The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-05 00:00:00

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ADMIRALTY, jITLY 4.—APPOINTMENTS.—Captain
F. W. Sullivan, C. 8., to the Tamar.
Commanders C. M. Balfour, to the Winchester ; H. M.
Bingham, to the Formidable.
Lieutenants H. Hand, to the Oberon, as lieutenant and
commander ; H. W. Brent, to the Psyche ; J. Bruce, to the
Antelope.
Sub-Lieutenant G. S. Macslisine, to the Pallas.
Naval Cadets (nominated) H. B. H. Benwell, and L.
Alexander.

THE MEDITERRANEAN SQL7ADRON.—The Malta
Timer of the 28th ult. contains the following:—" The
Victoria, 102, strew line-of-battle ship (bearing the flag of
the Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief, the Right Hon.
Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8.), and the iron-clad ships Royal
Oak, 35, and Resistance, 16, left Malta harbour on Mon.
day morning for Pates, and are expected to be away for
the greater part of, if not all, the rummer. Communica-
tion with the admiral will be maintained by the gunboats
Assurance and Wisexd, now in port. The Wizard
will leave with a mail for Patras, after the ar-
rival of the Marseilles mail due on the 30th in-
stant. Previous to his departure for Greece his lordship
look a ran over to Sicily in the Psyche, for the purpose, it
Ir reported, of consulting with Captain Shortland on the
navigation of the Adriatic, the charts at present in use
being very defective. The admiral called in at Syracuse
and Catania, but did not display his flag, or personally land
at those places, not wishing to give rise to any erro-
neous impressions. The King of Italy's proclamation
declaring war against Austria was posted on all the
walls of the town. The rews did not, however,
seem to cause that excitement which so important
an event might have been expected to call forth.
On returning to Malta, the Commander-in-Chief,
without loss of time, despatched the Psyche to communi-
cate with the Italian Admiral Perasno, who holds a high
reputation for courage and humanity, to request his good
offices regarding British life and property in his opera-
tions in the Adriatic, and steps, we understand, were
also taken to insure a British ve,sel being present during
any such operations. It is reported that the screw cor-
vette Enterprise, Commander Rowley, which was at Corfu
by the last accounts, has been told off for this important
and delicate mission. Her Majesty's screw frigate Are-
thusa, 35, Captain Macdonald, will leave ?delta for
Athens on the Ist July, to relieve the Gibraltar, 81,
Captain R. Coote, and order her to Malta. The Arethusa
will take a mail for Greece."

