The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 180.

the substance of goodwill which simulate and dissi-
mulate each other at every hum of those see-saw
sentenoes and solemn warnings. The morality of the
lituniteur is avenged by the universal impression
of everybody in particular that everybody else is the
dupe. When this happy result is sewede
why should we interrupt the harmony by a shrill
try of dissatisfaction ! We honestly deplore oar
native dulness of apprehension, and the eoareeness
of palate which incapacitates us for testing anything
bat plain truth. And we are paying the Monitor,
• jut compliment when we say that plain truth is not
quite indigenous to its columns. The Vienna accepta-
tion of the manifesto has the merit of being otiose and
purely theoretical, whilst the Turin, Florence, Parma,
Modena, and Bologna version, which consists in
Axing upon one or two paragrapha and eliminating
all the rest, is a practical solution of an awkward
mystification, and well adapted to the exigencies of
the situation in Northern and Central Italy. Accord-
ingly Dictator Falun addresses the Assemblies of
Parma and Modena in no faltering accents; he tells
the eitisens that the game is in their own heads, and
that at all events therc will be no foreign interference
with their new destinies ; at Florence, Baron
RICASOLI is equally confident and at ease ; at Turin
and at Milan the deputations from the Duchies are
troubled by no vain misgivings, nor haunted by un-
comfortable Pyrenean echoes; even in the Legations
the administration and the Assembly organise their

future, nothing doubting; all the returning footstep
from St. tlauvenr are light and hopeful.
All Italy, by common accord, is convinced that the
Emperor of the FRENCH means well, and that by
thinking so, and saying so, and acting upon the
conviction, they will assist him to fulfil the desire.
of hie heart. And if austerer admonitions sena
from the banks of the Thames, let Italy be per-
suaded that rough words are sometimes the kindest,
and let them pluck the flower from the nettle
without complaining of the sting.

Certain of the commentators on the Menitesw
have taken upon themselves to make free with the
supposed policy of the British Government in this
new phase of the Italian question. When shall we
be relieved from the necessity of repeating
to these ingenious designers of fancy statecraft
that the policy of the British Government
remains precisely what it was declared to be in Par-
liament, and will continue to be what it is now?
The policy of liberal England is as simple and as
clear as freedom itself, and does not follow the
changes of the moon, or of the Honiteur. It is
summed up in a few brief words: To leave emanci-
pated Italy free to choose her own form of
government and her own dynasty, so long at lent
as no domestic anarchy threatens the general peace.
England protests, in virtue of her own freedom and
her own principles of government, against the use of
force to coerce the Italian people. Neither at Paris
nor at Vienna is the feeling or the policy of the
British Government obscured or disguised.
The voice of England speaks in tones that cannot
be mistaken to every court of Europe Let us add
our confident persuasion that the employment of
faros by Austria against the population of Central
Italy is something more than an improbability,
whatever may be the replies which Prince
RICHARD METTERNICH is about to bring from
Vienna to the propositions which he carried from fit.
&menu.. There are other, and sometimes even
stronger, pledges than those which a couple of Em-
perors can exchange across a breakfast-table; and
we belies() that the Emperor of the FRENCH is not,
at this moment, the man to deny, or to evade them.

To speak of the Committee which is now in course
of formation for the purpose of converting English
sympathy for Italy into substantial aid, as a com-
mittee of charity, and to describe Italian liberty as a
mendicant, is not only an unworthy aspersion upon
a good cause and a generous advocacy, but it is
a gratuitous mistake. There is no begging
in Italy, no giving alms in England. A
number of Englishmen of all parties and
opinions sympathise with the generous aspirations
after independence, and the brave determination to
win, and to keep it, of the Italian populations.
Knowing that though the spirit is willing the flesh
is weak, and that even where enthusiasm and bravery
are strong, the sinews of war, especially in the
smaller States, may fril, many Englishmen are de-
sirous of testifying the sincerity of their goodwill in
the tangible form of material help. The need of
such aid is felt ; and we are fully persuaded that no
uneasy seen of obligation will hinder Italy from
accepting with a good grace fres gifts from England.

Dr. Edmund Davy, Professor of Agriculture and
ammtiatey to the Royal Dublin Society, has
made some Mardis( statements, conveying the result of bis
enpa;raents as to the presence of sneak in crops. He states
positively thee arse is as it exists es different artificial
manures (inch as the raperphoephate) will be taken up by
plant. rowing when these 112/0111.6 bed been applied He
foetid this to be the revs with cabbages; sod tamales taken
from Aside 10 which suporpliwphaM bad been need
gave the EWA unmistakeable evident., of having
bees aneniatsd. The facts thus collected appear to Dr.
Davy to have some hapostant Wastage, for " though
the quality of anomie which occurs in each manures la not
large when iropured sith their other constituento, and the
proportion of that substance which is thus added to the roil
toast be ett'l sm►ll, still pleats may dormg their growth, as
is the case of the alkaline and earthy malts, take up a cm-
eiderable quantity of this saboteur', though Its proportion in
the *oil may be but very email. Farther, as arsenic Is wall
known to be an eccutoolating poi►on, by the conqaued use
of vegetables *Detaining wee • minute proportion of arsenic,
that subetence may collect le the system till ice amount
may exercise en injurious effect on the beilth of malt sad
ariuraLi."

