The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1860.

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" requiring that the guns should be worked with
" great rapidity and accuracy. It being, there.
" fore, the opinion of the Committee that a consi-
" derable proportion of regular troops should be
allotted to the defence of the fortifications fa the
" event of a war, it is their duty to state that this

" portion cannot be supplied from a regular army
" of the present strength ; an increase to it would,
" therefore, then become necessary to afford

" the numbers requisite for the defence of the

" kingdom at large, including the defensive works."

There cannot be the lead doubt that the Com-

mittee are right. If we are to enter on this new
system, and look to land defences for security, we
must enormously augment the number of our
regular troops. Lord PALICZRSTON amused the
House on Monday with an account of the long-
,

neglected state of our batteries at Sheerness and
other points of the coast. It is not, however, in
guns that we are most deficient now. It appears

is evidence in the Blue Book on National Defence
that there are now mounted on the batteries upon
the coasts of Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex,
Dorset, and Devon 1,362 guns of heavy
calibre, 24-pounders and upwards. Including
our dockyards and arsenals we have upwards
of 3,000 guns mounted, and before the year ex-
pires their number will be raised to 4,000. The
adoption of the Government scheme would give us
6,000 guns, most of them of the heaviest calibre,
besides 25 heavy moveable batteries of position,
and to serve these our artillery corps could
not supply two trained men to a gun.
To man only one-fourth the number
we should want 20,000 more men than our service
could supply, and of these one halt trained guu-
ners. When once we begin to calculate the pre-
parations which the Horse Guards would recom-
mend for the defence of the country by a regular
army we are overwhelmed with their magnitude.
Lord PALYEstrros has opened a prospect vague,
vast, and gloomy to those who have the courage to
look before them. The expenditure to which his
proposals would lead us is illimitable. His dockyard
fortificationsscherne andhisnotions of the defenceof
London both involve an early addition to the army.
It is for the House of Commons to decide whether
it will enter on this new path, or will rest its
defence on the Navy and the Militia. For the
moment we say nothing of the constitutional
maxims which have for generations determined our
preference for those services. The British
Constitution is " down " just now, and
we do not wish to excite anew the sus-
ceptibilities of its enemies. We will speak
only of things material. There is nothing
in the invention of steam which makes ships less
sufficient for defence than they were in 1804.
They must be different ships, and there must bo
more of them : but that is all. Why
should not the British Navy be made in-
vincible ? If it is worth while to run a
neck and neck race of expenditure with France,
let us do it by encouraging that service which is
most congenial to our situation and character, and
most useful to an Empire which is washed
by every sea. Money spent on stone is
money sunk, and perhaps money lost.
Money spent in seamen's wages is money
devoted to building up the living strength of the
nation. Fortifications on which we have lavished
our resources may only serve to point out to the
enemy the way he should go. In a fleet we
mobilise our strength to the utmost. We are told
we ought not to trust any longer in our naval re-
sources. Surely this is not counsel which Eng-
lishmen will meekly accept. If our fleet is not
strong enough to give security it can be made so.
A Channel fleet would constitute the safety of our
dockyards as much as of the rest of the coast, if
it were within call. Against sudden surprise
those important points should be protected by
seaward batteries ; but if the fleet is what it
should be, no enemy will think of risking himself
by a landing. But if ever that calamity should
occur—if the Channel should fall into possession
of the enemy, nothing less than a general uprising
of the nation could suffice for the dire emergency.
No vicarious defence would then content us.
Every man excluded from the work of avenging
his country would accuse the Government which
had refused his aid. How is it that the Militia
is systematically depressed by the Government
in these times 1' Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT'S
Militia scheme was ineffably paltry. It ought
to include the flower of our youth, it might
be made a service in which the most numerous
classes would take pride. But it is all but ignored.
Can it be that it is kept down so that the necessity
of strengthening the Line may be more apparent
At any rate, by sea and by land, let us put our
money and our confidence, not in dead stones, but,
under Providence, iu British hearts and British
arms.

