The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1860.

of absolute negative. The Crown may unquestiona-
bly veto any bill though it may have been sanctioned
by all the best men in both Houses; yet what minister
would advise the Crown to draw snob preroilutill,
from the gilded and jewelled sheath in which it
boa lain since the Revolution of 1688 f So in
bite manner the Commons have the undoubted
right of stopping the supplies ; but who would
resommend seriously that the supplies should be
stopped 1
The truth is that these arbitrary methods of
asserting co-ordinate authority have gradually
bosoms obsolete. They are no longer necessary,
because public opinion has learned to recognise
practically the just weight which each Estate
ought to have in the adoption of legislative mese
sures ; and when any one of the three in addition
to this seeks to revive an arbitrary power of dicta-
tion it violates the existing compact and forsakes
the path of safety and of duty. The Budget of
1860 is not the mere caprice of a single commoner,
whose sympathies might possibly be supposed to
incline him too much towards the interests of
manufacture and trade, as contradistinguished
from those of land. Before it could be brought
forward it was discussed item by item
and clause by clause in a Cabinet con-
sisting of three dukes, the brother of a fourth,
and the nephew of a fifth nobleman of that rank;
of eight others who are either peers or the near

kinsmen of peers • and of but three individuals
who are not connected by birth or marriage with
the nobility. To assert that the present is any
other than an essentially and predominantly aris-
tocratic Administration would be simply absurd.

Everybody knows and feels that it is ;o: Yet it
is against the financial errors of this aristocratic
Cabinet, and its imputed tendencies towards a too
democratic system of public imposts, that the
Lords are invited to wage unconstitutional war.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE GARIBALDI EXPEDITION.

NAPLES, BoiroAT, 9.40 p.m.
(orsicam..)

No other encounter has titian place between the
royal troops and the Garibaldians.
Two strong columns are pursuing the remnants
of the dispersed Garibaldiana
The inhabitants remain tranquiL
The ardour and the valour of the troops is
beyend all praise.
NAPLES, SATURDAY EVENING.

It is asserted here that the fight at Calatafani
was not decisive. The Neapolitan troops re-
entered Palermo. Two columns of 3,000 men each
have been sent to pursue the insurgents. It is esti-
mated that 6,000 Sicilians have joined the Usti-
baldians.

The Patric says :—" The volunteers having been
attacked with great vigour, energetically defended
themselves, and effected a retreat in good order,
leaving behind a certain number of killed. Accord-
ing to the last advisee the insurrection was being
extended and organised in a great many directions."
The same journal adds that when the detach-
ments which are being organised will have joined
the volunteers who disembarked at Marsala, the
whole body will number aboutl2,ooomen, all anued
and well provisioned.

TURIN, MAT 19.

Advises from Naples to the 16th instant state
that the 6th Regiment refused to fire at the
people on the ()cession of the demonstration of the
13th inst.

Government intends to appoint Count Trani
Viceroy of Sicily, and to grant a general amnesty
when the insurrection is suppressed.

EGYPT,_ _ _

ALXXAND Lt, may 13.
Heavy rains have carried away a portion of the
railway between Cairo and Sues. 'Travellers to
and from India have thereby been delayed two days.
The official French mission for the exploration of
the Red Bea has been well received by Said Pacha.

THE BOMBAY MAILS.
The Panther, with the above mails, arrived at
Mannino at 11 p.m. oa the 19th inst.
The mile left for London at midnight.

