shall be able to proclaim it from
the top of the Quirinal.

TURIN, Szrr. 13,

General Ciaddini has entered iiiio7;3laiiii;iioo
priaoners. The Official Piednwatese Gazette pub-
lishes a royal decree, appointing General Fanti
commander-in-chief of the two corps-d'aruuse,
which bare been mobilised.

PAWN THOUDAT
The Petrie says :—" It is asserted that Baron
Talleyrana, the French minister at Turin, is about
to return to France. During his absence the affairs
of the embassy will be administered by a charg4
d'affaires.

"General Lamoriciiire has concentrate(' his
army, numbering 8,000 men, at Ancona. It is
asserted that his lines of defence will be attacked
by 45,000 Sardinian troops.•,
The same journal announces that the King of
N►ples left GAM& on the 12th inst., on board a
Spanish frigate, for Seville.

ROJO, Bxse. LS.
Th• Papal government is about to addiens a
memorandum to all the guropean powers proteeting
against the Sardinian invasion of the Roman ter-
ritory.
This memorandum explains that the enrolment
of foreign volunteers, of which Sardinia complains
in her ultimatum, was principally due to the coun-
eels of Austria and France ; the latter powers
having, after the Paris congress in 1866, insisted
ou the formation of a Papal army.

MILAN, Barr. 11.
Giu-ibeddi's entry into Naples was celebrated last
evening with extraordinary rejoicings. The muni-
cipality illuminated the dome of the cathedral, a
thing only done on very great occasions. The
effect of the floods of light upon the beautiful
octagonal cupola of white marble is indescribable.
The street. were crowded with an enthusiastic
population, and the vendors of Garibaldi's portrait
at b sous did an immense business. A
novelty in the fete was the procession
at a late hour of a number of illuminated
drums, borne aloft on poles, bearing the in-
scription, " Rome—Venice—Rome the capital."
This persistence in the idea of unity in Italy is very
remarkable. All the cities of Italy will have cele-
brated yesterday evening the annexations which
now make Victor Emmanuel the sovereign of
upwards of 20 millions of subjects, but I doubt
whether any of them will surpaaa Milan iu enthu-
siasm.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, THURSDAY EVEMNG.
A grand dinner was given by the Emperor at
Schoenbruun on Tuesday last, in honour of the
birthday of the Emperor of Russia, in return for a
similar courtesy on the part of the latter Sovereign.
All members of the imperial family at Vienna,
the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, and the Rue-
elan ambassador were present.
The Emperor of Austria in very cordial terms
proposed a toast in honour of the Emperor Alex-
ander 11.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FIUDAT MORNING.

The Monifeur stays :—"ln prevenee of the facts
which have just been accomplished in Italy the
Emperor has resolved that hi* minister shall im-
mediately quit Turin. A mcretary will remain
there to conduct the business of the Legation."
The Moniteirr also announces that their Ma-
jesties have embarked for Ajaccio.

S

PTEMB:

(nor ova OWN

?If
%tense eieilmsent railed in Nor.
Southern Taus'', orq to the incendiary .
abolfliguplikzi destruction of pi*
amounted to AlOO,OOO dole.
The Hammonia's commercial news has been prin-
cipally anticipated.
SOUTHAXPTON, FRIDAY.
The North German Lloyd's steamer New York,
Caphin Von /lintel' from New York on the let
inst., has arrived off Cowes ea route for Bremen.
She brings 120 passengers for Bremen and 38 for
Southampton, 233,500 dohs. in specie for Havre,
and 200 dole. for Bremen.
Her news has been anticipated.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PARIS THURSDAY ERRING.

For some time past the " Latest News" of the
Pays and Petrie has been evidently communicated
from a common source. But in order, perhaps, to
illustrate the oft-officially asserted fact that the
press is free in France, these journals are in the
habit, occasionally, of making slight verbal altera-
tions in the text set down for them ; thus the
Patric says this evening that Francis 11. (whom it
calls the King of Naples) has gone to Seville,
while the Pays only goes the length of saying that
he is supposed to have gone there. Again, both
journals announce that Lainorich)re has fallen back
upon Ancona at the head of an army which one
states at 8,000 men, and the other at from 7,000 to
8,000 ; but as to the opposing force the discrepancy
in the figures is so great as to indicate carelessness
en the part of one or other of these depositories of
ministerial communications, for while the Pays
says that the " Piedmontese troops opposed to the
general are three times superior in number—being
estimated at 25,000," we read in the Pat. it that
"the lines of Ancona will be attacked by a Pied-
montese army of 45,000 men."
A very curious denial of a recent report appears
in the Pays. A Belgian journal, the Universe!,
lately stated that Spain had asked the European
powers to guarantee the temporal power of the
Pope, and that the proposal had been met with
great coldness, " more especially on the part of
France." The Pays now avers that the assertion is
completely erroneous. You would suppose, no

