The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TRURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1

whether it has a right to assume that
human nature in all its grades is aqua,
proof against temptation in m its 41810.1
is a question which we would ther not
called upou to answer.
wife and family and ac salary,
bolts and timber in a
" when the snow is on the grouncisrridnay not un-
charitably be supposed capable of winking its
official eye, not to say, of dosing it. Want of
sleep and shelter would account for as much as
this, though the consequence, as in the case of
a careless inspector of railway; may be simply
the sacrifice of hundreds of lives. We are not
concerned to accuse or acquit anybody; we simply
remark that to pass 'camped work with your
eyes open is one thing, and to let it pees with
your eyes shut is another. Not to detect a fraud
is not always to be party to it, or there would
have been a razzia the other day upon Ptruntosa's
confiding employers. Pcmusona is a man of er
post fret° hth•moral feeling and self-sacrifice; the
Admiralty is a department of er post facto rigorous
supervision and inspection. The discovery of the
green timber and the short bolts is succeeded,
after a decent interval of inquiries, by a compli-
cated and complete system of check-upon cheek.
The Duke of Sowrearr referred on Monday
night to the often mooted question whether the
Surveyor (or Controller, as he is now called)
of the Navy ought to be " a practical man "
It may very well have appeared to the de-
partmental mind a revolutionary and subversive
proposition that the officer supremely responsible for
the building of ships should be himself an expert
in shipbuilding. To the high official understand-
ing you might as well propose to get rid of all the
ornamental titulars who preside over the public
departments, and replace them by those unknown
working chiefs of the permanent staff who do all
the work. There is no knowing where so prepos-
terous an innovation would end. Besides, is it not
admitted by all disinterested people who are capable
of forming an opinion on the subject, that the
Navy is better administered in chief by a civilian
than it could possibly be by a seaman, and that
even a Naval Secretary to the Admiralty is
a doubtful advantage f Admitting that every flaw
in our naval administration, from defective reserves
to short bolts, may be traced to the brittle and
spongy constitution of the Department in White-
hall, we are bound to express our conviction that
a naval near Low) is not called for. The one
thing wanting is revutisibility. Definite, dis-
tinct, direct responsibility, from the top to the
bottom of the administration, running through all
its branches ; ripening in the light and strengthened
by the air of a wholesome publicity, and bringing
forth fruits, not " leaves " only—this is what the
AoantRALTY wants, sad what in the coming hour of
trial the country will demand.

THE GARIBALDI FUND.

rbt Court.

TM Queen• sod the Prime Consort rode on
terd4ay
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llteteil by the lkel, featl4
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Lon,
. . • Coactutiknekled setimicE of the Royal
,' I. . 4 . nal of die Patriotic Fund, In the 'Remora
at three o'clock at the Palace d W

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The following Royal Comminionste wen present :—The
Earl of Hardwicke, the Fari of Chichester, Lard Rokeby,
Lord Ookheeter, Lerd fit. Leounds, Lord Pommy, Lord
Lyveden, Calomel the Host J. Lindsay, Sir James Gramm,
Mr John Pakiegton, Sir Robert Throckmorton, Colonel J.
Wilson Patters, Sir Morton Peto, J. Ball, Faq., and the Lord
Mayor. Captain E. Gardiner Fishbourne, R.N., and Colonel
John Henry Lstroy, 8.A., honorary secretaries, &Headed.
The meet* *eke up at a quarter-put eve o'clock.
The Qom gave hat evening a state ball, to which a party
of 1,811 were invited.
The Qui= and Prince Consort were conducted to the
ball and email room by Visconnt Sydow, Lord Chamber-
laia, tha Bert al St Greemma, Lea* &award, and
other principal carers of the royal bressibirkl. Her Ms-
jeety and hie Royal Hlsitusees were ercampanied by the
PrMos of Wake, the Primer Athos, the Dothan of Cam-
and the Primer Mary, the Duke of Cambride,
the PrMos and Primal of Welds* end Pinnont, the
Prince and Primers of Laminae., and the Maharajah Du-
leap Singh. The Lease and Gentians: in Waiting at.
tended the royal party. The Corps Dipionsmique and the
general company followed.
The
onus, were
• dress of with* amps over white silk,
two Souncee, upper one looped up with bouquets of
white lilacs and chrysanthemum ansamented with dia-
monds. Her Majesty's bead-dryer was formed of a wreath
of white lilacs and chrysanthemums ornamented with
diamonds.