THE UNITED STATES.
QUEKNSTOWN, NAT 19.
The royal mail deamahm Africa, which left New
York on the 9th inst., arrived here at 1.20 p.m. She brings
165 and I,olodols. for inglend. She landed all
mriY,except Mom for Liverpool, and proceeded at 1.40 p.m.
All welL
The Bohemian, City of Washington, and Tentonia had
arrived out. A resolution inviting the PAWS of Wales to
vitt New York had been adopted by the Bova of Alder-
men. A resolution had paned the Senate authorieing a
vessel to be provided to trearport the astronomers to a point
where the eclipse of the can in July next might be best ob.
served.
The state of affairs in Mexico was still very bad. The
clerical party were teaching nothing but revenge. Neither
party were doing much. The (mead loans continued.
- Advice' from San Francisoo were to the 28th ult. News

unimportant. Trade had somewhat revived.
Nzw You, Mar 9, EVZNINO. titocks active, and
improved. New York Centrals 791 to 74; Erie, 19+;
Illinow Central. Exchange on London dull, 1091 to
100 f ;on Peru, 5.14 Cotton improved. Sales, 3,000.
IWdling Upland, 114. Flour heavy ; Western States,
to 10c. lower. Sugars firm. Pork firm. Freights firmer.
ChuiAss, MAT 7.—Cotton firmer; middling, 100.
to 11c.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
The Boyd Man steamship Africa has arrived hem.
On the Vth inst. she passed a steamer supposed to be the
Asia, bound for New Yost
The House of Representatives was debiting on the Tariff
Bin.
The

National Convention would assemble
at Baltimore on the day the Africa sailed, abd would,
it was supposed, nominate General Houston for the Pre
sidency.
The resolution of the New York Board of Aldermen
inviting the Prince of Wales to New York was adopted by
nine to three sots A resolution was also passed to send
to the councilmen for their amcurreace.
Dates from British Colombia were to the Beth April.
Mining intelligence was favourable.

QTYEENSTOWN, MAT 20.
The Royal Hail steamship Arabia arrived here at
6.20 a.m. to-day. She embarked mails and passengers,
and proceeded for Halifax and Boston at 6.20 p.m. All
well.

NEW ZEALAND.
XLYXOUTH, 801 MAY.
The auxiliary screw steamahip Royal Bride,
Captain Alex. Newland', belonging to Wise Brothers and
Co., Bristol, mit in here yesterday evening and landed a
me from New Zealand. Mao left Canterbury Feb. 11.
The principal part of her cargo is wool.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAB.I£4. SUNDAY EVILWING.

The news of Garibaldi's defeat., the truth of
which I grievously doubted yesterday, was indus-
triously propagated from Naples in no less than
ten telegrams, variously worded. It is now as
good as confessed by the Neapolitan government
itself that those despatches were false. It is ad-
mitted in tams that the combat of Calatafini,
paraded as a victory, was not decisive, and the ex-
pression that the " royal troops returned to Pa-
lermo " afterwards may very fairly be construed
as meaning that they had the worst of it. The
admission that Garibaldi's invading force has been
swollen by 6,000 recruits in Sicily, goes far to con-
firm the assertion from Turin that the whole island
has risen in his favour. The Pays, while
giving in small print the really latest intel-
ligence, has the audacity to mislead its readers
by publishing, with all the honours of type,
under the head of " Latest news of Garibaldi," a
repetition of the falsehood of yesterday, which, it
says, came from an undoubted source, and is to-
day "confirmed from the same source." But, as
the Prase, speaking of the same false news, very
justly observes, it is the "repetition and not the
confirmation" of the story of yesterday.

The only other news of any interest relative to
Garibaldi, is a statement in a letter from Rome
of May 16, in the Pays, that 1,500 of Garibaldi's
men had landed in the Roman States, near Mon-
talto and Cornetto, and had disarmed a guard of
gendarmes stationed on that frontier. This news
must, I think, be considered more than
doubtful. It is probably but another ver-
sion of the affair of the attempted invasion
of the Roman States, which we know was prevented
bytheSardinian government. Nevertheless the Pays
argues from this circumstance that it will be impos-
sible for the French army to evacuate Rome because
General Lamoriciere has been compelled to detach
forces to repulse Garibaldi. The constant decep-
tions about the withdrawal of the French troops
from Rome are characteristically depicted by the

