The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, iseO;

the Italian priest, Gramm, whom he had met
at Brighton, appeared in the neighbourhood
of the rectory. He saw him on that morning is
the road leading to the rectory, "crouching down"
under the hedge, so as not to be noticed, and
dreamed in a large long blue cloak, with his features
muffled up. He beckoned the boy to him, told
him how glad he wee to see him, expressed •
fervent hope that he would not desert " our
" faith," advised him to run away from
school, and exacted a solemn oath, on "a
" holy relic," that he would never breathe •
word of their interview. The object of this
clerical bandit's visit, supposing it to have taken
place as the boy describes, is plain enough. It
was to urge a repetition of the Brighton expe-
riment. "As you still wish to be • Catholic,"
said the man in tho long blue cloak' and ' little
Italian hat,' " I would advise you to do what
" your schoolfellows vulgarly call cut and run.'"

On the boy asking where he should go, he,
promptly replied, " Oh, there are plenty of
" Catholic chapels about," specifying at the same
time " one in Willow-lane, a Jesuitical one." The I,
bandit's mission seems to have been quite success-
fuL From that morning Vaitairr•ar determined to
leave, but he expressly says he had no thought of
doing so before Gitiontes visit ; " it was through
" his persuasion." Mr. HonosoN, he expressly
says, " had treated him very kindly indeed." Last
Saturday he carried his new resolve into execution.
Leaving the rectory early in the morning, he
proceeded to Norwich, and made his way
at once to the Catholic chapel in the Madder-
market. On going into the yard his attention was
soon arrested by some one tapping at • window.
This proved to be Canon DALTON, who asked him
into the house and inquired what he wanted.
The boy at once explained his position and his
plan. He told him who he was and
where he had come from, that he had run
sway from school, and proposed to go to
London and join some Catholic priests he knew
there. He further told DaLrow who his father
was, that he was a Protestant, and why he had
placed him with Mr. HODGSON. We suppose there
can scarcely be two opinions as to the course an
honest man ought to have pursued under these
circumstances. He would not only have urged,
but insisted on the truant's returningat once to:Mr.
HODGSON'S, and communicating with his father
if he wished to leave. What course did
Canon D•Lrox pursue T According to his own
testimony he encouraged the boy in the design of
escaping from his.natural guardians, screened him
from their pursuit, advised him as to the best way
of proceeding, and assisted him in obtaining means
for its execution. According to his own testi-
mony, he kept him in his own room for some
hours, then took him to • house where he might
remain concealed, and lent him money to pursue
his journey. According to the boy's testi-
mony, supported in at least one parti-
cular by evidence produced in court, Canon
DALTON went much further. He applauded his
resolution in running away from school ; told
him where to go in London, and gave him a note
to • " Father Thomas," who would provide for
him ; advised him not to communicate with his
father at present ; and recommended him to sell
• watch belonging to a companion in order to ob-
tain means for his journey. He took him to a safe
German Catholic watchmaker, at whose house he
remained concealed till Mr. HODGSON'S arrival at
Norwish and communications with the police sug-
gested to Canon Dm:row the propriety of endea-
vouring to retreat from his false position by stat-
ing where he was to be found.
These are the main facts of the case as it stands
at present. They tell their own tale pretty clearly.
The two attempts to withdraw young Vasnurraar
from his natural and lawful guardians, and hide
him in some priestly home, can scarcely be acci-
dental. All the facts of the latter attempt certainly
favour the supposition of • direct conspiracy to
entrap this weak-minded youth. Of the Italian
°lrwin we say nothing more at present
than, if the facts stated by the boy are
true, he was clearly guilty of a legal offence, and is
exposed to legal penalties. But Canon D•troit's
moral culpability is quite as great, if not greater ;
and the ready way in which he matured and
aided the boy's crude plan of , escape shows not
only that he was prepared for this particular case,
but familiar with the policy it exemplifies. It
becomes important to inquire how many clerical
bandits in blue cloaks march abroad to entrap
weak-minded boys with good expectations, and
how many Canon Davross sit quietly at home
rubbing their hands over their success, and calling
it "capital fun."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
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SICILY.

PALFAMO, Jon 11, Ennio.
The embarkation of royal troops continues. The
town it still barricaded.