SYMPATHY WITH ITALY--On Tuesday night a
meeting of " members of committee, delegates appointed
by workshops and districts, and &hers friendly to the
Italian cause, wbo stood prepared two years ago, in unison
with the Lord Provost's committee, to welcome General
Garibaldi," was held in the Bell Hotel, Glasgow, "to
vote on some money in hand, and how beet to express
sympathy for the brave Italians nowleontending against
Papal and Austrian tyranny." Mr. James Moir was called
to the chair, and said he sincerely wished success to
the Italian cause, and wished to see them a free people in
possession of Rome, the capital of their own country. Mr.
John M'Adam then read two letters which had been re-
ceived from M. Mazzini, the first addressed to the chair-
man of the working men's committee, and the second to
himself. In the former of these M. Mazzini says—" Your
action is timely. Now more than ever, after an unfavour-
able incident in our emancipation war, sympathy, encour-
agement, and help from a great, free, self-denying nation
will strengthen our people in the determination of con-
quering through purely national forces, and avoiding any
premeditated interference equally dangerous for Italy and
for Europe ; and now more than ever, on the eve of a tory
cabinet assuming the ruling !of the country, an expression
of public opinion, declaring that Great Britain will never
allow the men who undertake to represent her to side by
the oppressor against a people fighting for independence
and right, will prove supremely important." In the other
N. Mazzini says :—" You must not expect the usual
amount of activity from a poor exhausted man, who is
visited almost every day by cramps,and has with Italy work
enough to wear out two young, robust, healthy men. The
fret failure is the fault of La Marniora and the King—both
soldiers and generals have behaved admirably. We shall
go on and end by conquering, My only terror is of French
interference, which would be degrading, and endeavouring
to snatch Sardinia from us, and promote &federative system
instead of union. It is important that true friends
should tell ns in their speeches, We shall help you as
far as we can if you fight your own battles alone.' Of
course any help ought to go to Garibaldi alone and the
volunteers. They are forsaken by the government, and
helped mainly by committees and the people. There is
here an Italian committee. HOE, my colleague in the
Roman triumvirate, is a member, with whom you ought
to put yourselves in contact through me, if possible, in the
first instance. We have been sending already money for
rifles, red flannel shirts, and the wounded. Garibaldi is
preparing, but he can scarcely act before the
army is ready again, which requires a few days." Mr.
bl'Ailain said they were not expected to provide either
money or arms, but the small amount of money on hand,
be thought, should be disposed of to the beat advantage.
Mr. John Weidman moved :—" That this meeting of
the Glasgow friends of Italy approves of the present
action of the Italian people seizing this opportunity of
employing an honourable means to obtain national unity,
and to free themselves from Papal and Austrian supre-
macy. That a committee be appointed, with power to
ado to their number, to co-operate with the friends of
continental freedom in London and other places, to give
renewed expression to our sympathies for General Gari-
baldi in his peculiar circumstances, and to prepare medical
aid to his sick and wounded volunteers. That while
we express our regret at the great loss sustained by the
Italian people in this crisis through the resignation of Kin
Russell, the Right Hon. W. Gladstone, and other friends
of European liberty in our government, we feel confident
that no succeedingadministration willattempt to implicate
our country in any wars with which we have nothing in
connexion, unless in our sympathy for the suffering temple.
and our admiration for the brave men contending for civil
and religious liberty." The resolutions were unanimously
agreed to.

FIRE AT WHITECHAPRL.—At an early hour last
evening a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Hall,
Day, and Co., wholesale drapers, situate on the north
side of Whitechapel, opposite the London Hospital. The
establishment comprised eight houses—three in the main
road, Nos. 106, 107, and 108, and Nos. I, 2,3, 4, and
5 in Thomas-street ; the whole of the lower floors being
thrown into one, forming a show room of 160 feet in depth.
Upwards of 60 young women were on the premises at the
time, the shops were full of customers, when an alarm
was raised in the street that smoke was coming up the
grating from the cellars beneath the shop. These, it ap-
pears, were filled with boxes and old lumber ; there were
no lights permitted to be taken into the place, and of how
the tire could have originated there the firm have no
knowledge whatever. Immediate efforts were adopted
to get at the seat of danger, but the smoke
increased so rapidly that all the people in the
shops were forced to make a speedy retreat into the
street. Soon afterwards the flames broke through
the flooring, fired the show-room from end to end, and on
account of the character of the stock and a brisk wind
that was blowing at the tune, it was not long before the
whole of the eight houses forming the premises were enve-
loped in flames. The steam force of the Metropolitan
Fire Brigade were soon in attendance, and most of the
engines having steam up, there was no delay in getting
them into immediate play. Captain Shaw superintended
the operations, and in about an hour the brigade suc-
ceeded in stopping the ravages of the fire. It had, how-
ever, nearly consumed the whole of the premises. The
London Salvage Corps contrived to save a few hundred
pounds worth of the stock at the early stage of the fire,
but with this exception the stock was destroyed. None of
the numerous emplosMs saved anything belonging to them
except what they stood up in, all having lost their clothes,
and what property they possessed. The total loss must be
heavy.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. —A MAN BOILED ALIVE.
Yesterday (Wednesday) an accident occurred at Chester-
field of a peculiarly horrible nature, by which a respectable
young man was hurried into eternity without a minute's
notice. The deceased man, whose name was Robert Bon-
sai, was engaged at the Scarsdale Brewery, Chesterfield,
and had the care of the boiling beer in the vats. He was
subject to fits, and it is supposed he was seized with one
whilst sitting on the alp of the vat, and fell into the
scalding fluid. No one saw him fall in, but be was found
almost directly after he bad been missed in the vat. He
was quite dead, the flesh being boiled off his bones, and his
body presenting a shocking spectacle.