The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-19 00:00:00

EVENING, MAY 19, 1860.

,TEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE GARIBALDI EXPEDITION.

NAPLES, MAT 18.

(OFFICIAL.)
The bands of Garibaldi have been attacked at
the point of the bayonet by the royal troops, near
Calatafini, and totally routed, leaving on the battle
field their flag and a great number of killed and
wounded, among whom was one of their chiefs.

(oFFICIAL.)

BOMA MAT 18.
An engagement has taken place between the
royal troops and the Garibaldians at Calatafani, a
short distance from Palermo.

The Garibaldians are said to have been cont
pletely beaten, leaving a large number of killed,
and wounded.

PALERMO, MAT 16,
Garibaldi was at Alcamo on the 15th inst. A
fight had taken place at Iloppo in which the royal
troops were repulsed. Palermo is again in a state
of siege. Fresh troops have arrived. More emi-
grants have disembarked in Sicily.

GENOA, MAT 18.

News from Messina to the 14th instant states
that the commander of the Piedmontese frigate
Governolo had landed there, and was received with
applause.
Marshal Riveira had demanded reinforcements
of Marshal Russo, who, being unable to diminish
the garrison of Messina, had refused.
It was rumoured that some regiments of Chasseurs,
which had set out from Palermo against Garibaldi,
had been completely destroyed.

TURIN Nu 18.
The official Piedmonteee Gazette publishes an
article refuting the accusation of ministerial con-
nivance in the affair of Garibaldi. The article
says :—" The government has disapproved of the
expedition and attempted to prevent its depar-
ture by such means as prudence and the laws
would permit. The Sardinian ships of war
had orders to prevent a landing, but could do no
more than the Neapolitan vessels which were cruis-
ing in the Sicilian waters. Europe knows that the
government of the King does not hide its solicitude
for the common country; but at the same time it
understands and respects the principle of interna-
tional law, and believes its duty to be to make that
principle respected in the state, for the safety of
which it is responsible."

THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.
BRMBSU3, BAroaDAY.
_

According to advice, received from Paris this
morning, the Emperor is said to have left that city,
without any suite ; some persons say for Bologna,
to visit his landed property, others pretend to
Toulon to inspect the fleet and to give instructions
to the admiral before his departure for the Levant.

SARDINIA.
TURIN, MAY 18.
Sardinian Brute is quoted at 82.50 for money,
and 82.80 for. amount. Little business is doing,
owing to the apprehensions of war.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
ST. PETERSBURG, MAT 18.
It is stated that a telegram from Baron Brunnow,
the Russian ambassador at London, has been re-
ceived by the Russian government, announcing
that Lord John Russell would most likely make no
position to an inquiry into the situation of the
Christians in the Turkish empire. This reported
acquiescence of England has given great satisfac-
tion here.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FIIDIA EVICIfING.

Notwithstanding the circumstantial accounts pub-
lished in London yesterday of Garibaldi's being in
Marsala, and having actually signed papers for the
English authors of the correspondence, it continues
to be doubted in Paris this evening whether the
chieftain was with the expedition that landed in
Sicily. The Opinion Nationale, which has hitherto
had a good deal of exclusive information, asks the
question whether Garibaldi is in Sicily, and inclines
to the opinion that he is not. The Pays speaks of
the point as doubtful ; but the Patrie, on the
authority of the Neapolitan embassy in Paris—
very unreliable authority, by the way—states as a
fact that Garibaldi is not personally in the island.
The Opinion Nationale maintains its assertion
that four frigates of the French squadron of evolu-
tion have actually taken up a position before
Naples under the command of Admiral Jehenne,
and it echoes the contradiction of the Patrie, at the
same time pointing it as applicable only to the news
that the entire fleet under the orders of Admiral
Lebarbier de Timm had gone. The Patric, how-
ever, while sticking to the letter of its statement of
yesterday that no part of the squadron has yet left
its anchorage, says that three ships only are
"going ;"—the Donawerth to Naples, the Foudre
to Palermo, and the Impetueuse to Messina. It
accounts for the suspension of the orders, which
seem undoubtedly to have been given, for the de-
parture of the whole fleet, by asserting that "the
latest news from Southern Italy does not call for
the presence of the entire force."
The Pays, which, it is well to remember, occa-
sionally has for its second title Journal de i'Empire,
gives a melancholy account of the destitute con-
dition in which it is left with regard to news. It
seems to be the policy of its patrons to leave it for
the moment quite at sea, both as to facts and
opinions. "We are almost always," it says,
" compelled to reproduce news without having any
means of testing its truth." And then, as if afraid
that it may be forced to disavow some opinions
lately expressed, it continues :

It is difficult even for the most impartial men not to be
carried away by events, and to 'We opinions too strongly.
Who shall guess the secret thoughts of the men
whose names are now in everybody's mouth? Who can
predict this or that solution! And what is to be the result
of passing events? _ _ _

It is pretty clear from this that the French go-
vernment journals, whose first impulse was to
abuse Garibaldi, and which were afterwards com-
pelled to treat him tenderly, are for the moment
without any instructions whatever, except that they
are to lay upon their oars.
Notwithstanding, however, the modest tone of
the Pays in the article above alluded to, it assumes
the tone of authority in another column devoted to
latest news. It is " quite sure " that up to May
16, at noon, there had been no encounter between
the Neapolitan troops and the insurgents ; and it
can state " confidently " that the news of a de-
tachment of Garibaldi's volunteers having passed
through a part of the Roman States is completely
false. Moreover, it undertakes to say that Gene-
ral Laura—who, it seems, has been sent to Sicily
by the King of Naples as an alter ego—has gone on
a mission of "peace and conciliation !"
The Opinion Nationale says that the news of
some of Garibaldi's volunteers having made for the
Abruzzi• was true, but that the Sardinian govern-
ment, knowing their project, had waylaid them at
their landing and caused them to be disarmed.
The prospect of the evacuation of Rome by the
French army is once more " a dissolving view."
The Opinion Nationale says that the order which
was given was countermanded the day before yes-
terday, in consequence of Lamoriciere'a movement
upon Gubbio. The government print, which yes-
terday gave the news of the evacuation as positive,
is silent to-day.
The Bourse was greatly agitated. The Recite
oscillated between the extreme prices of 69fr. Be.
and 68fr. 35c. At the close the market was com-
paratively firm, and the last prices were 60fr. 80c.,
both for cash and account, being a fall of 15c. and
6c. Mobilier fell lifr. The railways, which have
hitherto resisted the impulsion given by the decline
of the Rente, fell more considerably than they have
done all the week. Orleans fell 7fr. 50c.; Northern,
Bfr. 75c.; Southern and Western, 7fr. 50c. each ;
&stern, 3fr. 75c.; and Lyons, 2fr. 50c.
Mgr. Parisis, the ultramontane bishop of Arras,
accompanied by one of his grand vicars, has just
passed through Marseilles on his way to Rome.
The Prince R. de Ligne, son of the President of
the Belgian Senate, who has gone out to serve as •
volunteer under Lamoricihre, travels in the same
boat with the bishop.