Advioes from Palermo state that Garibaldi has
decided on increasing to twenty the number of re-
giments, the organisation of which he had decreed.
It is only when those regular forces shall have been
formed that he is expected to resume military ope-
ration& tintil that time he will occupy himself
exclusively with organising his government and dis-
seminating the principles of his cause through the
island.

A letter from Genoa of the 9th states that an
expedition for Sicily left on the previous night the
small port of Sestri, situated at the mouth of the
river Pounenti. The expedition was composed of
three vessels, two being steamers. They carry 2,000
volunteers.

According to a despatch from Naples, the Nea-
politans still retain, in Sicily not only Messina,
Syracuse, and Agosta, but also Milano and Licata.
Milano is situated on the road between Messina
and Palermo, at the entrance of the isthmus near
the cape which bears its name, and is 27 miles from
Messina and 148 from Palermo. It is a kind of
depot for the garrison of Messina ; for the fortifi-
cations of Milano, which were once considerable,
were destroyed in 1854. The population is about
12,000. Licata nerves for victualling Syracuse.
It contains 15,000 inhabitants, and stands on the
road from Girgenti. Licata has a fortress built on
a rock, which advances into the sea.
The Turin Gazette says that an officer of the
Neapolitan court, named Bosco, has left for Sicily,
declaring his intention of either killing Garibaldi
(in a duel it is to be supposed) or being killed by
him. The same journal asserts that the l eapoli-
tan government has set a price of 20,000 ducats
(85,000 fr.) upon the head of Garibaldi.

?MA NCE.
PARIS, TIirRBDAT.
The Moniteur of this morning contains several
decrees regulating the customs administration and
the military organisation of Savoy and Nioe.
According to a project of law which has been sub-
mitted to the Corps Legislatif, Savoy will form
two departments.

THE FRENCH IN ITALY.
Advioes from Milan of the 12th inst.

that Marshal Vail ant left that capital at 9 o'clock
on the morning of that day. The municipality of
Milan accompanied him. The troops of the Na-
tional Guard were drawn up along the streets
through which the Marshal had to pass, and he was
greeted on all sides with enthusiasm and cheers.

A despatch from Turin, of the same date, says :
" At Magenta Marshal Valliant was received by
the National Guard, and by the municipal authori-
ties. At Novara he was complimented by the
Governor of the town. At Arona the Marshal made
an excursion on the Lego Maggiore on board a
government steamer. He wan expected at Turin
on the 13th."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom ova owl onuarosmorr.)
PARIS, WIIIIITSIDAT Emma.

You have probably already heard that the inter-
view which is to take place at Baden on Saturday
between Napoleon 111. and the Prince Regent of
Prussia is attributed to the mediation of the Dow-
ager Empress of Russia. I have heard, on good
authority, that the Emperor said to the Dowager
Empress at Lyons, "Madame, tell your illustrious
brother that I am his friend. I think Prussia
ought to be at the head of a united Germany, and
I am reedy to do for Germany what I have done for
Italy." These words, which I firmly believe were
uttered, confirm what I told you on Saturday last,
that the Emperor goes to Baden to tempt the Prince
Regent to play the part of Victor Emmanuel I
should be criminally blind to everything which I
see daily before my eyes if I ware to suppress the
fact, proclaimed, not by the enemies but by the
friends of the Emperor, that he has a settled pur-
pose to take not only the Rhine, but Belgium and
Genoa.

A committee of Neapolitan royalists is on its
way to Paris to solicit the good offices of the Em-
peror in favour of Bomba IL, and to back up M.
Martino's mission. The latter diplomatist, to
whom Lord Palmerston has promised a bad recep-
tion if he should go to England, went to Fontaine-
bleau last night.
The Bourse, after some fluctuation, closed
within a shade at yesterday's prices, both as re-
gards the Rente and all other securities. The
extreme prices of the Bente were 68fr. 70c. and
68fr. 45c. The closing quotation was 68fr. 55c.,
with a rather heavy market.

