The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-01 00:00:00

THE PRISONERS OF THE IRISH BRIGADE.

The Dublin Morning News of Saturday prints
the first intelligence which up to the present has reached
Ireland from any of the Irish prisoners taken by the
Piedmontese at Perugia or Spoleto. The eoinmuoica-
tMn is from a young man named Brophy, a native of Dublin,
who, says the New, "Had been charged to distribute
among the men cheques on the National Bank, obtained for
them from the bank of Plowden, Chohnely, and Co., by a
kind friend in Boma. This money was part of their bounty,
which the faithful Celts—the same in heart all over the
world, in America, India, Australia, or Italy—were about
so remit to the parent, the sister, or neither at home in ire-
land. Sergeant Brophy was intrusted with this duty, and
undertook to make out and return to Dublin a list or in-
vagary of the checks of his own company. He appears to
have distributed the checks and made out the list, when
suddenly the treacherous onslaught of the Piedmontem in-
vaders (which we thus perceive was utterly unexpected)
burst upon Perugia."
The following lathe brief message, written on a crumpled
bit of paper
" Near LbefllCl. en route to Genoa, Sept. M.
" Sir,—You will perceive by the enclosed that I have
faithfully earned out the instructions of -- to me respect-
ing the cheques intrusted to my charge at Perugia for our
company, but unfortunately I had not time to post it before
the siege opened ou us. I send here the schedule 1 made
out ; do with it as is beet now.
" You will surely excuse this sort of a note, remember-
ing, as you see, that now we are prisoners ; 1 need say no
more.
" 1 have not room, if I dared, to tell you all. I wish you
could know all about our caption.
"Poor Allman (Allman!), whom you knew, fell dead by
my 'hie, shot through the heart. He never spoke. In.
malady I myself was struck down. My gun was ehattered
out d my hand, and es 1 lay on the grained I was hit again
by a ball in the left hip, my trousers torn to atoms my
wound hut a trifle. But our company escaped wonderfully,
considering it might have been destroyed.
"We are after three days' fearful march. Oh ! our pour
fellows are used awful. You would see the blood oozing
out through our shoos and over at the ankles, from stream-
ing down inside our clothes from our wounds—still made to
go fearful marches. But our spirits are the same as ever.
"We are going, they say, to Genoa. I have, of course,
given each man his cheque, except five er sin, which I keep
awaiting instructions. I suppose no letters can reach us,
but try.
" Dear sir, send word to my mother of my fate; she
lives at No. —, Dahlia. It is no use her writing, as
I might not get it yet —Your obedient servant,
"T. W. Baorar."

It is now definitively arranged (uye the
Liverpool Mercury of Saturday), that the marriage of
Lady Emma Stanley with Cokined Talbot, which e a
to have taken place on Thursday next, but was post-
poned on account of the illness of the Earl of Derby,
shall be celebrated on the 11th of next month. Els
lossidilp has been suffering from en attack of gout for
some days past, but we were glad to learn yesterday
that his health wee much improved, hod that he WAS rapidly
approaching couvaleseenoe. The nuptial ceremony will take
place at the pretty church of Knowsley, which is wow being
considerably enlarged and beautified at the bole expense
of
the noble earl. The work will be coniplcted in a few days,
and the sacred edifice is to be re-opened fur divine service
on the Sunday preceding the day Axed for the interesting
event referred to above.

The British Consular Church in Perin, in con-
nexion with the Established Church of Scotland, wits opened
on Sunday last. The services were conducted be the Rev.
Mr. Crumble, who has been appointed be the British
government to this charge--in terms of the Consular Act,
6 George IV., e. 87—and Divine service will take plane re-
gularly, hereafter, each Sabbath, at the hours of eleven and
three, fin the comfortable and cummodious chapel in eon
uetion with the Church of the °integre, opposite the Palace
of the Louvre, the National Protestant Church of Fraser
in Perim having, in the mat handeome manner, granted
the gratuitous use of this very suitable plats of meeting.
Robert bus, Esq., of Fettersaso, in Scotland. and John
McGavin, Elk', M.D., of Maria, have been appointed trus-
tees of the church, and Mr. Fowler, bookseller in Paris, has
been nominated ...entity, and the establishment is, by law,
under the imitesuperititendeuct of her Brien
isaT.td ty's Consul at Paris. This is the first instance, in Eu•
rope, in which the Established Churoh of Scotland has
availed herself ot the important privileges conferred on her.
in common with the Church of England, by " The Consular
Act."—Court Journal.
CRYSTAL PA Hex,' -A - CROW N
SATVSUAT, Sirr. 29.—Actiwiniowa on pnyment. 5,415 ;
ditto by ~on tickets, 9,l2l—total. 14,536._ Total visitors
for week sapling Saturday, 41,6011. Total visitor sine
opening of the Palace, June 10, 1854, 9,241,792.