The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-06 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

GARIBALDI'S DEFEAT.
(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

There are great discrepancies in the accounts of
Garibaldi's defeat, which it will take many days to
clear up. According to the laconic recital of the
Min iteur (to which this evening's Moniteur makes
no addition) he was attacked on Nov. 3, at Tivoli,
by the Pontifical troops alone, completely routed
after a desperate combat, and left 3,000 men killed,
wounded, and prisoners, on the field of battle.
Then 4,000 more Garibaldians, flying across the
Italian frontier, were disarmed by General Ricotti,
and Garibaldi and his two sons were sent to Flo-
rence. What were the respective forces of the
Garibaldians and the Pontificals engaged in
the combat 1 On this point the information before
the Paris public is most conflicting. The
Patric says the Pontificals numbered only
3,500, while the Garibaldians were upwards of
7,000. On the other hand, the Corriere Italian()
says that 3,000 Garibaldians were attacked
at Tivoli by 12,000 Pontificals. According
to one account, Garibaldi had been persuaded
by the Italian negotiators to withdraw,
and while beginning to execute a retreat-
ing movement he was surprised at Tivoli by
the Pope's forces. Another and more probable
story is that, knowing that the Pontificals
were advancing upon his position on Monte
Rotondo,he advanced to Tivoli to meet them hoping
after having taken Tivoli to march upon Rome itself.
There was a desperate fight for a long time with ter-
rible carnage, and Garibaldi was routed finally by
a second corps, which came up after a consider-
able interval of time to the support of the first.
The Pat rie affirms positively that the Papal troops
alone, commanded by M. A. de Charette, of the
Antibes Legion, took part in the struggle, and that
several companies had the " new needle gun sup-
plied to them by the Pope's Minister of War." But
the Pays says with equal certainty that the
French troops assisted the Pontificals, and that
the Garibaldians were slaughtered by the Chasse-
pot rifle used by French hands. This journal
specifies that two battalions of the French 29th
Regiment marched with the Ist Corps of Pontifi-
cals, and two battalions of the 39th with the
second. After the battle 300 waggons a ere
required to transport the wounded, and Marshal
Niel, when he read the telegraphic summary of
the " butcher's bill," said " I do not see any
mention made of the French as having fought, but
I will take my oath that the Chassepot rifle did
this work."

Chant has a most apropos caricature in to-day's
Chorivari. A severe looking schoolmaster, with
spectacles on nose, upbraids a boy whose eves are
wandering from his book, and says to him " Esphe
de cantre, when are you going to study your Ro-
man history 1" The boy answers, " I am waiting
for it to be finished."

The Bourse was only moderately affected by the
impertAnt news of the day. Rente, after some
hesitation, rose 85c. for cash and 63c. for account,
closing at 681 r. 25c. and 68fr. 10c. Italian rose
lfr., and Credit Fonder 30c. Mobilier left off
without change.

A communication from Kehl in the Courr:er de%
Bat.Rhin says:—" Never has so much wheat from Hun-
gary passed through this place as this year. Whole trains
arriving from Path and Temesvar are discharged into boats
or cross the Rhine to enter France. But means of trans.
port for this immense traffic, which tends to increase every
year, is wanting, a circumstance of which this enormous
commerce complains loudly. The transactions in wheat
alone between Rhenish firms and Hungary amount to from
six to eight millions of quintals 1221ilbs. each)."
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 2.—Lord Stanley has
received a despatch from her Majesty's Charg d'Affaires
at Constantinople, stating that be bad been requested by
the Porte to make known to all British members of the
First Class of the Imperial Order of the Medjidie, that
in virtue of a decree of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan,
the insignia of that clam of the order will henoeforward
be the Grand Cordon, worn as in the other orders. The
plaque and the colour remain the same.—Gazette.
MILDNESS or THE SEASON.—In a garden belong-
ing to Mrs. Garland, Shirley, there are on a pear tree fruit
of spring and autumn growth. The former are twice as
large as the latter. Several fruit trees in the neighbour-
hood of Woodlands are in fine bloasom„—Soutkampton
Observer.