The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-29 00:00:00

CHINA.

PESTH, Jcva 27.
A royal rescript was read at the sitting of the
Hungarian Chambers to-day proroguing the Diet
for an indefinite period, on account of the war.
Previous to adjournment both houses passed 1
resolutions regretting the prorogation, but hoping
for the speedy assembly of the Reicharath and the
restoration of the constitution.
The Upper House added numerous expressions
of loyalty to the crown, and the sitting closed with
cheers for the King.

BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS, Jc:cs 28.
The Grelot of the 21st instant, containing the
article which was commented upon by the Covisti- ,
tutionael, and the Espiegie which published the '
caricature, also made the subject of some observa-
tions by the same journal, were seized by the police
this morning.
ans, with their
The King and Queen of the Belgi
suite, left Brussels this morning for England, in
order to be present at the marriage of her Royal
Highness the Princess Helena.

THE WAR. IN THE BRAZILS.
RIO DR JANEIRO, Jon 8.
The allies have gained a fresh victory over the
Paraguayans, who lost 6,000 killed and wounded,
six guns, and four flags.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGIOTCR.
Exchange on London, 23 to 24 ; on Paris, 400.
A commercial crisis prevails here. The coffee
market is completely paralysed. Good fine is nomi-
nally quoted 7,100 reis to 7,300 reis. Shipments
since the departure of the French steamer, 45,420
bags, of which 6,180 were for the Channel. Sales,
8,400. Stock, 130,000 bags. Freight, 425. 6d.
BAHIA, JON! 13.
Exchange on London, 25} to 26. Cotton, 14,800
rein to 15,000 rein. Sugar, whites, 2,170 reis to
2,250 reis ; browns, 2,100 reis.
PERNAMBUCO, Joss 16.
Exchange on London, 214 to 26. Sugar, whites,
2,600 reis to 2,850 reis ; browns, 1,600 reis. Cotton,
14,500 reis.
The Idessageries Imperiales steamship Estrema-
dure arrived here on the 12th inst.

SPAIN.
MADRID, JUNE 28 (Evnnoro). I
The debate upon the bill granting extraordinary 1
powers to the government will be resumed in the
Senate to-morrow.
A telegram received here from Lisbon announces
that a royal decree has been promulgated calling
out the reserves of the army.

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HONG HONG, H►r 30.
The markets are unchanged since the departure
of the French steamer on the 25th inst.
SHANGHAB, MAT 24.
Tea : Congou, nothing doing. Silk nominal ;
i total export to date, 54,375 bales. Exchange on
London, 6s. 4d.

THE WAR IN ITALY.

(mu ore maw. COIMPOWDIST sores asaisaum.,
SALO, LAGO DI GARDA, Jura 25.
That severe fighting took place along the Mincio,
and especially about Peachiera, yesterday, is about
all that we who have attached our fortunes to Gari-
baldi, whose headquarters are still in this secluded
nook up the Lago di Garda, know about the
matter. Nothing is known here for certain as to
the result or the real importance of the affair.
Prom an early hour in the morning a dropping
cannonade was distinctly audible at Desenreno,
which lent a great earnestness and reality to
the solemn religious service going on in the
principal church when I left the place at 7 a.m. for
Salo. Yesterday--St. John's day—while the men
were fighting, the women, all over Italy, were
praying, the day having been set apart for special
prayer and religious observance. I had seen it
announced in Milan before I took my departure,
that a solemn service, at which all the civic autho-
rities were to attend in state, would be celebrated
in the cathedral, to invoke the blessing of Heaven
upon the Italian arms ; but I will venture to say
that neither the magnificence of the building, nor
any amount of burning of incense, or the gorgeous
display of vestments, or gold and silver ornaments,
could have imparted to the spectacle in the Duomo
at Milan anything like the impressiveness which
the boom of.the cannon gave to the simple service
in the parish church at Desenzano.
At about 8 a.m., by which time I had reached a
point of the road between Desenzano and Salo,
commanding an extensive view of the Lake of
Garda, the narrow peninsula of Sermione, and
beyond it Peschiera (where the Mincio debouchee
from the lake), and the heights about it, the high
tower of Solferino being the moat conspicuous
object to the southward, the artillery storm seemed
to culminate. At that period one might count a
cannon-shot every other second ; but this rapid
firing lasted but a short time, perhaps half an
hour, and then suddenly ceased, to be resumed at
intervals throughout the day.
On reaching the brow of the rapid descent to
the beautiful bay of Salo, I perceived that the
opposite or northern shore, along which the town
stretches, was lined by a flotilla of boats, all with
their sails ready set, looking as if an expedition by
water to some part of the lake was in contem-
plation. This expectation was strengthened when
my attention was called to the fact that the Italian
gunboats were observed to be getting up steam
but the day passed without the occurrence of any-
thing of the kind.
The sensation of being at headquarters, of living
within a stone's throw of Garibaldi, who is Xind-
ness and consideration itself, of mixing frequently
with officers of his staff, and yet of being perhaps
more ignorant, on the whole, than you are in Lon-
don of his intended movements, is, if somewhat
tantalising, well nigh inevitable. Whether the
officers of the staff are or are not in reality as
ignorant as they profess themselves of the intended
plan of operations, it would be equally unreasonable
to expect to extract information of such importance
from them. All that one can do is to accept one's posi-
tion and wait patiently, holding oneself in constant
readiness to follow anywhere at a moment's notice,
trusting that the hour of departure may not be
fixed for the middle of the night, when one
might by accident not be so wide awake
as one should be continually in these stirring
times. Not that there is much chance of
an uninterrupted night's rest in Salo at
this moment, for baggage and artillery trains
seem precisely to choose the few brief hours of
darkness to roll most noisily over tho stones, while
regular troops and fresh detachments of volunteers
are constantly arriving, always famishing and hor-
ribly loud in their demands for food, even bread
being not always forthcoming. What between the
angry and very natural remonstrances of the fresh
arrivals, who have eaten too little, the uproarious
conviviality of others of the volunteers established
here who have drunk too much, the unseasonable
hours at which the bugle, like misguided country
cocks of a moonlight night, sounds the reveilUe, the
mysterious and utterly inexplicable discharge of
loud resounding war-engines in the middle of the
1 night, sleep is, if not banished altogether, snatched
at very short intervals.
To yesterday, the most broiling day we have yet
experienced, has succeeded a lowering rainy morn-
ing, which, if damping to English spirits, seems to
1 distress the volunteers and regulars encamped
about the town singularly little. On looking out
of my window at an early hour I became aware
that a battery of " pontonieri," or artillery, had 1
1 taken up a position during the night on the oppo-
doef
the
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was left dry. I was much amused to observe one
fan-
ning himself with a lavender-coloured fan.
Among the Garibaldini you come here and there
upon sprightly good-looking Vivandieri, whose cos-
tume consists of a hat, wit) a feather in it, red 1
jacket, short green petticoat, with a red border, and 1
a kind of Turkish trousers. One of these Amazons
passed me yesterday, whose eye was peculiarly
flashing, and from whose girdle protruded conspi-
cuously a long dagger, which the wearer looked
singularly capable of using.
Besides the ten regiments of volunteers—each
about 3,000 strong—and the two crack battalions of
Ivolunteer Bersaglieri, a squadron of mounted
Guides has been formed. The corps of the Guides
1 is very select, and consists chiefly of young men of
property. Every man provides his own horse,
' which, as it is for his own riding, is not likely to
be a bad one, and one young fellow, whose Sc-