The Pnnceis Alice wore a white crape dress over rich
glace silk, trimmed with bugles and white roses. Her
royal highnes, wore a wreath of white roses to co/re-
spond.
The Duchess of Cambridge wore • black glace silk dress
trimmed with black tulle, and an over skirt of deep black
lace. A stomacher neeklaes, sad earring@ of pearls and
diamonds. Her royali head-dress was composed
of a pearl tiara, black lwhssti sad black
The Princess Mary of Ombridip wore &laterite tulle dress
festooned with large bows of wee ribbon and fringe, and
covered with • silver tells eel ; the body to correspond
A stomacher at end dimemilA Necklace and ear.
='-erZI: wreath a/ kilts. a theawiallei y highness wore
vealavet
leaves, with iilmaceid enemsate.
The Princess of Laming's wore • white tarlatans dress
over white silk, trimmed with wild convolvulua. Her royal
Millman wore in her heir • wreath of wild couvolvulue en-
twined with dammed'.
Weippert's bead of thirty-six musicians, covdocted by
Mr. John Weippert, wee I. attendance in the orchestra, and
sour after the estrum of her Majesty and the distinguished
company commenced • vase, " Mariana" (Taney).
Pram of Wales, attended by Major-Genera the
Hat. B. Broom and Major Teesdale, arrived at Buckingham
Palace yesterday afternoon from Oxford.
The Qum, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Alice, and attended by the Hon. Beatrice
Byng, took a drive in •• carriage and four in the afternoon.
The Etjuerriss in Waiting attended on horseback.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the offi-
cial residence of the First Lord of the Trossury, in
Downing-street. The Ministers resent were Vis-
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George C.
Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle,
the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir
George Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and
the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com-
minion for the Exhibition of 1861 was held on Tuesday et
the Privy Council.o(sce. There were present—Earl Gran-
ville, Lord Overmone, the Right Hon. R. Lowe. ILP., Sir
A. IVeiroaa, Bart., Mr. CouLOn Q.C., Mr. DEM), Mr. T.
F. Gibson, and Mr. Edgar Bowring(secretary). Mr. H. R.
Wllliems, Anemia officer, attended.
Mr. John Nash, of Reed-court, Rochester, had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at
elloial miasma in Downing-street, upon the subject of
the poseposement al the hop duty.
we reetiv at the Colonial-office yesterday
from }theme of the North American provinces, and
the Governor of Bermuda. Despatches were sent to the
Governors of the West Indian Islands, British Columbia,
and Canada.

We read in a letter from Quebec :—" With a
elm to preserving a tasting memento of his Royal Highnem
the Prince of Wales's visit • meeting has been held at
Toronto, at which it was concluded to plant with ores•
mental trees and shrubs a strip of land bordering on the
really charming bay of Toronto. The place is thereafter to
be known as ' The Prince's Walk! No sooner were the
lernolotions submitted to, and unanimously concurred in
by, the assembly, than the proposed labour of love was
begun, the lord bishop of the disease setting the
sample, and planting, with his own venerable hands,
the first tree. Such an example was quickly fol-
lowed by other loyal and prominent citizens of Toronto ;
end, the work having thus been properly se well se most
Pm.* began, there is reason to believe that care will be
tam to render the Prince's-walk, even at the period of the
visit of the heir-apparent, • beautiful object from the bay
es the royal and illustrious strangers approach the city
from Lake Ontario. It is intended to plant alternately •
poplar and chestnut tree, and between each to place a
spruce. A space is to be kept vacant until the Prince's ar-
rival."
Madame Van de Weyer has Witted cards for an
emembly on Saturday next at the residence of the Belgian
Legation, in Portland-place-
_ _

The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgbe and Lady
Charlotte knee Ker have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel,
liend-atreet, front Floor* Castle, Kelso, N. B.

