The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-07 00:00:00

KING' VICTOR RAIMANUEL'S ARRIVAL AT

BOLOGNA.

A letter from Bologna of the 2nd says :
" The 15,000 men of the garrison and the National
Guards were all under arms at one o'clock. It had rained
all the morning pitilessly; it rained at one harder than ever.
Out the poor troops turned, cloaked and hooded, the her-
saglieri with draggling cock feathers, the lancers splashing
with streaming wit pennons, the infantry wally tramp-
ing in dx inches of mire ; there was rolling artil-
lery, rattling state carriages, laced liveries, banners,
gay cloths and devices, the arms of the cities, the
mourning flags for Venice, Rome, Naples, and Sicily,
all varieties of finery, with their bright colours washed
away by the streaming rain, with their bravery disfitoired
by • thick coat of mud. Constant drizzling, drenching,
deluging--deluging, drenching, drizzling as denser or lighter
clouds sailed along the lowering sky. The King was ex-
pected at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, hut it warn reasonably
supposed that the heavy roads would slacken his journey
across the Apennines, so that all men and things would have
to melt in all that wet till a much later hour. Towards 3,
however, there was something like a break in the clouds,
and it had actually almost entirely ceased to rain at 3 when
the cannon announced that the King was one full hour before
his time. The very suffering endured, the prolonged
misery to which men and women had nude up their
minds, enhanced the thrill of joy which the first
report of artillery sent through every man's
heart. Here he was. The roar of the multitude
preceded him, loud enough to drown the scores of drums
and jingling music which greeted him at every street corner.
Here he was! Here they were . A squadron of lancers ;
then a squadron of mounted militia, four carabineeni, then
the royal travelling carriage—an open carriage—the King
with Parini on his left, with General Cialdini and
a numerous staff riding in a motley retinue before, behind,
and all round ; then more carriages, with a mob of court
and state dignitaries ; then more cs:rabineers, lancers, and
yeomanry, the whole cortifte wet, splashed, and spattered;
beaata, king, ministers, courtiers, and generals.
one grand layer of mud ; and thus they wowed down the
street of San Stefano, across the Cartolerra Nuova, into the
Strada Maggiore, to the Piazza del Gigante, and
came to alight at the door of San Petronlo. Two
of the canons and about fourteen priests were scraped
together in sheer defiance of the rebellious Cardinal
Archbishop. The 7'e Daus was sung. At the Town-hall
the King was accommodated with another—a drier, but,
des ; a close—carriage. He thus traversed the other half
of the city, went out at the gate leading to San Michele in
Bosco, the famous convent on a hill half a mile from the
convent the only mansion for royalty Bologna
te-it.ohatboast. The view of the gay convoy as it
wound up the ascent, escorted by hundreds at
prancing steeds, by hundreds of waving flags, and
scarcely protected by thousands of glittering bayo-
net. from the vast ebbing and heaving crowd which pressed
and clamoured around it on all sides, is something to be
remembered by all who witnessed it. Somewhat exhausted
and stunned, but apparently in good health and spirita, the
King took possession of his convent home, where his trusty
premier, Count Owner, who had just arrived by railway
from Turin, welcomed him. The King had to run the usual
gauntlet of deputations, adilreoes, he., and had twice to
show the sun of his countenance to the storming multitude
outside ; and dinner was served when the toil of his royal
day wee over."

Mr. B. C. Stephenson, of the Treasury, has been
appointed private overetary to the Home Secretary, Sir G.
C. Lewis, in the room of Mr. Maurice Drummond, ap.
pointed receiver of metropolitan police.

Mr. William Doria, now secretary to her Ma.
jesty's mission to Persia, has been appointed secretary and
charge d'Affaires at Parana. Mr. W. B. Eastwick, formerly
in the service of the government of india, has been api
pointed secretary to the Persian ministry, in the room
of Mr. Dori►

The gun factories are now at work night and day
on • prodigious scale forging the Armstrong guns of all
sines, from 6to 100-pounders. It is expected that 1,200
guns, chiefly of the larger description, will be made this
year. During the nine months since the factory has been
in operation forty-eight complete batteries of Geld artillery
have been turned out and equipped for service, as well as
200 40-pounders for naval use, besides • large number of 100.
pounders in progress of manufacture, and which will be
ready by the Ist of August next.

Captain Vine Hall, who has been appointed to
the command of the great ship, is the brother of the Rev.
Newman Hall, of Surrey chapel, London. Captain Hall
has had an immense experience in the command of ships of
the first class, in the Mediterranean, South America,
Australia, and India.