doubt, that uo such proposition was ever made.
But no ; the Pays goes on to claim fur France the
merit of having taken the initiative (which the
Belgian journal wrongfully attributes to bigoted
Spain), so long as five months ago, and adds
that "it was no fault of France if a favourable answer
was not given." I hope the Pope will give the Em-
perorfullcreditfor his pious intentions five months
ago, but it is very satisfactory for the peace of Europe
to find that at the present moment there seems
every likelihood that France will leave his Holiness
in the hole where he is. It is, however, a most re-
markable fact that the author of the " Pope and
the Congrewi" and the "Pernicious Doctrines"
stigmatized from the papal chair, should now claim
credit for having outbid Queen Isabella of Spain in
seal for the perpetual maintenance in the Roman
States of the worst of all the bad governments that
lately existed in Italy.
Blither's latest correspondence circulates a
rumour that as soon as the Piedmontese army
invaded the Roman States General de Lainorici:me
changed his plans, and instead of going to Ancona
determined to march to (Lieta and joie the army of
the King of Naples. This plan, however, if it
existed, must be broken up by the flight of the
Bourbon monarch.

Baron de Talleyrand, the French Ambassador at
Turin, is coming to France, leaving the legation iu
the hands of a char,pS d'affaires. This news, how-
ever, although it may be symptomatic of a coolness
between the two powers, does not bear out the
rumour of a rupture of diplomatic relations which
was current at the Bourse.
The news that Francis 11. has fled from Gaeta is
confirmed. He left on board a Spanish frigate, and
no doubt for Seville, although the Pays says it is
" not exactly known where he is gone." Thus dis-
appears the last hope of the Jesuits and legi.
titillate, that lie was going to make a light of it,
and thus are answered their asseverations that he
only ran away from Naples, bemuse his humane heart
wished to spare the town the horrors of war, and
that his gallant spirit meant to take up agrand
strategical position elsewhere. Only this morning
the Monde complacently said to its readers :
The Kiag of Naples is at Gaeta: a great part of his army
still remains faithful. He is glad to be out of the hands of
a set of knaves, who, at Naples, hammered his will and
deceived his conscience. He way now make arrangements
with General de Lamoriciarc, tall French generals to his
aid, and take port in a serious war to deliver his people and
recover his crown.

M. Grandguillot's thunder on behalf of the Pope
bits not frightened the Piedmontene. A Turin
letter of Sept. 11 in the Frew, says :
The rumour that diplomatic reowestrosoe bad come from
Paris, strengthened as it was by paragraphs iu the Pays
mod Paine, and a solemn article in the Amistitrtionsel, we.
calculated to excite uneasiness lost the French alliance
should be affected by the invasion of the Pontifical States.
Icon, however, assure you that the news has produced no
effect whatever here. Something tells the public that, ea
is the ease of Tuscany and the Romagna, M. Gimredgnillot
is an inowrect exponent of the real policy of Franco, end
that he does not sightly understand the full bearing of the
principle of non intervention. All the journal@ and all
political men are quite easy on this score. I can assure
you of the fact as being altogether beyond doubt.
The following no from the Alba!, :
. . . .

As it was easy to foresee, the prophetic objurgations of
the Coostitotionnei have Leen estimated at their true value
in Turin. If there still remained the least shadow of
doubt as to Victor Emmanuel's designs, it is now diaipated.
A despot& from Bologna, dated the 11th, announces that
General Oialdini Ire passed the Roman frontier. We
cannot yet fix the moment when this pease was effected,
which will be in Its cousamences one of the gravest facts
in contemporary history, if it should lead to Austrian
interventios, and one of the most important in the
history of the world, if it should ultimately lead to the
ruin of the temporal power of the Popes. The revolt
of the town of Forombrone and its repression by the pen-
tifiail troops appear to have determined General Cialdines
solvence, after hesitating two or three days. If it should
at tura out, Foesombrone, the forum stosprostii of the
Romans, one of the smallest towns in Italy, will have twice
witnessed in the course of centuries events et incalculable
importance, since it wee there that, more than two thou-
I sand years ago, the defeat of Asdrnbal secured the safety of
pagan Rome, and sealed the ruin of Carthage. as the fate
of catholic Rome may perhaps be decided there in our day.
Before the Piedmontese troops invaded the papal territory
they must have had time to receive the decisive rwoclana-
Eon which Victor Enunamsel had addressed to his army,
and which we have received by telegraph from Turin.
Tho Bourse was weak, and the Rente, so far from
recovering from the depression of yesterday, sus-
tained a further, though trilling, fall. The Bente
closed at 67fr. 80c., with a decline of sc. Mohflier
was without change. There was scarcely any altera-
tion in railways.

MELBOURNE RAILWAY TRAFFIr RETIIIINA.—The
five hum of railway now in operation in Me!Menne received
for traffic in the month of June last of whir*
10,8enr. was for passengers. and 5,794/. fur merchandise.
The government linos received a total for the mouth of
fI,BIPL. the Melbourne and Hobeon's Hay 5.724.. the Gee-
long and birdbrains, %UM, the Melbourne mad Suburban,
9161., and the St. Hilda and Brighton, 796/.