following passage in the correspondence of the
Pays:—" There is not the smallest doubt of the
authenticity of the order for the evacuation, but
at the same time nobody for a moment believes
that it will be acted upon."
A Vienna letter in the Debate affirms that the'
Emperor of Austria is about to accede to the
unanimous wishes of the Maygars by granting
them the old Hungarian constitution in all its in-
tegrity. The truth of this news is doubted.
The municipal councils are renewed by universal
suffrage every five years. This is the year of the
election, which in the ordinary course takes place
shortly after the prorogation of the Corps Legis-
latif, but there is a rumour that the legislative
session will be of much longer duration than usual,
and may even be prolonged till July ; in that case
it is said that the municipal elections will probably
be postponed in order that they may not interfere
with the harvest. _ _

The Spanish General Elio, who has been set at
liberty and is on his way to Paris, refused to take
the oath of allegiance or make any promises so
long as he was a prisoner. All that he could be
got to say before being released was that when he
war at liberty he would respond as a man of
honour to the magnanimity of the Queen. This
conduct stands out in advantageous contrast to the
pusillanimity of the Count de Montemolin.
Madame Ristori has had a narrow escape of
being poisoned. Her physician had ordered her a
potion with fifteen drops of laudanum in it, but
the chemist who made up the prescription put
thirty drops by mistake. The symptoms produced
by this overdose were for a short time alarming,
but the lady has now quite recovered and her name
is in the playbills for Tuesday evening.
Stephen Bey, formerly Minister of Foreign
Affairs in Cairo, and subsequently director of the
Egyptian mission in Paris, died at Auteuil on the

nth inst.
The Moniteur of this morning announces that in
the last sitting of the legislative body the project of
law relative to sugar and coffee was agreed to' by
243 %pion 5 Totes.
The Moniteur also states that the Emperor,
having returned from Motte Beuvron, presided
yesterday at a council of ministers.
PABIB, SATURDAY Emma.
There is great uncertainty about the fate of
Garibaldi's expedition, and it I may believe what I
hear in all quarters, there is a corresponding hesi-
tation as to the attitude of the Tuileries with

regard to it. A telegram from Rome reproducing
" official news" d the 18th from Naples reports in
terms nearly identical with those of a despatch
published yesterday in London the defeat of
" Garibaldi's bands." I learn from a good source
that the French government has received &despatch
from its ambassador at Naples, M. Brenier, giving
similar news in still stronger terms. So far all
looks black for Garibaldi. But then it must be
borne in mind that all the news of his defeat, fin
whatever varied language it may be repeated, is
traceable to Naples ; and although M. Brenier
doubtless sends his government the most authentic
intelligence that he can obtain, it is difficult to sup-
pose that he can know anything from Sicily beyond
what the Neapolitan ministry choose to tell him.
It is very possible that some of Garibaldi's " insur-
genta " may have been defeated " near Calatafani ;"
but inasmuch as at this moment there are in the
island almost as many insurgents as inhabitants, a
check on one particular point would prove nothing
as to the general success of the expedition. None of
the official despatches venture to state that Garibaldi
was personally present with his " defeated bands."
Without, therefore, indulging in any over sanguine
hopes for the triumph of the gallant patriot against
the immense difficulties with which he has to con-
tend, it may safely be said that the evidence known
is insufficient to form the materials for a judgment
as to the matter of fact.

It is a very remarkable circumstance that Gene-
ral Lanza, a Sicilian by birth, who passes for the
best officer in the Neapolitan service, and who, as
I noticed yesterday, was reported to have been
sent on a mission of peace and conciliation, is now
said to be authorised to offer a general amnesty
and a prince of the royal family for viceroy.
Moreover Maniscalco, the detested director of police,
is to be recalled. This telegraphic news dovetails
with a report circulating in Paris this afternoon,
that both France and England (T) have intimated
to the Kinvf the
d Two Sicilia' that it is yet time
to save his • om if he will grant a constitution
and substances reforms. I cannot think that Eng-
land can have taken part in any such interference.
The Bourbons of Naples have never been backward
to make fine promises to get out of a strait. What
confidence could there be in a constitution granted
under existing circumstances ? The King would
say in substance to his disaffected subjects—" Gari-
baldi, who would htve delivered you, I have de-
feated ; I am obliged to confess that he was right
and I was wrong ; but if you will sanction his de-
feat, withdraw your sympathy from him and rally
to me, I will give you my royal promise to govern
a little better." . . .