The Athr rotting record. the death, on the 10th
last., et De. Thomas Nona!, st kin residence, Nittgrovs,
Helms, Lane white, at the age of eeveatg-thrss. H. wee
born is Yorksh'rr, brought up a printer, and emigrated to
ihs United States in the latter pert of the last °eatery. He
timed ht. leisure time to the study of botany and gaoler',
published the " Genera of North hmariosa Plant.," " The
Birds of the United States," and other mocks. He travelled
is California, and pabliahed several pipers on the shells sad
plants of that region. Dr. Nuttel renamed to England,
litdag at Nutgrove, an estate which was left to bin on con•
did= that ha &mall reside on it.

Miss Amy Sedgeick makes her reappearance on
the Haymarket Wards as Monday eveatae, to the charoc:or
el Itamalinl (As For Like It.), which she mew for tLe
fret time ►+fare a London audience.

Ths Literary Gazette says that on Mr. Kean 's
roma to tows, he will comments his ingagement with Mr.
Doses% Issue of the Standar] and City of Leaden theta's,.
Mr. and Mn. Charles Mathews conclude their
sopeemost at the Haymarket this erasing, after which
(asp the ifwwloy Tint.) they teke a abort respite from theft
profuesional duties to visit Paris for a few week.. They
Warn to the Haymarket in February; the ititermodtats time
they fill up is the provinces. There is so truth is a parturreph
whisk hie brew ontog the round of the papers, gating that
Mr. otd Mrs. Mathews are about to return to the Utaittd
[Yates.

The following is an extract from a letter received
how an officer es based OW of the gunboats engaged la the
tenet operations at the mewls of the Peale. Riese •—" Our
little craft INS riddled with their shot. Ten carpenters have
her at work upon us three days plugging up our shot-belts.
The heaviest s►ot we received weighed Mat. Several bells
wave cut oat doer wecoed gig, which reversl allows, moms
whose woe Commander Commend, declare me Reiskr
rite balls. We shall have ho.ter work sent time, as their
text an peogrees:ag in slag rd somber fast. I was war•
lag the bowline., and a ball carried away nay watch sad
chats."

gig eaurt.

BALMORAL. Bier. 15,
Mee Majesty, accompanied by the Princes Alio.,
sad attended by Lady Churchill, the lion. Stony Cathcart,
and the liquery, dram to Moven yesterday, and acceded
the bill on pontet,
The Prin. Contort left Balmoral at one O'clock foe Ban-
/berry Hottas, our Aberdeen.
Tha Prince of Wale' went oat deer-etalkinc.

The Count de Madras went ant grouse-eh-mann.

The royal dinner party included the Princess Alice, the
Priam of Wake, the Count de Flandree, the Earl of Elgin,
Bar Charles and Lady Phipps, Major Burnell, and the ladies
and gentlemen of the household.

The Queen will hold& Priv, Council on the 23rd inst. at
Balmoral.

Viscount Palmerston arrived fn Londe* yesterday from
W seat, Broadl►nds, Hants.
The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson arrived in town list
evestog from the Isle of Wight.
Despatches were sent last evening from the Colonial-office
for the Governors of Canada, British Colombia, end the
West India colonies.

Her Majesty proceeds on Friday, the 14th Octo•
bee, to the opening of the waterworks of Leek Kaaba.
Ha Majesty will leave the Palace of Ho(pad as the own-
lag of that day, and proceed by railway to Canada, and
thaw by artiage and steamer to the month of the tassel,
on Loch Katrina, which forma the commencement of the

wear. Her Mejesty, after the ceremony of the opening,
will beech at the cottage of the water commissioner, just
erected on all margin of the kch, near the point at which
the water will be taken for the city, and return to Holyrood
by the same mute._

-
The Duke of Bedford arrived in Belgrave-equare
yesterday from Woburn Abbey, Bede. _
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...

The kart of Kinsman and d Lady Ellen Browne
lave arrived at Castle Degiot, the family net is Irthad,
kr the =Puna.

The Counter of Chichester and Lady Muy Pel-
ham' bare loft the Qwera's Hotel, Upper Norwood, kg Wm

Lord and Lady Bloomfield Mtn returnod to Lough-
toe, their meat in Inland. The noble lord le expected to
'eters or Berlin to remote hie diplomatic duties sat month.

Lord Stanley, M.P., has joined the Earl and Win-
ans of Derby and the fatally &els at Knowsley Ptak, Lan-
ouhlas, from a tour of visite la Ireland.

Le* Dover left Whitehall yesterday on a visit to
Lead isd Lady Bagel at Elk Wield Hell, Staffordshire.

Lady Peel haaleft
bat, Norfolk.

for Lower

The marriage of Lientanant-Colonel the Hon.
Junes Macdonald with the Hoe. Mies Blake, daughter of
Lord and Lady Wsliscorrt, is appointed to take place on
Monday, the 26th instant.