Tau POWLIC 1300111 AND EILPIDIDITT AL —The
gross public income of the United Kingdom in the
yoir ending the 30th of June last amounted to
91,416,586/. 11a. 91,and was derived from the fol-
lowing snores :—Custonis, 24,085,2601. 8a ld.
excl., 20,530,0001. ; stamps, 8,151,2571. 14e. 4d.
taxes (land and assessed), 3,237,0001. ; property
tax, 9,902,8161. 7s. fkl. ; post office, 3,350,0001. ;
crown land, 285,9791. ss. Bd. ; miscellaneous,
1,6/4,2721. 15s. 11d. The expenditure of the year
amounted to 70,504,4181. Is. 2d. There was thus
an increase of income over expenditure of
912,1681. 10a. 7d. The balance iu the exchequer
on the 30th of June, 1860, was 6,594,7711. 6s. 4d.

QUEEN VICTORIA AND PRESIDENT

BUCHANAN.

(From the Boston Courkr.)

Notwithstanding the two ware and the constancy
of the abuse of Americans and the institutions of Americo
by the press of England, there is still • " fellow-feeling"
between the two notions. Jonathan is too mighty a RUM to
be affected by diatribe. of the cockneys of London, and
although he often suffers himself to be irritated, upon re-
flection he own. that ho like. England. The following cor-
respondence interprets the true sentiments of America and
England :
" PReSIDENT ',IIANAN TO QOP2:111 VICTORIA._ _

"To her Majesty Queen Victeria.Ll have learned from
the public journals that the Prince of Wales is about to visit
your Majesty's North American dominions. Should it be
the intention of his royal highness to extend his visit to the
United States I need not my how happy I should be to give
hint a cordial welcome to NS s.shington. You may be well
assured that everywhere in this country he will be greeted
by the American people in such a manner as canuot fail to
prove gratifying to your Majesty. In this they will mani-
fest their deep sense of your domestic virtues as well us
their convictions of your merits as a wise, patriotic, and
coustitutional sovereign.
" Your Majesty's most obedient servant,
_ _ JAMES BUCHANAN.

"Washington. June 4,1860." -----
OCT.T.N VICTORIA TO TRIMIDEIT BUCHANAN.
"Buckingham Palace, June 22, 1860.
"My flood Friend,—l have been much ratified at the
feelings which prompted you to wine to me, inviting the
Priam of Wales to come to Washington. He intends to
tonere from Canada through the United States ; and it will
reeks peat pleasure to have an opportunity of tem=
to you in person that these feelings are fully reel
by lain. He will thus be able, at the same time, to mark
the respect which he entertains for the chief magistrate of
anation.
The and friendly state and kindred
Prince of Wales will drop all royal state on leaving
my dominions, and travel under the name of Lord Ren-
frew, as he has done when travelling on the continent of
Earg" i; Prince Consort wishes to be kindly remembered

to you.
" I Tannin, ever your good friend, " Vicronin IL"

Camas PALLCIL Iliuswis DAY.
TrICISDAT, JULY 114.—Arimisirlove ea poent, 6,418
ditto by Norm ticket'. 7,31; tutel

frbe Court.
osBoRNE, JuLT st.
The Queen sod-Prince Consort rec,ived bg tele-
graph this morning the joyful intelligence of the confine-
ment of the Princess Royal, and the birth of a Princess,
which took place at ten minutes after eight o'clock
this morning. The Princess Royal and infant Primer
are doing well.
Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the Duchces
of Kant, Prince and Princess Leiningen, Lady A. Brace,
Colonel and Lady Katherine V. Harcourt., and Major
Elphinstooe, R.E.

The Duchess of Kent took leave of her Majesty to-day,
on her return to Frogmore House. Her Royal [Highness
croaaed over in the royal yacht Fairy, attended by Lady A.
Bruce and Lord James Murray.

A deputation from the Chamber of COMMeTee at Hull
had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson,
yesterday, at the office of the Hairdo( Trade, on the subject
of " The Clearance inwards and Lien for Freight Bill."
A deputation from the Royal Geographical Society had
an interview with Mr. Fortescue, Uuder.Secretary of
Stite for the Colonies, yesterday, at the Colonial-office, to
request the partial aid of her Majesty's government in ex-
ploring the region of Northern Australia, which lies to the
north-mat of the colony of Western Australia.
Sir Culling Eardley transacted business at the Foreign-
oaks, yesterday, in reference to the City Relief Fund.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-aka yesterday to
the Lord High Commies:onerof the lonian Islands.