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The Marquim of Conyngham and Lady Cecilia
Oanywhem have calved 113 town, fres Ireland, for the
NORM

The Marquis and Marchioness of Chandos ar-
rived at the Euston Hotel yesterday from Wotton Court,
Bucks. The marquis and marchioness attended the Queen's
State ball last evening.

The Countess Cowley and the Ladies Cowley
have arri►ed it Lord Ebury's residence in Park.street, from
Perla

Vineount and Viacounteas Dungannon have ar-
rived 4 their residence in Grafton-.trent, from firynkinalt,
Deabighshirr, for the session.

Lord and Lady Vernon are staying at the
Pavilion Hotel, Folkestuno.

Viscount and Viscountess Torrington have
anived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.
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lady Emily Heaketh'i bill, announced for the
11th June, is postponed until Friday, the 15th proximo.
Lady Louisa Cotes' ball, announced for to-
morrow, is =avoidably postponed until Tuesday next, the
22nel inst.

The Caledonian fancy dress ball in aid of the
joint funds of the Caledonian Asylum and the Scottish
Hospital, is fixed to take place on Monday, the 25th of
Jane, at Willis's Room'. Already several ladies of the
highest rank connected with Scotland have sent in their
names as patronesses, and the treasurer, Rir Charles
Forbes, will, as usual, personally undertake the arrange-
ments for the ball.

At the meeting of the New York Board of Alder-
men. on the evening of the 3rd inst , • communication was
received from the acting mayor, transmitting a communica-
tion from the agent of the owners of the steamship Great
Eastern, stating that they had decided to send the Great
Eastern to New York, and asking for authentic informa-
tion in relation to the harbour. A committee of flue we
appointed to procure the information required, and mate
inch other arrangements as might be deemed beeeerry.
American worshippers of the pugilistic art
seemed determined not to be behind those who bow down
at the shrine of Sayers. The propaeal lately made to pee-
-1 sent the American champion with a testimonial had met
with enthusiastic approvaL Already 600 dole. to 700 dole.
had beep subscribed, and it was determined not to cry
"enough" until the sum of 5,000 dole. should be reached.
Gaiipiani states that the articles of English
manufacture left unsold at the late Fancy Fair, held at the
British Embassy in Paris, in favour of the British Chari-
table Fund, will, with the kind permission of leis Excellansty
Earl Cowley, be dispaped of by public auction on lisminy
next, the 21st inst., at tin British ftwalreasy. Among thee
articles are English parallel's, potteries, ladies' hate, plated
ware, he.
THE LATE SIR CHARLES SLILE/Y.—The Dean at
Westminster, on the application of the President el Iha
Royal Institute of British Architects, has been plowed to
pant pen:dation that the remains of the late Sir Charism
Barry, R.A., be interred in Westminster Abbey. The
faunal will take place on Tuesday next, at one o'clock pne.

IT INTELLIGENCE.

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MALTA, Mat U.
H.M. gunboat Intrepid arrived this morning from
Marsala, which place she left yesterday morning.
She brings the very important intelligence of the
landingat Marsala at daylight that day of Garibaldi,
at the head of 2,000 men. They had arrived by
two steamers.

Immediately afterwards three Neapolitan men-
of-war hove in sight, and without a moment's notice
commenced bombarding the town of Marsala, with
round shot, shell, and grape, many of which, when
the Intrepid left, were falling into the grounds
of Messrs. Woodhouse's boglio. A fourth steamer (a
merchant vessel) having been supplied with a gun,
also took part in the bombardment. The English
ladies of the place had been removed for security
to Messrs. Ingham's baglio, which is further off the
town. Garibaldi and his men, immediately on
effecting their landing, marched for Trapani and
Alcamo, the strongholds of the insurgents. Her
Britannic Majesty's steam corvette Argus remained
at Marsala to carry off the British residents, should
snob a step become necessary.