Mrs. Lane Fox left Bnckharat Park last week. A
select circle is still remaining on a visit to the Esti sad
Countess Delswarr.

It b stated by a ootstaporary that Mr. Edwin.
James, M.P., hu of late soff,red ranch from an ateoese le
his aide. The abscess has been. opened, and thereby some
relief has been experience] by the hon. and learned gentle-
man, who is staying at Worthing. _ _

Her Ilighnies the Princess Anatole Bariatinsky
arrived last aerating at Ortllioiie Clazendort Hotel front
flhaaklin.

The Count and Countess Alexander Stroganoff
sad family have returned to (billion's Clarendon Hotel from
the leis of Wight.
Admiral Hope, who commanded and was wounded
is the expedition to the Pahl°, to brother-ha-4v to Lord
K innard.

The Lord Chancellor has presented 2W. to the
Newspaper Pisa Peed.

On Tuesday night Prince Frederick William and
the Princess left Berlin by the Breslau express train for
Silesia, accompanied by Adjutant-likor von Obernits and a
lady of honour, the Countess von Holtenthal. The prime
and princess will travel by rail to Saurian and theme by
post through I,wenbcrg, Spitler, and Llinchborg to Er
manedorf, whence their royal biglutesses will make ucur-
alone to various plates. It Is understood that the stay in
Silesia will be only of low teen days duration. Tha prince
and princess will join the Prince Resent and the Prlstorse of

Pringle at Bade-Baden at the sad of this month... on the
30th inst. the birthday of the Princess of Preside will be
celebrated.

DEATH OF MR. BRUNEL, C.E.

It is with no common regret that we announce
the decease of the eminent engineer whose last im-
portant work, the Great Eastern steam-ship, has
lately occupied so prominent a place in public atten-
tion. Mr.Brunel was carried to his residence in Duke-
street, Westminster' from the Great Eastern ship,'
at midday on the 6th inst., in a very alarming con-
dition, having been seised with paralysis, induced, it
wu believed, by over mental anxiety. In spite of
the most skilful medical attention, he continued to
sink, and at haltput ten on Thursday night he
expired, at the comparatively early age of 54 years.
The deoeased was the only son of the late Sir Mark
Isambard Brunel, who for his many public works re-
wired the honour of knighthood from her l'ilsjesty
in 1841. The following outline of Mr. Broods
public career is taken from " Charles Knight's
Eeglisb Cyclopedia of Biography :"

fa-mothanfliinidont Brunel, son of the constructor of the
Themes Tunnel, was been at Portsmouth, in 1808, when his
father was engaged Is erecting the thick machinery for the
dockyard. He was taken while quite young to Franco, and
finished his adnestka at the College Haul IV., at Cu..
He commenced prudent engineering la 1826, under his
father, at the Thames Tunnel, of which work ha was red.
dent engineer. Being the last to quit his mat, ha was more

than once in danger from the frequent breaking-In of w►ter
daring the progress of the excavation', and only saved him-
self by swimming. The final irruption of 1828, when one
men was drowned, eurprierel him 600 feet from the end of
the tunnel ; be was borne along by the stream, and rose to
the surface near the top of the shalt.
Mechanical and railway engineering, and the construction
of machinery for loomeotivea end steam navigation, here
been the special objects of Mr. Brener. study. For ten
years be laboured in the experimente instituted by his father
to emphiy carbonic acid gasses motive power. He 'Flu de-
signer and civil engineer of the Gnat Western, the hest
steamahlp built to cross the Atlantic; of the Gnat Britain;
of other large vete& ; and of the hags iron ship now being
built at Mlllwall for the Lectern &team NavigaUou Company.
He has teen engaged on the docks at some of oar (imports;
salon which the mist iroportaut are the improvement et
Brietel-docke, Cada, and the construction of the Ott North
Bsnderland•doik.

Ur. Brunel was appointed engineer to the Great Western
Itsllwsy in 1833 ; and under his direction have all the tas-
sels, bridges, end other works been constructed on that line
end its branches and concesti•na—inclading the Bristol and
Exeter, South Devon, West Cornwell, Birmingham and On.
ford, and others. Noticeable among the bridges on thee,
lino, are that across thaThames at Maidenhead, for the largest
sad flattest of brick arches—tbat at Chepstow for the great
ditticultieA overcome in crossing the Wye—and the bridge ul
the Cornwall railway now in coarse of erection over the
Tamer, which is as neer as may be. from coincidence of
n iturel rinses, of the WOO span and height as the Britannia-
bridge, and has a mitred pier, rising from a depth of 80
feet of water ; the deepest jet encountered in railway snits
meting'

Thelinsgerford Suspension foot-bridge •CFOI4 the Thum
at Loudon was also erezted by Mr. Brunel. it has the lunette
span in Ragland. Hs took part in the floating and raking of
the Coney and Britannia tubular bridges ; operations not
Ira remarkable for their novelty and magnitude than for the

friendly es-operation of eogineers by whom they were pee-
emefally meamplishod. He let oat and anducted the work.
of the Tatham portion of the Sardinian railway ; and had the
eallre deem of establiehiog and fitting the Itaaklei hospitals
es the Hardeselley neemaitated by the late war with Rued&
Sham leoepitals will serrimmodate 2,000 potieste ; sad as ter
garde comfort, artificial ventilatkie, warmieg, baths, &a,
aad special adaptathn to their purpose, they are not excelled
by the beet Leaden hospitals. An sbaadant ripply of water
. laid oa from the hills, and railways afford nay carriage
from the landing•pllto3 an the there into the several wards.
Mr. Braze was el. cted • Fellow of the it lid Society ia
1830, mid was chosen ea the council in 1844. He to a vim-
predriant of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the
Society of Art.; a Fellow of the Astresonsical, Geologiud,
and Geographical &deli( s and Chevalier of the Legion of
Honour.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT, BM. 16.