The Prince and Princess Rohm:ache Schilling-
font have left Long's Hotel for the Isle of Wight.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby
have left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for Fulham.
Some of the residents of tho Me of Man are,
says the Ca/saber/and Parquet, endeavouring to get up a
feeling in favour of Sir John Bowriog as the new governor,
the Hon. C. Hope, the present governor, having resigned.

The two electors of Beverley, Messrs. Boyer and
Taylor, who were tried et the York amines for " unlawful
practices" at the last election, appear to be regarded in
their native place as something in the shape of martyrs.
The bells rang when they sot book to Beverley, "thousands
upon thousands" of people went to meet them, and the
heroes, one of then, the " victim of tory spite and
whig imbecility," were actually drawn round the town in
triumph.

The .ifoatreal Gazette reports that the prepara-
tions for the royal banquet were proceeding with a great
deal of energy; and the Ottawa Cajun states that the
lumberer, propose to man 100 canoe*, each crew in uniform,
and banners flying at the sterns. The largest canoe will, be
far the Prince, and thus escorted they will convey him the
length of Lake Duchesne and back again.

A Brussels paper mortia the laconic address to
the King of the president of the Free Association of Printers
—in Brtuacls a numerous, intelligent, and important body.
"Sins," he said, " I place in your hands the address of the
typographical body of Brussels ; in presence of danger, the
people range themselves around the throne." The King's
reply, as given by the Indipendanet, was equally brief and
to the purpose. "I thank you, gentlemen," he said;
" my heart and my life have always been for the working
man, and as long as I live the working man may reckon
upon me." The words ran through the crowd, and caused
a fresh burst of enthusiasm.

On the occasion of the royal review at Brussels
on Saturday, Lady Howard do Walden was particularly re-
marked for her dress, which, like that of the Duchess of Bra-
bant,cornbined the three colours of Belgium, although in less
dazzling exuberance than in the toilette of the fair Austrian
Princess. This attention and mark of sympathy on the part
of the wife of the English minister was evidently most
pleasing to the Belgians, between whose country and Eng-
land so many friendly ties exist, to say nothing of the sym-
pathy which the similarity of free institutions naturally
excites.
It is stated that the Count de Paris and the
Duke de Chartres, who were travelling in Syria at the mo-
ment of the recent outbreak, only saved their lives by
travelling rapidly through the mountains of Beyrout.
Before the totality of the eclipse, as seen from
Santander, North Spain, commenced, the colours in the sky
and on the hills were magnificent beyond all description ;
the clear sky in N. assumed a deep indigo colour, while in
W. the horizon was pitch black (like night). In the E. the
elver sky was very pale blue, with orange and red-lilre
sunrise, and the hills in S. were very red ; on the shadow
sweeping across, the deep blue in N. changed like magic to
pale sunrise tints of orange and red, while the sunrise ap-
pearance in E had changed to indigo. The colours increased
Is brilliancy near the horizon, overhead the sky was leaden.
Some white houses at a little distance were brought nearer,
and assumed a warm yellow tint ; the darkness was
greet ; thermometers could not be read. The countenances
of men were of a livid pink. The Spaniards lay down, and
their children screamed with fear ; fowls hastened to roost,
ducks clustered together, pigeons dashed against the sides
of the houses, flowers closed (Hibiscus Africanus as early
as 2h. 54n.) ; at 2h. 12m. cocks began to crow (ceasing at
2b. 57m., and recommencing at 3b. fim.). As darkness
came on many butterflies which were seen about flew as if
drunk, and at last disappeared ; the air became very humid,.
so much so that the grass felt to one of the obese ten as if
recently mined upon. At sh. Ssm. a mock sun was formed
22 deg. below the true sun, having the ordinary circular
form.

