The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-19 00:00:00

THE PAPAL STATES.

A circular addressed on May 21 by Cardinal
Antonelli to the diplomatic body on the invasion of
the Papal States, says :
As if the sacrilegious spoliation of the Legations in the
fltatea of the Holy See were not sufficient, we have now to
add to it an incursion into the territory of Viterbo
by an armed band of refugees from the adjacent parts of
Tumny. ..... . This new outrage agan,t the
patrimony of the church, by the aid of armed men who set
out from a neighbouring state under the eyes of those who
now rule the destinies of Tuscany, who there openly
provided themselves with arms, and who were per.
witted, in violation of all international laws, and of
all the precepts of both divine and human law,
to carry wherever they chose murder and pillage, will
doubtless fill with just indignation the catholic world and
all governments that love order and justice, and respect
the right of nations.
The underaigned Cardinal Secretary of State hastens to
communicate this act of vandalism and of pillage to your
Excellency, that you may be good enough to inform your
government of it, and to convince it that unless a rein is put
with the aid of potentates to such extraordinary audacity,
altogether worthy of barbarous ages, they will have to de.
plore the fatal consequences, the responsibility of which
will recoil on those who, laying aside all respect for right,
are sapping the foundations of society.
(Signed) CARD. AIITONZLII.

SWIM AID FOR GARIBALDI. —The journal LIZ
&rime publishes the following appeal in large type at the
head of one of it. columns :—" Garibaldi's enterprise front
its commencement has won the sympathies of all friends of
liberty in Switzerland as well as everywhere else. The
spoons which he has met with has only increased their
enthusiasm. A meeting of Swiss patriots from various
cantons has resolved to give the hero of Italian indepen.
deuce a proof of sympathy, by sending him a certain number
of Swim rifles. The number of these will depend on the
success of the subscription which is opened by the present
rZaLThose who approve of it are requested to send
contributions as quickly as possible to IL Koch-Hoff.
mann, at Berne, member of the undersigned committee.
—Koch-Hoffman, Capt. ; Schcerer, Major ; Zang, Major •
G. Vogt, Director of the Federal Statistical-office ;C. Ott:
Major.—Berne, June 12."
Milan DISHONOURED ABROAD.—It is important
to call the attention of the mercantile public to the fact of
the verdict given in the case of " Suse v. Pomp.," in
December last, having been reversed by the Court of Ap.
peal. The judgment of the lower court was to the effect
that the purchaser of a bill drawn in Loudon and pay.
able abroad could, in the event of that bill being din.
honoured, exercise the option of drawing upon the
seller in London for the sum of foreign coin to
which the bill purported to entitle him at the rate
of exchange current at the place where the dishonour or.,
tarred, or of sending the bill back to London and demand.
ing that the amount paid for it in sterling should be re.
funded. On appeal, however, this decision has been set
aside, and it is now established that the holder of • bill
which has been dishonoured abroad is not entitled to re.
cover from the seller in England more than the re-exchange
—that is to say, the value of the florins, francs, or what.
ever the sum stated on the face may be, expressed in Eng.
liah money, at the rate of exchange on the day of dia.
honour, with interest and expenses.—Times.
SOLAR ECLlPBM—Astronomers are now on the
qui vire for the great solar eclipse which is to take place on
the 18th of July next, and which will be total in Spain.
This is the more important, as none of those which are to
occur within the present century will be so convenient for
observation as this, that of 1887 alone excepted. The fol.
lowing is a list of them :-1860, July 18, North America,
Spain, Egypt. 1861, Dec. 31, Atlantic Ocean, Sahara, Me.
diterranean. 1870, Dec. 22, Azores, Spain, Algeria, Turkey.
1877, August 19, N.E. of Germany, Russia, Central Asia.
1896, August 9, Greenland, Lapland, Siberia. 1900, May
28, United States, Spain, 411/pt.
THE LATE BARON DE HOCHEPIED LARPENT.-..
This estimable gentleman, who died on the Bth inst., at
Holmwood House, near Dorking, Surrey, at the age of 77.
was the elder brother of the late Sir Geo Germ' Ler.
pent, Bart., sometime M.P. for Notting being the
son of John Larpent, Esq., secretary to the Duke of Bed.
ford in France, rind to the Marquis of Hertford in Ireland,
a gentleman subsequently employed in • variety of official
situations. The deceased, John James Larpent, was born in
1783, and had the foreign barony of De Heelmied confirmed
to him by royal license in 1819. He married Georgi.
ana, daughter of Frederick Reeves, Esq., of East Sheen.
Surrey, by whom he had a family of five sons and three
daughters. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his
eldest son, Arthur John Larpent, Eaq.—Court News.
THE DAS QUESTlON.—Yesterday afternoon a
deputation, consisting of about 100 members of parliament
and other gentlemen connected with the various gas and
water companies in large provincial towns, had an inter.
view, by appointment, with the Right Hon. Sir G. Come.
walllewis, at the Home-office, relative to the Highways
and Roads, Ise., Bill, recently introduced by Mr. Craufurd,
and to solicit the right hoe. baronet to oppose the further
of that bill through the House of Common,. Mr.
passage
Spacer, M.P., introduced the deputation, and said that
they had been much alarmed by the bill introduced by Mr.
Cninfurd, sod now before the house. That bill, which he
might say had been rather surreptitiously introduced, per.
ported to be • Highways and Roads Bill, while in fact it
affected &lithe gas and water companies in the country.
They bad come to object to its passing any further stage on
two grounds ; first, that many persons had been induced to
invest their money in these undertakings by the authority
which parlament had given them ; and further, that the
bill, if passed, would be an injury to the public by
admitting speculators, large or small, to open gas or
waterworks without being wider any of the re.
@frictions which were imposed upon existing companies.
It was felt that the bill would not only greatly injure
thololdmpsnies which had obtained parliamentary powers,
but injure the public at large. Mr. Naiah (chairman
of Bristol Gas Company), Mr. James, of the Birming.
ham Waterworks, Mr. Jacksou, M.P., Mr. The, ALP..
and other members of the deputation, having spoken, scene
further conversation ensued, in which it was denied that
the recent decision in the Longtou am had necessitated the
introduction of the bill, at the close of which Sir G. Cr.
Lewin, in reply, said he would give the statements made
the best consideration between that and the next stage of
the till, and it would be as well if all hon. members inte.
rested would do the same.