A meeting of friends of the reform of the Federal
constitution was held here to-day, at which 160
persons were present.
The following resolution wllll peeped:
" Since the formation of a national party in tier
many for the purpose of promoting the unity and
liberal development of the great and common father-
land, the foundation of which bu been laid at
Eisenach and Hanover, hes become a reality, the
undersigned do hereby establish an emaciation to be
located at Frankfort-on-the-Maine.

" The giro of this society shall be to labour for the
patriotic objects of this party with all available law-
ful means; and more especially to take upon itself
the moral task of making the people more and more
conscious of the aim and means of the movement
which is being promulgated throughout the whole of
our fatherland."

A committee of twelve has been charged with the
anagetnent of the association.

PARMA.

PARMA, SEPT. 15.

The National Assembly met to-day to hear the
reading of the answer given by the Bing of Sar-
dinia to the deputation sent to Turin. The Assembly
has unanimously voted for the °entreat of a loan of
5,000,000 francs. A deputation be. been chosen to
deliver an address from the Assembly to the Em-
peror Napoleon. The deputation is composed of the
following members Signors Cantelli, Torrigiani,
Anguitolo, and Ranuoci.
The Assembly be. been prorogued, with the power
to be re-convoked by a decree of the Dictator and
President of the Assembly, or can at any time be re-
assembled at the request of twenty members.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(191011 01111 OVlst

PARIS, Fauoky EVENING.

We are without news from Italy, beyond the an-
nouncement that the Parma and Modena deputa-
tions have been splendidly received by the people of '
Turin, and the particulars of the transactions in the
National Assembly of Parma subsequently to the
reply of the King of Piedmont to the deputations.
It is carious to note how the leading Italian and
Austrian journals continue to skt with each other in
expressions of satisfaction at the recent Moniteur
article. It is the old story of the knights and the
shield. The time will come when one party or the
other must cheap its tone. To-day, however,
we find the Indepeadeste carrying its optimism
the length of drawing favourable conclusions from
the very triumph of its opponents. " The Vienna
Gazette," it says, " declare* that the article in the
Moniteur dissipates the fears which previously
existed. This article, then, had no other object but
to reassure Austria, which dreaded the renewal of
war; but it reassures her on the condition that she
shall no more meddle with the affairs of Italy
beyond the Mimic)." The answer of Victor
Emmanuel to the deputations of Parma and Modena
is regarded here as quite confirming the favourable
view taken of Italian prospect.. It he observed
that the King points out that the Emperor
Napoleon "fought for the independence of
Italy," and expresses a belief that Europe,
which has recognised the right of other nations
to ;provide for their own government, will be
neither less just nor less generous to the Italian
states. Lord Bhaftesbury's answer to the Italian
committee excites much notice here. The name of
each a man cannot fail to give weight to any cause
he espouses. People comment upon the Austrian
interpretation of the term non-intervention, u de-
veloped in the supplying of soldiers to the Pope, to I
be employed against the Legations.
Report. are rife of ministerial changes. Count
Walewski is said to be tired of foreign affairs, the
guidance of which he will give up to a candidate
new to the political arena, Marshal Niel. M. de
' Walewski will then remove to the regions of finance.
Other change. are mentioned, but them are spoken
of with a certain confidence. It must not be for-
gotten, however, that Count Walewski's &mission
has formed the 'abject of a periodical easard any
time them half-dozen years. Marshal Niel is said
to have a great fancy to try his 'pre:glee band at a
protocol, so there may this time be " something in
it."

You will remember the remarkable article pub.
lished in the Djkits some days ago :on the subject
of the liberty of the press. There is no doubt that
this article spoke more or less the language of
authority. Some relaxation of the existing system of
press restriction had become a matter of absolute
necessity; and the Dthats will probably be shortly
followed by either the Constitutionnel or the
Moniteur" on the same side." The change required
is very simple; an abandonment of the system of
warnings, and the permission to anybody to establish
• newspaper on paying a moderate sum by way of
caution money, would, in the opinion of men con-
versant with the subject, do all that is required.
This little, however, may be a great deal too much
to be given. _ _

The Bourseopened buoyantly. It was reported
that the Zurich Conferences will very shortly close,
and that the bases of a congrese are very nearly
agreed upon. This was settl:ng day in shares.
Accounts were generally carried over. Rentes left
off at 68fr. 90c. cash, and 68fr. 930. account, being
• rise of 20c. and 230. respectively. Credit Mobilier
was 793 fr. cash and 7931 r. 75c. account, being a rise
lot sfr. and Ilfr. 25e. respectively.