A letter from Rome of the lith says :—" The
Pope repaired to the church of the Jesu on Sunday morn.
ing to administer the Sacrament to the faithful, in
honour of the miraculous picture of the Madonna, which
had been transported thither from the church of Manta
Maria Maggiore on, the preceding Sunday. The crowd
in the church was very great, and suffocating from the
mu of persons anxious to receive the consecrated wafer
from the hands of the Supreme Poutiff. An English lady,
long resident in Rome, Miss Clavering, eager to approach
his Holiness, was thrust back from the altar rails
somewhat too violently by a Swiss guard. The lady
screamed and fainted. A slight disturbance took place in
consequence immediately around her; the more distant
spectators raw the commotion, and, imagining something
horrible had taken place, fled from the church as feat as
the crush at the docrway would allow them. The Pope
and his attendants had sufficient presence of mind to turn
mud and make reassuring gestures to the terrified con-
gregation, the boldest of whom resumed their seats in coo-
sapience, whilst the more timid rolled over each other
down the steps into the plasm, and fled rapidly to their
respective homes."
A Palermo letter gimes the following anecdote of
a doter of charity :—" A young patriot, named Francisco
Viso, was killed on April 4 during a popular demonstration
which took place before Garibaldi's arrival. On April 20
his (ether, Giovanni Riso, sixty years old, was shot by the
Bourbon soldiers without so much as the form of a trial.
On the very day that Garibaldi entered Palermo a young
and beautiful nun, Ignacio Rise, the sister and daughter of
the two Race above nansid, left the convent, and
amidst • shower of balls and grapeshot, • ere=
in one hand and a poignard in the other, placed
herself at the head of Garibakli's column, crying, ' Down
with the Bourbons! Death to the tyrant! Vengeance!'
She kept her place as long as the fighting lasted, and her
cuarageous attitude electrified the volunteers. Ever 'Mos
that day the name of Ignacia Riso has been held sacred.
When she passes in the street the soldiers bow low and
bless her with the most profound respect. Garibaldi him-
self pays her neat attention, and loves her as if she were
his own daughter.*
"Letters from Beyrout," says the Patric, "an-
nounce the arrival of an Egyptian frigate from Alexandria,
listing on board a supply of provisions and other articles of
all kinds which might be useful for the Christian refugees."

(mow Len yicirr's cLarrE)

Wis.-owner., JULY 2L —The Queen ban been
graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of
Colonel Anthony Coniagham Sterling, C. 8., come time
military secretary to the Commander-in•Cliiet in the East
Indies, to be an ordinary member of the military division of
the secant class, or Knighte Commauders, of the must lion.
outside Order of the Bath.
Fu zone-onus, Jolts 30.—The Queen has been
graciouslypleased to a 'at Charles Lunen Cameron,
~vr bee v.' Pre ul •
Mart.. vice-cons at Pots to be her Ma-
jeny's cowed in A patois.
Fonkuni-orrics, JULY 24.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Doe Menial Peres•Petinto as vice.
consul at Accra for her Majesty the Queen of Spain.
DOWII3O-ffrilLET JULY 23.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Thomas William Clinton Murdoch sad
heheti Weicet, Eva, to be her Majesty's Colonial Laud
self Emigration Commirokissers ; Robert Boyd Tytder, lien...
to be a member of the Legislative Council et the Woad of
Cerise and Frederick Dusconsbe, Req., •to le a tosnabse
of the Executive Ceased of the Bahama Islands.

LATEST

'TELLIGENCE.

REVOLUTIONARY EXCITEMENT AT
NAPLES.

MARSEILLES, acct 24.
Letters from Rome state that General Goyon
will leave that city on the sth proximo.
The chiefs of the revolutionary movement at
Naples had caused an illumination of the whole city
to take place.
Crowds of people shouted "Garibaldi for ever,"
in defiance of the Royalists.
About ten of the late police agents had been
killed.

SICILY.
EXPEDITION OF GARIBALDI.