Yesterday morning the troops quartered at the
niilitary school in the Champ de Mars were startled
by the report of a musket in one of the barrack
rooms. A grenadier of the Imperial Guard, having
a grudge against his sergeant, had shot him dead.
The ball, after passing through the sergeant's body,
wounded a soldier so severely that he died in two
hours. The murderer was in the act of reloading
his piece, with the intention, probably, of blowing
his own brains out, when he was seized by some
men of his company.
At Toulouse, on June 7, the presiding judge of
the Imperial Court (M. Solomiac) narrowly escaped
assassination on the bench. As the judges were
about to retire to their private room, a man in the
body of the court fired a pistol at the president,
who would probably have received the ball in his
head but for the accident of his having stooped at
the moment when the shot was delivered to give a
paper to a registrar. Pursuant to articles 507 and
508 of the Code, which authorise courts of justice to
take immediate cognisance of crimes committed in
their presence, the judges at once resumed their
seats, and the criminal was put on his trial for his
life then and there. On being interrogated he gave
his name as Casimir Guilhem, of Graulhet
(Tarn). He very coolly stated that, having lost
two causes in that court, he had applied to the
Emperor for redress, but not having received a
favourable answer, he had taken an oath two
months since that he would be revenged upon the
judges. They had completely ruined him by their
decisions, and he thought he had a perfect right
to punish them. Witnesses deposed that the pri-
soner had spoken to them of his design, and that
they had treated him as a madman. It was also
proved that he had been lately seen in the streets
in a ridiculous costume, with blue satin shoes on
his feet. A barrister, assigned to the
prisoner by the court, pleaded insanity.
This defence, which would probably have
been successful in England, was not admitted by
the court, which pronounced a! verdict of guilty ;
but, admitting the excited state of the man's mind
as an " extenuating circumstance," it condemned
him to hard labour for life, instead of passing a
capital sentence. A doubt is felt by some members
of the Toulouse bar whether the sentence is legal,
the provision of the criminal code being that
offences committed " during" the sitting shall be
judged at once, whereas in this case the pistol was
fired as the judges were leaving the bench, and
consequently " after " the sitting—or, at least,
during a temporary suspension of it. The prisoner
has appealed to the Court of Caseation. This event,
unprecedented in France, calls to mind the assas-
sination at Edinburgh, in 1689, of the Lord President
Lockhart, who was shot dead on the bench by a man
whom he had ordered to pay au alimony of 100/
a year to his wife and children. In that case the
prisoner was tortured by order of the Scottish par-
liament and was afterwards hanged, drawn, and
quartered.
The guests of the second series have left for
Fontainebleau. Among them were the Minister of
Justice and Mme. Delangle ; the Minister of Public
Works and Mme. Rouher ; the Duke and Duchess
de Malakoff ; the Duke and Duchess d'lsly ; Lord
Cowley; the Duke and Duchess de Cambacires ;
?time. Fleury ; Count and Countess de Beaumont ;
Count and Countess Lehon ; Prince and Princess
Czartoriski ; M. and Mme. de Taiguy ; General
and M. de Failly ; MM. Domingo and Xavier
Arcos, &c.

ITALY.

SARDINIA.

Orsom on owl

TURIN, Jmni 10.

Garibaldi's last letters from Palermo have caused
still greater excitement here. He asks for more
brave men to fill the vacancies in his ecreciageri dale
Alpi, who, he says, were more than decimated in
the recent battles. Now, there are numberless
persons ambitious of taking the place of the dead
and wounded, and the chief difficulty is that of
selection. Italy is not dead, nor do the Italians
dislike war, as has been calumniously asserted,
though they are no longer willing to be the tools of
foreigners and tyrants.
The chiefs of the uew expedition which is going
in aid of Garibaldi are Colonels Medici and
Cosena. The former has spent almost the whole
of his military career as a volunteer and
leader of volunteers ' • the latter was brought up in
the military school of Naples called the Null:Walla.
Medici is from Lomellina, a Piedniontese province.
He emigrated when quite young, and went first to
Spain, then to America, where he fought for liberty
under Garibaldi. In 1848 he collected a band of
volunteers, and led them against the Austrians.
Then, at the conclusion of the war in Upper Italy,
he went to Rome, where he was of great service to
Garibaldi in his glorious resistance by which the
soldiers of the fratricidal French republic were for
two long months kept out of Rome. The French,
it must be granted, felt that that war was for a bad
cause, and did not fight with the enthusiasm they
displayed last year at Magenta and Solferino.
Medici was with Garibaldi at Varese and San
Ferino, and again showed himself to be a valiant
and intelligent leader of volunteers.
Enrico Covens is of a family of Swiss extraction,
which has been settled at Naples for three genera-
tions. His father was a soldier, and be entered
the Neapolitan army and followed Pepe to Venice.
His military ability is great, and his courage unde-
niable. The most brilliant action of the defence of
Venice was performed by him. When the Porta
della Laguna was one night surprised by the enemy,

be faced them singlolanded, killed the officer who
I commanded then, and gave time for the defenders
to core up. Last year General Ulla", his fellow-
vnshed to take him with him to Tuscany,
but he preferred to remain with Garibaldi. With
officers of this stamp, and sufficient reinforcements
(more than two thousand left here on Wednesday
and Saturday last), Garibaldi will have the game
in his own hands.