THE CHANNEL FLEET.

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY NIGHT.

The Channel fleet arrived here this morning, and
anchored in the Bound. The Netherlands steamer
Ilet Loo Teel, for Batavia, put in here for fuel
and water yesterday.
The Lords of the Admiralty left by rail for
London to-day.
Her Majesty's ship Imperimme has arrived from a
cruise

The Emperor and the Empress reached the Villa
Bogie& at Biarritz on the day anaemic:A. On reaching the
railway station at Bayonne their Majesties late waived by
Oeueral Mostenerd, the preterit of the department, and the
mayor of the town; and sitar a few words addressed to them
personages, th it Majesties shwa en open rani.go and pro-
ceeded to the villa, amidst load Awls of " Viva l'Empe-
meal" " Vire flaipiratrieel " "Vies le Prises hope.
&II" from the numerous persons assembled along the
reed to welcome them, At Biarritz the reception was
equally enthusiastic, lad in the evening tbo town woe ills-
Wasted, sod there was e beilliaut display of fireworks.
The following day the Emperor received Y. do Manama,
Governor-Oeneral of the Basque Provinces, who bad come
to congratulate their Majesties in the nuns of the Queen
of Spain.

The Duke de Nemours arrived at Ostend from
Dover, oa Wednesiev, and Lett Immediately for Cologne. The
Duke de Chartres arrived to tlui same poet the de; before, on
kb way to lady.

ITALY.

TUSCANY.
0101 i On OWN CORBIN

FLORENCE, SIFT. 9.

Yon will rejoice with me to learn that 'lithe patriots
lately arrested, who were more or leas suspected of
Mazzinianism, and who all belonged to other Italian
provinces, have been released and sent away. As I
was yesterday told by • person in a high station,
there only remains now one young advocate, who
is to be restored to liberty this day. It is to be
hoped that the Tuscan government will henceforth
not allow itself to be carried away by an excessive
fear of Mazzinianism, which finds it impossible to
attempt any enterprise at this moment, and which
could find no soil whatever to revive and flourish
upon except the faults of the existing governments
of Central Italy. Ido not mean to may that the great
republican party no longer exists. It exists, and
even it is powerful, because it has its roots among
the people; but its programme now is that of alliance
with the Unitary constitutional party, and it
patriotically retires to the background, only re-
serving to itself • right to advise and urge forward
its new allies as far as possible. It could do no other-
wise, without losing sight of the essential elements
of the Italian question, and prejudicing it in the
eyes both of the nation itself and of foreigners.
Every party should know how to bide its time; and
as for Mazzinianism as it now is, in spite of the
merits and superior qualities of its chief, it cannot
strictly be called a party, but rather a fraction of the
republican party.
Expulsions continue to be effected, and I have to
mention, amongst others, that of Captain Paleetrini,
of Rome, who had come into Tuscany with no other
object, according to the testimony of some very
honourable persons, than that of taking service in
the Tuscan cavalry.: One arrest, of which very few
people were macle aware, and which happil7 was
prolonged only for a few hour', is that of Mario, the
famous tenor singer, who is the owner of en exten-
sive chitean (formerly called the Villa Salviati) in
the neighbourhood of Florence, and who had arrived
there some time ago to repose awhile and to breathe
the pure air of Fiesole, in order to gain fresh
strength for renewed artistic efforts and pro-
fessional triumphs. Mario possesses not only a fioe
voice, but a superior intelligence and an enlarged
heart. Since he was known to have been much lib
with Mszzini in former times, orders were given by
the police authorities to their agents to keep an eye
upon him; and whether by some blunder, or from
an excess of zeal, it came to pass that they arrested
him in his carriage one fine day, at the moment
when he was about to enter the city gates. Raving
vehemently protested against this treatment, be was
conducted before the Prefect of Police, wine apolo-
gised with excellent taste, declaring that he was
enchanted, for his own sake, that the misunder-
standing of his instructions Lad procured him the
enviable advantage of making acquaintance with a
gentleman so justly celebrated as Signor Mario.
The socounts we receive of the condition of the
Tasman division are excellent. Garibaldi has imme-
diately secured the respect of the officers and the love
of the soldiers, even to idolatry of his person. You
may have read a statement that the appointment of
Garibaldi to the command of the Tuscan army had
been ill received by almost all the officers, and espe-
cially by the superior officers, and that they had
broken out into open complaints, alleging that Gari-
baldi was nothing but a Corsdoetiere and able leader
of guerilla warfare. Ent the real motive for their
dissatisfaction was their fear of the general's seve-
rity, and particularly, also, their apprehension that
he would bring with him • large number of those
brave officers who have always fought by his side in
America, at Rome, and in Lombardy. Garibaldi,
bringing with him only a few of his old comrades in
arme, soon showed, moreover, that with regard to
the severity of his manners, he loves justice above
all things, and that benevolence is the foundation of
hie character. It must, however, he said
that the officers of the Tuscan army greatly
needed to be recalled to the sentiment of