The Opinion Nationale learns from a "certain
source" that Austria meditates an intervention in
the States of the Church. She has now in the Pope's
dominions from 6,000 to 7,000 soldiers serving
under Lamoricibre. These soldiers are not, as has
been pretended, volunteers. They are Austrian
battalions, detached from the regular army with
all their organisation and officers. These troops
simply changed their uniform at Trieste to go into
the Pope's service. Neither soldiers nor officers
were free to refuse ; they were ordered on regular
service, and forced to go.
I hear privately that Austria has intimated to
the Sardinian government that she shall invade
Lombardy if the King of Naples should be forced
to fly from his dominions.
lam also told that the Russian ambassador at
Turin has said that he shall demand his passports
if any more volunteers for Garibaldi leave.
The Bourse has again been much agitated, but in
consequence of the rumours of Garibaldi's defeat
the Rente rose 40c. both for cash and account,
closing at 69.25 and 69.30. Mobilier rose 7.50.
Railways were from 5 to 7.50 higher.

ITALY.

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TURLN, MAT 16.

Colonel Medici, who it was said had left with a
second expeditionary force for some Ligurian or
Sardinian port, arrived yesterday at Turin and is
here at this very moment. He is consideredl to be
as a chief next in merit to Garibaldi, and beyond
a doubt could soon obtain followers. He has served
as a soldier in America, Spain, Rome, and Lom-
bardy, always in the cause of freedom ; his judg-
ment is good, his military hardihood great, and his
character most honourable. He is a man of about
fifty years old, and of commanding presence, but
after all has less dash and originality in attack
than Garibaldi • on the other hand he is more
wary and unflinching when acting on the defensive.
It is certain that, if the colonel could only
reinforce the general with a thousand picked
men, men previously under his command
and on whom he could thoroughly rely,
Garibaldi would then be better enabled to meet
the dangers with which he is now environed, for
the chiefs now with him are less accustomed to the
peculiar mode of warfare now adopted in Sicily
against the troops of the Bourbon. But, you may
ask, what can possibly have brought Medici to
Turin ? Ido not know ; he himself says he has
been summoned by the government to hear that it
will not tolerate a second expedition. But then
the first was not tolerated, and yet it took place.
How are the authorities to prevent it? and how can
they prevent friends from joining the colonel when
fairly out at sea and on his way to Sicily ?

(MY ANOTHLIt CORIMPONDINT.)

TURIN, MAT 17.