Letters from Naples to the 21st inst. announce
that Garibaldi had left Palermo with from 8,000 to
10,000 volunteers. It was expected that Garibaldi
would soon effect a landing on the Continent.
The Official Journal of Sicily of the 10th contains
a leading article in which, after detailing the
various measures resorted to by the late Bourbon
government in order to make the funds rise arti-
ficially, and thus inspire the world with a belief in
the prosperity of the country, it is stated that the
Sicilian funds, now left to themselves without any
artificial aid, opened at 108 per cent. on the Ist of
July, and have now risen to 1141. This, it is con-
tended, is the best answer that can be made to the
calumnies cast upon the Sicilian revolution, and to
the intrigues of " the second bombarder." The
number of the 14th of the same journal publishes a
letter addressed to the Dictator by the Bishop of Mas-
cara, who therein invokes the blessing of God on the
undertaking of Garibaldi, and regretting that in con-
sequence of illness he has been unable to pay his
respects in person to the general. The titles given
to Garibaldi in some of the addresses are rather
strange, and savour of the high-flown style of the
Orientals. Thus, the magistrates of Calatafimi
head their address with " Magnanimous and Highly-
glorious Dictator ;" that of Ficarazzi, "To the
Glorious Dictator in Sicily ;" and that of Blase-
quino, " To the Unconquerable General Garibaldi."
Some there are with • dash of republicanism iu
them ; the committee of Vittoria, for instance,
writes, " Citizen Dictator." There are others,
however, couched in a more matter-of-fact style,
like the following from Misilmeri
The Civic Council of 3ifiailmeri presents the thanks of the
inhabitants of that commune to General Garibaldi, for the
aid given to the Sicilian insurrection.

. -
M. Orsini, having been charged by Garibaldi
with organising the active army, has resigned the
office of Minister of War, in which he is succeeded
by General Sirtori, previously chief of the staff.

THE MEETING AT TOEPLITZ.
TOEPLITZ, duct 24.
The Emperor of Austria arrived here at 4 p.m.
to-day, and was received with royal honours.
The Austrian, Bohemian, Prussian, Saxon, and
Bavarian flags have been hoisted on the public
buildinba.

TOPLITZ, WEDWERDAY.
Baron von Werther, the Prussian Ambassador
at Vienna, arrived here yesterday evening at the
same time as the Emperor of Austria.
The Austrian Ambassadors at Berlin and Dres-
den have also arrived here.

CONCLUSION OF PEACE BETWEEN THE
DRIffIES AND MARONITES.
PARIS, Jour 24.
The Porte has instructed its ambassadors at Paris
and London to officially conununicate to the courts
of the Tuileries and St. James the conclusion of
rgfbeween the Druses and Maronites on the
ieinst.
1u this official communication the Porte, although
expressing its satisfaction at this happy event, adds
that it will, nevertheless. pursue with the utmost
rigour the authors of the recent msssacres ; and
that Fnad Bache bad to that end been invested
with the moat ample powers, not only to punish the
guilty parties, but also to take such measures as
would prevent the recurrence of fresh conflicts
between the Druses and the Maronites.
MARSEILLES, JULY 24.
The mail steamer from Syria is expected to-day.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nor our owl cornansovm )

PARIS, TUERDAT EVENIXG.

Although the rumours of an energetic protest on
the part of the Porte and a countermand of the
embarkation of the French troops for Syria con-
tinue to circulate, the preparations for the expedi-
tion are still going on upon a grand scale. In addi-
tion to the ports of Toulon, Marseilles, and
Algiers, which have been in a state of unusual
bustle for some days past, it is now said that trans-
ports are fitting out at Cette. The Euphrate, one
of the largest steamers of the Messageries Imp 4.
rialee, has left for Beyrout with the sub•military
intendant, K Mouy, and eight commissariat officers
and a cargo of wine and flour.
The Bourse was very seriously affected by the
rumours of a want of a cordial understanding
with England—rumours which were not extin-
guished by a telegraphic report of a speech of
Lord John Russell last night, which is susceptible
of a construction altogether favourable to the
French projects in Syria. The Rente fell 45c. both
for cash and account, closing at 07fr. 80c. Mobilier
fell 12fr. 50c. The Orleans Railway fell Bfr. 73e. ;
Southern, 7fr. 50c. ; and the other lint a about sfr.
each.

The Emperor has changed his mind about going
immediately to the Chalons camp. The Pays and
Patric, which were instructed to say last night that
he would start this morning, are now discreetly
silent on the subject ; but it is understood that
after a council of ministers held at St. Cloud to-
day, the visit was adjourned. I hoar this moment
that August 5 is the day fixed for his departure.
The Empress has, I believe, already gone to the
Eaux Boman.