a salutary fear, since they had come to fancy
themselves almost independent of all superior milt.
tary authority. All that is now changed, and we 1
behold submission to the chief, attention to the ser-
vice, and discipline even of language. Talk with
any officer of the Tuscan army' you may chance to ,
meet, and you will hear him praise General Garibaldi
with the greatest sincerity and enthusiasm; they do
him justice in every respect, and all who have had
the honour of convening with him agree in acknow-
ledging
his superiority in military science. One
more piece of news, which relates to military matters,
and I have done, On Saturday last Marquis An-
selmo Guerrieri and Count Csatelli, of Parma, in
'the c►pacity of envoys extraordinary of the Parmesan
government, ratified, so far as concerns the said
government of Perms, the military league or con-
vention concluded between the different states of
Central Italy.
FLORENCE, SEPT. 10.
The instructions sent by the Court of Rome to the
Tuscan clergy, and of the text of which the police
bare succeeded in obtaining a oopy, bear upon two
points. Ist. They are to promote, as I told you
yesterday, the restoration of the dynasty by every
possible means, and cause the prayers of the faithful
to be offered up for it. 2nd. They are to oppose all
the acts of the government, and cease it to be re-
garded by the faithful as excommunicated.
The acts of opposition have not been delayed, and
very recently, the government h►ving nominated
new incumbents to certain vacant benefices the
nomination of which belongs to the State, the Car-
dinal Archbishop of Pisa refused them institution.
I cannot pass over in silence the protest of the
four archbishops of Tuscany against the circular of the
government to the ecclesiastical authorities, dated
the 22nd of August. You will remember that in
this circular the government declared that any :sort
of doubts as to its legitimacy, and any sort of hesita-
tion to follow it in the path opened by the will of
the country, would be not only acts of rebellion
against the riding authority, but also acts of treason
against the nation; and that it would consequently
prevent and repress all kinds of machinations and
criminal attempts, and would punish the conspirators
without regard to their birth or social position.
The protest of the four archbishop, which, with
the adhesion of several bishop, has been presented
to the government, requests the government to with-
draw its circular of the 22nd of August. The country,
on its aide, demands of government an act of firmness,
and wishes that its sets should be conformable to its
words. The circular was received with general sip-
' probation. It is fit that the menaces therein cen-
t tained should not now remain mere empty words.,
but that the authors of the protest should learn that
obedience to the will of the country is the first of a
citizen's duties.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states that the
Assembly of Tuscany will shortly be convoked, in
order to elect a regent charged to govern the coun-
try in the name of the King of Sardinia. 'fhe
Sardinian Coestitution is to be proclaimed, passports
and custom-houses are to be abolished (we suppose
on the lend frontier), and weights and measures, as
well as the currency, are to be assimilated.
The Mayor of Florence has issued a notice, invit-
ing all the volunteers who have returned from Lom-
bardy to present themselves within three days after
the 11th at the offises of the municipality, in order
to declare whether they will accept service in the
Tuscan army or not. There ie, however, a clause from
which it would appear that the choice is not quite a
matter of free will ; for it is said that should any
reasonable grounds prevent some of the volunteers
from accepting, the authorities shall be apprised of
it, in order to need these men back to their homes,
after having made them give up their arms.

Coont Klecikowski, secretary of the French lege.
two in Cbiaa, arrived the day before yrstenlay is Paris, sod
frowdisiely went to Moths to give the Minister of Foreign
Aff tire additioaal details concerning the attack on the allied
firsts at the thsath of the Peibo. The coast afterwards W
off for Blare's.

Horace Vernet, the painter, having recently pat-
chiest an estate In thn der:ottani' of Mayenee, was last week
at Laval, and pi-oinked one of his paintings ea a prize at next
year's ranee.

FACANCLEB APPOINTMINTS, AND PROMO-
TIONh IN TSB am SER VIM

Homo Department—The offioe of lord-lientenant
sad sheriff priselpa of the county of Bute has become cunt
by tha death of Lord P. J. Blurt, M.P.
Color:dalDepartment—The offloe of librarian in the Cola-
nial-ollioe haabeoome vacant by the death of Mr. George
Mayer; Ur raosiver-generalalilp of Trinidad has become Ira-
cant by the death of Mr. Frowns Berens Dawkins.
Foreign Department—The poet of chargi-d'affaires and
eonsul-gmaral to Bolivia is vacant by the promotion of Mr.
Lattsom.
War Offfin—Mesma. Herbert Ellot,Ralph Dslyall,Edward
Jahn Moralised, Harbert H. Ituttledge, and Edward Jahn
Mallor have pod their summation for clerkships in Pall-
mall. Mews. Thomas Quinlan and Charles Frederick
Carter have wand their ammination for temporary clerkships
at the Pimlico astabliahment ; Mr. George Clement LIMA
bee passed for a temporary clerkship at the Tower; Mr. John
Henry Smith has passed fora temporary clerkship at Waa-
-1 wiatt ; Mr. Nathaniel Taylor has pwedu Deputy-Assistaat
Commisem7-General at Malta; Mr. William Henry Button
Marshall has passed as Deputy-Assistant Commiasary-
-1 °mural at Gibraltar.