However desirous to avoid the religicds question
the government is unable to remain in a state of
passiveness towards the ultramontane portion of
the priesthood. Until now the cabinet has behaved
with the greatest forbearance towards them ; no
difficulties were raised against the public collection
of St. Peter's pence ; the -A rnionia, the organ of
the priest party, was allowed to denounce the minis-
ters day after day ; and Baron Ricasoli went even so
far as to put a stop to the endeavours of the Wal-
denses to propagate the gospel in Tuscany. Still
all these efforts to allay the wrath of the papal
party were of uo avid ; the epiacopacy of the
4Ernilia remained refractory, and mided no op-
portunity of showing its contempt of the go-
vernment The bishops even boasted of
their want of loyalty, and the administrator
of the diocese of Bologna ; the Bishop of Fsienza,
and several bishops of Tuscany, defying the
law, gave positive orders to the priests to abstain
from celebrating the Te Drum on Sunday last, on
the anniversary of the grant of the constitution.
The ministers could not bear any longer such open
disloyalty, and Farini therefore gave orders to
arrest the refractory bishops. This sudden and
vigorous act brought confusion into the ranks of the
priest party ; the Bishop of Piacenza had already,
some days before, abandoned his bishopric, and fled
to Mantua to be under the protection of Austria.
A recent incident seems likely to bring matters to
a crisis. Cardinal Viale Prelh, the notorious ori-
ginator of the Austrian Concordat, died on the 16th,
at Bologna, his archiepiscopal seat. The Pope,
who has not yet given up his claims to temporal
power in the Legations, will of course appoint
a new archbishop to the vacant see, whilst
the cabinet, resolved not to submit to this
exercise of sovereignty in the newly-acquired terri-
tory, will appoint an administrator. Thus the
question will come to an issue, and the priests of the
diocese will have to declare which of the two autho-
rities they are willing to acknowledge—the King
and the archiepiscopal administrator, or the Pope
and his archbishop. People admit here that this
question is serious.—that it is a schism—but un-
willing to complicate the Italian difficulties by
ecclesiastical troubles, and little moved by religious
stmillotiinveatlethheojpecallthatitthae p:eili
igitit,scmhisinovem,
enandmalivey
remain in abeyance, and the political question of
Italian unity remain uppermost in the
.hearts.of
the Italians. There is no doubt that religions in-
difference pervades all the educated classes in Italy,
but I doubt very much whether this indifference is

shared by the lower classes. As soon as they begin
to think—and the present political schism cannot
fail to make them think—they will enter more
deeply into those questions which have exercised
such a great influence on the development of
civilisation in Europe than the upper classes. At
the present moment, however, Italy concentrates
all her interest in Garibaldi's expedition ; every-
body in every class of society waits with feverish
anxiety for news of him. We have the following
details about his expedition. After having orga-
nised his band at Porto Tahunone, his aide-de-
camp, Colonel Turr, the Hungarian, presented
himself to the commander of the small fort
of Orbitello, and summoned him at once
to surrender six cannons of the fort with
all the required ammunition, telling him that
the "Alpine rifles" would otherwise take them by
force. The commander yielded at once, and the
cannons were embarked. About 1,200 men, who lout
an objection to fight under Garibaldi for Victor
Emmanuel, were then landed close to the Papal
frontier, under the command of Zan Bianchi, and
Garibaldi allowed them to shift for themselves. It
is net believed that this band will really try to
excite an insurrection in the Roman States ; they
have probably quietly returned to their homes,
since we have not yet heard anything about their
exploits. Garibaldi insists upon blind compliance
with his orders, and dismissed them as soon as be
ascertained their unruly proclivities. Scarcely had
the gallant leader left Porto Telamone, when a thick
mist, rather rare in May in these latitudes, completely
enveloped his ships ; thus he was able to elude the
vigilance of the Neapolitan cruisers until he ap-
proached the coast of Sicily. The small Neapoli-
tan garrison fled from Marsala, and announced
everywhere the arrival of the expected chief of the
insurrection. To-morrow we shall probably gut
the first letters from the expedition. Nobody
doubts that amall as Garibaldi's forces are, they
will succeed in raising the whole island.
The relations of the French and Italian cabinets
are again of the most friendly nature. As long,
as it was uncertain whither Garibaldi was bound,
and especially when it seemed that he would invade
the Papal dominions, the French government loudly
blamed Count Cavour ; now that Garibaldi is in
Sicily, where Muratist sympathies never could take
root, the old friendship is again restored, for at
least so long as the movement does not spread to
Naples. Since the Oriental question engages the
attention of the Tuileries—the Turin Diritto of to-
day says even that au alliance between France and
Russia has really been established—the Italian
complications are not likely to lead to a. French
intervention. Sicily and Naples will be allowed to
settle their quarrel by a fair fight, the one aided by
Northern Italian sympathisers, the other by Aus-
trian recruits.