Great fears were entertained for the safety of
Mr. Gill's baglio, as it was closer to the town than
either Messrs. Woodhouse's or Messrs. Ingham's.
A private letter states that two English steamers
had arrived.

(ran on owl

MALTA, MAT 12.

Her Majesty's ship Intrepid arrived from Marsala
this morning, leaving at that place her Majesty's
ship Argus. Four screw line-of-battle ships are
cruising off Malta, under the command of Rear-
Admiral Rodney Mundy ; and four screw line-of-
battle ships are in port ready for an immediate
start ; so there are plenty of ships to protect Eng-
lish interests in Sicily if necessary.
I have heard from a rather good authority that
two—not four—Neapolitan steamers were present
at Marsala ; that they allowed Garibaldi's troops
to land, and then commenced bombarding his
ships!

IiARBEILLES, NAT 16.

The Levant steamer has arrived. She touched
at Messina on the 13th. The city was still quiet.
The captain of the Syria, which arrived yesterday,
has declared that on passing Marsala he noticed
red flags on the town. He is not certain whether
they were flags hoisted by the insurgents, or by
the inhabitants.

News brought by the steamer Italia announces
that after the receipt of a despatch from the
Emilia 500 men precipitately quitted Milan, and
embarked yesterday at Genoa. A movement by
General Lamoriciere is spoken of.

FOREIGN INTERVENTION.
The following telegram Las been received at Mr.
Reuter's office :

"MADRID, Hey 16.

"It is reported that • despatch has been re-
ceived here from Naples, stating that the state of
affairs being precarious, the Bing has requested
foreign intervention."

SICILY IN ARMS.

The Paris Pays says that the movement has de-
veloped itself with "extraordinary rapidity," and
that its success throughout the whole of Sicily
"seems certain." The Pays go on to say :
"After having landed his volunteers, Garibaldi,
by means of arrangements previously concerted,
succeeded in concentrating the insurrection. We
are assured that he has already made himself
master of all the most important places in the
island. We cannot, however, to-day say anything
more precise on this point. It would appear from
other very recent information that a part of Gari-
baldi's expedition has landed in Calabria, and that
the insurrection, already almost triumphant in
Sicily, now threatens Naples and the Neapolitan
provinces in the peninsula. It will be readily
understood that we cannot guarantee the truth of
facts of this importance, but the information which
reaches us from all sides leaves little doubt that it
must be accurate in the main."

The Pattie gives the following version :
" Most serious news has arrived by telegraph
from Southern Italy. Garibaldi's expedition has
succeeded in raising all Sicily. The royal troops
hold nothing but the fortresses of Palermo and
Messina It is said that the insurrection has
broken out simultaneously in Calabria, which is
only separated from Sicily by the Straits of Messina.
A third insurrection, combined with two others, is
also said to have taken place in the Abruzzis, on the
borders of the Roman State. It is rumoured that
the French squadron of evolution is about to sail
for Naples, in order to protect French residents in
the kingdom of the Two Sicilies."
The Corriere Mercantile publishes the following
proclamation to the Neapolitan army issued by
Garibaldi :
Foreign insolence reigns over Italian ground in muse-
queue° of Italian discord. But oa the day that the sons of
the Semites and Martii, united with the brethren of
Sicily, shall join the Italians of the North, on that day our
nation, of which you are the finest part, shall resume its
place, as in former times, among the first nations of
Europe. I, an Italian soldier, only aspire to ass yen drawn
up side by side with these soldiers of Varese lad San
Martino, in order jointly to fight against the enemies of
Italy ! G. GAILUILLDI.