TheAdnriZtirilessrs. Alfred Lucien Spencer, John W.
Shipp . D. B. Cleverly,Wdliani Murray Hamilton,
end William Mokeworth Ricardo, have passed for tempo-
rary clerkships in London.
General Poet-Ofilee.—Mr. John Carson has passed 7or
clerkship at Kilmarnock ; Mr. Thomas Turnbull has pared
fora clerkahlp at Newcastle-ce.Tyne; Mr. William Bell has
pared for a clerkship at Enniskillen.
Customs—A clerkship for general business has become
vacant by the appointment of Mr. George Hughes to China;
a clerkship in the Long Room has become meant by the
death of Mr. Omega H. Sweet, first class clerk; Mr. T. R.
Howard has been promoted from sixth to filth clam clerk in
the legal quays department, London; Mr. Thomas Aldcroft
has been promoted from second to first class clerk at Exeter;
Mr. Charles Bennett has been promoted from third to second
elate clerk at Reeler.
Island Revenue Department.—Excies Breath.—Mr. J.
Bolton, late of Bury District, has been removed to Uttmeter
District; Mr. John Baker, supervisor, Chadeville District,
has been appointed to Bury District ; Mr. Patrick Larkin.
late floperrWr of Drogheda, has been appointed to Armagh
District ; Mr. James Bell, Ballphannon District, has been
removed to Drogheda District; Thomas Prwoo.k late of
Thetford District, ham been removed to Lynn District, vice
Hillman, retired; Mr. Samuel Wall, examiner, hambeen ap-
pointed supervisor of Thetford District; Mr. Meyrick UAW
Rainsford is now officiating se madam export surveyor.
Tower-hill—MU Service Ussotte.

CROWN-01,710E, SIFT. 15.-31 EMBER RETURNED
TO SERVE TN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT...CA=I el
Salop, mnithavn division. air Baldwin Leighton, Bart, la
the room of the Honourable Robert Windsor Clive deceased.