"Argue," of the Post, says :—" Pullinger Las
been talked of very much as connected with the turf, but it
is extraordinary to think he never saw a race in his life,
although he had Clementhe and several others in training
in connexion with a gentleman at Reading. I regret to
state, however, be has victimised Mr. Parr out of 6,0004
worth of securities, which he deposited in a box in his
charge at the bank, and which it is feared the directors will
not refund." From the same authority we learn that
" William Day's bones are all to be sold on Bath race.
course, as in future he is only going to train for his em-
ployers ; and those who wish to posies* the Promised Land
m►y like to hear they will have to write a cheque for three
thousand guineas for him ; and as a trial horse he is worth
every shilling of the money."

"See," Says the Times, " what the ' embank.
meet of the Thames' would do for us. It would save us
the closing of the Strand and Fleet-street for a couple of
years, and that saving is worth something. It might says
us St. Paul's and Somerset House, and we have not got so
many public edifices or public offices that we can afford
to put these two buildings into jeopardy. It would give us
a fresh thoroughfare, and a most delightful one. Imagine
a grand open quay all along the Thames—a river no longer
polluted with filth and exhaling stench, but running in •
deep and pleasant stream between strong embankment..
Why, it would be the finest walk in London : so that we
should gain a place for the sewers, a new main road, • msg.
nificent promenade, and a pure river all at one stroke!
No wonder the Prime Minister dilated on the 'great ad-
vantages which would arise in every point of view.' No
wonder that a committee explained these advantages two
years ago. No undertaking was ever suggested which pro-
mised so much, both in what it would save us and what it
would give us."
HIS ROYAL HIOHNMS PRINCE ALTRED.—III
consequence of the breaking of a piston rod, or some other
derangement of the machinery, her Majesty's steam screw
frigate Euryalus, 51, Captain Tarleton, which left Spithead
on Saturday fur the Cape of Good Hope, put into Ports-
mouth Sound yesterday morning about 9 o'clock, and saluted
the flag of Port Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds, K.C.B.
About 1 p.m. • number of liberty men landed from her yawl.
Shortly after the paddlewheel steatotug Confiance went
alongside the frigate, and his Royal Highness Prince
Alfred proceeded to her to Hamoase where • four-oared
gig, supplied by the flagship Impregnable, was in attend-
ance. On lamling, his royal highness was received by the
Port Admiral and Admiral Sir John Pasley, and went to
Mount Wise, where he partook of luncheon. After a visit
to the Earl of Mount-Faigcumbe, Winter-villa, Stonehouse,
the prince embarked in the gunboat (linker, and rejoined
the Euryalus. The repairs of the machinery may occupy
some days. To-day the royal visitor will inspect the De.
vonport arsenal and Keyham steam yard.
ACCIDENT AT THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—On
Saturday night, Dinoralt was performed at Covent-garden,
by desire of her Majesty, who was present on the occasion.
During the progress of the last art of the opera an explosion
of one of the instruments by which the magnificent concen-
trated light in the shadow dance is produced took place.
The report, which was one of terrible volume, created great
consternation for the moment through t the house. It was
speedily ascertained, however, that the only person who
sustained any injury wag • boy, the :lOU of the teenager of
the light, whose face was dreadfully contused and burnt.
He was immediately carried to Charieg.cross Hospital.
where he was promptly attended to, and was in a condition
to be removed to his home in the course of an hour. Her
Majesty manifested great anxiety as to the result of the
explosion, and received front Mr. Gye in person an assur-
ance that no serious calamity had occurred. She renewed
her inquiries en leaving the establislimeut at the close of
the performance.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.--•
Haydn's Creation will be performed on Friday next. 11th
May. Principal vocalists :—Miss Burps, Mr. Sims Reeves,
and Signor Belletti.
Bum•Seen.—Since the discharge of the two
stable boys several circumstances have cane to light in eon-
sexion with Buccaneer and the Two Thousand. Lord
Portsmouth is iu possession of information to connect cer-
tain members of the ring with the lads iu question ; and
his lordship hopes to be able to bring sufficient home to
the parties implicated for a Jockey Club, if nut a legal in.
vestigation. —Ma me/rake ES,r.
THE RECENT FORAY AOAINRT BETTING MEN IN
LIVERPGIIL.—The gentlemen who were arrested on Tuesday
night last, at the Albion Hotel, Livery,ool, li.tve taken legal
advice, and the consequence is that they hare retained
Mr. E. James, Q.c., for the purpose of prosecuting the
parties who were instrumental in their arrest. The act
of parliament for the suppresOon of betting houses states
that " arrests by warrant under the suppression of betting-
houses law can be only made in the metropolitan districts,
and that in all provincial towns information must be laid in
each case, and complicity proved in each instance, before
convictions can be =dn.'. It is state"! that in Manchester
the betting men have instituted similar inwectlitigs.