THE QUALM or Barr CONSUMED IN LONDODI.--.
At the Derby police court, before the Mayor (Mr. Cox), Dr.
Heygats, end Mr. Gadaby, James Young, a well known
cheap butcher, was charged with being the owner of two
canines of meat which were unfit fur the food of man, the
meat being intended for that purpose, and on it. way for
sale. Mr. Jones, clerk to the Local Board of Health, ap.
peered to support the charge, and called inspector Baileys
who deposed that on Friday, the 14th of June, from infer.
melon received, he went to the goods shed at the Midland
station, Derby, and on the platform he found two carcases
of beasts ready cut up and dressed fur sale. They were cut
into eight quarters and packed up in two large hampers.
There was no address on the hampers. It was very bad meat,
and being satisfied that it was nut fit for human food he sent
for the searchers of flesh, Messrs. Dondeo and Eyre, and
they atone pronouuced it diseased ; and after it had been
shown to • magistrate it was destroyed. The caressed
were cut up and dressed in the usual manner for sale.
He then wentjto the foreman porter in the goods shed, and
obtained frost him the consignment paper of the two
hampers, which was as follows:—" From James Young,
Derby, to John Battams, Newgate Market, London." The
consignment paper was signed by a man named Bramhall,
who was in the employ of Young, and who delivered the
meat at the station. The magistrates were of opinion that
the wrong man had been summoned, therefore the case
would be dismissed. It was stated in court that, week by
week, putrid meat, unfit for human food, was sent from
Derby to London to be sold for human food.—The Mayor
said it would be desirable to acquaint the Lord Mayor of
London with the facts, so that the officers might be on the
lookout at the other end. —Mr. Hilton, head constables
said some letters hail alreadygone to Loudon on the subject'
HOP INTILLIIIENCE—WO cannot report much
improvement in the hops, in this neighbourhood, notwith-
standing the fine warm days of the pest week. Many of
the gardens resent a yellow and truhealthy appeeranoe,
and where the colour is better the plants are far from
strong. In the Borough market yesterday, prices were
fully buported, an advance being in some instances estab.
listed. -The duty is estimated at 160,000 i. to 170,000/.!—
Kentish Caulk.
THE CROPS.—Although the recent accounts
from every quarter have spoken despondingly of the
prospect aid appeaninte of the crops, prognosticating very
serious iujury should the wet continue, we are strongly
disposed to hope that, except in the case of thin, ill.
drained and badly farmed land, the injury arising
from the wet is more prospective than present.
Though backward, the grain crops are in
districts looking vigorous and healthy, and should
warm dry and still weather shortly set in, we are
inclined to think that only • brief period will have elapsed
ere the crops begin to make up for lost time. It is pro-
verLial how soon fine weather disperses the anxiety and the
damage occasioned by past rain, so soon an really fine was.
ther is established ; and we venture to hope that the effect
of the anticipated change will prove no less in the
season before us. Of course there are instances' and
localities where damage has been done which it is now too
late to repair ; but we hope and believe that these owes are
partial and exceptional.—Sussex Adrcrtiser.
Musa& CHRISTIE AND MANSON'S PICTURE
HALES.—As eaceedintly interesting collection of painting%
comprising works of t e late Si: David Wilkie and the late
Sir William Boss, and Mr. Frith's celebrated pictures. of
" Coining of Ago in the Olden Time," and " Measuring
Heights," is now on view at Wears. Christie, Munson, and
Wood's gallery preparatory to the sale which will take
place on Wednesday next and the three following days.