A few evenings since the Queen of Bavaria, with
the Crown Prince and Prince Otho, was making an aunt.
eke on the mountains in the neighbourhood of Berchtesgw.
den, when Baron von Wuiffen, equerry to the Crown Prince,
plucked a flower which was growing on the few of a steep
declivity, and at the moment he had aecured it, the ground
gave way under his test, and he fell to the bottom of the
declivity, about 100 het. The Queen, who at first was
much alarmed, soon hastened to the plate when the baron
lay, followed by the prima and the ladies in attendance,
when the baron was found to be seseeleaa. and to have sea-
Woad several severe wounds on the head. With great
kindness her blalesty bound up the wounds, and the tacklers
baron was eonveyed aortae the lake called the Oberst*, and
then to bra Majesty's wrap to 134reltargadsa. At the
latent data he had not remand consciousness.
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Man. HARRIET BEECIIER SiOwe.—This
lady, we Imo, hen been some time in London, eng upon
herztew tale, the "Mintater'eWooiog." Weareglad tooheetro
that two editions of the book are announced by the pub-
Bikers for simultaneous publication, a plan much fairer then
the old way of publithiog a new novel by a popular author
fleet at a gain's and • hell, and afterwards at • tooth of that
Palts
T HE r,DINEffItOH ANNUITT-TeX.—On Wednesday
night Mr. Brown, the remaining martyr of the annuity tax,
was released from prison. At the oboe of the public meet-
ing on Wednesday requeet was made that member per
seat of Lothian-road United Presbyterian Church should re-
main behind, and the result of their conference wee a rub-
seriph= to pay the tax and release their conseiettiool
brother, who wee aceordingly the name night restored to Ma
family after a week's experience of " daranos vile." Seth
bee been the inevitable result of all the annuity tax im-
prisonments undergone by would-be sufferers for emaciate's'
sake—come lese scrupulous friends invariably intervening
era long and ettisfying the oolkctor's dee:tends. During
Mr. Brown's brief imprisonment he bee employed his time
in the preparation of • brochure entitled • dialogue be-
tween "Deed Brown and tiring Brown," the brat-named
sharer in the colloquy being the shade ot • very returnable
and able voluntary clergyeatut lately deceased, Dr. Jobe
Brown, whose horror of the tax was such that he offered
Ma goods to seizure on venous occasions rather than pay,
and finally removed to a suburb of the town to be out of
reach of the inmost. It is said that the late prisoner's
health, which was very delicate before het incarceration, has
become so impaired by the excitement and oonflnemeet as to
necessitate bin removal to the Bridge of Allan.
FORTHCOMING NAVAL PRIZE-MONEY. Last
night's London Oatette entrains announcements to the effect
that preparations are now making fur the distribation of
prisenamey to the undermentioned shim viz.:—Arab, foe
Cubs or Erika*, captured 12th April, 1867; Firefly, for Cos.
chits, captured 27th Auger, 1857; Sasebo, for name us.
hooter, captured 16th September, 1867; Vesuvius, for
name unknown, captured 9th October, 1867; Hecate,
for ?Ragan, captured 7th December, 1857;
for Windward, captured 4th November, Ildren
foe the *cheaper, name unknown, captured 16oh April,
1868; Conant, for Wintermojet, captured 27th Fe-
bruary, 18,58, and for Almeida, er.piured 12th March, 1868;
luul
Medina, for Robert M. Cton, captured 22nd Meth,
1868; and a canoe with 82 alarm' captured 28th April,lB6B;
Heron, for Mionimooks, captured 18th April, 1b68; rah
Teen r, for General Soot; captured sth May, 1858. Due
nitre will be given in subsequent Gazettes of the amount of
the chases respectively due, and the date of their payment.
"MOPS" OR STATUTE FAIRS.—Oar Friday last a
large and Mamma.' meeting wee held at Chippenham in
compliance with a requisition signed by the pereetpal
inhiM-
tants of the place. TM re was a very lull atiesdaeoe of most
ot the leading fere:ere within • radius of several mike, and
an extraordinary amotuat of interest was excited. It was ob.
thous that those gentlemen who had initiated the movement
wbich has been commenced against statute fake were not
only convinced of its practicability, but were fully prepared
to do their best endeavours to accomplish it. The abolition
of the existing system will tend to diminish crime in its va-
rious phases. Drunkenness and debauchery, prostitution and
profanity, will motive a heavy blow, and the morals of the
humbler closers will be greatly Improved. Independently of
the vast benefits sleet meat necessarily result from abolishing
the " mop" system, and especially to theta fur whom the
dirge is proposed, It will reflect great credit on tho munici-
pal authorities of the tows. Every pereon that Is acquainted
with the evils of the system will heartily wish the ruse ew-
ers. No opposition, however formidable, eon be rife:duel in
counteracting the useful designs of the movement, Mite
Independent.
MR SHOE TRADE.—The staple trade of Stafford
continues remarry beta; orders ere numerous. The
demand, in feet, for wary all kinds of bouts and shod is
greater than the supply. The core:queue* Is that both
makers and binders have full employment, and the former are
eagerly engaged by the menulacturcra, who are paying the
advance of wages on machine-sewn uppers as arranged. The
sewing machine. are brolly et work in newly every mann-
factory in the tower, end the improved eppesrauce of the
tomtits who era engaged there Is the constant theme of all
clauses. ileretofore scores of young women devo.ed their
time from early amen until lung after eruct in bidding boot
tote at hour and the effect wag an untidy and unhealthy home,
slatternly atitee, a Melly counienance, and an MI-aired thee
stream ; but now that their habits are reviler, 'Ley return
fee their meals to a closely hearth, are rope tallv ckteed,
and the hue of Mirth raring on the cheek gives indication
of health, vigour, aid hepreess. Never, perhaps, has a
strike of the protracted character which signalieed the one in
Stafford resulted in eo much real benefit (although at flat
egret their will) to the citizens of a town; arid cotwitbstand-
ing the fears at one tines exprereed that the trade woeldbe
driven away to other places, there can be little tout% from
the lecreeoe of Wainer, that the menefactuiere sill reap
the fall ale-serge to which their adoption of machinery justly
entitles them.—Biratinglier Daily Fort.
EXPLOSION OF THE GREAT EASTERN.—The phe-
nomena connected with the condition of the soldieries are ee-
rier, and Lifer mother proof of the absence el ern noticea-
ble in errs of violent iejery. The men looked bewildered
at what had happened, they were o'da to walk up on deck,
and were uncommon of the feet that their akin bed been
boiled by the steam. And they tel no pals when the whole
akin of rho erre and hand came off like an .4d glove. The
Cann) of this may be found in the fact that the nerves of Mt-
med.!' had been entirely deetroyed, and therefore, es far at
leer as the rein was mincerned, they were as inenpable of
euffering as a ourpea would be. NOV( 'theirs*, the shock
wee too great, end the totem too much Injured for ree,oe
j very, and the imhappy men gradually, and no rt‘tht pa'n-
expired. Another instance of eerier Mirka pro-
ducing no renew ion of pain was teen a few week& ego, Then
an excursion train on the North Devon Railway ran off the
line and oval turned in a gild, the etigieeir was tying coder
the locomotive, with both his legs horribiy embed. and there
he lay ; end, calling for pen and lob, atieolteely wrote a
letter to his wife, telling her of the accident, and in-
forming her that he was not killol. In fact, the wren,
having performed their Boa of giving warning of injury,
they are no longer required, and ell further pain is therefore
rendered imporible.—Litetere Go:etto.
The Messrs. Palmer, of Jarrow, iron shipbuilders,
are makiag great in the building of the aware
f r rho Atlanticßoyal Mail Steam Navy Company. The
first reel is in Nam, and the Noisier end bode it ere in •
formed rate. &vend artier are employed in painting P'"
three in oil fir the saloon, which will Le amor get_ the tir.er
ever &Ague], and will accommodate at least 200 aret-vlase
preengets at dinner at one dare. It is rapt eel that tiro
vrerle, for diesensim and power, will eurpra any of their
sines, and will exceed the guaranteed *peed of 20 miles ler
hour. Some proper has alto been made with the wooed
moral.—Reseceatle CArefticte.