I had some conversation yesterday with the
officer second in command of the steamer Piemonte,
which conveyed Garibaldi to Sicily. "It seems to
me like a dream," said he. "In less than a month
I have made that wonderful landing, have been
present at three fights, the last of which, and a
bloody one it was, was in Palermo, and here I am I
come back with my mind full of tho things I have
seen. I hardly dare to tell them, they appear so
astonishing. Garibaldi had a sort of magnetic
attraction for me. Though I was half dead with
hunger and fatigue, I could not bear that he should
see me lagging behind ; and I believe that many
were in my case—anxious to fight, but quite tired
out, and kept up mainly by the moral influenoe of
Garibaldi, who was himself as gay as if on a
pleasure trip. It is not true that the Nea-
politans could have prevented our disembarkation.
They did not arrive till we had landed, and were
bringing on shore the last munitions. We tramped
for three days and three nights, through sun and
rain, and in this wearied-out state we gave battle
at Calatarimi. I believe that we conquered through
sheer desperation ; for we gave ourselves up for
dead. Luckily for us, the Neapolitan soldiers
began to fire before we were within range, while we
did not respond except by a stray shot or so. We
descended into the valley that lay between us, ran
up the other slope, and, when close, fired into
them. By this time they had used up all their
cartridges ; but as we were only about 15 paces apart,
and they were on higher ground, they tried the
effect of throwing at us the large stones which were
litfplentifully about. One of these stones struck
baldi on the arm, whereupon we shouted and
charged with the bayonet, and they broke and ran
away. At that moment we forgot hunger and
fatigue, and overtook and killed some of the
fugitives. Half an hour afterwards, however, we
felt half dead again, and it would have been all up
with us if a fresh body had attacked us. Instead
' of this fortunately we received accessions of men
and provisions from all parts, people ',having
begun to believe in the revolution, and to think
there was a chance of our doing something.
Since that day, having rested • little, we have
fought here and there, or manceuvred in order to
second the movements of other bands, which the
general alone was acquainted with. I saw
Schiaffino, who had imprudently advanced too far,
die like a hero. I saw Pilo fall dangerously
wounded, and by this time he must be dead. I
saw Carini, such a dandy in Paris, fighting like a
lion, and exciting the admiration of all. Bixio, as
usual, acted like a desperate fellow, who does not
know what danger is. All these allant men were
wounded by the time we took Palermo."
Here the narrator was interrupted by the ques-
tion—But how did this fight go, what movements
did Garibaldi make I

"I can tell very little about it stall," he replied,
" for alll saw was the point of my bayonet and that
of some enemy, and all I heard was the thunder of
the artillery round about me. I know that Gari-
baldi sent away the guns and a few squadrons to
another spot, saying that if the enemy wanted
to take those guns we should in the mean
time take Palermo, and so we did ; but
it still seems to me an impossibility. Not one
of us had more than seven cartridges in his pouch.
The Sicilians had nothing but fowling-pieces with-
out bayonets ; they had pikes, a few pistols, and
some hand-grenades. But they fought like devils,
urged on by the women, some of whom fought at
their side. Then the desertions began, and the
officers, being left alone, said they were well pleased
to be made prisoners of."
One of the vessels that left here the other day for
Sicily is an American clipper. The two steamers of the
expedition that followed the clipper were purchased
at Marseilles and rechristened, being now called the
Franklin and the Washington.
Here the party suspicious of and hostile to Eng-
land are crying out furiously about the occupation
of Fort Castellamare by your admiral, as reported
here, for guaranteeing the faithful carrying out of
the capitulation. They smell treason in the act,
and it is said that the Neapolitan minister is encou-
raging their suspicions.

SICILY.